Name: Ancient Discoveries: Impossible Army Machines
Uploaded: 2008-11-30T16:00:00-08:00
Duration: 45 min
Description: The amazing successes and stunning failures of ancient military engineers have directly affected the weapons and tactics we use today.

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

The amazing successes and stunning failures of ancient military engineers have directly affected the weapons and tactics we use today.

Impossible Army Machines

The oldest known weapon is the staff. Watch with surprising results a comparison test between a staff and a shotgun.

Death Weapons of the East

Amazingly, the Ancients understood the principles of the modern tank.

Ancient Tank Tech

Throughout history man has gone to great lengths to develop the technology of torture. Learn about a new discovery that proves victim's bones were snapped apart on the rack.

Ancient Torture Tech

The Romans created a hydraulic mining system that literally blew millions of tons of material away and ancient sappers dug under mega walls and brought a whole castle down. But how was this possible?

Ancient Mining Machines

Might the stories of the Bible have their basis in ancient scientific fact? How big was the giant Goliath, and what was the tech of the sling that brought him down?

Lost Science of the Bible

Naval engineering has led the way in technological advances through all History.

Impossible Naval Engineering

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.

S3 E5 Impossible Army Machines

Season 3, 7 Episodes

Ancient Discoveries

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S3 E5 Impossible Army Machines

Season 3, 7 Episodes

season 3 (7 episodes)

Ancient Discoveries

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