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Sep 2006 - Sep 2006
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Ancient Greece: Modern Ship Building
S1 Ep1
1.0
7th Sep 2006
Modern warships, cargo, and container ships are the cutting edge of maritime technology. But 2,500 years ago, no one dominated shipbuilding like the Greeks.
Ancient Rome: The Rise of Apartments
S1 Ep2
14th Sep 2006
High-rise, high-density living isn't new. Romans were living in high-rise apartments 2,000 years ago. Travel to Rome and its ancient seaport of Ostia, where many of them still exist.
Ancient Egypt: Iconic Structures
S1 Ep3
14th Sep 2006
Discover how monumental masterpieces including the Great Pyramid, Library at Alexander, Temple of Karnak, Sphinx, and obelisks were built using only the most primitive tools and brute labor.
Ancient Greece: Weapons of Mass Destruction
S1 Ep4
14th Sep 2006
The Ancient Greeks were masters of weaponry. From the massive Ballista launcher, giant mirrors to produce fiery death rays, and even poisons and biological toxins, they originated ideas still used in modern warfare.
Ancient Rome: The Mobile Society
S1 Ep5
14th Sep 2006
Travel to the heart of the Roman Empire to examine a remarkable civil engineering project that resulted in a 53-thousand-mile network of highways, which is little-changed today.
Ancient Rome: The Modern Stadium
S1 Ep6
14th Sep 2006
Michael takes us back to the "bread and circus" days of the ancient Roman Empire to find the origins of today's multi-million-dollar, multi-purpose stadiums.
Ancient China: Personal Weapon
S1 Ep7
14th Sep 2006
Ancient Chinese civil wars spawned the revolutionary crossbow and stirrup. Later, perhaps the greatest Chinese triumphs were gunpowder and the cannon, used to arm the Great Wall. These influenced warfare for centuries to follow.
Ancient China: Agriculture
S1 Ep8
14th Sep 2006
To help feed their population, Ancient China created the world's first canal systems, the plough and the winnowing machine for grain and rice. Today, China boasts the world's longest canal and the largest dam.
Ancient Egypt: Modern Medicine
S1 Ep9
14th Sep 2006
The Edwin Smith Papyrus in New York, gives amazing insights into the way the Ancient Egyptians pioneered medicine, and laid the foundations for modern treatment in diverse areas such as gynaecology and psychoanalysis.
Ancient Maya: The Tools of Astronomy
S1 Ep10
14th Sep 2006
Discover how the Ancient Maya built their sophisticated observatories, and how they were obsessed with the movements of the Sun, Moon and planets. See the fascinating Long Calendar which attempted to predict the end of the world.
Ancient Maya: Power Centers
S1 Ep11
14th Sep 2006
Michael takes us to the Central American jungle to find out how 2000 years ago the ancient Maya mined and fashioned limestone from virgin territory to create their great city of Tikal, paving the way for modern building development.
Ancient China: Origins of Drilling and Mining
S1 Ep12
14th Sep 2006
How did China extract natural resources more than 2,000 years ago? Explore ancient drilling rigs and see how the modern-day science of geobotany was pioneered the Chinese.
Ancient China: Masters of the Wind
S1 Ep13
14th Sep 2006
Sails, rudders, kites and wings, were all invented by the Chinese. Michael travels to Hong Kong to sail a junk for himself, and investigates how these various innovations contributed to modes of transport taken for granted today.
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The first episode of Where Did It Come From? aired on September 07, 2006.
The last episode of Where Did It Come From? aired on September 14, 2006.
There are 13 episodes of Where Did It Come From?.
There is one season of Where Did It Come From?.
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Where Did It Come From? has ended.