NARRATOR: Enormous megalithic structures
of mysterious origins.
DAVID CHILDRESS: There are huge walls, gigantic limestone blocks.
They've been there for thousands of years.
NARRATOR: A vast underground complex...
This is a remarkable structure,
hewn from solid rocks.
...containing the remains
of what some believe to be otherworldly beings.
WILLIAM HENRY: We find this enormous collection of elongated skulls.
Are we dealing with extraterrestrials?
NARRATOR: Could the ancient mysteries that exist
on the Mediterranean islands of Malta
be connected to local legends
of alien visitation and giant hybrid beings?
This right here is a smoking gun.
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN: We have to accept the fact
that there were teachers from the sky.
NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
In the center of the Mediterranean Sea,
between Italy and Africa, lies a three-island archipelago
that makes up the Republic of Malta.
LYNN PICKNETT: Malta is this really small island nation
just south of Sicily.
And it's so small, it's only 122 square miles in its entirety.
But because it's dead center of the Mediterranean Sea,
Malta really packs a punch historically.
NARRATOR: Malta has been a strategic outpost
for many of the most powerful cultures in the world,
from the Phoenicians
to the Romans
and even the British Empire.
But what makes Malta
one of the most unique locations on Earth
are its massive stone ruins, whose origins could date back
thousands of years before any known civilization
ever set foot on her shores.
JASON OSEQUEDA: It was assumed that Malta
was a long-lost Greek colony from the Mycenaean period.
And this goes from, you know, maybe 800 BC
to sometime before 1200 BC.
However, because of radiocarbon dating
in the mid-20th century,
we discovered that Malta
is actually one of the oldest megalithic sites in the world.
NARRATOR: Mainstream archaeologists now know
that Malta's oldest megalithic structures
were built at least 5,600 years ago.
But little is known about who these ancient builders were
and how long their culture existed.
PICKNETT: One of the most pressing questions about
the megalithic builders is, what happened to these amazing,
super smart guys who built all this stuff?
Because the last known evidence of them being there
is about 3,000 years ago.
They were there one minute,
archaeologically speaking, and gone the next.
NARRATOR: While the world's first known human civilization,
the Sumerians, is said to have emerged
in Mesopotamia around 4000 BC,
some researchers believe the ancient inhabitants of Malta
lived on the Mediterranean islands
thousands of years earlier.
As evidence, they point to mysterious carvings
found throughout the area
called cart ruts.
Something that Malta is very well known for archaeologically,
besides the megalithic temples, are the cart ruts.
These are ruts literally in the limestone rock.
The traditional view is that they were
eroded into the rock literally by carts
being pulled over the soft rock.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: We have cart ruts
that go into the Mediterranean Sea.
And then they also come out on the other side.
How is this possible?
NARRATOR: Some of the cart ruts that extend from dry land
down into the sea have reportedly been found
at depths of as much as 140 feet.
This presents a critical clue as to just how long ago
they must have been created.
I suspect that some of these cart ruts are really ancient.
And when I say really ancient, that is going back
to before the end of the last ice age,
approximately 12,000 years ago.
The Ice Age ended, we know, by incredible warming,
incredible rises in sea level.
So if some of these cart ruts go back to an early enough period,
what looks like it's going into the water,
that would have been dry land when sea levels were much lower.
If you propose the idea that 12,000 years ago,
which is a fact, the worldwide water levels were lower,
then all of a sudden these cart ruts that go
into the Mediterranean Sea make sense.
The last time that area was free of water
and when also Malta was connected to Sicily
and to Italy with a land bridge,
that was 12,000 years ago.
So the fact that these cart ruts exist
to me illustrates that an advanced civilization
must have existed at that time.
NARRATOR: Could the cart ruts provide evidence
that civilization existed on the islands of Malta
as much as 12,000 years ago?
Until recently, mainstream scholars
would have considered such a notion to be impossible.
But then, in 1994, archaeologists discovered
the ruins of Göbekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey.
TSOUKLALOS: It is the first archaeological site
in the world that proves its age
dating as far back as 12,000 years,
around 10,000 BC.
The discovery and the official acceptance
of Göbekli Tepe's dating
has changed the history of archaeology.
HUGH NEWMAN: Göbekli Tepe is a series of kind of oval-shaped
stone circles that have T-shaped pillars as the stones
with two central pillars in the center.
The thing is, many of these stones are over 20 feet tall.
They're huge, they're serious monoliths,
and this was the era of hunter-gatherers.
So who could have done it?
We really don't know.
SCHOCH: I've studied Göbekli Tepe in great detail.
The Malta temples, by conventional dating,
go back maybe 6,000 years ago.
But I wonder,
and this is based on my own work and analysis,
if the origins of the Malta temples
may go back to a much earlier period, also.
HENRY: We have to be open
to the possibility that whoever built the structures on Malta
were not in fact human beings,
but were perhaps a separate race.
And their existence and even their origins
is completely shrouded in mystery.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the incredible megalithic structures on Malta
are as much as 12,000 years old?
If so, who created them?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by closely examining the island's mysterious temples
and the local traditions about a giant being
who came from the stars.
NARRATOR: The Republic of Malta.
Situated across the island nation's 122 square miles
sit the remains of seven megalithic sites.
These include the two temples of Ggantija,
Hagar Qim and Mnajdra,
Tarxien,
Ta' Hagrat
and Skorba.
These marvels of ancient construction
were all built with the same type of Maltese limestone,
which was extracted from local quarries.
SCHOCH: The fact that they were moving around
these multi-ton blocks, building these temples
and actually, when you look at them,
moving the blocks within very, very narrow confines.
Okay, it's one thing to move a block
out in the open that's multi-ton,
but to then place it systematically
and very carefully next to another one,
next to another one
to form these beautiful temple structures,
that's a real engineering feat.
NARRATOR: While there are some researchers who believe
that Malta's megalithic temples
could be as much as 12,000 years old,
mainstream scholars believe they were created
no earlier than 3600 BC,
during what is known as the Neolithic Age.
And they also theorize that the massive structures
were built by a human culture
that used only primitive stone tools.
TSOUKALOS: Archaeology suggests at the time,
we barely invented the wheel.
We barely had tools.
There was no known language,
and we had no writing.
Well, let's step back for a moment and think about this.
From an evolutionary and technology, uh, perspective,
that makes no sense because you begin with simple,
you continue bigger, bigger,
and then biggest.
But you start small.
What we have in the case of the Maltese structures
is that the biggest are the oldest.
So, that makes zero sense from a logical perspective
because there was no evolution in technology.
The archaeologists, they agree with this.
OSEQUEDA: To construct similar temple after similar temple,
um, with the same material without evidence of writing,
shows a high degree of communication.
And we find terracotta models, in fact, of temples.
And archaeologists have suggested perhaps
that this is an early architect's rendering.
This is more evidence of the high level
of thought and ability that went into
the construction of these temples.
NARRATOR: No written records have ever been discovered
to explain who built the megalithic temples in Malta.
However, local traditions of the Maltese people
have offered a stunning possibility.
They claim that the massive structures
were built by a race of giant beings
who came to Earth from the stars.
There is a story that a meteorite came down
from the heavens and turned into a goddess, a giant,
named Sansuna.
And the locals, of course, were terrified of this giant.
But at a place called Ggantija,
she started building a temple
and moved stones much larger than any human
could ever move and assembled this structure
that was so massive,
it remains to this day,
still a place of mystery, still a giant's construction.
HENRY: When you see these Cyclopean stones,
some of them weighing as much as 50 tons,
you can appreciate why we have the story
of this giantess Sansuna.
NARRATOR: The local legends of Sansuna may sound incredible to some.
However, in the 17th century, a Maltese nobleman named
Gian Francesco Abela claimed to have found forensic evidence
that these legends may have been based in fact.
In the early 1600s, Gian Francesco Abela
was living on the island of Malta,
and he actually wrote about
the fact that giants were involved
in the construction of these sites.
One of the reasons he wrote this is because
he said he found bones, skulls and even giant teeth
all across the island,
and there were other reports of them coming forth at this time.
NARRATOR: In order to investigate the local legends connecting
giant extraterrestrial beings
to the massive structures on Malta,
in 2022, ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to Malta's oldest megalithic structures,
the temples of Ggantija on the island of Gozo.
There, he met with Frans Van Avendonk...
I'm Giorgio. Pleasure to meet you.
NARRATOR: ...an expert in Maltese history
who has lived on the island since 1991.
Look at this. I mean...
-Gigantic. -It is gigantic.
Ggantija means the giant goddess,
and it makes sense why.
Because right now, I feel like an ant.
We are so small, and especially
when you're right next to it.
-VAN AVENDONK: It's very impressive. -TSOUKALOS: Truly.
And, uh, in my opinion, still a massive question mark.
VAN AVENDONK: There are still questions here now, definitely.
What can you tell us about the dating?
Well, when it was excavated,
because we don't talk about discovery,
-it was always visible, -Mm-hmm.
people thought it was a Phoenician temple.
-Okay. -Much later, they realized
it must have been prehistoric.
So it was put in the 2000s before Christ.
Then it moves back to the 3000s.
Now we're saying 3600 at least.
Technology has improved,
different ways of looking at things,
so therefore they're getting older.
They were built much earlier than we thought before.
NARRATOR: When viewed from above,
the two adjacent temples of Ggantija
are designed with large apses resembling a cloverleaf.
Each housed an altar,
and artifacts suggest a wooden roof
covered the entire temple.
Many of the stone blocks stand 20 feet tall,
and some weigh in excess of 50 tons.
Is it possible that we've lost some type of masonry knowledge?
Because you could create it using smaller stones.
Clearly, this required planning.
-It required logistics. -VAN AVENDONK: Yes.
TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, master builders were at work here,
and mainstream archaeologists are suggesting
that whoever built this did not have any writing.
Well, not only would it require writing,
but you have to have calculations.
-And leadership. -Exactly.
With the evidence of how old or when it was built,
-who built it and how it was built... -TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
might be there, but we haven't found it yet.
I can imagine that people saw this and thought
this must have been the work of a giant.
Right.
OSEQUEDA: Throughout the Mediterranean,
you see an association with giants
constructing megaliths.
For instance, in Mycenaean Greece,
there is a structure called the Lion's Gate.
Aristotle mentioned that this construction style
was called Cyclopean masonry because of the large stones.
The ancient Greeks figured that only
a giant called Cyclops could have had the strength
to move these.
Well, the same sort of Cyclopean masonry
is present in the Maltese temples as well.
TSOUKALOS: These stories of giants have been an integral part
of our entire human history since the beginning of time.
So, is it possible that the reason why
we have these stories of these giants
is because at one point they actually existed?
And the answer to that is yes.
NARRATOR: Could it be possible that the temples at Ggantija
were built by gigantic, otherworldly beings
who inhabited the islands of Malta thousands of years ago?
To search for further clues, Giorgio will next visit
one of Malta's most mysterious megalithic complexes,
where he is joined by his longtime
friend and mentor, Erich Von Däniken.
NARRATOR: The island of Malta, 2022.
While investigating local legends
that a race of giant extraterrestrial beings
once inhabited this area
more than 5,000 years ago...
We're here.
-We're here again. -We made it.
NARRATOR: Giorgio Tsoukalos meets with his longtime friend
Erich Von Däniken,
author of the 1968 international bestseller
Chariots of the Gods, which established
the foundation for the ancient astronaut theory.
They have arranged to visit
one of the most mysterious sites on the island,
called Hagar Qim, which archaeologists believe
might be Malta's second oldest megalithic structure,
built shortly after Ggantija.
OSEQUEDA: Hagar Qim is a Maltese temple complex
that has multiple temples on it as well.
The oldest one in the northern temple
dates to the mid-fourth millennium BC.
CHILDRESS: You see colossal, huge stones,
huge walls and doorways,
and it's clear that it's very, very old.
It's something that would be almost indestructible,
and in fact,
it's been there for thousands of years.
NARRATOR: Located near Malta's southern shores,
the temples of Hagar Qim
are believed by mainstream archaeologists
to have been constructed by the same primitive culture
who created the temples of Ggantija
on the neighboring island of Gozo.
-Good morning, gentlemen. -How are you?
-Pleasure. -Fine, thank you.
Erich Von Däniken.
NARRATOR: Joining Giorgio once again,
is local historian Frans Van Avendonk.
Incredible. Look at this, guys.
And so what are we talking about here?
-How tall is it? -About six meters.
Wow. So that's about 17, 18 feet?
Yeah, something like that.
Maybe it was even bigger because of erosion.
It could have been a bit higher,
-and surely had a roof. -Mm-hmm.
I mean, just incredible.
VAN AVENDONK: Now, whether it was a stone roof or a wooden roof,
there is still discussion about it, but it was covered.
And the whole wall must have reached at least this height.
And the whole temple is orientated astronomically?
Yes. So the sunrise on the winter solstice,
you'd be here at the back,
you would see the sun coming up
-over the horizon through the entrance. -TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
And if you are patient and you stay here till the evening,
you'll see over there another temple
which will have a light phenomena
during the sunset on the same day.
It's all oriented, so it had to do something
with the stars, with the universe. Definitely.
VAN AVENDONK: This must have been a very important building for them,
and that's why they put so much effort in creating the building.
NARRATOR: Mainstream historians continue to debate
what purpose the temples at Hagar Qim might have served,
but a recent discovery
has led some to suggest that the site
has an otherworldly connection.
VAN AVENDONK: And this is known as the oracle room.
And the room has something special.
Look at the oval inside.
There is a very strong magnetic field inside that oval.
It's believed that women went in there
and they would have certain experiences,
hear sounds, see flashes.
It was contact with the gods.
The so-called "oracle chamber"
is believed to have been used
thousands of years ago
as a place where worshippers
communicated with their goddesses.
And it is here that a statue was discovered
which is believed to represent one of those deities.
VAN AVENDONK: In this room, behind the partition,
they found a number of statues.
Among them, the famous Venus of Malta,
which is a statue of the goddess.
NARRATOR: Mainstream researchers believe
the Venus of Malta is approximately 5,000 years old
and was used in fertility rituals.
But ancient astronaut theorists
suggest it served an even more profound purpose,
and it depicts an otherworldly being.
As evidence, they point to similar effigies
of Sansuna, the giant goddess
who was said to have built the temple of Ggantija.
CHILDRESS: Sansuna was this huge person, a giant,
and she was carrying
a half-human, half-giant, uh, child of hers.
So she's a giant like the extraterrestrials,
but she's mating with a human.
We also have the same story found in other areas as well.
NARRATOR: Curiously, similar accounts of giant beings
mating with humans can be found in the traditions
of ancient civilizations all around the world,
including those of Mesoamerica,
India,
Egypt,
and even in scriptures contained in the Holy Bible.
JONATHAN YOUNG: There are tales of giants in all corners of the Earth.
Various monumental structures have been attributed to giants.
But we have scriptures
that there were giants among men.
In the Bible, these giants are called the Nephilim.
ANDREW COLLINS: We first meet the Nephilim in the book of Genesis,
chapter six, and where it tells us that
the sons of God came upon the daughters of men
and that they beget these giant children
called the Nephilim.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Malta was once home
to a race of extraterrestrial giants,
as ancient tradition suggest?
Perhaps further evidence can be found
by examining another of Malta's engineering masterpieces,
one that doesn't tower above ground, but tunnels...
deep beneath it.
NARRATOR: The island of Malta. 1902.
While constructing a new housing development
in the town of Paola,
a team of laborers makes a perplexing discovery.
They uncover the entrance
to a massive underground cavern system
that has been ingeniously carved out of the bedrock.
The accidental discovery is considered by many
to be the greatest engineering feat of the entire Neolithic Age
and comes to be known as the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni.
COLLINS: Archaeologists realized
that this was a huge underground network
of chambers and corridors.
You enter down into it and there are a series
of three different levels.
All of them are interconnected.
NARRATOR: The three levels of the Hypogeum
descend more than 30 feet below ground.
The connecting chambers, halls and passageways
cover more than 5,000 square feet.
PICKNETT: This is a remarkable structure,
particularly when you bear in mind
they didn't have metal tools,
but it's-it's subterranean.
Hewn from solid rocks somehow,
and it's just mind-boggling.
NARRATOR: Based on pottery sample analysis
and examination of human remains,
mainstream archaeologists have dated
the Hypogeum to around 3700 BC,
and believe it was made by the same people
who built Malta's aboveground structures.
However, ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that just like with the megalithic temples,
there is evidence that the Hypogeum
could be more than 12,000 years old.
NEWMAN: There was this bull fresco that was painted in black.
It was actually recorded and written about
by various archaeologists up into the 1970s and '80s.
It has been noted that this bull fresco
resembles Paleolithic cave art
that goes back to 15,000, 20,000 years
in places such as Spain
and other European countries.
And this particular design,
which was made of black manganese oxide,
which we know was used in Paleolithic times,
was actually cleaned away and rubbed out, if you like,
by just one of the workers there in the 1980s.
So, these sites could be much older
than what the archaeologists are telling us.
NARRATOR: For reasons of preservation,
access to the Hypogeum
is currently restricted by the Maltese government.
So to learn more about the subterranean structure,
Giorgio Tsuokalos and Erich Von Däniken
travel to Malta's National Museum of Archaeology.
Good to see you again. How are you? Okay.
NARRATOR: There, they are once again, joined by local historian
Frans Van Avendonk
to examine a miniature scale model of the structure.
Has anybody, uh, figured out
why any of these chambers existed
and was there chambers that existed earlier,
or did all of this happen at once?
It started with a cave, and on top of that cave,
a surface temple was built.
And then they started expanding the cave
slowly, slowly downwards and also horizontally.
And they developed a maze of-of chambers
and of different sizes and different functions.
Look at this. You have a spiral staircase going down.
And I remember being there in the late '80s,
and if you stood back there and you whispered
and you had another person over here,
they could hear you perfectly.
So the acoustics in there are amazing.
Yes, there are very special acoustics.
Voices of a certain timbre are heard magnified,
but others, they are not audible in-inside other parts
of the underground structure.
Why they did it like that, we can't explain.
NARRATOR: In February 2014, archaeoacoustics researcher
Linda Eneix assembled a team
of audio, geology and archaeology experts
to test the acoustic properties of the Hypogeum oracle room.
LINDA ENEIX: Archaeoacoustics is a multidisciplinary study
to explore what was going on
with sound in ancient places and how people were using it.
I was very familiar with Malta's Hypogeum
and the sound effects that were quite peculiar in that place.
And when I learned about archaeoacoustics,
it sort of lit a fire.
NARRATOR: What Linda and her team discovered
while examining the Hypogeum was sensational.
ENEIX: The oracle chamber resonates
at several frequencies
that are very close to 110 hertz.
The number, uh, 110 hertz can be identified clearly with a note,
with A on the musical scale
at a lower octave within the baritone range.
NARRATOR: In 2013, Dr. Ian Cook, the associate director
of the UCLA Laboratory of Brain, Behavior, and Pharmacology,
conducted an experiment
to determine if the 110 hertz sound frequency
has any effect on the human brain.
ENEIX: His tests were on a group of volunteers.
At 110 hertz, he found something happened.
-There was a shift in brain activity. -(beeping)
COLLINS: That frequency will deaden certain brain patterns
and bring alive others.
And there is a sense of connection
with the otherworldly.
So it would seem that whoever created
the Hypogeum did this with the specific
reason of whoever went in there
could attain communion with the gods themself.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni
functioned as a place where humans could interact
with otherworldly beings thousands of years ago?
And was this subterranean structure connected to Malta's
ancient legends of giants that came down from the stars?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining an incredible discovery
that was made deep within the Hypogeum:
thousands of elongated skulls.
Five years after the discovery
of the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni,
archaeologists excavating the subterranean chambers
begin to uncover human remains.
In total, they find an estimated 7,000 skeletons,
and reportedly, a great many of them
have skulls that are noticeably elongated.
NEWMAN: It was found that some of the skulls
were actually elongated.
They were almost like the head going backwards
rather than upwards.
Does that represent the fact
that they were doing head binding,
and they were pressed into shape
when these people were babies?
NARRATOR: Head binding, also known as artificial cranial deformation,
has been a practice of numerous primitive cultures
around the world, dating from prehistoric times
all the way into the 20th century.
It involves tightly wrapping the heads of infants
before their skulls fully harden,
resulting in an elongated shape.
TSOUKALOS: Archaeologists and anthropologists
agree that this was done
because of worshipping some type of deity.
A deity with an elongated skull?
That's interesting.
Where did they get this inspiration from?
So, I am suggesting that our ancestors
were visited by beings, flesh and blood beings,
that had actual elongated skulls
and that that was their natural appearance.
Our ancestors wanted to imitate their gods.
And so they did artificial head binding
so that the skull would grow
in this elongated fashion.
And this happened on all continents around the world,
including Europe and on the island of Malta.
NARRATOR: Who could these elongated skulls have belonged to?
Are they the result of head binding?
Or could they have belonged to beings
who are of otherworldly origin?
Today, only a handful of the elongated skulls
that were discovered in the Hypogeum still exist.
They now belong to Malta's National Museum of Archaeology,
where Giorgio and Erich
have been examining the model of the Hypogeum.
Although the skulls have been temporarily removed
for scientific study, Erich and Giorgio
are given rare access to a custom piece
of the museum's collection.
We previously had, um, an exhibit
of the original skulls,
-but at the moment it's being studied. -Mm-hmm.
But these are a perfect replica,
-that you can handle and examine. -Wow. Wow. Wow.
NARRATOR: The museum replica is modeled after
one of the actual elongated skulls
Giorgio had the opportunity to examine in person
on a previous trip to Malta in 2014.
Something is wrong here.
-Something is definitely wrong here. -Exactly.
-Look at this. You're missing the sagittal suture. -VON DÄNIKEN: The fontanelle.
NARRATOR: The sagittal suture connects to the sides
and roof of the cranium.
This suture is open when a person is born
and closes around the age of 35.
So I actually brought a picture
of what a human sagittal suture would look like,
which would go across here, and it is missing.
This is not, in our opinion,
the result of artificial head binding.
-No, no, no, no. -But this is authentic. It's real.
So the ones that do not have the sutures,
in my opinion, could be the extraterrestrials.
The conclusion is so easy.
The facts are facts that these skulls are not human.
NEWMAN: Do the skulls represent a genetic trait
possibly linked with giants
intermingling with the local population,
and the genetic alterations then occurred?
And so we're looking at possibly
almost like a different type of human existing in ancient Malta.
NARRATOR: Could the few elongated skulls
that have survived from the excavation of the Hypogeum
provide a clear link to extraterrestrial beings
that may have once inhabited Malta?
For Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich Von Däniken,
there is one site on the islands
that may tell the story
of Malta's otherworldly past better than any other:
the megalithic temple Of Mnajdra.
NARRATOR: For more than 5,000 years,
Malta's megalithic temples
and incredible underground structures
have stood as testament
to a once great culture, of whom very little is known.
And some researchers believe
that this civilization existed on the islands
thousands of years earlier
than mainstream archaeologists suggest.
To further investigate this intriguing theory,
Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich Von Däniken,
along with local historian Frans Van Avendonk,
have traveled to another one of Malta's
most mysterious ancient sites:
the temple of Mnajdra.
So what are we looking at here, with this corridor here?
It is believed this is one of the oldest
solar, uh, calendars in the world.
We find that that stone
at the winter solstice, the right edge is lit up.
Alternatively, this is the summer solstice stone.
So at sunrise, light will fall through
the entrance and touch upon this stone.
Now, if you look at it today,
the alignments are maybe different
than it was in the past, in the very, very far past.
But the oldest culture, roughly 4,000 or 5,000,
according to archaeology?
According to archaeology, this is around
3,300 before modern era.
VON DÄNIKEN: But then we have another solution,
which one of your local... Dr. Micallef came forward, too.
TSOUKALOS: Right. And Micallef calculated
that with one of these stones,
for it to line up correctly,
it would have to correspond to a date of 10,200 BC.
NARRATOR: In his 1992 paper, Mnajdra: A Calendar in Stone,
Maltese land surveyor and cartographer Paul Micallef
proposed that based on celestial alignments,
the temple of Mnajdra appears to have been built
far earlier than mainstream archaeologists claim.
TSOUKALOS: We know for a fact that the tilt of the Earth has changed,
but with modern-day computer technology,
we can sort of rewind the night sky
to the time as it was back then.
And he determined that was 10,200 BC,
when the light on both the winter
and the summer solstice
would actually line up exactly
on both ends of that slab.
So clearly we have another connection to the stars,
a celestial bridge, so to speak.
And, you know, Frans said this is the oldest
-part of the temple. -It is.
Which means far back, maybe 5,000 years or more,
these people were watching the stars.
They were looking for something.
They were hoping for something.
Maybe they were waiting for the return of the gods.
The old question remains: which gods?
Right.
NARRATOR: While excavations of ancient sites
continue throughout Malta,
many scholars agree that the archaeological wonders
found both above ground and below
provide an unparalleled glimpse
into the planet's earliest human societies.
And as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
Malta holds the secrets of a profound past
that we have only begun to uncover.
HENRY: When you put all the pieces together
of what we see in these temples on Malta,
the engineering knowledge that was required,
the astronomical knowledge that's encoded within them,
and you realize you're dealing with a primitive time,
someone had to have brought it from somewhere.
Who were these beings?
If we can ultimately answer this question,
it's going to lead to a revelation of perhaps
some of the greatest mysteries of all of human history.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Malta was once home to giant beings
who were part human and part extraterrestrial?
And might the most extraordinary evidence of all
lie hidden in some ancient underground chamber
still waiting to be discovered?
Perhaps the latest excavations on Malta
will lead to the profound revelation
that the island's megalithic temples
serve not as monuments to the gods
but to our alien origins.
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