Ancient Discoveries

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Ancient Discoveries is a television program on the History Channel which focuses on ancient technologies. The program's theme is that many inventions which are thought to be modern have ancient roots or in some cases may have been lost and then reinvented. The program is a follow-up to special originally broadcast in 2005 which focused on technologies from the Ancient Roman era such as the Antikythera mechanism and inventors such as Heron of Alexandria. Episodes of the regular series have expanded to cover other areas such as Egypt, Japan, and China.

Ancient Discoveries was made for the History Channel by Wild Dream Films based in Cardiff in the UK. Much of the filming was done on location across the world. The series uses contributions from archaeologists and other experts, footage of historical sites and artifacts, computer generated reconstructions and dramatized reconstructions along with experiments and tests on reconstructed artifacts.

[edit] Episodes

  • 1. Siege of Troy
  • 2. Ancient Cars and Planes
  • 3. Machines of the Gods
  • 4. Superships
  • 5. Ancient Mega Machines
  • 6. Egyptian Warfare
  • 7. Warfare II
  • 8. Machines
  • 9. Machines II
  • 10. Machines III
  • 11. Ancient Robots
  • 12. Machines of the East
  • 13. Chinese Warfare
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A further series is currently in production with crews working across the world to bring complete another 13 programmes.