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A 2000-year-old computer.
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It had more complicated inner workings
than a modern-day Swiss watch.
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Giant power plants.
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It's very strange,
but it's clearly a battery.
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And weapons more powerful
than anything that exists today.
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It roared,
and then flashes of fire came out of it.
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Throughout the world,
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there are artifacts and stories...
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...that point to advanced technology
in the distant past.
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Could these be products
of our ancestors' imaginations?
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Or might there be
a more profound explanation?
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It sounds fantastic to us...
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...that they could have had
some kind of alien technology.
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It's clearly what they're describing.
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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 we find proof
by examining mysterious devices?
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The Giza Necropolis, Egypt. 1993.
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A team of engineers uses
a remotely-operated camera...
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...in an attempt
to discover the true function...
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...of what is believed
to be an air shaft...
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...leading from the supposed
Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid.
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First discovered in 1872,
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archaeologists long
considered these narrow tunnels...
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...to be ventilation ducts.
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This robot traveled up this small shaft,
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which was too small for a human
or any type of device to go through,
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and all of a sudden,
it finds a closed door...
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...hinged by two little metal clamps.
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According to mainstream archaeologists,
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the door and metal handles
were intentionally built...
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...as a symbolic passageway
that the queen would travel through...
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...to the afterlife.
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But some researchers have questioned...
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...why this passageway
would have been designed...
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...with a deliberate blockage,
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and why on a plateau filled
with monumental pyramids,
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believed to serve as royal tombs,
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...is the Great Pyramid
the only one with such a door?
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Egyptologists are very much fond
of saying...
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...that pyramids are tombs,
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and that they have been robbed
at some point in the past.
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But the fact is that we have found,
in the 20th century,
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a number of pyramids
whose central king's chamber, so to speak,
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is intact.
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And when they opened the sarcophagus,
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they found that sarcophagus
to be empty, as well.
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If the Great Pyramid was not a tomb,
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what may have been its true purpose?
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In May 2011,
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another team of researchers set out to
further explore the blocked air shaft...
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...in the Queen's Chamber.
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This time, the crew used a robot
equipped with a micro-snake camera...
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to slip through a hole
and reveal what was beyond the door.
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When they actually penetrated
this small door,
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they found a hidden room
within the pyramid.
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What they found was copper fittings,
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or the metal fittings.
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Another feature of the back
of these metal fittings...
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...was that on one side,
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...the loop looked like it was corroded.
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The camera also looked down
and scanned the floor,
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and what we saw was red markings.
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My interpretation of those were,
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they were electrical symbols.
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But why were they there?
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Could these artifacts
be actual evidence...
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...that electricity once coursed
through the structure?
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And if so,
could the Great Pyramid of Giza...
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...have been built to serve
as not a royal tomb
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...but a power plant,
as some researchers contend?
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If we dismiss the tomb theory,
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and we look at the pyramid itself,
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we see something that modern engineers
can really tune into and understand.
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What we have is a very,
very precise building...
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that has the precision
of a fraction of an inch,
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is something that is very noteworthy
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and not indicative of a simple,
agrarian culture.
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So, what we have is something
that is almost like a machine.
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If the Great Pyramid
was a sophisticated machine,
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potentially capable of creating energy,
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how could it have worked?
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Some researchers believe clues
can be found...
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...by exploring underneath the structure.
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In 2000, maritime engineer, John Cadman,
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proposed a theory
that the Egyptians pumped water...
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...from the nearby Nile River
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into a small chamber
underneath the Great Pyramid.
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The pump could then create
intense hydraulic pressure...
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...that would cause the
entire pyramid to vibrate.
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In the subterranean chamber,
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there is some evidence that shows
that there had been water present in it...
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...and that there's water erosion
on the floor...
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...and then up in the thin area.
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And then, also, because it was
a hydraulic pulse generator.
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See how the rarefaction wave,
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this extremely low-pressure wave,
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which would have struck the ceiling,
and the ceiling is actually chipped.
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And that would have been from the acts...
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...of compression waves
hitting the ceiling.
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That's very evident.
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If Cadman's theory proves true,
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what would have been the purpose
of the hydraulic pulse?
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Engineer Chris Dunn believes
the answer can be found...
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by further examination of the shafts
in what some call "The Queen's Chamber,"
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where traces of zinc
and hydrochloric acid...
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...have been discovered.
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I believe the chemical coming in
through the northern shaft...
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was hydrated zinc,
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and the other chemical coming through
the southern shaft and into the chamber...
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...was dilute hydrochloric acid.
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These are actually seen
on the chamber walls.
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Dunn suggests that the two chemicals
were poured down...
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...through the shafts...
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...and then mixed together
inside the Queen's Chamber,
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triggering combustion.
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This vessel represents
the Queen's Chamber.
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Into the tubes,
we're going to pour hydrated zinc...
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...and then hydrochloric acid.
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When you bring these two liquids together,
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and a chemical reaction occurs,
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and a product of that chemical reaction
is hydrogen.
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And you can see the vapor, the hydrogen,
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escaping through the chimney.
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And there you have the reaction.
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Dunn speculates that the hydrogen gas...
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...traveled from the Queen's Chamber
into the King's Chamber.
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Then the vibrations
from the subterranean pool...
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...energized the hydrogen atoms
into a microwave energy beam.
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The evidence that indicates
the use of hydrogen...
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...can be found in the King's Chamber.
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There's a shaft in the King's Chamber,
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has dimensions of 8.4 by 4.8,
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which would be suitable
for a wave guide for a maser,
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or a microwave amplification
through stimulated emission radiation.
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And from there,
we can actually propose...
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...many different ideas
of what they did with it.
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The ancient Egyptians demonstrated
an exceptional level of skill...
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...in everything that they created
during the Old Kingdom,
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but the question remains:
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Did they do it on their own?
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Or did they have some access
to information...
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...or technology
that was not of this earth?
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If Giza was, in fact, a power plant,
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could the energy have been used
for some otherworldly purpose,
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as some
ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
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Perhaps further evidence
that advanced technology...
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...really did exist on Earth
thousands of years ago...
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...can be found by examining
yet another mysterious device,
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the Ark of the Covenant.
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Approximately 17 miles northeast
of Jerusalem...
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...lies the ancient ruins
of the city of Jericho.
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Here, archaeologists
have uncovered evidence...
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...of settlements dating back to 9000 BC.
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According to the Hebrew Bible,
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Jericho is believed to be
where God spoke to Joshua,
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the successor to Moses,
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and instructed him
to march around the walled city...
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...once every six days
with seven priests...
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...carrying rams' horns,
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and followed by the Ark of the Covenant,
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the golden chest containing
the Ten Commandments.
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Then, on the seventh day,
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under orders by God,
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Joshua and the Israelites...
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...marched around the perimeter
of the city one last time...
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...but this time,
they blew the rams' horns.
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The walls of Jericho fell,
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and the city was sacked.
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In the Old Testament,
you see very clear descriptions...
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...in Joshua 6 about the shofar,
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which is described as a trumpet
that was used in the battle of Jericho...
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...to actually bring the walls down.
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To religious scholars,
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the collapse of Jericho's walls
was a miracle.
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To most modern-day scientists
and historians,
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the destruction was most probably
caused by an earthquake.
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But could it have been something else?
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Could the Israelites have possessed
advanced sound wave technology?
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If so, where did it come from?
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In the scriptures,
we have a fascinating story...
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...about the fall of the walls of Jericho.
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Armies were told
to circle the wall repeatedly...
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...and then finally blow their horns,
and down came the walls.
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And we know
there was a powerful presence.
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The Ark of the Covenant,
this mysterious, sacred item,
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was with them at all times,
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which, of course, was part of the event...
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...and part of the fall
of the walls of Jericho.
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The idea that some kind
of sonic weapon...
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...was used to destroy these huge,
thick, ancient walls...
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...to allow the Israelites to, basically,
take over that city, is a fascinating one.
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So what kind of technology
were they using?
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It sounds utterly fantastic to us...
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...that they could have had some kind
of advanced alien technology.
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It's clearly what they're describing.
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There is little doubt
that the Ark of the Covenant was a weapon.
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It was described as a weapon,
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famously, when the Israelites
crossed over into Canaan,
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and they had to pass by Jericho.
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And it could be
that there was some technology.
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According to many
ancient astronaut theorists,
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Moses and the Israelites acquired...
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...a supernatural source of energy
at Mount Sinai.
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This powerful energy source
was later contained...
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...in the Ark of the Covenant...
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...and would have provided
the kind of power necessary...
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...to amplify Joshua's horns,
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and make them
into a powerful sonic weapons.
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The Ark of the Covenant appears
to be some sort of advanced technology.
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What's interesting
about the Battle of Jericho...
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...is that this particular use
of the shofar...
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...clearly seems to be the same thing...
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...that we're seeing
with particle beam technology,
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death ray technology,
thunderbolt technology.
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It very clearly seems that, once again,
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we have an extraterrestrial technology...
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that the ancient people had
at the ready...
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...that they could use,
when needed, for military campaigns.
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But even if the Israelites possessed
some sort of advanced,
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extraterrestrial technology,
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could the amplified sound of rams' horns
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really bring down stone walls?
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According to scientist
and former astronaut, Prof Taylor Wang,
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recent research into the field
of physical acoustics...
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...suggests it is a distinct possibility.
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Jericho, wall breaking apart.
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If you said it has happened,
caused by acoustic, caused by sound...
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Well, the possibility has to be,
somehow a resonance is built in that wall.
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Ah, may not be the whole wall,
may be some of the structure material,
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when that resonance happens,
amplitude gets large enough.
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Yes, it could destroy almost anything.
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Because what the resonance does
is store enormous amount of energy.
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So you keep on, keep on feeding it.
Eventually, it shatters everything.
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When you want to know
how powerful sound is,
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you have to realize
that the basic thing that sound is,
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is a pressure wave.
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And it will come down to the amount
of energy you put into your sound wave,
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and whether or not...
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...that particular pressure wave
you generate...
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...will couple or impact the thing
you're trying to destroy.
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You can make it quite powerful,
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because you can make
a very high amplitude,
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very large pressures in the sound.
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It might be at a frequency or amplitude
where we no longer hear it as sound,
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but from a physics point
of view, it is still sound,
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because it's a pressure wave in the air.
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So, it can get quite destructive
if you put enough energy into it.
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You could also think of it
as a particle weapon,
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because you're moving air around,
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and you would just need something
to focus the sound,
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which we know how to do.
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And so that would give you
a directed energy beam with sound.
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Did advanced
extraterrestrial technology...
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...really help the Israelites survive
their exodus in the desert,
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as the Hebrew Bible contends?
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And, if so, might early humans
have possessed other,
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equally astounding technological devices?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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...and believe further clues
can be found...
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...by examining an object...
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...that dates back
to the second century BC,
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one that functioned as a computer.
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Did aliens
really inspire our ancestors...
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...to build ancient temples and pyramids?
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And if they came here,
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did they leave behind
any advanced knowledge of physics,
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astronomy or mathematics?
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If so, is there any evidence
that remains to this day?
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One example might be this one.
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Often described as the world's
first mechanical computer,
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it dates back over 2000 years.
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The Antikythera device was
found in 1900 by sponge divers...
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...diving off a small island
in the Aegean called Antikythera.
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There was a shipwreck there,
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and in it was a coral-encrusted box,
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and it was made of metal alloys.
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And it then went to the Athens Museum
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where, a good 50 years later,
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they were able to x-ray this box...
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...and they were able to discern...
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...cogged wheels
that were interconnected...
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...and give us a very good depiction
of what this thing was.
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And it is a computer.
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It's a really sophisticated machine.
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It's a very
interesting piece of technology,
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because it served two purposes.
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One was that it was
an astronomical device...
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...where you could, by using it,
chart your position to the stars...
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...and navigate your way
through the seas.
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It was also an astrological device,
so that someone could tell you,
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"Ah, if you were born on this date,"
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"and your planet sign is this,"
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"then certain things
were going to happen to you"
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"when the planets are in this alignment."
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So, it was a very interesting piece
of technology that, literally,
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had more complicated gears
and inner workings...
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...than a modern-day Swiss watch.
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And it's found to be dated,
I think, like 200 BC.
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So, it's really an anomaly
as to who could've created that...
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...and what it was being used for.
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When archeologists first started
to examine this thing in the 1950s,
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they said that they never could conceive
of the ancient Greeks...
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...having such complicated machinery.
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And, in fact, they said,
this was tantamount...
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...to finding a jet airplane
in the tomb of King Tut.
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Even older
than the Antikythera mechanism...
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...are these carvings on a wall...
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...at the Dendera Temple complex
in Egypt.
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To some, the strange designs
look eerily similar...
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...to objects very much in use today.
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In Egypt,
there is this underground crypt...
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...at Dendera that was always secret,
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and only the high priests
had access to that crypt.
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It's very hot in there,
very narrow, low ceiling.
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And on the walls,
you have these reliefs...
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...of what looks like ancient light bulbs.
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Because we have to question one thing.
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How did the ancient Egyptians light
the inside of their tombs?
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According to most
mainstream archeologists,
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torches were used
by the ancient Egyptians...
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...to light the pitch-black chambers
of tombs and temples.
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Yet, nowhere on the ceilings
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is there even the slightest evidence
of soot or smoke residue.
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There isn't enough oxygen
inside those tombs...
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...with which to support
or feed a flame of a torch.
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The only remaining solution is,
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by some sort
of an artificial light source.
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And that is, for example, a light bulb.
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So, at the underground crypt at Dendera,
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we find reliefs of such light bulbs.
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But how could the ancient Egyptians
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have used anything resembling
a modern-day light bulb...
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...without access to electricity?
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After all,
electricity wouldn't be discovered...
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...for thousands of years.
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That is, of course, with the exception...
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...of what scientists call
the Baghdad Battery.
341
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The Baghdad Battery
was discovered in ancient Iraq.
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Scholars today say
there's no way that ancient man...
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...was using electricity or light bulbs.
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So, they look at this Baghdad Battery...
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...and there's about a dozen of them
that have been found in Iraq...
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...and the only mainstream theory...
347
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...is that they were using it
for electroplating jewelry.
348
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Two major proponents
of ancient alien theory,
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Jason Martell and Giorgio Tsoukalos,
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demonstrate just how
the Baghdad Battery...
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...could generate electricity,
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using a modern mock-up of the device.
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Well, basically,
this is made out of a clay pot,
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clay just found naturally
in that region in Southern Iraq.
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And then they would use
a small copper lining...
356
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...and something along the lines
of an asphalt stopper...
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...wrapped around an iron rod.
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And these all applied together...
359
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...and the combination
of some weak acidic acid... vinegar,
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grape juice, orange juice
in this case, wine...
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would be able to generate a charge
by combining these elements...
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...with the rod,
the iron rod and the copper.
363
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And the combination of that creates
an abundance of electricity.
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So what we're gonna do is, uh,
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basically, just fill the clay pot
with some orange juice here.
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-I'll try not to spill it too much.
-Okay.
367
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And then we'll go ahead
and put the copper rod back in there.
368
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Copper and iron rod.
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We'll give it a moment to kind of fill
that copper area there.
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And then by turning on the volt meter...
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...and applying this to each side,
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we should be able to generate a charge.
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And there it goes, into the positive.
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And if we give it some time
to get the electrolytes...
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...really buzzing in there,
376
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you'll see that this volt
will actually continue to rise.
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It is a battery.
Everybody agrees with that.
378
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But nobody knows why they made it
and how they made it.
379
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What mind would think of that?
380
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You know, electrical current
back several thousand years ago?
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It's very strange,
but it's clearly a battery.
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00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,430
The whole idea
that ancient civilizations...
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...actually had knowledge
of electricity...
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...and used electricity
is an accepted archeological fact today.
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Just like in our own civilization,
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where about 200 years ago,
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Benjamin Franklin and other scientists
began experimenting...
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...with simple electrical devices,
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00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,600
we now have evidence
that over 3000 years ago,
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people were also experimenting
with electrical devices.
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Where might it have led them?
392
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What other electrical devices
would they have been able to create?
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00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,280
I believe they probably created
all kinds of electrical devices.
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00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:01,520
Are the Antikythera device
and the Baghdad Battery...
395
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,160
...evidence that our ancestors
really were in possession...
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00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:06,920
...of advanced technology?
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00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,760
And if so, might this technology
have had extraterrestrial origins?
398
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,800
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further clues may be found...
399
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,560
...in the story
of a top secret Nazi project...
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...simply known as The Bell.
401
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In a remote valley
just outside Ludwikowice, Poland...
402
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,560
...stands a strange circular structure...
403
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,520
...known as the Henge,
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00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,000
or Fly Trap.
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00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,750
We are in the middle of a valley,
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00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,880
which was taken over by the SS...
407
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,200
...and transformed into a secret research,
development and industrial facility.
408
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,840
It was closely guarded.
409
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:04,040
Inside of this valley,
we have three security rings,
410
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closing specific areas from each other.
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Inside of the innermost circle
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this structure stands,
and it's quite mysterious.
413
00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,030
Mainstream scholars believe...
414
00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,720
...the structure served
as the concrete support base...
415
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,680
...to a cooling tower used by a coalmine.
416
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,040
But according to Witkowski and others,
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00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,920
the German high command...
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00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,240
...would not have devoted
so many military resources here...
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...if the valley contained
only an energy plant.
420
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,040
They say the Henge was used
to test a new highly advanced machine...
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known as "Die Glocke," or "The Bell."
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00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,750
The Bell, Die Glocke,
423
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was probably one the top secret projects
of the Third Reich.
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00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,880
It was so secret that it's even unclear
on how much Hitler was told.
425
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,720
There's a great deal of evidence
that suggests that, uh,
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the scientists,
including Hermann Oberth...
427
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,720
...and Wernher Von Braun and others,
428
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,840
were working on a bell shaped craft...
429
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,840
...that was electromagnetic
in its propulsion system.
430
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,160
Surviving sketches depict The Bell
as having a ceramic covering...
431
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,480
...and dimensions measuring
10 feet high and five feet in diameter.
432
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,520
Its design appears contrary
to modern aerodynamic principles.
433
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,841
If you're starting to think
about a bell shape for flight,
434
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the... the challenge you're facing,
I think, is...
435
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,760
...making it aerodynamic
when you move around side to side...
436
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:45,910
...and forward and backward.
437
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,920
Because you're presenting a very large
cross-sectional area to the air.
438
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,880
And you're gonna generate a lot of drag.
439
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,430
So you might be very good...
440
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,840
if you want just, like, a hovercraft
that went up and down.
441
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,120
But once you start moving,
I think you're gonna run into trouble.
442
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:02,760
But if The Bell was not
a new type of aircraft,
443
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,240
then what was it?
444
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,840
According to some
ancient astronaut theorists,
445
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,640
The Bell may have been a time machine.
446
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,830
There is a kind
of vortices named solitons,
447
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,230
which are vortices isolated
electromagnetically...
448
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,480
...from the outside world.
449
00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,680
Recent research and experiments show...
450
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:27,030
...that the link between gravity
and electromagnetic physics...
451
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:30,520
...is much stronger than the scientists
thought for some time.
452
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,110
The laws of the universe being universal,
453
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,080
if you take the right
electromagnetic field...
454
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,680
...and very high voltage pulse it
or phase it in a certain way,
455
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,030
you can get some very strange phenomenon.
456
00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,360
You can make things disappear
and reappear.
457
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,590
Therefore, it follows to reason
that this would be studied...
458
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:55,760
...and that the Nazi Bell was probably
an attempt by that regime...
459
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,560
...to develop
some type of flying machine...
460
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,160
...that would use these sort
of advanced electromagnetic concepts.
461
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,200
But was time travel even a possibility?
462
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,840
According to German-born
physicist, Albert Einstein,
463
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,680
humans were theoretically capable of it.
464
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,790
His theory of special relativity
actually showed, for the first time,
465
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,040
...that time can slow down
when you go very fast.
466
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,800
And so that has an impact
on going into the future.
467
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,880
It allows you
to travel really fast somewhere,
468
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,080
and your time goes slower
than somebody else
469
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,400
and you end up in the future,
470
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,280
relative to what you thought
you were doing.
471
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,470
The harder one to think about
is general relativity,
472
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,160
where Einstein talks about gravity
and how to describe gravity.
473
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,520
And there,
you can start thinking about space-time...
474
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,590
...and bending it,
and, actually, by warping space...
475
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:46,830
...and time in the right way,
476
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,680
you end up going backwards in time.
477
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,440
While no records exist indicating
The Bell was ever used during the war,
478
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,920
as the Allied military forces pushed
into Germany,
479
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,720
the entire project and its commander,
480
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,680
SS General Hans Kammler,
suddenly disappeared.
481
00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:13,630
SS General Hans Kammler,
482
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,680
who was going to defect
in exchange for immunity.
483
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,920
But then, by the end of the war,
he disappeared.
484
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,640
So where did Hans Kammler go
and what did he take?
485
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,400
I think he took The Bell.
486
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,960
Did he create a wormhole?
Did he create a Stargate?
487
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,480
And this is what the Nazis
were working on.
488
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,800
Did Kammler and the other Nazis...
489
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,320
...really use The Bell to escape justice
by disappearing across time?
490
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,000
Or possibly to another planet?
491
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,120
In the spring of 1945,
Germany's war effort collapsed.
492
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,560
And as the Allied armies
advanced towards Berlin,
493
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,800
German scientists and engineers
abandoned their laboratories.
494
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,280
Hitler's search
for a wonder weapon failed.
495
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,550
Instead,
it was the Americans who scored...
496
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,680
...the decisive technological edge...
497
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,200
...with their development
of the atomic bomb.
498
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,120
But according
ancient astronaut theorists,
499
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,920
a similar and perhaps
even more devastating weapon...
500
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,800
...had already existed.
501
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,680
Unleashed in an area
that is now part of India...
502
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,520
...more than 3000 years ago.
503
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,080
An unmanned aerial vehicle hurtles
across the sky.
504
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,320
It travels at supersonic speeds,
505
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,880
spitting fire,
506
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,160
launching deadly missiles,
507
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,920
programmed to seek and destroy.
508
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,760
The effect is devastating.
509
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,440
High-tech warfare at its most lethal.
510
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,560
But what could be a page stolen
from a US military black project...
511
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,480
...is actually a description
written down over 2500 years ago...
512
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,760
...in the sacred Hindu text
known as the Mahabharata.
513
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,840
When it comes
to the ancient Indian accounts,
514
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,560
they're really eyewitness testimony
of the gods fighting.
515
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:33,080
When you read the ancient Hindu epics,
they talk about horrific weapons.
516
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,080
Missiles...
517
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,480
...and atomic weapons,
518
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,960
...massive laser weapons that are melting
and devastating entire cities.
519
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,270
I refuse to think
that our ancestors came up...
520
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,320
...with these stories out of thin air.
521
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,360
When writing was first invented,
they wrote down their history.
522
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,360
The first things
that were ever written down...
523
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,640
...were actual events.
524
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,040
How is it that some of the earliest
written accounts of warfare...
525
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,600
...describe sophisticated weaponry...
526
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,280
...that humans wouldn't develop
for thousands of years?
527
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,720
For the answer,
ancient astronaut theorists...
528
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,550
...point to numerous descriptions
of deadly weapons...
529
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,480
...found throughout the Mahabharata.
530
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,800
Many strikingly similar
to those used by the military today.
531
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,320
One example are the incendiary weapons...
532
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,720
...wielded by Vishnu,
533
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,840
which are specially equipped
to find their targets.
534
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,000
Vishnu has a flying, guided missile,
the Narayanastra.
535
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:52,000
And once it is launched,
it will destroy everything that is moving.
536
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,600
So, you know,
according to the description,
537
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,640
it is a motion detecting weapon,
538
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,840
which is pretty much like
our modern weaponry.
539
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,720
There is also a weapon
that is heat-seeking.
540
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,040
Heat-seeking is a very effective way
of finding something.
541
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,470
You would fire a missile
from behind one aircraft...
542
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,080
...at an aircraft in front of you,
543
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,480
specifically targeted
against the hot engine.
544
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,400
And then you were able to move off
from behind the airplane,
545
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,880
and the heat-seeker
would still be able to find the target.
546
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,880
I am aware
that there are forces of nature.
547
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,400
You've got thunder, lightning,
earthquakes.
548
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,360
But how would you go
from witnessing that...
549
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,760
...to a description
of heat-seeking missiles?
550
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,160
In addition to guided missiles,
551
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,200
the Mahabharata is filled
with accounts...
552
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,560
...of other sophisticated weapons
wielded by the gods.
553
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,400
In the Mahabharata,
554
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,200
forty six different kind of weapons
are described.
555
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,480
And each one has a specific function.
556
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,040
The Pashupatastra is a weapon...
557
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,800
...that actually multiplies
into seven different arrows.
558
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,920
So then it hits seven different targets
at the same time.
559
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,120
Salva is an anti-god.
560
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,440
He can make his vehicle disappear.
561
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200
So we're talking about
a flying object that is stealth.
562
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,520
He also can put people into sleep.
563
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,240
So we're perhaps talking about nerve gas.
564
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,120
They talk about weapons
that are so high-tech,
565
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,600
that it's...
Could only be from extraterrestrials.
566
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,400
But of all the weapons described
in the Mahabharata,
567
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,520
perhaps the most deadly
was a device called the Brahmastra.
568
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,160
A weapon that the texts warned
was never to be used.
569
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,400
Brahmastra is described
as the ultimate weapon.
570
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,480
Once it is launched,
it will simply burn everything.
571
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,200
So it will incinerate the entire universe.
572
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,910
We're talking about a nuclear blast...
573
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,830
...a hundredfold magnitude
of the bomb that we have seen...
574
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,600
...or experienced in our own times.
575
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,440
Should never be used.
576
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,360
And... and yet, someone was going
to make use of that Brahmastra.
577
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,520
So that's the dilemma...
578
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,680
...that the books talks about
in the Mahabharata.
579
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,760
India now has a rocket program,
580
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,720
and one of their rockets is called Shakti.
581
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,480
Shakti means goddess energy.
582
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,440
This is also another divine weapon.
583
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,640
Indians are now sort of going back
to their text or rather mythology...
584
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,760
...and they're reliving it
by their modern technology.
585
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,350
Is it possible that alien beings
visiting the earth...
586
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:54,880
...thousands of years ago...
587
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,160
...dealt with the same issues
of nuclear annihilation...
588
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,640
...that humans are dealing with today?
589
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,360
And might the deadly weapons currently
being deployed by the world's military...
590
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,440
...really be recreations of weapons
first used on earth...
591
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,320
...by extraterrestrials
in the ancient past?
592
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:15,880
Perhaps.
593
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:21,120
But then it should also be possible
to predict mankind's military future...
594
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,640
...by searching
through still more ancient texts.
595
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,640
May, 2010.
596
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,600
Off the coast of California.
597
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,720
A powerful new weapon
shoots down unmanned aerial drones...
598
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,880
...during secret testing carried out
by the US Navy.
599
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,240
Firing from a warship
at a distance of nearly two miles,
600
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,040
a ray of intense laser energy...
601
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,960
...burns through targets traveling
at speeds of more than 300 miles per hour.
602
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,000
But is it possible that
such so-called death rays
603
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,760
could have been used before?
604
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,800
Perhaps in ancient times?
605
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,640
I'm quite convinced
that there have been, in... in the past,
606
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,830
...advanced civilizations on Earth
that did have such things...
607
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,400
...as the so-called death ray.
608
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,550
Whether it was used as a weapon...
609
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,830
...or whether
it was just observed being used...
610
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,000
...is a very, very open question.
611
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,080
In 214 BC,
612
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,600
Greeks living in the
Sicilian city of Syracuse...
613
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,280
...prepared for an attack
by a fleet of Roman warships.
614
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,000
Though outnumbered
by a superior military force,
615
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,360
ancient texts suggest that Syracuse...
616
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,160
...was well-defended by a mysterious
and powerful new weapon.
617
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,360
Probably the
most famous ancient death ray...
618
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:54,680
...was the one that was built
by the Greek inventor Archimedes.
619
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,160
He was able to create this giant mirror...
620
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:04,240
...and parabolic disc
and focus the sun's rays on the fleet...
621
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,400
...and set these ships on fire.
622
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,680
So here we have what would be a primitive
kind of death ray that really worked.
623
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,000
But how could
Archimedes have conceived...
624
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,640
...such a formidable weapon?
625
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,120
One far in advance
of any known at the time?
626
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:30,160
Researchers suggest the inventor
may have drawn inspiration...
627
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,800
...from Greek myths written nearly
600 years before the battle of Syracuse.
628
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,480
Myths that told the stories of gods...
629
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,520
...that brandished cosmic weapons
of incredible destructive force.
630
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,030
If you look in the Greek tradition,
631
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,280
they have a very clear description
of Zeus' thunderbolt,
632
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,670
which he was able to point at people...
633
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,560
or at other things
that he wanted to explode,
634
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,550
hit the button, and what they described
as lightning would come out...
635
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,560
...and create a fierce
and terrible explosion.
636
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,120
But if death ray type weapons
had been used in ancient times,
637
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,960
might there be some sort
of tangible proof?
638
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,360
Perhaps there is.
639
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,680
Here, scattered throughout
the Scottish countryside,
640
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,240
can be found numerous ancient ruins.
641
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,000
Many appear to have been forts
or other enclosures,
642
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,160
dating back thousands of years.
643
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,560
Remarkably, they also appear
to have been subjected to fire and heat...
644
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,480
...so intense it practically
turned the stone structures into glass.
645
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,040
It's a process more scientifically known
as vitrification.
646
00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:50,440
Here you have these stone buildings
in which an analysis of the outside...
647
00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:54,230
...comes to the conclusion
that they were heated...
648
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,280
...to over 1000 degrees Celsius
in temperature.
649
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,320
Conventional fire
could not have reached this heat.
650
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:03,910
You needed a sustained burn
at 1000 degrees Celsius...
651
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,200
...for a long period of time.
652
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,360
According to Celtic legend,
653
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,640
there once was a god named Lugh,
654
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:15,960
also known as the Shining One,
655
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,960
the Sun God, and the God of War.
656
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,480
Like the Greek god, Zeus,
657
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,400
Lugh was said
to wield a mighty magic spear...
658
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,680
...not unlike the thunderbolts
of his Greek counterpart.
659
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,480
When battle was near,
660
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,160
Lugh would draw out his spear,
661
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:40,560
and it roared
and then flashes of fire came out of it
662
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,400
and it tore
through the ranks of the enemy,
663
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,800
never tired of killing and slaying.
664
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,080
It was one amazing weapon.
665
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:59,160
I mean, how else can we explain
all those numerous vitrified forts...
666
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:04,120
...where the surface of the stone
is as smooth as glass?
667
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,600
And these spots can only be found...
668
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,240
...in very concentrated areas
through Northern Scotland.
669
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,280
All these descriptions
of sophisticated weaponry...
670
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,560
...sounds almost like science fiction.
671
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:20,920
But is it really?
672
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,360
Because we have those weapons today.
673
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,240
And I think that all the stuff
that we have today...
674
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:31,680
...has been around before...
675
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:36,200
...and that our past
is not science fiction but science fact.
676
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,600
Deadly laser beams.
677
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,520
Acoustic weapons.
678
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,600
Time machines.
679
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,520
Were these mysterious devices...
680
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,080
...really in the possession
of our ancestors...
681
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:53,880
...thousands of years ago?
682
00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:00,400
And if so, could they have been built
with the help of extraterrestrial beings?
683
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,000
Perhaps as our own technology
continues to advance,
684
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,680
we will come closer,
not only to our future,
685
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,640
but to a rediscovery of our past...
686
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,840
...and a reconnection
with our alien ancestors.