A documentary series that looks at the earliest examples of human ingenuity and examines their relationship to today's popular inventions.
S1 E1: Ancient Greece - Modern Ship Building
The host travels to Greece for a first-hand look at how the maritime expertise of ancient Greece evolved. He examines a modern reproduction of the famed trireme.
S1 E2: Ancient Rome: The Rise Of The Apartments
New York City's Time Warner Center is the state of the art in high-rise living. It features all the amenities that one can imagine. But high-rise, high-density living isn't a new idea.
S1 E3: Ancient Egypt: Iconic Structures
The host travels to Egypt to understand how monumental masterpieces including the Great Pyramid and the Temple of Karnak were designed with primitive tools and labour.
S1 E4: Ancient Maya: Power Centers
2000 years ago, when Washington was still a swamp, the Maya were busy transforming some of the most inhospitable jungle imaginable into the New World’s first powerful metropolis.
S1 E5: Ancient Rome: The Mobile Society
Ever since the 1950s, the United States has been building freeways at an unprecedented rate. Host Michael Guillen takes us on a chariot ride through Ancient Rome and discovers that many of the highway amenities date back over 2000 years.
S1 E6: Ancient China: The Personal Weapon
A look at how certain weapons invented by the ancient Chinese have contributed to nearly every military weapon in use today.
S1 E7: Ancient China: Agriculture
Host Michael Guillen travels to China to explore the roots of modern agricultural genius. He studies how the ancient Chinese invented advanced farming technology long before the west would use anything like it.
S1 E8: Ancient Egypt: Modern Medicine
Many things we associate with the practice of modern medicine were actually introduced by the ancient Egyptians more than 5,000 years ago. We travel to Egypt for a first-hand look at the birthplace of modern medicine.
S1 E9: Ancient Maya: The Tools Of Astronomy
Where Did It Come From? travels to Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula to get a first hand look at the ancient world’s most skilled astronomers: the Maya.
S1 E10: Ancient Greece: Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Journey to Greece to examine the ancient origins of modern weapons of mass destruction like computer-guided nuclear warheads, anthrax and sarin gas.
S1 E11: Ancient China: Drilling And Mining
Mining the earth for coal, erecting drilling rigs for oil and natural gas to pipe to our homes, smelting iron ore into buildings of iron and steel - all of these are fundamentals of the modern industrialised world, but they are nothing new.
S1 E12: Ancient China: Masters Of The Wind And Waves
Many years before modern air travel, the ancient Chinese had learned and were practising the complicated principles of fluid and aerodynamics in the kites they flew, the boats they sailed and the children’s toys they made.
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Tanked
Judge Rinder's Interrogation Secrets
Sister Wives: Unforgiven
The Adventures of Paddington
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Body Invaders
Little People, Big World
The Curse Of Oak Island
American Monster
Doubling Down With The Derricos
Imperfect Murder
The Fairly OddParents
SpongeBob SquarePants
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Match Me Abroad
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