Ancient Egyptian History Pertaining to Eclipses

Nearly all we know about ancient Egyptian civilization’s knowledge of astronomy comes to us from tomb paintings, various temple inscriptions, and a handful of papyrus documents such as the Rhind Papyrus.Unfortunately, the Great Library in Alexandria was burned during the time of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Later burnings in A.D. 390 and A.D. 640 destroyed an estimated 400,000 books on Egyptian secular literature, mathematics, medicine, and astronomy.The burnings were classified as one of the greatest intellectual catastrophes in human history. One can only guess what Egyptian knowledge of astronomy was lost. All that survives is fragments that some scholars see as merely the faded ghosts of Egyptian intellectual legacy.The fabulous astrological ceiling of Senmut (painted around 1460 B.C.), includes celestial objects such as Orion, Sirius, and the planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn.In 1100 B.C. Amenhope wrote Catalog of the Universe in which he identified the major known constellations. Curiously, the catalog does not mention either Sirius or any of the planets previously known to the Egyptians.At least outwardly, there are no surviving inscriptions or documents to indicate that Egyptian knowledge of astronomy was more than tomb decoration.