Narrator: It was the cradle of western civilization
And a culture that credited everything to the gods.
Ric rader: The greeks very much believed the gods were physically
Part of our lives.
Narrator: The greek gods
Were said to possess incredible technology.
Hugh newman: The lightning rod of zeus,
Could wipe out whole cities
In one fell swoop.
The trident of poseidon
Could cause earthquakes.
Narrator: The gods imparted advanced knowledge.
And they even coupled with humans.
David childress: They're creating these demigods
And genetically manipulating humans.
Narrator: Were the greek gods the product of our ancestors' imaginations?
Or were they otherworldly visitors
Directing the course of humanity?
Giorgio a. Tsoukalos: The greeks clearly said that the gods were real.
And you have to ask the question,
Are our ancestors talking about extraterrestrials?
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.
♪
Narrator: Greece.
Located in southeastern europe
With thousands of islands
Throughout the aegean and ionian seas,
This popular tourist destination
Is visited by roughly 30 million people each year.
They come not only to experience greece's mediterranean climate
And idyllic beaches,
But also to walk amongst the ruins
Of a great empire that thrived more than 2,000 years ago.
The greek empire, which lasted
From the ninth century to the second century bc,
Made enormous advances in science and mathematics...
...Founded the olympic games...
...Invented democracy as a system of governance,
And established the foundation of western civilization.
We owe virtually
Almost every aspect of our society
To the ancient greek culture,
What they brought together at that time.
Certainly, we in the western world
Are the heirs of ancient greece, there's no doubt about that.
William henry: Thinking about what happened in greece,
You've got some of the greatest minds ever.
These are the people that
Created or opened the gateway
To the western mind, to the way we think today.
Michio kaku: People today know the names of aristotle,
Plato and socrates.
In mathematics and sciences,
People know the names of archimedes
And also pythagoras of the pythagorean theorem.
So it's amazing that the ancient greeks
Could illuminate the artistic
And scientific world
For thousands of years to come.
Macgillivray: You have the greek playwrights--
Sophocles, euripides.
You have the architects...
The architects of the parthenon,
Ictinus and callicrates.
And then you have hippocrates, with medicine.
The list is never-ending.
Narrator: Perhaps just as extraordinary as the fact
That the towering intellectual figures
Of ancient greece are still known today
Is that every one of them
Credited their accomplishments to the gods.
The prevalence of gods
In the lives of human beings
In classical mythological stories
Tells us that the greeks
Very much believed the gods were a part of our lives.
If you were to build a temple, right,
You needed the inspiration of these gods
Because you were doing something that was bigger than human.
So they are the foundation.
They are the inspiration for human beings
Creating works of art of all stripes
That are far bigger than human beings themselves.
Narrator: Greek gods like zeus,
Apollo and athena remain household names even today...
...And the myths about their origins, battles, and adventures
Continue to be retold to modern audiences.
The ancient greek gods, in many ways,
Are still alive with us today.
No matter where you are in the world,
Everybody knows who apollo is, who zeus is,
Who aphrodite is.
You'll see it in advertising,
Everywhere you look, you'll see that
There is this influence
Of these characters from greek mythology.
When I was growing up,
I followed avidly the american space program
Where you had the mercury program,
The gemini program,
The apollo program.
It's all based on the greek gods.
Narrator: According to greek mythology,
Before the time of zeus and the other iconic greek gods
That we're familiar with today,
There was another race of powerful beings
Called the titans.
Macgillivray: For the ancient greeks,
The titans were the first generation of gods.
They were the six male, six female gods
Who were born of the earth, gaia,
And heaven coming together.
Kathleen mcgowan: The word "titan" exists in our language now
And refers to something that's big and great.
And that's what the titans were.
They were this generation of gods
That were larger than life.
Ultimately, the titans find themselves in a war
With the next generation of gods,
Who we know as the olympians.
Narrator: The olympians are represented by 12 powerful gods
Led by zeus, who is the god of thunder,
And the son of the titan king cronus.
Ultimately,
The titans and the olympians are not able to coexist,
And an epic war is waged
Called the titanomachy.
Joining the gods
In this ten-year-long battle are a number of strange beings,
Including humanoid creatures with hundreds of arms,
And one-eyed giants called the cyclops.
In the end, the olympians emerge victorious
And establish an earthly base atop mount olympus.
Rader: There is an actual mount olympus in greece.
Because it is so high,
It's ringed in clouds,
And so that's where the gods live
That you are not allowed to see.
Henry: We're told it was shrouded by a mist
So that human eyes couldn't see it.
And it was a technology center.
You had hephaestus there,
The greek god of smithcraft, alchemy and technology
That was creating these extraordinary weapons,
The thunderbolt of zeus, and all these magical weapons,
The breastplate of athena.
He also made robots, assistants.
You couldn't describe
A better scenario if you were talking about
Extraterrestrials coming to earth
And establishing a mountain compound or sanctuary.
It sounds very much like some kind of a military compound.
Narrator: Zeus reigned over all the gods and humans,
And each of the olympians
Had domain over certain aspects of existence.
Poseidon ruled the sea.
Athena was the goddess of wisdom.
Apollo's domain was light, music and poetry,
As well as healing and prophecy.
Aphrodite was the goddess of beauty and passion.
And ares the god of war.
Macgillivray: The greek gods are purely anthropomorphic.
They're seen to control natural forces...
...But they're men and women up in the infinite ether.
And the olympian gods
Would often come down and interact with humans.
Tsoukalos: The greek pantheon of gods were not gods
As we think of them today.
They descended from the sky
And they interacted with humans.
So you have to ask the question,
Are we really talking about
Bona fide gods
In ancient greece?
Or was it something else?
Is it possible that the pantheon of greek gods
Didn't consist of a figment of our ancestors' imagination,
But physical beings
That actually mingled amongst man back in the day?
Narrator: Is it possible that the gods, who played such a vital role
In the lives of the ancient greeks, truly existed?
While it may sound like a fantastical notion,
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
It is a very real possibility,
And point to an important site
Within the greek empire
Where it was discovered that at least some aspects
Of the ancient myths are based in real history.
♪
Narrator: Hisarlik, turkey. 1870.
German businessman and amateur archaeologist
Heinrich schliemann begins excavations
In this small village
Which was an important site within the greek empire
More than 2,000 years ago.
For years, he has been obsessed with finding
The legendary city of troy
That is at the center of the trojan war
Described in homer's epic, the iliad.
The story of the trojan war
Is one of the most important stories
Of the greek mythological cycle.
Our main source is homer, but it relies upon much earlier
Oral compositions that probably were going around
In greek culture for hundreds of years.
Narrator: According to the legend, the trojan war began
When helen, wife to king menelaus
Of the greek city-state of sparta,
Fell in love with trojan prince paris
And secretly ran off with him to troy.
Her actions sparked a bloody ten-year war
Between the trojans and the greeks.
Rader: The greeks were able to defeat the trojans
By sneaking this wooden horse
Which was full of greek soldiers,
Into the city of troy
Where they were able to wreak havoc
And ultimately, you know, win the war.
Doran: One of the aspects of the stories of the trojan war
That is quite interesting is that the gods take sides.
Some are more on the side of the trojans,
Some are more on the side of the greeks.
Narrator: At the time of heinrich schliemann's
1870 excavation,
Mainstream scholars had long maintained
That the ancient greek story was a work of fiction
And that troy never existed.
Heinrich schliemann was this extraordinary character
Who, I guess, he must've been quite rebellious as a child
Because he wouldn't accept the given facts.
When heinrich schliemann was growing up,
All of greek mythology was mythology.
And heinrich schliemann refused to believe that.
Robert schoch: In modern times, most scholars thought that
Homer and his writing about the trojan war
Was just a good story.
Academic scholars just did not take troy seriously.
However, heinrich schliemann took homer seriously.
Narrator: Details from the iliad had convinced schliemann
That the remnants of troy would be found
In the turkish village of hisarlik
Beneath a 65-foot-tall earthen mound.
In may 1873, schliemann uncovered a hoard of gold,
Valuable artifacts and jewelry that matched up
With the riches mentioned in the iliad,
And declared that the search was over--
He had discovered the city of troy.
Lo and behold, he found troy.
He found a site which matched everything described in homer.
So he brought to life the concept that we can
Look at some of these ancient myths
And realize that there's
A genuine historical basis to it.
For hundreds of years, people thought that
The greeks had achievements in architecture and sciences,
But when it comes to history,
The story of the trojan war, the trojan horse,
"nope. It's all myth."
But then archaeologists found it.
They found the ruins of troy.
And we know there was the trojan war
Just like the way the ancients called it.
Newman: When it comes to places like troy in turkey,
It does really suggest that
These myths and legends and epic tales
May have some reality to them.
Macgillivray: Heinrich schliemann opened a whole new chapter
In the history books for us.
What had previously been mythology
Was now tangible archaeology.
Narrator: For ancient astronaut theorists,
The discovery of troy is highly significant
Because it opens the possibility that other aspects
Of greek mythology are also based in history.
Tsoukalos: Are these stories a true history
That we've misinterpreted as just fantasy?
The ancient greek gods were
Physical beings that actually mingled amongst man
In the ancient mythologies.
The ancient astronaut theory proposes that these encounters
Actually happened in real life.
They were here, not spiritual beings,
They were here with their body.
You can touch them.
They were talking, they were building,
They were doing something, they were not spiritual beings.
Narrator: Is it possible,
As ancient astronaut theorists suggest,
That greek mythology is based on actual events
And encounters with otherworldly beings?
Perhaps further clues can be found
By examining just how the greek gods were described.
Mcgowan: The gods in the greek mythology are all very,
Very human in their attributes.
The greek gods are, are jealous.
They're angry. They're passionate.
They hate each other. They love each other.
Macgillivray: They kill, they attack each other,
They attack humans, especially.
They have children out of wedlock.
They wage wars with each other. They trick each other.
There's nothing entirely divine about them
Other than they have specific powers.
Narrator: In the greek myths, the powers of the gods
Often come in the forms of magical devices, weapons,
And flying machines.
They have airships,
They have superpowers and weapons.
It would seem that the gods are using technology.
Von daniken: In my opinion,
It was the technology of extraterrestrials.
And it is not just a fiction.
It's not just fantasy. It's not just the imagination.
It is a true story.
The old greek gods were extraterrestrials.
Narrator: Could it be that the greek gods were alien beings
Who came to earth thousands of years ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
And suggest the stories about them
Reveal even more profound truths
About the origins of the human race.
Narrator: The greek island of crete.
1900.
A team of british archaeologists,
Led by sir arthur evans,
Begins excavating the ruins of an ancient palace.
In their efforts to unearth the sprawling complex,
They come across a structure
Eerily matching one of the most fearsome places
In all of greek mythology--
The labyrinth of king minos.
According to the legend,
The elaborate maze of the labyrinth
Was constructed by order of king minos
To entrap a monstrous creature known as the minotaur.
Mcgowan: This legend of the minotaur
Is one of the most important
And prevalent legends
Of the ancient greek mythology.
One day, king minos of crete angers the god poseidon.
Poseidon, being angry at minos,
Casts a spell over his wife pasiphae,
That she might fall in love with this great white bull.
And through the mating of the bull,
The minotaur is born.
The minotaur is half human and half bull as a result.
And he is ferocious,
And he feeds on the flesh of humans.
Andrew collins: The legend of king minos
And the labyrinth
Is something that was seen to be a fable
Until the explorations of the palace in crete.
What arthur evans uncovered was an entire palace
That seemed to be dedicated over
To a bull cult.
There were frescos showing people leaping over bulls.
There were bulls' horns,
Bulls' heads everywhere.
Mcgowan: The palace is an elaborate structure,
With moving walls and mazes actually built into the palace.
It became very clear
Upon looking at the structure of this palace,
That this was the original labyrinth.
Narrator: If the structure found in crete
Really is the fabled labyrinth of king minos,
Then is it possible that the story of the minotaur
Is based on actual events?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
But suggest that what is described in the legend
Is not literally a bull mating with a human.
The story of the minotaur is an astounding story
Of the creation of a hybrid being.
And what's interesting about this is that daedalus,
This genius engineer,
Crafts this cow-shaped container,
That minos's wife is to enter into this container
And mate with this sacred bull.
This sounds like some kind of
Genetics lab that's been created here
For the specific purpose to mate a human
With a sacred bull.
The minotaur is the result of that mating.
So when we peel back the layers of this story,
We can easily interpret this
As an example of ancient gene splicing.
Michael carter: There are plenty of myths
That talk about these hybrids in the tales of greece.
There was a centaur, half horse, half man...
If we look at the mermaid-- a woman and part fish--
With genetics, with experimentation,
Maybe these beings
Really did walk the earth,
And our ancestors were depicting
What they saw around them.
Narrator: In the greek mythological tradition,
There are many instances of the gods
Creating hybrid animals
And even more that involve their manipulation of humans,
Including the creation of the human race.
According to greek mythology,
The titan prometheus formed figurines of humans out of mud,
And the olympian athena breathed life into them.
It is also said that prometheus brought us civilization.
That he gave us writing,
He gave us language, he gave us arithmetic.
Narrator: The greek myths go on to speak
Of mortals and immortals comingling
To create hybrids who were half human and half god.
Macgillivray: These sexual interactions would produce
What they called the demigods,
Somebody who was half man, half god,
Or half woman, half god.
And these demigods became very, very powerful
In their own right.
Narrator: Much like the myths of ancient greece,
Stories of humans mixed with the bloodlines of gods
Appear in many cultures throughout the ancient world...
...From the deities known as the anunnaki
Depicted in early sumerian writings,
To the biblical book of enoch,
Which tells of fallen angels, called the watchers,
Who mated with humans to create the nephilim.
Carter: We are told that the sons of god
Came down to earth and mated with earth women.
Now, this is in all mythology,
Whether it's greek, whether it's sumerian,
Uh, whether it's hindu.
And so, we have to ask ourselves,
These are new human beings that are being created.
How is this happening?
Narrator: According to ancient astronaut theorists,
The parallels in these accounts
May be evidence of extraterrestrials
Intentionally mingling their dna with mankind.
The greek gods can be placed
In the same category
As the anunnaki, the guardians of the sky,
And the so-called watchers.
They're all the same.
Meaning extraterrestrials observed humankind
And also guided our development.
We have the curious stories
Of the greek gods
Creating these heroes or demigods.
And so we can kind of see here
How the gods or the extraterrestrials are
Genetically manipulating humans.
Narrator: Could the greek stories of the demigods
Serve as evidence of an extraterrestrial agenda
To genetically evolve and guide
The development of humankind?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
And they suggest even more compelling evidence
That there was an otherworldly presence
In ancient greece
Can be found by examining the country's oldest structures,
Which were said to have been built
By a race of giants.
Narrator: The ancient greek story of king minos first appears
In homer's epic poem the iliad,
And takes place around 2500 bc,
Roughly 1,300 years before the rise of the greek empire.
According to greek mythology, this is "the golden age,"
The time when humans shared the earth with the gods--
As well as many other strange creatures like the minotaur.
You're talking about tons of giants,
Tons of monsters, tons of scary beings.
Cyclopes,
You've got hybrids of monsters,
But they're all existing together
Somehow in the same place.
Narrator: In the ancient texts,
Greece was home to an advanced society
During this so-called golden age,
And ancient astronaut theorists suggest
Remnants of that civilization
May be located near the city of argos,
Where there are ruins
Of a mysterious megalithic structure
That is unlike any other structure in greece.
Macgillivray: Outside of argos there's a really beautifully built
Pyramidal building at hellinikon,
Which is a total mystery.
Really, really, very, very mysterious.
The architecture looks archaic...
...And it's unique in that sense.
It's a place where you can actually go into the pyramid.
Schoch: The pyramid of hellinikon is quite small.
It's maybe only 23 feet
By 30 feet by maybe 12 feet tall.
But it's incredibly interesting.
We don't really know what its purpose was,
And even more controversial
Is the dating of it.
Narrator: In 1995, scientists working at the academy of athens
Dated samples from the site
Using a new and experimental method called
Optical thermoluminescence.
The results were staggering.
The pyramid at hellinikon,
According to their results...
...Is one of the oldest pyramids on earth.
The pyramid of hellinikon
Dates to 2720 bc.
Newman: The hellinikon pyramid is thought to be
Originally built by the mycenaeans, but...
If the dating is correct of 2720 bc,
Then this is over a thousand years older.
So we have to question who really built this.
Narrator: The dating of the pyramid of hellinikon places it
In the same era as the so-called golden age
When gods and strange creatures were said to exist on earth.
Curiously, just eight miles to the north
Is another structure that does not match
The construction style of the greek empire,
But features masonry strikingly similar
To that of the pyramid of hellinikon.
Standing within the ancient site of mycenae is an incredible
Megalithic structure called the treasury of atreus.
The treasury of atreus at mycenae was
This massive structure...
...Built into the hillside with huge blocks,
Conglomerate stone being brought into place,
Including the lintel that goes over the threshold
Going into the tomb which weighs 250 tons.
What's telling about mycenae is that we have
Multiple construction styles there.
And the oldest one is the most sophisticated.
And the same masonry style exists
At the pyramid of hellinikon,
About a ten-minute drive from present-day mycenae.
So, clearly, the two were part of the same kingdom at the time.
Narrator: For ancient astronaut theorists,
The notion that these megalithic structures could both
Date back more than 4,700 years is extraordinary.
But even more intriguing is the fact
That the greek stories say they were built
By a race of giant humanoid beings
Who lived during the golden age.
Macgillivray: According to the ancient greeks,
The treasury of atreus at mycenae
Was created by the cyclopes.
Huge, giant builders that had a single, circular eye
In the middle of their forehead, and they were credited
With lifting these huge blocks into place.
Narrator: In greek mythology, the cyclops were related to the titans,
The first generation of gods, and were master craftsman.
They created zeus's thunderbolt, poseidon's trident,
And hades' cap of invisibility.
And they were credited with building
The ancient megaliths of greece.
Newman: The cyclops were thought to be master masons
And advanced metallurgists,
And also were able to quarry stone
In a profoundly brilliant way.
If you look around the site of mycenae,
You see amazing construction all over the site.
So, is there some reality to these stories?
Is there actual giants
Who were involved in the construction
Of sites like mycenae?
Narrator: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
The pyramid of hellinikon
And the treasury of atreus provide further evidence
That the golden age of the gods was more than just a myth.
This idea is not something
That was just pulled out of thin air.
In fact, it also connects to other stories of gods
Around the world.
Many of the ancient egyptian texts that have been translated
Speak of a so-called golden age of ancient egypt
At a time when human beings mingled side by side
With the so-called gods.
Now, this is something that has been recorded orally
And also in a written language
For thousands of years, around the world.
And you have to ask the question,
Are our ancestors all talking about the same
Visiting extraterrestrials?
Narrator: Is it possible that the structures
Like the treasury of atreus
And the pyramid of hellinikon were built during a time
When humans shared the earth
With visitors from another world?
Perhaps further clues can be found
By examining another mysterious megalithic site,
Where the greeks claimed
They could speak directly to the gods.
Narrator: Located on the slopes of mount parnassus,
This site was a religious center
Throughout the entire timeline of the greek empire.
When homer wrote the iliad in the eighth century bc,
When socrates established western philosophy
In the fifth century bc,
And when alexander the great conquered egypt
In the fourth century bc,
Delphi was the place where people went
To communicate directly with the gods.
Delphi is this extraordinarily powerful place.
I mean, you can feel it when you go there today.
Delphi became hugely important throughout classical antiquity.
Everybody, especially the ruling elite,
Would go and they would pose a question.
Nobody would go to war,
Nobody would even start a trade excursion,
Nobody would do anything,
Without going and consulting the oracle.
And the oracle would
Channel basically an answer then from the gods.
Narrator: The oracle was a high priestess known as the pythia,
Who held court at the temple of apollo,
Which lies mostly in ruins today.
According to ancient texts,
Those seeking counsel from the gods
Were put in a meditative state
Before entering the innermost sanctuary of the temple,
Where they would offer gifts
And present their questions to the oracle.
The way the oracle at delphi functioned was...
...The pythia, the priestess sat over a crevice which was
Within the temple of apollo.
She would inhale whatever fumes were coming up from the crevice,
And she would then get an answer from apollo,
A divine answer from above.
Jonathan young: There was a crack in the stone there,
And there was a kind of vapor of gas that was coming,
Which put her into an altered state.
Although we do not know what the altered state was like,
Maybe she was tapping into something.
Henry: Current research on the pythia at delphi
Is asking the question, was there perhaps
Some kind of psychedelic connection there?
Narrator: According to ancient astronaut theorists,
The notion that chemically altering the mind
Might facilitate a connection with otherworldly beings
Is supported by experiments with a powerful hallucinogen
Called dimethyltryptamine, or dmt.
Between 1990 and 1995,
Scientists at the university of new mexico
Administered dmt to 60 volunteers
And were surprised to find
That many of them had very similar visions,
Including encounters
With strange beings who reportedly said,
"now we can communicate with you."
Henry: Recent research suggests that hallucinogenic experiences
Actually open portals of communication
With otherworldly beings.
And perhaps this is what was going on back at delphi as well.
Narrator: In the greek mythological tradition,
Zeus not only chose the exact location
Where the pythia would receive messages from the gods--
He also placed a mysterious object
At the oracle called the omphalos.
Just what the omphalos was remains a mystery,
Since it reportedly disappeared in 395 ad.
But a roman replica of the stone
Has been preserved at the museum of delphi,
Supporting the notion that it truly existed.
Mcgowan: It's a fascinating stone, it's very beautiful.
And it, it appears to be covered in a type of crisscross pattern.
It's possible that the omphalos stone was
Some type of communication device
Between the people on the ground and the people in the sky.
Childress: The ancient greeks built their famous temple at delphi
Around this omphalos stone,
And it was the power center of the world.
And this omphalos stone was also supposed to be a vehicle
For communicating with the gods.
So you have to wonder, was it really
Some special stone that could help people
Communicate with extraterrestrials?
Narrator: Is it possible that the ancient greeks
Were given specific instructions
On where to build the temple of apollo
By an otherworldly visitor?
One who utilized both the vapors from the earth
And some mysterious technological device
To facilitate a means of communication?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
And suggest that delphi's otherworldly connection
Was established long before the rise of the greek empire,
During the so-called golden age
When the gods were said to be present on earth.
As evidence, they point to mysterious ruins
That feature the same type of cyclopean masonry
Found at mycenae and the pyramid of hellinikon.
Officially, delphi is dated to about the sixth century bc,
But there are earlier constructions at the site.
And these are the gigantic cyclopean and polygonal walls
That are not just in the main part of the site.
If you actually look around carefully,
You find them half buried down
Near the entrance at the lowest levels,
And it really does suggest
That the site could be much, much older.
And this was used for not hundreds,
Possibly thousands of years.
Narrator: According to the ancient greeks, figures like zeus,
Athena and apollo continued to guide them
Well beyond the golden age.
And ancient astronaut theorists suggest
These otherworldly beings
Inspired an extraordinary moment in history
That would shape the world for centuries to come.
Narrator: Starting with the harnessing of fire
Hundreds of thousands of years ago,
There have been moments in human history
Of sudden and significant advancement...
...Like the renaissance,
The industrial revolution,
And the founding of the united states.
But some scholars believe
The most significant period of all
Occurred in athens around 2,500 years ago.
In the span of a single lifetime,
Dozens of history's most brilliant minds emerged
And achieved monumental advancements
That would reverberate through the ages.
It was a time known as the greek miracle.
It goes almost without saying
That without ancient greece,
And without the so-called greek miracle,
Civilization today would not be the same.
Newman: Some of the most profound philosophers lived at this time.
Plato, for instance, he created these remarkable 3d geometries.
The dodecahedron.
Pythagoras related the harmony of the cosmos
And all within it
To mathematical formulas and geometry.
And different philosophers came up with different ideas
Looking at this much more kind of practical way
Of understanding life and the cosmos.
Tsoukalos: You had socrates, hippocrates, aristotle,
Sophocles, euripides, herodotus,
And the list goes on.
They all lived at the same time.
So my question is...
...Is it possible that they had a direct connection
With the physical extraterrestrials
That were monitoring earth at that time?
And my answer to that is a resounding yes.
Narrator: Whether the greek miracle happened by chance
Or by extraterrestrial design, one thing is certain--
The accomplishments of the ancient greeks
Helped to shape the world for centuries to come.
We see and we experience
The gifts of the ancient greeks
Every day in our modern lives
In the 21st century.
They gave us everything from democracy
To the most extraordinary architecture and art.
We see it in our nation's capital, in washington, d.C.
The extraordinary greek temple architecture.
Kaku: You go to paris, you go to london,
All the architecture comes from ancient greece.
And then you learned about the mathematics
That made these monuments possible.
All of that coming from ancient greece.
Macgillivray: Anybody who does science will be still using terms
That were coined in archaic and classical greece.
We're still using
Ancient greek words and concepts.
So the western world is very,
Very much indebted to, to ancient greece.
Childress: If it's true that almost everything
Of the western world that we have today
Has its birthplace in ancient greece,
Then perhaps it would mean
That modern civilization itself can be traced back
To these extraterrestrials,
These gods of olympus.
Narrator: Could it be that the incredible
Mythological tales of ancient greece
Tell the story of humankind's true origins?
And that the world we live in today is the product
Of extraterrestrial visitation
That took place thousands of years ago?
Perhaps we will receive the answer
When visitors descend from the sky once again,
And we come face-to-face with our alien ancestors.
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