How Ancient Babylonians Predicted Eclipses

There's an eclipse coming up in April of 2024! You'd think it takes a lot of modern technology for us to know about it, but it turns out that humans have been able to predict eclipses for nearly three thousand years. And we've been using the same method that the ancient Babylonians figured out all those centuries ago. So grab your eclipse glasses and let's learn about it!

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