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
  • See also

  • Ancient Discoveries
  • The Re-Inventors

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    Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East

    Beijing News 31 Mar 2025
    Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa were inventing new tools during this period, people of East Asia stuck to only the most basic tools that remained unchanged for thousands of years....
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    Danzig under fire for using Nazi-associated symbol on new merch

    NME 31 Mar 2025
    According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), this symbol is “one of a number of ancient European symbols appropriated by the Nazis in their attempt to invent an idealised ‘Aryan/Norse’ heritage”. The ADL added ... It continued ... When a fan explained that “this is an ancient symbol in Europe”, another user responded ... ....
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    Archimedes’ Screw: The Ancient Greek Water-Raising Invention Still Used Today

    Greek Reporter 29 Mar 2025
    The Archimedes screw mechanism, an ancient Greek invention still used today ... Have you ever wondered how ancient civilizations moved water uphill without modern technology? The answer lies in a simple yet very smart device called the Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention still used today ....
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    Long-Lost Ancient Invention Wipes Out Power Bills and Generates Energy On Demand

    Bitchute 28 Mar 2025
    Go to the source via the article link to view the video or click the video icon .......
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    It's National Sauce Month, apparently, so let's celebrate 1960s style | LOST RECIPES

    Tuscaloosanews.com 26 Mar 2025
    Ancient Mesopotamians (3500 BC to 539 BC) used fish to create a sauce named siqqu ... But a different recipe for it apparently dates back to ancient China. What was it made of? You guessed it — fish.It's believed that Sauce Robert was invented and named after a French chef in the 17th century, but some sources say it came about 300 years earlier....
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    Tirth Is A Unifier, Replaces Fear With Love

    The Times of India 24 Mar 2025
    Tirth dispels apprehension and doubts about unfamiliar places and people, replacing fear of the unknown with love.'Maintaining the ancient tradition, reverence for tirths and ensuring society's participation in tirthyatra is one of the most ingenious inventions of the Bhartiya mind for promoting unity and integrity of the country....
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    Ruy Teixeira: There is a Winning Message for Dems but They Will Reject It

    Hot Air 24 Mar 2025
    Here's a bit of what Thompson had to say. Advertisement. The problem we have, and especially a problem that we have in Democratic-run places, is not just that we can’t invent things we don’t have yet, we also can’t build what we understand. The apartment building is a very ancient technology. Elisha Otis came up with the elevator about 170 years ago ... ....
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    Doors that open for you have their own day

    Shreveport Times 22 Mar 2025
    It turns out that automatic doors have existed in some form since Ancient Greeks invented them, or they were the ones whose records survived for us to read about this mechanism and assign credit to them for its invention....
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    Gaming in Ancient Greece: The Most Popular Board Games of Antiquity

    Greek Reporter 21 Mar 2025
    Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, often identified as Five Lines, a common theme in ancient Greek artwork ... Ancient Greeks spent much of their time playing board games practically on a daily basis. They were a beloved part of ancient Greek culture ... Another particularly beloved and popular board game in ancient Greece was Tabula....
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    World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems

    Greek Reporter 21 Mar 2025
    As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we revisit the immortal world of poetry in ancient Greece—from Homer’s epic poems, the earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, to Sappho’s later lyric poetry, many writers left a mark on ancient Greece’s early poetic tradition....
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    Village keeps ancient paper-making tradition alive

    China Daily 21 Mar 2025
    KUNMING — In a small village in Yunnan province, a crystal-clear stream has been more than just a source of water for generations — it has been the lifeblood of an ancient paper-making tradition ... "We mimicked the adults when we played in the water," she said. "It was like a game ... Paper is one of the four great inventions of ancient China ... 1/2 Next ... ....
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    A radical new idea for how our ancestors invented stone tools

    New Scientist 21 Mar 2025
    Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented from scratch ... ....
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    Europe, once hell for Jews, now a refuge for Palestinians displaced by Jews

    Madhyamam 20 Mar 2025
    Palestinians have been fleeing to Europe for decades. But in recent years more have shifted thither.Several European nations recognise Palestine as what it is. a sovereign state ... But it is good for Palestine ... France boasts that it invented human rights. Of course, Ancient Persia and India had human rights long before anyone in Europe ... .......

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