[SunkenCiv]

I've posted links/quotes about this before, but not in its own topic. Archaeoastronomy fall down go boom.

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[TigerLikesRooster]

What computer can do for you.:)

[elbucko]

The only explanation is that the planet's rotation has slowed since 136 BC, making the day longer.

As usual, the "only explanation" is not likely. As in post no.9, it's more likely that the eclipse was observed in its true path and the account written, with some poetic license, in Babylon. For the Earth to "speed up" its rotational velocity that much in only 2140 years, other unusual phenomena would have occurred as well.

The other explanation is that the observer was a moron.

[hershey]

I've heard recently on a cable astronomy program...that we are slowing down...and that the speed of light isn't what it once was, either!