NARRATOR: A mysterious metal object that defies ex
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Very strange.
So what does the museum have to say about this?
It is a strange piece for us as well.
NARRATOR: An ancient stone carving
that may possess advanced technology.
DAVID SEDAT: Inside the crystalline structure were great
memory chip banks.
NARRATOR: An extraordinary crystal skull
with strange properties.
So, what are we looking at here?
JAMIE JONES: It seems to be a very strong,
protective energy.
NARRATOR: On Ancient Aliens, we've investigated
the world's oldest and most incredible
relics up close and in person.
Now, we take a look back at some of the most mysterious artifacts
we've examined all over the globe.
Artifacts that, according to ancient astronaut theorists,
provide undeniable proof of extraterrestrial contact.
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On Ancient Aliens, we have examined
some of the most mysterious artifacts on Earth.
Artifacts that, I believe,
offer compelling evidence that our ancestors
were visited by extraterrestrials.
And that is exactly what I found when I traveled
to a museum in Romania with Erich von Däniken to examine
one of the most extraordinary relics ever discovered.
NARRATOR: Workers digging a trench
along the banks of the Mures River
unearth two giant bones.
And with them, a mysterious metal object,
buried 35 feet beneath the surface.
The discovery brings the project to a halt
as the crew takes their findings to a nearby museum.
This strange object, known today as the Wedge of Aiud,
continues to baffle archaeologists
because it is an aluminum alloy
that appears to have been made thousands of years
before humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal.
It was 10 meters in depth associated with some bones,
which they later identified as woolly mammoth bones.
If they were contemporary,
all of them, then they were in use sometime in the period
when Neanderthals roamed the Earth.
So they were extinct 40,000 years ago,
so they must be older than that.
The Wedge was analyzed three times to my knowledge.
The main metal in its composition is aluminum.
MICHAEL DENNIN: Humans didn't really start working
with aluminum until well into the 1800s.
So when you look at this wedge and you analyze it,
it really has most of the modern properties
we would associate with aluminum.
NARRATOR: In January of 2017,
ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich von Däniken
were offered a rare opportunity
to get a firsthand look at the Wedge of Aiud.
Museum curator Ana Gruia
has taken it out of a storage locker
where it has been deliberately hidden
from the public since the early 1970s.
Okay.
This is exciting.
Okay, I'm just gonna put my gloves on.
TSOUKALOS: This is great.
GRUIA: So this is it.
-VON DÄNIKEN: Oh, wow. -TSOUKALOS: Okay.
VON DÄNIKEN: This is strange.
It's very heavy.
-Giorgio, take it, it's heavy. -This is crazy.
TSOUKALOS: Wow.
And this was found at a depth
of 10 meters, which is about 30 feet,
-in the ground. -GRUIA: Yes.
TSOUKALOS: Yes, and here, this is
where they took the sample out, and here, to make the analysis.
And here you see two pieces
that are broken off, sort of.
So maybe it was attached or something.
But very strange.
So what does the museum have to say about this?
This is a very strange piece.
It is, it is a strange piece for us as well.
As historians, we do not consider it
a historical object that we're used to.
We don't know what it was used for,
and we acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating,
and its composition as well.
VON DÄNIKEN: So, for what can you use this?
It looks like a hammer or a shovel, but, Giorgio,
what is the word of, in English?
(speaking in foreign language)
-Oh, an excavator tooth. -VON DÄNIKEN: Well,
it looks like this.
-It could have been something like it. -Yeah.
VON DÄNIKEN: But these excavator tooths
-are never made out of aluminum. -TSOUKALOS: No, it's too weak.
-VON DÄNIKEN: Aluminum is too soft. -TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
VON DÄNIKEN: They are made out of steel.
Especially hard steel, so it could not be that.
So we have a real mystery here.
But you see this patina over this whole object?
And this creates another problem.
TSOUKALOS: Yes, because you cannot fake a patina.
It's impossible
to artificially create a patina.
NARRATOR: The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds
that forms on the surface of the metal
during exposure to atmospheric elements.
The older the object,
the thicker the patina layer will be.
It takes hundreds, if not thousands of years
for a thick layer of patina,
as this apparently is,
for it to develop.
Yes, we agree there are two basic problems.
One, that aluminum was not invented
at the age when we presume this was in use.
And second, it's the patina, as you noted.
VON DÄNIKEN: Which speaks for the date.
-TSOUKALOS: Yes. -VON DÄNIKEN: For the age of it.
So we-we still have a mystery here.
TSOUKALOS: Thank you very much for
showing us this object because I know that there was a time
when nobody knew where it was,
somewhere in a box in the back.
Which means present-day archaeology has a problem.
And they're doing magnificent work.
But when something like this comes along,
you know, we should investigate this
and not put it in a box in the back.
-Definitely. -GRUIA: It did depend on mentalities
-in official position. -Yes. (chuckling)
It isn't currently exhibited
because we have to admit,
as historians, that we do not know
more details about it.
For us it's just baffling at this point.
But taking the-the logic further, this conflicting
information could have just two solutions so far:
One, that it is really not so old and the context
is irrelevant, and the patina was somehow produced
in special circumstances.
So it's a new object strangely preserved, let's say.
And the second option is, of course,
that it's not of terrestrial origin.
In all of your adventures,
how does this compare
to some of the other things that are inexplicable?
I am helpless. I have no idea.
-That says it all right there. -(chuckling)
Very bizarre. Bizarre.
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I've known about this thing since the early 1990s,
and I have to tell you that looking at it
in person was a dream come true.
And it's a very strange thing.
I mean, how do you explain this?
It certainly looks
as if it was part of a larger object.
The question is, was it a component of a device?
Was it a component of something larger?
NARRATOR: If the Wedge of Aiud really is over 40,000 years old,
then who made it, and what was it used for?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe they may have the answer.
An aeronautical engineer who saw the Aiud Wedge
looked at it and said,
"That's a piece of a landing gear
for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft."
Ancient astronaut theorists have also looked at this wedge
and surmised that it's possible
that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.
NARRATOR: Could the Wedge of Aiud
really be a remnant of an extraterrestrial craft?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.
And they suggest that the truth
about these otherworldly visitors
can be found half a world away, encoded in stone.
Some of the most mysterious artifacts
we've investigated on Ancient Aliens
have come in the form of ancient stone statues
known as stelae.
On a recent trip to Copán, Honduras,
I met with an archaeologist
who showed me some intriguing examples
of these Mayan artifacts
that he suggests
may have served a technological purpose.
NARRATOR: Ancient Astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos travels
to Copán, Honduras, to meet up
with renowned Mayan archaeologist David Sedat
who's been involved in the excavation
of the site for more than three decades.
TSOUKALOS: David, great pleasure to meet you.
SEDAT: Well, I've been looking forward to this.
I'm sure you have a lot of things you want to see.
TSOUKALOS: This is... Yes, I do.
So, David, what are we looking at here?
SEDAT: Well,
this is the Great Plaza.
It's over 100 meters, uh, larger than a football field.
And it's the southern portion
of the Great Plaza with the majority of the great
standing stone giants that you've come to see are located.
NARRATOR: On the grounds at Copán
are dozens of stone statues called stelae.
The most well-known of these
were built during the 43-year reign of the ruler
Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil,
better known by the nickname "18 Rabbit."
TSOUKALOS: This is the first time
I'm standing next to one of these.
Absolutely incredible.
What do the glyphs say about this particular statue
or stela here?
SEDAT: This is all a representation of
the 13th ruler, whom we have nicknamed 18 Rabbit.
And they show him taking on the persona
of the high god of Copán, Ju'n Ajaw, who was a sky god.
The supreme being.
The motifs on his headdress
and other attributes show that he is a sky deity.
This is amazing to me because here we have not only
a statue depicting something, which is a picture,
a carved picture,
but on the sides, we have writing,
glyphs carved that speak of a sky deity.
Now, when I look at something like this,
I'm immediately reminded of misunderstood technology.
Because imagine, if a people who are
intelligent yet their technological frame of reference
from 1,000 or 2,000 years ago we have to admit was primitive,
not their intelligence,
their technological frame of reference.
Of course, let me just add to that
that everything
shows his connectedness of the cosmos
and this living space of mankind in all of its senses.
And by the way,
I have seen that headdress right there
elsewhere on planet Earth.
And that is in Mesopotamia.
So the fact that we have these examples worldwide
leads me to think that it was
a flesh and blood extraterrestrial
whom our ancestors misinterpreted as being God.
Why? Because they came from the sky.
Arthur C. Clarke said it best when he said,
"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."
Imagine showing
your great-great-grandfather your smart phone.
-Right. That's right. (laughing) -All of a sudden,
you've become a magician, a wizard.
When we talk about technology,
I imagine someday in the future
that the technology will be such
that we'll be able to scan
this stela here...
...and receive the resonances
that are inside the crystalline structure of the stone.
In other words, that these were great
memory chip banks.
Wow, okay.
And in the appropriate algorithm
we could peel back into time
by hearing the sights and sounds
and everything that happened in this
sacred space and maybe answer some of the questions
that you were posing.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that these Mayan stone giants
were designed in such a way
as to be able to digitally store valuable data?
NOVA SPIVACK: We've learned a lot about how ancient civilizations
understood our solar system and their world.
These civilizations had advanced technologies
for working with stone and metal,
and in some cases crystals.
We still don't know how they did what they did.
It's reasonable that, given these monuments exist,
that we should analyze them to see if there's
other layers of information encoded in them.
DAVID CHILDRESS: If these statues were
in fact devices that had recorded information,
you wonder if we have also
some evidence here from the statues of Copán
that extraterrestrials are coming to this planet.
NARRATOR: Could the ancient stone giants of Copán
really be encoded with precious information
about the ancient world?
And if so, might they also hold evidence
of extraterrestrial contact?
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
the answer is a profound yes.
And to prove their point,
they believe that one of the keys
can be found by examining the elaborate carvings
located on what is referred to as Stela C...
the same one that David Sedat
considers the most incredible.
The inscription on this side
starts a 20-year period
equivalent to December 5 of 711.
And midnight on that night, the Milky Way was standing
precisely straight up in the tropical sky here.
The text goes on to say
that this also happened 4,600 years before.
And there is strong implication that he was as well,
like on that night, witnessing this celestial event.
NARRATOR: Witnessing the event?
Is it possible that the ruler depicted on the stelae
known as 18 Rabbit
was able to observe an astronomical event
that occurred more than 4,000 years before his time?
Let me show you how the narrative
picks up on the other side.
All right, let's check it out.
So now here,
-this guy has a beard. -Well, yes.
This is still 18 Rabbit,
but he's achieved great age, great wisdom.
Telling us that he is
witnessing this astronomical conjunction of the Milky Way
two million years ago.
Two million years ago?
-Two million years ago. -So this guy here...
And he witnessed it.
Now, he witnesses this astronomical
conjunction of the Milky Way
two million years in the future.
-As well? -As well.
TSOUKALOS: That's extraordinary.
SEDAT: So these stones have to be seen
as the supernatural personas that can travel
in time simultaneously backwards and forwards.
You've just blown my mind.
NARRATOR: Supernatural personas that can travel through time?
If the statues of Copán were really created
as a means of storing valuable ancient knowledge,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,
then how and why did that knowledge come to be lost...
...along with the keys needed to unlock their secrets?
Perhaps the answers can be found by examining
another group of mysterious stones
that may have extraterrestrial origins.
Many of the mystererious artifacts
we've investigated on Ancient Aliens are,
in my opinion,
objects that our ancestors created to document
encounters with otherworldly beings.
But every now and then we have come across an artifact
that may itself be of extraterrestrial origin.
In 2019, David Childress got the rare opportunity
to scientifically test strange stones that are unlike
anything we've ever found on planet Earth.
NARRATOR: Sierra Leone, Africa.
The early 1990s.
As civil war rages across the country...
...rebels begin forcing villagers to mine
so-called "blood diamonds."
But from deep within the earth emerges a vast treasure
they weren't expecting.
They discover mysterious figures
ranging from five to ten inches tall...
...often with reptilian or amphibian features
known as Nomoli.
CHILDRESS: They're very strange statues.
Some are clay, some are of granite or limestone.
They are humans and human figures with lizard heads.
There are hundreds of them.
NARRATOR: According to legend, the Nomoli represent sky gods.
When they fell from the heaven,
part of the sky turned to stone and rained down with them.
Curiously, strange blue stones
can be found buried with many of the Nomoli figurines.
These strange blue stones called skystones
have been found with the statues and at first,
archaeologists thought, okay, it's just blue stones.
But when they analyzed it,
they couldn't figure out how these had been made, too.
Although the people in Sierra Leone felt
that they were actually pieces of the blue sky
that fell with the Nomoli.
NARRATOR: If these mysterious blue stones are really connected
to the legend of the sky turning to stone
and raining down on the Earth with the arrival of the Nomoli,
what could they be?
Seattle, Washington. March 6, 2019.
In search of further evidence that the Nomoli statues may have
an extraterrestrial connection,
ancient astronaut theorist David Childress
has arranged to meet up with skystone collector
and researcher Jared Collins.
Wow.
NARRATOR: Jared has in his possession
a number of the mysterious blue stones
that were found near the statues.
So how was it that these stones
were actually discovered in modern time?
This was actually discovered in 1991
by a man named David Leadbetter.
He was in Sierra Leone on a mining concession
looking for gold and diamonds.
And when he was having his crew dig,
occasionally, these stones would appear.
What do other geologists say about
stones like this? Are they able to identify them?
COLLINS: We've sent these now to 12 different labs.
There is not one piece of consensus in here.
Everybody has a different opinion.
We still don't know, actually, if these are
-natural or man-made. -So maybe it's from another planet.
I don't know.
I really wish I did, and I would love a chance
to actually be able to get this
in front of somebody else who could look at it again.
I've got some friends at the University of Washington
and I think we can set this up and have another test done.
That would be fantastic.
I would love to get some consensus on this
to understand what this actually is.
NARRATOR: While tests conducted on the stones found
with the Nomoli statues have so far produced
conflicting and sometimes even confounding results,
David is eager to have them tested for himself.
At the University of Washington,
David and Jared meet with renowned geologist
Professor Peter Ward.
Hi, I'm David Childress.
-I talked to you on the phone. -David.
It's good to meet you.
And this is Jared Collins.
Thank you so much for seeing us today.
Jared, both of you guys,
welcome to the University of Washington IsoLab.
So, what do we have in this beautiful box?
Well, we're sort of hoping that you can tell us.
Well, well, well, what are these beauties?
We have been through many tests on these,
and no one can identify them.
They cannot tell us whether
these are natural or artificial, what's causing the blue color,
if this is ancient or modern.
So, they've been checked for
the common blue minerals, I take it?
One thing that we know for sure is that this is not turquoise.
This is not lapis. This is not erinite.
WARD: The fact that it's so unbelievably light
really suggests that there's an organic component to it.
Anything that goes blue generally is much heavier,
So this is, this is really a mystery.
COLLINS: I should mention also
that this only comes from one very specific part,
from one very specific village.
It has never been found anywhere else in the world.
Well, let's do a test that removes any doubt
about them being partly organic.
So Erin is gonna take this rock
and she's gonna scrape it into these
tiny little tin cups.
The tin cups themselves will load into our mass spectrograph.
They will then be heated to a thousand degrees centigrade.
Everything inside will combust and turn to gas.
And those individual gas molecules will then
be sampled and we can examine if there are any truly organic
molecules in this rock.
Was there some life process that was involved in its formation?
NARRATOR: David and Jared return home to wait for the results.
When Dr. Ward receives them two weeks later,
he sends an email to David
remarking that what the scientists found
was so strange, they ran the tests three times,
thinking it was a machine error and added:
"This gives me the creeps."
To learn more, David contacted Dr. Ward through video chat.
Hi, Doctor Ward.
So I wanted to learn about the results?
Yeah, it was pretty cool.
I mean, it was much stranger than we thought.
There really seems to be some sort of organic
aspect to this.
It's got element nitrogen in it
in really high concentrations.
Having this high amount of nitrogen
puts it into a, "Wow, that's a very peculiar rock" category.
We were looking for a possible extraterrestrial origin.
Is it possibly a meteorite or even
part of a spaceship that exploded?
(laughing)
Let's just say that there's a possibility that it came
from off the Earth.
As we scientists say, "It's worth more study."
NARRATOR: Although the skystones are still a mystery,
David and Jared have confirmed
that they are unlike any other stone ever examined.
Could they have arrived on Earth with the strange beings
that are depicted in the Nomoli statues?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they claim that further evidence of extraterrestrial
visitation in the distant past
can be found in one of the most remote places in the world.
On Ancient Aliens we have traveled around the world
to get a closer look at mysterious artifacts.
And sometimes, we find evidence of alien contact
hiding in plain sight.
This is exactly what happened
when David Childress and I traveled
to the remote Marquesas Islands and were shown
an ancient statue that, as far as we were concerned,
clearly represents something
very different from what mainstream scholars suggest.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress
are in the Marquesas Islands, investigating potential evidence
that this remote part of the world
was once inhabited by extraterrestrial visitors.
Hello.
CHILDRESS: It's good to see you.
-TSOUKALOS: Yeah. -CHILDRESS: Okay.
NARRATOR: As their local guide,
they've enlisted Hiva Oa resident
Heimata Bonno who will show them
some of the mysterious sculptures
found on the island, known as tikis.
These statuaries represent the ancestral gods and goddesses
that came to the islands in ancient times.
-TSOUKALOS: This is incredible. -CHILDRESS: Yeah.
TSOUKALOS: So what are we looking at here? What is this?
Oh, it totally looks like a llama.
TSOUKALOS: I totally think this looks like a llama.
I mean, there is no question in my mind.
And I also don't think that this was altered.
This is original.
And I don't see any changes.
CHILDRESS: So either this is not authentic,
or if it is authentic it's a llama,
and it proves connection to-to South America.
NARRATOR: South America?
Is it possible that the llama,
believed to be native to South America,
was known to people living on this remote island chain
some 3,500 miles away?
But how?
CHILDRESS: Some people say that
it's a woman giving birth.
Do the women here
in the Marquesas islands, do they do this?
They lie on their stomach and give birth?
No.
TSOUKALOS: This is crazy. Huh.
To me, it looks like something from the sky.
It's like... (groans) Maybe some flying vehicle.
-It's a great question. -Yeah.
TSOUKALOS: Perhaps what we're looking at here
is some type of a craft.
Because you have the windows in the front,
which are these giant goggles
and then you have the mouth in the front
which to me it looks like some type of an air intake.
Underneath you have a lifting body
that goes underneath the entire body.
And if you combine that with the story of this object
or this woman giving birth,
if someone has never seen
passengers disembarking from an actual airplane...
...if they have no idea what is happening,
well, all of a sudden...
...a flying vehicle is giving birth to people.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that this ancient statue
that has been interpreted in modern times
as a fertility goddess
is actually depicting an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
I think that tikis are nothing else
but misunderstood technology
that over time turned into divine objects
of magic and sorcery.
Can we go look at it?
Great.
TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow.
Clearly this tiki, the head is missing.
But I see that it has six fingers.
It's very feasible to me that they actually tried to imitate
whoever visited or whoever came here to impart this knowledge.
Why would they carve six fingers if they did not see six fingers?
So we should not say, "Oh, this is just fantasy."
I think they saw someone with six fingers.
Is that possible?
Yeah.
Yes.
TSOUKALOS: So these are protectors.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the mysterious statues
and carvings found throughout the Marquesas Islands
were made to commemorate extraterrestrial visitation?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest further evidence of alien contact can be found
by examining strange skulls made of crystal.
Of the many mysterious artifacts
we've investigated on Ancient Aliens,
some of the most jaw-dropping are the crystal skulls.
Crystal skulls have been found all around the world
and some of them have been
carved with such extraordinary precision that,
in my opinion, they must have been created
with some type of advanced technology.
In 2013, David Childress got to examine
the largest crystal skull ever discovered.
NARRATOR: This is Einstein,
believed to be the largest ancient crystal skull
as yet discovered.
Its owner, Carolyn Ford, says she obtained
the 33-pound crystal object more than 20 years ago
from an explorer who discovered it in Mexico in the early 1900s.
She was unaware that it possessed any strange abilities
until the day when, she claims,
it actually communicated with her.
CAROLYN FORD: It was revealed to me by Einstein
at the moment that I got him
when I knew nothing about crystal skulls, he said,
"I'm an ancient computer. In fact, I'm a master computer.
And we record everything,
like a live feed, 24/7.
And that's our purpose."
He's been recording history on this planet
since the beginning of time, so indeed he was in Atlantis.
A lot of the ancient crystal skulls have been
in Atlantis, and even before that time.
NARRATOR: Could the so-called Einstein skull
really be an artifact
from the lost civilization of Atlantis as its owner claims?
Sedona, Arizona.
2013.
CHILDRESS: It's very clear down here, and then it gets cloudy.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist David Childress
enlists the help of aura photography
expert Jamie Jones
in an effort to test the Einstein skull
for unusual energy pulses or auras.
These auras are believed to appear as colors
that correspond to various physical, emotional,
mental and spiritual states.
JONES: With aura technology, we're able to use
biofeedback imaging to pick up electromagnetic
energy field around the human body.
I'm not expecting any energy
to be coming out of the inanimate object.
So I'm a little skeptical
in that I'm not sure what to expect
when I photograph the skull.
And I've been told a lot of things about skulls,
as far as information that they're holding,
what civilizations they're from,
or if they're actually from the extraterrestrials.
So I'm kind of excited to see
this particular skull and what it emits.
-Hi, Jamie. -Hi.
Hey.
And this is Carolyn, and wow,
here is the skull.
JONES: Wow, this is fabulous.
-So what do we do? -These are biofeedback censors
and they're gonna be reading the energy,
if there's energy around the skull.
So you're gonna place it on here for me.
Perfect.
CHILDRESS: So it has to go on both
of the two sensors?
Yes, because both sensors are picking up energy,
so we want as much coverage as possible.
-Okay, that's perfect. -All right.
And now, uh, you just take a photo of it, huh?
We're gonna take a picture.
All right.
-And here is the aura of the skull. -FORD: Oh, wow.
-CHILDRESS: Okay, wow. -FORD: Whoa, look at those colors.
JONES: That is amazing.
-It's amazing. -Really?
-Oh. -So, what are we looking at here?
I mean, here we can see the skull.
It seems to be very strong, warrior type protective energy.
And if you look closely,
that energy is arced over.
-Right. -Literal arc of protection over the skull.
Now, the blue that we see throughout the entire picture
is wisdom and knowledge
from traveling many lifetimes and many dimensions.
CHILDRES: I was surprised, really, that the aura camera
would pick up so much energy
from the skull and the different colors.
Some people believe
that crystal skulls have electro radio wave type
energy that emits from them.
And that the skull can actually communicate
to people through this energy.
And it seems that aura photography
can actually pick up and we can see
these waves that are being emitted from the skull.
I feel, more than ever, there is something
to crystal skulls and the energy behind them.
NARRATOR: Does the photographed energy field surrounding Einstein
help to prove that the crystal skull could,
in fact, be some sort of recording device?
An extraterrestrial object used to harness
both energy and information?
Although there have been hundreds of other crystal skulls
found throughout the world,
the Einstein Skull is believed to be
one of only 13 authentic ancient artifacts.
And according to legend,
when all 13 are finally unearthed,
humankind's true past will be revealed.
CHILDRESS: Part of this legend is that yes, these 13 crystal skulls
are extraterrestrial skulls.
And when the 13 skulls are together,
it'll create a new epoch for planet Earth.
CHRIS MORTON: There is certainly a belief
amongst certain Native American tribes,
when humanity is at its most desperate,
all of these original
ancient crystal skulls will come back together
and that they will divulge their knowledge, their wisdom
that can help the human race survive.
NARRATOR: Could these mysterious crystal artifacts
not only be of alien origin,
but serve a purpose that has yet to be revealed?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest further proof that extraterrestrials
visited ancient cultures all over the world
can be found by examining
a mysterious Middle Eastern artifact
discovered in South America.
Any list of mysterious artifacts
would be incomplete without featuring
the amazing relics
of Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.
Of all the astounding objects
we've examined from there on Ancient Aliens,
one of the most baffling
is the Fuente Magna Bowl.
This beautiful piece of pottery is covered
in an ancient script that is native not to Bolivia
but to a culture that existed on the other side of the world.
Situated at an elevation of over 12,000 feet
on the Altiplano, lay the ruins
of an ancient temple complex thought to predate
the Incan Empire.
Standing at the center of the site is a large statue
believed by many to represent the creator god Viracocha.
But curiously,
the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco chose to depict this god
with features unlike their own.
CHILDRESS: He has got a beard and a moustache.
And that is an unusual thing
because American Indians do not have beards and moustaches.
BRIEN FOERSTER: Exactly.
That indicates that this person
was not a South American native
but clearly came from another land.
CHILDRESS: And an important person too,
who's somehow one of the founders
here of Tiahuanaco.
Maybe even somebody who's come from Sumeria to South America.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Sumerians,
a civilization established in 4,000 BC
and located nearly 8,000 miles away
could be connected to the early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?
If so, how?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found at the Precious Metals Museum
in La Paz, Bolivia.
CHILDRESS: This is perhaps
one of the most important archaeological artifacts
ever discovered in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.
This is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl
discovered near Tiahuanaco.
It's a ceramic bowl and it has written on it
Sumerian cuneiform
plus proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic script.
This script is coming from circa 3,000 BC.
It draws a direct connection
between the ancient Sumerians and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.
NARRATOR: Discovered near Lake Titicaca by a local farmer in the 1950s,
researchers believe the vessel provides the proof
of extraterrestrial intervention at Puma Punku.
CHILDRESS: The idea of Sumerian
writing being here at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco...
...would seem to relate to the late
Zecharia Sitchin and his ideas
that the Sumerians were also interacting
with these space beings
called the Anunnaki.
So in that case the Anunnaki were there in Sumeria,
but also here at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco in South America.
To me, when you consider the many mysterious artifacts
we've examined on Ancient Aliens,
from bizarre metal alloys
to strange statues
and even crystal skulls,
it all adds up to one thing:
Undeniable evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.
As we continue to dig deeper
and unearth more extraordinary relics of the past,
perhaps we will finally discover
the key to reuniting with our alien ancestors.
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