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NARRATOR:
Incredible megalithic sites

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unearthed after
thousands of years.

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WILLIAM HENRY:
We're talking about
a complex that is so vast,

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that it's almost
beyond our comprehension.

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Mysterious subterranean
dwellings

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that stretch for miles.

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HUGH NEWMAN:
We have multiple underground
cities that have been discovered

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that are potentially
10,000 or more years old.

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NARRATOR:
Could recent discoveries
provide evidence

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of a civilization
that existed far earlier

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than we ever imagined?

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Perhaps even before

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the biblical story
of the Great Flood,

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at a time when humans
shared the earth

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with otherworldly beings?

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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
The knowledge for building

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these megalithic structures
was imparted

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by the so-called gods, who were

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the extraterrestrials.

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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

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in the universe.

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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

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It demands
we question everything

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we have ever been taught.

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The evidence is all around us.

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The future is
right before our eyes.

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We are not alone.

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We have never been alone.

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NARRATOR:
Abu Shahrain, Iraq.

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6,000 years ago,
this ancient mound

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was the site of Eridu,

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the oldest city
of the Sumerian empire.

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According to
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this is the cradle
of civilization.

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FELICIA BEARDSLEY:
Many archeologists will
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in Mesopotamia
some 6,000 years ago.

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It is built on small bands

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of hunter-gatherers who then

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become settled in that area

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as, kind of,
semi-sedentary communities.

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They adopt agriculture,

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the population starts to grow,

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and we begin to
recognize we need

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to organize our communities.

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You start seeing these
step-sided pyramids,

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where the religious practitioner

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might conduct his rites
or rituals and so on.

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And we have

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an urban planning environment
that also means

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we've got a lot
of engineering going on.

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We have a lot of science,
a lot of mathematics.

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It has all of those elements
we would call a civilization.

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NARRATOR:
Many researchers
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believe there is
evidence to suggest

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civilization existed on Earth

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long before the Sumerians.

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And one key source

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is the writing of
the Sumerians themselves.

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Ancient cuneiform tablets

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list kings who ruled tens
of thousands of years ago,

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and they tell of an earlier age

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when humans lived
among powerful beings

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that came down from the sky

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called the Anunnaki.

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ANDREW COLLINS:
The Anunnaki were
the builder gods

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behind the creation
of the civilizations

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of Sumer and Babylon.

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They provided humanity with
the rudiments of civilization.

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They gave humanity
animal husbandry,

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but also agriculture
for the first time.

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NARRATOR:
The Sumerians also
wrote that the Anunnaki

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were responsible for bringing
a devastating cataclysm

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-upon the Earth...
-(thunder crashing)

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eerily similar to the story
that would later appear

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in the Hebrew Bible
as the Great Flood.

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This was only just
discovered in 2009,

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when Dr. Irving Finkel,

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one of the world's foremost
experts on cuneiform writing,

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translated a 3,700-year-old
Sumerian tablet.

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FINKEL:
In the Bible, God decided,

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because the human race
was so sinful and wicked,

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to destroy everything,
and at the last minute,

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relented enough to inform Noah

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that he has to build
a boat really fast,

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and put all the animals
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then, afterwards,
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when the waters went down.

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Everybody in the world is
interested in Noah's flood

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and where it might've come from,

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so when this tablet
came across the desk to me,

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and I realized,

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clearly, how important it was,

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it was one of those
heart-stopping moments.

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When I picked it up
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to look at it properly,
and started to read it,

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one of the first things you read

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is when a human being finds out
from the gods up in heaven

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that there's going to be
a dreadful flood,

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and the world and all its life
is going to be destroyed,

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and a boat has to be built.

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So, I thought to myself,
"This is very exciting."

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The tablet is at least
a thousand years older

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than the story in the Bible.

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So, of course, this
means that the question

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of where the story came from

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has a whole
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NARRATOR:
Could the translation
of this ancient cuneiform tablet

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be evidence
that a great flood did,

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in fact, occur
in the distant past?

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While nearly identical
stories of a great deluge

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can be found
in the ancient texts

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of many religions and cultures,

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mainstream archaeologists
had argued

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that there was no evidence
of any civilization

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existing more than
6,000 years ago

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to support the idea
that such a cataclysm

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actually took place.

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But in the early 1990s,
Klaus Schmidt

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of the German
Archaeological Institute

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began excavations
at the ancient site

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of Göbekli Tepe
in southeast Turkey,

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and what he unearthed

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changed everything.

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PAUL BAHN:
Once Klaus Schmidt

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started excavating Göbekli Tepe,
it just blew everybody away

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because we'd never before
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that people 12,000 years ago

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could produce such spectacular
monumental structures

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as he found at Göbekli Tepe.

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TSOUKALOS:
It is the first archaeological
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that proves its age,
dating as far back

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as 12,000 years,
around 10,000 BC.

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The discovery and
the official acceptance

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of Göbekli Tepe's dating

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has changed the history
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ROBERT SCHOCH:
This is indications
of a major civilization

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at that remote time,

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a time when the standard
historians all along have said,

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"Well, no, civilization
didn't occur at that time.

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"They were just simple
hunter and gatherers.

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They were primitive people."

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But we now have
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BAHN:
It really did send shockwaves

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through the whole world
of early prehistory,

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because we have never ever
seen anything like this

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from anywhere in the world
at that time, 12,000 years ago.

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NARRATOR:
Göbekli Tepe's nearly two dozen

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enormous T-shaped pillars,

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some weighing more than 20 tons,

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feature numerous carvings that
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human hands,

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and intricately
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Archaeologists estimate
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a team of 50 men an entire week

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to move just one of
the monolithic pillars

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from the limestone quarry,

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to the top of the hill
where they stand today,

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and over 300 hours
to carve the bas-reliefs.

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ROY FISHER:
The structures seem to reflect

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coordinated effort among
significant numbers of people,

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which is not how
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hunter-gatherer societies,

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which are usually
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NARRATOR:
For years, mainstream
scholars maintained

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that Göbekli Tepe was
a completely unique site,

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and while highly impressive,

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it was not large enough
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what would be considered
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But then, in 2004,

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author Andrew Collins
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of a location that
looked remarkably similar

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to parts of Göbekli Tepe.

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COLLINS:
I was visiting Göbekli Tepe,

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and some children came up to me
and showed me a picture

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of this T-shaped standing stone

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with this snake along the side.

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And I thought,
I've never seen this before.

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Where is this?

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And it became clear

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that it was some
unexcavated site

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in the Tektek Mountains,
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away from Göbekli Tepe.

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And so I set out to find it,

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and eventually,

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I came to this
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And as I walked up towards it,
I could then see,

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sticking out of the ground,

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these heads of these
T-shaped pillars,

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again, exactly as you
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And I realized

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that somewhere beneath this soil

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was something as grand
and spectacular as Göbekli Tepe.

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NARRATOR:
For 15 years, only
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were aware of the pillars
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at the site
known as Karahan Tepe.

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When it was finally excavated,

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archaeologists were shocked
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In 2019, digging begins...

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...and beneath
the surface layers,

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the archaeologists
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dozens of these
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
We have about 200

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of these T-shaped megaliths.

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They're typically 13 feet high,

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weigh about 11 tons.

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You have other phallic stones,

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you have, uh, certain
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and some human faces as well.

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So, we have really, uh,
a pretty extensive site.

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NARRATOR:
The discovery of
the vast megalithic complex

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made headlines around the world,

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as it was estimated by experts

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to have been inhabited
somewhere between 11,000

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and 12,000 years ago,

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just like Göbekli Tepe.

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TSOUKALOS: Both Karahan Tepe
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are striking in beauty,

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striking in how
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those megaliths are.

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And, in my opinion,
they are related.

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So, it's also possible

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that at some point
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that entire region
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NARRATOR:
Could these sites confirm
the written accounts

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found both in the Bible
and on Sumerian tablets

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of a sophisticated civilization

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that existed on Earth
in the remote past?

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One in which humans
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powerful visitors from the sky,

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but ultimately fell victim
to a devastating cataclysm?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

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and claim there is evidence that
these vast megalithic complexes

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were built with the help

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of otherworldly visitors.

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NARRATOR:
Nevsehir Province,
central Turkey.

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Here, 300 miles northwest

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of the 12,000-year-old
megalithic sites

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of Göbekli Tepe
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there is an ancient subterranean
city called Derinkuyu

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that archaeologists believe

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once housed more
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First discovered in 1963,

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the maze of carved
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lies 200 feet below ground.

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Who built it and when
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Derinkuyu is
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that has existed
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It was certainly used
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but there's also evidence

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that there's
prehistoric activity

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going on at these places

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as early as 11,000,
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right after the end
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NARRATOR:
Much like Göbekli Tepe,

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Derinkuyu was thought
to be an anomaly.

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But in 2014,

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just six miles to the north,

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a local construction crew

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excavating for an urban
renovation project

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stumbled across a strange
series of carved rooms

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and tunnels deep underground.

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Upon further exploration,

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they found
a subterranean network

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known as Kaymakli,
which spans several miles

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and extends hundreds
of feet below

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the surface of the Earth,

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much like the nearby
underground city

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of Derinkuyu.

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I was many times
in the underground cities

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in Turkey,

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and this is
a fantastic experience.

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They are linked together.

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Between Derinkuyu and Kaymakli,

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there are seven kilometers
long underground tunnels

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connecting the two cities.

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NARRATOR:
Evidence that these cities

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once housed thousands of people,

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has been further supported
by the discovery of air vents

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and water wells that
would have made it possible

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for people to live underground
for years at a time.

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COLLINS:
These are huge, vast cities

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that have been cut out of
the living rock themself.

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Who exactly built them?

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The fact that Göbekli Tepe

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was built right at the end

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of the last Ice Age

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tells us that there
is a possibility

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that there is connection

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between these underground cities

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and the building
of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan.

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It could have been
the same people.

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NARRATOR:
Is there a connection
between Turkey's mysterious

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underground dwellings
and the extremely ancient sites

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of Göbekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe?

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Could both have been built
by a preflood civilization?

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But if so, who would
have had the ability

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to manufacture such
sophisticated structures?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer may lie

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within sacred texts
that describe interactions

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between early humans
and otherworldly beings.

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Uruk, southern Iraq.

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In the early 19th century,

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archaeologists excavating
this ancient city

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unearthed clay tablets covered
in a form of symbolic writing

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known as cuneiform.

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It remains the world's
first known writing system.

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When the tablets were
deciphered in the 1820s,

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they revealed a record
of Sumerian daily life,

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names of important figures
and rulers,

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and accounts of sky gods
called the Anunnaki.

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These clay tablets
are 5,000 years old and more,

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and they tell of the arrival of

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the Anunnaki,
the pantheon of gods.

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The chief was Anu.

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This is the sky god who came
along and created everything.

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So, the origin
of the civilization

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on the planet came from the sky.

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The high god of the Anunnaki,

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Anu, presided over

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the divine council.

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There were a multitude of beings
that came to this council.

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They deliberated with Anu,

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they made decisions
for humanity,

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they intervened
in human affairs.

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Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe

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are in an area that is
well-known for its mythology.

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Which suggests that the Anunnaki

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were responsible
for giving humanity

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the rudiments of civilization.

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It was said that they gave
humanity animal husbandry,

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but also agriculture
for the first time,

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both of which we know

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occurred in the area
of Göbekli Tepe

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and Karahan Tepe.

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At Göbekli Tepe,
there's a carving

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of these three handbags

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that appear above
this bird-like creature.

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And what's
fascinating about this

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is that you can find
carvings of similar handbags

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about 400 miles to the south

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where the ancient
Sumerians lived.

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And there, the handbags are held

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by these winged figures
with bird-like heads

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called Anunnaki,

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and the bags are said to hold

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all the knowledge
of the universe.

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Professor Klaus Schmidt,

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the rediscoverer of
Göbekli Tepe in 1994,

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actually wrote that he believed

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that the founders
of Göbekli Tepe

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were the Anunnaki.

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NARRATOR:
Similarly, the Bible
also tells of early humans

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having help from beings
who came down from the sky

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called the watchers.

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The watchers are
the fallen angels

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who came to Earth and
intermingled with humans.

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We are told that
they are here to observe,

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and they're not going
to interfere

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in human development,
although some of them did.

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They're also seeding
humanity with knowledge

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that will help us to progress.

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COLLINS:
Both the watchers

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and the Anunnaki, who almost
certainly were the same,

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have been associated
with this culture

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at Göbekli Tepe and Karahan.

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And is it possible, therefore,

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that they are behind
the creation of these sites?

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And if we consider
the possibility

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that there was a huge cataclysm,

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the chances are, the underground
cites of Cappadocia,

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they would have been used
as places of refuge.

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NARRATOR:
As mainstream scholars
struggle to explain

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how people living
12,000 years ago

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were able to carve out

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millions of square feet
of rock from the earth,

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and build sprawling
megalithic sites,

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could the answer be found
in the ancient writings

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that describe
our earliest ancestors

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receiving assistance
from extraterrestrials?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by more closely examining
the T-shaped pillars

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at the ancient sites,

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and the curious features

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carved into them.

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Karahan Tepe is really
something quite spectacular.

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Absolutely.

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NARRATOR:
Authors Andrew Collins

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and Hugh Newman
have spent decades

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investigating ancient sites
around the world,

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and have made multiple trips
to Karahan Tepe

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in southeast Turkey.

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NEWMAN:
In the last couple of years,

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they've uncovered it,
only a small amount,

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but enough to provide
some remarkable insights

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into what was going on
here in southeast Turkey.

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Absolutely. I mean, it's like

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this is pieces of a jigsaw

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that's just waiting
to be put together.

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NARRATOR:
In September 2022,

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Andrew and Hugh traveled
to the site together

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in search of further clues

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as to just who built it and why.

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Upon their arrival
at Karahan Tepe,

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Andrew and Hugh were joined

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by local researcher
Taha Ozyavuz.

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COLLINS:
Taha.

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Nice to meet you.

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This is Hugh.

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Thank you, and good to meet you.

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I'm absolutely astounded
by this site,

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how vast it is,
how, like, immaculate it is,

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and how it is just

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literally one of the most

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astonishing places
I've ever visited.

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Well, this is just,
you know, just enormous,

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everything that's here.

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We can see T-pillars
going in every direction.

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And just think

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what is below
our feet right now.

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And if you do compare
it to Göbekli Tepe,

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it is... it's got the T-pillars,

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it's got the enclosures,

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it's got the remarkable
3D relief carving,

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the statues, the serpents
and everything else.

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There are incredible, uh,

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images of different
animals and creatures

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of the natural world.

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What do they mean?

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NARRATOR:
Most mainstream scholars
identify the sites

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of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe
as temples of worship.

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Others have suggested
that the round enclosures

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may have been used
as corrals for animals,

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and that the T-shaped pillars
once supported roofs.

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However, Klaus Schmidt,

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the archaeologist
behind the excavation

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of Göbekli Tepe in the 1990s,

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was certain that
the T-shaped pillars

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represent human forms,

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but with some curious features.

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I think what we see

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when we look at these
T-shaped pillars

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is abstract
human beings basically.

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The heads are the actual
T-shaped terminations.

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The stems of the stones
are the bodies.

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Sometimes we see belts
around them.

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But what's so weird about these

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is that the arms here

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almost seem like
an abstract animal as well.

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Perhaps a bird, perhaps a snake.

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NEWMAN:
That is intriguing.

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And this is a tradition
we find linked with giants

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all around the world.

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Even in the Bible
we have the giant of Gath

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that had extra fingers.

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We have stories of Goliath

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and his family
having extra fingers.

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We have stories of
great Irish giant gods

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having extra digits as well.

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And the fact that the watchers,

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the Nephilim, and the Anunnaki

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would seem to be associated

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with the mythology
of this region

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suggests to us
that they could be

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one of the builders
of Karahan Tepe.

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NARRATOR:
According to the Bible's
Book of Genesis,

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prior to the Great Flood,

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angels known as the watchers
defied God's will,

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and came down to Earth
to live among humans.

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These otherworldly beings
mated with their human subjects,

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producing a race
of hybrid human giants

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that were known
as the "Nephilim."

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One of the most tantalizing
small tidbits

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in the Hebrew Bible,

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is found in the opening
verses of Genesis, chapter 6,

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where we hear the story
of the Nephilim,

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who are described as, basically,

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being the hybrid offspring
of humans

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and divine beings

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who are called
the "sons of God."

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RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
Who were these sons of God?

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Legend expands and tells us

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that they were
rebellious angels.

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But yet, we must
understand angels

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to not be spiritual beings,

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but very tangibly physical.

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Or else how could they take
human wives

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and bear children?

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Now, the children of these
sons of God and human women

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became known as the hybrids
called the fallen ones.

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In Hebrew, the Nephilim.

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They existed
in the days before Noah.

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MICHAEL CARTER:
Aside from the Bible,
religious texts

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that talk about these
demigods, these hybrids,

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are the Hindu Upanishads,

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and if we look at

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Sumer, again,

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gods coming down from the Earth,

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fraternizing with
the natives, which are us,

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and creating
a new race of people:

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Half-human and
half-extraterrestrial gods.

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Yes, we can speculate

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were those who were
to become known

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as the sons of God

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originally inhabitants
of a place like Karahan?

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NARRATOR:
Does the eight-fingered figure
found at Karahan Tepe

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provide evidence to support
the biblical accounts

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of giants existing on Earth
before the Great Flood?

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And if so, might they
have been involved

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in the creation of
Turkey's mysterious sites,

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both above ground and below?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

512
00:26:15,708 --> 00:26:17,875
and claim that
these hybrid beings

513
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,208
not only built megalithic sites
in Turkey,

514
00:26:21,375 --> 00:26:23,708
but all over the world.

515
00:26:29,042 --> 00:26:30,667
NARRATOR:
At the famous site of Stonehenge

516
00:26:30,792 --> 00:26:32,167
in Wiltshire, England,

517
00:26:32,250 --> 00:26:35,333
are concentric circles
of massive boulders,

518
00:26:35,417 --> 00:26:37,500
each nearly 13 feet tall,

519
00:26:37,625 --> 00:26:40,250
and weighing up to 25 tons.

520
00:26:40,375 --> 00:26:44,000
On the island of Malta
in the Mediterranean Sea,

521
00:26:44,125 --> 00:26:47,625
the Ggantija Temples
contain megalithic blocks

522
00:26:47,708 --> 00:26:50,333
weighing as much as 50 tons.

523
00:26:50,417 --> 00:26:54,333
And on the remote South
Pacific Island of Rapa Nui,

524
00:26:54,458 --> 00:26:56,792
better known as Easter Island,

525
00:26:56,875 --> 00:27:00,125
there are nearly 900
ancient stone statues

526
00:27:00,250 --> 00:27:02,750
that stand as tall
as 30 feet high,

527
00:27:02,875 --> 00:27:05,750
and weigh up to 90 tons.

528
00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:08,042
These ancient megalithic sites

529
00:27:08,167 --> 00:27:10,375
are thousands of miles
from each other.

530
00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,625
However, the local traditions
of the indigenous cultures

531
00:27:14,708 --> 00:27:17,667
at each location claim
that they were constructed

532
00:27:17,792 --> 00:27:20,083
by giants.

533
00:27:20,208 --> 00:27:23,083
It's fascinating
that around the world,

534
00:27:23,208 --> 00:27:26,625
wherever you have
megalithic ancient sites,

535
00:27:26,708 --> 00:27:29,083
there are local legends

536
00:27:29,208 --> 00:27:32,833
that the giants
built these places.

537
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,500
For example,
in Puma Punku, they say

538
00:27:35,583 --> 00:27:38,875
it was built overnight
by giants.

539
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,667
They say Stonehenge may
have been built by giants.

540
00:27:42,792 --> 00:27:45,458
In Malta, they are suggesting

541
00:27:45,583 --> 00:27:47,542
that all this megalithic walls

542
00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:51,208
and structures
were built by giants.

543
00:27:52,375 --> 00:27:54,500
JIM VIEIRA:
To me what's astonishing
is that you have

544
00:27:54,625 --> 00:27:56,583
ancient sites associated with

545
00:27:56,708 --> 00:27:58,708
giants building them
all around the planet,

546
00:27:58,833 --> 00:28:00,958
but you also have
historical documents

547
00:28:01,083 --> 00:28:04,417
that talk about the unearthing
of giant bones at these sites.

548
00:28:04,542 --> 00:28:06,375
Like at Baalbek, Lebanon,

549
00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:08,917
in Stonehenge, in Sardinia.

550
00:28:09,042 --> 00:28:10,667
You have these
historical documents

551
00:28:10,792 --> 00:28:13,167
that talk about giant bones
that were unearthed.

552
00:28:13,333 --> 00:28:15,333
We have an account

553
00:28:15,458 --> 00:28:18,167
from the American geographic
society in the 1860s

554
00:28:18,250 --> 00:28:22,375
where giant bones were
unearthed and documented.

555
00:28:23,875 --> 00:28:27,292
NARRATOR:
Until recently, the megalithic
sites in southern Turkey

556
00:28:27,375 --> 00:28:30,542
were hidden beneath the earth,
and completely unknown,

557
00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:32,958
even to the local populations,

558
00:28:33,042 --> 00:28:35,875
so no record
or ancient legends exist

559
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,750
to explain how
they were constructed.

560
00:28:39,750 --> 00:28:41,500
But might certain details,

561
00:28:41,625 --> 00:28:43,333
like the eight-fingered figures

562
00:28:43,458 --> 00:28:46,542
and the large stone head
found at Karahan Tepe,

563
00:28:46,708 --> 00:28:49,500
connect these sites
with giants as well?

564
00:28:50,875 --> 00:28:53,208
Could they have been built
before the biblical event

565
00:28:53,375 --> 00:28:55,042
known as the Great Flood,

566
00:28:55,208 --> 00:28:57,917
and with the help
of the Nephilim,

567
00:28:58,042 --> 00:29:01,958
the hybrid beings
described in the Hebrew Bible?

568
00:29:02,042 --> 00:29:03,833
NEWMAN:
As we go round the world,

569
00:29:03,958 --> 00:29:05,875
there's talk about
a race of giants

570
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,583
involved in the construction
of these megalithic sites.

571
00:29:09,708 --> 00:29:11,000
Well, so what can we say
about this?

572
00:29:11,083 --> 00:29:12,875
Were these the descendants

573
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,958
of the builders of Karahan Tepe
and Göbekli Tepe?

574
00:29:16,042 --> 00:29:20,292
And did their giant genes get
passed down from this early era

575
00:29:20,417 --> 00:29:24,167
to these other megalithic
areas around the world?

576
00:29:26,125 --> 00:29:27,792
NARRATOR:
Curiously,

577
00:29:27,875 --> 00:29:30,750
many of the megalithic sites
around the world

578
00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:32,667
have features
that perfectly align

579
00:29:32,833 --> 00:29:34,708
with specific constellations,

580
00:29:34,833 --> 00:29:37,958
star systems,
or celestial events.

581
00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:40,917
Stonehenge in England
was built to align

582
00:29:41,042 --> 00:29:43,458
with the sunrise
on the summer solstice,

583
00:29:43,583 --> 00:29:47,792
as was the Temple of Mnajdra
on the island of Malta.

584
00:29:47,875 --> 00:29:51,042
Pyramids in both Egypt
and Mesoamerica

585
00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:55,167
were positioned to line up
with the belt stars of Orion.

586
00:29:56,375 --> 00:30:00,167
And celestial alignments have
also been found at Karahan Tepe,

587
00:30:00,250 --> 00:30:03,208
with a stone face
that is positioned

588
00:30:03,375 --> 00:30:06,375
to align with the sun
at certain times of the year.

589
00:30:07,750 --> 00:30:12,083
COLLINS:
One of the enclosure's structure
at Karahan Tepe

590
00:30:12,208 --> 00:30:15,958
points directly towards the sun

591
00:30:16,083 --> 00:30:20,708
as it sets at the time
of the summer solstice.

592
00:30:20,875 --> 00:30:22,750
Another alignment is at

593
00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:26,125
the mid-winter solstice
at Karahan Tepe.

594
00:30:26,208 --> 00:30:30,875
The sun, just after sunrise
on this date,

595
00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:33,167
would've illuminated this head

596
00:30:33,292 --> 00:30:35,833
so that anybody actually
inside this shrine

597
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:38,792
would've seen the head light up.

598
00:30:38,917 --> 00:30:42,167
CHILDRESS:
These are people who are now
watching the stars,

599
00:30:42,250 --> 00:30:44,500
they're looking
at constellations,

600
00:30:44,667 --> 00:30:47,500
they're seeing the movements,
they're studying it.

601
00:30:47,625 --> 00:30:50,375
In a way, they become
the first astronomers.

602
00:30:50,542 --> 00:30:53,833
And that would be, perhaps,
what Karahan Tepe was,

603
00:30:53,917 --> 00:30:57,083
in a sense,
an astronomical observatory.

604
00:30:57,208 --> 00:30:59,083
But at the same time,

605
00:30:59,208 --> 00:31:02,500
perhaps they're interested
in certain stars

606
00:31:02,667 --> 00:31:07,000
because these are the stars
where the Anunnaki came from.

607
00:31:07,083 --> 00:31:10,125
NARRATOR:
Could it be that Karahan Tepe,

608
00:31:10,208 --> 00:31:12,417
and other megalithic sites
around the world,

609
00:31:12,542 --> 00:31:15,542
were intentionally aligned
to the stars

610
00:31:15,667 --> 00:31:17,167
to indicate that
their architects

611
00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:19,917
came from somewhere
far beyond Earth?

612
00:31:21,042 --> 00:31:24,000
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

613
00:31:24,167 --> 00:31:27,333
one of the most curious
mysteries regarding Göbekli Tepe

614
00:31:27,458 --> 00:31:29,167
and Karahan Tepe:

615
00:31:29,333 --> 00:31:32,500
The fact that both ancient sites

616
00:31:32,583 --> 00:31:35,167
were deliberately buried.

617
00:31:40,958 --> 00:31:42,000
NARRATOR:
In the Bible's Book of Genesis,

618
00:31:42,125 --> 00:31:44,875
chapter 6, verse 9,

619
00:31:45,042 --> 00:31:47,375
begins with the story
of Noah and the flood...

620
00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,083
(thunder crashing)

621
00:31:49,208 --> 00:31:51,833
...in which God
unleashes a great deluge

622
00:31:51,917 --> 00:31:54,083
to rid the Earth of evil.

623
00:31:55,042 --> 00:31:56,917
In Genesis, only Noah

624
00:31:57,042 --> 00:31:58,917
is warned of
the coming cataclysm

625
00:31:59,042 --> 00:32:00,875
so that he may build the ark,

626
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,500
and restart life on Earth
after the flood.

627
00:32:06,042 --> 00:32:08,125
However, a very different story

628
00:32:08,250 --> 00:32:10,000
is told in the Book of Enoch,

629
00:32:10,167 --> 00:32:13,375
a controversial text that
can be found in the Bible

630
00:32:13,542 --> 00:32:16,042
used by the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church,

631
00:32:16,208 --> 00:32:19,292
but was omitted in all
other Christian traditions.

632
00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:24,708
In this version of the story,
Noah's great-grandfather Enoch

633
00:32:24,875 --> 00:32:26,292
learns of the coming cataclysm

634
00:32:26,417 --> 00:32:30,125
long before Noah is even born.

635
00:32:31,333 --> 00:32:33,167
The Book of Enoch is sensational

636
00:32:33,292 --> 00:32:35,375
because he speaks of
the first person.

637
00:32:35,542 --> 00:32:38,083
He says, it was evening,

638
00:32:38,208 --> 00:32:40,875
then he hear the noise
in the firmament.

639
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,833
(thunder crashing)

640
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,042
And two beings crossed him.

641
00:32:45,167 --> 00:32:49,333
And he said, "They had not
the breathe of humans."

642
00:32:49,458 --> 00:32:52,958
So, if somebody does not breathe
like humans, what are they?

643
00:32:53,083 --> 00:32:54,542
Nonhumans.

644
00:32:55,708 --> 00:32:59,000
Enoch describes, "They brought
me over the Earth.

645
00:32:59,083 --> 00:33:02,000
I saw the round face
of the Earth."

646
00:33:03,083 --> 00:33:05,333
Enoch was teached by
the extraterrestrials.

647
00:33:05,458 --> 00:33:08,000
When he came back down to Earth,

648
00:33:08,125 --> 00:33:10,792
he told to the humans,

649
00:33:10,875 --> 00:33:12,833
a gigantic flood would come

650
00:33:12,917 --> 00:33:14,417
and destroy everything.

651
00:33:17,125 --> 00:33:20,625
NARRATOR:
One of the oldest religious
traditions in the Middle East,

652
00:33:20,708 --> 00:33:23,167
Zoroastrianism, also teaches

653
00:33:23,292 --> 00:33:25,042
that it was not just one person

654
00:33:25,167 --> 00:33:27,292
who knew of a coming cataclysm.

655
00:33:28,333 --> 00:33:30,333
In the Vendidad, which predates

656
00:33:30,458 --> 00:33:32,167
all the books
of the Hebrew Bible,

657
00:33:32,333 --> 00:33:34,208
a young priest named Yima

658
00:33:34,375 --> 00:33:38,375
is warned of a disaster
by the god Ahura Mazda,

659
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:42,083
who is often depicted
seated inside a winged disk.

660
00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:47,000
Yima is instructed to share this
information with his people,

661
00:33:47,083 --> 00:33:49,125
and even to build
an underground shelter

662
00:33:49,208 --> 00:33:52,667
that sounds very similar
to the ancient man-made caves

663
00:33:52,792 --> 00:33:54,833
that have been found in Turkey.

664
00:33:56,042 --> 00:33:59,875
Ahura Mazda instructs Yima
to build a vara.

665
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,667
This is a huge structure,

666
00:34:01,833 --> 00:34:03,208
two miles long, two miles wide.

667
00:34:04,292 --> 00:34:07,167
An underground hall, of sorts,

668
00:34:07,292 --> 00:34:10,792
where things can be protected
from the terrible winter.

669
00:34:12,542 --> 00:34:15,333
Yima was to hide
a remnant of the people,

670
00:34:15,458 --> 00:34:18,333
and an extensive seed bank,

671
00:34:18,458 --> 00:34:22,167
also a pair of each
of the animal species.

672
00:34:22,250 --> 00:34:25,875
Once Yima is finished
building the vara,

673
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,708
he takes 2,000 people in,

674
00:34:27,833 --> 00:34:30,500
a representation of mankind.

675
00:34:30,667 --> 00:34:33,208
CHILDRESS:
So again, we have a warning

676
00:34:33,375 --> 00:34:36,042
to tell the people, "Get ready,

677
00:34:36,208 --> 00:34:39,333
this terrible cataclysm
is gonna happen."

678
00:34:39,458 --> 00:34:42,208
And these underground cities,

679
00:34:42,333 --> 00:34:44,917
like Derinkuyu, are huge.

680
00:34:45,042 --> 00:34:47,167
They are vast.

681
00:34:47,292 --> 00:34:51,083
They go many, many stories
underground.

682
00:34:51,208 --> 00:34:54,917
There's all kinds
of streets and rooms.

683
00:34:55,042 --> 00:34:56,583
So, you have to wonder

684
00:34:56,708 --> 00:34:59,000
if these underground cities
served as a refuge

685
00:34:59,083 --> 00:35:01,583
for survivors of this cataclysm.

686
00:35:04,375 --> 00:35:07,667
NARRATOR:
If a great civilization
of humans and giants

687
00:35:07,750 --> 00:35:10,167
existed on Earth long ago,

688
00:35:10,292 --> 00:35:13,583
is it possible that they
received advanced warning

689
00:35:13,708 --> 00:35:17,625
of a worldwide cataclysm
by an extraterrestrial race?

690
00:35:20,375 --> 00:35:22,333
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

691
00:35:22,458 --> 00:35:24,375
the evidence of such a warning

692
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,333
lies in the fact
that both Göbekli Tepe

693
00:35:27,417 --> 00:35:30,125
and Karahan Tepe
were not overcome

694
00:35:30,208 --> 00:35:32,417
by the sands of time,

695
00:35:32,542 --> 00:35:35,583
but were intentionally buried.

696
00:35:35,708 --> 00:35:37,958
Archaeologists are
now pretty well certain

697
00:35:38,083 --> 00:35:40,417
that Göbekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe

698
00:35:40,542 --> 00:35:42,125
were intentionally buried.

699
00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:44,167
Why do you do that?

700
00:35:44,250 --> 00:35:47,375
Perhaps they knew
of an impending cataclysm.

701
00:35:47,542 --> 00:35:50,667
The flood of the Old Testament,
we're told, was premeditated.

702
00:35:50,750 --> 00:35:52,875
People had foreknowledge
that it was coming,

703
00:35:53,042 --> 00:35:54,750
and they were preparing for it,

704
00:35:54,875 --> 00:35:57,958
and they were trying to preserve
elements of their civilization.

705
00:35:59,250 --> 00:36:02,250
It was intended for us
to ultimately discover it

706
00:36:02,375 --> 00:36:04,292
later in the future.

707
00:36:05,792 --> 00:36:08,708
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the builders
of Karahan Tepe

708
00:36:08,833 --> 00:36:12,333
buried the entire site
because they had been forewarned

709
00:36:12,458 --> 00:36:14,417
of a coming cataclysm,

710
00:36:14,542 --> 00:36:17,500
and wanted to preserve
some record of a civilization

711
00:36:17,667 --> 00:36:20,250
that was on the verge
of extinction?

712
00:36:21,208 --> 00:36:23,458
A civilization
that was, perhaps,

713
00:36:23,542 --> 00:36:26,458
far different from our own?

714
00:36:26,542 --> 00:36:28,542
There are legends
from around the world

715
00:36:28,667 --> 00:36:31,208
that speak about a great,
highly advanced,

716
00:36:31,333 --> 00:36:33,958
wonderful civilization
that predated our own.

717
00:36:36,292 --> 00:36:38,667
We're familiar with this
by names like Atlantis

718
00:36:38,792 --> 00:36:40,583
or Lemuria and the like.

719
00:36:40,708 --> 00:36:42,917
There are many legends
which speak about

720
00:36:43,042 --> 00:36:46,167
the existence of giants.

721
00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:48,208
We know about them
from the Bible.

722
00:36:48,333 --> 00:36:51,250
Very famous story
of David and Goliath.

723
00:36:52,250 --> 00:36:55,125
It is also said that,
in these days,

724
00:36:55,250 --> 00:36:58,333
many of what
we today call "angels"

725
00:36:58,417 --> 00:37:01,000
walked among
human beings openly.

726
00:37:01,125 --> 00:37:05,583
Now today, we call these
entities extraterrestrials.

727
00:37:06,625 --> 00:37:10,000
When we see imagery
from around the world,

728
00:37:10,083 --> 00:37:11,875
and when we read
about these things

729
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,417
in the ancient traditions,
we need to ask the question,

730
00:37:16,542 --> 00:37:19,042
is there some literal fact
behind this?

731
00:37:19,167 --> 00:37:23,708
And when we look at these
excavations today in Turkey,

732
00:37:23,875 --> 00:37:25,375
can we speculate

733
00:37:25,542 --> 00:37:28,750
that these were the remnants
of that civilization?

734
00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:34,542
VIEIRA:
These sites that we're talking
about, these super ancient,

735
00:37:34,667 --> 00:37:37,292
super complex sites,
they are telling us something.

736
00:37:37,375 --> 00:37:40,125
They're telling us about
mythology being true.

737
00:37:40,208 --> 00:37:42,167
They're telling us
there's a larger story

738
00:37:42,292 --> 00:37:43,667
to the-the history of humanity.

739
00:37:45,042 --> 00:37:48,000
NARRATOR:
Now that Göbekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe

740
00:37:48,125 --> 00:37:49,750
have been exhumed from the Earth

741
00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:54,375
after being hidden
for more than 11,000 years,

742
00:37:54,542 --> 00:37:57,250
might we learn that
the history of humankind

743
00:37:57,375 --> 00:37:59,833
is much different
than we ever imagined?

744
00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:04,500
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

745
00:38:04,625 --> 00:38:07,875
and propose that new excavations
in southern Turkey

746
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,167
suggest that these sites
have only begun to reveal

747
00:38:12,292 --> 00:38:14,708
their ancient secrets.

748
00:38:19,708 --> 00:38:22,000
NARRATOR:
Sanliurfa Province.

749
00:38:22,083 --> 00:38:26,667
June 27, 2021.

750
00:38:27,833 --> 00:38:31,583
Turkish Culture and Tourism
Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy

751
00:38:31,708 --> 00:38:34,125
appears before
the international press corps

752
00:38:34,250 --> 00:38:36,083
to make an historic announcement

753
00:38:36,208 --> 00:38:39,458
regarding the ongoing
excavations in southern Turkey.

754
00:38:40,542 --> 00:38:44,958
The minister of tourism
for Turkey announced

755
00:38:45,083 --> 00:38:48,458
that we now have 12 sites,

756
00:38:48,542 --> 00:38:51,583
many of which remained
to be excavated.

757
00:38:51,708 --> 00:38:56,292
And all of this forms
part of what they call

758
00:38:56,375 --> 00:38:59,042
the Tas Tepeler culture.

759
00:39:01,125 --> 00:39:02,667
SCHOCH: The Turkish authorities

760
00:39:02,833 --> 00:39:05,042
have been making
a series of announcements

761
00:39:05,167 --> 00:39:08,292
of new incredibly ancient sites.

762
00:39:08,375 --> 00:39:10,500
Incredible number of sites,

763
00:39:10,583 --> 00:39:13,833
we have at least a dozen sites
now that are known.

764
00:39:13,917 --> 00:39:16,167
And what this
is really reconfirming

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00:39:16,292 --> 00:39:19,583
is that this was a major area

766
00:39:19,708 --> 00:39:22,375
of early civilization.

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NARRATOR:
Since it was initiated in 2019

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00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,125
by Istanbul University,

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00:39:29,208 --> 00:39:32,875
the Göbekli culture
and Karahan excavations project

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00:39:33,042 --> 00:39:35,625
has determined that these
ancient settlements

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00:39:35,750 --> 00:39:38,542
cover a region
that spans an astonishing

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00:39:38,667 --> 00:39:42,667
125 miles
from one end to the other.

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00:39:44,167 --> 00:39:48,125
This suggests that approximately
12,000 years ago,

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00:39:48,208 --> 00:39:50,500
the area was an extensive

775
00:39:50,625 --> 00:39:53,625
and highly advanced metropolis.

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00:39:53,708 --> 00:39:57,792
HENRY:
This site is absolutely massive.

777
00:39:57,875 --> 00:40:00,667
What we are working with
right now represents,

778
00:40:00,792 --> 00:40:05,167
perhaps, 1% of the entire site.

779
00:40:05,333 --> 00:40:09,167
And they're forecasting it's
literally gonna take centuries

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00:40:09,333 --> 00:40:11,750
to uncover everything that is

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00:40:11,875 --> 00:40:13,833
at Karahan Tepe
and Göbekli Tepe.

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00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,000
We're talking about
a complex that is so vast,

783
00:40:19,083 --> 00:40:21,958
that it's almost beyond
our comprehension.

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00:40:23,417 --> 00:40:25,958
TSOUKALOS:
I love this idea
of a megalopolis,

785
00:40:26,042 --> 00:40:28,708
a mega, ancient city,

786
00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:30,625
where some archaeologists say,

787
00:40:30,708 --> 00:40:32,000
"Oh, that could
have never happened."

788
00:40:32,083 --> 00:40:33,500
Well, maybe it did.

789
00:40:33,625 --> 00:40:36,667
And Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe

790
00:40:36,750 --> 00:40:39,042
and the other sites
that have been found there

791
00:40:39,208 --> 00:40:42,333
was a worldwide city

792
00:40:42,458 --> 00:40:45,125
of millions of people.

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00:40:46,542 --> 00:40:49,417
NEWMAN:
These excavations in
the whole Tas Tepeler region,

794
00:40:49,542 --> 00:40:50,917
are gonna rewrite history.

795
00:40:51,042 --> 00:40:52,458
They're already doing so.

796
00:40:52,542 --> 00:40:54,250
They're like the smoking gun

797
00:40:54,375 --> 00:40:56,083
of an advanced
lost civilization,

798
00:40:56,208 --> 00:40:57,875
a supercivilization, I believe,

799
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,958
where there was highly advanced
cultures working together.

800
00:41:02,042 --> 00:41:05,000
And you have to,
you know, really question

801
00:41:05,125 --> 00:41:07,458
if the further they look,
they're gonna find evidence

802
00:41:07,542 --> 00:41:09,833
of these legendary Anunnaki,

803
00:41:09,958 --> 00:41:12,708
these extraterrestrial beings.

804
00:41:13,875 --> 00:41:16,542
Our ultimate questions
have always revolved around

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00:41:16,708 --> 00:41:19,917
who are we,
where did we come from,

806
00:41:20,042 --> 00:41:21,625
why are we here,

807
00:41:21,750 --> 00:41:24,833
where are we going from here,
and how do we get there?

808
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,083
These questions are now
being answered for us.

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00:41:28,208 --> 00:41:31,167
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
what archeologists

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00:41:31,292 --> 00:41:33,458
are uncovering
in southern Turkey

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is the true record
of the beginning

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00:41:35,708 --> 00:41:38,167
of mankind's development
on Earth?

813
00:41:38,250 --> 00:41:42,000
Do the ancient reliefs
carved into limestone

814
00:41:42,125 --> 00:41:43,792
depict advanced beings

815
00:41:43,875 --> 00:41:47,667
that traveled to our planet
to create hybrid humans,

816
00:41:47,792 --> 00:41:52,625
and set in motion
the dawn of modern civilization?

817
00:41:53,708 --> 00:41:56,167
Perhaps as excavations continue,

818
00:41:56,292 --> 00:41:59,000
we will unearth, not only
startling new evidence

819
00:41:59,125 --> 00:42:00,500
about the past,

820
00:42:00,625 --> 00:42:03,125
but undeniable proof

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00:42:03,208 --> 00:42:05,625
of our otherworldly origins.

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