Building for God reached a high point in the Middle Ages when a new engineering movement emerged in Europe, changing the rules forever. It aimed to use pioneering construction methods and architecture to create a glimpse of heaven...on earth.
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Even before the start of recorded history, ancient engineers across the World were erecting giant monuments. What was their purpose? And how did early peoples move such massive slabs of stone across hundreds of miles – long before the wheel had been invented?
Building for God reached a high point in the Middle Ages when a new engineering movement emerged in Europe, changing the rules forever. It aimed to use pioneering construction methods and architecture to create a glimpse of heaven...on earth.
Chariots were the express vehicles of their day – but how did they work? And what about the roads, tunnels, and bridges that they relied upon? Transport networks are also indispensable in our fast-paced, interconnected modern world, and we've learned from our ancestors.
As far back as the Bronze Age, humans were building ships capable of crossing oceans and trading between continents. Perhaps the greatest surviving vessel from the Ancient world, is The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's mighty warship. It was a true engineering wonder, but one built with a fatal weakness.
Awe-inspiring palaces are the legacy that demonstrates the brilliance of Islamic engineers, working centuries before Western Europe began its own engineering revolution. It's a process that culminated in what is arguably the most beautiful building in the World – the Taj Mahal.
The earth really moves in this episode as we take in scenes and stories from some of the most devastating of all the natural cataclysms: the earthquake.
In this sobering final installment, we'll revisit the fiercest natural catastrophes, the most devastating accidents, and the most destructive disasters caused by humans.
This episode is a sobering survey of environmental disasters—such as deforestation and pollution on land, in the sea, and in the air—and their causes.
Rail journeys and even just getting in your car can be fraught with catastrophe caused by the powers of nature and human folly alike.
In this sobering final installment, we'll revisit the fiercest natural catastrophes, the most devastating accidents, and the most destructive disasters caused by humans.
This episode is a sobering survey of environmental disasters—such as deforestation and pollution on land, in the sea, and in the air—and their causes.
Rail journeys and even just getting in your car can be fraught with catastrophe caused by the powers of nature and human folly alike.
In this episode, we see that though many improvements in aviation technology have lessened the dangers of flying over the years, the risks have not all been eliminated.
This episode charts a sobering course through the choppy seas of maritime disasters involving luxury liners, routine ferry trips, an oil tanker, and modern piracy.
Our focus for this chilling but fascinating episode is when humans are a serious danger to themselves through nuclear and industrial accidents.
Ours is a dangerous world where geological mishaps—avalanches, landslides, heat waves, sinkholes and blizzards—can spell disaster almost as much as the big cataclysms
From flash floods to hurricanes to tsunamis, is a changing climate making these devastating floods more likely and their impact more severe?
Hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, twisters and typhoons are all powerful wind storms that leave devastation in their wake all across the globe.
In this installment, we turn up the heat to examine a natural phenomenon that is both a friend and a foe to humankind.
Things get personal in this episode as we explore something that is a threat to all of us wherever we live: the epidemic and its global big brother, the pandemic.
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