1 00:00:01.235 --> 00:00:02.568 NARRATOR: Cultural artifacts... 2 00:00:02.603 --> 00:00:05.404 obliterated. 3 00:00:05.439 --> 00:00:07.406 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: It is absolutely barbaric! 4 00:00:07.441 --> 00:00:09.742 They're destroying our cultural heritage. 5 00:00:09.777 --> 00:00:14.130 NARRATOR: Irreplaceable texts reduced to smoldering ash. 6 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:18.450 NICK POPE: It's as if the roots of human civilization itself 7 00:00:18.486 --> 00:00:19.952 are being hidden from us. 8 00:00:19.987 --> 00:00:22.540 NARRATOR: And sacred lands 9 00:00:22.890 --> 00:00:25.900 looted under the cover of darkness. 10 00:00:25.126 --> 00:00:27.726 WILLIAM HENRY: Armed men spent three days digging 11 00:00:27.762 --> 00:00:31.296 and left with something in tow. 12 00:00:31.332 --> 00:00:33.832 What exactly it was, nobody knows. 13 00:00:33.868 --> 00:00:37.603 NARRATOR: Throughout history, mankind's most ancient 14 00:00:37.638 --> 00:00:39.972 and sacred sites have been 15 00:00:40.700 --> 00:00:42.908 plagued by conflict and warfare. 16 00:00:42.943 --> 00:00:47.790 But could this constant turmoil 17 00:00:47.114 --> 00:00:49.815 really be part of an otherworldly agenda? 18 00:00:49.850 --> 00:00:51.928 DAVID WILCOCK: Could an extraterrestrial intelligence 19 00:00:51.952 --> 00:00:54.953 be deliberately thwarting 20 00:00:54.989 --> 00:00:57.656 any effort for itself to be discovered 21 00:00:57.691 --> 00:00:59.858 from the ancient records? 22 00:00:59.894 --> 00:01:03.228 NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization, 23 00:01:03.264 --> 00:01:06.698 mankind has credited its origins to gods 24 00:01:06.734 --> 00:01:09.868 and other visitors from the stars. 25 00:01:09.904 --> 00:01:12.471 What if it were true? 26 00:01:12.506 --> 00:01:14.907 Did extraterrestrial beings 27 00:01:14.942 --> 00:01:18.110 really help to shape our history? 28 00:01:18.145 --> 00:01:20.112 And if so, 29 00:01:20.147 --> 00:01:22.514 might the most compelling evidence 30 00:01:22.550 --> 00:01:26.418 lie hidden in forbidden zones? 31 00:01:58.886 --> 00:02:01.190 NARRATOR: Northern Iraq. 32 00:02:01.550 --> 00:02:04.990 20 miles south of Mosul lies 33 00:02:05.250 --> 00:02:07.759 the ancient Assyrian capital city of Nimrud. 34 00:02:07.795 --> 00:02:11.730 Built over 3,000 years ago 35 00:02:11.765 --> 00:02:13.665 in the 13th century B.C., 36 00:02:13.701 --> 00:02:18.237 the site is an archaeological treasure trove. 37 00:02:20.741 --> 00:02:23.410 Among the antiquities found here 38 00:02:23.770 --> 00:02:25.177 are monumental statues 39 00:02:25.212 --> 00:02:29.470 of winged lions with human-heads, 40 00:02:29.830 --> 00:02:31.830 and massive relief carvings 41 00:02:31.118 --> 00:02:34.253 depicting the ancient gods of Mesopotamia. 42 00:02:37.191 --> 00:02:39.958 (indistinct shouting) 43 00:02:39.994 --> 00:02:43.950 But on March 6, 2015, 44 00:02:43.130 --> 00:02:45.300 militants from the Islamic State 45 00:02:45.650 --> 00:02:47.799 stormed the ancient site, 46 00:02:47.835 --> 00:02:49.601 violently destroying 47 00:02:49.637 --> 00:02:52.400 everything in their path. 48 00:02:52.390 --> 00:02:55.641 After obliterating irreplaceable relics, 49 00:02:55.676 --> 00:02:58.510 they wired the entire site with explosives 50 00:02:58.546 --> 00:03:02.281 and leveled it completely... 51 00:03:02.316 --> 00:03:05.951 forever wiping it from the face of the Earth. 52 00:03:08.656 --> 00:03:10.722 This group seems to be more destructive 53 00:03:10.758 --> 00:03:13.910 than just about anything people can recall in history. 54 00:03:13.127 --> 00:03:17.950 It's almost as if we're being orphaned from our past. 55 00:03:17.131 --> 00:03:19.464 We are having our parentage, 56 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:20.933 our ancestors, cut off from us; 57 00:03:20.968 --> 00:03:23.602 The record of them. 58 00:03:23.637 --> 00:03:26.538 It is absolutely barbaric what is going on currently 59 00:03:26.574 --> 00:03:28.807 in the Middle East 60 00:03:28.842 --> 00:03:31.843 with some factions going deliberately 61 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:33.912 to ancient sites 62 00:03:33.948 --> 00:03:36.949 and just eradicating 63 00:03:36.984 --> 00:03:39.318 our cultural heritage. 64 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:44.957 NARRATOR: This volatile region 65 00:03:44.992 --> 00:03:46.391 is widely considered 66 00:03:46.427 --> 00:03:49.261 to have been the cradle of civilization. 67 00:03:49.296 --> 00:03:52.631 And its archaeological destruction 68 00:03:52.666 --> 00:03:56.100 could mean the loss of information about mankind's 69 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.905 historical past. 70 00:03:59.940 --> 00:04:02.941 Iraq, Syria... What we call the Middle East, 71 00:04:02.977 --> 00:04:04.843 uh, or the Near East, uh, 72 00:04:04.878 --> 00:04:07.946 is called the cradle of civilization for a reason. 73 00:04:07.982 --> 00:04:10.716 Anthropologically, 74 00:04:10.751 --> 00:04:12.584 this appears to be the place 75 00:04:12.620 --> 00:04:15.200 where the first humans arose. 76 00:04:15.550 --> 00:04:17.756 This is where people came from. 77 00:04:17.791 --> 00:04:20.892 And all of the earliest civilizations, 78 00:04:20.928 --> 00:04:22.894 cities, governments, 79 00:04:22.930 --> 00:04:25.564 come from this region. 80 00:04:25.599 --> 00:04:29.134 NARRATOR: In the 21st Century, 81 00:04:29.169 --> 00:04:31.103 the violence and destruction 82 00:04:31.138 --> 00:04:33.272 have reached an unprecedented level, 83 00:04:33.307 --> 00:04:35.340 but the Middle East has been embroiled 84 00:04:35.376 --> 00:04:38.844 in conflict for thousands of years. 85 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:45.651 The Islamic state today is doing what the Taliban did before, 86 00:04:45.686 --> 00:04:48.553 which is doing what Byzantine Christians and Jews 87 00:04:48.589 --> 00:04:50.880 before them have all done. 88 00:04:50.124 --> 00:04:52.900 They don't want any graven images. 89 00:04:52.126 --> 00:04:53.236 So because of their religious beliefs, 90 00:04:53.260 --> 00:04:56.962 they are basically destroying 91 00:04:56.997 --> 00:05:00.832 our own cultural heritage for religious purposes. 92 00:05:00.868 --> 00:05:02.367 And like human lives, 93 00:05:02.403 --> 00:05:05.871 many of these you can't get back. 94 00:05:08.208 --> 00:05:10.208 NARRATOR: Since 1990, 95 00:05:10.244 --> 00:05:12.577 the Middle East has seen the destruction 96 00:05:12.613 --> 00:05:17.820 of cultural heritage on an unprecedented scale. 97 00:05:17.117 --> 00:05:21.386 A scale not seen since the Christian vandalism 98 00:05:21.422 --> 00:05:25.223 that began during the Roman Empire. 99 00:05:25.259 --> 00:05:30.128 Over 700,000 archaeological, 100 00:05:30.164 --> 00:05:32.130 cultural and religious artifacts 101 00:05:32.166 --> 00:05:35.367 have been stolen or destroyed. 102 00:05:35.402 --> 00:05:38.236 And over 200 significant historical sites 103 00:05:38.272 --> 00:05:42.740 have been completely left in ruins. 104 00:05:45.713 --> 00:05:47.579 The Middle East seems to be 105 00:05:47.614 --> 00:05:51.350 in an almost permanent state of instability. 106 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:54.152 Is this deliberate? 107 00:05:54.188 --> 00:05:55.954 Is someone keeping it that way? 108 00:05:55.989 --> 00:05:59.570 Maybe to prevent us from discovering something? 109 00:05:59.930 --> 00:06:01.590 Is there something 110 00:06:01.950 --> 00:06:04.830 that would fundamentally change our understanding 111 00:06:04.865 --> 00:06:07.265 of who we are and where we come from? 112 00:06:07.301 --> 00:06:10.168 TSOUKALOS: It is absolutely horrifying 113 00:06:10.204 --> 00:06:12.637 to see the erasing of our history. 114 00:06:12.673 --> 00:06:15.807 And what's worse all of these ancient sites 115 00:06:15.843 --> 00:06:19.144 are one giant piece of the puzzle 116 00:06:19.179 --> 00:06:20.445 that we might have been visited 117 00:06:20.481 --> 00:06:22.781 in the past by extraterrestrials. 118 00:06:24.451 --> 00:06:27.152 NARRATOR: For thousands of years, 119 00:06:27.187 --> 00:06:29.154 northern Africa, 120 00:06:29.189 --> 00:06:30.989 the Middle East and India 121 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:35.127 have been in an almost constant state of unrest. 122 00:06:37.331 --> 00:06:39.364 But also in Southeast Asia, 123 00:06:39.400 --> 00:06:42.868 the regions of Kashmir and Tibet 124 00:06:42.903 --> 00:06:45.971 are considered among the most disputed territories 125 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.750 in the world. 126 00:06:50.110 --> 00:06:51.543 And halfway across the globe, 127 00:06:51.578 --> 00:06:54.279 the northern triangle of Central America... 128 00:06:54.314 --> 00:06:56.782 Which includes Guatemala, 129 00:06:56.817 --> 00:06:59.551 El Salvador and Honduras... 130 00:06:59.586 --> 00:07:02.200 Has been declared the deadliest region 131 00:07:02.550 --> 00:07:03.688 on Earth 132 00:07:03.724 --> 00:07:05.991 outside of active war zones. 133 00:07:09.296 --> 00:07:12.197 Could there be a reason that these specific areas 134 00:07:12.232 --> 00:07:15.367 experience so much chaos? 135 00:07:18.305 --> 00:07:20.939 ERICH VON DANIKEN: It might be that on such places, 136 00:07:20.974 --> 00:07:24.443 the extraterrestrials descended some thousands of years ago, 137 00:07:24.478 --> 00:07:28.380 on such places, they have, uh, hidden something. 138 00:07:28.415 --> 00:07:30.148 GEORGE NOORY: There could be 139 00:07:30.184 --> 00:07:32.150 something special about the sites. 140 00:07:32.186 --> 00:07:34.586 These are areas that are so important 141 00:07:34.621 --> 00:07:36.521 to the things that have happened on this planet. 142 00:07:36.557 --> 00:07:39.858 And, I still think that the knowledge, 143 00:07:39.893 --> 00:07:42.894 and the success of where we go as people 144 00:07:42.930 --> 00:07:44.830 on planet Earth 145 00:07:44.865 --> 00:07:48.900 is directly related to those areas. 146 00:07:48.936 --> 00:07:52.337 NARRATOR: Is it possible that there is 147 00:07:52.372 --> 00:07:54.239 an otherworldly connection 148 00:07:54.274 --> 00:07:56.875 between certain areas of global conflict 149 00:07:56.910 --> 00:08:00.745 and places of significant archaeological importance? 150 00:08:02.950 --> 00:08:07.319 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest 151 00:08:07.354 --> 00:08:09.321 there could very well be so-called 152 00:08:09.356 --> 00:08:13.910 forbidden zones on planet Earth... 153 00:08:13.126 --> 00:08:14.860 Areas that extraterrestrial entities 154 00:08:14.895 --> 00:08:19.464 want to keep humans from exploring? 155 00:08:19.500 --> 00:08:23.368 But if so, why? 156 00:08:23.403 --> 00:08:25.303 Perhaps further clues can be found 157 00:08:25.339 --> 00:08:27.405 by examining a conflict 158 00:08:27.441 --> 00:08:29.975 in another volatile region, 159 00:08:30.100 --> 00:08:34.312 where some of mankind's greatest treasures are being looted 160 00:08:34.348 --> 00:08:36.948 from beneath the desert sands. 161 00:08:45.826 --> 00:08:47.859 NARRATOR: Cairo, Egypt. 162 00:08:47.895 --> 00:08:49.294 2011. 163 00:08:49.329 --> 00:08:51.496 (shouting) 164 00:08:51.532 --> 00:08:54.232 In what has come to be known as the Arab Spring, 165 00:08:54.268 --> 00:08:56.935 riots break out throughout Egypt. 166 00:08:56.970 --> 00:08:59.971 Protesters demand the resignation 167 00:09:00.700 --> 00:09:02.140 of President Hosni Mubarak. 168 00:09:02.175 --> 00:09:05.443 (shouting, chanting) 169 00:09:05.479 --> 00:09:07.312 With the media and law enforcement 170 00:09:07.347 --> 00:09:09.314 focused on the demonstrations, 171 00:09:09.349 --> 00:09:11.950 looters gain greater freedom 172 00:09:11.985 --> 00:09:13.685 to pillage Egypt's ancient sites 173 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:17.155 and artifacts. 174 00:09:18.792 --> 00:09:20.892 MARTIN: For many people, 175 00:09:20.928 --> 00:09:23.940 getting rid of Mubarak was just a license 176 00:09:23.130 --> 00:09:25.897 to profit from the new situation. 177 00:09:25.933 --> 00:09:29.401 They would loot archaeological sites. 178 00:09:29.436 --> 00:09:32.804 They were suddenly free of the dictator 179 00:09:32.839 --> 00:09:34.773 and a lot of them went crazy. 180 00:09:34.808 --> 00:09:39.344 HENRY: During the Arab Spring, insiders told me 181 00:09:39.379 --> 00:09:42.681 that trucks loaded with deep digging equipment 182 00:09:42.716 --> 00:09:46.184 accompanied by armored vehicles and armed men, 183 00:09:46.219 --> 00:09:50.722 spent three days digging in the sands outside Cairo 184 00:09:50.757 --> 00:09:54.893 and left with something in tow. 185 00:09:54.928 --> 00:09:57.929 What exactly it was, nobody knows. 186 00:10:00.467 --> 00:10:02.901 ERIN NELL: Guards were powerless to do anything to stop it. 187 00:10:02.936 --> 00:10:05.170 This created a huge amount of havoc, 188 00:10:05.205 --> 00:10:07.272 just because of the lack of security 189 00:10:07.307 --> 00:10:08.740 and the intentions of certain people 190 00:10:08.775 --> 00:10:12.143 to steal Egyptian antiquities. 191 00:10:12.179 --> 00:10:13.912 You can tell from the satellite imagery 192 00:10:13.947 --> 00:10:16.247 the increase in different holes in the ground, 193 00:10:16.283 --> 00:10:19.384 you know, looters' pits that they've dug. 194 00:10:19.419 --> 00:10:21.453 This is the site of Dahshur. 195 00:10:21.488 --> 00:10:23.555 This picture was taken in 2010. 196 00:10:23.590 --> 00:10:25.190 But when you look at this one over here, 197 00:10:25.225 --> 00:10:26.758 I think this was taken in 2013, 198 00:10:26.793 --> 00:10:29.761 the difference between the two is pretty amazing. 199 00:10:29.796 --> 00:10:32.970 Look at all these pits that were dug by looters. 200 00:10:36.103 --> 00:10:37.502 When it comes to Egypt, 201 00:10:37.537 --> 00:10:39.337 everyone's familiar with the pyramids, 202 00:10:39.373 --> 00:10:42.140 but really that's only a tiny part 203 00:10:42.175 --> 00:10:44.442 of what survives of that ancient 204 00:10:44.478 --> 00:10:46.911 and sophisticated civilization. 205 00:10:52.520 --> 00:10:53.529 NARRATOR: According to modern archaeologists, 206 00:10:53.553 --> 00:10:56.788 less than one percent of ancient Egypt 207 00:10:56.823 --> 00:11:00.625 has been discovered and excavated. 208 00:11:00.661 --> 00:11:05.330 But how is it that such a pivotal ancient culture 209 00:11:05.365 --> 00:11:12.437 disappeared unnoticed into the desert sands? 210 00:11:12.472 --> 00:11:14.272 NELL: There were several different cultures 211 00:11:14.307 --> 00:11:17.142 that came in with armies... The Nubians, 212 00:11:17.177 --> 00:11:18.287 the Assyrians were in there once, 213 00:11:18.311 --> 00:11:20.278 the Persians twice 214 00:11:20.313 --> 00:11:22.947 and then the Greeks. 215 00:11:22.983 --> 00:11:24.449 When the Romans took over, 216 00:11:24.484 --> 00:11:27.819 they just drained it of Egyptian religion and culture. 217 00:11:27.854 --> 00:11:30.922 So when the Arabs came in, in 641, 218 00:11:30.957 --> 00:11:33.925 most of these temples were at least halfway covered in sand, 219 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:35.838 so all you have are these huge magnificent columns 220 00:11:35.862 --> 00:11:37.462 kind of coming out of the ground. 221 00:11:37.497 --> 00:11:41.466 The Sphinx, you know, was buried right up to his head. 222 00:11:41.501 --> 00:11:44.169 POPE: By the time Napoleon got to Egypt, 223 00:11:44.204 --> 00:11:47.939 the hieroglyphs were indecipherable. 224 00:11:47.974 --> 00:11:49.886 No one knew what these things were, what they meant. 225 00:11:49.910 --> 00:11:51.409 We had to re-learn it. 226 00:11:51.445 --> 00:11:54.245 It was only with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone 227 00:11:54.281 --> 00:11:56.140 that we got our first insight 228 00:11:56.490 --> 00:11:58.349 into what these hieroglyphs might actually be saying. 229 00:12:02.189 --> 00:12:04.889 NARRATOR: But is Egypt's long history 230 00:12:04.925 --> 00:12:08.126 of political unrest merely man-made, 231 00:12:08.161 --> 00:12:12.630 or is there something extraterrestrial at work? 232 00:12:12.990 --> 00:12:15.900 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that further answers 233 00:12:15.936 --> 00:12:19.170 can be found still buried in the desert sands. 234 00:12:22.409 --> 00:12:24.375 I think if you could blow all the sand away 235 00:12:24.411 --> 00:12:26.770 from the Middle East and Egypt, 236 00:12:26.113 --> 00:12:27.979 you would find incredible relics. 237 00:12:30.283 --> 00:12:33.518 I also think that information about extraterrestrials 238 00:12:33.553 --> 00:12:35.987 is probably deeply hidden away 239 00:12:36.220 --> 00:12:39.891 under the sands of that region. 240 00:12:43.263 --> 00:12:45.196 NARRATOR: Abydos, Egypt. 241 00:12:45.232 --> 00:12:48.500 February 2011. 242 00:12:48.535 --> 00:12:53.238 300 miles south of Cairo, 243 00:12:53.273 --> 00:12:55.640 looters target what was once 244 00:12:55.675 --> 00:12:58.143 the most sacred site to the ancient Egyptians 245 00:12:58.178 --> 00:13:00.512 during the time of the Pharaohs. 246 00:13:00.547 --> 00:13:05.583 It was here that Egypt's first rulers were buried 247 00:13:05.619 --> 00:13:09.154 and the earliest forms of hieroglyphs were found, 248 00:13:09.189 --> 00:13:12.357 as well as an inscription bearing the names and chronology 249 00:13:12.392 --> 00:13:16.394 of the first kings of Ancient Egypt. 250 00:13:16.429 --> 00:13:21.399 Abydos was considered sacred to the god Osiris, 251 00:13:21.434 --> 00:13:23.568 Lord of the Dead 252 00:13:23.603 --> 00:13:26.604 and Egypt's first otherworldly ruler. 253 00:13:26.640 --> 00:13:28.873 According to ancient legends, 254 00:13:28.909 --> 00:13:33.440 his dismembered head was buried at the site. 255 00:13:33.790 --> 00:13:36.447 ANDREW COLLINS: So who was Osiris? 256 00:13:36.483 --> 00:13:37.549 Was he simply an ancestor 257 00:13:37.584 --> 00:13:40.285 of the ancient Egyptians? 258 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.353 Or was he a god 259 00:13:42.389 --> 00:13:44.222 that descended to Earth, 260 00:13:44.257 --> 00:13:46.624 you know, from the sky world? 261 00:13:46.660 --> 00:13:50.195 Obviously, we cannot say today. 262 00:13:50.230 --> 00:13:53.331 But we know he was said to have existed in an age 263 00:13:53.366 --> 00:13:56.935 that was known as Zep Tepi, the First Time. 264 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.273 NARRATOR: In the 13th century B.C., 265 00:14:02.309 --> 00:14:04.242 the Pharaoh Seti I 266 00:14:04.277 --> 00:14:07.912 was building his temple here in Abydos, 267 00:14:07.948 --> 00:14:10.315 when... according to some accounts... 268 00:14:10.350 --> 00:14:13.318 He had an encounter with the god Osiris. 269 00:14:17.591 --> 00:14:19.524 HENRY: When King Seti was building his temple, 270 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:20.959 he had a dream in which 271 00:14:20.994 --> 00:14:25.363 the Egyptian god Osiris appeared to him. 272 00:14:25.398 --> 00:14:27.765 And he told Seti 273 00:14:27.801 --> 00:14:32.170 that if he was to dig behind his temple location, 274 00:14:32.205 --> 00:14:34.606 that he would find something of enormous significance. 275 00:14:34.641 --> 00:14:39.277 Seti digs 40 feet beneath the temple 276 00:14:39.312 --> 00:14:42.313 and finds the tomb of Osiris. 277 00:14:46.152 --> 00:14:47.919 NARRATOR: For hundreds of years, 278 00:14:47.954 --> 00:14:52.156 no such tomb was known to exist in Abydos. 279 00:14:52.192 --> 00:14:55.493 But at the turn of the 20th century, 280 00:14:55.528 --> 00:14:57.395 archaeologists digging 281 00:14:57.430 --> 00:14:59.631 behind the temple of Seti I 282 00:14:59.666 --> 00:15:02.867 unearthed a massive underground structure 283 00:15:02.903 --> 00:15:06.137 consisting of granite and sandstone blocks, 284 00:15:06.172 --> 00:15:09.374 some weighing nearly 60 tons. 285 00:15:12.779 --> 00:15:15.130 The Osirion, as it is now known, 286 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:19.284 was found buried under 40 feet of silt. 287 00:15:19.319 --> 00:15:23.154 And ancient astronaut theorists are convinced 288 00:15:23.189 --> 00:15:26.900 that further excavations would reveal 289 00:15:26.126 --> 00:15:28.893 something much more profound hidden within it. 290 00:15:32.899 --> 00:15:34.732 HENRY: The interesting thing about it 291 00:15:34.768 --> 00:15:38.136 is that on the exterior wall of the Temple of Seti 292 00:15:38.171 --> 00:15:40.710 is inscribed what is called 293 00:15:40.106 --> 00:15:43.274 the head or tower of Osiris, 294 00:15:43.310 --> 00:15:45.476 what looks like some kind of 295 00:15:45.512 --> 00:15:48.112 an ancient antennae-type of a device. 296 00:15:48.148 --> 00:15:51.716 It's clearly technological or mechanical-looking. 297 00:15:54.387 --> 00:15:55.687 According to legend, 298 00:15:55.722 --> 00:15:59.570 it has been buried and is awaiting rediscovery. 299 00:15:59.920 --> 00:16:03.728 WILCOCK: Abydos is a veritable treasure trove 300 00:16:03.763 --> 00:16:06.764 of artifacts, ancient records, 301 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:09.200 inscriptions on temple walls 302 00:16:09.235 --> 00:16:11.736 of people who look very different than us. 303 00:16:11.771 --> 00:16:15.707 There are repositories of ancient technologies 304 00:16:15.742 --> 00:16:18.543 that are still hiding under the desert sands. 305 00:16:18.578 --> 00:16:20.878 There's a lot of vested interest 306 00:16:20.914 --> 00:16:24.716 these extraterrestrials... The gods... might have 307 00:16:24.751 --> 00:16:27.251 in keeping these things hidden from us. 308 00:16:31.358 --> 00:16:35.593 NARRATOR: Could it be that Abydos holds alien technology 309 00:16:35.628 --> 00:16:39.297 that was deliberately hidden from mankind? 310 00:16:39.332 --> 00:16:41.766 Is the instability in this region... 311 00:16:41.801 --> 00:16:44.836 Like that in other forbidden zones... 312 00:16:44.871 --> 00:16:49.607 Somehow being generated by extraterrestrials 313 00:16:49.642 --> 00:16:54.178 that want to keep humanity from rediscovering it? 314 00:16:54.214 --> 00:16:59.484 And if so, just how are they accomplishing this? 315 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.186 Perhaps further clues can be found 316 00:17:02.222 --> 00:17:05.757 by examining the latest scientific breakthroughs 317 00:17:05.792 --> 00:17:09.794 in using technology to incite violence. 318 00:17:15.735 --> 00:17:19.137 NARRATOR: Lhasa, Tibet. 319 00:17:19.172 --> 00:17:23.708 Situated nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, 320 00:17:23.743 --> 00:17:28.179 the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, or "Place of the Gods," 321 00:17:28.214 --> 00:17:29.714 has long been considered 322 00:17:29.749 --> 00:17:34.118 one of the least accessible areas of the world. 323 00:17:34.154 --> 00:17:36.254 For over three decades, 324 00:17:36.289 --> 00:17:40.191 Tibet was entirely closed off to outsiders 325 00:17:40.226 --> 00:17:42.560 after the forcible takeover of the region 326 00:17:42.595 --> 00:17:46.364 and exile of its spiritual leader the Dalai Lama 327 00:17:46.399 --> 00:17:51.690 in 1959 by the Chinese Army. 328 00:17:51.104 --> 00:17:54.172 During their siege of the city, 329 00:17:54.207 --> 00:17:57.508 Chinese Red Guards systematically destroyed 330 00:17:57.544 --> 00:17:59.310 temples, frescoes, 331 00:17:59.345 --> 00:18:03.414 and ancient religious texts. 332 00:18:03.450 --> 00:18:07.452 It's a terrible legacy... from the Great Library at Alexandria, 333 00:18:07.487 --> 00:18:11.255 the library at Sarajevo, more recently in Phnom Penh. 334 00:18:11.291 --> 00:18:14.358 Other stories like the Nazi book burning... there seems 335 00:18:14.394 --> 00:18:18.763 to be this thing that happens where some revolutionary energy 336 00:18:18.798 --> 00:18:22.600 wants to destroy the cultural treasures of the past. 337 00:18:24.904 --> 00:18:27.772 CARGILL: When one culture conquers another culture, 338 00:18:27.807 --> 00:18:29.674 you want to kill their ideology, 339 00:18:29.709 --> 00:18:32.743 and the way that you do that is you burn their books. 340 00:18:32.779 --> 00:18:34.779 You banish their ideas. 341 00:18:34.814 --> 00:18:36.747 You banish their language. 342 00:18:36.783 --> 00:18:39.117 You banish their religious practices. 343 00:18:39.152 --> 00:18:42.720 You burn the ancient records. 344 00:18:42.755 --> 00:18:45.690 (shouting) 345 00:18:45.725 --> 00:18:49.227 NARRATOR: Throughout history, military conflict has resulted 346 00:18:49.262 --> 00:18:51.395 not only in loss of life 347 00:18:51.431 --> 00:18:56.801 but also the destruction of cultural heritage. 348 00:18:56.836 --> 00:19:00.605 And even when setting out to colonize the New World, 349 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:05.376 early explorers and missionaries systematically eradicated 350 00:19:05.411 --> 00:19:07.879 what they considered to be pagan texts 351 00:19:07.914 --> 00:19:10.281 and mythologies of Native American, 352 00:19:10.316 --> 00:19:14.986 Mesoamerican, and Polynesian tribes they encountered. 353 00:19:17.857 --> 00:19:20.658 They destroy artifacts. They bury sites. 354 00:19:20.693 --> 00:19:22.460 It's almost as if 355 00:19:22.495 --> 00:19:26.330 this is a deliberate blotting out of the past. 356 00:19:28.201 --> 00:19:30.368 It's as if the roots 357 00:19:30.403 --> 00:19:35.273 of human civilization itself are being hidden from us. 358 00:19:35.308 --> 00:19:38.776 CHILDRESS: With the destruction of knowledge, 359 00:19:38.811 --> 00:19:43.347 we may well be losing our connection to the gods, 360 00:19:43.383 --> 00:19:45.950 extraterrestrials of the past, how they interacted 361 00:19:45.985 --> 00:19:49.487 with us, what they wanted us to do. 362 00:19:49.522 --> 00:19:52.890 WILCOCK: Why is it that these records 363 00:19:52.926 --> 00:19:54.926 continually seem to get misplaced 364 00:19:54.961 --> 00:19:57.862 or they get burned or they get destroyed 365 00:19:57.897 --> 00:20:02.633 or they're deliberately ruined? 366 00:20:02.669 --> 00:20:06.370 Is it possible that there is, in fact, 367 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:08.239 an ongoing extraterrestrial presence 368 00:20:08.274 --> 00:20:12.310 that has somehow infiltrated into our society? 369 00:20:12.345 --> 00:20:15.279 Could this extraterrestrial intelligence 370 00:20:15.315 --> 00:20:18.983 be deliberately thwarting any effort for itself 371 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:24.388 to be discovered from the ancient records? 372 00:20:24.424 --> 00:20:27.225 (horse neighs) 373 00:20:27.260 --> 00:20:29.760 NARRATOR: Could there really be aliens among us 374 00:20:29.796 --> 00:20:32.196 inciting conflict, as some 375 00:20:32.232 --> 00:20:36.367 ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 376 00:20:36.402 --> 00:20:38.869 And, if so, 377 00:20:38.905 --> 00:20:41.205 might we find this conflict 378 00:20:41.241 --> 00:20:44.508 concentrated in so-called forbidden zones? 379 00:20:44.544 --> 00:20:45.810 But why? 380 00:20:45.845 --> 00:20:49.460 And perhaps even more importantly, 381 00:20:49.820 --> 00:20:53.751 how has this violent behavior been accomplished? 382 00:20:56.322 --> 00:20:59.624 Pasadena, California. 383 00:20:59.659 --> 00:21:03.761 Scientists at the California Institute of Technology 384 00:21:03.796 --> 00:21:05.763 identify a set of neurons 385 00:21:05.798 --> 00:21:08.766 in the hypothalamus of mouse brains 386 00:21:08.801 --> 00:21:12.300 that correspond to aggression. 387 00:21:12.380 --> 00:21:16.374 Through a technique called optogenetics, 388 00:21:16.409 --> 00:21:19.744 the group uses pulses of light to activate the neurons 389 00:21:19.779 --> 00:21:24.810 and instantaneously incite violence in the mice. 390 00:21:24.117 --> 00:21:27.918 There are many ways in which we can affect or manipulate 391 00:21:27.954 --> 00:21:30.154 the brain or brain function. 392 00:21:30.189 --> 00:21:32.823 And there's a really exciting new technique 393 00:21:32.859 --> 00:21:34.759 called optogenetics. 394 00:21:34.794 --> 00:21:37.610 And although it's not being used in humans yet, 395 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:39.960 it's being used in animal trials. 396 00:21:39.132 --> 00:21:42.500 And what that is is they actually manipulate a virus 397 00:21:42.535 --> 00:21:44.769 so that it becomes a delivery system for a gene 398 00:21:44.804 --> 00:21:47.305 that's taken from a photosensitive algae. 399 00:21:47.340 --> 00:21:50.541 And that gene is then delivered to specific neurons, 400 00:21:50.576 --> 00:21:54.979 and then those neurons are triggered to fire via light. 401 00:21:55.140 --> 00:21:58.349 You can control the behavior of the animal via remote control 402 00:21:58.384 --> 00:21:59.917 in the sense all you have to do 403 00:21:59.952 --> 00:22:02.553 is trigger the different types of receptors to fire. 404 00:22:02.588 --> 00:22:04.622 If you actually go in and stimulate 405 00:22:04.657 --> 00:22:05.990 the prefrontal cortex, 406 00:22:06.250 --> 00:22:09.160 you can cause animals to act out. 407 00:22:11.731 --> 00:22:13.698 NARRATOR: In 2010, 408 00:22:13.733 --> 00:22:17.968 scientists at Osaka University and at the University of Texas 409 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:21.672 publish separate findings both indicating 410 00:22:21.708 --> 00:22:26.243 that up to eight percent of the human genome comes from viruses 411 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.614 and not from our ancestral DNA. 412 00:22:30.650 --> 00:22:32.783 Could this help explain 413 00:22:32.819 --> 00:22:35.252 how extraterrestrials might be able 414 00:22:35.288 --> 00:22:37.521 to incite humans to violence, 415 00:22:37.557 --> 00:22:40.257 just as researchers have used viruses 416 00:22:40.293 --> 00:22:44.362 to trigger aggression in mice? 417 00:22:44.397 --> 00:22:46.897 NOORY: Somebody genetically altered us 418 00:22:46.933 --> 00:22:49.333 a long, long time ago, 419 00:22:49.369 --> 00:22:53.904 and they intentionally put in this ability to become violent. 420 00:22:53.940 --> 00:22:57.808 There's no question that people could be manipulated, 421 00:22:57.844 --> 00:23:01.212 could be used to do all kinds of things 422 00:23:01.247 --> 00:23:03.247 and they wouldn't even know it. 423 00:23:03.282 --> 00:23:05.349 We are simply a pawn 424 00:23:05.385 --> 00:23:09.353 on an extraterrestrial chess game that they can move 425 00:23:09.389 --> 00:23:12.289 and manipulate any time they want, 426 00:23:12.325 --> 00:23:16.260 that they serve up, at their whim, whenever they want. 427 00:23:16.295 --> 00:23:18.295 There's no question about that. 428 00:23:18.331 --> 00:23:22.733 NARRATOR: Could humans be artificially stimulated 429 00:23:22.769 --> 00:23:25.690 to create acts of violence, 430 00:23:25.104 --> 00:23:29.730 as some ancient astronaut theorists propose? 431 00:23:29.108 --> 00:23:33.878 And might this stimulation be targeted to people 432 00:23:33.913 --> 00:23:38.315 living in certain regions of the world? 433 00:23:38.351 --> 00:23:42.219 Perhaps the answers can be found 434 00:23:42.255 --> 00:23:46.257 buried deep in the jungles of Guatemala. 435 00:23:49.395 --> 00:23:52.196 (birds chirping) 436 00:23:52.231 --> 00:23:55.599 NARRATOR: Deep in the jungles of Guatemala lie the ruins 437 00:23:55.635 --> 00:23:59.103 of the ancient Mayan city of El Mirador. 438 00:23:59.138 --> 00:24:03.507 Dating back to at least the fifth century BC, 439 00:24:03.543 --> 00:24:08.179 the site is believed to predate the classic Mayan civilization. 440 00:24:08.214 --> 00:24:13.851 But, curiously, it was abruptly abandoned around 150 BC. 441 00:24:13.886 --> 00:24:20.558 Western archaeologists rediscovered the site in 1979 442 00:24:20.593 --> 00:24:22.293 in an area currently controlled 443 00:24:22.328 --> 00:24:25.763 by one of the most feared drug cartels in the region. 444 00:24:27.900 --> 00:24:30.835 Today, armed soldiers stand guard 445 00:24:30.870 --> 00:24:33.704 just outside the archaeological site 446 00:24:33.739 --> 00:24:36.140 that is larger than Manhattan 447 00:24:36.175 --> 00:24:40.440 and contains one of the tallest pyramids in the world. 448 00:24:42.782 --> 00:24:47.284 ED BARNHART: El Mirador, in fact, has dozens of pyramids. 449 00:24:47.320 --> 00:24:48.919 Many of them are as big 450 00:24:48.955 --> 00:24:50.721 as anything that the classic Maya made. 451 00:24:50.756 --> 00:24:53.791 But it's also one of their very oldest cities. 452 00:24:57.230 --> 00:24:59.208 NARRATOR: But perhaps the most intriguing discovery 453 00:24:59.232 --> 00:25:03.267 at El Mirador is a carving believed to be a depiction 454 00:25:03.302 --> 00:25:08.572 of the Mayan creation story known as the Popol Vuh. 455 00:25:08.608 --> 00:25:13.210 It dates back more than 2,000 years 456 00:25:13.246 --> 00:25:16.847 and is the oldest known version to survive 457 00:25:16.883 --> 00:25:20.840 after Central America was overtaken 458 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:23.754 by Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. 459 00:25:27.590 --> 00:25:28.893 TSOUKALOS: The conquistadors requested 460 00:25:28.928 --> 00:25:33.364 for all these different Mayan codices to be destroyed. 461 00:25:33.399 --> 00:25:38.502 And so after this pillaging and destruction happened, 462 00:25:38.538 --> 00:25:42.940 the Popol Vuh was re-created by the ruling elite at the time. 463 00:25:42.975 --> 00:25:45.276 And, to the best of their abilities, 464 00:25:45.311 --> 00:25:47.611 they tried to put on paper 465 00:25:47.647 --> 00:25:51.615 their histories and their mythologies of their ancestors. 466 00:25:51.651 --> 00:25:56.253 But these stories go back much further back in time. 467 00:25:56.289 --> 00:26:02.259 The Popol Vuh is foundational to Maya civilization. 468 00:26:02.295 --> 00:26:06.630 As foundational as the Bible is to Christianity. 469 00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:08.766 But now, things like what we found 470 00:26:08.801 --> 00:26:10.901 at El Mirador are telling us 471 00:26:10.937 --> 00:26:14.605 that that story goes back at least to 200 BC. 472 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:16.407 And that's exciting. 473 00:26:16.442 --> 00:26:20.644 Now we have a continuity of the Popol Vuh 474 00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:22.947 being pivotal to Maya people 475 00:26:22.982 --> 00:26:25.316 all the way back to their origins. 476 00:26:28.821 --> 00:26:32.489 NARRATOR: Curiously, the Popol Vuh narrative 477 00:26:32.525 --> 00:26:34.758 and the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis 478 00:26:34.794 --> 00:26:37.361 contain many similarities, 479 00:26:37.396 --> 00:26:41.665 including the stories concerning the creation of the world, 480 00:26:41.701 --> 00:26:45.936 animals, and then, finally mankind. 481 00:26:45.972 --> 00:26:48.272 - (thunderclaps) - They both include stories 482 00:26:48.307 --> 00:26:50.207 of a great flood. 483 00:26:50.242 --> 00:26:54.178 And in both texts, it is suggested 484 00:26:54.213 --> 00:26:56.460 that there is information 485 00:26:56.820 --> 00:26:59.350 purposely kept from mankind by his creator. 486 00:27:01.687 --> 00:27:04.622 But what is unique to the Popol Vuh is an account 487 00:27:04.657 --> 00:27:06.824 of an earlier time 488 00:27:06.859 --> 00:27:10.270 when humans had access to greater knowledge. 489 00:27:13.833 --> 00:27:16.600 YOUNG: In the great Mayan creation narrative, 490 00:27:16.636 --> 00:27:22.206 the Popol Vuh, the gods created humans, 491 00:27:22.241 --> 00:27:25.900 and they had terrific knowledge. 492 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:28.712 So much so that it worried the gods. 493 00:27:28.748 --> 00:27:32.616 And so they put a veil over the consciousness of the people 494 00:27:32.652 --> 00:27:34.385 so that they could only see 495 00:27:34.420 --> 00:27:36.453 what was right there in front of them. 496 00:27:36.489 --> 00:27:40.391 They limited their ability to know. 497 00:27:42.628 --> 00:27:45.663 WILLIAM BRAMLEY: The earliest human beings in the Popol Vuh... 498 00:27:45.698 --> 00:27:47.331 They were very smart. 499 00:27:47.366 --> 00:27:48.699 They basically understood things. 500 00:27:48.734 --> 00:27:50.601 They could see things. 501 00:27:50.636 --> 00:27:55.572 And so, the gods of creation said, "Oh, we can't have this." 502 00:27:55.608 --> 00:27:57.274 "So what we have to do is, 503 00:27:57.309 --> 00:28:00.944 we have to put a screen over that vision." 504 00:28:00.980 --> 00:28:03.847 Knowledge became less and less available 505 00:28:03.883 --> 00:28:06.950 to the overall population. 506 00:28:06.986 --> 00:28:11.121 What happened to the humans who were smarter than us? 507 00:28:11.157 --> 00:28:13.557 Were they, in fact, the ancient Egyptians, 508 00:28:13.592 --> 00:28:17.461 the Sumerians and many other ancient cultures? 509 00:28:17.496 --> 00:28:19.763 These areas, apparently, would have 510 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:22.566 all of the records that we would need to completely 511 00:28:22.601 --> 00:28:25.200 rebuild our history. 512 00:28:25.370 --> 00:28:28.405 These are the most unstable areas on Earth. 513 00:28:28.441 --> 00:28:30.741 Could this be why? 514 00:28:32.778 --> 00:28:35.312 NARRATOR: Is it possible 515 00:28:35.347 --> 00:28:38.348 that ancient humans possessed greater knowledge 516 00:28:38.384 --> 00:28:40.451 than we currently do today, 517 00:28:40.486 --> 00:28:43.887 as the Mayan mythology seems to suggest? 518 00:28:43.923 --> 00:28:47.324 If so, who were these gods 519 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:50.694 that the Mayans believed to be their creators? 520 00:28:50.730 --> 00:28:54.980 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 521 00:28:54.133 --> 00:28:56.767 their true identity might be revealed 522 00:28:56.802 --> 00:28:59.436 by examining one of the carvings contained 523 00:28:59.472 --> 00:29:01.605 within the Popol Vuh... 524 00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:05.576 The so-called "Hero Twins." 525 00:29:05.611 --> 00:29:10.614 If you look at that carving, the guy is clearly wearing a helmet, 526 00:29:10.649 --> 00:29:12.249 and he has this backpack. 527 00:29:12.284 --> 00:29:14.284 And he's actually floating in space, 528 00:29:14.320 --> 00:29:17.454 or he is descending from the sky. 529 00:29:17.490 --> 00:29:22.126 You have, uh, what seem to be like some kind of helmet. 530 00:29:22.161 --> 00:29:25.829 And even one of the figures looks like a flying saucer. 531 00:29:29.340 --> 00:29:31.335 Could these stone carvings be 532 00:29:31.370 --> 00:29:33.337 depictions of ancient astronauts? 533 00:29:33.372 --> 00:29:35.606 And if that is the case, then it would indicate 534 00:29:35.641 --> 00:29:39.676 that these extraterrestrials have actually created us. 535 00:29:39.712 --> 00:29:42.846 And in fact, they're still here today, 536 00:29:42.882 --> 00:29:46.984 manipulating us and guiding us into the future. 537 00:29:47.190 --> 00:29:52.523 NARRATOR: Do the carvings at El Mirador contain information 538 00:29:52.558 --> 00:29:56.927 about mankind's past that we were not meant to discover? 539 00:29:56.962 --> 00:29:59.463 If so, could it be 540 00:29:59.498 --> 00:30:03.534 that extraterrestrials have been creating barriers and warfare 541 00:30:03.569 --> 00:30:08.438 to prevent us from learning about our true origins? 542 00:30:08.474 --> 00:30:13.477 Or is there an even more profound explanation? 543 00:30:13.512 --> 00:30:18.448 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the ultimate proof 544 00:30:18.484 --> 00:30:21.185 of just what they are trying to hide can be found 545 00:30:21.220 --> 00:30:25.689 by examining one of the most fought-over sites on Earth... 546 00:30:25.724 --> 00:30:30.894 Temple Mount. 547 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:35.566 (gunfire, shouting and chatter) 548 00:30:35.601 --> 00:30:38.168 (loud shouting) 549 00:30:38.204 --> 00:30:43.507 NARRATOR: Jerusalem, October, 2014. 550 00:30:43.542 --> 00:30:45.342 (gunfire) 551 00:30:45.377 --> 00:30:49.646 Amidst tension and violence after the assassination attempt 552 00:30:49.682 --> 00:30:51.615 on a Jewish activist, 553 00:30:51.650 --> 00:30:53.784 Israeli authorities shut down 554 00:30:53.819 --> 00:30:57.287 the sacred site of Temple Mount. 555 00:30:57.323 --> 00:31:00.824 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas 556 00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:05.329 pronounces the closure "a declaration of war." 557 00:31:05.364 --> 00:31:09.600 And although access to the temple is quickly restored, 558 00:31:09.635 --> 00:31:15.272 many fear that a third intifada, or holy war, is now inevitable. 559 00:31:18.477 --> 00:31:21.745 That was the uprising that the Palestinians engaged in. 560 00:31:21.780 --> 00:31:23.747 This was their revolution. 561 00:31:23.782 --> 00:31:26.817 It began first in 1987, and was waged for five years. 562 00:31:26.852 --> 00:31:29.620 Then, in 2000, it lasted for another five years. 563 00:31:29.655 --> 00:31:31.488 There was tremendous violence 564 00:31:31.523 --> 00:31:35.125 between Palestinians and Israelis. 565 00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:36.860 It shouldn't come as a surprise that 566 00:31:36.896 --> 00:31:38.862 the Temple Mount would be a flashpoint 567 00:31:38.898 --> 00:31:41.965 for all these conflicts. 568 00:31:45.804 --> 00:31:49.973 NARRATOR: The Temple Mount is a 35-acre platform 569 00:31:50.900 --> 00:31:52.843 that has long had great significance to Jews, 570 00:31:52.878 --> 00:31:56.280 Christians and Muslims. 571 00:31:56.315 --> 00:31:59.160 It is revered in the Jewish tradition 572 00:31:59.510 --> 00:32:04.540 as the place where God gathered the dust to create Adam, 573 00:32:04.890 --> 00:32:07.791 where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac 574 00:32:07.826 --> 00:32:10.560 to prove his faith to God, 575 00:32:10.596 --> 00:32:14.264 and where King Solomon built the First Temple 576 00:32:14.300 --> 00:32:18.335 to house the Ark of the Covenant. 577 00:32:18.370 --> 00:32:20.470 Christians honor the site 578 00:32:20.506 --> 00:32:25.800 as the location of some of Jesus's most sacred teachings. 579 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.110 And for Muslims, Temple Mount... 580 00:32:28.470 --> 00:32:31.140 Which they refer to as "the Noble Sanctuary," 581 00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:32.916 or "Haram al-Sharif"... 582 00:32:32.952 --> 00:32:35.352 Is believed to be the location 583 00:32:35.387 --> 00:32:37.988 where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven 584 00:32:38.230 --> 00:32:41.525 on the back of a winged horse. 585 00:32:41.560 --> 00:32:44.461 The three monotheistic faiths... 586 00:32:44.496 --> 00:32:47.998 Judaism, Christianity and Islam... 587 00:32:48.330 --> 00:32:52.602 All believe that God has a special connection to this area. 588 00:32:52.638 --> 00:32:55.205 They all believe that this is where people will ascend 589 00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:57.941 to Heaven when the day of judgment comes. 590 00:32:57.977 --> 00:33:01.511 They all want it, but they don't want to share it. 591 00:33:01.547 --> 00:33:03.146 (shouting) 592 00:33:03.182 --> 00:33:08.585 FANTHORPE: Temple Mount has been a holy place 593 00:33:08.620 --> 00:33:12.389 for many, many generations. 594 00:33:12.424 --> 00:33:15.359 And there are strange religious traditions, 595 00:33:15.394 --> 00:33:19.997 rumors, legends of what lies underneath it. 596 00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:23.900 And the idea is, there is something so precious 597 00:33:23.936 --> 00:33:28.972 underneath it that God himself intervenes to protect it. 598 00:33:32.211 --> 00:33:34.878 NARRATOR: Could there really be some powerful force 599 00:33:34.913 --> 00:33:37.814 contained within Temple Mount? 600 00:33:37.850 --> 00:33:41.510 Is that why three religions are at such odds 601 00:33:41.860 --> 00:33:45.550 over this sacred site? 602 00:33:45.900 --> 00:33:48.859 Some researchers and religious scholars suggest 603 00:33:48.894 --> 00:33:51.695 that Temple Mount may not only serve 604 00:33:51.730 --> 00:33:53.997 as a place of spiritual connection, 605 00:33:54.330 --> 00:34:00.337 but also as a gateway to other points in the universe. 606 00:34:00.372 --> 00:34:02.873 The Temple Mount has long been considered 607 00:34:02.908 --> 00:34:06.443 to be a portal to Heaven. 608 00:34:06.478 --> 00:34:10.800 It is said that when the patriarch Jacob rested 609 00:34:10.115 --> 00:34:13.550 one night, he placed stones on the ground. 610 00:34:13.585 --> 00:34:16.686 And there, he saw a ladder ascending to Heaven, 611 00:34:16.722 --> 00:34:20.590 where the angels were going up and coming down. 612 00:34:20.626 --> 00:34:26.463 This was always known to have been a vortex, a portal. 613 00:34:30.402 --> 00:34:33.403 NARRATOR: A ladder descending from Heaven? 614 00:34:33.439 --> 00:34:38.108 A visitation site for otherworldly beings? 615 00:34:38.143 --> 00:34:42.546 Could it really be that the significance of Temple Mount 616 00:34:42.581 --> 00:34:48.418 is not what's under it but the location itself? 617 00:34:48.454 --> 00:34:49.886 WILCOCK: It could very well be 618 00:34:49.922 --> 00:34:52.856 that there was a natural area on the Earth 619 00:34:52.891 --> 00:34:56.626 that the Temple Mount was deliberately built around 620 00:34:56.662 --> 00:35:00.730 and that natural physics that we don't yet understand 621 00:35:00.766 --> 00:35:05.635 in conventional science allow for there to be a slipstream 622 00:35:05.671 --> 00:35:08.839 between realities, a gateway, a parting of the veil 623 00:35:08.874 --> 00:35:13.343 between this world and other parallel universes. 624 00:35:13.378 --> 00:35:15.946 POPE: There have been a number of UFO sightings 625 00:35:15.981 --> 00:35:17.714 around the Temple Mount. 626 00:35:17.749 --> 00:35:20.350 MAN: Whoa! 627 00:35:20.385 --> 00:35:24.254 Is the site important not just to human religions 628 00:35:24.289 --> 00:35:26.890 but does it have some special significance 629 00:35:26.925 --> 00:35:28.658 for extraterrestrials? 630 00:35:28.694 --> 00:35:30.994 Is that why this site is so untouchable? 631 00:35:31.290 --> 00:35:34.231 (bystanders gasping) 632 00:35:34.266 --> 00:35:39.269 NARRATOR: Do sacred sites like Temple Mount in Jerusalem 633 00:35:39.304 --> 00:35:42.939 not only hold secrets about mankind's origins 634 00:35:42.975 --> 00:35:45.742 but possibly even serve as portals 635 00:35:45.777 --> 00:35:48.780 to other parts of the universe? 636 00:35:48.113 --> 00:35:53.316 And, if so, might the turmoil in various forbidden zones 637 00:35:53.352 --> 00:35:56.253 be due in part to extraterrestrials 638 00:35:56.288 --> 00:36:00.557 that want to keep humanity from discovering the truth? 639 00:36:00.592 --> 00:36:03.627 Perhaps the answers can be found 640 00:36:03.662 --> 00:36:06.730 by reexamining what some claim 641 00:36:06.765 --> 00:36:10.867 is the motivation behind the Western invasion of Iraq. 642 00:36:14.907 --> 00:36:16.840 NARRATOR: Iraq. 643 00:36:16.875 --> 00:36:20.610 March 19, 2003. 644 00:36:20.646 --> 00:36:23.313 The United States military 645 00:36:23.348 --> 00:36:25.515 begins its Shock and Awe air campaign 646 00:36:25.551 --> 00:36:29.186 over the city of Baghdad. 647 00:36:29.221 --> 00:36:31.488 It is a preemptive strike aimed 648 00:36:31.523 --> 00:36:35.158 to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, 649 00:36:35.194 --> 00:36:37.160 who the government believes 650 00:36:37.196 --> 00:36:40.330 is in possession of weapons of mass destruction. 651 00:36:45.370 --> 00:36:47.571 POPE: Saddam Hussein wanted to make Iraq 652 00:36:47.606 --> 00:36:50.540 a regional and perhaps a global superpower. 653 00:36:50.576 --> 00:36:54.744 He spoke about himself as the new Nebuchadnezzar. 654 00:36:54.780 --> 00:36:57.714 NARRATOR: Nebuchadnezzar II 655 00:36:57.749 --> 00:37:00.984 was the great Babylonian warrior king, 656 00:37:01.190 --> 00:37:04.154 most famously known for rebuilding and expanding 657 00:37:04.189 --> 00:37:08.692 the Babylonian Empire in the sixth century BC. 658 00:37:08.727 --> 00:37:12.128 His armies conquered Egypt 659 00:37:12.164 --> 00:37:14.598 as well as ransacking and destroying. 660 00:37:14.633 --> 00:37:18.802 Solomon's Temple in 597 BC. 661 00:37:18.837 --> 00:37:22.305 MARTIN: Saddam Hussein went nuts. 662 00:37:22.341 --> 00:37:26.343 He believed he was the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, 663 00:37:26.378 --> 00:37:29.346 so he ordered massive reconstruction of Babylon, 664 00:37:29.381 --> 00:37:34.584 which was done with bricks bearing his name on them. 665 00:37:37.823 --> 00:37:40.790 Everyone would come to respect the ancient Nebuchadnezzar 666 00:37:40.826 --> 00:37:44.160 and the new Nebuchadnezzar. 667 00:37:46.398 --> 00:37:50.834 HENRY: The missing piece to the puzzle of why we went to war 668 00:37:50.869 --> 00:37:53.436 with Iraq is the understanding 669 00:37:53.472 --> 00:37:56.439 that Saddam Hussein sought to outdo 670 00:37:56.475 --> 00:37:58.108 what Nebuchadnezzar had accomplished 671 00:37:58.143 --> 00:38:00.143 in his earlier life. 672 00:38:00.178 --> 00:38:03.146 The ultimate accomplishment of Nebuchadnezzar 673 00:38:03.181 --> 00:38:06.349 was the opening of the fiery furnace. 674 00:38:06.385 --> 00:38:10.520 Nebuchadnezzar had gone to Jerusalem, 675 00:38:10.555 --> 00:38:15.250 looted and leveled the Temple of Solomon, 676 00:38:15.600 --> 00:38:17.894 and he brought the wise men of the temple 677 00:38:17.929 --> 00:38:21.310 back to Babylon with him. 678 00:38:21.660 --> 00:38:24.801 What happened in the story is absolutely amazing. 679 00:38:26.772 --> 00:38:31.741 These three wise men enter this fiery furnace. 680 00:38:31.777 --> 00:38:35.111 Not only did they come back out in perfect condition... 681 00:38:35.147 --> 00:38:37.714 They weren't alone. 682 00:38:37.749 --> 00:38:42.652 They came back with an extraterrestrial visitor in tow. 683 00:38:42.688 --> 00:38:46.389 In today's terms, we would obviously call this 684 00:38:46.425 --> 00:38:49.959 a stargate or a portal. 685 00:38:49.995 --> 00:38:54.164 Saddam knew this. 686 00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:57.167 Saddam Hussein's esoteric interests 687 00:38:57.202 --> 00:38:59.336 were probably like those of the Nazis, 688 00:38:59.371 --> 00:39:02.772 aimed at uncovering some power, 689 00:39:02.808 --> 00:39:06.443 some technology, some relic that would enable him 690 00:39:06.478 --> 00:39:11.314 to become this world leader that he dreamed of being. 691 00:39:11.350 --> 00:39:14.484 There's one theory that the Iraq War 692 00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:17.821 was actually a war about a stargate. 693 00:39:17.856 --> 00:39:21.224 Saddam Hussein, so the theory goes, 694 00:39:21.259 --> 00:39:23.326 got access to this stargate, 695 00:39:23.362 --> 00:39:25.762 maybe threatened to use it. 696 00:39:25.797 --> 00:39:29.833 Was that why the allied powers went in? 697 00:39:29.868 --> 00:39:33.937 It sounds farfetched, but this theory is widely believed. 698 00:39:36.375 --> 00:39:38.942 NARRATOR: Is it possible the United States military 699 00:39:38.977 --> 00:39:42.145 was pursuing more than weapons of mass destruction 700 00:39:42.180 --> 00:39:44.781 when they invaded Iraq? 701 00:39:44.816 --> 00:39:47.517 Could something of great significance, 702 00:39:47.552 --> 00:39:49.686 perhaps a portal to another world, 703 00:39:49.721 --> 00:39:53.456 have been found amongst the chaos? 704 00:39:53.492 --> 00:39:55.558 And if there are truths 705 00:39:55.594 --> 00:39:58.428 about extraterrestrial involvement with our planet 706 00:39:58.463 --> 00:40:00.930 hidden in forbidden zones, 707 00:40:00.966 --> 00:40:05.869 just what would happen when the truth is finally revealed? 708 00:40:07.973 --> 00:40:10.373 WILCOCK: With the knowledge that's coming into view now 709 00:40:10.409 --> 00:40:14.511 as we're reconstructing bit by bit, piece by piece 710 00:40:14.546 --> 00:40:16.880 this tile mosaic of ancient history, 711 00:40:16.915 --> 00:40:20.884 we're gaining the ability to reconstruct the view 712 00:40:20.919 --> 00:40:24.421 of what really happened to us and what it means to be human 713 00:40:24.456 --> 00:40:28.425 and our relationship to the greater cosmos that's around us. 714 00:40:30.929 --> 00:40:33.730 NOORY: If you believe in the extraterrestrial presence, 715 00:40:33.765 --> 00:40:36.299 it was always to kind of keep us down 716 00:40:36.334 --> 00:40:39.202 so that we wouldn't get that much knowledge. 717 00:40:39.237 --> 00:40:44.400 They want to keep us ignorant and fighting and greedy. 718 00:40:44.750 --> 00:40:46.276 It's very possible that we will never know 719 00:40:46.311 --> 00:40:49.479 what happened on this planet a long time ago. 720 00:40:49.514 --> 00:40:51.181 TSOUKALOS: It's our own test, 721 00:40:51.216 --> 00:40:54.851 and the reason why no official contact has taken place yet 722 00:40:54.886 --> 00:40:57.921 is because we ourselves are on the verge 723 00:40:57.956 --> 00:41:01.257 of destroying this planet. 724 00:41:01.293 --> 00:41:02.859 So my suggestion is 725 00:41:02.894 --> 00:41:04.939 we first have to learn how to interact with each other 726 00:41:04.963 --> 00:41:09.966 before being allowed to receive this knowledge. 727 00:41:14.973 --> 00:41:17.340 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the perpetual violence 728 00:41:17.375 --> 00:41:20.677 experienced in certain parts of the world 729 00:41:20.712 --> 00:41:23.246 is more than just a consequence of political 730 00:41:23.281 --> 00:41:24.914 and religious conflict? 731 00:41:24.950 --> 00:41:28.885 Could it be that it is actually spurred on 732 00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:31.988 by extraterrestrial forces, 733 00:41:32.230 --> 00:41:36.392 forces that are trying to hide the truth 734 00:41:36.428 --> 00:41:39.128 about mankind's origins? 735 00:41:39.164 --> 00:41:42.465 Perhaps once we have proven 736 00:41:42.501 --> 00:41:46.102 that we can conquer our aggression and anger, 737 00:41:46.137 --> 00:41:49.105 we will be able to access this knowledge 738 00:41:49.140 --> 00:41:53.776 and join our creators in the stars.