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Clusters of Solar Eclipses in the Maori Era
Emil Khalisi
A dozen of high-magnitude solar eclipses accumulated near New Zealand in the 15th century AD when the Maori inhabited the two main islands. Taking today's capital Wellington as the…
Eclipses in the Aztec Codices
Emil Khalisi
This paper centers on the collection of accounts on solar eclipses from the era of the Aztecs in Mesoamerica, about 1300 to 1550 AD. We present a list of all eclipse events complyi…
The Double Eclipse at the Downfall of Old Babylon
Emil Khalisi
For many decades scholars converse how to correctly include the Old Babylonian Empire into the absolute timeline of history. A cuneiform text from the series Enuma Anu Enlil (EAE #…
The Solar Eclipse of the Xia Dynasty: A Review
Emil Khalisi
We present a review on the renowned solar eclipse in the Chinese book "Shujing" describing the oldest account of this kind. After balancing the arguments on the time, place, and th…
Hierarchical Eclipses
Emil Khalisi, Joachim Gripp
The obscuration of a celestial body that covers another one in the background will be called a ``hierarchical eclipse''. The most obvious case is that a star or a planet will be hi…
The Solar Eclipses of the Pharaoh Akhenaten
Emil Khalisi
We suggest an earlier date for the accession of the pharaoh Akhenaten of the New Kingdom in Egypt. His first year of reign would be placed in 1382 BCE. This conjecture is based on…