Strangest Things — S02E01 — The Towie Ball

00:00:01 NARRATOR: Could this 5,000-year-old ball

00:01:50 Archaeologists have been speculating about it for over

00:03:41 two in England and Ireland, and one from Norway.

00:05:30 over 10,000 years ago in the Middle East and China,

00:07:18 that they could produce,

00:09:07 NARRATOR: Mnemonic storytelling aids do exist in other cultures.

00:11:10 sophisticated osteoarchaeology, that we can begin to understand

00:13:00 3D graphic, we can examine every part of

00:14:44 NARRATOR: So what is the truth about the Towie ball?

00:16:45 NARRATOR: Why would someone do something so bizarre?

00:18:29 Each one has a copper casing, and inside that is a zinc rod,

00:20:11 and an accidental experiment

00:21:43 NARRATOR: Aldini takes his uncle's theories on the road.

00:23:38 changes the way 19th century people view electricity.

00:25:28 it quickly moves out of the control of scientists

00:27:01 and cholera, and you can even find

00:28:45 NARRATOR: So ridiculous, in fact, that it

00:30:45 astonishing detail what is so strange

00:32:37 People would pay a lot of money to

00:34:41 and in 2015, researchers ran

00:36:38 the goddess Bastet, who happened to be

00:38:30 Egyptologists believed?

00:40:26 four adult croc skulls surrounded by

00:42:01 just one for believers on a budget.