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Ancient Skies

Yet only the godscould freely plunge into the depths of the ocean, or make their homeon...

Yet only the gods
could freely plunge into the depths of the ocean, or make their home
on the highest mountain

Full Transcript

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Yet only the gods could freely plunge
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into the depths of the ocean,
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or make their home on the highest mountain.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:20
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 To humans, the heavens were out of bounds. - Ancient Skies 00:05
To humans, the heavens were out of bounds.
S01 • E01 Any mortal trying to reach the skies - Ancient Skies 00:07
Any mortal trying to reach the skies
S01 • E01 And perhaps no Greek myth is a better example of this idea - Ancient Skies 00:10
And perhaps no Greek myth is a better example of this idea
S01 • E01 Daedalus flew ahead, like a bird. - Ancient Skies 00:04
Daedalus flew ahead, like a bird.
S01 • E01 He urged the boy to follow, - Ancient Skies 00:06
He urged the boy to follow,
S01 • E01 The boy began to delight in his daring flight - Ancient Skies 00:09
The boy began to delight in his daring flight
S01 • E01 His nearness to the sun softened the wax - Ancient Skies 00:07
His nearness to the sun softened the wax
S01 • E01 He flailed with bare arms, but could not ride the air. - Ancient Skies 00:05
He flailed with bare arms, but could not ride the air.
S01 • E01 Even as his mouth cried his father's name, - Ancient Skies 00:08
Even as his mouth cried his father's name,
S01 • E01 It would be more than 2,000 years - Ancient Skies 00:07
It would be more than 2,000 years
S01 • E01 But even as Icarus' fabled feathers touched the water, - Ancient Skies 00:12
But even as Icarus' fabled feathers touched the water,
S01 • E01 Skilled sailors, they ventured overseas - Ancient Skies 00:06
Skilled sailors, they ventured overseas
S01 • E01 As they did so, they increasingly came into contact - Ancient Skies 00:06
As they did so, they increasingly came into contact
S01 • E01 They took artistic influences - Ancient Skies 00:05
They took artistic influences
S01 • E01 And from the Babylonians, they took astronomy. - Ancient Skies 00:05
And from the Babylonians, they took astronomy.
S01 • E01 The Babylonian astronomy is a really strong current - Ancient Skies 00:08
The Babylonian astronomy is a really strong current
S01 • E01 There's the planetary tables... The recording of - Ancient Skies 00:10
There's the planetary tables... The recording of
S01 • E01 Armed with astronomical knowledge - Ancient Skies 00:08
Armed with astronomical knowledge
S01 • E01 They weren't just satisfied with observation and prediction. - Ancient Skies 00:05
They weren't just satisfied with observation and predic...
S01 • E01 They wanted to know why the things they saw in the sky - Ancient Skies 00:06
They wanted to know why the things they saw in the sky