Ancient Inventions

Ancient Inventions was a BBC historical documentary series released in 1998. It was presented by former Monty Python member Terry Jones and looked at great inventions of the ancient world. The series is split into 3 episodes, namely City Life, Sex and Love, and War and Conflicts, all around 50 min long.

External links

Ancient Inventions at the Internet Movie Database

Official dvd release

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Alba Longa and its Legendary Kings

Ancient Origins 28 Apr 2024

Alba Longa, an ancient city located in the Latium region of Italy, holds a prominent place in the realm of myth and legend ... Or at least that’s what ancient Roman historians would have us believe ... Most ancient historians recorded that Silvius was simply Ascanius’s son although others, like Dionysus, instead believed him to be Ascanius’s half-brother....

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What is the value of Olympic victory?

Ekathimerini 27 Apr 2024

The ancient Greeks staged Olympic Games for 1,000 years ... The ancient Greeks also held clear views about what the value of Olympic victory was ... Nevertheless, the ancient Greeks valued Olympic victory even more highly than we do ... This is almost completely an invention of the Nazis because there was no such relay at the ancient Olympics....

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Ancient Greeks Invented World’s First Telecommunications Device

Greek Reporter 23 Apr 2024

Hydraulic telegraph, a fourth century BC invention of the ancient Greeks (reconstruction based on descriptions by Aeneas Tacticus and Polybius) ... The hydraulic telegraph, invented by the ancient Greeks, had the capacity to send long-distance messages as early as the fourth century BC....

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Chinese inventions shine at Int'l Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva

Xinhua 21 Apr 2024

China is participating in the ongoing International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva with nearly 200 projects ... Ancient book restorers bring broken old books "back to life" in Jilin ... Chinese inventions shine at Int'l Exhibition of ......

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Top 10 Inventions of Ancient Greece�Used Today

Greek City Times 19 Apr 2024

Frankly there are more than 10 inventions and discoveries our ......

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KEVIN MCCALLUM: Olympic torch shines some small hope in a troubled world

Business Day 19 Apr 2024

Though propagandists portrayed the torch relay as ancient tradition stretching back to the original Greek competitions, the event was in fact a Nazi invention, one typical of the Reich’s love of flashy ceremonies and historical allusions to the old empires.” ... the ancient powers”....

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Teen traumatized after ‘sugar waxing’ trend leaves her with burns, scarring

New York Post 19 Apr 2024

This spoonful of sugar didn’t make the medicine go down ... 6. Natalie Renken (right) with her daughter Allison Boles, who was burned while concocting the mixture for a sugar wax ... 6 ... While originally invented by the ancient Egyptians, this cosmetic technique has subsequently become a fixture on TikTok, which is how Boles happened across it ... 6 ... 6 ... .......

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READY, FIRE, AIM: Hate Paying Taxes? Blame the Pharaohs

Pagosa Daily Post 16 Apr 2024

“You can recognize a variety of techniques of government invented in ancient Egypt that haven’t changed [today]”. — from ‘Stressed About Taxes? Blame the Ancient Egyptians’ by Kate McMahon, in Smithsonian Magazine, April 2024. I’ve been hankering for a reason to blame the ancient Egyptians, and now I have one....

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How a little-known clergyman studying worms by candlelight in the 1700s inspired Charles Darwin – ...

The Conversation 16 Apr 2024

It is a marvellous reflection that the whole of the superficial mould over any such expanse has passed, and will again pass, every few years through the bodies of worms. The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man’s inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed by earthworms – Charles Darwin ... ....

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Hardwired for harmony

China Daily 12 Apr 2024

Based on their observations of animals' regular seasonal movements, ancient Chinese people invented an agricultural calender and the 24 solar terms, which helped them plant and harvest crops at the right time, thereby remarkably increasing the yield of crops.This calendar is also known as the "phenological calendar"....

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Ancient Egyptians Viewed Milky Way as Goddess Nut, Says New Study

Greek Reporter 11 Apr 2024

New study sheds light on how the ancient Egyptians viewed the Milky Way ... An astrophysicist with the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, has shed light on how the ancient Egyptians viewed our galaxy – the Milky Way – thousands of years ago....

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