{"id":1000,"date":"2023-07-09T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T09:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/who-discovered-the-equator-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T09:17:25","slug":"who-discovered-the-equator-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/who-discovered-the-equator-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Who discovered the equator? \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l3Uls8GkxGw?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In the 18th century, French scientists thought they had identified the location of the equator. But they got it wrong. Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location almost as accurately as modern day GPS. How did they do it?<\/p>\n<p>In this film, we explore how indigenous cultures in the Americas developed their own science and technology, long before the arrival of the Spanish colonisers. They may have had a greater understanding of the cosmos and the world itself than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Cristina Munoz<br \/>\nCommissioning Editor: Griesham Taan<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l3Uls8GkxGw\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 18th century, French scientists thought they had identified the location of the equator. But they got it wrong. Thousands of years earlier the pre-Incas were able to plot its location almost as accurately as modern day GPS. How did they do it? In this film, we explore how indigenous cultures in the Americas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19,193,348,77],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","tag-history","tag-inca","tag-science","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}