-Evidence+of+astronomical+abilities




 * There are no surviving inscriptions or documents to indicate that Egyptian knowledge of astronomy was more than tomb decoration
 * There is considerable external evidence that the Egyptians possessed accurate knowledge of solar and lunar eclipses.
 * Diodorus Siculus (200 A.D.), stated categorically that the ancient Egyptian astronomers possessed the ability to predict solar eclipses.
 * The ancient Egyptians explained solar eclipses by the passage of the Moon between the Sun and the earth in daylight hours.
 * There is evidence, admittedly disputed by some writers, that an actual solar eclipse was reported in Egypt in the 9th century B.C. and again in 610 B.C.