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Massive stone temples
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believed to have been
constructed by giants.
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A mysterious megalithic city
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that rises out of the ocean.
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And a colossal pyramid
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thought to predate
the Great Flood of the Bible.
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All around the world,
we see the magnificent ruins
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of cultures that existed
thousands of years ago.
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And even today, archaeologists
still don't know
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how sites like
the pyramids of Giza,
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the temple at Baalbek,
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and even Stonehenge were built.
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For ancient astronaut theorists
like me,
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these places
are even more compelling
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because the local mythology
claims that
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they were constructed
with otherworldly assistance.
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Perhaps one of the best examples
of extraterrestrial engineering
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can be found atop a vast plateau
in the Andes Mountains,
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where dozens
of megalithic blocks
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appear to have been carved
with laser-like precision.
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The Inca Empire, Peru. 1549.
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High in the Andes Mountains,
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Spanish explorer
Pedro Cieza de León
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is searching for
the Inca capital of Qullasuyu.
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Just south of Lake Titicaca,
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at an elevation
of nearly 13,000 feet,
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he comes upon
extraordinary ruins
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covering roughly two and a half
square miles.
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It is the ancient
settlement of Tiwanaku.
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De León spends many months
investigating the site,
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and writes in his chronicles
that Tiwanaku
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contains impressive stone walls,
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idols of human figures,
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and great doorways.
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He also writes about an area
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south of the main
archaeological site
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called Puma Punku,
or "gate of the puma."
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It features stone blocks
so enormous
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he does not understand how
they could be moved by humans.
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And they are carved
with a precision that,
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according to de León,
could not be accomplished
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with the tools
available to the Inca.
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Pedro Cieza de León says
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that the local population,
which was Inca, told him
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that this place
was not built by the Incas,
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but it was built
hundreds of years before.
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If the Inca themselves
have said
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that it was not the Inca,
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well then,
who were the pre-Incas?
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And there we are confronted
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with a gigantic question mark.
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What the giant blocks
formed is completely unknown,
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and nearly five centuries
after its discovery by de León,
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Puma Punku remains
as mysterious as ever.
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It's out in this
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really open, high plains.
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Most of the stones
in Puma Punku are huge.
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The biggest is 130 tons.
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There's another one
that's 85 tons.
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Even the small ones
are multi-ton.
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So these are huge.
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The platform Illitica
is in the center of Puma Punku,
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and it's, in fact,
the foundation.
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So it consists of enormous slabs
of red sandstone
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that were brought from a quarry
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eight miles to the west
over two mountain ranges.
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So, how that was accomplished,
I have no idea.
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Another really fascinating
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aspect of the Puma Punku site
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is the distribution
of these blocks.
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Some of them are still upright,
in the position
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that they were originally
constructed in.
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Most of them are strewn about.
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It looks like
you're in a child's playroom
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and blocks have just been
knocked over from
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some sort of a structure
that was built.
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It looks like
it's been destroyed
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by a kind of tsunami
or something.
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It's got mud
piled up everywhere,
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giant stones sticking out of it
at crazy angles.
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It remains unknown
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whether the structures
of Puma Punku
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were destroyed by a cataclysm
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or if the construction project
was simply abandoned
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before it was finished.
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But the roughly
150 megalithic blocks
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that can be found
at the site today
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reveal that the builders
possessed astounding
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stoneworking abilities.
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Puma Punku
has these megalithic blocks
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that are perfectly cut,
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that all of their angles
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are completely right angles.
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There's these ones in particular
called H-blocks
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that look like a big capital H.
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They have kind of, uh,
fade lines going in
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where they carved
the same shape
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in a couple of different layers,
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deeper and deeper into
the stone. And its precision
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is really mind-boggling.
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There are grooves that are cut
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with perfect 90-degree angles.
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It looks like
they were so precise
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that they were done
with modern-day
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milling machine tools.
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There's stones there, too,
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that have a lot of drill holes
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and saw cuts
and things like that in them.
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It's an
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amazing piece of engineering
that is beyond its time.
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Predominantly, we have
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two types of stone
at Puma Punku,
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and that is red sandstone
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and gray andesite.
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They have found tools
made of copper
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and of iron and bronze
at Puma Punku.
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And with those tools, you can
absolutely cut the sandstone.
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However, you cannot
cut the gray andesite blocks
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with bronze or with copper
or with iron.
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What's interesting, too, is that
the stone blocks that we find
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at Puma Punku--
the surface is as if
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you're touching glass.
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It is perfection.
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In 1903, Arthur Posnansky,
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an Austrian
engineer, explorer
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and amateur archaeologist,
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traveled to Puma Punku,
which, by that time,
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was located in western Bolivia.
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Posnansky began the most
thorough study of the site
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ever conducted.
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Arthur Posnansky was born
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in Vienna, Austria
in the 19th century,
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and in his early 20s
he moved to South America.
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But very soon after that he
became fascinated by Puma Punku,
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and spent almost
the rest of his life
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studying and researching
that location.
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Arthur Posnansky lived
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and researched at Puma Punku
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from 1904
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until 1945.
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He was there for 41 years,
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and he absolutely fell in love
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not only with
the landscapes there,
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but also with that culture
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that put a spell on him,
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and it was his biggest
siren call.
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When speaking with
the Aymara elders,
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they speak very, very fondly
of the archaeologist Posnansky,
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because he respected them
and he respected their culture.
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And he talked to them about what
they knew about these sites.
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And one of the places
that they're in agreement
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is that the site is much older
than it's believed to be
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by mainstream archaeologists.
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Mainstream scholars believe
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the site was
originally constructed
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about 1,500 years ago,
but Posnansky proposed
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that Puma Punku
was much, much older.
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By examining the structures
and what he believed
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was their original alignment
with the stars,
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he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC.
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Arthur Posnansky suggests that
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Puma Punku would
line up with stellar objects
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about 17,000 years ago.
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The local indigenous people--
the Aymara--
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uh, they actually
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have a mythology that Puma Punku
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has been around for maybe
as much as 17,000 years.
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The Aymara people have occupied
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the area of modern-day Peru
and Bolivia
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for at least 800 years,
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and lived alongside the Inca
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when Pedro Cieza de León
arrived at Tiwanaku
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in the 16th century.
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Both the Inca and Aymara
told de León
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and other Spanish chroniclers
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not only that Puma Punku was
built long before their time,
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but also that it was
the work of the gods.
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The locals said,
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"It was not us who made this.
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It was the gods
who did it in one night.
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The gods who descended
from the sky."
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So, normally,
every culture says,
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"Oh, yes, we did it.
We-we had the knowledge.
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We were strong enough."
In that case--
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Puma Punku-- the locals say
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"It was not us
who made these platforms.
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It was the gods."
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Which gods?
Extraterrestrials.
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In the middle
of the Mediterranean Sea,
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the tiny island nation of Malta
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is home to some
of the best examples
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of what
ancient astronaut theorists
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consider to be
extraterrestrial engineering.
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The megaliths of Malta are some
of the oldest in the world,
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and many weigh
more than 50 tons.
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But what's even more intriguing
are the local legends
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that claim that these sites
were built by beings
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who came from the stars.
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The Republic of Malta.
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Situated across
the island nation's
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122 square miles
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sit the remains
of seven megalithic sites.
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These include
the two temples of Ggantija...
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...and Skorba.
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These marvels of ancient
construction were all built
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with the same type
of Maltese limestone
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which was extracted
from local quarries.
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The fact that
they were moving around
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these multi-ton blocks,
building these temples
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and actually,
when you look at them,
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moving the blocks within
very, very narrow confines...
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Okay, it's one thing
to move a block
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out in the open
that's multi-ton,
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but to then place it
systematically
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and very carefully
next to another one,
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next to another one,
next to another one,
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to form these beautiful
temple structures--
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that's a real engineering feat.
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While there are some
researchers who believe
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that Malta's megalithic temples
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could be as much as
12,000 years old,
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mainstream scholars believe
they were created
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no earlier than 3600 BC,
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during what is known
as the Neolithic Age.
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And they also theorize
that the massive structures
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were built by a human culture
that used
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only primitive stone tools.
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Archaeology
suggests, at the time,
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we barely invented the wheel.
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We barely had tools,
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there was no known language
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and we had no writing.
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Well, let's step back for
a moment and think about this.
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From an evolutionary
and technology, uh, perspective,
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that makes no sense because
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you begin with simple,
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you continue bigger, bigger
and then biggest.
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But you start small.
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What we have in the case of the
Maltese structures
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is that the biggest
are the oldest.
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So that makes zero sense
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from a logical perspective
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because there was
no evolution in technology.
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The archaeologists--
they agree with this.
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To construct similar temple
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after similar temple,
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um, with the same material,
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without evidence of writing,
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shows a high degree
of communication.
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And we find terra-cotta models,
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in fact, of temples, and
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archaeologists
have suggested, perhaps,
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that this is
an early architect's rendering.
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This is more evidence
of the high level
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of thought and ability
that went into
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the construction
of these temples.
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No written records
have ever been discovered
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to explain who built the
megalithic temples in Malta.
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However, local traditions
of the Maltese people
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have offered
a stunning possibility.
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They claim that
the massive structures
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were built
by a race of giant beings
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who came to Earth
from the stars.
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There's a story
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that a meteorite came down
from the heavens
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and turned into a goddess,
a giant
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named Sansuna.
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And the locals, of course,
were terrified of this giant.
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But at a place called Ggantija
she started building a temple
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and moved stones much larger
than any human could ever move,
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and assembled this structure
that was so massive
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it remains to this day,
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still a place of mystery,
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still a giant's construction.
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When you
see these cyclopean stones,
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some of them weighing as much
as 50 tons, you can appreciate
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why we have the story
of this giantess, Sansuna.
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The local legends of Sansuna
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may sound incredible to some.
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However, in the 17th century,
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a Maltese nobleman
named Gian Francesco Abela
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claimed to have found forensic
evidence that these legends
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may have been based in fact.
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In the early 1600s,
Gian Francesco Abela
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was living
on the island of Malta,
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and he actually wrote
about the fact that giants
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were involved in the
construction of these sites.
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And one of the reasons
he wrote this is because
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he said he found bones, skulls
and even giant teeth
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all across the island
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and there were other reports of
them coming forth at this time.
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In order to
investigate the local legends
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connecting giant
extraterrestrial beings
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to the massive structures
on Malta,
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in 2022,
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ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos
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traveled to Malta's
oldest megalithic structures,
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the temples of Ggantija
on the island of Gozo.
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There, he met
with Frans Van Avendonk...
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I'm Giorgio.
Pleasure to meet you.
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...an expert in Maltese history
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who has lived on the island
since 1991.
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- Look at this, I mean...
- Gigantic.
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It is gigantic.
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"Ggantija" means
"the giant goddess,"
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and it makes sense why,
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because right now,
I feel like an ant.
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We are so small, and especially
when you're right next to it.
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It's very impressive.
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And, uh, in my opinion,
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still a massive question mark.
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There are still
questions, yeah, definitely.
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What can you tell us
about the dating?
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Well, when it was excavated--
because we don't
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talk about discovery,
it was always visible--
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people thought it was
a Phoenician temple.
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- Okay.
- Much later, they realized
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it must have been prehistoric,
so it was put
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in the 2000s, before Christ.
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Then it moves back to the 3000s.
Now we're saying 3600, at least.
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Technology has improved,
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different ways
of looking at things,
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so therefore,
they're getting older.
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They were built much earlier
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than we thought before.
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When viewed from above,
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the two adjacent temples
of Ggantija
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are designed with large apses
resembling a cloverleaf.
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Each housed an altar,
and artifacts suggest
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a wooden roof
covered the entire temple.
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Many of the stone blocks
stand 20 feet tall,
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and some weigh
in excess of 50 tons.
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Is it possible that we've lost
some type of masonry knowledge?
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Because you could create it
using smaller stones.
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Clearly, this required planning.
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- It required logistics.
- Yes.
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In my opinion, master builders
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were at work here,
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and mainstream archaeologists
are suggesting that
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whoever built this
did not have any writing.
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Well, not only
would it require writing,
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but you have to have
calculations.
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- And leadership.
- Doesn't last... Exactly.
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With the evidence of how old
or when it was built,
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who built it
and how it was built...
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- Mm-hmm.
- Might be there,
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but we haven't found it yet.
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I can imagine that
people saw this
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and thought,
"This must have been
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- the work of a giant."
- Right.
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Throughout the Mediterranean,
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you see an association
with giants
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constructing megaliths. For
instance, in Mycenaean Greece,
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there's a structure
called the Lion's Gate.
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Aristotle mentioned that
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this construction style
was called cyclopean masonry
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because of the large stones.
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The ancient Greeks figured that
only a giant called Cyclops
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could have had the strength
to move these.
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The same sort of
cyclopean masonry is present
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in the Maltese temples as well.
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These stories of giants
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have been an integral part
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of our entire human history
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since the beginning of time.
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So, is it possible
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that the reason why we have
these stories of these giants
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is because, at one point,
they actually existed?
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And the answer to that is yes.
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Not every example
of extraterrestrial engineering
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are gigantic structures.
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Sometimes, they're so small
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they can fit
in the palm of your hand.
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Like in the case
of a fascinating discovery
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under the ruins
of Teotihuacan in Mexico,
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where archaeologists found
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mysterious golden spheres.
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Teotihuacan, Mexico.
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This ancient pyramid site
was once home
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to a mysterious civilization
dating back
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to the first century AD--
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a time long before the Aztec
arrived in this region.
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Since the early 1990s,
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archaeologists have been
exploring the dozens
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of subterranean rooms, tunnels
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and pathways that lie below
this eight square mile complex.
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They've been doing a lot
of excavations to understand
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the nature and the relationship
of the different pyramids.
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And they're exploring underneath
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the Temple of the Feathered
Serpent.
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And so they've made
some really nice maps
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of the pathways and such
that are underneath the temple
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and exposed caverns in areas
that they didn't know existed.
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In May of 2013,
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researchers working beneath the
Temple of the Feathered Serpent
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employed a small robot
called Tlaloc II-TC
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to explore the recently
uncovered area.
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Inside one chamber,
archaeologists made
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a curious discovery.
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They found more than a hundred
gold-colored metallic spheres.
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These tiny balls
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are probably anything between
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an inch to about
five inches in diameter.
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And what we can say is that
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when they were actually
put in place,
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uh, probably about
2,000 years ago,
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you would have had
this incredible
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shining gallery of lights
as you went down it.
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They appear gold,
but when you look at them
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under chemical inspection,
it appears that
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that gold color
is mineral pyrite.
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The Mexican archaeologists
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are completely perplexed.
They haven't seen
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anything like this before.
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They haven't seen
anything like this
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in their explorations
of the other temples.
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So there's lots of-of questions
to be answered, still.
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Archaeologists retrieved
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several spheres
from the chamber,
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and when they analyzed them,
they were amazed
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by what they found.
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The sparkly spheres
that were found in Teotihuacan
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really are an enigma.
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As far as how they were made,
men definitely made them.
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We have looked at those spheres
and they are clay.
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They are like sunbaked clay
that was then
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rolled in pyrite dust.
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That's why they have that
kind of yellow color.
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Why they did it... I don't know.
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Nobody knows
the purpose of them,
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why they were made
or even who made them,
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but the fact that they're there
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tells us they are
of-of utmost importance
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to what went on at the temple.
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The golden spheres found under
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the Temple
of the Feathered Serpent
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are a mystery
to archaeologists,
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but some believe
they may be representations
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of celestial bodies
observed in the night sky.
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But ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the mysterious spheres
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could have served
a more profound purpose,
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and point to
another discovery made in 1906.
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At Teotihuacan,
huge mica sheets have been found
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beneath a layer
of stone flooring
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that were 90 feet
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square and they were placed
directly on top of each other,
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and yet you couldn't see them.
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So, they clearly weren't
decorative or aesthetic,
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they were clearly
functional in their use.
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So, what were they doing there?
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We use mica today
in spacefaring technology.
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It's a heat shield
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for high-- very, very high--
temperatures.
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What is it doing at Teotihuacan?
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What's also fascinating
is that throughout Teotihuacan
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you see burn marks on the walls.
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So, at some point, Teotihuacan
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underwent a gigantic fire.
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Or was it something else?
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Was it some type of a blast?
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Was it some type of an exhaust?
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Curiously, mica
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wasn't the only
unusual substance
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found within
the ancient structure.
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They actually found mercury
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under some of the pyramids
as well.
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So, what does this all mean?
Well, Mercury is used
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in different
electrical components
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and it conducts electricity.
So, can we suggest that
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they were using this for some
advanced technological purpose?
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Mercury itself
is-is very special.
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It's a metal, it's a liquid,
it's a electrical conductor.
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Mercury can be used
for many, many devices,
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all of which are high tech.
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So, you have to wonder:
what is going on
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here at Teotihuacan?
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Do these small balls
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and the mica and the mercury
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and other facets
of the pyramid--
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are they all
working together to create
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some kind of electrical device
that's doing something?
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That would seem to be the case.
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Does the discovery
at Teotihuacan
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of both mica and mercury--
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two substances with
high-tech applications--
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indicate that an advanced
technology once existed
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in this ancient
Mesoamerican city?
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One that involved
the mysterious spheres
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found under the Temple
of the Feathered Serpent?
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We've often suggested
that ancient structures
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may have been used as some type
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of energy capacitor.
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An aeronautics engineer
has suggested
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that the Great Pyramid of Egypt
or the whole Giza complex
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may have been some type
of a giant power plant.
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Well, what if Egypt
is not the only place
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where they had
something like this?
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How do you explain
an ancient structure
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where the walls are built
from 20-foot-long basalt columns
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stacked more than 30 feet high,
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all in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean?
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For ancient astronaut theorists,
this place, called Nan Madol,
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is a perfect example
of extraterrestrial engineering.
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Pohnpei, Micronesia.
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Located roughly 2,500 miles
northeast of Australia
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lie the ruins of Nan Madol.
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This 11-square-mile complex
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was built out of more than
250 million tons of basalt,
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with some blocks
weighing upwards of 50 tons.
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In 2019,
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ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos
512
00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:48,958
and David Childress, along with
513
00:26:49,125 --> 00:26:53,625
Micronesia's national historic
preservation officer Gus Kohler,
514
00:26:53,792 --> 00:26:56,083
traveled to Nan Madol
to investigate
515
00:26:56,208 --> 00:26:59,167
this megalithic site.
516
00:26:59,333 --> 00:27:02,042
Also joining them
was structural engineer
517
00:27:02,250 --> 00:27:04,875
Dr. Henry Burton.
518
00:27:05,083 --> 00:27:07,667
This thing-- it's-it's supposed
to be the biggest
519
00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:10,417
of all the stones here.
520
00:27:10,542 --> 00:27:13,416
Henry, do you think you can
calculate the weight of this?
521
00:27:13,417 --> 00:27:16,208
Yeah, we can certainly estimate
it. Um, I have a measuring tape.
522
00:27:16,375 --> 00:27:19,167
We can estimate the volume.
And we know the density.
523
00:27:19,292 --> 00:27:21,875
- So that can give us the mass.
- All right, let's do that.
524
00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:25,833
Yeah, so,
this is about four meters.
525
00:27:25,958 --> 00:27:29,167
All right, here's, uh,
the far... corner here.
526
00:27:29,375 --> 00:27:31,167
Using the dimensions
and the density
527
00:27:31,292 --> 00:27:33,542
of one of the basalt
stone blocks,
528
00:27:33,708 --> 00:27:35,458
Dr. Burton
calculates its weight.
529
00:27:35,625 --> 00:27:37,833
Two fifty.
Two meters, fifty.
530
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,500
All right.
So, based on the measurements,
531
00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:41,000
you're looking at a weight
of about 54 tons.
532
00:27:41,208 --> 00:27:42,625
- Fifty-four tons? Then...
- Yeah.
533
00:27:42,792 --> 00:27:44,042
So, 50 tons, give or take.
534
00:27:44,208 --> 00:27:47,208
And you have
one, two, three, four
535
00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:51,292
of those monoliths essentially
stacked on top of each other.
536
00:27:51,458 --> 00:27:54,292
At a height of 40 feet.
537
00:27:54,458 --> 00:27:57,958
So, Gus,
what is, then, the oral history
538
00:27:58,125 --> 00:28:00,875
of moving this stone
on the island?
539
00:28:01,042 --> 00:28:03,417
Well, according
to the legends, uh,
540
00:28:03,583 --> 00:28:07,000
the stones were flown up there.
541
00:28:10,833 --> 00:28:12,458
For generations,
542
00:28:12,667 --> 00:28:15,083
the people of Pohnpei
have told the story
543
00:28:15,208 --> 00:28:18,708
that Nan Madol was constructed
by strange visitors
544
00:28:18,833 --> 00:28:21,417
through a process of levitation.
545
00:28:21,583 --> 00:28:24,167
It is this legend
that has suggested
546
00:28:24,333 --> 00:28:27,167
to ancient astronaut theorists
that Nan Madol
547
00:28:27,375 --> 00:28:30,042
is not only an ancient
megalithic structure.
548
00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:33,917
It is also
an extraterrestrial one.
549
00:28:34,083 --> 00:28:36,958
So, we have,
in the oral traditions,
550
00:28:37,125 --> 00:28:39,333
a story about two brothers.
551
00:29:05,833 --> 00:29:08,208
According to legend,
the twin sorcerers
552
00:29:08,375 --> 00:29:11,875
who created Nan Madol
were of giant proportions,
553
00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:16,250
much like the legends of
Easter Island, where it is said
554
00:29:16,417 --> 00:29:18,167
that giants magically floated
555
00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:21,000
the stone Moai statues
into place.
556
00:29:22,708 --> 00:29:24,958
Similar stories
involving levitation
557
00:29:25,125 --> 00:29:28,500
are associated with
numerous other megalithic sites
558
00:29:28,708 --> 00:29:31,167
like Stonehenge in England,
559
00:29:31,292 --> 00:29:33,875
the Great Pyramid
in Giza, Egypt,
560
00:29:34,042 --> 00:29:37,333
the Uxmal Pyramid
in the Yucatán Peninsula
561
00:29:37,542 --> 00:29:40,000
and Puma Punku in Bolivia.
562
00:29:41,042 --> 00:29:44,458
There are other stories
around the world
563
00:29:44,583 --> 00:29:46,500
that say the exact same thing--
564
00:29:46,708 --> 00:29:49,042
how gigantic stones
565
00:29:49,208 --> 00:29:52,875
were moved into place
as if by magic.
566
00:29:53,042 --> 00:29:55,792
And you have to ask yourself,
is there a connection?
567
00:29:55,917 --> 00:29:59,625
Did all of our ancestors
receive the same knowledge
568
00:29:59,792 --> 00:30:01,542
from the extraterrestrials?
569
00:30:01,708 --> 00:30:04,750
And the answer to that
is a resounding yes.
570
00:30:17,667 --> 00:30:18,917
They don't know...
571
00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:20,167
I think they don't know
where it came from.
572
00:30:20,375 --> 00:30:22,292
And... But it's-it's not
from here, right?
573
00:30:24,083 --> 00:30:25,833
So, yeah, 60% of the stones,
574
00:30:26,042 --> 00:30:27,458
they don't know
where they came from.
575
00:30:27,625 --> 00:30:29,833
That's incredible. That...
576
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,458
The 60% is essentially
still a mystery, yes?
577
00:30:33,583 --> 00:30:35,042
Huh.
578
00:30:37,333 --> 00:30:39,625
For decades,
mainstream archaeologists
579
00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:43,333
have been frustrated by their
failure to identify the source
580
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,375
for much of the basalt used in
the construction of Nan Madol.
581
00:30:47,542 --> 00:30:49,625
But recently,
a growing number of scientists
582
00:30:49,833 --> 00:30:52,167
have become convinced
that it came from
583
00:30:52,333 --> 00:30:56,750
a volcanic outcropping located
25 miles northeast of Nan Madol
584
00:30:56,875 --> 00:30:58,667
called Pwisehn Malek.
585
00:30:58,833 --> 00:31:03,792
The unusual formation extends
over 400 feet into the air.
586
00:31:03,958 --> 00:31:07,000
And, incredibly, the rock used
to construct Nan Madol
587
00:31:07,167 --> 00:31:09,667
appears to have been extracted
from the least accessible
588
00:31:09,833 --> 00:31:12,583
part of the mountain:
the very top.
589
00:31:12,750 --> 00:31:14,250
But how?
590
00:31:14,417 --> 00:31:17,333
According to
the oral history of Pohnpei,
591
00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:19,500
the basalt was taken
by what the natives
592
00:31:19,667 --> 00:31:22,833
referred to as a giant bird.
593
00:31:23,042 --> 00:31:25,417
There's one story that says
that, at some point,
594
00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:27,833
there were
these giant roosters
595
00:31:28,042 --> 00:31:31,208
that lived
on top of that mountain.
596
00:31:31,375 --> 00:31:34,917
And this rooster
took these basalt blocks
597
00:31:35,083 --> 00:31:38,708
and flew them over
to Nan Madol.
598
00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:42,000
Now, monster roosters
do not exist.
599
00:31:42,208 --> 00:31:46,167
So, my mind always goes
to misunderstood technology.
600
00:31:46,375 --> 00:31:50,875
Machines that were provided
by the extraterrestrials.
601
00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:00,958
When it comes to
extraterrestrial engineering,
602
00:32:01,125 --> 00:32:04,167
look no further
than the Great Pyramids of Giza.
603
00:32:04,292 --> 00:32:07,667
For ancient astronaut theorists,
these colossal structures
604
00:32:07,833 --> 00:32:10,708
are the perfect example of how
605
00:32:10,917 --> 00:32:14,333
humans constructed
an extraordinary site
606
00:32:14,542 --> 00:32:18,542
with the help
of otherworldly technology.
607
00:32:20,542 --> 00:32:24,042
Jerusalem. 2016.
608
00:32:26,542 --> 00:32:29,125
Researchers with the Israel
Antiquities Authority
609
00:32:29,292 --> 00:32:32,917
studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
make a major discovery.
610
00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,541
Using state-of-the-art
imaging technology,
611
00:32:36,542 --> 00:32:39,000
they uncover a passage
of ancient text
612
00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:42,208
previously unseen
by the naked eye.
613
00:32:42,375 --> 00:32:45,416
These researchers have
discovered a new passage
614
00:32:45,417 --> 00:32:48,000
in the Dead Sea Scrolls
that indicates
615
00:32:48,208 --> 00:32:51,042
that Noah's Ark wasn't
in the shape of a ship at all,
616
00:32:51,208 --> 00:32:53,917
but was in the shape
of a pyramid.
617
00:32:56,042 --> 00:32:58,458
Curiously,
this is not the first time
618
00:32:58,667 --> 00:33:01,625
that Noah's Ark has been
depicted as a pyramid.
619
00:33:01,792 --> 00:33:05,917
In the 15th century, Italian
artist Lorenzo Ghiberti
620
00:33:06,083 --> 00:33:08,208
created his masterpiece.
621
00:33:10,583 --> 00:33:12,292
A series of ten panels
622
00:33:12,458 --> 00:33:15,083
that depict scenes
from the Old Testament.
623
00:33:17,125 --> 00:33:19,292
The Italian sculptor
Lorenzo Ghiberti
624
00:33:19,458 --> 00:33:21,500
was selected to create
the doors going into
625
00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:24,208
the new Florence cathedral,
the Il Doumo.
626
00:33:26,375 --> 00:33:28,375
These doors are called
the Gates of Paradise.
627
00:33:30,375 --> 00:33:32,208
And something that is very
extraordinary about them
628
00:33:32,375 --> 00:33:36,249
is that, in one instance,
he shows Noah's Ark as a pyramid
629
00:33:36,250 --> 00:33:39,667
that resembles
the Great Pyramid of Giza.
630
00:33:39,833 --> 00:33:43,167
Was it possible that
Lorenzo, while he was working
631
00:33:43,292 --> 00:33:46,458
for the Church,
learned about the true nature
632
00:33:46,625 --> 00:33:50,000
of Noah's Ark and then
depicted it in his sculpture?
633
00:33:55,458 --> 00:33:57,333
According to historians,
634
00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,208
the Pyramid of Djoser,
constructed in 2600 BC,
635
00:34:01,375 --> 00:34:04,042
was the first pyramid
ever built in Egypt,
636
00:34:04,250 --> 00:34:07,833
and the Great Pyramid
was built 100 years later.
637
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,083
But the dating
of the Great Pyramid
638
00:34:10,250 --> 00:34:12,833
and the two smaller pyramids
that stand next to it
639
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,167
is a point of major contention,
with many researchers suggesting
640
00:34:17,375 --> 00:34:19,417
they were built much earlier.
641
00:34:23,542 --> 00:34:25,917
Egyptologists often assume
642
00:34:26,042 --> 00:34:29,208
that the older pyramids are
643
00:34:29,417 --> 00:34:32,917
less well-created and smaller,
644
00:34:33,083 --> 00:34:35,125
such as Djoser's Pyramid.
645
00:34:35,292 --> 00:34:37,542
And that, ultimately, their
building got better and better
646
00:34:37,667 --> 00:34:40,000
until they finally
built the Great Pyramid
647
00:34:40,208 --> 00:34:43,292
as their final
construction masterpiece.
648
00:34:44,333 --> 00:34:46,667
But it may be
completely reversed of that,
649
00:34:46,833 --> 00:34:49,375
and that the Great Pyramid,
which is by far the best
650
00:34:49,542 --> 00:34:53,458
of all the pyramids, is actually
the oldest of the pyramids.
651
00:34:55,167 --> 00:34:56,792
Two and a half thousand BC,
652
00:34:56,958 --> 00:35:00,292
according to archaeology,
humans made the Great Pyramid.
653
00:35:00,458 --> 00:35:02,542
Now, in old writing,
especially in the Book of Enoch,
654
00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:04,292
and in the so-called
655
00:35:04,458 --> 00:35:07,292
Hitat, which is
a book from Arabian writer,
656
00:35:07,417 --> 00:35:10,708
they say the Great Pyramid
was constructed
657
00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:12,458
before the Great Flood.
658
00:35:12,625 --> 00:35:14,167
What if the Great Pyramid
659
00:35:14,333 --> 00:35:16,167
existed, perhaps
even for millennia,
660
00:35:16,375 --> 00:35:17,875
before the Djoser Pyramid?
661
00:35:18,042 --> 00:35:21,000
Then the Egyptians come along,
discover it, and decide,
662
00:35:21,125 --> 00:35:23,000
"Hey, maybe we can
make one of those, too."
663
00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:25,208
And that's when they build
the Djoser Pyramid.
664
00:35:25,375 --> 00:35:30,000
Perhaps the-the
most similar common motif
665
00:35:30,208 --> 00:35:32,500
or style is the pyramidal shape
666
00:35:32,625 --> 00:35:36,125
that seems to exist
throughout the world.
667
00:35:36,250 --> 00:35:38,750
In Egypt, in Mesoamerica,
in China.
668
00:35:38,917 --> 00:35:41,375
Giant, earthen mounds
in the shape of pyramids.
669
00:35:41,542 --> 00:35:44,249
Why pyramids?
670
00:35:44,250 --> 00:35:46,083
Is it possible
that pyramids were built
671
00:35:46,208 --> 00:35:48,208
by cultures all around the world
672
00:35:48,375 --> 00:35:51,083
because they were trying to
recreate much older structures
673
00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:53,417
that survived a great flood?
674
00:35:53,583 --> 00:35:56,000
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
675
00:35:56,125 --> 00:35:58,833
and some researchers
have even suggested
676
00:35:59,042 --> 00:36:02,417
that those pyramids that were
built by pre-flood civilizations
677
00:36:02,583 --> 00:36:05,708
represent a form
of lost technology.
678
00:36:06,708 --> 00:36:10,000
In his 1998 book
The Giza Power Plant,
679
00:36:10,208 --> 00:36:13,167
noted machinist and engineer
Christopher Dunn
680
00:36:13,333 --> 00:36:16,500
proposed that the shape,
positions of chambers,
681
00:36:16,667 --> 00:36:19,083
and proximity
to underground rivers
682
00:36:19,250 --> 00:36:21,125
indicate the
Great Pyramids of Giza
683
00:36:21,292 --> 00:36:23,583
functioned as power plants.
684
00:36:25,333 --> 00:36:28,083
I personally
think that the pyramids
685
00:36:28,208 --> 00:36:31,375
were some kind of
energy generators, and
686
00:36:31,583 --> 00:36:34,458
here we have the strange idea
that the Ark itself
687
00:36:34,625 --> 00:36:37,917
wasn't a boat-type shaped thing,
688
00:36:38,083 --> 00:36:39,958
but was actually a pyramid.
689
00:36:40,125 --> 00:36:44,208
So, is it possible that whoever
built the pyramids of Egypt
690
00:36:44,417 --> 00:36:49,208
was doing so to try
to preserve their technology?
691
00:36:56,458 --> 00:36:58,333
One of the oldest structures
on Earth
692
00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,833
is a megalithic site in Ireland
called Newgrange.
693
00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:04,500
What's remarkable about
this ancient passage tomb
694
00:37:04,625 --> 00:37:07,833
is not only its age
but the mythology
695
00:37:08,042 --> 00:37:11,708
that says it was engineered
by an otherworldly being
696
00:37:11,875 --> 00:37:14,875
to be a home for the gods.
697
00:37:18,208 --> 00:37:21,333
County Meath, Ireland.
698
00:37:21,542 --> 00:37:24,292
Here, in the Boyne River Valley,
699
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:27,500
a large, circular mound
rises out of the earth--
700
00:37:27,667 --> 00:37:30,000
the Newgrange Passage Tomb,
701
00:37:30,208 --> 00:37:33,250
built around 3200 BC.
702
00:37:33,375 --> 00:37:37,208
It was constructed with
over 200,000 tons of stone
703
00:37:37,375 --> 00:37:40,500
quarried 75 miles away,
704
00:37:40,625 --> 00:37:42,542
and contains one passageway
705
00:37:42,708 --> 00:37:46,000
that leads
to a centralized chamber.
706
00:37:47,417 --> 00:37:49,000
Newgrange is one of
the most important sites
707
00:37:49,208 --> 00:37:50,750
in all of Europe.
708
00:37:50,917 --> 00:37:55,000
It was possibly a stone circle
with 36 or 37 stones.
709
00:37:55,125 --> 00:37:57,417
Only 12 of these still remain.
710
00:37:57,583 --> 00:38:01,708
And after that, a huge mound
made of stone and earth
711
00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:04,708
was built within
the stone circle itself.
712
00:38:04,875 --> 00:38:07,667
Within this,
we have a huge chamber,
713
00:38:07,792 --> 00:38:10,042
which is a cruciform shape,
or a cross.
714
00:38:10,250 --> 00:38:14,500
It's got some beautiful carvings
on the 97 curbstones
715
00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:17,500
that go around the edge as well
as on the main entrance stone.
716
00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:20,083
And within the chamber itself,
717
00:38:20,208 --> 00:38:23,000
mainly zigzags and spirals
718
00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:25,083
and, most notably,
a triple spiral
719
00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:29,583
at the back of the main chamber
within the actual site itself.
720
00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:32,917
Newgrange was designed
721
00:38:33,083 --> 00:38:34,792
to honor the winter solstice,
722
00:38:34,958 --> 00:38:37,500
but according to a book
published in 2012
723
00:38:37,708 --> 00:38:40,542
called
The Newgrange Sirius Mystery,
724
00:38:40,708 --> 00:38:42,833
the entire mound was also built
725
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,000
to align with the star Sirius A
in the night sky.
726
00:38:47,167 --> 00:38:49,542
The declination
of Sirius is the same
727
00:38:49,708 --> 00:38:53,749
as the winter solstice sunrise
moving across the sky,
728
00:38:53,750 --> 00:38:57,542
and through the light box,
which is a rectangular area
729
00:38:57,708 --> 00:39:00,333
just above the main entrance,
this is where
730
00:39:00,458 --> 00:39:03,000
you witness not only
the sunlight coming through,
731
00:39:03,167 --> 00:39:05,458
but also, later in the day,
732
00:39:05,583 --> 00:39:07,583
Sirius light
coming through as well.
733
00:39:10,833 --> 00:39:13,167
The Dogon of Mali
in West Africa
734
00:39:13,333 --> 00:39:17,625
claimed that their gods came
to Earth from the star Sirius B.
735
00:39:19,708 --> 00:39:22,667
Ancient astronaut theorists
connect these visitors
736
00:39:22,875 --> 00:39:25,875
to gods with similar names
all over the world.
737
00:39:28,542 --> 00:39:31,333
But they also point out
an intriguing connection
738
00:39:31,542 --> 00:39:33,875
to Newgrange in Ireland.
739
00:39:34,042 --> 00:39:37,125
In addition to being in line
with the star Sirius,
740
00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:41,750
legend says that this megalith
was built by a Celtic god:
741
00:39:41,917 --> 00:39:43,500
Dagda.
742
00:39:43,625 --> 00:39:46,292
The main god
that's associated with Newgrange
743
00:39:46,458 --> 00:39:49,083
is called Dagda.
So here, once again,
744
00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:53,750
we have this same word that
appears to mean something about
745
00:39:53,958 --> 00:39:55,667
gods coming from Sirius.
746
00:39:55,875 --> 00:39:57,875
The god known as Dagda
747
00:39:58,042 --> 00:40:01,000
was said to be the leader of
a group of otherworldly beings
748
00:40:01,167 --> 00:40:03,708
called the Tuatha Dé Danann.
749
00:40:03,875 --> 00:40:06,000
So, the Tuatha Dé Danann
750
00:40:06,208 --> 00:40:08,708
were this renowned fairy race
751
00:40:08,875 --> 00:40:10,667
that arrived, mysteriously,
in Ireland
752
00:40:10,833 --> 00:40:12,542
many thousands of years ago.
753
00:40:12,708 --> 00:40:16,333
The supreme deity
of the Tuatha Dé Danann
754
00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:18,583
was Dagda. Dagda Mul.
755
00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:21,250
And he was a renowned god.
756
00:40:21,375 --> 00:40:26,000
He was said to have built
and lived inside Newgrange.
757
00:40:26,208 --> 00:40:27,875
They had very advanced weaponry
758
00:40:28,042 --> 00:40:32,042
and different types
of what sounds like machinery.
759
00:40:32,208 --> 00:40:35,250
But also, they taught
the high arts of civilization
760
00:40:35,417 --> 00:40:38,708
and they were said to be
almost like the shining ones
761
00:40:38,875 --> 00:40:40,667
of the Biblical tradition.
762
00:40:40,833 --> 00:40:42,833
It's almost like
a science fiction movie
763
00:40:42,958 --> 00:40:45,917
when you start looking
at these ancient Irish myths.
764
00:40:48,375 --> 00:40:51,167
Could Newgrange have once been
765
00:40:51,375 --> 00:40:53,708
an alien outpost on Earth?
766
00:40:53,875 --> 00:40:56,500
It's certainly an intriguing
possibility,
767
00:40:56,625 --> 00:40:58,625
and just one
of the many examples
768
00:40:58,792 --> 00:41:01,458
of diverse ancient constructions
769
00:41:01,583 --> 00:41:03,750
that defy
our current understanding
770
00:41:03,917 --> 00:41:07,583
of just how and why
they were made.
771
00:41:07,708 --> 00:41:10,667
From the megalithic temples
of Malta
772
00:41:10,833 --> 00:41:14,042
and the precisely cut stones
at Puma Punku
773
00:41:14,208 --> 00:41:18,125
to the enigma that are
the Great Pyramids of Egypt,
774
00:41:18,292 --> 00:41:22,000
these remarkable creations
present possible evidence
775
00:41:22,125 --> 00:41:25,250
of the role
extraterrestrial engineering
776
00:41:25,375 --> 00:41:26,708
may have played
777
00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:29,458
in our ancestors' distant past.
778
00:41:29,625 --> 00:41:32,833
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