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Ancient Skies

Made from bronzeoverlaid with gold, the disc has beeninterpreted to show a variety of...

Made from bronze
overlaid with gold, the disc has been
interpreted to show a variety of objects
in the night sky

Full Transcript

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Made from bronze overlaid with gold,
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the disc has been interpreted to show
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a variety of objects in the night sky.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:14
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary, history

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Movie Summary

With breath-taking CGI, beautiful landscape footage and some of the world's most important astronomical artefacts, Ancient Skies looks at the cosmos through the eyes of our ancestors, and our changing views of the cosmos throughou...
S01 • E01 It now sits permanently behind glass. - Ancient Skies 00:05
It now sits permanently behind glass.
S01 • E01 But Dr. Harald Meller has used this precious, perfect copy - Ancient Skies 00:08
But Dr. Harald Meller has used this precious, perfect copy
S01 • E01 By lining up these horizon arcs with the sunrise - Ancient Skies 00:09
By lining up these horizon arcs with the sunrise
S01 • E01 The Nebra sky disc shows how - Ancient Skies 00:07
The Nebra sky disc shows how
S01 • E01 But 2,000 miles away, one of our greatest civilizations - Ancient Skies 00:12
But 2,000 miles away, one of our greatest civilizations
S01 • E01 It all began in a place often referred to - Ancient Skies 00:06
It all began in a place often referred to
S01 • E01 When we talk about ancient Mesopotamia, - Ancient Skies 00:09
When we talk about ancient Mesopotamia,
S01 • E01 It's the region that is around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. - Ancient Skies 00:06
It's the region that is around the Tigris and Euphrates...
S01 • E01 Mesopotamia is Greek for "the land between rivers." - Ancient Skies 00:04
Mesopotamia is Greek for "the land between rivers."...
S01 • E01 Within the region of ancient Mesopotamia - Ancient Skies 00:06
Within the region of ancient Mesopotamia
S01 • E01 - It was the Babylonians who gave us our earliest known - it was the Babylonians who gave us our earliest known - Ancient Skies 00:11
- It was the Babylonians who gave us our earliest known - it...
S01 • E01 They were the first to systematically record - Ancient Skies 00:17
They were the first to systematically record
S01 • E01 They are kept here, at the British museum in London. - Ancient Skies 00:04
They are kept here, at the British museum in London.
S01 • E01 They are written in cuneiform, an ancient form of writing - Ancient Skies 00:08
They are written in cuneiform, an ancient form of writing
S01 • E01 Cuneiform is a system of writing - Ancient Skies 00:10
Cuneiform is a system of writing
S01 • E01 Hundreds of thousands of cuneiform texts - Ancient Skies 00:06
Hundreds of thousands of cuneiform texts
S01 • E01 But the knowledge to decode them is relatively recent. - Ancient Skies 00:05
But the knowledge to decode them is relatively recent.
S01 • E01 Even today, there are very few people in the world - Ancient Skies 00:05
Even today, there are very few people in the world
S01 • E01 Professor John Steele is one of these few. - Ancient Skies 00:05
Professor John Steele is one of these few.
S01 • E01 The Babylonians were the first to really get - Ancient Skies 00:07
The Babylonians were the first to really get