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narrator: they are some of the greatest wonders in the world --

pyramids, and they're found across the globe.

are they simply tombs or much more?

were they built by ancient civilizations

or by something more mysterious?

gough: nobody knows for certain why the pyramids were built,

for whom, when and why.

those remain the questions,

and if someone tells you they have the answer,

they're either delusional or lying.

we just don't know.

mcmahon: are they tombs? are they space stations?

are they power stations?

are they spacecraft? i mean, you name it.

every theory imaginable has been brought up about pyramids.

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

captions paid for by discovery communications

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narrator: there are pyramid structures across the world,

the iconic ones of egypt but also those in mexico,

cambodia, sudan, greece, peru and italy.

but how much do we really know about them,

and did many different civilizations

independently create the same type of building,

or were they given the blueprints

by a mysterious common ancestor?

janulis: we love pyramids in popular culture

because they hearken back to this time

that we can only imagine

for some of us, it relates to the biblical stories we heard.

for others, it's just imagining these massive societies,

and the only thing left is these huge monuments,

so every pyramid represents a fantastic mystery.

picknett: for something as huge and impressive

as the ancient pyramids,

there are relatively few answers.

it's totally surprising how little is actually known

for certain about them.

there is evidence for a teacher culture

with the pyramids that have sprung up all over the world.

they all are aligned to the cardinal points.

they all have a causeway. they all have a mortuary temple.

none of them have tombs, so whoever came up with

this blueprint passed it on all across the globe.

how did they do that?

mcmahon: all the fringe theories about the pyramids,

that they were actually built in 10,500 bc,

that they were built by aliens,

that they were built by atlanteans,

that all the pyramids around the world are somehow united

or even speaking to each other,

all of this comes under a kind of a pseudoscience,

which is described as pyramidology.

narrator: the great pyramid of giza in egypt --

a huge statement that has survived from time long ago.

but who built it and why?

bellinger: the ancient egyptians built pyramids as tombs

for their pharaohs during the old kingdom period,

and these were expressions of power and prestige as much as

they were intended to be a final resting place for the pharaoh

and a storage place for everything that the pharaoh

was thought to need as he ascended into the afterlife

and took on his kingly role again there.

bianchi: the chronology of ancient egypt is in debate

because they are all relative dates, not absolute dates.

we are fairly sure the pyramids were built

in the 3rd millennium bc, and it's a question of,

where in the 3rd millennium do you want to fix them?

narrator: when it was erected by at least 2500 bc,

outside of today's cairo,

the great pyramid was a spectacular structure.

it was said to be covered in sheets of smooth white limestone

and possibly topped by a golden triangle.

it would have been a truly breathtaking sight.

meredith brand is an egyptologist

from the american university in cairo

and very familiar with these ancient monuments.

brand: we're here in front of the great pyramid of khufu.

this massive structure is 93.5 million cubic feet of stone.

it's 481 feet tall, and its sides are 71 feet in length.

right now, we're inside a tunnel

leading into the burial chamber of the great pyramid,

and up here we're going to

climb into the great ascension passage.

this remarkable feat of architectural engineering

has 26-foot-tall ceilings and is 150 feet long.

there's some exciting research

that's been done recently with muon particles.

these are cosmic rays that have been measured

by a bunch of scientists,

and they have found the potential

for a void right here above the grand gallery.

maybe it could be a hidden chamber.

maybe it could be some kind of architectural anomaly,

but it points to potentially some very exciting features

of pyramids that we don't know about yet.

bellinger: the great pyramid at giza is in many ways

exquisitely precise and incredibly well-built.

it is situated in terms of a couple of degrees of precision

on a north-south-east-west axis.

it really is an engineering marvel.

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we're here in the burial chamber of khufu's pyramid.

as you can see, this remarkable structure

is made fully of red granite,

and you have a matching red granite sarcophagus.

we haven't found any mummies or bones

or any other material from his grave.

all that remains is this sarcophagus.

these air shafts here were for the soul of the king

to rise up out of his sarcophagus

and pass through to the outside of the pyramid

because you have to remember,

we're inside 93.5 million cubic feet of stone in the center,

and the king's spirit had to get out somehow,

so they devised these air shafts for him to leave.

khufu didn't actually carve any hieroglyphs in this chamber

or anywhere else in this pyramid,

and this is unlike what you would have seen

at the pyramids of djoser or the later pyramids in saqqara

with the pyramid text.

the builders of the pyramid did make some graffiti.

above us, there's five relieving chambers,

and at the very top chamber,

there's graffiti written in red ochre

with the name of the king, khufu,

and the word friends of khufu,

and this is one of the work gangs,

a group of guys that built the pyramids

that made their mark on eternity by writing their name.

gough: so how do we know the great pyramid is khufu's pyramid?

we really don't.

we know that he venerated it and created a boat

and put it into the ground next to the pyramid.

we know that his name appears to have been inscribed

some graffiti inside the relieving chamber,

but there is no other evidence.

in fact, there's only one image of the pharaoh khufu,

and it's a tiny little sculpture in the cairo museum.

is that all that you'd expect for the great pharaoh khufu,

the builder of the great pyramid?

bianchi: the great pyramid of giza is, in fact,

the burial place of khufu.

we know that because there are some inscriptions

inside the pyramid,

and we have the papyrus documentation

that has just recently been found

naming an administrator involved in its construction

whose name is now known as merer.

and so if you want to argue that the pyramids were not built

by the ancient egyptians, you have to contradict

and prove that the papyri just found are bogus.

narrator: the lack of clarity around the date of the pyramid's building,

its use, plus the near absence of naming identification

and traditional ceremonial goods

has sparked questions about its true purpose.

it is likely that it was something more,

some kind of initiation chamber.

we simply don't know.

bianchi: the most recent explanation about the lack of inscriptions

and relief decoration within the great pyramid

rests on that khufu was a god on earth,

so if khufu is of divine status,

egyptian tradition prohibits one god

from being obeisant to another god.

narrator: but some speculate the egyptians didn't actually

build the great pyramids themselves

and that a mysterious ancient civilization

may have been behind these magnificent structures.

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narrator: the great pyramid of giza in cairo

is one of the great wonders of the ancient world.

egyptologists agree it was constructed around 2500 bc

as a burial chamber of the pharaoh khufu,

but there are some who disagree.

skeptics say the monument is missing several key things,

traditional hieroglyphs on the walls,

proper identification tying it to khufu

and ceremonial burial items.

gough: it's really difficult to date the pyramids,

especially the ones at giza.

some have attempted to date them

from how the entrance chamber is orientated towards the polestar.

others have looked for organic material such as axes

and ropes that were found in boat pits and nearby,

but that leads to the question, was this organic material,

is it from people who were restoring the pyramid

or building it?

that's what we don't know.

narrator: yet the egyptologists are confident

they have the facts right.

dr. meredith brand believes that the great pyramid

is a wonder of the ancient world,

that it's origins are entirely human

and can be dated to around 2500 bc.

brand: we know khufu reigned in the mid-26th century bce,

but the actual date itself

has been a bit harder to pin down.

now, obviously, you can't do any sort of radiocarbon

dating on the stone, but the core of the structure,

the stones were built in a more haphazard manner

with mortar in between,

and some of this mortar has organic material.

so several scientists have collected samples

for radiocarbon dating.

now, the results of these samples are a bit complicated.

some of them hit at the right date of khufu,

and some of them are 100 to 300 years older,

so this requires more re-evaluation

and testing to pin down the actual date,

but we are pretty confident with the radiocarbon dating

that it is somewhere around this time.

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narrator: hugh newman is a british megalith enthusiast

with some controversial theories.

he believes the great pyramid

is much older than academics proclaim.

few people agree with him,

but he's on a mission to prove his case.

newman: well, there's some ideas about

who could have built the pyramids.

we're talking about semidivine god-kings of ancient egypt

called the followers of disciples of horus.

they had the technology,

somehow, to construct the pyramid,

and the research that i've been doing connects them with giants

from the bible lands and were involved

in the construction of the great pyramid,

the pyramids of dahshur, the red and bent pyramid, also dendera.

start looking at the dating, and you look at the sphinx

and when the whole giza plateau could have been laid out,

it seems like it was designed all as one,

and it was a very great mind or minds

behind the construction, the geometry, the mathematics

and the whole surveying of these particular areas.

bianchi: i think we are imperfectly informed

about why the particular plateau of giza was chosen,

but one can suggest that it was on a slight rise

from which the spirit of the dead pharaohs

could overlook their domain.

the nile river, in antiquity at the time

the pyramids were built, came a lot closer to the site,

so the transport of material would be facilitated,

and there were probably no other preburials in the area,

and all of those, i think, are contributing factors

that led to the decision that this is the spot

on which we're going to build these structures.

newman: the great pyramid and the giza plateau

appears to have been laid out in a grand plan.

the lining of the great pyramid perfectly north,

south, east and west,

so there were astronomical alignments

associated with the pyramids as well.

the three pyramids we see behind us appear

to mirror orion in the night sky.

now, what's really interesting to me

is the fact that teotihuacan in mexico

seems to be almost the same.

it has three main pyramids, and they almost align

precisely to the mirrored version of orion,

so if this is the case, you know,

is there a mother culture that shared this knowledge,

or did the egyptians even travel to central america?

the evidence seems to point that this is indeed the case.

bianchi: there is no question that the pyramids

at the giza plateau are aligned.

the suggestion that they are aligned

with celestial constellations or stars is worth considering

because, after all, before we had gps

and other sophisticated surveying tools,

ancient mariners set their course

by the stars which were constants.

narrator: teotihuacan is a huge pyramid complex in mexico city.

according to some, it is aligned with the great pyramid.

sergio gomez is one of the top

archaeologists at teotihuacan.

[ speaking spanish ]

interpreter: the origins of teotihuacan

date back to the year 400 bc.

the entire city is perfectly aligned

according to a master plan that continues to surprise us.

all the buildings of the entire city

have the same orientation of 15 degrees,

17 minutes deviated to the east of the north,

and there is no other construction in teotihuacan

that does not keep the same orientation.

that's why it's amazing.

they built the city according to this orientation

so that they whole city would operate

as a great astronomic clock, a solar clock.

it also tells us that we have signs

that teotihuacan was perfectly planned in all its aspects,

not only in terms of orientation

but also in terms of the impressive drainage system

that continues to operate just as it did

when it was built more than 1,800 years ago.

another intriguing element of the pyramid

complexes around the globe,

in particular giza and teotihuacan,

is the presence of what appears to be orion's belt.

is it coincidence,

or is it somehow the encoding of information

about a constellation that was really important to the ancients

and perhaps associated with the pyramid builders themselves?

narrator: can believers prove that the pyramids at teotihuacan

are connected to those at giza, and what is their true purpose?

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narrator: we still have much to learn about the pyramids

at teotihuacan.

who built them, for what purpose and are they mysteriously

connected to the great pyramid at giza?

gough: all pyramids have the same characteristics.

one, they're orientated towards the cardinal points,

north, south, east, west.

two, they have a causeway,

a ceremonial path leading to the pyramid.

three, they have a mortuary chamber,

a little temple in front of the pyramid where you would worship.

all pyramids have those.

picknett: so it seems that the deeply mysterious pyramids

had other functions, ritual functions

that we can only really just make stabs at

because we don't have the ancient egyptian mind-set.

their entire life was just standing in line

for the afterlife.

it was cueing up for their next life,

and everything they did as human beings was about that

and especially about enabling the pharaoh

to go off into the afterlife and become god.

narrator: the pyramid of the feathered serpent at teotihuacan

is believed to have been at the center

of this mesoamerican metropolis,

but mysteries around its origin remain.

bellinger: heavy rains recently uncovered an extraordinary long tunnel

underneath the pyramid of teotihuacan,

and archaeologists went down,

and they were puzzled to find bits of pyrite and mica

clearly embedded in the wall purposefully.

they weren't sure what it was.

they happened to extinguish the artificial light,

and it lit up as if they were outside

under the night sky surrounded by stars.

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[ speaking spanish ]

interpreter: the tunnel was built 2,000 years ago

by the teotihuacanos

and remained hidden from the view of any person

for about 1,800 years.

in this part, the teotihuacanos darkened the rock

by painting it black

and then impregnating the entire upper part with pyrite.

in some parts, small remains of the bright mineral

are preserved, and at the bottom,

they carved the ground to recreate a miniature landscape.

a mountainous and miniature landscape then small mountains

and some holes that represent the lakes and valleys

of this mythical landscape.

the mercury that was placed there

is to represent the water of the underworld.

this mercury was not local.

i think it was imported from central america

probably near copan, a mayan city in honduras.

it is a mystery that will last a lifetime.

however, i believe that this is such an important

and sacred place.

we don't know who built the pyramids at teotihuacan.

we know that the site was established in around 400 bc

and reached a peak 1,000 years later,

so this was a major, very sophisticated civilization.

their city covers 8 square miles.

it's carefully gridded.

there's at least 2,000 private residences.

there are plazas and temples, and everything is linked

beautifully in a perfectly solar-aligned avenue

called the avenue of the dead.

i mean, we don't know who did it, though,

and that's because they left some glyphs,

but it's a language we have not cracked yet.

we may never know who built teotihuacan,

but we do know that it's name means birthplace of the gods,

and were those gods extraterrestrial?

narrator: is it possible that pyramids around the world

are all connected?

and is there truth behind the theory

that they served a more cryptic purpose?

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narrator: is there a connection between the pyramids of egypt

and those discovered in mexico and other parts of the world?

mcmahon: for some reason, pyramids seem to hold

a real grip on the human imagination.

are these pyramids tombs?

are they a means of communicating with aliens,

passing ufos?

are they a way of aligning with the stars?

are they a way of launching a king,

a pharaoh's spirit into outer space?

all these theories have been posited about the pyramids.

narrator: about an hour's drive from the great pyramid is saqqara.

there lies what is believed to be the oldest pyramid in egypt,

the pyramid of djoser, also known as the step pyramid

because of its design.

bellinger: the so-called step pyramid built for djoser at saqqara

is kind of like a missing link for archaeologists.

its importance actually can't be overstated,

and that's because it's proof that the egyptians developed

the technology to build pyramids,

and they did it over a period of time,

and the idea that they did not have the technology

or the knowledge

or the means to build pyramids is utterly absurd.

narrator: marianne tames-demauras is an egyptologist

who specializes in djoser's pyramid at saqqara.

tames-demauras: we are at the funerary complex of the step pyramid

of the king djoser, who actually built this around 2600 bce,

so that's over 4,600 years ago.

this pyramid measures at the base 397 feet times 358 feet.

it has a height of 197 feet and has a whooping volume

of 12 million cubic feet of clay and stone,

and we believe it would have taken around 19 years to build.

gough: when you look at the size of the pyramids, of any of them,

they're all huge.

the skill, the effort required to construct them,

could a pharaoh really construct their own tomb

during their lifetime, and were they tombs?

i think the step pyramid complex of djoser

is one of the great, great wonders of the world.

they are cutting stone to approximate the size of a brick.

you have to imagine how labor-intensive that is.

we admire the huge blocks of the khufu pyramid,

but now you've got these guys making little tiny bricks

out of stone.

so the step pyramid is just a delight in that sense.

tames-demauras: pyramids around the world,

there's some aspects of them

which are quite similar, and that's why a lot of people

think there are these connects between egypt

and the mesoamerican pyramids and so forth,

but i don't believe that's the case.

i believe that it would be --

it's more like an archetypal form,

the shape that basically connects earth to the sky,

and it would have been an easy access to travel to the sky,

to travel to the gods, so i believe it's a shape

that would have been employed because of those reasons.

janulis: we find pyramids all over the world

usually associated with emerging agricultural economies

that are becoming big

because they are the simplest to build in terms of engineering.

it is the most elemental of building structures

and the most stable and sturdy.

hoffman: all of these people are building high in order

to get essentially closer to god

and in addition have god recognize you, or the gods,

because the gods had to have their attention called to you.

otherwise, you were just this tiny little ant

crawling all over the earth,

so you can imagine the pyramids were a great,

big sign saying, "hey. here we are."

what was so special about the step pyramid

is that it was an intermediary

between what was called mastaba slabs

that were just flat pieces of stones set on the sand

that people were buried underneath in the early stages

of the old kingdom and the full-fledged pyramid

because if you can imagine just like a child

would build something with blocks,

successively smaller mastabas were stacked,

and then they decided maybe it would be nice

if it was smooth on the outside,

and it sort of got to the point of the pyramid

that we recognize today.

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tames-demauras: we're actually in the most sacred part of the pyramid.

we are in the burial chamber of king djoser.

we are literally underneath the step pyramid.

this burial chamber would have been built

when mastaba one was constructed,

so and then, obviously, the rest of the pyramid then followed,

so we are literally underneath the pyramid.

this whole shaft measures 23 feet square

and 92 feet deep, which is mind-blowing,

and here in the middle, you find this fantastic burial vault

made out of granite.

the step pyramid at saqqara, archaeologists found

an intact sarcophagus that was sealed

and had been sealed for thousands of years,

and they opened it, and inside was nothing,

so where were the human remains?

obviously, they hadn't been looted and carted off anywhere.

the thing was sealed, so it does add another layer

to the ongoing mysteries surrounding the pyramids.

bianchi: we know from the warren of tunnels and passages

underneath the step pyramid that the tomb was rifled,

perhaps repeatedly, by tomb robbers in search of treasure,

and the body of djoser

was probably a casualty of those depredations.

tames-demauras: so here, we're looking at the very famous panel.

we can see king djoser here.

right in front like a sort of caption for this panel,

it's his name, and it's not written djoser.

here, he is named by his horus name.

horus name is netjerikhet, and you can even see remnants,

part of the god horus sitting on the serif,

this rectangular object here protecting his identity,

protecting his name, his essence for eternity.

gough: so we find a sarcophagus in the step pyramid.

we find one in the great pyramid,

but there has never been a body of a pharaoh

discovered in those sarcophagus, and more importantly,

no hieroglyphics.

go south to luxor

in the valley of the kings

in proper burial chambers of kings and royalty,

and you have corridor after corridor of hieroglyphics

telling the fabulous story of this person's life

and all their incredible boisterous deeds.

there's none of that in the pyramids of egypt,

leading us to conclude that they were not tombs,

so what were they?

narrator: and in teotihuacan,

evidence grows that pyramids may have been used

for purposes more mysterious than mere burial chambers.

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narrator: academics and egyptologists agree

that the pyramids were built by ancient civilizations

as tombs for their leaders.

they dismiss theories of pyramidology

connecting similar structures found across the world,

but there is a growing group of people

who believe the pyramids are much older

than science dates them, and are much more mysterious.

another interesting theory is that the pyramids themselves

are an energy conduit.

another common denominator amongst them

was a body of water nearby leading some to speculate

that they were electricity generators of some kind

using a technology that we've long forgotten.

narrator: hugh newman firmly believes that the great pyramid in giza

is misunderstood by the majority of academics and egyptologists.

newman: the great pyramid, i believe, was a multifunctional system.

fundamentally, i think it's built

as a kind of technological machine

to produce energy and vibration

and also a harmonic fertilizing energy across the land here,

utilizing underground water, hydrogen, different chemicals

that have been found to exist within it

and create something quite remarkable

which could have been electricity.

it could have been thermal energy.

it could have been other types of energy

they used to light up places or for power tools.

who knows?

picknett: there are tiny things

that the ancient egyptians produced

that actually show that they were wizards at engineering.

for example, in the cairo museum,

there's tiny little vases,

and they've got holes drilled in them.

how?

they were supposed only to have copper tools.

you could not do that with copper tools,

and they're made of the hardest possible stone,

they're granite, some of them.

it's like the ancient egyptians were showing off.

newman: so back in october 2017, i was filming on the giza plateau,

and it was towards the end of the day around sunset,

and i managed just accidentally --

i didn't see it with my own eyes,

but i saw that when i moved the camera around,

i caught this orb of light going up the side of khafra's pyramid.

it's believed that it could be some kind of energetic sphere

like a ball of light,

or it could have been something completely strange,

even like a small ufo.

whatever it was, it appeared to be glowing

and moving in a very precise way across the face of the pyramid,

so i believe it was almost like a by-product

of what these pyramids were all about which was energy.

narrator: although egyptologists trust their scientific testing,

even at the pyramid of the feathered serpent

in teotihuacan,

there is still evidence that baffles archaeologists.

gomez: [ speaking spanish ]

interpreter: we have evidence that during the time

when this magnificent building was functioning,

they performed some kind of ritual with a lot of fire.

it is very likely that in some parts, they made great fires.

we have precisely in this part some evidence

that the fire was so intense

that it transformed the surface into a brick.

we know that the aztecs considered this place

as a sacred place, a mythical place.

in teotihuacan, the pyramids are part

of the urban planned environment,

and we know that they were used for ritual purposes

perhaps as temples.

one of the most fascinating things

about the pyramids at teotihuacan

is that they're built so close to an enormous mountain.

the pyramids in egypt are built as this symbolic mountain

in their own right,

but here in a different tradition

far removed from that space,

you have people building, almost, like, in response

to that existing natural mountain, their own mountain.

narrator: meanwhile in bosnia,

a massive pyramid shape was discovered

by sam osmanagich in 2005.

while critics believe it's just a mountain

coincidentally shaped like a pyramid,

sam has partially excavated the site

and says he has evidence that it is a man-made structure.

in the spring of 2005,

i first came to little bosnian town of visoko

in central bosnia to visit the local museum,

and then i saw this, the largest pyramid complex on the planet.

here, we have four sides with triangular faces,

perfect orientation, concrete.

we have underground tunnels.

geometrically speaking, this is a pyramid.

the great pyramid of egypt, 147 meters.

now, look at the bosnian pyramid of the sun, the northern face.

from this point out which is clearly triangular,

it's 220 meters.

however, when we applied advanced technology

called the lidar or lidar technology

which basically removes the greenery from the picture,

this is what you are getting.

we clearly see the corner is going all the way

to the bottom of the valley,

the eastern slope all the way to the bottom, even the northern.

just here, we have the layers of soil which came here

probably during the last end of the ice age.

sam osmanagich claims to have found five pyramids in bosnia

which he thinks were built anything up to 30,000 years ago.

that would basically put them

before or even during the ice age.

now, many skeptics say that these are just

natural hilly formations,

but he's adamant that they are man-made.

osmanagich: we are at the northern face

of the bosnian pyramid of the sun.

back in 2006, we started removing the soil.

who would expect that 1 meter below the soil

there are rectangular blocks like this one here?

it is about 4-1/2-meter long, 1 1/2 wide,

45 centimeters thick.

it is 7 tons in mass, and not only that.

below the first one, there is a second row of rocks

and third row of rocks, and below is the fourth one.

one, two, three, four.

this is a structure.

it's not made by mother nature but by intelligent hands.

we have sent samples to seven institutional material.

everybody told us it was an artificially made concrete.

bellinger: osmanagich argues that the creators of this pyramid field

were an incredibly sophisticated race from the deep past,

perhaps from atlantis or from outer space

and that the possessed technologies way ahead

of where humanity was at that point.

for example, whereas geologists say that this is just

bog-standard layers of sediment,

he says it's reinforced concrete created

by this technologically advanced race.

narrator: is the pyramid in bosnia actually a man-made structure,

and can they prove that the tunnels found within it

are connected to a powerful energy force?

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narrator: in 2005, sam osmanagich discovered what he claims

is a huge pyramid hidden within the hills of bosnia.

if it proves to be a man-made structure,

it would become the biggest pyramid ever built,

yet the academic community isn't convinced.

bianchi: when geologists have examined the formations, they found

that they are constructed of conglomerate sandstone and clay.

there's absolutely nothing to suggest

that they are man-made materials.

these are geological formations.

gough: the debate rages on as to whether or not

there are pyramids in bosnia.

they are so ancient they could easily be mistaken

for hills and mountains,

and yet they're orientated towards the cardinal points,

so is the pyramid a construct that's been used

time and time again on planet earth,

and are some of them looking so dilapidated

because they are truly that ancient?

narrator: sam osmanagich believes his research

proves the authenticity of the pyramid,

specifically the tunnels he's found.

this potential purpose of the pyramid energy

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it's normal.

we have 28,000, 27,000, 26,000.

the regular levels, for example, in the cities,

are about a few hundred, in nature like natural surroundings

like this one here, about 1,000, 1,500, 800,

but in the tunnels, the values reach 10,000, 15,000, 20,000,

making it the ideal condition for our body

to start the self-regeneration process,

self-healing process.

gough: the pyramids around the globe that we see today

from around 3000 bc to maybe 1500 bc,

they all have the same characteristics,

leading me to conclude

that there was some sort of teacher or culture

that imparted knowledge about how to construct them

and why to construct them that has been lost from history.

in the last 10 years, we have received hundreds

if not thousands of testimonials of people

noticing the health benefits and improvements.

for example, people with the higher blood pressure

after visiting the tunnels, they come back,

blood pressure gets normalized.

even people with very serious diseases

show significant signs of improvements.

more tunnels we open, energy flow is getting stronger.

energy values are getting higher.

ancients knew that the pyramid energy is so beneficial,

and it would make really sense

instead of building such a huge structure

for one dead body, king or pharaoh,

you build structure that will serve generations

and generations of living communities

that will last almost forever.

narrator: have we misunderstood the true purpose of pyramids

all this time?

could they be far older than we imagined?

experts say no, yet there are people

who believe these magnificent structures were made to be more

than mere burial chambers.

the debate rages on.

gough: if you look at the bosnian pyramids,

even though it's a lot older and run-down

compared to the other ancient pyramids

such as giza and teotihuacan, it has the same characteristics,

so i would say we still need to keep looking,

but there's no reason to believe

that it couldn't have been a pyramid complex.

to cut same osmanagich some slack,

i've been to the balkans myself, and you do find,

and this is a replica, you do find these statues,

these neolithic gods in the region,

and it has to be said, they do look like aliens.

they are the most extraordinary sculptures,

so it may be that the pyramids in bosnia are real,

and it may even be that little aliens like this built them.

the bosnian pyramid theory is fantastic

for the bosnian economy.

not so great for its standing

within the worldwide academic community

and the constantly updated understanding

of our sort of shared human chronology on the planet.

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