Ancient Inventions - War And Conflicts

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the final episode of Terry Jones’ acclaimed documentary series Ancient Inventions.

Ancient Inventions ~ Sex and Love

At the risk of just being a tad risqué, today on Far Future Horizons  we  present a documentary concerning humankind’s favourite past times – Sex and love.

The second instalment of Terry Jones’ acclaimed documentary series Ancient Inventions explorers our ancient obsession “with inventing new ways of looking good and turning each other on”,  amongst other things.

Ancient Einsteins ~ Four Great Ancient Innovators of Classical Antiquity

Today on Far Future Horizons we will be introducing a new series titled Ancient Impossible ~ Ancient Einsteins.

Ancient Impossible is a new History Channel documentary, which picks up where History’s long running Ancient Discoveries left off.

In this next generation of storytelling, Ancient Impossible reveals how many of today’s technological achievements were actually developed centuries ago. Colossal monuments, impossible feats of engineering and technologies so precise they defy reinvention.

Proving that the ancient world was far more advanced than we ever imagined.

Through this series, we will travel  to classical antiquity to reveal a radically different picture of the past.

Ctesibius' Water Clock

Ancient Civilizations produced many innovations that were “far ahead of their time”, many of which have been rediscovered and are still in use today.

Philon's Automatic Maid

New scholarship uncovers a lost world more like our own than we ever suspected, and reveals how modern technology has its blueprint in the ancient world.

I can highly recommend this series to my readers. Ancient Impossible reveals that the greatest Archaeological monuments were indeed the product of humanity’s enduring innate talents of innovation and discovery. And, not the meddling intrusion of Ancient Aliens.

Ancient Inventions - City Life

Today on Far Future Horizons  we present a BBC documentary mini series released in 1998 and hosted by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones entitled Ancient Inventions.

Ancient Inventions looked at the great inventions of the ancient world that shaped that helped shape today’s world.  The series is divided into three episodes, namely City Life, Sex and Love, and War and Conflicts.

In this first instalment of Ancient inventions we look at the innovations and inventions that made living in a modern metropolis possible. Terry Jones explores such important topics as water transport, concrete, and city grids,  the major and fundamental infrastructure of a city, ancient or modern, which could provide for its subsequent growth.