Name: Ancient Discoveries: Ancient Super Navies
Uploaded: 2008-02-03T16:00:00-08:00
Duration: 45 min
Description: Using the latest scientific techniques to solve the greatest mysteries.

For 3000 years the Siege of Troy has remained steeped in mystery. Journey with us to the site in Turkey believed to be the location of the real Troy.

Ancient Discoveries

Siege Of Troy

Surprising archaeological finds have led historians to new conclusions about the transportation technology invented by ancient peoples.

Cars and Planes

Gods and religion played an extremely important role in antiquity. The problem with so many religions being worshipped by the Greeks.

Machines Of The Gods

In recent years there have been a number of extraordinary discoveries of ships from the ancient world.

Superships

In 2004 the American School of Classical Studies in Greece made a surprising discovery of two limestone coffins.

Mega Machines

Egyptian monuments and great works of art still astound us today. We will reveal another surprising aspect of Egyptian life.

Egyptian Warfare

Many of the modern military innovations we take for granted all stem from ancient China.

Chinese Warfare

One thousand years ago, when Europe was still in the dark ages, China was at the forefront of technology.

Machines III

Is there any truth in the amazing and sensational idea that the ancients had robotic devices? Heron and Philon would be the masters of ancient robotic inventions including famous automatic devices such as robotic temple doors.

Robots

While the ancient Greeks had amazing engineers like Heron and Ctesibius, the Islamic world had Al-Jazari--a prolific writer and a talented craftsman.

Machines Of The East

Pluto

Using the latest scientific techniques to solve the greatest mysteries.

Ancient Super Navies

Our modern day landscapes are littered with the remains of ancient superstructures. Now, cutting edge archaeology is beginning to reveal that this century's most exciting discoveries actually lie at the bottom of the ocean.

Mega-Structures of the Deep

We reveal how the science and technology of ballistics actually dates back thousands of years to the ancient world. Using state of the art forensic techniques and the world's leading firearms experts.

Ancient Super Ballistics

Military innovation is consistently at the cutting edge of technological advances.

Ancient Death Machines

The master shipbuilders of the Far East created the most deadly warships of ancient times in their quest for supremacy of the seas.

Ancient Chinese Super Ships

New York's towering skyline and world-leading technology have made it the ultimate city, yet breathtaking new discoveries reveal that the blueprints for this megametropolis were in fact laid thousands of years ago.

Ancient New York

In the ancient texts of Homer and on the walls of Egyptian tombs lie exciting clues that are causing historians to rethink just how sophisticated centuries-old societies were.

Ancient Super Navies

Season 2, 6 episodes

Ancient Discoveries

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Ancient Super Navies

Season 2, 6 episodes

season 2 (6 episodes)

Ancient Discoveries

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