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[ Man Narrating ] Human corpses
preserved for thousands of years.
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[ Man ]
The ancient Egyptians were convinced...
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that the dead could and would
reawaken one day.
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[ Narrator] Strange relics
placed on the bodies of the dead.
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One of them
had images of winged beings.
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[ Narrator]
And monks buried while still alive.
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[ Man #2 ] These funerary rites would
be all about humans becoming...
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not just like the gods,
but gods themselves.
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[ Narrator] Mysterious burial rituals and
elaborate mummification processes...
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have been found on
every continent on the planet.
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But Why?
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Were the ancients
simply trying to cheat death?
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Or could there be another
more otherworldly explanation?
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[ Man #3] it is possible the mummies
were being preserved...
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so that they may
be reunited with the gods...
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that actually started their culture.
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[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...
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believe we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens
really help to shape our history?
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And if so,
might the ultimate proof be hidden...
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in the secrets of the mummies?
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[ Narrator] Vatican City.
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April 2, 2005.
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Pope John Paul II dies...
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bringing his historic 26-year papacy
to a close.
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His corpse is chemically preserved...
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and transported to Saint Peter's Basilica
for public viewing.
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In a funeral service
watched by millions...
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
speaks of the beloved pontiffs soul...
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being guided to the eternal glory
of Heaven.
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His body is then interred in a large,
underground tomb beneath the church.
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We can see that a great deal of care was
taken to preserve Pope John Paul's body.
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And the idea is that death, in fact,
is just the beginning of this journey.
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Many modern funerals, those that
take place in Europe and the Americas...
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many of the initial ideas
actually have their roots in ancient Egypt.
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In ancient Egypt,
bodies were mummified...
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and put into sarcophagi
that resemble human beings.
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And this is still done today
in many religious traditions...
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including the Roman Catholic Church.
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[ Narrator]
Mummification is any process...
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used to prevent
the decaying of the body...
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that naturally occurs after death.
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The preserved body of Pope John Paul II
is, essentially, a mummy.
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And, in fact, modern-day mummies
can be found all over the world.
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When Communist revolutionary
Vladimir Lenin died in 1924...
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Russian scientists preserved his body
by removing the organs...
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and replacing them with a secret system
to simulate the movement of bodily fluids.
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The process has kept him looking
astonishingly lifelike to this day...
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and was also used to preserve the bodies
of Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh.
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il...
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President Ferdinand Marcos
of the Philippines...
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and Chinese emperor Mao Zedong...
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also remain preserved
in remarkable condition.
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But it is not just world leaders
who are being mummified.
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Any body that is embalmed
at a funeral home is, in effect...
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undergoing a type of mummification.
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But why do so many people...
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go to such great lengths
to preserve the body after death?
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[ Man ]
Our ancestors believed in an afterlife...
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and that the proper ceremonial rites
at time of death...
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allowed the departed to travel
to the reward, to the next life...
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which was often imagined to be
in the heavens, the stars...
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and that this travel allowed the person
to come into their full reward.
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You have, all over the world,
people continue to preserve bodies...
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And it's because
there is this idea of living forever...
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that death is not the end-
it's a beginning, it's a transitory state.
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For some reason, everyone has this idea
that we need the body to live forever.
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If people truly believed there was a
spiritual essence that infused the body...
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that left at the moment of death,
they can't justify mummification.
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[ Narrator] What can explain
the fact that, for thousands of years...
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in cultures throughout the world...
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people have held a belief...
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that the preservation of the body is
necessary to transition into the afterlife?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe
clues can be found...
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hidden beneath the desert sands
of Upper Egypt.
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The Valley of the Kings.
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Located on the western bank
of the Nile River...
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lies one of the most expansive
burial grounds in all of Egypt.
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The tombs were constructed
between 1539 and 1075 BC...
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for pharaohs and other nobility.
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To date, 63 tombs have been discovered
in the Valley of the Kings.
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One of the best preserved
is that of Pharaoh Ramses VI...
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who ruled from approximately
1145 to 1137 BC.
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More than 4,000 years ago...
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King Ramses would have started
digging this to become his tomb.
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Or, as he called it,
his “House of Eternity.”
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For ancient Egyptians, a tomb wasn't just
a place where they would end up dead.
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A tomb was a place where
they would start their eternal life.
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[ Narrator]
The Egyptians believed that, in death...
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the soul would split into several parts...
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and begin the journey
to the afterlife.
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But to make this transition...
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it was essential to reunite the soul
with the physical body.
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And while the Egyptians were
not the first to mummify their dead...
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no other ancient culture went to such
great lengths to preserve the body...
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and ensure entrance
into the next life.
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Ancient Egyptians would put a body
that needed to be mummified...
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in a dry room.
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They would first take out
the internal organs...
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and they'd pack that body with natron salt
to start the drying process.
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And then they would remove the brain.
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Then they would rinse the body
with sweet-smelling oils...
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and they cover the entire body
in natron salt...
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and it would stay that way
for about 35 to 70 days.
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Once the body was all dried out,
they would wrap the entire body...
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putting amulets and other special
jeweled objects in the linen...
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and then once it was completely wrapped
and be done.
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[ Narrator ] The Egyptians understood
the most important factor in mummification-
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the removal of fluids...
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which ensures that bacteria cannot survive
and the body will not decay.
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Although archaeologists have discovered much
about how these mummies were prepared...
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the Egyptians left behind no texts
or instructions on mummification.
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Just how the Egyptians came to create
this comp/ex practice remains a mystery.
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But they did leave behind
extensive records...
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regarding their thoughts
on the afterlife.
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This right here is
a very good depiction...
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of the journey of the afterlife
with King Ramses.
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You see him here
on a solar barge...
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being protected by
all the different gods behind him-
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goddess Isis and god Osiris.
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This right here is god Anubis...
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and god Anubis is the god
of the mummification.
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The most important story
in Egyptian mythology is the god Osiris...
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how his brother, Seth, coveted
his brother's power and killed him.
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Then his wife, Isis, in grief,
got help from Anubis...
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who then helped Isis
breathe life back into him...
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to survive into the next life
with the help of Anubis...
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the inventor of embalming
and mummification.
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The mummification process in Egypt has often
been related to, uh, the star Sirius...
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which we call the Dog Star.
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And the mummification rights were
overseen by the Egyptian god Anubis...
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who was a jackal-headed god.
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And so you have to wonder if Anubis...
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wasn't some real, physical,
extraterrestrial god.
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The ancient Egyptian temple walls
are covered with images of transformation.
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And what it reveals is that
their core sacred science...
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was about human transformation
or ascension into celestial beings.
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So you wonder is it possible...
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it's because those who originally taught us
the concept came from the stars?
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[ Narrator] Could it be that the ancient
Egyptians' beliefs about the afterlife...
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were influenced
by extraterrestrial visitors?
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Was it from these visitors that they
learned the process of mummification?
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And if so, what was
their ultimate agenda?
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Perhaps the answers can be found
in ancient mummies...
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that predate the Egyptians
by thousands of years.
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[ Narrator] Arica, Chile. 1983.
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Workers digging a trench
in this coastal city...
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just seven miles from the Peruvian border
make a remarkable discovery.
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They unearth a cemetery
containing 96 mummies...
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from the prehistoric Chinchorro culture.
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Scientists determine that some of
the remains date back over 7,000 years...
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making these the oldest known mummies
in the world.
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[ Jeremiah ]
The Chinchorro were fishermen...
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Who lived along the ocean
in Chile and Peru.
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And in fact, 4,000 years before
the ancient Egyptians started doing it...
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the Chinchorro were mummifying
their dead in South America.
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[ Man ] The Chinchorros would
open up the cavity of the body.
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They would take out all the organs.
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They would put sand and grass
and other things inside the body.
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They would carefully
cover it with mud...
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and then they'd make mud masks
over their face.
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It was a very elaborate system,
embalming these things.
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[ Narrator] The Chinchorro method
of mummification...
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is strikingly similar to the process used
by the Egyptians thousands of years later.
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But why was this strange
burial ritual continued...
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not just in Egypt, but in civilizations
across the ancient world?
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El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru.
January 2013.
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Researchers announce that they've
discovered an archaeological rarity-
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an untouched, 7, 300-year-old royal tomb
from the Wan' Empire.
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A predecessor to the Inca...
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the Wari civilization
thrived in central Peru...
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between 600 and 1100 AD...
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before mysteriously disappearing.
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Inside the tomb was a treasure trove
of gold, textiles, artifacts...
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and 63 mummified women,
including three Wari queens.
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[ Barnhart]
From the three royaled women...
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one of them had earrings
that had images of winged beings.
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These winged, anthropomorphic birds
that we see in religious art...
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happen from the very earliest art
we know of in South America.
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And that's something also that
you see, uh, at Tiahuanaco...
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where winged beings
are running towards Viracocha...
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in the center of the famous
Door of the Sun.
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So why are these winged beings, then,
on jewelry with the Wari people?
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And we find that with Egyptians too.
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[ Man ] The Egyptian god Thoth
is depicted in Egyptian iconography...
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as a half-bird, half-man deity.
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And it was Thoth who gave the knowledge
of mummification to Isis.
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What's interesting is that there
are other cultures around the world...
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that also have half-bird,
half-human beings...
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that are treated as gods.
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This suggests that there
was some global culture...
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of extraterrestrial visitors here...
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who were teaching this mummification
as a technology.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that
the Wari images of winged gods...
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really represent extraterrestrials
who came down from the sky?
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Did they visit not just Peru...
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but ancient cultures across the world?
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And does the fact that these images
are found on Wari mummies...
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suggest that this was a science brought
to planet Earth by otherworldly beings?
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[ Narrator]
Utcubamba Valley, Peru.
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Perched on a mountain cliff
in this isolated region of the Amazon...
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stand six massive, clay sarcophagi...
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known by locals as simply
the “ancient wise men.”
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Researchers estimate
these eight-foot clay coffins...
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were constructed between
1100 and 1300 AD.
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They were built to house
the mummified remains...
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of elite members
of the Chachapoya tribe...
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a pre-Columbian civilization
of fierce warriors.
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[Screaming ]
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So we don't know much about
the Chachapoyas people, who they were.
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They seemed to be very different
from the other tribes in Peru...
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and just exactly where they had
come from and where they went...
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is today a complete mystery.
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I don't know of any other culture
in South America...
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that created sarcophaguses
or coffins.
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These coffins were big.
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And they were made
in the form of humans.
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Not unlike the sarcophaguses in Egypt.
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The Chachapoya mummies
were buried in a fetal position...
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and this is interesting.
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The fetal position
suggests the possibility...
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that the mummification rite
was going to lead to a new birth.
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It's like the idea that
there's a new incubation...
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and this may explain
why we see mummification...
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not just with the Chachapoya
but we also see it in Egypt...
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and this mummification technology
on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean...
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does suggest that these people
are after some sort of goal...
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that we don't yet understand
in modern times.
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[ Narrator] Could mummification
have been an attempt by the ancients...
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to not only preserve the body
after death...
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but to enable the dead
to be reborn-
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a technique used by extraterrestrials
to achieve power over death.
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Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining mummies...
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made not from the bodies of the dead...
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but from the bodies of people
buried alive.
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[ Narrator] Mount Yudono, Japan.
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In the 1,200-year-old
Dainichibo Temple...
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at the base of this holy mountain...
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sitting on an altar
within a glass case...
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is the mummy of the revered Buddhist monk
Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai-Shonin.
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Shonin is what is known in Japan as
a sokushinbutsu, or a living Buddha.
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He died in 1783 at the age of 96...
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but shockingly, this is not when
the mummification process was started.
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It began six years before his death.
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This ritual of self-mummification...
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was commonly practiced by monks
in the Shingon sect of Buddhism...
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in northern Japan between
the 11th and 19th centuries.
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They would willingly embark
on a process of self-mortification...
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which was tantamount to suicide.
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The first phase would last
about a thousand days...
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and they would begin
the self-mummification process...
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by embarking on a very rigorous
low-calorie diet.
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In the second phase of the process...
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the practitioner would be
imbibing the urushi tea.
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Now, the urushi tea is highly toxic.
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However, it was believed
to lacquer, basically...
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the tissues and organs
from the inside out...
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in order to favor
the mummification process.
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And because of its toxicity...
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the flesh was so poisonous that even
maggots would not consume it.
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[ Young ] When they were nearly dead,
they would go into a small chamber...
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just big enough to sit
in the lotus position.
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It would be sealed up, except for
a reed that allowed a little air in...
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and inside, the monk had a bell.
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[ Bell Rings ]
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One day, the bell would not ring...
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and the followers would withdraw the reed
and seal up the chamber.
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After 1,000 days, they would open it
to see what had happened.
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[Jeremiah ] if the bodies had mummified,
they were considered living Buddhas.
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And they were redressed
in sacerdotal robes...
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and displayed in special temple halls
called sokubutsudo.
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If they had not mummified...
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an exorcism was performed
and they were simply buried.
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[ Narrator] Although hundreds of monks
tried to attain sokushinbutsu...
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only 24 are known to have succeeded.
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But why would these
devout followers of Buddha...
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have endured such pain
in order to mummify their own bodies?
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One of the central beliefs
of Buddhism is reincarnation...
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but according to the Shingon sect...
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those who successfully complete
the self-mummification process...
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become higher beings.
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The idea was they didn't think
they were dying.
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They perceived this as
a state of suspended animation.
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It wasn't death for them. It wasn't life.
It was somewhere in between.
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They needed the body preserved
to enter this other dimension of reality...
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and to continue life, although
it's not life as we would interpret it.
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[ Man ]
They do not have to be reborn...
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because when you become a living Buddha,
you have already attained your nirvana...
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so that, you know, your body
remains kind of immortal in a sense.
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[ Steavu ]
They were trying to emulate...
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these high-ranking or highly-achieving,
spiritually speaking, beings...
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such as Buddhas or Bodhisattvas.
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[ Narrator] Bu! What did it' mean to a
Shingon monk to become a living Buddha...
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and transition to a higher realm?
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Perhaps the answer can be found...
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by examining the life
of the original Buddha himself.
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The historical Buddha was known
as Siddhartha Gautama...
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and he was born around
the mid-sixth century BCE.
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He founded the Buddhist tradition...
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in which he expounds
on the path to enlightenment.
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It's very important that the historical
Buddha was understood as a human.
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That gives every human practitioner...
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access to the same level of ability
and enlightenment.
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However, he also took on
some magical powers...
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that, in some ways...
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brought him much closer to
a divine being or semi-divine being...
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than to a normal mortal human.
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He was known to teleport
across the Ganges River...
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appearing from one side of the river
to the other in the blink of an eye.
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[ CHILDRESS ] When you look at the life
of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha...
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he would appear to be somebody
that we would maybe call a “star child”-
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part human,
part extraterrestrial.
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[ Narrator]
Is it possible that the first Buddha...
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had extraterrestrial origins?
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Might the Shingon monks
have believed...
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that through the process
of self-mummification...
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they too could be transformed
into more advanced beings?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe
that further answers can be found...
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by examining the story
of an Egyptian pharaoh...
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with extraterrestrial origins.
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[ Narrator] Amarna, Egypt. 1891.
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Italian archaeologist
Alessandro Barsanti...
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explores the tomb constructed
for the Pharaoh Akhenaten...
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but finds no evidence
of his mummy.
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What's really interesting is
that the Egyptologists were certain...
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that they would find Akhenaten
behind that tomb...
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and they didn't.
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[ Narrator] Just what happened to this
revolutionary leader after his death...
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is as mysterious
as the pharaoh himself.
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Was he never actually buried in his tomb,
or could he have been removed?
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Akhenaten ruled from 1353 BC...
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until his death 17 years later.
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His reign was dominated
by controversy...
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when he abandoned the pantheon
of old Egyptian gods...
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and instead demanded that his subjects
worship the sun god Aten.
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The Aten was something that he saw
in the sky between two mountains...
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that inspired him to create
the sacred city of Amarna.
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Now the typical view
is the Aten must be the sun...
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but it is entirely possible
that what Akhenaten was seeing...
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was, in fact,
an extraterrestrial flying craft.
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[ Narrator] Did Akhenaten
uproot the entire Kingdom of Egypt...
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because of
an extraterrestrial encounter?
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Or could there be
an even more profound explanation?
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If you compare images of Akhenaten...
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to other depictions of pharaohs...
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you'll notice that Akhenaten
looks very different.
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He had this very bizarre,
elongated skull...
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and he had this weird potbelly
and weird arms.
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So was he really a human?
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Perhaps Akhenaten
was not of this earth.
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[ Narrator] While archaeologists have
yet to uncover the remains of Akhenaten...
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ancient astronaut theorists believe...
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that depictions of him
having an elongated skull...
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could be more
than just artistic license.
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Because there are other mummies
that do, in fact, have unusual skulls.
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Some elongated skulls
can be explained...
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by the fact that numerous ancient cultures
practiced head binding-
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a form of body modification where
the heads of infants were tightly bound...
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to force their skulls
to become conical in shape.
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But several misshapen skulls
appear to defy explanation.
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In Peru and Malta,
elongated skulls have been discovered...
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that are mysteriously missing
a sagittal suture-
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the fibrous jagged joint
found in all human skulls.
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[TSOUKALOS ] When you compare
some of these elongated skulls...
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some have sutures
like we have as humans...
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and then there are other skulls
that do not have the same sutures.
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So is it possible that some of them
are of actual extraterrestrial origin?
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It would not surprise me
in the least bit. In the least bit.
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[ Narrator] Could the elongated skulls
found on certain mummies...
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actually be of extraterrestrial origin?
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Might they be proof that humans
learned the process of mummification...
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from alien visitors?
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For years,
researcher Brien Foerster...
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has been studying elongated skulls
found in Paracas, Peru...
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and recent DNA tests
have yielded startling results.
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Initial results, though ambiguous...
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seem to indicate that
partial segments of their DNA...
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are not to be found
in what is called GenBank...
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which is the record of human DNA...
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that's been decoded so far.
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Astonishingly, the geneticist
who's been studying them has said...
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that their DNA, at least in
some aspects, are not human.
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[ Narrator] Might the DNA of
the mummified Paracas skulls...
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contain the truth about ancient man's
contact with extraterrestrials?
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Could it be that the mummy
of Akhenaten has never been found...
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because it was deliberately
hidden or destroyed...
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to keep us from discovering
its alien origins?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that the most compelling evidence
of a connection...
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between mummification
and extraterrestrials...
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can be found with the Inca...
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who treated the dead as though
they were still very much alive.
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[ Narrator] Cuzco, Peru.
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This sacred city was once the capital
of the Inca Empire...
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and by the 13th century...
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was the center of one of the largest...
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and most sophisticated pre-Columbian
civilizations in the Americas.
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The Inca were renowned
for their proficiency in architecture...
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and widely regarded as the most important
of their many temple complexes...
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was the one known as Qorikancha.
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Historical accounts describe it
as a magnificent palace of gold...
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that housed the most holy objects
of worship for the Inca-
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the mummies of their dead kings.
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[ Barnhart ] That's where the king
did his most important rituals...
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and where the mummies of the previous
Sapa Incas, or kings, were kept.
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And those mummies were communicated
with on a regular basis.
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[ Narrator]
Even today, descendants of the Inca...
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recreate the centuries-old practice...
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of using the mummies
in sacred ceremonies.
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[ Foerster ] Four times a year
they were brought out...
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and the living descendants
would then consult with them...
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about the affairs of state...
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as well as what
they should do in the future.
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It was believed that these mummies
could communicate with deities...
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or otherworldly beings
in this twilight realm...
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or in this state
between life and death.
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They even had people specially trained
to take care of the royal mummies.
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And some of the duties
that these caretakers had...
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were interpreting
what the mummy wished to say...
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arranging meetings
with the living and the dead...
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and strangely even taking the mummy
outside so he could urinate.
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[ Narrator]
But why would the Inca...
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the most advanced civilization
in South America at the time...
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treat corpses as though
they were living, thinking beings?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the Incan creation story.
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The Incan creation myth describes...
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how the world was created
by the Ayar brothers.
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And the word “ayar”
actually means mummy...
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so written right into the myth
from the very beginning...
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is the idea that mummification
is of central importance...
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to whomever and whatever
these gods are.
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Is it possible that those mythical gods...
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were actually extraterrestrial
flesh and blood beings of some kind?
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[ Narrator] But if the Ayar brothers
really were extraterrestrials...
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why would the Inca have used
the same term for these alien visitors...
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as they did
for their mummified dead?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that the Inca may have witnessed
these other-worldly space travelers...
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emerging from a state
of suspended animation.
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What if they were trying to mimic
whatever it is they saw?
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And so, if someone
with no technological knowledge...
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witnesses someone
who is in suspended animation...
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and then they come alive...
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they have just witnessed
the resurrection of someone...
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someone coming back
from the dead...
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when, in reality,
that was never the case.
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[ Narrator]
Is it possible that the Inca...
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witnessed alien visitors
coming out of hibernation...
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and that this is why
they mummified their dead?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and claim that this might also explain
mummification in other cultures...
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most notably the Egyptians.
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[WILCOCK ] it's possible that
the extraterrestrials who visited Egypt...
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would have needed to have some
sort of hyperbaric isolation chambers...
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to get from their home world to here.
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Now, if that is true,
then it's also possible...
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that the mummification ritual...
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00:35:58.491 --> 00:36:03.621
actually originated from this
long-term hyperbaric storage...
460
00:36:03.704 --> 00:36:08.751
that they were doing with their bodies
inside sarcophagus-like chambers.
461
00:36:09.377 --> 00:36:14.757
One idea, certainly, is that
human beings and these societies...
462
00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:19.679
were seeing extraterrestrials
who were wrapped in certain body suits...
463
00:36:19.762 --> 00:36:22.723
and then they would come back alive.
464
00:36:22.807 --> 00:36:26.185
They were put in a special
suspended animation...
465
00:36:26.268 --> 00:36:29.563
that was similar to mummification.
466
00:36:29.647 --> 00:36:35.611
And perhaps, this is why the Egyptians
were doing mummification.
467
00:36:38.698 --> 00:36:42.660
[ Narrator] Could mummification really
have been an attempt by ancient people...
468
00:36:42.743 --> 00:36:46.330
to imitate extraterrestrial
space travelers?
469
00:36:46.414 --> 00:36:47.665
Perhaps.
470
00:36:47.748 --> 00:36:50.543
But ancient astronaut theorists propose...
471
00:36:50.626 --> 00:36:54.422
that there may be
an even more profound explanation-
472
00:36:55.470 --> 00:36:59.343
that early humans were not
simply imitating alien visitors...
473
00:37:00.469 --> 00:37:04.432
but intended to join them
in the future.
474
00:37:11.897 --> 00:37:15.234
[ Narrator ]
Juérez, Mexico. 2008.
475
00:37:17.153 --> 00:37:20.865
Just eight miles
southwest of El Paso, Texas...
476
00:37:20.948 --> 00:37:23.909
in this notoriously violent border town...
477
00:37:26.412 --> 00:37:29.248
Dr. Alejandro Hernéndez Cardenas...
478
00:37:29.331 --> 00:37:33.544
develops a groundbreaking
new technique in forensic science.
479
00:37:33.627 --> 00:37:36.255
By using a secret chemical formula...
480
00:37:36.338 --> 00:37:40.968
he is able to rehydrate the flesh
of unrecognizable homicide victims...
481
00:37:41.510 --> 00:37:43.971
including bodies that were mummified...
482
00:37:44.540 --> 00:37:47.433
after years of being dried out
in the hot desert climate.
483
00:37:49.977 --> 00:37:51.937
Out of sort of compassion or concern...
484
00:37:52.210 --> 00:37:55.274
for the huge number
of unidentified bodies in Juérez...
485
00:37:56.275 --> 00:38:00.988
he figured out a solution that you
can place a mummified corpse in.
486
00:38:01.572 --> 00:38:06.827
The corpse becomes recognizable
in terms of identifying scars or tattoos.
487
00:38:14.794 --> 00:38:17.797
[ Narrator] The naturally
mummified corpses are put in a tank...
488
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:21.801
that Dr. Cardenas
refers to as “The Jacuzzi”...
489
00:38:21.884 --> 00:38:25.387
which holds 60 gallons
of his secret' formula.
490
00:38:27.306 --> 00:38:29.433
Over the course of a few days...
491
00:38:29.517 --> 00:38:34.104
the shriveled remains are rehydrated
to look almost lifelike.
492
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:39.401
But as astounding as his formula is...
493
00:38:39.485 --> 00:38:42.196
it's not the first time
science has attempted...
494
00:38:42.279 --> 00:38:45.866
to, in some way,
restore a mummified body.
495
00:38:49.912 --> 00:38:51.747
In 1968...
496
00:38:51.831 --> 00:38:55.668
Robert Connolly, a researcher
from the University of Liverpool...
497
00:38:55.751 --> 00:39:01.131
attempted to virtually regenerate the blood
of a completely mummified body...
498
00:39:01.215 --> 00:39:05.886
only this mummy
was 3,300 years old.
499
00:39:06.512 --> 00:39:09.932
It was the mummy of Egypt's
most famous pharaoh-
500
00:39:10.933 --> 00:39:13.352
King Tutankhamen.
501
00:39:14.562 --> 00:39:19.692
Connolly's method was to combine antigens
taken from a skin sample of King Tut...
502
00:39:19.775 --> 00:39:21.902
with his own blood cells.
503
00:39:23.487 --> 00:39:24.989
Connolly is actually type O...
504
00:39:25.720 --> 00:39:27.700
which means you don't have
any antigens on your blood cells.
505
00:39:27.783 --> 00:39:31.780
He was actually able to
put the antigens from King Tut...
506
00:39:31.161 --> 00:39:33.789
on his sort of clean slate
of a blood cell...
507
00:39:35.958 --> 00:39:39.879
so then recreating
whatever blood type the mummy had.
508
00:39:39.962 --> 00:39:42.381
You mix those red blood cells
with different blood types...
509
00:39:42.464 --> 00:39:43.984
and if it's not
the correct blood type...
510
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:45.902
what you get is sort of
clumping of the blood cells...
511
00:39:45.926 --> 00:39:47.806
because there's
an immune response against them.
512
00:39:47.887 --> 00:39:49.388
But if it's the correct blood type...
513
00:39:49.471 --> 00:39:51.974
then you don't see any sort
of immunological response.
514
00:39:52.570 --> 00:39:53.937
So, in that way,
they were able to figure out...
515
00:39:53.976 --> 00:39:56.478
which blood type
King Tut possessed.
516
00:39:59.815 --> 00:40:01.525
[ Narrator]
Since Connolly's experiment...
517
00:40:01.609 --> 00:40:03.777
scientists have gone even further...
518
00:40:03.861 --> 00:40:08.324
and discovered what they believe
is King Tut's true DNA.
519
00:40:10.409 --> 00:40:13.829
Could the next step
be an actual resurrection?
520
00:40:15.497 --> 00:40:17.458
Was the preservation of the body...
521
00:40:17.541 --> 00:40:22.460
not just a ritualistic attempt
to imitate alien visitors...
522
00:40:22.129 --> 00:40:26.258
but an actual form
of suspended animation?
523
00:40:26.342 --> 00:40:31.597
But if so, how could they have foreseen
such incredible scientific advancements...
524
00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:33.974
thousands of years ago?
525
00:40:35.517 --> 00:40:39.772
It is possible that
the ancient astronauts...
526
00:40:39.855 --> 00:40:43.275
taught the Egyptians
that mummification...
527
00:40:43.359 --> 00:40:48.530
was a way of preserving
their genetic information in the DNA.
528
00:40:51.367 --> 00:40:55.871
[CHILDRESS ] One of the startling
discoveries in the study of mummies...
529
00:40:55.955 --> 00:40:57.790
in Egypt and elsewhere...
530
00:40:57.873 --> 00:41:02.836
is that quite a bit of DNA
is actually preserved...
531
00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:06.799
for thousands of years
in the mummification process.
532
00:41:07.383 --> 00:41:12.805
This makes it possible
to clone ancient mummies...
533
00:41:12.888 --> 00:41:16.580
and, in a sense,
bring them back to life.
534
00:41:17.393 --> 00:41:20.938
[WILCOCK] it is possible that,
at some point in the future...
535
00:41:21.210 --> 00:41:23.983
if your body had been
successfully mummified...
536
00:41:24.660 --> 00:41:26.402
that these ancient extraterrestrials
were well aware...
537
00:41:26.485 --> 00:41:32.157
that a clone of who you were before
could then be reborn many years later.
538
00:41:32.241 --> 00:41:35.953
And is it possible that with
the magnificence of the DNA...
539
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:38.747
and with all of the information
that it contains...
540
00:41:38.831 --> 00:41:41.667
that you might also come back...
541
00:41:41.750 --> 00:41:45.337
with the memories
of what you lived...
542
00:41:45.421 --> 00:41:48.966
and who you were
and what you knew the last time.
543
00:41:49.883 --> 00:41:51.677
And that may be the purpose...
544
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:56.390
which will actually be used
in the future not yet present...
545
00:41:56.473 --> 00:42:00.600
but with a technology that
we are very rapidly acquiring.
546
00:42:01.937 --> 00:42:05.357
[ Henry] When the extraterrestrials
taught the art of mummification...
547
00:42:05.441 --> 00:42:07.985
did they have it in
the back of their mind that...
548
00:42:08.680 --> 00:42:10.612
maybe 5,000 years
into the future...
549
00:42:10.696 --> 00:42:13.730
medical science
would advance to the level...
550
00:42:13.157 --> 00:42:17.369
where we would be able to extract
the DNA from those mummies?
551
00:42:19.288 --> 00:42:21.683
And maybe this is part of the purpose
of the mummification...
552
00:42:21.707 --> 00:42:24.100
is to create this time capsule.
553
00:42:28.589 --> 00:42:32.634
[ Narrator] Could our ancestors really have
been taught the process of mummification...
554
00:42:32.718 --> 00:42:35.345
by extraterrestrial beings?
555
00:42:35.429 --> 00:42:40.170
Was it their intention that we would
eventually develop the technology...
556
00:42:40.100 --> 00:42:43.200
to retrieve the DNA
of the ancient mummies...
557
00:42:43.103 --> 00:42:45.355
and restore them to life?
558
00:42:46.607 --> 00:42:51.195
And if we do, might we discover
that these human time capsules...
559
00:42:51.278 --> 00:42:54.615
hold the secrets to our very origins?
560
00:42:55.574 --> 00:42:59.912
Perhaps one day, we will truly be able
to reanimate the dead...
561
00:42:59.995 --> 00:43:02.498
and from these ancient mummies...
562
00:43:02.581 --> 00:43:06.668
we will learn the truth
about our alien ancestors.