 However, Babylonians were far from being able to predict the local conditions of solar eclipses at that point, which makes this hypothesis highly unlikely.In fact, there is no known cycle that can be reliably used to predict an eclipse for a given location and, therefore, any accurate prediction would have been down to luck.The eclipse peaked over the Atlantic Ocean at and the umbral path reached south-western Anatolia in the evening hours, and the Halys River is just within the error margin for delta-T provided.