Ancient Discoveries season 6 Twisted Weapons of the East - Metacritic

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Ancient Discoveries

Summary What you think may be a product of modern thought may have originated thousands of years ago. Watch as historians uncover evidence of primitive land and air transportation designs, elements of warfare and early concepts of modern conveniences.

TV-PG
History
44 m

TV-PG
History
44 m

Ancient Discoveries

S6 • Episode 9

Twisted Weapons of the East

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Summary What you think may be a product of modern thought may have originated thousands of years ago. Watch as historians uncover evidence of primitive land and air transportation designs, elements of warfare and early concepts of modern conveniences.

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Episode 1 • Nov 5, 2009 • 44 m

Airborne Assault

Assault from the air didn't begin with the era of the airplane. Take a look back at early methods of airborne attack, from medieval kite bombs to ancient China's whistling arrows.

Episode 2 • Nov 12, 2009 • 44 m

Episode 3 • Dec 4, 2009 • 44 m

Ancient Mega-Fort

Holding off invasion and protecting its people, ancient civilizations came up with creative, efficient, and effective means of self-protection and defense. Go behind some of history's most impregnable walls.

Episode 4 • Dec 10, 2009 • 44 m

Ancient Secret Agents

Investigate the systems by which ancient intelligence services transmitted messages over thousands of miles and the ways in which they manipulated darts, poisons, and even explosives.

Episode 5 • Dec 18, 2009 • 44 m

Gruesome Medicine

Modern medicine it isn't, but at the time, it was the best that could be done - and perhaps it may have new applications in our world.

Episode 6 • Dec 18, 2009 • 44 m

Riots and Revolution

Track down the manual that explained Vietnamese military secrets, discover King Mithridates' "burning mud," and learn how the terrorist booby-traps and letter bombs of today were invented hundreds of years ago.

Episode 7 • Dec 18, 2009 • 44 m

Ancient Commandos

Exactly as they do today, ancient commandos fought deep behind enemy lines in some of the harshest terrains know to man. Discover the secrets and triumphs of these daring and oft-outnumbered elite forces.

Episode 8 • Nov 30, 2007 • 44 m

Ancient Special Forces

Discover through epic experiments how the ancient Romans captured enemy ships from underwater; the secrets of the samurai sword; and how the Japanese protected galloping cavalrymen with thin layers of silk.

Episode 9 • 44 m

Twisted Weapons of the East

Ancient Indian weapons, booby traps and how camels were used as the first tanks.

Episode 10 • Dec 22, 2009 • 44 m

Ancient Record Breakers

Amazingly, some world records that still stand today were set in the ancient world. Explore how changing measurements and values have made the ancient world's greatest wonders even more impressive with time.

Episode 11 • Dec 22, 2009 • 44 m

Mega Ocean Conquest

Dive in to experiments and demonstrations of the ways in which ancient man pushed technological boundaries to the limit to conquer the depths of the oceans and defend the freedoms of the seas.

Episode 12 • Dec 22, 2009 • 44 m

Rituals of Death

Delve into the rituals and mysteries surrounding mummification, crucifixion, 15th-century forensic science, and China's famous terracotta army.

Episode 13 • Dec 28, 2009 • 44 m

Secret Science of the Occult

In Mexico, explorers use am ancient Mayan temple code to search for an occult underworld engineered in the depths of the earth; and in Greece, archaeologists solve the mystery of an eerie sanctuary of flying ghosts.

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