Ancient history prophecies predict end of the world [Video]

(NewsNation) — The solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be the last opportunity to view a total solar eclipse from the contiguous United States for 20 years.

States and cities are preparing for an influx of people visiting the path of totality and that fascination is nothing new. Eclipses show up in historical records and mythology dating back millennia.

The oldest definitive solar eclipse on record dates to around 1200 B.C.E., when scribes in China recorded eclipses on ox bones and tortoise shells. But it’s possible there’s an even earlier record in a series of spiral-shaped and circular petroglyphs found in Ireland that date to 3340 B.C.E.

Records of eclipses have been recorded in petroglyphs made by the early Pueblo people as well as the Maya, who kept extensive records on astronomical events. Religious texts also mention eclipses, including the Bible and the Quran, and connect them with significant events.

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