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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    Kama Muta: The Powerful Emotion Everyone Has But No One Has Heard Of

    IFL Science 14 Feb 2025
    But one stuck out ... Don’t be fooled by its ancient appearance, though. “The name, I invented,” says Fiske ... That’s not so unusual, he points out – after all, even his own discipline, psychiatry, is named after two ancient Greek terms that were never used in combination until the 19th century ... But there’s a more practical reason for the ancient choice ... ....
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    The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat

    The Atlantic 13 Feb 2025
    A baffling problem in the Trump era is separating its sinister aspects from its pathetic self-embarrassments ... The ancient Aztecs knew the oceans to their west and east as “Sky Water.” They did not invent geographically specific names for the seas around them, because they did not need them ... The medieval English knew the sea by the ancient Latin name....
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    What the Color Blue Reveals About Black Life

    The Atlantic 13 Feb 2025
    Livestock and humans alike became sick ... [Read ... He was also a talented craftsman who wove and embroidered intricate patterns that Perry describes as “living fractals.” He made paint from sweet-potato skins and tomato vines, and even resurrected Egyptian blue, a striking shade that had been invented in Ancient Egypt, by oxidizing Alabama clay ... [Read ... ....
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    Bold in scale, Sharjah Biennial 16 maps new constellation of voices beyond West-centric lens

    Korea Times 13 Feb 2025
    In “Khawagaka,” Indonesian artist Rully Shabara stages what appears to be a convincing archaeological museum display of the ancient Wusa civilization — except the entire civilization is a fictional invention ... that was once submerged beneath an ancient sea....
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    You should expect China to come up with many great things: Elon Musk on DeepSeek

    ECNS 10 Feb 2025
    Screenshot Photo ... Musk pointed out that if one looks at the long history of China, also an ancient nation that has invented and developed many things and for most of human history, China has been the most powerful nation on Earth ... .......
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    AI is transforming the search for new materials that can help create the technologies of ...

    The Conversation 10 Feb 2025
    Battery technology is one area that can benefit from the development of novel materials. IM Imagery / Shutterstock ... In ancient times, human civilisations experimented with natural resources to create tools and artifacts ... The invention of glass in ancient Mesopotamia around 3,500BC was another groundbreaking moment ... Oak Ridge National Laboratory ... ....
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    Elon Musk demands investigation into the strange square formation on Mars: “We should send astronauts to Mars to investigate!”

    The Times of India 06 Feb 2025
    ... explanations, many online theorists have jumped to more speculative conclusions, suggesting that the square might be evidence of an artificial structure—perhaps remnants of an ancient civilization or an alien-built base.A user on social media wrote, 'Humans invented squares....
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    Peer inside the Herculaneum scroll for the first time in 2,000 years: Scientists use AI ...

    The Daily Mail 05 Feb 2025
    172, this particular scroll is housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, and is covered in ancient Greek text written in carbon-based ink ... In 1756, Abbot Piagio, conserver of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library, invented a machine that could unroll a single manuscript in four years, but it unfortunately destroyed a lot of the work....
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    Molon Lave: The Ancient Greek Phrase of Defiance Turned Global Marketing Tool

    Greek Reporter 29 Jan 2025
    King Leonidas I reigned the ancient city-state of Sparta, a warrior society, from 489 to 480 BC ... legislation allows a company to successfully apply for a trademark for a brand new phrase, or an “ancient” phrase or an invented word/phrase, with the age and origin of the phrase being irrelevant....

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