Ancient Impossible

Just watched "most" of episode one.

Firstly, this follows the dated "reality programming" format of constantly repeating segments while using sensationalized speech.

Second, it takes theorized applications of ancient technologies and tries to place it into a modern context.

For example: "could this steam canon pierce a Roman Trireme's hull?"

I don't know how much, if at all, a Roman Trireme hull is armored. But I'd guess it'd be at least a few inches thick as it needed to be sound enough to withstand traditional projectile weapons and ramming.

But to test this steam canon on a 14' wooden motorboat with something along the lines of 10mm-20mm of plywood. And plywood that has long since outlived its usefulness withstand a 75mm magnesium ball fired from 15 or so meters away. I can agree that it's plausible that it might at least damage the hull and possibly penetrate it. But to cause an explosion with a fireball?

Really?

I stopped watching at that moment and removed it from my playlist. It's rubbish nonsense.

This is a good docuseries to show children if they show interest in ancient history.

It has: -Unnecessary Explosions -Cool Rock Music -Overly Excitable Random Non-Experts -Measurements in Football Fields -Guns Shooting Things!

-United States Military -Explanation of basic concepts -Bombastic comparisons -Contradictory Statements -Catchphrases!

-Rome and Egypt with a cameo for other civilizations every so often -Out of place modern cultural and technological references -Experiments that don't test what Ancient tech was actually used for -Episodes are 70% content, 30% same content, but repeated again -Some conclusions are not made by Historians or Experts, but by a guy with a really cool 3D projecting glove.

For people who enjoy documentaries, this is incredibly underwhelming and is more of a tv show with personalities than informative. Often retreading old grounds, each episode has at least one new thing you will learn, so it is not a complete wash. (One episode was actually fantastic!) However, actual historians and experts are not shown enough and the uncharismatic '3D Analyst' with the glove is the most frustrating recurring segment I have ever watched in my entire life. Very heavily Egypt and Rome centric, even when other civilizations and their cultures fit the theme of the various episodes. The first episode is absolutely dreadful, but the subsequent ones become more bearable as the season goes on.

This is a docuseries best suited to grab and hold the attention of children or played in the background while you multitask.

Watched an episode about Egyptian wonders, English Stonehenge.

Just speculations, today it's pretty obvious there were tools and machines other than a chisel and a rock a a hammer.

Unsupported theories that I don't appreciate.

I think there's a lot more information on YouTube demonstrating that ancient builders used some sort of power tools, saws ans drills.

Amazing to watch and listen to people in this series that state and copy paste same nonsense that was initiated by lazy experts who has very limited understanding of the materials used to build megastructures and tools they suggest were used. Fantasies about how massive blocks were moved is another sad chapter in misinformation and simple greed.

If you like ancient history and archeology, this show is for you. I loved the interesting information. All the presenters, with degrees to backed the information they were presenting, the great detail, how they explain and review all the hypothesis is amazing. I appreciate the explanations in plain English for people like me, that we are no mechanical knowledgeable, but in spite of that is easy for me to understand how some contraptions worked. Like with the Pantheon in Rome, was very enlighten the explanations how the concrete was made was surprising. This show is clearly for highly educated, cultured and scholarly audience. Thank you very much for such a stimulating show.