Japanese researchers investigated ancient texts from the 4th to 7th centuries AD to identify five total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean. The data shed light on variation of the Earth’s rotation on a centennial timescale, and thus help refine the study of other global phenomena such as sea-level and ice-volume variability. Researchers combed through records from the Byzantine Empire to identify and locate total eclipses observed around the Eastern Medics in 4th-7th century AD, a period for which solar eclipse records are particularly scarce.Read Long Article
