Just because the Flavian Caesars of Rome wanted all the tribes on Earth to be witness to the event doesn't make it so. That's interesting that "Earth" gets a mention. Do we have the original text or know what "Earth" refers to? Do they mean the third planet out from the Sun with orbit of149.60 million km(92.96 million mi),[1]and eccentricityof 0.0167,with a radius at the equator 3,963 miles, and mass of 6.6 sextillion tons (5.9722 x 1024kilograms), volume about 260 billion cubic miles (1 trillion cubic kilometers).and with a single moon with a diameter of 2,159 miles and about an eightieth of the mass of earth?