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Incredible megalithic sites
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unearthed after
thousands of years.
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We're talking about
a complex that is so vast,
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that it's almost
beyond our comprehension.
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Mysterious subterranean dwellings
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that stretch for miles.
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We have multiple underground
cities that have been discovered
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that are potentially
10,000 or more years old.
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Could recent discoveries
provide evidence
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of a civilization
that existed far earlier
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than we ever imagined?
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Perhaps even before
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the biblical story
of the Great Flood,
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at a time when humans
shared the earth
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with otherworldly beings?
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The knowledge for building
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these megalithic structures
was imparted
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by the so-called gods, who were
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the extraterrestrials.
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There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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Abu Shahrain, Iraq.
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6,000 years ago,
this ancient mound
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was the site of Eridu,
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the oldest city
of the Sumerian empire.
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According to
mainstream archaeologists,
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this is the cradle
of civilization.
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Many archeologists will
say civilization began
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in Mesopotamia
some 6,000 years ago.
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It is built on small bands
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of hunter-gatherers who then
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become settled in that area
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as, kind of,
semi-sedentary communities.
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They adopt agriculture,
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the population starts to grow,
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and we begin to
recognize we need
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to organize our communities.
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You start seeing these
step-sided pyramids,
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where the religious practitioner
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might conduct his rites
or rituals and so on.
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And we have
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an urban planning environment
that also means
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we've got a lot
of engineering going on.
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We have a lot of science,
a lot of mathematics.
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It has all of those elements
we would call a civilization.
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Many researchers
around the world
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believe there is
evidence to suggest
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civilization existed on Earth
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long before the Sumerians.
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And one key source
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is the writing of
the Sumerians themselves.
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Ancient cuneiform tablets
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list kings who ruled tens
of thousands of years ago,
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and they tell of an earlier age
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when humans lived
among powerful beings
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that came down from the sky
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called the Anunnaki.
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The Anunnaki were
the builder gods
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behind the creation
of the civilizations
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of Sumer and Babylon.
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They provided humanity with
the rudiments of civilization.
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They gave humanity
animal husbandry,
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but also agriculture
for the first time.
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The Sumerians also
wrote that the Anunnaki
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were responsible for bringing
a devastating cataclysm
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upon the Earth...
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eerily similar to the story
that would later appear
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in the Hebrew Bible
as the Great Flood.
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This was only just
discovered in 2009,
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when Dr. Irving Finkel,
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one of the world's foremost
experts on cuneiform writing,
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translated a 3,700-year-old
Sumerian tablet.
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In the Bible, God decided,
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because the human race
was so sinful and wicked,
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to destroy everything,
and at the last minute,
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relented enough to inform Noah
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that he has to build
a boat really fast,
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and put all the animals
in it and shut the doors,
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then, afterwards,
life could continue
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when the waters went down.
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Everybody in the world is
interested in Noah's flood
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and where it might've come from,
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so when this tablet
came across the desk to me,
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and I realized,
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clearly, how important it was,
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it was one of those
heart-stopping moments.
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When I picked it up
for the first time
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to look at it properly,
and started to read it,
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one of the first things you read
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is when a human being finds out
from the gods up in heaven
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that there's going to be
a dreadful flood,
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and the world and all its life
is going to be destroyed,
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and a boat has to be built.
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So, I thought to myself,
"This is very exciting."
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The tablet is at least
a thousand years older
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than the story in the Bible.
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So, of course, this
means that the question
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of where the story came from
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has a whole
different explanation.
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Could the translation
of this ancient cuneiform tablet
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be evidence
that a great flood did,
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in fact, occur
in the distant past?
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While nearly identical
stories of a great deluge
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can be found
in the ancient texts
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of many religions and cultures,
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mainstream archaeologists
had argued
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that there was no evidence
of any civilization
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existing more than
6,000 years ago
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to support the idea
that such a cataclysm
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actually took place.
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But in the early 1990s,
Klaus Schmidt
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of the German
Archaeological Institute
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began excavations
at the ancient site
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of Göbekli Tepe
in southeast Turkey,
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and what he unearthed
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changed everything.
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Once Klaus Schmidt
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started excavating Göbekli Tepe,
it just blew everybody away
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because we'd never before
known or imagined, even,
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that people 12,000 years ago
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could produce such spectacular
monumental structures
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as he found at Göbekli Tepe.
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It is the first archaeological
site in the world
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that proves its age,
dating as far back
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as 12,000 years,
around 10,000 BC.
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The discovery and
the official acceptance
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of Göbekli Tepe's dating
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has changed the history
of archaeology.
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This is indications
of a major civilization
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at that remote time,
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a time when the standard
historians all along have said,
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"Well, no, civilization
didn't occur at that time.
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"They were just simple
hunter and gatherers.
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They were primitive people."
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But we now have
evidence to the contrary.
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It really did send shockwaves
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through the whole world
of early prehistory,
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because we have never ever
seen anything like this
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from anywhere in the world
at that time, 12,000 years ago.
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Göbekli Tepe's nearly two dozen
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enormous T-shaped pillars,
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some weighing more than 20 tons,
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feature numerous carvings that
include depictions of animals,
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human hands,
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and intricately
designed symbols.
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Archaeologists estimate
that it would have taken
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a team of 50 men an entire week
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to move just one of
the monolithic pillars
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from the limestone quarry,
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to the top of the hill
where they stand today,
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and over 300 hours
to carve the bas-reliefs.
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The structures seem to reflect
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coordinated effort among
significant numbers of people,
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which is not how
we typically imagine
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hunter-gatherer societies,
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which are usually
smaller in size.
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For years, mainstream
scholars maintained
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that Göbekli Tepe was
a completely unique site,
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and while highly impressive,
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it was not large enough
to constitute
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what would be considered
a civilization.
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But then, in 2004,
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author Andrew Collins
was shown photographs
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of a location that
looked remarkably similar
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to parts of Göbekli Tepe.
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I was visiting Göbekli Tepe,
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and some children came up to me
and showed me a picture
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of this T-shaped standing stone
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with this snake along the side.
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And I thought,
I've never seen this before.
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Where is this?
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And it became clear
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that it was some
unexcavated site
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in the Tektek Mountains,
which is about 25 miles
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away from Göbekli Tepe.
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And so I set out to find it,
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and eventually,
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I came to this
bare limestone hill.
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And as I walked up towards it,
I could then see,
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sticking out of the ground,
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these heads of these
T-shaped pillars,
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again, exactly as you
see at Göbekli Tepe.
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And I realized
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that somewhere beneath this soil
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was something as grand
and spectacular as Göbekli Tepe.
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For 15 years, only
a small group of researchers
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were aware of the pillars
protruding from the earth
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at the site
known as Karahan Tepe.
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When it was finally excavated,
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archaeologists were shocked
once again.
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In 2019, digging begins...
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...and beneath
the surface layers,
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the archaeologists
start uncovering
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dozens of these
T-shaped pillars.
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We have about 200
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of these T-shaped megaliths.
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They're typically 13 feet high,
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weigh about 11 tons.
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You have other phallic stones,
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you have, uh, certain
depictions of animals,
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and some human faces as well.
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So, we have really, uh,
a pretty extensive site.
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The discovery of
the vast megalithic complex
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made headlines around the world,
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as it was estimated by experts
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to have been inhabited
somewhere between 11,000
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and 12,000 years ago,
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just like Göbekli Tepe.
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Both Karahan Tepe
and Göbekli Tepe
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are striking in beauty,
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striking in how
massive and incredible
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those megaliths are.
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And, in my opinion,
they are related.
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So, it's also possible
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that at some point
a long time ago,
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that entire region
was one gigantic city.
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Could these sites confirm
the written accounts
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found both in the Bible
and on Sumerian tablets
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of a sophisticated civilization
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that existed on Earth
in the remote past?
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One in which humans
lived alongside
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powerful visitors from the sky,
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but ultimately fell victim
to a devastating cataclysm?
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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
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and claim there is evidence that
these vast megalithic complexes
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were built with the help
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of otherworldly visitors.
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Nevsehir Province,
central Turkey.
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Here, 300 miles northwest
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of the 12,000-year-old
megalithic sites
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of Göbekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe,
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there is an ancient subterranean
city called Derinkuyu
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that archaeologists believe
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once housed more
than 20,000 people.
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First discovered in 1963,
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the maze of carved
tunnels and rooms
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lies 200 feet below ground.
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Who built it and when
remain unknown.
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Derinkuyu is a multileveled city
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that has existed
since time immemorial.
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It was certainly used
during Christian times,
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but there's also evidence
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that there's
prehistoric activity
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going on at these places
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as early as 11,000,
perhaps even 12,000 years ago,
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right after the end
of the last Ice Age.
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Much like Göbekli Tepe,
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Derinkuyu was thought
to be an anomaly.
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But in 2014,
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just six miles to the north,
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a local construction crew
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excavating for an urban
renovation project
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stumbled across a strange
series of carved rooms
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and tunnels deep underground.
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Upon further exploration,
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they found
a subterranean network
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known as Kaymakli,
which spans several miles
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and extends hundreds
of feet below
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the surface of the Earth,
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much like the nearby
underground city
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of Derinkuyu.
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I was many times
in the underground cities
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in Turkey,
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and this is
a fantastic experience.
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They are linked together.
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Between Derinkuyu and Kaymakli,
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there are seven kilometers
long underground tunnels
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connecting the two cities.
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Evidence that these cities
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once housed thousands of people,
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has been further supported
by the discovery of air vents
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and water wells that
would have made it possible
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for people to live underground
for years at a time.
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These are huge, vast cities
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that have been cut out of
the living rock themself.
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Who exactly built them?
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The fact that Göbekli Tepe
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was built right at the end
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of the last Ice Age
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tells us that there
is a possibility
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that there is connection
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between these underground cities
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and the building
of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan.
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It could have been
the same people.
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Is there a connection
between Turkey's mysterious
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underground dwellings
and the extremely ancient sites
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of Göbekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe?
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Could both have been built
by a preflood civilization?
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But if so, who would
have had the ability
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to manufacture such
sophisticated structures?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer may lie
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within sacred texts
that describe interactions
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between early humans
and otherworldly beings.
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Uruk, southern Iraq.
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In the early 19th century,
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archaeologists excavating
this ancient city
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unearthed clay tablets covered
in a form of symbolic writing
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known as cuneiform.
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It remains the world's
first known writing system.
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When the tablets were
deciphered in the 1820s,
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they revealed a record
of Sumerian daily life,
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names of important figures
and rulers,
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and accounts of sky gods
called the Anunnaki.
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These clay tablets
are 5,000 years old and more,
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and they tell of the arrival of
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the Anunnaki,
the pantheon of gods.
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The chief was Anu.
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This is the sky god who came
along and created everything.
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So, the origin
of the civilization
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on the planet came from the sky.
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The high god of the Anunnaki,
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Anu, presided over
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the divine council.
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There were a multitude of beings
that came to this council.
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They deliberated with Anu,
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they made decisions
for humanity,
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they intervened
in human affairs.
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Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe
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are in an area that is
well-known for its mythology.
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Which suggests that the Anunnaki
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were responsible
for giving humanity
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the rudiments of civilization.
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It was said that they gave
humanity animal husbandry,
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but also agriculture
for the first time,
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both of which we know
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occurred in the area
of Göbekli Tepe
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and Karahan Tepe.
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At Göbekli Tepe,
there's a carving
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of these three handbags
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that appear above
this bird-like creature.
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And what's
fascinating about this
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is that you can find
carvings of similar handbags
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about 400 miles to the south
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where the ancient
Sumerians lived.
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And there, the handbags are held
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by these winged figures
with bird-like heads
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called Anunnaki,
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and the bags are said to hold
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all the knowledge
of the universe.
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Professor Klaus Schmidt,
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the rediscoverer of
Göbekli Tepe in 1994,
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actually wrote that he believed
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that the founders
of Göbekli Tepe
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were the Anunnaki.
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Similarly, the Bible
also tells of early humans
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having help from beings
who came down from the sky
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called the watchers.
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The watchers are
the fallen angels
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who came to Earth and
intermingled with humans.
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We are told that
they are here to observe,
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and they're not going
to interfere
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in human development,
although some of them did.
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They're also seeding
humanity with knowledge
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that will help us to progress.
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Both the watchers
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and the Anunnaki, who almost
certainly were the same,
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have been associated
with this culture
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at Göbekli Tepe and Karahan.
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And is it possible, therefore,
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that they are behind
the creation of these sites?
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And if we consider
the possibility
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that there was a huge cataclysm,
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the chances are, the underground
cites of Cappadocia,
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they would have been used
as places of refuge.
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As mainstream scholars
struggle to explain
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how people living
12,000 years ago
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were able to carve out
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millions of square feet
of rock from the earth,
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and build sprawling
megalithic sites,
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could the answer be found
in the ancient writings
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that describe
our earliest ancestors
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receiving assistance
from extraterrestrials?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by more closely examining
the T-shaped pillars
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at the ancient sites,
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and the curious features
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carved into them.
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Karahan Tepe is really
something quite spectacular.
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Absolutely.
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Authors Andrew Collins
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and Hugh Newman
have spent decades
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investigating ancient sites
around the world,
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and have made multiple trips
to Karahan Tepe
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in southeast Turkey.
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In the last couple of years,
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they've uncovered it,
only a small amount,
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but enough to provide
some remarkable insights
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into what was going on
here in southeast Turkey.
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Absolutely. I mean, it's like
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this is pieces of a jigsaw
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00:20:05,764 --> 00:20:07,844
that's just waiting
to be put together.
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In September 2022,
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Andrew and Hugh traveled
to the site together
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in search of further clues
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00:20:15,716 --> 00:20:18,383
as to just who built it and why.
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Upon their arrival
at Karahan Tepe,
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00:20:22,297 --> 00:20:24,055
Andrew and Hugh were joined
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by local researcher
Taha Ozyavuz.
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Taha.
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Nice to meet you.
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This is Hugh.
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Thank you, and good to meet you.
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I'm absolutely astounded
by this site,
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how vast it is,
how, like, immaculate it is,
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and how it is just
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literally one of the most
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00:20:45,971 --> 00:20:47,971
astonishing places
I've ever visited.
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Well, this is just,
you know, just enormous,
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00:20:59,484 --> 00:21:00,908
everything that's here.
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We can see T-pillars
going in every direction.
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And just think
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what is below
our feet right now.
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And if you do compare
it to Göbekli Tepe,
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it is... it's got the T-pillars,
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it's got the enclosures,
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00:21:27,846 --> 00:21:31,364
it's got the remarkable
3D relief carving,
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the statues, the serpents
and everything else.
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There are incredible, uh,
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00:21:35,962 --> 00:21:38,463
images of different
animals and creatures
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of the natural world.
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What do they mean?
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Most mainstream scholars
identify the sites
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of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe
as temples of worship.
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Others have suggested
that the round enclosures
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may have been used
as corrals for animals,
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and that the T-shaped pillars
once supported roofs.
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00:22:00,562 --> 00:22:02,987
However, Klaus Schmidt,
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00:22:03,214 --> 00:22:05,565
the archaeologist
behind the excavation
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00:22:05,717 --> 00:22:08,309
of Göbekli Tepe in the 1990s,
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00:22:08,328 --> 00:22:10,328
was certain that
the T-shaped pillars
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represent human forms,
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but with some curious features.
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I think what we see
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00:22:19,155 --> 00:22:21,115
when we look at these
T-shaped pillars
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is abstract
human beings basically.
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The heads are the actual
T-shaped terminations.
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The stems of the stones
are the bodies.
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00:22:32,853 --> 00:22:36,095
Sometimes we see belts
around them.
447
00:22:36,247 --> 00:22:37,838
But what's so weird about these
448
00:22:37,858 --> 00:22:40,583
is that the arms here
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00:22:40,602 --> 00:22:43,510
almost seem like
an abstract animal as well.
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Perhaps a bird, perhaps a snake.
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00:23:03,441 --> 00:23:05,216
That is intriguing.
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And this is a tradition
we find linked with giants
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00:23:08,371 --> 00:23:10,446
all around the world.
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Even in the Bible
we have the giant of Gath
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that had extra fingers.
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00:23:14,302 --> 00:23:16,119
We have stories of Goliath
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00:23:16,137 --> 00:23:18,563
and his family
having extra fingers.
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00:23:18,790 --> 00:23:21,624
We have stories of
great Irish giant gods
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having extra digits as well.
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00:23:23,461 --> 00:23:24,810
And the fact that the watchers,
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the Nephilim, and the Anunnaki
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00:23:26,981 --> 00:23:29,649
would seem to be associated
463
00:23:29,801 --> 00:23:31,370
with the mythology
of this region
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00:23:31,394 --> 00:23:33,636
suggests to us
that they could be
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one of the builders
of Karahan Tepe.
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00:23:39,661 --> 00:23:42,311
According to the Bible's
Book of Genesis,
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prior to the Great Flood,
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00:23:44,257 --> 00:23:47,500
angels known as the watchers
defied God's will,
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00:23:47,652 --> 00:23:50,094
and came down to Earth
to live among humans.
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00:23:51,747 --> 00:23:55,433
These otherworldly beings
mated with their human subjects,
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producing a race
of hybrid human giants
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that were known
as the "Nephilim."
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One of the most tantalizing
small tidbits
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in the Hebrew Bible,
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is found in the opening
verses of Genesis, chapter 6,
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where we hear the story
of the Nephilim,
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who are described as, basically,
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being the hybrid offspring
of humans
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and divine beings
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who are called
the "sons of God."
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Who were these sons of God?
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Legend expands and tells us
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that they were
rebellious angels.
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00:24:40,963 --> 00:24:43,206
But yet, we must
understand angels
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00:24:43,224 --> 00:24:45,875
to not be spiritual beings,
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but very tangibly physical.
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00:24:49,047 --> 00:24:51,638
Or else how could they take
human wives
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00:24:51,733 --> 00:24:54,117
and bear children?
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00:24:55,737 --> 00:25:00,723
Now, the children of these
sons of God and human women
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became known as the hybrids
called the fallen ones.
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In Hebrew, the Nephilim.
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00:25:07,990 --> 00:25:11,676
They existed
in the days before Noah.
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Aside from the Bible,
religious texts
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00:25:17,075 --> 00:25:21,001
that talk about these
demigods, these hybrids,
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00:25:21,095 --> 00:25:24,080
are the Hindu Upanishads,
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00:25:24,098 --> 00:25:25,356
and if we look at
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Sumer, again,
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gods coming down from the Earth,
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fraternizing with
the natives, which are us,
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and creating
a new race of people:
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Half-human and
half-extraterrestrial gods.
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00:25:40,707 --> 00:25:42,707
Yes, we can speculate
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were those who were
to become known
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00:25:45,787 --> 00:25:47,528
as the sons of God
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originally inhabitants
of a place like Karahan?
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Does the eight-fingered figure
found at Karahan Tepe
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00:25:56,222 --> 00:25:58,948
provide evidence to support
the biblical accounts
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00:25:58,966 --> 00:26:02,968
of giants existing on Earth
before the Great Flood?
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00:26:03,121 --> 00:26:05,955
And if so, might they
have been involved
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00:26:05,973 --> 00:26:08,624
in the creation of
Turkey's mysterious sites,
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00:26:08,643 --> 00:26:11,694
both above ground and below?
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00:26:12,964 --> 00:26:15,389
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
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00:26:15,408 --> 00:26:17,724
and claim that
these hybrid beings
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00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:20,894
not only built megalithic sites
in Turkey,
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00:26:20,988 --> 00:26:23,206
but all over the world.
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00:26:28,904 --> 00:26:30,421
At the famous site of Stonehenge
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00:26:30,573 --> 00:26:32,072
in Wiltshire, England,
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00:26:32,092 --> 00:26:35,000
are concentric circles
of massive boulders,
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each nearly 13 feet tall,
520
00:26:37,338 --> 00:26:40,172
and weighing up to 25 tons.
521
00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:43,917
On the island of Malta
in the Mediterranean Sea,
522
00:26:43,937 --> 00:26:47,346
the Ggantija Temples
contain megalithic blocks
523
00:26:47,498 --> 00:26:50,333
weighing as much as 50 tons.
524
00:26:50,351 --> 00:26:54,094
And on the remote South
Pacific Island of Rapa Nui,
525
00:26:54,114 --> 00:26:56,597
better known as Easter Island,
526
00:26:56,616 --> 00:26:59,951
there are nearly 900
ancient stone statues
527
00:27:00,178 --> 00:27:02,603
that stand as tall
as 30 feet high,
528
00:27:02,622 --> 00:27:05,531
and weigh up to 90 tons.
529
00:27:05,683 --> 00:27:07,941
These ancient megalithic sites
530
00:27:07,961 --> 00:27:10,294
are thousands of miles
from each other.
531
00:27:10,446 --> 00:27:14,373
However, the local traditions
of the indigenous cultures
532
00:27:14,525 --> 00:27:17,526
at each location claim
that they were constructed
533
00:27:17,545 --> 00:27:20,029
by giants.
534
00:27:20,122 --> 00:27:23,032
It's fascinating
that around the world,
535
00:27:23,050 --> 00:27:26,385
wherever you have
megalithic ancient sites,
536
00:27:26,537 --> 00:27:29,038
there are local legends
537
00:27:29,056 --> 00:27:32,650
that the giants
built these places.
538
00:27:32,877 --> 00:27:35,227
For example,
in Puma Punku, they say
539
00:27:35,380 --> 00:27:38,656
it was built overnight
by giants.
540
00:27:38,807 --> 00:27:42,476
They say Stonehenge may
have been built by giants.
541
00:27:42,495 --> 00:27:45,221
In Malta, they are suggesting
542
00:27:45,314 --> 00:27:47,314
that all this megalithic walls
543
00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:50,835
and structures
were built by giants.
544
00:27:52,321 --> 00:27:54,246
To me what's astonishing
is that you have
545
00:27:54,399 --> 00:27:56,323
ancient sites associated with
546
00:27:56,342 --> 00:27:58,492
giants building them
all around the planet,
547
00:27:58,511 --> 00:28:00,827
but you also have
historical documents
548
00:28:00,922 --> 00:28:04,164
that talk about the unearthing
of giant bones at these sites.
549
00:28:04,258 --> 00:28:06,091
Like at Baalbek, Lebanon,
550
00:28:06,244 --> 00:28:08,686
in Stonehenge, in Sardinia.
551
00:28:08,913 --> 00:28:10,557
You have these
historical documents
552
00:28:10,581 --> 00:28:12,839
that talk about giant bones
that were unearthed.
553
00:28:12,934 --> 00:28:15,267
We have an account
554
00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:18,087
from the American geographic
society in the 1860s
555
00:28:18,105 --> 00:28:22,033
where giant bones were
unearthed and documented.
556
00:28:23,928 --> 00:28:27,187
Until recently, the megalithic
sites in southern Turkey
557
00:28:27,207 --> 00:28:30,282
were hidden beneath the earth,
and completely unknown,
558
00:28:30,435 --> 00:28:32,785
even to the local populations,
559
00:28:32,937 --> 00:28:35,696
so no record
or ancient legends exist
560
00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:38,216
to explain how
they were constructed.
561
00:28:39,460 --> 00:28:41,201
But might certain details,
562
00:28:41,295 --> 00:28:43,295
like the eight-fingered figures
563
00:28:43,448 --> 00:28:46,224
and the large stone head
found at Karahan Tepe,
564
00:28:46,451 --> 00:28:49,185
connect these sites
with giants as well?
565
00:28:50,563 --> 00:28:52,883
Could they have been built
before the biblical event
566
00:28:52,974 --> 00:28:54,957
known as the Great Flood,
567
00:28:55,050 --> 00:28:57,793
and with the help
of the Nephilim,
568
00:28:57,812 --> 00:29:01,739
the hybrid beings
described in the Hebrew Bible?
569
00:29:01,890 --> 00:29:03,574
As we go round the world,
570
00:29:03,801 --> 00:29:05,726
there's talk about
a race of giants
571
00:29:05,745 --> 00:29:09,247
involved in the construction
of these megalithic sites.
572
00:29:09,398 --> 00:29:10,875
Well, so what can we say
about this?
573
00:29:10,899 --> 00:29:12,658
Were these the descendants
574
00:29:12,810 --> 00:29:15,753
of the builders of Karahan Tepe
and Göbekli Tepe?
575
00:29:15,904 --> 00:29:20,165
And did their giant genes get
passed down from this early era
576
00:29:20,260 --> 00:29:23,761
to these other megalithic
areas around the world?
577
00:29:25,914 --> 00:29:27,506
Curiously,
578
00:29:27,658 --> 00:29:30,434
many of the megalithic sites
around the world
579
00:29:30,661 --> 00:29:32,495
have features
that perfectly align
580
00:29:32,588 --> 00:29:34,438
with specific constellations,
581
00:29:34,590 --> 00:29:37,833
star systems,
or celestial events.
582
00:29:37,852 --> 00:29:40,686
Stonehenge in England
was built to align
583
00:29:40,838 --> 00:29:43,355
with the sunrise
on the summer solstice,
584
00:29:43,449 --> 00:29:47,601
as was the Temple of Mnajdra
on the island of Malta.
585
00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:50,937
Pyramids in both Egypt
and Mesoamerica
586
00:29:51,032 --> 00:29:54,792
were positioned to line up
with the belt stars of Orion.
587
00:29:56,354 --> 00:29:59,964
And celestial alignments have
also been found at Karahan Tepe,
588
00:30:00,115 --> 00:30:03,042
with a stone face
that is positioned
589
00:30:03,136 --> 00:30:05,970
to align with the sun
at certain times of the year.
590
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,958
One of the enclosure's structure
at Karahan Tepe
591
00:30:12,053 --> 00:30:15,721
points directly towards the sun
592
00:30:15,815 --> 00:30:20,467
as it sets at the time
of the summer solstice.
593
00:30:20,561 --> 00:30:22,486
Another alignment is at
594
00:30:22,713 --> 00:30:25,972
the mid-winter solstice
at Karahan Tepe.
595
00:30:25,992 --> 00:30:30,719
The sun, just after sunrise
on this date,
596
00:30:30,813 --> 00:30:33,055
would've illuminated this head
597
00:30:33,148 --> 00:30:35,574
so that anybody actually
inside this shrine
598
00:30:35,726 --> 00:30:38,819
would've seen the head light up.
599
00:30:38,913 --> 00:30:41,988
These are people who are now
watching the stars,
600
00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:44,416
they're looking
at constellations,
601
00:30:44,510 --> 00:30:47,419
they're seeing the movements,
they're studying it.
602
00:30:47,513 --> 00:30:50,255
In a way, they become
the first astronomers.
603
00:30:50,350 --> 00:30:53,592
And that would be, perhaps,
what Karahan Tepe was,
604
00:30:53,744 --> 00:30:56,854
in a sense,
an astronomical observatory.
605
00:30:57,005 --> 00:30:58,856
But at the same time,
606
00:30:59,083 --> 00:31:02,434
perhaps they're interested
in certain stars
607
00:31:02,528 --> 00:31:06,772
because these are the stars
where the Anunnaki came from.
608
00:31:06,924 --> 00:31:09,942
Could it be that Karahan Tepe,
609
00:31:10,094 --> 00:31:12,352
and other megalithic sites
around the world,
610
00:31:12,372 --> 00:31:15,264
were intentionally aligned
to the stars
611
00:31:15,282 --> 00:31:17,023
to indicate that
their architects
612
00:31:17,043 --> 00:31:19,377
came from somewhere
far beyond Earth?
613
00:31:20,788 --> 00:31:23,864
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
614
00:31:23,958 --> 00:31:27,033
one of the most curious
mysteries regarding Göbekli Tepe
615
00:31:27,053 --> 00:31:29,111
and Karahan Tepe:
616
00:31:29,204 --> 00:31:32,131
The fact that both ancient sites
617
00:31:32,283 --> 00:31:34,683
were deliberately buried.
618
00:31:40,716 --> 00:31:41,935
In the Bible's Book of Genesis,
619
00:31:41,959 --> 00:31:44,568
chapter 6, verse 9,
620
00:31:44,795 --> 00:31:47,053
begins with the story
of Noah and the flood...
621
00:31:48,983 --> 00:31:51,634
...in which God
unleashes a great deluge
622
00:31:51,652 --> 00:31:53,577
to rid the Earth of evil.
623
00:31:54,747 --> 00:31:56,655
In Genesis, only Noah
624
00:31:56,807 --> 00:31:58,732
is warned of
the coming cataclysm
625
00:31:58,751 --> 00:32:00,584
so that he may build the ark,
626
00:32:00,736 --> 00:32:03,087
and restart life on Earth
after the flood.
627
00:32:05,833 --> 00:32:07,983
However, a very different story
628
00:32:08,076 --> 00:32:09,760
is told in the Book of Enoch,
629
00:32:09,987 --> 00:32:13,322
a controversial text that
can be found in the Bible
630
00:32:13,415 --> 00:32:15,841
used by the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church,
631
00:32:15,935 --> 00:32:18,919
but was omitted in all
other Christian traditions.
632
00:32:20,347 --> 00:32:24,500
In this version of the story,
Noah's great-grandfather Enoch
633
00:32:24,593 --> 00:32:26,168
learns of the coming cataclysm
634
00:32:26,261 --> 00:32:29,613
long before Noah is even born.
635
00:32:31,117 --> 00:32:33,008
The Book of Enoch is sensational
636
00:32:33,101 --> 00:32:35,061
because he speaks of
the first person.
637
00:32:35,121 --> 00:32:37,863
He says, it was evening,
638
00:32:38,015 --> 00:32:40,624
then he hear the noise
in the firmament.
639
00:32:42,703 --> 00:32:44,795
And two beings crossed him.
640
00:32:44,947 --> 00:32:49,133
And he said, "They had not
the breathe of humans."
641
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,711
So, if somebody does not breathe
like humans, what are they?
642
00:32:52,805 --> 00:32:54,138
Nonhumans.
643
00:32:55,624 --> 00:32:58,792
Enoch describes, "They brought
me over the Earth.
644
00:32:58,811 --> 00:33:01,479
I saw the round face
of the Earth."
645
00:33:02,815 --> 00:33:05,207
Enoch was teached by
the extraterrestrials.
646
00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:07,726
When he came back down to Earth,
647
00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:10,546
he told to the humans,
648
00:33:10,564 --> 00:33:12,564
a gigantic flood would come
649
00:33:12,717 --> 00:33:13,991
and destroy everything.
650
00:33:17,221 --> 00:33:20,239
One of the oldest religious
traditions in the Middle East,
651
00:33:20,391 --> 00:33:23,058
Zoroastrianism, also teaches
652
00:33:23,077 --> 00:33:24,893
that it was not just one person
653
00:33:24,912 --> 00:33:26,837
who knew of a coming cataclysm.
654
00:33:28,082 --> 00:33:30,232
In the Vendidad, which predates
655
00:33:30,325 --> 00:33:32,062
all the books
of the Hebrew Bible,
656
00:33:32,086 --> 00:33:34,011
a young priest named Yima
657
00:33:34,238 --> 00:33:38,182
is warned of a disaster
by the god Ahura Mazda,
658
00:33:38,333 --> 00:33:41,593
who is often depicted
seated inside a winged disk.
659
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,765
Yima is instructed to share this
information with his people,
660
00:33:46,917 --> 00:33:48,877
and even to build
an underground shelter
661
00:33:49,011 --> 00:33:52,345
that sounds very similar
to the ancient man-made caves
662
00:33:52,439 --> 00:33:54,490
that have been found in Turkey.
663
00:33:55,701 --> 00:33:59,611
Ahura Mazda instructs Yima
to build a vara.
664
00:33:59,764 --> 00:34:01,354
This is a huge structure,
665
00:34:01,448 --> 00:34:02,728
two miles long, two miles wide.
666
00:34:04,043 --> 00:34:06,952
An underground hall, of sorts,
667
00:34:07,104 --> 00:34:10,464
where things can be protected
from the terrible winter.
668
00:34:12,443 --> 00:34:15,277
Yima was to hide
a remnant of the people,
669
00:34:15,296 --> 00:34:18,204
and an extensive seed bank,
670
00:34:18,224 --> 00:34:21,967
also a pair of each
of the animal species.
671
00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:25,621
Once Yima is finished
building the vara,
672
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:27,456
he takes 2,000 people in,
673
00:34:27,474 --> 00:34:30,459
a representation of mankind.
674
00:34:30,552 --> 00:34:33,053
So again, we have a warning
675
00:34:33,147 --> 00:34:35,739
to tell the people, "Get ready,
676
00:34:35,966 --> 00:34:39,151
this terrible cataclysm
is gonna happen."
677
00:34:39,245 --> 00:34:41,987
And these underground cities,
678
00:34:42,139 --> 00:34:44,656
like Derinkuyu, are huge.
679
00:34:44,750 --> 00:34:46,917
They are vast.
680
00:34:47,069 --> 00:34:50,829
They go many, many stories
underground.
681
00:34:50,981 --> 00:34:54,666
There's all kinds
of streets and rooms.
682
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,427
So, you have to wonder
683
00:34:56,578 --> 00:34:58,745
if these underground cities
served as a refuge
684
00:34:58,764 --> 00:35:01,181
for survivors of this cataclysm.
685
00:35:04,103 --> 00:35:07,271
If a great civilization
of humans and giants
686
00:35:07,422 --> 00:35:09,940
existed on Earth long ago,
687
00:35:10,092 --> 00:35:13,502
is it possible that they
received advanced warning
688
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,239
of a worldwide cataclysm
by an extraterrestrial race?
689
00:35:20,177 --> 00:35:22,177
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
690
00:35:22,270 --> 00:35:24,196
the evidence of such a warning
691
00:35:24,348 --> 00:35:27,124
lies in the fact
that both Göbekli Tepe
692
00:35:27,275 --> 00:35:29,943
and Karahan Tepe
were not overcome
693
00:35:29,962 --> 00:35:32,278
by the sands of time,
694
00:35:32,298 --> 00:35:35,448
but were intentionally buried.
695
00:35:35,468 --> 00:35:37,635
Archaeologists are
now pretty well certain
696
00:35:37,862 --> 00:35:40,286
that Göbekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe
697
00:35:40,381 --> 00:35:41,805
were intentionally buried.
698
00:35:42,032 --> 00:35:43,882
Why do you do that?
699
00:35:44,034 --> 00:35:47,219
Perhaps they knew
of an impending cataclysm.
700
00:35:47,313 --> 00:35:50,555
The flood of the Old Testament,
we're told, was premeditated.
701
00:35:50,708 --> 00:35:52,702
People had foreknowledge
that it was coming,
702
00:35:52,726 --> 00:35:54,710
and they were preparing for it,
703
00:35:54,803 --> 00:35:57,613
and they were trying to preserve
elements of their civilization.
704
00:35:59,049 --> 00:36:02,067
It was intended for us
to ultimately discover it
705
00:36:02,219 --> 00:36:03,786
later in the future.
706
00:36:05,723 --> 00:36:08,648
Is it possible that the builders
of Karahan Tepe
707
00:36:08,668 --> 00:36:12,152
buried the entire site
because they had been forewarned
708
00:36:12,171 --> 00:36:14,246
of a coming cataclysm,
709
00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:17,341
and wanted to preserve
some record of a civilization
710
00:36:17,568 --> 00:36:19,760
that was on the verge
of extinction?
711
00:36:20,996 --> 00:36:23,255
A civilization
that was, perhaps,
712
00:36:23,407 --> 00:36:26,258
far different from our own?
713
00:36:26,410 --> 00:36:28,410
There are legends
from around the world
714
00:36:28,503 --> 00:36:31,079
that speak about a great,
highly advanced,
715
00:36:31,098 --> 00:36:33,607
wonderful civilization
that predated our own.
716
00:36:36,028 --> 00:36:38,270
We're familiar with this
by names like Atlantis
717
00:36:38,364 --> 00:36:40,439
or Lemuria and the like.
718
00:36:40,591 --> 00:36:42,607
There are many legends
which speak about
719
00:36:42,702 --> 00:36:45,869
the existence of giants.
720
00:36:46,021 --> 00:36:47,946
We know about them
from the Bible.
721
00:36:48,098 --> 00:36:50,708
Very famous story
of David and Goliath.
722
00:36:51,952 --> 00:36:54,937
It is also said that,
in these days,
723
00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:58,123
many of what
we today call "angels"
724
00:36:58,275 --> 00:37:00,959
walked among
human beings openly.
725
00:37:01,053 --> 00:37:05,139
Now today, we call these
entities extraterrestrials.
726
00:37:06,392 --> 00:37:09,709
When we see imagery
from around the world,
727
00:37:09,729 --> 00:37:11,878
and when we read
about these things
728
00:37:11,897 --> 00:37:16,291
in the ancient traditions,
we need to ask the question,
729
00:37:16,384 --> 00:37:19,052
is there some literal fact
behind this?
730
00:37:19,071 --> 00:37:23,315
And when we look at these
excavations today in Turkey,
731
00:37:23,409 --> 00:37:25,150
can we speculate
732
00:37:25,244 --> 00:37:28,328
that these were the remnants
of that civilization?
733
00:37:31,733 --> 00:37:34,400
These sites that we're talking
about, these super ancient,
734
00:37:34,420 --> 00:37:37,070
super complex sites,
they are telling us something.
735
00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:39,831
They're telling us about
mythology being true.
736
00:37:39,984 --> 00:37:41,978
They're telling us
there's a larger story
737
00:37:42,002 --> 00:37:43,282
to the-the history of humanity.
738
00:37:44,930 --> 00:37:47,747
Now that Göbekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe
739
00:37:47,767 --> 00:37:49,600
have been exhumed from the Earth
740
00:37:49,751 --> 00:37:54,104
after being hidden
for more than 11,000 years,
741
00:37:54,331 --> 00:37:57,015
might we learn that
the history of humankind
742
00:37:57,167 --> 00:37:59,443
is much different
than we ever imagined?
743
00:38:01,763 --> 00:38:04,339
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
744
00:38:04,432 --> 00:38:07,785
and propose that new excavations
in southern Turkey
745
00:38:07,936 --> 00:38:11,863
suggest that these sites
have only begun to reveal
746
00:38:11,957 --> 00:38:14,291
their ancient secrets.
747
00:38:19,465 --> 00:38:21,632
Sanliurfa Province.
748
00:38:21,783 --> 00:38:26,294
June 27, 2021.
749
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,383
Turkish Culture and Tourism
Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy
750
00:38:31,477 --> 00:38:33,869
appears before
the international press corps
751
00:38:33,962 --> 00:38:35,979
to make an historic announcement
752
00:38:36,131 --> 00:38:38,982
regarding the ongoing
excavations in southern Turkey.
753
00:38:40,377 --> 00:38:44,637
The minister of tourism
for Turkey announced
754
00:38:44,731 --> 00:38:48,308
that we now have 12 sites,
755
00:38:48,327 --> 00:38:51,403
many of which remained
to be excavated.
756
00:38:51,497 --> 00:38:55,999
And all of this forms
part of what they call
757
00:38:56,151 --> 00:38:58,669
the Tas Tepeler culture.
758
00:39:00,747 --> 00:39:02,564
The Turkish authorities
759
00:39:02,657 --> 00:39:04,749
have been making
a series of announcements
760
00:39:04,902 --> 00:39:08,070
of new incredibly ancient sites.
761
00:39:08,088 --> 00:39:10,330
Incredible number of sites,
762
00:39:10,349 --> 00:39:13,742
we have at least a dozen sites
now that are known.
763
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,911
And what this
is really reconfirming
764
00:39:16,004 --> 00:39:19,356
is that this was a major area
765
00:39:19,507 --> 00:39:21,859
of early civilization.
766
00:39:23,587 --> 00:39:26,588
Since it was initiated in 2019
767
00:39:26,607 --> 00:39:29,032
by Istanbul University,
768
00:39:29,184 --> 00:39:32,703
the Göbekli culture
and Karahan excavations project
769
00:39:32,930 --> 00:39:35,372
has determined that these
ancient settlements
770
00:39:35,599 --> 00:39:38,433
cover a region
that spans an astonishing
771
00:39:38,452 --> 00:39:42,212
125 miles
from one end to the other.
772
00:39:44,049 --> 00:39:47,792
This suggests that approximately
12,000 years ago,
773
00:39:47,945 --> 00:39:50,295
the area was an extensive
774
00:39:50,447 --> 00:39:53,390
and highly advanced metropolis.
775
00:39:53,541 --> 00:39:57,636
This site is absolutely massive.
776
00:39:57,788 --> 00:40:00,472
What we are working with
right now represents,
777
00:40:00,624 --> 00:40:05,143
perhaps, 1% of the entire site.
778
00:40:05,237 --> 00:40:08,964
And they're forecasting it's
literally gonna take centuries
779
00:40:09,057 --> 00:40:11,633
to uncover everything that is
780
00:40:11,726 --> 00:40:13,646
at Karahan Tepe
and Göbekli Tepe.
781
00:40:14,896 --> 00:40:18,898
We're talking about
a complex that is so vast,
782
00:40:18,918 --> 00:40:21,543
that it's almost beyond
our comprehension.
783
00:40:23,088 --> 00:40:25,589
I love this idea
of a megalopolis,
784
00:40:25,740 --> 00:40:28,650
a mega, ancient city,
785
00:40:28,743 --> 00:40:30,427
where some archaeologists say,
786
00:40:30,578 --> 00:40:31,722
"Oh, that could
have never happened."
787
00:40:31,746 --> 00:40:33,321
Well, maybe it did.
788
00:40:33,340 --> 00:40:36,491
And Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe
789
00:40:36,510 --> 00:40:38,751
and the other sites
that have been found there
790
00:40:38,845 --> 00:40:42,088
was a worldwide city
791
00:40:42,107 --> 00:40:44,775
of millions of people.
792
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,112
These excavations in
the whole Tas Tepeler region,
793
00:40:49,264 --> 00:40:50,596
are gonna rewrite history.
794
00:40:50,691 --> 00:40:52,190
They're already doing so.
795
00:40:52,342 --> 00:40:54,009
They're like the smoking gun
796
00:40:54,102 --> 00:40:55,844
of an advanced
lost civilization,
797
00:40:55,862 --> 00:40:57,770
a supercivilization, I believe,
798
00:40:57,790 --> 00:41:01,792
where there was highly advanced
cultures working together.
799
00:41:01,943 --> 00:41:04,944
And you have to,
you know, really question
800
00:41:04,964 --> 00:41:07,284
if the further they look,
they're gonna find evidence
801
00:41:07,357 --> 00:41:09,708
of these legendary Anunnaki,
802
00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:12,260
these extraterrestrial beings.
803
00:41:13,639 --> 00:41:16,306
Our ultimate questions
have always revolved around
804
00:41:16,533 --> 00:41:19,551
who are we,
where did we come from,
805
00:41:19,645 --> 00:41:21,461
why are we here,
806
00:41:21,555 --> 00:41:24,723
where are we going from here,
and how do we get there?
807
00:41:24,817 --> 00:41:28,043
These questions are now
being answered for us.
808
00:41:28,061 --> 00:41:30,895
Is it possible that
what archeologists
809
00:41:31,048 --> 00:41:33,156
are uncovering
in southern Turkey
810
00:41:33,308 --> 00:41:35,383
is the true record
of the beginning
811
00:41:35,477 --> 00:41:38,069
of mankind's development
on Earth?
812
00:41:38,222 --> 00:41:41,573
Do the ancient reliefs
carved into limestone
813
00:41:41,667 --> 00:41:43,649
depict advanced beings
814
00:41:43,669 --> 00:41:47,412
that traveled to our planet
to create hybrid humans,
815
00:41:47,506 --> 00:41:52,134
and set in motion
the dawn of modern civilization?
816
00:41:53,495 --> 00:41:56,087
Perhaps as excavations continue,
817
00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,740
we will unearth, not only
startling new evidence
818
00:41:58,759 --> 00:42:00,258
about the past,
819
00:42:00,410 --> 00:42:02,761
but undeniable proof
820
00:42:02,913 --> 00:42:05,355
of our otherworldly origins.
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