From the DVD - DVD + Book.
Disc 1. Stonehenge and archaeoastronomy --
Alignments at Maes Howe and Newgrange --
Astronomy of Egypt's Great Pyramid --
Chaco Canyon and Anasazi astronomy --
Ancient cosmologies and worldviews --
Disc 2. Meteorite worship and start of the Iron Age --
Eclipses, comets, and omens --
Origins of Western constellations --
Chinese and other non-Western constellations --
Origins and influence of astrology --
Disc 3. Tracking planet positions and conjunctions --
Ancient timekeeping and calendars --
The lunar crescent and the Islamic calendar --
Ancient navigation: Polynesian to Viking --
Breakthroughs of early Greek astronomy --
The genius of Hipparchus --
Revealing the Antikythera mechanism --
How the Antikythera mechanism worked --
Achievements and legacy of Ptolemy --
Star catalogs from around the world --
How ancent astronomy ended --
Ancient astronomy and modern astrophysics.
