What the Ancients Did for Us - The Greeks

Series examining the innovations and inventions of ancient civilisations. Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the greatest inventions from the world of ancient Greece - from computers to catapults and from ray guns to the planets, he shows us the lasting effect the Greeks left on today's technology. Hermione Cockburn travels the Mediterranean to tell the stories behind these inventive peoples during this civilisation's golden age.