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Maya Astronomers Predicted Solar Eclipses 700 Years in Advance Without Telescopes

New research has decoded how Maya astronomers forecasted solar eclipses with remarkable precision more than a millennium ago, revealing a self-correcting system that maintained accuracy across multiple generations. The study, published in Science Advances by John Justeson from the University at Albany and Justin Lowry from SUNY, analyzes the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex,