Encounters With the Unexplained — Season 1, Episode 17: Did Ancient Doctors Know More Than Us?

Episode synopsis

Medical Mysteries: Did Ancient Doctors Know More? The amazing human body is so complex we are only now beginning to understand how it works. Yet the ancients seemed to know how it worked, how to fix it if something went wrong and they did it faster and easier. What is it that ancient medical practitioners knew that we are still trying to figure out? Are there solutions to medical problems that are being kept from the public? Is there a life force so powerful it can teach the body to heal? Do all miracles of modern medicine belong to the last 50 years, or did the ancients discover methods that give a whole new meaning to medical miracles? Are there proven methods and medicines that were used thousands of years ago that we can rely on today?

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Historians and scientists explore myths, legends and mysterious phenomena.

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• E2Is It Really Noah's Ark?
• E3What Really Happened at Roswell?
• E4Is It the Burial Cloth of Jesus? [The Shroud of Turin]
• E5Secret Messages from Space? [Crop Circles]
• E6Is There Really Power in Prayer?
• E7America's Hidden Spaceport? [Area 51]
• E8Are End Time Warnings True?
• E9What Is So Mysterious About Easter Island?
• E10Golden Ark With Incredible Power? [Ark of the Covenant]
• E11The Mystery of Oak Island [Oak Island Treasure]
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