L'Histoire en 3D

This is a long running Discovery Channel show. Starting from the mid-2010's, the show is a mix of CG animation, present-day archaeology, and talking heads as archaeologists are exploring various ancient and near-modern sites. The exploding CGI animation is its signature move and it is fun. Although it does feel a little dated nowadays, but I choose to see it as a classic. They do repackage the show into different episodes sometimes. I wonder how many locations are left to explore after over a hundred episodes. As for its academic level, this is only good for high school or college undergraduate study.

I was just watching Egypt's Buried City. The show remarks that a child had arthritis in their feet, how unusual this was and their conclusion was that the child's arthritis was caused by having to work hard to build the city. Except from what my research shows Juvenile Arthritis exists, is the most common chronic condition in children, commonly affects the feet, is not necessarily caused by heavy labour and any damage caused by it is still long term or permanent. And as this child was the only one specifically pointed to as having arthritic joints it would seem to be just an interesting coincidence rather than anything conclusive about child labour. The other evidence about the bones, which would have been far more conclusive, seemed tacked onto the end of that section of the documentary to reinforce their conclusion when it should have been the primary evidence. In the end it seemed that the authors used the audiences preconceived beliefs that arthritis is an old persons disease to either gain audience interest or push their own conclusions. Either way it was deceptive at best. I would not recommend watching without a healthy level of critical thought and scepticism.

I just can't keep watching this silliness. The narrator's persistent use of the present tense for historical facts is so annoying that it has become intolerable. This habit is correct when documenting authors in a research paper but not when referring to events that happened long ago in the past. He also refers to current issues with present tense with no differentiation between the two. The errors are grievous, moreover, occurring in every episode. For instance (King Arthur, the one I'm currently watching), the Holy Grail wasn't so much a cup used at the Last Supper as a container to catch the blood of the crucified Christ. Each episode has its own collection of errors; that just isn't acceptable.

I watched the episode about the Tower of Babel. Throughout the the show they referenced the build as King Nebuchadnezzar, which is wrong according to historical fact and the Bible. Fact is it was built by King Nimrod the hunter. Not Nebuchadnezzar look it up, I did

Does no-one else see the carving in the stones at Avery?!?! Those are not just stones, they are eroded sculptures! One of the stones even looks like a sitting elephant. Main-stream archeologists need to open their minds and eyes to civilization being much older than taught.