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
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.
