All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S19E10

By: SALIL RACHID

Enormous megalithic structures

of mysterious origins.

There are huge walls,
gigantic limestone blocks.

They've been there
for thousands of years.

A vast underground complex...

This is a remarkable structure,

hewn from solid rocks.

...containing the remains

of what some believe
to be otherworldly beings.

We find this enormous collection
of elongated skulls.

Are we dealing
with extraterrestrials?

Could the ancient mysteries
that exist

on the Mediterranean
islands of Malta

be connected to local legends

of alien visitation
and giant hybrid beings?

This right here
is a smoking gun.

We have to accept the fact

that there were teachers
from the sky.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

In the center
of the Mediterranean Sea,

between Italy and Africa,
lies a three-island archipelago

that makes up
the Republic of Malta.

Malta is this really small
island nation

just south of Sicily.

And it's so small, it's only 122
square miles in its entirety.

But because it's dead center
of the Mediterranean Sea,

Malta really packs
a punch historically.

Malta has been
a strategic outpost

for many of the most powerful
cultures in the world,

from the Phoenicians

to the Romans

and even the British Empire.

But what makes Malta

one of the most
unique locations on Earth

are its massive stone ruins,
whose origins could date back

thousands of years
before any known civilization

ever set foot on her shores.

It was assumed that Malta

was a long-lost Greek colony
from the Mycenaean period.

And this goes from,
you know, maybe 800 BC

to sometime before 1200 BC.

However, because
of radiocarbon dating

in the mid-20th century,

we discovered that Malta

is actually one of the oldest
megalithic sites in the world.

Mainstream archaeologists
now know

that Malta's oldest
megalithic structures

were built at least
5,600 years ago.

But little is known about who
these ancient builders were

and how long
their culture existed.

One of the most
pressing questions about

the megalithic builders is,
what happened to these amazing,

super smart guys
who built all this stuff?

Because the last known
evidence of them being there

is about 3,000 years ago.

They were there one minute,

archaeologically speaking,
and gone the next.

While the world's
first known human civilization,

the Sumerians,
is said to have emerged

in Mesopotamia around 4000 BC,

some researchers believe
the ancient inhabitants of Malta

lived on
the Mediterranean islands

thousands of years earlier.

As evidence, they point
to mysterious carvings

found throughout the area

called cart ruts.

Something that Malta is very
well known for archaeologically,

besides the megalithic temples,
are the cart ruts.

These are ruts literally
in the limestone rock.

The traditional view
is that they were

eroded into the rock
literally by carts

being pulled over the soft rock.

We have cart ruts

that go into
the Mediterranean Sea.

And then they also
come out on the other side.

How is this possible?

Some of the cart ruts
that extend from dry land

down into the sea
have reportedly been found

at depths of as much
as 140 feet.

This presents a critical clue
as to just how long ago

they must have been created.

I suspect that some of these
cart ruts are really ancient.

And when I say really ancient,
that is going back

to before the end
of the last ice age,

approximately 12,000 years ago.

The Ice Age ended,
we know, by incredible warming,

incredible rises in sea level.

So if some of these cart ruts go
back to an early enough period,

what looks like
it's going into the water,

that would have been dry land
when sea levels were much lower.

If you propose the idea
that 12,000 years ago,

which is a fact, the worldwide
water levels were lower,

then all of a sudden
these cart ruts that go

into the Mediterranean Sea
make sense.

The last time that area
was free of water

and when also Malta
was connected to Sicily

and to Italy with a land bridge,

that was 12,000 years ago.

So the fact that
these cart ruts exist

to me illustrates
that an advanced civilization

must have existed at that time.

Could the cart ruts
provide evidence

that civilization existed
on the islands of Malta

as much as 12,000 years ago?

Until recently,
mainstream scholars

would have considered such
a notion to be impossible.

But then, in 1994,
archaeologists discovered

the ruins of Göbekli Tepe
in Southeast Turkey.

It is
the first archaeological site

in the world that proves its age

dating as far back
as 12,000 years,

around 10,000 BC.

The discovery
and the official acceptance

of Göbekli Tepe's dating

has changed the history
of archaeology.

Göbekli Tepe is a series
of kind of oval-shaped

stone circles that have
T-shaped pillars as the stones

with two central pillars
in the center.

The thing is, many of these
stones are over 20 feet tall.

They're huge,
they're serious monoliths,

and this was the era
of hunter-gatherers.

So who could have done it?

We really don't know.

I've studied Göbekli Tepe
in great detail.

The Malta temples,
by conventional dating,

go back maybe 6,000 years ago.

But I wonder,

and this is based on
my own work and analysis,

if the origins of
the Malta temples

may go back
to a much earlier period, also.

We have to be open

to the possibility that whoever
built the structures on Malta

were not in fact human beings,

but were perhaps
a separate race.

And their existence
and even their origins

is completely shrouded
in mystery.

Could it be that the incredible
megalithic structures on Malta

are as much as 12,000 years old?

If so, who created them?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by closely examining
the island's mysterious temples

and the local traditions
about a giant being

who came from the stars.

The Republic of Malta.

Situated across the island
nation's 122 square miles

sit the remains of
seven megalithic sites.

These include the two temples
of Ggantija,

Hagar Qim and Mnajdra,

Tarxien,

Ta' Hagrat

and Skorba.

These marvels of ancient
construction

were all built with the same
type of Maltese limestone,

which was extracted
from local quarries.

The fact that they
were moving around

these multi-ton blocks,
building these temples

and actually,
when you look at them,

moving the blocks within very,
very narrow confines.

Okay, it's one thing
to move a block

out in the open
that's multi-ton,

but to then
place it systematically

and very carefully
next to another one,

next to another one,
next to another one

to form these beautiful
temple structures,

that's a real engineering feat.

While there are some
researchers who believe

that Malta's megalithic temples

could be as much
as 12,000 years old,

mainstream scholars
believe they were created

no earlier than 3600 BC,

during what is known as
the Neolithic Age.

And they also theorize
that the massive structures

were built by a human culture

that used only
primitive stone tools.

Archaeology suggests
at the time,

we barely invented the wheel.

We barely had tools.

There was no known language,

and we had no writing.

Well, let's step back for
a moment and think about this.

From an evolutionary and
technology, uh, perspective,

that makes no sense
because you begin with simple,

you continue bigger, bigger,

and then biggest.

But you start small.

What we have in the case
of the Maltese structures

is that the biggest
are the oldest.

So, that makes zero sense
from a logical perspective

because there was no
evolution in technology.

The archaeologists,
they agree with this.

To construct similar temple
after similar temple,

um, with the same material
without evidence of writing,

shows a high degree
of communication.

And we find terracotta models,
in fact, of temples.

And archaeologists have
suggested perhaps

that this is an early
architect's rendering.

This is more evidence
of the high level

of thought and ability
that went into

the construction
of these temples.

No written records
have ever been discovered

to explain who built
the megalithic temples in Malta.

However, local traditions
of the Maltese people

have offered
a stunning possibility.

They claim that
the massive structures

were built by a race
of giant beings

who came to Earth
from the stars.

There is a story
that a meteorite came down

from the heavens and
turned into a goddess, a giant,

named Sansuna.

And the locals, of course,
were terrified of this giant.

But at a place called Ggantija,

she started building a temple

and moved stones much larger
than any human

could ever move and assembled
this structure

that was so massive,

it remains to this day,

still a place of mystery,
still a giant's construction.

When you see these
Cyclopean stones,

some of them weighing
as much as 50 tons,

you can appreciate why
we have the story

of this giantess Sansuna.

The local legends of Sansuna
may sound incredible to some.

However, in the 17th century,
a Maltese nobleman named

Gian Francesco Abela claimed
to have found forensic evidence

that these legends may
have been based in fact.

In the early 1600s,
Gian Francesco Abela

was living
on the island of Malta,

and he actually wrote about

the fact that giants
were involved

in the construction
of these sites.

One of the reasons
he wrote this is because

he said he found bones,
skulls and even giant teeth

all across the island,

and there were other reports of
them coming forth at this time.

In order to investigate
the local legends connecting

giant extraterrestrial beings

to the massive structures
on Malta,

in 2022, ancient astronaut
theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

traveled to Malta's oldest
megalithic structures,

the temples of Ggantija
on the island of Gozo.

There, he met with
Frans Van Avendonk...

I'm Giorgio.
Pleasure to meet you.

...an expert
in Maltese history

who has lived on the island
since 1991.

Look at this. I mean...

- Gigantic.
- It is gigantic.

Ggantija means
the giant goddess,

and it makes sense why.

Because right now,
I feel like an ant.

We are so small, and especially

when you're right next to it.

- It's very impressive.
- Truly.

And, uh, in my opinion,
still a massive question mark.

There are still questions
here now, definitely.

What can you tell us
about the dating?

Well, when it was excavated,

because we don't
talk about discovery,

-it was always visible,
-Mm-hmm.

people thought it was
a Phoenician temple.

- Okay.
- Much later, they realized

it must have been prehistoric.

So it was put in
the 2000s before Christ.

Then it moves back to the 3000s.

Now we're saying 3600 at least.

Technology has improved,

different ways
of looking at things,

so therefore
they're getting older.

They were built much earlier
than we thought before.

When viewed from above,

the two adjacent temples
of Ggantija

are designed with large apses
resembling a cloverleaf.

Each housed an altar,

and artifacts
suggest a wooden roof

covered the entire temple.

Many of the stone blocks
stand 20 feet tall,

and some weigh
in excess of 50 tons.

Is it possible that we've lost
some type of masonry knowledge?

Because you could create it
using smaller stones.

Clearly, this required planning.

- It required logistics.
- Yes.

In my opinion, master builders
were at work here,

and mainstream archaeologists
are suggesting

that whoever built this
did not have any writing.

Well, not only would
it require writing,

but you have to have
calculations.

- And leadership.
- Exactly.

With the evidence of how old
or when it was built,

- who built it and how it was built...
- Mm-hmm.

might be there,
but we haven't found it yet.

I can imagine that people
saw this and thought

this must have been
the work of a giant.

Right.

Throughout the Mediterranean,

you see an association
with giants

constructing megaliths.

For instance,
in Mycenaean Greece,

there is a structure
called the Lion's Gate.

Aristotle mentioned that
this construction style

was called Cyclopean masonry
because of the large stones.

The ancient Greeks
figured that only

a giant called Cyclops could
have had the strength

to move these.

Well, the same sort
of Cyclopean masonry

is present in
the Maltese temples as well.

These stories of giants
have been an integral part

of our entire human history
since the beginning of time.

So, is it possible
that the reason why

we have these stories
of these giants

is because at one point
they actually existed?

And the answer to that is yes.

Could it be possible
that the temples at Ggantija

were built by gigantic,
otherworldly beings

who inhabited the islands
of Malta thousands of years ago?

To search for further clues,
Giorgio will next visit

one of Malta's most mysterious
megalithic complexes,

where he is joined
by his longtime

friend and mentor,
Erich Von Däniken.

The island of Malta, 2022.

While investigating
local legends

that a race of giant
extraterrestrial beings

once inhabited this area

more than 5,000 years ago...

We're here.

- We're here again.
- We made it.

Giorgio Tsoukalos meets
with his longtime friend

Erich Von Däniken,

author of the 1968
international bestseller

Chariots of the Gods,
which established

the foundation for
the ancient astronaut theory.

They have arranged to visit

one of the most mysterious
sites on the island,

called Hagar Qim,
which archaeologists believe

might be Malta's second
oldest megalithic structure,

built shortly after Ggantija.

Hagar Qim is a Maltese
temple complex

that has multiple
temples on it as well.

The oldest one
in the northern temple

dates to the mid-fourth
millennium BC.

You see colossal, huge stones,

huge walls and doorways,

and it's clear
that it's very, very old.

It's something that would
be almost indestructible,

and in fact,

it's been there
for thousands of years.

Located near Malta's
southern shores,

the temples of Hagar Qim

are believed by mainstream
archaeologists

to have been constructed by
the same primitive culture

who created the temples
of Ggantija

on the neighboring island
of Gozo.

- Good morning, gentlemen.
- How are you?

- Pleasure.
- Fine, thank you.

Erich Von Däniken.

Joining Giorgio once again,

is local historian
Frans Van Avendonk.

Incredible. Look at this, guys.

And so what are we
talking about here?

- How tall is it?
- About six meters.

Wow. So that's
about 17, 18 feet?

Yeah, something like that.

Maybe it was even bigger
because of erosion.

It could have been a bit higher,

- and surely had a roof.
- Mm-hmm.

I mean, just incredible.

Now, whether it was
a stone roof or a wooden roof,

there is still discussion
about it, but it was covered.

And the whole wall must have
reached at least this height.

And the whole temple is
orientated astronomically?

Yes. So the sunrise
on the winter solstice,

you'd be here at the back,

you would see the sun coming up

- over the horizon through the entrance.
- Mm-hmm.

And if you are patient and
you stay here till the evening,

you'll see over there
another temple

which will have
a light phenomena

during the sunset
on the same day.

It's all oriented,
so it had to do something

with the stars,
with the universe. Definitely.

This must have been a very
important building for them,

and that's why they put so much
effort in creating the building.

Mainstream historians
continue to debate

what purpose the temples at
Hagar Qim might have served,

but a recent discovery

has led some to suggest
that the site

has an otherworldly connection.

And this is known
as the oracle room.

And the room
has something special.

Look at the oval inside.

There is a very strong magnetic
field inside that oval.

It's believed that women
went in there

and they would have
certain experiences,

hear sounds, see flashes.

It was contact with the gods.

The so-called "oracle chamber"

is believed to have been used

thousands of years ago

as a place where worshippers

communicated
with their goddesses.

And it is here
that a statue was discovered

which is believed to represent
one of those deities.

In this room,
behind the partition,

they found a number of statues.

Among them,
the famous Venus of Malta,

which is a statue
of the goddess.

Mainstream researchers believe

the Venus of Malta
is approximately 5,000 years old

and was used
in fertility rituals.

But ancient astronaut theorists

suggest it served
an even more profound purpose,

and it depicts
an otherworldly being.

As evidence, they point
to similar effigies

of Sansuna, the giant goddess

who was said to have built
the temple of Ggantija.

Sansuna was this
huge person, a giant,

and she was carrying

a half-human, half-giant,
uh, child of hers.

So she's a giant
like the extraterrestrials,

but she's mating with a human.

We also have the same story
found in other areas as well.

Curiously, similar accounts
of giant beings

mating with humans can be
found in the traditions

of ancient civilizations
all around the world,

including those of Mesoamerica,

India,

Egypt,

and even in scriptures
contained in the Holy Bible.

There are tales of giants
in all corners of the Earth.

Various monumental structures
have been attributed to giants.

But we have scriptures

that there were giants
among men.

In the Bible, these giants
are called the Nephilim.

We first meet the Nephilim
in the book of Genesis,

chapter six, and where it
tells us that

the sons of God came upon
the daughters of men

and that they beget
these giant children

called the Nephilim.

Is it possible that Malta
was once home

to a race of
extraterrestrial giants,

as ancient tradition suggest?

Perhaps further evidence
can be found

by examining another of Malta's
engineering masterpieces,

one that doesn't tower
above ground, but tunnels...

deep beneath it.

The island of Malta. 1902.

While constructing
a new housing development

in the town of Paola,

a team of laborers makes
a perplexing discovery.

They uncover the entrance

to a massive underground
cavern system

that has been ingeniously
carved out of the bedrock.

The accidental discovery
is considered by many

to be the greatest engineering
feat of the entire Neolithic Age

and comes to be known as
the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni.

Archaeologists realized

that this was a huge
underground network

of chambers and corridors.

You enter down into it
and there are a series

of three different levels.

All of them are interconnected.

The three levels of the Hypogeum

descend more than 30 feet
below ground.

The connecting chambers,
halls and passageways

cover more
than 5,000 square feet.

This is a remarkable structure,

particularly when
you bear in mind

they didn't have metal tools,

but it's-it's subterranean.

Hewn from solid rocks somehow,

and it's just mind-boggling.

Based on pottery sample analysis

and examination
of human remains,

mainstream archaeologists
have dated

the Hypogeum to around 3700 BC,

and believe it was made
by the same people

who built Malta's
aboveground structures.

However, ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

that just like with
the megalithic temples,

there is evidence
that the Hypogeum

could be more than
12,000 years old.

There was this bull fresco
that was painted in black.

It was actually recorded
and written about

by various archaeologists
up into the 1970s and '80s.

It has been noted
that this bull fresco

resembles Paleolithic cave art

that goes back to 15,000,
20,000 years

in places such as Spain

and other European countries.

And this particular design,

which was made of black
manganese oxide,

which we know
was used in Paleolithic times,

was actually cleaned away
and rubbed out, if you like,

by just one of the workers
there in the 1980s.

So, these sites
could be much older

than what the archaeologists
are telling us.

For reasons of preservation,

access to the Hypogeum

is currently restricted
by the Maltese government.

So to learn more about
the subterranean structure,

Giorgio Tsuokalos
and Erich Von Däniken

travel to Malta's National
Museum of Archaeology.

Good to see you again.
How are you? Okay.

There, they are once again,
joined by local historian

Frans Van Avendonk

to examine a miniature
scale model of the structure.

Has anybody, uh, figured out

why any of these
chambers existed

and was there chambers
that existed earlier,

or did all
of this happen at once?

It started with a cave,
and on top of that cave,

a surface temple was built.

And then they started
expanding the cave

slowly, slowly downwards
and also horizontally.

And they developed
a maze of-of chambers

and of different sizes
and different functions.

Look at this. You have
a spiral staircase going down.

And I remember being
there in the late '80s,

and if you stood back there
and you whispered

and you had another person
over here,

they could hear you perfectly.

So the acoustics
in there are amazing.

Yes, there are
very special acoustics.

Voices of a certain timbre
are heard magnified,

but others, they are not audible
in-inside other parts

of the underground structure.

Why they did it like that,
we can't explain.

In February 2014,
archaeoacoustics researcher

Linda Eneix assembled a team

of audio, geology and
archaeology experts

to test the acoustic properties
of the Hypogeum oracle room.

Archaeoacoustics is a
multidisciplinary study

to explore what was going on

with sound in ancient places
and how people were using it.

I was very familiar
with Malta's Hypogeum

and the sound effects that were
quite peculiar in that place.

And when I learned
about archaeoacoustics,

it sort of lit a fire.

What Linda
and her team discovered

while examining
the Hypogeum was sensational.

The oracle chamber resonates

at several frequencies

that are very close
to 110 hertz.

The number, uh, 110 hertz can be
identified clearly with a note,

with A on the musical scale

at a lower octave
within the baritone range.

In 2013, Dr. Ian Cook,
the associate director

of the UCLA Laboratory of Brain,
Behavior, and Pharmacology,

conducted an experiment

to determine if the 110 hertz
sound frequency

has any effect
on the human brain.

His tests were
on a group of volunteers.

At 110 hertz,
he found something happened.

There was a shift
in brain activity.

That frequency will deaden
certain brain patterns

and bring alive others.

And there is a sense
of connection

with the otherworldly.

So it would seem
that whoever created

the Hypogeum did this
with the specific

reason of whoever went in there

could attain communion
with the gods themself.

Is it possible that
the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni

functioned as a place
where humans could interact

with otherworldly beings
thousands of years ago?

And was this subterranean
structure connected to Malta's

ancient legends of giants
that came down from the stars?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining
an incredible discovery

that was made deep
within the Hypogeum:

thousands of elongated skulls.

Five years after the discovery

of the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni,

archaeologists excavating
the subterranean chambers

begin to uncover human remains.

In total, they find
an estimated 7,000 skeletons,

and reportedly,
a great many of them

have skulls that are
noticeably elongated.

It was found
that some of the skulls

were actually elongated.

They were almost like
the head going backwards

rather than upwards.

Does that represent the fact

that they were doing
head binding,

and they were pressed into shape

when these people were babies?

Head binding, also known as
artificial cranial deformation,

has been a practice of numerous
primitive cultures

around the world,
dating from prehistoric times

all the way
into the 20th century.

It involves tightly wrapping
the heads of infants

before their skulls
fully harden,

resulting in an elongated shape.

Archaeologists
and anthropologists

agree that this was done

because of worshipping
some type of deity.

A deity with an elongated skull?

That's interesting.

Where did they get
this inspiration from?

So, I am suggesting
that our ancestors

were visited by beings,
flesh and blood beings,

that had actual elongated skulls

and that that was their
natural appearance.

Our ancestors wanted
to imitate their gods.

And so they did
artificial head binding

so that the skull would grow

in this elongated fashion.

And this happened on
all continents around the world,

including Europe
and on the island of Malta.

Who could these elongated
skulls have belonged to?

Are they the result
of head binding?

Or could they
have belonged to beings

who are of otherworldly origin?

Today, only a handful
of the elongated skulls

that were discovered
in the Hypogeum still exist.

They now belong to Malta's
National Museum of Archaeology,

where Giorgio and Erich

have been examining
the model of the Hypogeum.

Although the skulls
have been temporarily removed

for scientific study,
Erich and Giorgio

are given rare access
to a custom piece

of the museum's collection.

We previously had,
um, an exhibit

of the original skulls,

- but at the moment it's being studied.
- Mm-hmm.

But these are a perfect replica,

- that you can handle and examine.
- Wow. Wow. Wow.

The museum replica
is modeled after

one of the actual
elongated skulls

Giorgio had the opportunity
to examine in person

on a previous trip
to Malta in 2014.

Something is wrong here.

- Something is definitely wrong here.
- Exactly.

- Look at this. You're missing the sagittal suture.
- The fontanelle.

The sagittal suture
connects to the sides

and roof of the cranium.

This suture is open
when a person is born

and closes around the age of 35.

So I actually brought a picture

of what a human sagittal suture
would look like,

which would go across here,
and it is missing.

This is not, in our opinion,

the result of artificial
head binding.

- No, no, no, no.
- But this is authentic. It's real.

So the ones that do not
have the sutures,

in my opinion,
could be the extraterrestrials.

The conclusion is so easy.

The facts are facts
that these skulls are not human.

Do the skulls represent
a genetic trait

possibly linked with giants

intermingling
with the local population,

and the genetic alterations
then occurred?

And so we're looking at possibly

almost like a different type of
human existing in ancient Malta.

Could the few elongated skulls

that have survived from
the excavation of the Hypogeum

provide a clear link
to extraterrestrial beings

that may have once
inhabited Malta?

For Giorgio Tsoukalos
and Erich Von Däniken,

there is one site on the islands

that may tell the story

of Malta's otherworldly past
better than any other:

the megalithic temple
Of Mnajdra.

For more than 5,000 years,

Malta's megalithic temples

and incredible
underground structures

have stood as testament

to a once great culture,
of whom very little is known.

And some researchers believe

that this civilization
existed on the islands

thousands of years earlier

than mainstream
archaeologists suggest.

To further investigate
this intriguing theory,

Giorgio Tsoukalos
and Erich Von Däniken,

along with local historian
Frans Van Avendonk,

have traveled to another
one of Malta's

most mysterious ancient sites:

the temple of Mnajdra.

So what are we looking at here,
with this corridor here?

It is believed this
is one of the oldest

solar, uh, calendars
in the world.

We find that that stone

at the winter solstice,
the right edge is lit up.

Alternatively, this is
the summer solstice stone.

So at sunrise,
light will fall through

the entrance and touch
upon this stone.

Now, if you look at it today,

the alignments
are maybe different

than it was in the past,
in the very, very far past.

But the oldest culture,
roughly 4,000 or 5,000,

according to archaeology?

According to archaeology,
this is around

3,300 before modern era.

But then we have
another solution,

which one of your local...
Dr. Micallef came forward, too.

Right. And Micallef calculated

that with one of these stones,

for it to line up correctly,

it would have to correspond
to a date of 10,200 BC.

In his 1992 paper,
Mnajdra: A Calendar in Stone,

Maltese land surveyor
and cartographer Paul Micallef

proposed that based
on celestial alignments,

the temple of Mnajdra
appears to have been built

far earlier than mainstream
archaeologists claim.

We know for a fact that the tilt
of the Earth has changed,

but with modern-day
computer technology,

we can sort of rewind
the night sky

to the time as it was back then.

And he determined
that was 10,200 BC,

when the light
on both the winter

and the summer solstice

would actually line up exactly

on both ends of that slab.

So clearly we have another
connection to the stars,

a celestial bridge, so to speak.

And, you know, Frans said
this is the oldest

- part of the temple.
- It is.

Which means far back,
maybe 5,000 years or more,

these people
were watching the stars.

They were looking for something.

They were hoping for something.

Maybe they were waiting
for the return of the gods.

The old question remains:
which gods?

Right.

While excavations
of ancient sites

continue throughout Malta,

many scholars agree
that the archaeological wonders

found both above ground
and below

provide an unparalleled glimpse

into the planet's
earliest human societies.

And as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

Malta holds the secrets
of a profound past

that we have only begun
to uncover.

When you put
all the pieces together

of what we see
in these temples on Malta,

the engineering knowledge
that was required,

the astronomical knowledge
that's encoded within them,

and you realize you're dealing
with a primitive time,

someone had to have brought it
from somewhere.

Who were these beings?

If we can ultimately answer
this question,

it's going to lead to
a revelation of perhaps

some of the greatest mysteries
of all of human history.

Is it possible that Malta
was once home to giant beings

who were part human
and part extraterrestrial?

And might the most
extraordinary evidence of all

lie hidden in some ancient
underground chamber

still waiting to be discovered?

Perhaps the latest
excavations on Malta

will lead to
the profound revelation

that the island's
megalithic temples

serve not as monuments
to the gods

but to our alien origins.