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Today, we know them as constellations
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Ancient Skies

Today, we know themas constellations

Today, we know them
as constellations

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Today, we know them as constellations.
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5 seconds
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18
Timestamp in Movie
00:39:53
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 A constellation is a group of stars, - Ancient Skies 00:11
A constellation is a group of stars,
S01 • E01 Or Orion the hunter, which looks enough like - Ancient Skies 00:06
Or Orion the hunter, which looks enough like
S01 • E01 Leo the lion kind of looks like a lion seen from the side, - Ancient Skies 00:09
Leo the lion kind of looks like a lion seen from the side,
S01 • E01 But not every culture saw - Ancient Skies 00:05
But not every culture saw
S01 • E01 Constellations have more to do with patterns - Ancient Skies 00:13
Constellations have more to do with patterns
S01 • E01 Chinese astronomers saw a monkey, - Ancient Skies 00:08
Chinese astronomers saw a monkey,
S01 • E01 Native Americans saw a beaver, an owl, and a wolf. - Ancient Skies 00:05
Native Americans saw a beaver, an owl, and a wolf.
S01 • E01 And the Aztecs saw practical things - Ancient Skies 00:05
And the Aztecs saw practical things
S01 • E01 What we call the Pleiades, - Ancient Skies 00:06
What we call the Pleiades,
S01 • E01 Then, what we call Orion's belt and sword - Ancient Skies 00:06
Then, what we call Orion's belt and sword
S01 • E01 Today in the western world, there are 88 - Ancient Skies 00:07
Today in the western world, there are 88
S01 • E01 But most of us are familiar with a much smaller number of them. - Ancient Skies 00:06
But most of us are familiar with a much smaller number of th...
S01 • E01 They are the ones that have been grouped together - Ancient Skies 00:06
They are the ones that have been grouped together
S01 • E01 We recognize 12 official zodiac constellations. - Ancient Skies 00:04
We recognize 12 official zodiac constellations.
S01 • E01 The ones you've heard of... Libra, Taurus, Gemini, - Ancient Skies 00:05
The ones you've heard of... Libra, Taurus, Gemini,
S01 • E01 The zodiac was established by Babylonian astronomers - Ancient Skies 00:07
The zodiac was established by Babylonian astronomers
S01 • E01 And it's the same zodiac that exists to this day. - Ancient Skies 00:05
And it's the same zodiac that exists to this day.
S01 • E01 But picking 12 constellations - Ancient Skies 00:08
But picking 12 constellations
S01 • E01 There was a serious scientific reason behind it. - Ancient Skies 00:05
There was a serious scientific reason behind it.
S01 • E01 As the earth goes around the sun - Ancient Skies 00:09
As the earth goes around the sun