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What the Ancients Did for Us is a documentary series that first aired on February 16, 2005 on BBC Two. The series stars Adam Hart-Davis and Marty Jopson. So far it spans 1 season and 9 episodes and its current status is "Ended". Season 1 has 9 episodes, and episode 7 originally aired on March 30, 2005 with a runtime of about 1h 0m. The show holds a 7.0/10 rating on TMDB.
In this episode: Egypt became a unified country five thousand years ago and - until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BC - remained a fiercely independent land with its own very distinctive art, religion and culture. Egypt was the superpower of its day and her kings were treated as demigods throughout the Mediterranean world – but what did they do for us? It goes without saying they gave us mummies and mummification, and one of the great wonders of the ancient world – the pyramids. On a more practical level they invented the sewn plank boat, a method of boat construction using wooden pegs and fibre rope - no nails. Huge boats were built using this technique, the most famous one belonging to King Khufu, the builder of the great pyramid in 2500 BC. The recent discovery of a Bronze Age boat in Britain reveals that this method of construction had found its way here and could have influenced our own boat builders. Trying to control the flood water of the Nile, the Egyptians built the first dam, a hu
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Season 1 of What the Ancients Did for Us has 9 episodes, and all of them are listed on this page with direct watch links.
Episode 7 of Season 1 ("The Egyptians") first aired on March 30, 2005.
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