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Eclipses could be predicted in ancient times, at least locally. By plotting the occurances of the New Moon, its different times and its varying proximity to the sun, and by comparing this with the ecliptic (the sun’s path across the sky) they could calculate when the New Moon and the sun would occupy the same point in the sky.
