The (Completely Wrong) History of the World

Every average moviegoer knows a lot about history: about the ancient Romans, about kings, about ancient Egypt, and about knights and wars in the Middle Ages. We know what they looked like and what they do, because we’ve seen it all in the movies. The problem is that what we know is usually nonsense.

A journey through history, including swords, horses, pirates, ninjas, dinosaurs and bananas, and why almost nothing in the world’s history is what we think it is.