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Strange burial
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rituals...
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What we're
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talking about is some kind of
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other-dimensional travel for
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the soul to undertake.
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Elaborate chambers
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filled with mysterious
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objects...
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The fact
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that these boats existed inside
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tombs leads me to think that
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they tried to reach some type of
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extraterrestrial realms.
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And bizarre burial
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mounds found across the globe.
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When you start
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looking at a structure inside
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the celestial alignments, you
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start to wonder, was there
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contact between some of these
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areas?
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Were the tombs of
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our ancient ancestors actually
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gateways to the afterlife?
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Or were they really meant to
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connect modern man with our
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alien ancestors?
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You have to
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ask yourself if they are perhaps
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maps to guide the dead back to
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the star systems...
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where they originally
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came from.
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Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
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And if so, might the secrets of
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the ancient tombs reveal an
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otherworldly plan for mankind?
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The Valley of the.
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Kings, Egypt.
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The Taj Mahal, Agra, India.
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And King Pakal's Tomb,
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Palenque, Mexico.
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Spectacular burial sites that
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date back thousands of years are
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found across the world.
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According to mainstream
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researchers, these locations are
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the final resting places for
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ancient leaders.
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But might they also serve a more
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profound, perhaps
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extraterrestrial purpose?
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Why do we have the
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most massive of constructions of
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these tombs in the far and
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distant past?
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Well, according to the ancient
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texts and the ancient
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traditions, this knowledge was
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given to our ancestors by the
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gods.
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If the sole
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function of tombs was to house
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the dead, then why are
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virtually all of them connected
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to notions of spiritual energy,
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images of astronomy, and a
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strong belief in the existence
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of other, arguably more
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spiritual, worlds?
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All cultures share
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this notion of somehow opening a
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doorway, opening a stargate,
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opening a gateway to another
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dimension so the soul can
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return.
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We know that it is meant
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because the soul is gonna go on
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a voyage to the afterlife.
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In the
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ancient world, there was a view
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that this life that we have,
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this physical life, is our
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opportunity to prepare ourselves
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for a vast destiny that lies
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beyond this.
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Could ancient tombs
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really have served another,
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more extraterrestrial purpose,
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perhaps as portals to reunite
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the deceased with celestial
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beings?
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Many ancient astronaut theorists
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believe the answers can be found
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by taking a closer look at the
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mysterious texts of ancient
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Egypt.
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Saqqara... situated on e west
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bank of the Nile River, 20 miles
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south of Cairo, this
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archaeological site is one of
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the oldest and largest burial
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grounds in all of Egypt.
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Egyptologists
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called these monuments tombs.
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But to the Egyptians, they were
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not tombs, they were gateways
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to the afterworld.
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It is through these structures
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that the king will begin a
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journey into the underworld,
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in order to face obstacles,
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dangers, and threats.
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And if he will overcome these
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threats, he will be given
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passage into the afterlife
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kingdom of Osiris.
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Overlooking the
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immense necropolis lies the.
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Pyramid of King Teti, the first
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ruler of Egypt's sixth dynasty.
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Teti built his pyramid and an
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adjoining mortuary temple during
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his reign, more than 4,000 years
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ago.
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I'm walking on
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what's left of the ancient
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causeway of King Teti I...
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That's his pyramid... and here is
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his very-much-ruined mortuary
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temple.
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Now, this pyramid is very
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important... it contains the
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oldest, richest writing in the
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world, the Pyramid Texts.
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According to
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archaeologists, the Pyramid.
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Texts are a collection of
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ancient Egyptian religious
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writings that date back to
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2400 BC.
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They contain passages about.
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Osiris, the Egyptian god of the
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afterlife, and descriptions of
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how to prepare the pharaoh's
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remains during his ascent to the
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heavens after death.
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The Pyramid Texts are
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all about the stars.
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It's all about the king becoming
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a star.
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It's all about the king
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ascending to the sky and joining.
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Osiris-Orion in the sky.
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But according to
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ancient astronaut theorists, the.
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Pyramid Texts didn't only guide
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the pharaoh to an afterlife,
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ey actually provided
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instruction on how the pharaoh
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could travel to other worlds.
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>> COPPEWhat is important
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to realize is that the ancient
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Egyptians say that about 25,000
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years ago, the gods lived
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amongst them.
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Then they disappeared agai.
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What the Pyramid Texts are
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saying is that we... the ancient
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Egyptians specifically, of
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course... are able to reach the
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gods again.
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For this we have to die, but
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once we're dead, we're able to
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join the gods once again.
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What we're talking about is some
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kind of other-dimensional travel
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for the soul to undertake.
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Buried in the
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desert sands for centuries, the
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ruins of Saqqara are home to
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another ancient mystery just one
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half-mile away from the Pyramid
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of King Teti.
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In 1850, French archaeologist.
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Auguste Mariette made an
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astonishing discovery.
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He unearthed a massive
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underground bunker.
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This is a most
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strange and mysterious place.
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It feels like being in the
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bowels of the underworld.
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It's hard to describe... it's
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like being in another world,
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the world of the dead.
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The Serapeum
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contains enormous sarcophagi
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made from granite that was
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believed to have been
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transported from the city of.
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Aswan, nearly 600 miles away.
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This is just one of
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the many sarcophagus that are
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here, dozens and dozens of them.
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And they weigh about 70 tons
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apiece.
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They're made from a solid block
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of granite.
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But the real mystery is how they
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cut them so sharply... Swiss
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watch precision, mirror smooth.
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When you
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look at the inside of the boxes,
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you see the underside of the lid
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is perfectly square with the
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vertical surface of the inside
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of the box.
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Directly opposite, you have the
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same condition, which means that
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those two surfaces, opposing
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each other, must have been
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perfectly parallel.
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It's really amazing.
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Ancient astronaut
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theorists question just how the
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ancient Egyptians could have
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moved these gigantic stones for
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miles and then wedge them into
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the underground labyrinth.
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And to what purpose?
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So we have
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one big problem.
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Imagine, in ancient Egypt, they
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dig out of the rock kilometers
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and kilometers of subterranean
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tunnels.
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Right and left, they make
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niches.
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Then they go to two day's Aswan.
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In Aswan, they cut out of the
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rock the hardest granite which
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exists, and they bring it, in
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a complicated way we don't know,
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into these subterranean tunnels.
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Archaeologists
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still, today, cannot figure out
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how these giant basalt
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sarcophagi were made.
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They're perfectly made.
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And how they would even move
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them into these catacombs that
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are underground.
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It's like they would have had to
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levitate and put these 70-ton
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boxes... by some magical means,
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like anti-gravity.
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Most scholars
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believe the Serapeum and its
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enormous sarcophagi were
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constructed to house the
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mummified remains of the Apis
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bulls.
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The Egyptians
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believed that these Apis bulls
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were descended from the sky, and
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they would have elaborate
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ceremonies with these bulls.
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But when Mariette
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were empty, apart from some
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bones.
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Only one Apis bull mummy was
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discovered at the site.
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Some ancient astronaut theorists
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believe the sacred bulls may
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have been the creation of
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extraterrestrials, and that
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these creatures were feared,
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not worshipped, by the
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ancient Egyptians.
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The humans are
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afraid of these monster, because
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they were created by the gods.
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They are holy animals.
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So they wait until the monsters
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die of a natural way.
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And now the animal is dead, they
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smash, crash the bones of the
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monster.
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They put it into the sarcophagi.
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In ancient Egypt,
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every single living creature,
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after death, was mummified.
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So the fact that we can find
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boxes in which we have hacked-up
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bones, you have to ask yourself,
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why?
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So they made sure that, after
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death, they would hack up the
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bodies, and then put a 35-ton
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lid on top of that... so that
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those creatures would never
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return in the future.
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>> NARRATO Could the
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sarcophagi have been constructed
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as a kind of prison to prevent
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the return of the bulls after
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death?
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Or could they have served a
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different, even more profound,
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purpose?
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Egyptologists are
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baffled, and they don't know
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what the purpose of these things
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were.
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Also, why are some of them
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empty?
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And you have to wonder, too, if
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these boxes had some other
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purpose originally.
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Are these really some kind of
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interdimensional stargates, and
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then extraterrestrials are able
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to come an from this planet
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using that?
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Were the Serapeum
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sarcophagi actually a
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teleportation system, as many
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ancient astronaut theorists
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believe?
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Could they be a series of
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chambers used to convey anent
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humans, and perhaps, alien
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visitors, to other planets?
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Perhaps another underground tomb
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complex halfway around the globe
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can provide further clues.
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Northern Peru.
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1987.
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Archaeologist Walter Alva
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uncovers the lost tomb of the.
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Lord of Sipan.
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Intact and untouched by thieves,
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this burial place is considered
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one of the richest in the world.
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The Lord of.
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Sipan was a Moche king, up in
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the Lambayeque region of Peru,
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along the coast.
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They found gold and silver and
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all these incredibly beautiful
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artifacts and textiles and art.
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Peruvian
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archaeologists... they sometimes
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call it the King Tut's Tomb of.
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South America.
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And the objects that they found
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in these tombs were unusual.
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The burial chamber
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was filled with artifacts that
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included ceramic pots, gold,
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copper and silver utensils,
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and feather ornaments some
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researchers believe were
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intended to accompany and
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protect the Lord of Sipan in the
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afterlife.
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Some archaeologists suggest that
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several of his servants, wives
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and consorts were sacrificed,
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and their bodies were placed
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inside to accompany him into the
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afterlife.
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We see that Lord.
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Sipan is not buried in
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isolation.
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We see that he is buried with
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some other people, and so when
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we extrapolate from this and
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when we realize that other
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cultures have been doing the
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same kind of schematic, what
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we're seeing is that these
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people believed that the
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afterlife was very much a
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physical place.
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It was believed that he would
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haveeeded some of these
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helpers.
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It is believed that he would
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probably want to be reunited, if
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not united, with his most
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immediate family and some of his
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most trusted advisors.
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Among the
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incredible treasures buried
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with the Lord of Sipan were
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strange statues that some
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researchers believe are evidence
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of extraterrestrial beings.
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As well as servants
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and all the artifacts, they
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even found these strange, kind
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of weird anthropomorphized
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figurines that some people say
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resemble beings from other
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worlds.
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They show bug-eyed
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people who do not look like a
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normal human.
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So you have, at Sipan, really,
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a tomb that seems to show
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extraterrestrial beings,
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anthropomorphic beings that are
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half-animal, half-human, and
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people who don't look like a
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normal human being... that look
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like extraterrestrials.
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Lord of.
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Sipan's tomb has some very
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interesting relics that were
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found within his burial.
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Were these beings that were
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gonna help him go into the
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afterlife, possibly back into
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space, or into the heavens?
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The Lord of Sipan's
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disciples believed that he was
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not a mere mortal, but actually
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half-god and half-man.
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But specifically
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what is of interest is that he
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has a face mask, which is made
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of gold, and his body largely is
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dressed with copper shielding.
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So, all of a sudden, we see
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somebody whose dead body is
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meant to resemble clearly.
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A shining one.
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The divine being, which he was
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once believed to be, but also,
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which in death, he was believed
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to once again become.
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Was the Lord of.
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Sipan really half-man, half-god,
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as his followers believed?
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And might the figurines found in
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his grave really represent the
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ancient ruler's extraterrestrial
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origin?
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If so, is it possible that this
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tomb, like the ones found in
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Egypt, really served as a portal
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to the stars?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
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yes, and believe more evidence
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can be found by looking at the
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boat-shaped coffins and strange
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burial rituals of the ancient.
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Torajan people.
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South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Here can be found the cave tombs
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of Tana Toraja, the site of a
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complex funeral ritual that
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dates back to 3000 BC.
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The Torajan people believe
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death is a gradual process
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toward the afterlife.
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Many cultures believe
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in an afterlife, something that
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goes on beyond the
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physical bodies.
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The Toraja people in Indonesia
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are very interesting and
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unusual, because among the most
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elaborate rituals they have are
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not rituals of life, but for
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death.
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They have incredible ceremonies
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when people die, they have
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huge feasts, and they have
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these incredible celebrations
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for the dead.
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The Torajan people
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put the dead into these special
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coffins, which are also like
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a model of a spaceship.
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And then they inter them up on
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these cliffs.
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And their beliefs, too, are that
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ultimately the dead are
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returning to the stars, and that
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they as a people will also
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return to the stars, as well.
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As translated,
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the name "Toraja" means "the
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"people from above," and Torajans
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believe their ancestors
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descended from the stars in
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sky ships.
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Their elaborate coffins are
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built in the form of a boat, and
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thought to resemble the sky
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ships that carried their
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ancestors to Earth.
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A wooden effigy called a
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tau tau is carved in the
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likeness of the dead person and
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placed in the balcony to
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represent the deceased and watch
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over their remains.
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The effigies are a
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beautiful illustration with
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which they wanted to show us
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that, once somebody is deceased,
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they can still look down upon
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you, because being dead doesn't
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mean that it's over.
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Dead just means that you go on
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to the next level of existence.
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And it's an idea that has been
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with us not just in our culture
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but in every ancient culture and
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modern culture as well.
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The Torajan people,
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they believe in sky gods who
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descended from the sky, who left
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them a body of knowledge and
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then who disappeared.
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And they very much believed that
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by doing what our ancestors did
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when these creatures were here
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that they will therefore also be
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able to join these divine beings
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which were once here.
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And specifically, that upon
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death, they will be able to
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join them in the home of these
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deities.
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That is very much on par with
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what we see throughout the
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world.
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Is it possible,
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as some researchers believe,
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that ancient astronauts
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visited Earth thousands of years
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00:21:11,838 --> 00:21:14,507
ago, and inspired our ancestors
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to build boat-shaped coffins
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that emulated their space
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vehicles?
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If so, could the presence of
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boat coffins mean that our
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ancestors were preparing to make
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a journey to the stars?
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Some believe the ultimate proof
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00:21:32,725 --> 00:21:34,761
can be found in a mysterious
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burial mound in Ireland...
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One with star maps that give
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clues, not just to where the
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ancient visitors came from,
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but where the dead may have,
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in fact, chosen to return.
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Oldcastle, Ireland.
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Amid the ruins of a Stone Age
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cemetery lies a 5,000-year-old
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tomb, nearly 120 feet in
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diameter.
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It is named after the mythical
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poet-king, Ollahm Fodhla.
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With Ollahm.
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Fodhla's tomb, what we see is
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this connection between the.
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00:22:22,442 --> 00:22:24,110
Earth and the sky.
581
00:22:24,110 --> 00:22:25,778
Some people have suggested it
582
00:22:25,778 --> 00:22:27,013
might be a celestial
583
00:22:27,013 --> 00:22:28,080
observatory.
584
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:29,015
But I think it's much more
585
00:22:29,015 --> 00:22:30,082
likely that it was sort of a
586
00:22:30,082 --> 00:22:31,884
temple, a place of worship, that
587
00:22:31,884 --> 00:22:34,821
connected the sky and the earth.
588
00:22:37,857 --> 00:22:38,891
According to
589
00:22:38,891 --> 00:22:40,860
ancient astronaut theorists,
590
00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:43,496
astronomical hieroglyphs carved
591
00:22:43,496 --> 00:22:44,864
on the interior of the stone
592
00:22:44,864 --> 00:22:46,766
walls may have been the work of
593
00:22:46,766 --> 00:22:50,870
otherworldly beings.
594
00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:52,071
At Ollahm Fodhla
595
00:22:52,071 --> 00:22:54,073
we can find an incredibly
596
00:22:54,073 --> 00:22:56,609
accurate astronomical chart,
597
00:22:56,609 --> 00:22:58,110
and one has to wonder how
598
00:22:58,110 --> 00:23:00,413
those ancestors were able to do
599
00:23:00,413 --> 00:23:02,615
this without any knowledge of
600
00:23:02,615 --> 00:23:04,917
astronomy.
601
00:23:04,917 --> 00:23:07,487
In fact, the legends of that
602
00:23:07,487 --> 00:23:08,921
part of the world tell us that
603
00:23:08,921 --> 00:23:10,923
they had assistance, that
604
00:23:10,923 --> 00:23:13,526
these topics were taught to
605
00:23:13,526 --> 00:23:15,428
those people by none other than
606
00:23:15,428 --> 00:23:16,929
the shining ones who descended
607
00:23:16,929 --> 00:23:19,566
from the sky.
608
00:23:19,566 --> 00:23:20,833
Ollahm Fodhla
609
00:23:20,833 --> 00:23:23,803
has inside of it celestial
610
00:23:23,803 --> 00:23:25,071
charts.
611
00:23:25,071 --> 00:23:26,873
So you have to ask yourself if
612
00:23:26,873 --> 00:23:29,008
they are perhaps maps for these
613
00:23:29,008 --> 00:23:31,611
extraterrestrial visitors to
614
00:23:31,611 --> 00:23:33,480
show them the way home, back to
615
00:23:33,513 --> 00:23:35,748
the stars.
616
00:23:35,748 --> 00:23:36,749
Could
617
00:23:36,749 --> 00:23:37,817
extraterrestrials, as
618
00:23:37,817 --> 00:23:39,452
ancient astronautheorists
619
00:23:39,452 --> 00:23:41,921
suggest, have taught our ancient
620
00:23:41,921 --> 00:23:43,890
ancestors how to build a
621
00:23:43,890 --> 00:23:45,625
so-called "celestial
622
00:23:45,625 --> 00:23:47,894
observatory"?
623
00:23:47,894 --> 00:23:50,630
And if so, might the cemetery
624
00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:53,566
have served as a staging area?
625
00:23:53,566 --> 00:23:55,635
A place for extraterrestrials to
626
00:23:55,635 --> 00:23:57,904
observe, pct and record
627
00:23:57,904 --> 00:24:00,640
stellar movements in preparation
628
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,810
for their return to the stars?
629
00:24:03,810 --> 00:24:05,912
Perhaps the answer can be found
630
00:24:05,912 --> 00:24:08,080
by examining the ancient burial
631
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,583
structures of Japan.
632
00:24:14,554 --> 00:24:18,591
Sakai, Japan.
633
00:24:18,591 --> 00:24:21,661
Here, ins city located 250
634
00:24:21,661 --> 00:24:23,930
miles soutest of Tokyo, lies
635
00:24:23,930 --> 00:24:27,800
the Daisen Kofun... one of over
636
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,802
40 ancient crypts within a
637
00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:33,840
six-mile radius.
638
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,742
More than twice the length of
639
00:24:35,742 --> 00:24:37,844
the Great Pyramid of Giza, it is
640
00:24:37,844 --> 00:24:39,612
one of the largest tombs in the
641
00:24:39,612 --> 00:24:41,848
world.
642
00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:43,883
Constructed in the 5th century.
643
00:24:43,883 --> 00:24:47,286
AD, it is believed to be the
644
00:24:47,286 --> 00:24:49,756
resting place of Nintoku, the
645
00:24:49,756 --> 00:24:54,126
16th emperor of Japan.
646
00:24:54,126 --> 00:24:56,262
But of all the various types and
647
00:24:56,262 --> 00:24:57,864
designs that make up the Kofun
648
00:24:57,864 --> 00:25:01,734
structures, perhaps the most
649
00:25:01,734 --> 00:25:03,803
mysterious are those in the
650
00:25:03,803 --> 00:25:07,306
shape of a keyhole... one that
651
00:25:07,306 --> 00:25:09,976
can only be seen from above.
652
00:25:12,912 --> 00:25:13,980
The very fact that
653
00:25:13,980 --> 00:25:15,748
this was made to look like a
654
00:25:15,748 --> 00:25:16,916
keyhole, that this was made
655
00:25:16,916 --> 00:25:19,218
only to be seen from the sky,
656
00:25:19,218 --> 00:25:21,087
would, to me, indicate this
657
00:25:21,087 --> 00:25:22,555
could be a clear message to the
658
00:25:22,589 --> 00:25:26,726
gods to say, "Look here."
659
00:25:26,726 --> 00:25:27,860
And it was some
660
00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:30,730
kind of reference for the stars,
661
00:25:30,730 --> 00:25:32,732
for the person in the tombs.
662
00:25:32,732 --> 00:25:34,634
So is this some kind of tomb
663
00:25:34,634 --> 00:25:36,636
for the extraterrestrial gods
664
00:25:36,636 --> 00:25:38,738
so that they could find and
665
00:25:38,738 --> 00:25:40,807
return to the stars where they
666
00:25:40,807 --> 00:25:42,709
had come?
667
00:25:42,709 --> 00:25:43,810
Were the Kofun
668
00:25:43,810 --> 00:25:45,812
meant to serve as markers for
669
00:25:45,812 --> 00:25:47,914
extraterrestrials that planned
670
00:25:47,914 --> 00:25:50,116
to return to Earth, as some
671
00:25:50,116 --> 00:25:51,818
ancient astronaut theorists
672
00:25:51,818 --> 00:25:53,686
contend?
673
00:25:53,686 --> 00:25:55,755
Perhaps more evidence can be
674
00:25:55,755 --> 00:25:57,724
foby examining one of the
675
00:25:57,724 --> 00:25:59,191
most immense archaeological
676
00:25:59,191 --> 00:26:02,294
finds of the 20th century... the
677
00:26:02,294 --> 00:26:04,230
vast tomb of China's first
678
00:26:04,230 --> 00:26:06,699
emperor.
679
00:26:10,903 --> 00:26:14,907
Shaanxi Province, China.
680
00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:18,778
In 1974, farmers digging a well
681
00:26:18,778 --> 00:26:20,947
outside the town of Xi'an made
682
00:26:20,947 --> 00:26:24,684
an astonishing discovery... a
683
00:26:24,684 --> 00:26:26,085
life-size clay soldier
684
00:26:26,085 --> 00:26:28,087
intricately carved and dressed
685
00:26:28,087 --> 00:26:30,790
for battle.
686
00:26:30,790 --> 00:26:32,759
Further excavation revealed
687
00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:34,093
thousands of these sculptures,
688
00:26:34,093 --> 00:26:36,028
known as the Terra Cotta.
689
00:26:36,028 --> 00:26:38,698
Warriors, each with remarkably
690
00:26:38,698 --> 00:26:43,169
realistic facial expressions.
691
00:26:43,169 --> 00:26:44,937
Entombed in thearth for over
692
00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:47,239
2,000 years, the warriors are
693
00:26:47,239 --> 00:26:49,275
part of a massive underground
694
00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:51,778
mausoleum built for China's
695
00:26:51,778 --> 00:26:53,379
first emperor of the Qin.
696
00:26:53,379 --> 00:26:57,950
Dynasty... Qin Shi Huang.
697
00:26:57,950 --> 00:26:58,951
The tomb of Qin.
698
00:26:58,951 --> 00:26:59,952
Shi Huang is quite
699
00:26:59,952 --> 00:27:01,954
extraordinary.
700
00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:04,957
Over 8,000 terra cotta soldiers
701
00:27:04,957 --> 00:27:06,158
have been found there, along
702
00:27:06,158 --> 00:27:10,262
with 520 horses, 130 chariots,
703
00:27:10,262 --> 00:27:14,901
most of which are still buried.
704
00:27:14,901 --> 00:27:17,336
Qin Shi Huang is
705
00:27:17,336 --> 00:27:19,806
literally the first emperor in
706
00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:21,107
China.
707
00:27:21,107 --> 00:27:23,776
He established the Qin dynasty
708
00:27:23,810 --> 00:27:27,279
in the year 221 BC.
709
00:27:27,279 --> 00:27:30,983
And he established many things
710
00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:32,785
that actually continued to
711
00:27:32,785 --> 00:27:34,721
function throughout the imperial
712
00:27:34,721 --> 00:27:35,888
period in China.
713
00:27:35,888 --> 00:27:38,891
Qin conquered and
714
00:27:38,891 --> 00:27:41,093
united China, built the Great.
715
00:27:41,093 --> 00:27:43,930
Wall, and standardized the
716
00:27:43,930 --> 00:27:47,767
monetary and legal system.
717
00:27:47,767 --> 00:27:49,836
But Qin Shi Huang was also
718
00:27:49,836 --> 00:27:51,738
obsessed with finding the secret
719
00:27:51,738 --> 00:27:55,775
of immortality.
720
00:27:55,775 --> 00:27:57,009
This is an emperor
721
00:27:57,009 --> 00:27:58,410
who goes in search of the
722
00:27:58,410 --> 00:27:59,411
islands of immortality.
723
00:27:59,411 --> 00:28:01,213
This is an emperor who's
724
00:28:01,213 --> 00:28:03,950
obsessed with rediscovering lost
725
00:28:03,983 --> 00:28:05,451
knowledge.
726
00:28:05,451 --> 00:28:07,386
His ambition is to become,
727
00:28:07,419 --> 00:28:11,257
life, like the gods.
728
00:28:11,257 --> 00:28:12,892
To this end, Qin
729
00:28:12,892 --> 00:28:14,761
spent over three decades
730
00:28:14,761 --> 00:28:16,896
forcing more than 700,000
731
00:28:16,896 --> 00:28:18,798
laborers to construct the
732
00:28:18,798 --> 00:28:20,399
four-layered subterranean city
733
00:28:20,399 --> 00:28:22,334
that would serve as his resting
734
00:28:22,334 --> 00:28:26,773
place.
735
00:28:26,773 --> 00:28:28,407
At the heart of the ancient
736
00:28:28,407 --> 00:28:30,242
complex is one of China's
737
00:28:30,242 --> 00:28:31,778
greatest mysteries.
738
00:28:31,778 --> 00:28:34,981
The tomb actually covers
739
00:28:34,981 --> 00:28:35,982
a very large area.
740
00:28:35,982 --> 00:28:38,484
Only a few areas in the
741
00:28:38,484 --> 00:28:40,853
surrounding... the border part
742
00:28:40,853 --> 00:28:41,921
of the tomb complex have been
743
00:28:41,921 --> 00:28:43,790
excavated.
744
00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:44,824
Archaeologists
745
00:28:44,824 --> 00:28:46,158
believe that underneath this
746
00:28:46,158 --> 00:28:48,094
central burial mound is the
747
00:28:48,094 --> 00:28:49,862
chamber containing Emperor.
748
00:28:49,862 --> 00:28:50,930
Qin's remains.
749
00:28:50,930 --> 00:28:53,866
To date, the site is still
750
00:28:53,866 --> 00:28:56,002
unexcavated, due to dangerously
751
00:28:56,002 --> 00:29:00,039
high levels of mercury.
752
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:02,274
What's thought to be
753
00:29:02,274 --> 00:29:03,943
inside is an exact model of the
754
00:29:03,943 --> 00:29:07,513
universe in miniature, with the
755
00:29:07,513 --> 00:29:09,882
ceiling, uh, made to look like
756
00:29:09,882 --> 00:29:10,983
the sky with all the stars
757
00:29:10,983 --> 00:29:13,019
represented by pearls.
758
00:29:13,019 --> 00:29:15,521
And then the rivers in China
759
00:29:15,521 --> 00:29:17,924
would be on the ground, and it
760
00:29:17,924 --> 00:29:19,291
is the mercury that is supposed
761
00:29:19,291 --> 00:29:22,161
to look like the rivers.
762
00:29:25,932 --> 00:29:27,566
A conductive
763
00:29:27,566 --> 00:29:29,101
element used in gauges,
764
00:29:29,101 --> 00:29:31,237
electronics, and automobiles,
765
00:29:31,237 --> 00:29:34,040
mercury is a liquid metal that
766
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,208
was discovered by archaeologists
767
00:29:36,208 --> 00:29:38,444
in an Egyptian tomb that dates
768
00:29:38,444 --> 00:29:40,913
back to 1500 BC.
769
00:29:40,913 --> 00:29:43,515
Some researchers believe the
770
00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:45,217
presence of mercury indicates
771
00:29:45,217 --> 00:29:47,386
the existence of modern
772
00:29:47,386 --> 00:29:50,122
technology in the ancient world.
773
00:29:50,122 --> 00:29:52,258
The presence of
774
00:29:52,258 --> 00:29:54,927
mercury, also, in these tombs,
775
00:29:54,927 --> 00:29:55,928
is unusual.
776
00:29:55,928 --> 00:29:58,831
Mercury is something which is
777
00:29:58,831 --> 00:30:00,566
not really very useful to us,
778
00:30:00,566 --> 00:30:03,102
except in very high-tech
779
00:30:03,102 --> 00:30:04,403
devices.
780
00:30:04,403 --> 00:30:05,938
And it could have been used as
781
00:30:05,938 --> 00:30:07,940
part of the extraterrestrials
782
00:30:07,940 --> 00:30:10,042
and their technology on this
783
00:30:10,042 --> 00:30:11,944
planet.
784
00:30:13,245 --> 00:30:14,246
Was the first
785
00:30:14,246 --> 00:30:15,581
emperor of China influenced by
786
00:30:15,581 --> 00:30:17,950
visitors from another world to
787
00:30:17,950 --> 00:30:20,352
create his monument, as ancient
788
00:30:20,352 --> 00:30:22,088
astronaut theorists propose?
789
00:30:22,088 --> 00:30:25,324
And could the mercury found
790
00:30:25,324 --> 00:30:26,859
at the tomb be proof of
791
00:30:26,859 --> 00:30:28,527
extraterrestrial technology at
792
00:30:28,527 --> 00:30:30,562
work in China thousands of years
793
00:30:30,562 --> 00:30:32,298
ago... technology that was not
794
00:30:32,298 --> 00:30:34,166
intended to merely help bury
795
00:30:34,166 --> 00:30:36,235
the dead, but to launch
796
00:30:36,235 --> 00:30:37,870
otherworldly beings back
797
00:30:37,870 --> 00:30:42,008
into space?
798
00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:44,643
Perhaps more clues can be found
799
00:30:44,643 --> 00:30:46,879
by taking a closer look at the
800
00:30:46,879 --> 00:30:48,948
mysterious burial mounds found
801
00:30:48,948 --> 00:30:51,850
all over our world.
802
00:30:57,890 --> 00:30:58,958
Gyeongju, South
803
00:30:58,958 --> 00:31:00,159
Korea.
804
00:31:00,159 --> 00:31:03,295
Here, near the shores of the.
805
00:31:03,295 --> 00:31:05,264
Sea of Japan, lie the ruins of.
806
00:31:05,264 --> 00:31:07,266
Cheonmachong.
807
00:31:07,266 --> 00:31:10,636
Excavated in 1973, researchers
808
00:31:10,636 --> 00:31:13,205
believe this mound-shaped tomb
809
00:31:13,205 --> 00:31:15,141
was constructed for a
810
00:31:15,141 --> 00:31:17,276
fifth-century ruler from the.
811
00:31:17,276 --> 00:31:19,145
Silla dynasty, which spanned
812
00:31:19,178 --> 00:31:21,914
nearly a thousand years.
813
00:31:21,914 --> 00:31:23,983
The main feature
814
00:31:23,983 --> 00:31:26,585
of this tomb is that it has
815
00:31:26,585 --> 00:31:28,254
what's known as a "heavenly"
816
00:31:28,254 --> 00:31:30,589
"horse" drawn onto it, and it's
817
00:31:30,589 --> 00:31:31,590
often called the Heavenly Horse.
818
00:31:31,590 --> 00:31:34,560
Tomb.
819
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,928
And this horse has eight
820
00:31:35,928 --> 00:31:40,699
fiery legs that are flaming.
821
00:31:40,699 --> 00:31:43,002
It's clearly not a
822
00:31:43,002 --> 00:31:47,106
living, naturalistic horse.
823
00:31:47,106 --> 00:31:48,307
It almost looks more like a
824
00:31:48,307 --> 00:31:49,641
combination of a horse and a
825
00:31:49,675 --> 00:31:52,678
dragon flying through the air.
826
00:31:52,678 --> 00:31:54,680
This may represent the journey
827
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,016
of the spirit, the soul, or
828
00:31:57,016 --> 00:31:59,151
taking the soul up to the
829
00:31:59,151 --> 00:32:01,053
afterlife.
830
00:32:04,556 --> 00:32:05,724
According to most
831
00:32:05,724 --> 00:32:07,126
historians, this equestrian
832
00:32:07,126 --> 00:32:10,262
illustration represents not only
833
00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:11,663
the importance of horses in
834
00:32:11,663 --> 00:32:14,566
ancient Korean culture, but also
835
00:32:14,566 --> 00:32:16,568
the king's belief in the spirit
836
00:32:16,568 --> 00:32:20,506
world.
837
00:32:20,506 --> 00:32:22,008
But ancient astronaut theorists
838
00:32:22,008 --> 00:32:23,675
have another, much more profound
839
00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:26,178
interpretation.
840
00:32:26,178 --> 00:32:29,248
They believe the painting of the
841
00:32:29,248 --> 00:32:31,417
winged horse symbolizes how the
842
00:32:31,417 --> 00:32:33,285
deceased noble would actually
843
00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:35,087
journey to another distant
844
00:32:35,087 --> 00:32:37,990
realm.
845
00:32:37,990 --> 00:32:39,391
Tibetans and
846
00:32:39,391 --> 00:32:41,027
Mongolians also have, uh,
847
00:32:41,027 --> 00:32:43,129
similar legends of these flying
848
00:32:43,129 --> 00:32:45,097
horses.
849
00:32:45,097 --> 00:32:46,632
And these horses, too, would be
850
00:32:46,632 --> 00:32:49,201
analogous to the vimanas, uh,
851
00:32:49,201 --> 00:32:53,505
in Sanskrit, which are these
852
00:32:53,505 --> 00:32:56,475
flying machines, the chariots
853
00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:58,110
of the gods that Erich von.
854
00:32:58,110 --> 00:32:59,278
Daniken talked about.
855
00:32:59,278 --> 00:33:01,347
And often they're depicted as
856
00:33:01,347 --> 00:33:03,582
this horse, which was the
857
00:33:03,582 --> 00:33:05,451
familiar vehicle that people
858
00:33:05,451 --> 00:33:07,253
could travel in, only these
859
00:33:07,253 --> 00:33:08,687
horses could fly.
860
00:33:08,687 --> 00:33:11,157
They were flying vehicles.
861
00:33:12,624 --> 00:33:14,226
If you look at it
862
00:33:14,226 --> 00:33:15,494
even more closely, it resembles
863
00:33:15,494 --> 00:33:18,330
more some type of a dragon.
864
00:33:21,167 --> 00:33:22,734
Because, out of its feet,
865
00:33:22,734 --> 00:33:24,670
there's fire coming out, and the
866
00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:26,272
feet themselves, their legs,
867
00:33:26,272 --> 00:33:28,174
don't really look like legs but
868
00:33:28,174 --> 00:33:30,042
they look as if they are some
869
00:33:30,042 --> 00:33:32,378
type of wings.
870
00:33:34,613 --> 00:33:36,615
We have to remember that our
871
00:33:36,615 --> 00:33:38,284
ancestors were not familiar with
872
00:33:38,284 --> 00:33:41,620
space vehicles, so whatever they
873
00:33:41,620 --> 00:33:44,623
saw up in the sky could best be
874
00:33:44,623 --> 00:33:46,725
described as an eight-legged
875
00:33:46,725 --> 00:33:50,096
horse descending from the sky.
876
00:33:50,096 --> 00:33:52,464
Could the so-called
877
00:33:52,464 --> 00:33:54,366
"heavenly horse" of Cheonmachong
878
00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:57,136
really be a representation of an
879
00:33:57,136 --> 00:33:59,105
extraterrestrial flying
880
00:33:59,105 --> 00:34:01,673
transport, as ancient astronaut
881
00:34:01,673 --> 00:34:03,642
theorists contend?
882
00:34:03,642 --> 00:34:06,412
And if so, would this help to
883
00:34:06,412 --> 00:34:07,813
prove their their theory that
884
00:34:07,813 --> 00:34:10,182
many ancient tombs were,
885
00:34:10,182 --> 00:34:11,683
in fact, portals to other
886
00:34:11,683 --> 00:34:13,785
extraterrestrial worlds?
887
00:34:13,785 --> 00:34:17,523
Perhaps more clues can be found
888
00:34:17,523 --> 00:34:19,525
in the mysterious drawings of
889
00:34:19,525 --> 00:34:21,393
another burial mound located
890
00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:25,564
more than 5,000 miles away.
891
00:34:27,799 --> 00:34:29,435
The Boyne River Valley in
892
00:34:29,435 --> 00:34:31,770
Ireland.
893
00:34:31,770 --> 00:34:34,606
Here, 31 miles north of Dublin,
894
00:34:34,606 --> 00:34:37,643
lies Newgrange, a tumulus tomb
895
00:34:37,643 --> 00:34:40,479
dating back to 3200 BC, and
896
00:34:40,479 --> 00:34:43,315
similar to the one found in.
897
00:34:43,315 --> 00:34:45,717
South Korea.
898
00:34:45,717 --> 00:34:47,819
Of the many ancient burial
899
00:34:47,819 --> 00:34:49,655
chambers discovered in the
900
00:34:49,655 --> 00:34:51,323
region, it is one of the
901
00:34:51,323 --> 00:34:53,559
best-preserved.
902
00:34:56,662 --> 00:34:58,464
Newgrange would
903
00:34:58,464 --> 00:34:59,598
have been one the largest
904
00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:01,133
man-built structures on Earth at
905
00:35:01,133 --> 00:35:02,268
the time of its construction.
906
00:35:02,268 --> 00:35:03,835
It dates from around 5,000 years
907
00:35:03,835 --> 00:35:05,571
ago, perhaps even a little bit
908
00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:07,606
more.
909
00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:08,907
Predates the Great Pyramids.
910
00:35:08,907 --> 00:35:10,509
So, this was a tremendous
911
00:35:10,509 --> 00:35:12,311
undertaking, by a very
912
00:35:12,311 --> 00:35:13,612
well-established culture, to
913
00:35:13,612 --> 00:35:15,647
build such a massive monument.
914
00:35:15,647 --> 00:35:18,650
Newgrange's inner
915
00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:20,252
passage was constructed with
916
00:35:20,252 --> 00:35:23,589
remarkable precision.
917
00:35:23,589 --> 00:35:24,723
And its design provides an
918
00:35:24,723 --> 00:35:26,592
accurate means of measuring the
919
00:35:26,592 --> 00:35:28,494
solar year.
920
00:35:30,662 --> 00:35:31,663
It is
921
00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:32,664
astronomically aligned on the
922
00:35:32,664 --> 00:35:35,167
winter solstice, so that, right
923
00:35:35,167 --> 00:35:36,535
at the winter solstice, and only
924
00:35:36,535 --> 00:35:39,605
at the winter solstice... a sun
925
00:35:39,605 --> 00:35:41,340
dagger shoots down through the
926
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:43,609
central passageway into the tomb
927
00:35:43,609 --> 00:35:45,611
and illuminating the inner
928
00:35:45,611 --> 00:35:46,678
chamber of the tomb.
929
00:35:46,678 --> 00:35:47,846
This inner chamber is carved
930
00:35:47,846 --> 00:35:49,781
with very enigmatic megalithic
931
00:35:49,781 --> 00:35:51,683
symbols... which we still don't
932
00:35:51,683 --> 00:35:52,951
really understand... and really
933
00:35:52,951 --> 00:35:54,253
displays an amazing competence
934
00:35:54,253 --> 00:35:55,487
of tculture on many, many
935
00:35:55,521 --> 00:35:57,523
levels.
936
00:35:57,523 --> 00:35:58,857
We don't
937
00:35:58,857 --> 00:36:00,492
know exactly what it meant to
938
00:36:00,492 --> 00:36:02,328
those ancient peoples, but we
939
00:36:02,328 --> 00:36:03,495
can imagine that they gathered
940
00:36:03,495 --> 00:36:04,930
there at the time of the winter
941
00:36:04,930 --> 00:36:06,732
solstice, that there were many
942
00:36:06,732 --> 00:36:09,435
celebrations, and that the
943
00:36:09,435 --> 00:36:11,537
priests and priestesses would go
944
00:36:11,537 --> 00:36:12,804
into this inner chamber to
945
00:36:12,838 --> 00:36:15,807
witness this miracle every year.
946
00:36:15,807 --> 00:36:17,643
We have essentially
947
00:36:17,643 --> 00:36:19,411
the death of the sun on the
948
00:36:19,411 --> 00:36:21,347
winter solstice.
949
00:36:21,347 --> 00:36:23,615
On this day, we have the lowest
950
00:36:23,615 --> 00:36:25,617
point of the sun and then we
951
00:36:25,617 --> 00:36:28,654
have rebirth in new life.
952
00:36:28,654 --> 00:36:32,691
So what better for a tomb and to
953
00:36:32,691 --> 00:36:34,493
talk about the journey to the
954
00:36:34,493 --> 00:36:36,662
afterlife than a death and a
955
00:36:36,662 --> 00:36:39,431
rebirth and starting the cycle
956
00:36:39,431 --> 00:36:42,668
again?
957
00:36:42,668 --> 00:36:44,703
Is it possible the
958
00:36:44,703 --> 00:36:47,573
celestial alignment at Newgrange
959
00:36:47,573 --> 00:36:49,408
was created to represent a
960
00:36:49,408 --> 00:36:51,410
journey to the afterlife, as
961
00:36:51,410 --> 00:36:53,345
some ancient astronaut theorists
962
00:36:53,379 --> 00:36:55,647
believe?
963
00:36:55,647 --> 00:36:57,616
"Spiral galaxies" is
964
00:36:57,616 --> 00:36:58,784
one of those terms which we use
965
00:36:58,784 --> 00:37:00,018
all the time.
966
00:37:00,018 --> 00:37:01,487
And so the question might be:
967
00:37:01,487 --> 00:37:02,888
Are some of the spirals somehow
968
00:37:02,888 --> 00:37:04,390
linked with this galactic
969
00:37:04,423 --> 00:37:06,458
travel?
970
00:37:06,458 --> 00:37:08,627
And based upon what we know from
971
00:37:08,627 --> 00:37:10,329
the belief of the people who
972
00:37:10,329 --> 00:37:12,364
built Newgrange and their
973
00:37:12,364 --> 00:37:14,333
belief, specifically, about the
974
00:37:14,333 --> 00:37:16,368
voyage of the dead, we know that
975
00:37:16,368 --> 00:37:18,537
this was a voyage in space.
976
00:37:21,707 --> 00:37:23,409
When you look at
977
00:37:23,409 --> 00:37:25,444
these famous tumulus tombs that
978
00:37:25,444 --> 00:37:26,845
are all over the world, they are
979
00:37:26,845 --> 00:37:30,316
these circular mounds, so you
980
00:37:30,316 --> 00:37:32,584
have a shape, in a sense, of a
981
00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:36,755
flying saucer or a UFO.
982
00:37:36,755 --> 00:37:39,325
And the whole idea of the
983
00:37:39,325 --> 00:37:41,860
spiral and the vortex is often
984
00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:44,530
used to symbolize time travel,
985
00:37:44,530 --> 00:37:45,697
and that is the way that
986
00:37:45,697 --> 00:37:46,698
extraterrestrials would be
987
00:37:46,698 --> 00:37:49,668
coming to Earth.
988
00:37:49,668 --> 00:37:51,537
Could the hundreds
989
00:37:51,537 --> 00:37:52,871
of burial mounds found around
990
00:37:52,871 --> 00:37:55,574
the globe be linked through some
991
00:37:55,574 --> 00:37:58,710
otherworldonnection?
992
00:37:58,710 --> 00:38:01,447
And if so, is it really possible
993
00:38:01,447 --> 00:38:03,849
that extraterrestrials used
994
00:38:03,849 --> 00:38:05,851
these tumuli as portals to
995
00:38:05,851 --> 00:38:08,854
travel from galaxy to galaxy,
996
00:38:08,854 --> 00:38:10,422
as ancient astronaut theorists
997
00:38:10,422 --> 00:38:13,492
suggest?
998
00:38:13,492 --> 00:38:15,494
Perhaps such far-fetched notions
999
00:38:15,494 --> 00:38:17,396
aren't as hard to imagine as
1000
00:38:17,396 --> 00:38:19,631
they seem, especially when
1001
00:38:19,631 --> 00:38:21,633
considering that such things are
1002
00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:24,503
happening right now, in the
1003
00:38:24,503 --> 00:38:26,505
southwest region of North.
1004
00:38:26,505 --> 00:38:28,407
America.
1005
00:38:33,512 --> 00:38:35,514
Sierra County, New
1006
00:38:35,514 --> 00:38:38,450
Mexico, 2010.
1007
00:38:38,450 --> 00:38:40,819
Three, two, one,
1008
00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:43,021
fire.
1009
00:38:45,824 --> 00:38:47,826
Aerospace company.
1010
00:38:47,826 --> 00:38:50,829
Celestis Incorporated launches
1011
00:38:50,829 --> 00:38:52,498
one of the world's first private
1012
00:38:52,498 --> 00:38:55,767
memorial spaceflights, providing
1013
00:38:55,767 --> 00:38:57,769
a unique new funeral service for
1014
00:38:57,769 --> 00:38:58,604
the deceased.
1015
00:38:58,604 --> 00:38:59,938
What this company
1016
00:38:59,938 --> 00:39:03,409
does is, essentially, launch the
1017
00:39:03,409 --> 00:39:06,412
ashes of dead people into space,
1018
00:39:06,412 --> 00:39:08,614
including the Star Trek creator.
1019
00:39:08,614 --> 00:39:12,518
Gene Roddenberry, 1960s icon
1020
00:39:12,518 --> 00:39:14,620
Timothy Leary, even the
1021
00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:15,654
astronaut Gordon Cooper, who was
1022
00:39:15,654 --> 00:39:18,590
part of the Mercury program that
1023
00:39:18,590 --> 00:39:20,492
NASA created.
1024
00:39:22,127 --> 00:39:23,629
Celestis rents
1025
00:39:23,629 --> 00:39:25,497
compartments on board
1026
00:39:25,497 --> 00:39:27,633
conventional rockets assigned to
1027
00:39:27,633 --> 00:39:28,700
carry satellites and other
1028
00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:31,537
payloads into orbit.
1029
00:39:31,537 --> 00:39:33,171
They only do,
1030
00:39:33,171 --> 00:39:35,474
like, seven grams of ashes that
1031
00:39:35,474 --> 00:39:36,908
they send out there in small,
1032
00:39:36,908 --> 00:39:39,811
tiny containers, and so, to me,
1033
00:39:39,811 --> 00:39:41,580
this is quite an incredible
1034
00:39:41,580 --> 00:39:43,649
thing because we now have the
1035
00:39:43,649 --> 00:39:46,552
possibility of sending cremated
1036
00:39:46,552 --> 00:39:48,987
remains into outer space.
1037
00:39:48,987 --> 00:39:51,657
We have to wonder if
1038
00:39:51,657 --> 00:39:53,158
this is now replicating some of
1039
00:39:53,158 --> 00:39:54,493
the ancient things that we've
1040
00:39:54,493 --> 00:39:56,662
seen by using a boat or some
1041
00:39:56,662 --> 00:39:59,197
type of symbology... that the
1042
00:39:59,197 --> 00:40:00,666
pharaoh or the king in the
1043
00:40:00,666 --> 00:40:02,468
afterlife was being prepared to
1044
00:40:02,468 --> 00:40:04,903
go back into the heavens.
1045
00:40:04,903 --> 00:40:07,105
But why would we
1046
00:40:07,105 --> 00:40:09,174
want to send our dearly departed
1047
00:40:09,174 --> 00:40:12,177
into space?
1048
00:40:12,177 --> 00:40:14,646
Does it, in fact, fulfill some
1049
00:40:14,646 --> 00:40:16,748
unconscious human desire to
1050
00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:20,519
return to the stars after death?
1051
00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:22,588
And could this, in some way, be
1052
00:40:22,588 --> 00:40:24,022
connected to mankind's
1053
00:40:24,022 --> 00:40:26,692
centuries-old belief in Heaven...
1054
00:40:26,692 --> 00:40:29,127
A Utopian world that exists far
1055
00:40:29,127 --> 00:40:31,497
above and beyond our own?
1056
00:40:31,497 --> 00:40:33,164
I think it's
1057
00:40:33,164 --> 00:40:34,666
interesting that the people who
1058
00:40:34,666 --> 00:40:36,802
do this are the ones who have
1059
00:40:36,802 --> 00:40:38,136
been the visionaries, the ones
1060
00:40:38,136 --> 00:40:40,138
who really wanted to take
1061
00:40:40,138 --> 00:40:43,542
mankind into deep space and take
1062
00:40:43,542 --> 00:40:45,544
us on a voyage of discovery,
1063
00:40:45,544 --> 00:40:46,945
trying to find out whether there
1064
00:40:46,945 --> 00:40:49,481
are human ings there.
1065
00:40:49,481 --> 00:40:50,682
And I think it's interesting
1066
00:40:50,682 --> 00:40:52,250
that, in the future, we're
1067
00:40:52,250 --> 00:40:54,019
probably going to see more and
1068
00:40:54,019 --> 00:40:55,487
more of this, and that we're
1069
00:40:55,487 --> 00:40:57,589
going to become and more in
1070
00:40:57,589 --> 00:40:58,724
tune with what our ancestors
1071
00:40:58,724 --> 00:41:00,859
were thinking.
1072
00:41:00,859 --> 00:41:02,060
Maybe, at one point in the
1073
00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:03,962
future, we will be able to
1074
00:41:03,962 --> 00:41:05,130
physically send an entire
1075
00:41:05,130 --> 00:41:08,166
body into deep space, on
1076
00:41:08,166 --> 00:41:10,135
a voyage to reconnect with our
1077
00:41:10,135 --> 00:41:12,671
ancestors.
1078
00:41:12,671 --> 00:41:13,672
We're all made
1079
00:41:13,672 --> 00:41:15,574
of stars...
1080
00:41:18,610 --> 00:41:20,045
...and the whole universe is
1081
00:41:20,045 --> 00:41:21,713
created out of the dust
1082
00:41:21,713 --> 00:41:23,549
of stars, and so it seems
1083
00:41:23,549 --> 00:41:25,684
natural for some people to want
1084
00:41:25,684 --> 00:41:27,686
to have their ashes sent back
1085
00:41:27,686 --> 00:41:29,688
into space.
1086
00:41:29,688 --> 00:41:31,723
In the ancient
1087
00:41:31,723 --> 00:41:33,158
world, we were seen
1088
00:41:33,158 --> 00:41:35,160
fundamentally as immortal souls,
1089
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,863
briefly incarnated in huhun
1090
00:41:37,863 --> 00:41:40,198
bodies and, and possibly
1091
00:41:40,198 --> 00:41:41,633
reincarnating and coming back
1092
00:41:41,667 --> 00:41:43,769
again and again.
1093
00:41:43,769 --> 00:41:46,037
It was understood that some
1094
00:41:46,037 --> 00:41:47,973
aspect of the individual lived
1095
00:41:47,973 --> 00:41:49,641
on beyond this physical life,
1096
00:41:49,641 --> 00:41:51,777
and the tomb was, in a sense, an
1097
00:41:51,777 --> 00:41:53,545
immortal home for that aspect of
1098
00:41:53,545 --> 00:41:55,180
the individual.
1099
00:41:55,180 --> 00:41:56,815
Is it pble, as
1100
00:41:56,815 --> 00:41:58,750
some researchers believe, that
1101
00:41:58,750 --> 00:42:00,919
mankind has long tried to make a
1102
00:42:00,919 --> 00:42:03,121
connection with our otherworldly
1103
00:42:03,121 --> 00:42:05,123
origins?
1104
00:42:05,123 --> 00:42:06,858
And, if so, might ancient tombs
1105
00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:08,860
throughout the world have
1106
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:10,862
been constructed to
1107
00:42:10,862 --> 00:42:11,897
facilitate this celestial
1108
00:42:11,930 --> 00:42:16,001
journey, even after death?
1109
00:42:16,001 --> 00:42:18,103
It's hard to know
1110
00:42:18,103 --> 00:42:19,337
what our earliest ancestors were
1111
00:42:19,337 --> 00:42:20,672
thinking when they looked up
1112
00:42:20,672 --> 00:42:21,840
into the night sky.
1113
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,975
Perhaps they felt dwarfed by
1114
00:42:23,975 --> 00:42:24,910
its immensity.
1115
00:42:24,910 --> 00:42:26,612
Perhaps they wondered what the
1116
00:42:26,612 --> 00:42:28,313
stars were, up in the sky.
1117
00:42:30,616 --> 00:42:32,283
Probably they projected their
1118
00:42:32,283 --> 00:42:33,685
mytholy or maybe invented
1119
00:42:33,685 --> 00:42:35,320
mythology about goddesses and
1120
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,789
gods and other spiritual beings,
1121
00:42:37,789 --> 00:42:39,791
living in a heavenly world above
1122
00:42:39,791 --> 00:42:41,326
them.
1123
00:42:41,326 --> 00:42:42,828
Maybe that's why so many of
1124
00:42:42,828 --> 00:42:43,862
their ancient temples were
1125
00:42:43,862 --> 00:42:45,664
aligned with these heavenly
1126
00:42:45,664 --> 00:42:47,032
bodies.
1127
00:42:47,032 --> 00:42:48,867
Our ancestors were
1128
00:42:48,867 --> 00:42:50,268
building these structures so
1129
00:42:50,268 --> 00:42:51,903
that they could be seen by the
1130
00:42:51,903 --> 00:42:54,840
gods in the sky and by the souls
1131
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,307
on their way to the gods in the
1132
00:42:56,307 --> 00:42:57,676
sky.
1133
00:42:57,676 --> 00:42:59,244
What our ancestors are saying,
1134
00:42:59,244 --> 00:43:00,245
what our ancestors are
1135
00:43:00,245 --> 00:43:02,781
reinforcing, is that the soul is
1136
00:43:02,781 --> 00:43:04,883
going to go on a voyage into the
1137
00:43:04,883 --> 00:43:05,884
stars.
1138
00:43:05,884 --> 00:43:07,753
All over the
1139
00:43:07,753 --> 00:43:11,690
world, we have very similar
1140
00:43:11,690 --> 00:43:14,693
types of ceremonies that have to
1141
00:43:14,693 --> 00:43:16,728
do with entombing people, and
1142
00:43:16,728 --> 00:43:18,363
you have to wonder, a little
1143
00:43:18,363 --> 00:43:20,899
bit, if your body is being
1144
00:43:20,899 --> 00:43:22,333
preserved and it's going to be
1145
00:43:22,333 --> 00:43:25,136
used again.
1146
00:43:25,136 --> 00:43:26,705
And if we could do this,
1147
00:43:26,705 --> 00:43:27,706
that's something that
1148
00:43:27,706 --> 00:43:28,707
extraterrestrials would be able
1149
00:43:28,740 --> 00:43:30,709
to do, too.
1150
00:43:30,742 --> 00:43:33,211
Tombs...
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interconnected by design,
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tradition, and a desire
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for a peaceful passage from
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life... to death.
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Is it possible ancient burial
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chambers were built from
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knowledge passed on to our
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ancient ancestors by celestial
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beings?
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And if so, might we one day
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reunite with these beings
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through an otherworldly portal?
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Perhaps the answer will be
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revealed in our lifetime...
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or, perhaps, only after we take
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our final breath.
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