Professor Allan Chapman travels to Egypt, where he tells the story of the ancient astronomer priests and their over-sexed gods.
Visiting the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings, and aided by puppet animation, a man in a dodgy bird costume and with Sir Patrick Moore playing Ra, the Egyptian Sun God, Prof Chapman reveals how the star-gods helped us develop the 360° circle, the 12-month year, and the 24-hour day.
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Series 1 Episode 1
Professor Allan Chapman travels to Egypt, where he tells the story of the ancient astronomer priests and their…
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Series 1 Episode 2
Professor Allan Chapman explores the world of the ancient Greeks, as the first great seafaring people they needed…
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Series 1 Episode 3
In the third and final part of Professor Allan Chapman's unusual look at the history of astronomical religion, he…
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