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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
An island of giant statues.
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A vast plateau covered
in enormous geoglyphs.
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A megalithic settlement
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that dates back
more than 12,000 years.
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On Ancient Aliens,
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we've trekked across deserts,
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hacked through jungles,
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flown to remote islands,
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and climbed rugged mountains
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in order to investigate
extraordinary sites
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that seem to defy
any conventional explanation.
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We're going to look back
at what I consider
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to be the top ten ancient sites
we've visited.
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And you can decide for yourself,
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do these places hold the proof
that Earth has been visited
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by extraterrestrials?
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When I think
of all the mysterious sites
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we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens,
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it's really tough to narrow them
down to the top ten
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and even tougher to rank them.
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Each of these sites offers
compelling evidence
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that extraterrestrials
visited our ancestors.
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And at one particular site
in Peru,
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that evidence is imprinted right
on the vast desert floor.
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And what makes it
even more incredible
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is that you can only see it
from high above the Earth.
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At number ten on my list
of top ten mysterious sites,
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the Nazca Lines.
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NARRATOR:
Southern Peru. 1927.
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While hiking in the foothills
of the arid Nazca Desert,
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archaeologist
Toribio Mej�a Xesspe discovers
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what appears to be
a large network of ancient roads
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carved into the earth.
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Years later,
as airplane travel to the region
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becomes more frequent,
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aerial flyovers reveal
nearly 100 other designs
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in the nearby landscape.
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NICK REDFERN:
The Nazca Lines consist
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of these massive drawings
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or carvings, if you like,
on the ground.
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Everything
from geometric symbols, lines
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to animals, even fish, birds.
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But the intriguing thing
about them is, you know,
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that, number one,
they're massive.
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And they can really only be seen
properly from the sky.
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NARRATOR:
According to mainstream archaeologists,
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these mysterious earth drawings
were created by the Nazca,
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an ancient people
that flourished in the region
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between the first century
and eighth century AD.
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But what was their purpose?
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ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Archaeology has still no answer.
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In my opinion,
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it has something to do
with the extraterrestrials.
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Our ancestor made these
gigantic signs in the ground
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because they want to signalize
to the beings up there,
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"We are here. Come down here."
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If you leave Nazca
and travel due west
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some 2,400 miles out
into the Pacific Ocean,
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you'll eventually reach one
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of the most remote islands
on Earth.
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It was discovered by
Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen
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on Easter Sunday, 1722,
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and he was amazed
by the gigantic stone statues
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he found all over the island.
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They've become one of
archaeology's greatest riddles.
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Mysterious site number nine,
Easter Island.
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NARRATOR:
April 5, 1722.
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Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen
and his crew
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are 2,400 miles
off the coast of Chile
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when they spot a small landmass
completely isolated
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in the Pacific Ocean.
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As they draw closer,
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they are surprised to find
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that the remote island
is inhabited.
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But even more unexpected
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are the giant stone figures
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staring out at them
from the shore.
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PAUL BAHN:
The statues on Easter Island, which we call moai,
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are one of the great
archaeological wonders
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of the world.
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We know they carved
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something like
a thousand of them
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over a period of probably
roughly about 500 years,
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weighing tens of tons.
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No other culture in the world
has ever done this,
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certainly not on this scale.
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In many ways, we still don't
know exactly how they did it.
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NARRATOR:
The moai were found to have been carved
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from the volcanic bedrock
at the center of the island.
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But exactly how the native
people managed to move
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such enormous statues out
to Easter Island's shoreline,
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in some cases more
than 11 miles from the quarry,
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has been the subject
of endless debate.
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There have been many theories
over the years
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as to how they were moved.
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The first theory is thought
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that they must have been
dragged horizontally
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on sledges or rollers
or something of that kind.
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It was tried again recently
for a TV film,
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and, again,
they moved it a few meters,
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but it really doesn't prove
anything.
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You're talking
about several hundred statues.
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And it would depend on the size
and weight of the statue,
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the number of people
you had available to help,
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the distance
you were going to go,
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the kind of terrain.
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So, basically,
we don't really know.
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According with the oral
tradition and the legends...
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TSOUKALOS:
So one has to wonder if mana was some type
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of extraterrestrial technology
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that allowed these stones
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to be levitated into place.
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Some have suggested
that sound technology was used
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in order to move
some of these rocks.
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Because scientists have proposed
that levitation technology
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can be achieved with one thing,
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sound frequencies.
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This mana is an energy
that no one understands today.
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Is it some kind
of extraterrestrial energy?
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We just don't know.
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You know, what's really curious
is that so many
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of the world's most massive
megaliths are found on islands,
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where, in ancient times,
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resources and manpower
were extremely limited.
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And on one island nation in the
middle of the Mediterranean Sea,
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you'll find some of the oldest
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and most enormous structures
anywhere on Earth.
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Number eight in our countdown
of mysterious sites,
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the islands of Malta.
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NARRATOR:
The Maltese islands lie in the center of the Mediterranean Sea,
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just south of Italy.
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Scholars believe the first
inhabitants migrated here
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from the nearby island of Sicily
in 5200 BC.
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Today, stone structures
on two of the islands,
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Malta and Gozo, are considered
by archaeologists
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to be among
the greatest achievements
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by ancient builders
anywhere in the world.
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There are engineering features
in these temples
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that are just astonishing.
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We're talking about walls
enclosing space,
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paved walkways.
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They were ceilinged at one time.
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Definitely much more complex
than anything else
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that was appearing on Earth
for a very long time.
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In 2014, Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to Malta
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to get an up close look
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at its incredible
megalithic structures.
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At the temple of Hagar Qim,
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he met with Dr. Anthony Bonanno,
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a professor of archaeology
and classical literature.
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- What does "Hagar Qim"
actually mean? - So-- Oh, well,
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"stones of worship"
or "standing stones."
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- Like this one.
- There you are, yes.
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- That's right.
- Check this out. This is huge.
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- Wow.
- Yes, uh, three meters high
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by six meters, 50 wide
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and about another meter thick.
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That makes about 20-odd tons.
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- Minimum?
- Minimum, yes.
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- That's right.
- TSOUKALOS: This is incredible.
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So, this is one of the largest
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- freestanding stones?
- It is.
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I mean, you know,
when I see stuff like this,
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- that's when I wonder,
you know, how... - Yeah, h-how did they carry it?
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-Was...
-How did they-- They quarried it, in this case.
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- Yes,
they must have quarried it. - And put upright.
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And then put it upright, yes.
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NARRATOR:
While visitors to these islands are immediately struck
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by the massive megaliths,
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one of Malta's most incredible
structures remained hidden
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for centuries.
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In 1902,
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construction workers
accidentally discovered
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one of Malta's
most curious features,
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a mysterious underground
sanctuary dating to 2500 BC.
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Called the Hypogeum,
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the subterranean structure
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was revealed
to be three levels deep,
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all hewn from solid stone.
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JEFF WILLIAMS:
How could people from that far back,
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how could they know
how to construct such a thing?
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But if you look
at some of the chambers,
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it looks like
it's actually been carved
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with some type of a laser.
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So I don't-- I don't know
exactly how it was done,
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but I do know
that they had a technology
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that far exceeds what we have
today as far as stonecutting.
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TSOUKALOS:
If you look at the way some of these walls have been cut,
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there had to have been
a type of plan
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or construction plan beforehand.
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And one has to wonder
if that engineering knowledge
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was imparted upon the builders,
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which were our ancestors,
by extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR:
Could the incredible stonework found at the Hypogeum
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have been achieved using
extraterrestrial technology?
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Curiously, the first
archaeological investigations
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performed at the site in 1907
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turned up
more than 7,000 skeletons.
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And according to a National
Geographic Magazine article
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from May 1920,
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many were found
to have unusually long skulls.
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In 2014,
I had the great privilege
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of looking at five
of these elongated skulls,
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and they were very interesting
because one of those skulls
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that I looked at
had a missing sagittal suture.
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NARRATOR:
The sagittal suture connects to the sides
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and roof of the cranium.
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This suture is open
when a person is born
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and closes around the age of 35.
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As you can see,
even from the inside,
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there's no sign
of the middle suture.
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- Right.
- Completely fused.
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TSOUKALOS:
That's fascinating.
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Even if you have a suture
that ossifies or fuses together,
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you still have a fine line
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that you can discover or detect.
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And with the one skull that
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that suture
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Enormous megalithic structures
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built more than 5,000 years ago.
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A mysterious underground
sanctuary hidden for centuries.
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Ancient skulls
of abnormal size and shape.
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the evidence all points
to one conclusion,
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that the islands of Malta
were once home
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to extraterrestrial beings.
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There aren't many places
on Earthind-blowing.
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that can turn modern archaeology
on its head
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like the next mysterious site
on our countdown.
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It's a place
that mainstream science says
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can't possibly exist.
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But not only does it exist,
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it may even provide evidence
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of the Great Flood described
in the Bible.
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Number seven on our countdown
of the top ten mysterious sites,
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Gobekli Tepe.
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NARRATOR:
Sanliurfa, Turkey.
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October 1994.
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While plowing his field,
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shepherd Savak Yildiz spots
a strangely shaped stone
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protruding from the ground.
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After brushing away the dirt,
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he realizes that it may be part
of a much larger object.
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It wasn't until German
archaeologist Klaus Schmidt
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visited the site
and began digging
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when they realized
what was really at this site.
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WILLIAM HENRY:
What he discovered was mind-blowing.
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After discovering
the first T-shaped pillar
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buried at the site,
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he soon found more
of these massive structures.
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NARRATOR:
Klaus Schmidt had the sediment layers
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of the site radiocarbon-dated.
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The results indicated
that the stone structures
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could be as much
as 12,000 years old,
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more than 5,000 years older
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than mankind's first known
civilization in Mesopotamia.
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Some researchers propose,
the megalithic structures
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provide evidence that
an advanced civilization existed
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on Earth many thousands
of years ago,
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one that was assisted
by otherworldly visitors
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before falling victim
to a deadly cataclysm.
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There is evidence
of a great cataclysm
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that took place
around 12,900 years ago.
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It's called the Younger Dryas
impact event...
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...where comets and air bursts
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impacted the land
and the ice sheets,
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causing massive flooding.
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I mean, Gobekli Tepe
dates to the time
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of the Younger Dryas events
that were taking place
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over a few thousand-year period.
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ANDREW COLLINS: Gobekli Tepe
could be the smoking gun
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of a lost civilization,
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'cause it confirms that,
at the time of the last ice age,
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there was high culture
existing in the world.
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This is something that had
been speculated for many years.
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If you think Gobekli Tepe is one
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of the most mysterious sites
on Earth,
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there's another that I think
is even more baffling.
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It's a series of massive stones
in Northern France
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that have been arranged
in a very deliberate
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and perplexing
geometric pattern.
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Even modern archaeology
can't explain their purpose.
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At number six on our countdown
of the top ten mysterious sites,
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the standing stones of Carnac.
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NARRATOR:
On the northwest coast of France,
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just south of Brittany,
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lies one of the most important
prehistoric sites
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in Europe.
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At the seaside village
of Carnac,
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over 3,000 megalithic stones
are placed in rows
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over two miles long.
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The Carnac stones were hewn
from local rock formations
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and erected between 4500
to 2500 BC,
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at the end of the Stone Age.
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They are the largest collection
of standing stones in the world.
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Archaeologists are baffled
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by the many megaliths
at Carnac here.
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It's clearly
a massive construction project,
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with blocks of granite
weighing 50 to 100
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to even up to 350 tons.
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NARRATOR:
Although mainstream archaeologists speculate
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that the Carnac stones
are most likely tomb markers,
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ancient astronaut theorists
believe
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these stones
are intentionally laid out
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in a unique geometric formation.
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ROBERT SCHOCH:
The Carnac stones were laid out incredibly precisely
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using standard units
of measurement
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that show
very sophisticated mathematics.
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It's been suggested
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that they were using
the Pythagorean theorem
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thousands of years ago.
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It may elude us now,
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exactly what they were trying
to accomplish,
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but it seems
like they were encoding
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some kind of information.
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NARRATOR:
The Pythagorean theorem
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wasn't established
until 2,000 years
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after the last Carnac stones
were erected.
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So how could the builders
have possessed this knowledge?
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And why were the stones arranged
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in such precise
geometrical patterns?
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CHILDRESS:
The Carnac stones are
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a perfect marker for any kind
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of aerial vehicle
looking down on the Earth.
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VON DANIKEN:
The extraterrestrials told our ancestor,
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"Do this. Move stones.
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Put it exactly in this pattern.
We order you."
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It was on purpose.
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The idea was that generations
in the far future
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will start to ask questions.
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That's the situation
we have today.
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NARRATOR:
Could the Carnac stones contain a mathematical message
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left by extraterrestrials?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
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and suggest further evidence
can be found
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by examining a famous
megalithic site to the north.
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We're nearly halfway is,
we through our countdown
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of my top ten
most mysterious sites
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that we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens.
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And the next site on my list
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is one that some believe
has the power to heal,
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while others say it was once
a portal through space and time.
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But what's most amazing to me
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is that ancient people
arranged these stones
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to be an exact replica
of our solar system.
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Number five, Stonehenge.
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?
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NARRATOR:
Wiltshire, England.
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The Neolithic monument
known as Stonehenge
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has dominated the landscape here
for no less than 5,000 years.
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The iconic stone circle consists
of vertical standing stones
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towering 13 feet tall
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and weighing 25 tons each,
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topped by connecting
horizontal lintel stones
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and surrounding a smaller ring
of stones in the center.
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NEWMAN:
Stonehenge is unlike any stone circle anywhere on the planet.
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It's perfectly circular.
It has lintels above it.
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It's designed
with precision-engineered
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astronomical alignments.
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How could the ancient
Stone Age people of Britain
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move these stones into place?
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NARRATOR:
However Stonehenge was constructed,
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it involved moving much more
than just the stone blocks
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that stand today.
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According to researchers,
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this is just 25%
of the original monument...
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...the center
of a much larger structure
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that was surrounded
by multiple concentric circles
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constructed over a period
of more than a thousand years.
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JOHN MARTINEAU: So,
Stonehenge is very interesting
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in that it evolves
over a very long period of time.
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And the first thing
that goes up at Stonehenge
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is not there anymore.
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It's the 56 holes that today
are known as the Aubrey circle.
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It used to be filled with 56
stones in a big stone circle
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just inside the henge.
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TSOUKALOS:
Stonehenge is a replica
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of our solar system on Earth.
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Each circle corresponds
with one of our planets
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inside our solar system,
including Pluto.
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So, now we have a structure
that's at least 4,000 years old,
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and our ancestors knew
about Pluto?
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Without telescopes?
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Someone told them about Pluto
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and all of our planets
in our solar system,
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and that is the message.
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Because, in Neolithic time,
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there is no way
that they knew about this.
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As amazing
as Stonehenge looks today,
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remember, what's still standing
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is only a fraction
of the original structure.
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But 2,400 miles to the south
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is an even more extraordinary
ancient site
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that remains
almost perfectly intact.
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The number four site
on my countdown,
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Egypt's Giza Plateau.
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00:21:43,258 --> 00:21:44,738
?
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NARRATOR:
In April 2018,
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ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos,
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Egyptologist Ramy Romany,
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and archaeoastronomer
Dr. Giulio Magli
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traveled to Cairo to investigate
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what is perhaps
the most impressive structure
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ever constructed on Earth,
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the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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[grunts]
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This is...
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- Look at the size of this thing.
- ...incredible.
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ROMANY:
Every single block is bigger than this car.
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TSOUKALOS:
Yeah. It is insane. It really is.
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ROMANY:
Are you ready for some climbing?
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TSOUKALOS:
I have goose bumps on my calves right now.
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NARRATOR:
Built from more than two million limestone blocks
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each weighing
thousands of pounds,
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the pyramid is aligned perfectly
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to the cardinal points
of the compass--
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north, south, east and west--
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suggesting
that its builders possessed
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extraordinary
geographical knowledge.
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According to
mainstream Egyptologists,
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the Great Pyramid was built
sometime around 2500 BC
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as the burial tomb
of the Pharaoh Khufu.
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But this claim
has yet to be proven.
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Archaeologists
and Egyptologists claim
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that they were tombs
for the pharaohs,
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and yet no Egyptian pharaoh
was ever found
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in a pyramid in Egypt.
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We have found the mummies
of many Egyptian pharaohs,
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but they're found in vaults
deep underground
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at the Valley of the Kings
in Luxor,
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hundreds of miles away
from the pyramids.
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The pyramids have
no real explanation
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of what their purpose was.
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NARRATOR:
But if the pyramids at Giza were not intended
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to house the remains
of dead pharaohs,
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then why were
these towering monuments built?
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In his 1998 book
The Giza Power Plant,
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noted machinist and engineer
Christopher Dunn
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proposed that the shape,
positions of chambers,
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and proximity
to underground rivers indicate
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the pyramids of Giza functioned
as ancient power plants.
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This incredible hypothesis,
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which has since been adopted
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by other scientists
and researchers,
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may be impossible to ever prove.
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But ancient astronaut theorists
believe new information
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about the Great Pyramid
may soon be revealed.
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In March 2016,
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00:24:18,935 --> 00:24:21,895
archaeologists examining
the ancient structure
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with a new technology
known as muography
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made a shocking discovery,
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a mysterious chamber
inside the structure
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that is as large
as the Statue of Liberty.
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This new room
is only the beginning of it.
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I'm sure, within the next months
or at least two years,
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they will discover more rooms
in the Great Pyramid.
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I personally think
that the Great Pyramid in Egypt
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holds some sort of time capsule.
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NARRATOR:
Perhaps what lies within the Great Pyramid
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will reveal not only incredible
truths about ancient Egypt
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but about the history
of humankind.
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Could there be clues that reveal
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that Egypt was once home to an
extraterrestrial civilization?
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High in the mountains of Peru
lies a city
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with monumental walls
so tightly joined
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that modern engineers admit
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that they couldn't replicate it
today.
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Which begs the question,
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how did ancient people
accomplish this
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without the help
of modern technology?
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And at an altitude
of 12,000 feet?
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Number three on my countdown
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of the world's
top ten mysterious sites,
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Sacsayhuam�n.
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?
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NARRATOR:
Cuzco, Peru.
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On the northern outskirts
of what was once
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the capital city of the Inca,
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at an elevation
of more than 12,000 feet,
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looms the ancient fortress
of Sacsayhuam�n.
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Mainstream archaeologists
suggest
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the Inca built this megalithic
site in the 15th century AD,
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00:26:10,264 --> 00:26:13,093
but many researchers now believe
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that the foundation
of Sacsayhuam�n
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dates back centuries earlier.
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My feeling is
that we're looking
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at a two-phase, uh,
construction site
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in many of the so-called,
uh, Inca stone monuments
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and that the Inca structures
sit on top
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of much more ancient
rock-cut structures
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and megalithic structures
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that we just don't know
who built them.
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And this actually fits
with the Incas' own view.
502
00:26:39,162 --> 00:26:41,643
NARRATOR:
Like many Inca sites,
503
00:26:41,687 --> 00:26:44,994
Sacsayhuam�n features
astonishing stonework
504
00:26:45,038 --> 00:26:48,737
but not all of it credited
to the Inca.
505
00:26:48,781 --> 00:26:51,131
According to
conventional archaeology,
506
00:26:51,174 --> 00:26:55,091
the Killke culture built
the older sections of the site
507
00:26:55,135 --> 00:26:57,746
approximately 1,000 years ago.
508
00:26:57,790 --> 00:27:00,619
But the Inca themselves believed
509
00:27:00,662 --> 00:27:04,492
the site was constructed by an
earlier, unnamed race of people
510
00:27:04,535 --> 00:27:09,845
led by a powerful god
who descended from the skies.
511
00:27:09,889 --> 00:27:12,543
Throughout time,
there has been witness
512
00:27:12,587 --> 00:27:14,633
to a god named Viracocha
513
00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:16,504
that visited
the South American people
514
00:27:16,547 --> 00:27:20,029
and blessed them and gave them
all types of technology.
515
00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:23,032
Some of his
physical characteristics
516
00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:25,992
make him stand out
from the indigenous population,
517
00:27:26,035 --> 00:27:27,820
because he was
not at all similar
518
00:27:27,863 --> 00:27:30,126
to the indigenous people.
519
00:27:30,170 --> 00:27:34,130
Viracocha was
the primary deity of the Andes,
520
00:27:34,174 --> 00:27:36,263
going back
many thousands of years.
521
00:27:36,306 --> 00:27:38,526
He was thought to be the founder
522
00:27:38,569 --> 00:27:43,487
of all the ancient sites we see
in Peru and Bolivia today.
523
00:27:44,967 --> 00:27:48,754
NARRATOR:
But did Viracocha actually exist?
524
00:27:48,797 --> 00:27:52,671
Could he have been, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,
525
00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:55,674
a visitor from an alien world?
526
00:27:57,197 --> 00:27:59,373
If so, it might help to explain
527
00:27:59,416 --> 00:28:02,681
just how the ancient site
was constructed.
528
00:28:03,594 --> 00:28:05,727
It's amazing, all these, uh...
529
00:28:05,771 --> 00:28:07,686
the-the weight of the stones.
530
00:28:24,615 --> 00:28:28,532
HANCOCK:
The walls are put together with blocks of stone
531
00:28:28,576 --> 00:28:30,578
weighing 50 or 100 tons...
532
00:28:31,797 --> 00:28:34,582
...cut and shaped like
the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle
533
00:28:34,625 --> 00:28:36,410
so that they lock together
so tightly
534
00:28:36,453 --> 00:28:40,893
that you can't even get
a sheet of paper between them.
535
00:28:42,242 --> 00:28:44,070
NARRATOR:
According to local legend,
536
00:28:44,113 --> 00:28:48,291
a bird was responsible
for the seamless construction.
537
00:28:48,335 --> 00:28:50,554
Legends say
the winged creature carried
538
00:28:50,598 --> 00:28:52,905
a powerful chemical in its beak,
539
00:28:52,948 --> 00:28:56,430
a substance capable
of melting stone.
540
00:29:13,316 --> 00:29:17,451
NARRATOR:
But is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,
541
00:29:17,494 --> 00:29:21,455
that the mythical bird might
actually have been a spacecraft,
542
00:29:21,498 --> 00:29:26,460
piloted by alien visitors known
to the locals as space brothers?
543
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,496
Many of the sites we've featured
on my countdown are famousweight
544
00:30:02,539 --> 00:30:04,933
because they were constructed
with stone blocks
545
00:30:04,977 --> 00:30:08,807
of the most extraordinary size
and weight.
546
00:30:08,850 --> 00:30:14,247
And no megalithic construction
on Earth is more staggering
547
00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:16,815
than my number two
most mysterious site,
548
00:30:16,858 --> 00:30:18,686
the ruins of Baalbek.
549
00:30:20,122 --> 00:30:22,168
?
550
00:30:25,954 --> 00:30:27,303
NARRATOR:
Eastern Lebanon.
551
00:30:27,347 --> 00:30:29,479
The Bekaa Valley.
552
00:30:29,523 --> 00:30:32,134
Here at this archaeological site
553
00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:34,789
stand the ruins of Heliopolis...
554
00:30:35,746 --> 00:30:39,272
...built in the fourth century
BC by Alexander the Great
555
00:30:39,315 --> 00:30:41,143
to honor Zeus.
556
00:30:41,187 --> 00:30:44,190
But beneath
the Corinthian columns
557
00:30:44,233 --> 00:30:47,367
and remnants of both Greek
and Roman architecture
558
00:30:47,410 --> 00:30:52,198
lie the ruins of a site
that is much, much older.
559
00:30:52,241 --> 00:30:53,982
According to archaeologists,
560
00:30:54,026 --> 00:30:56,855
it dates back
nearly 9,000 years.
561
00:30:57,943 --> 00:31:00,641
The ancient city of Baalbek,
562
00:31:00,684 --> 00:31:04,775
named after the early Canaanite
deity Baal.
563
00:31:06,342 --> 00:31:11,130
HANAN CHARAF:
Baal is the god of life, the god of the sky, the god of the sun.
564
00:31:11,173 --> 00:31:15,874
He was the god that was
venerated on the site of Baalbek
565
00:31:15,917 --> 00:31:18,877
during the Canaanite
and the Phoenician times.
566
00:31:21,096 --> 00:31:22,968
ROBERT MULLINS: And so,
because it was already sacred
567
00:31:23,011 --> 00:31:24,752
to the god Baal,
568
00:31:24,795 --> 00:31:27,276
then later the Greeks
and the Romans
569
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,845
then would build temples
on this very same spot.
570
00:31:32,455 --> 00:31:34,762
NARRATOR:
Archaeological surveys have revealed
571
00:31:34,805 --> 00:31:37,243
that the enormous
stone foundation that lies
572
00:31:37,286 --> 00:31:41,073
at the base of the site
dates back thousands of years.
573
00:31:41,116 --> 00:31:44,772
Baalbek, as we know from
the archaeological evidence,
574
00:31:44,815 --> 00:31:47,340
must have existed
during Neolithic period,
575
00:31:47,383 --> 00:31:52,519
between 6,000 to 8,000 years
or even 9,000 years BC.
576
00:31:55,957 --> 00:31:59,439
NARRATOR:
But even more significant to ancient astronaut theorists
577
00:31:59,482 --> 00:32:02,659
is their belief
that the colossal stone platform
578
00:32:02,703 --> 00:32:06,098
may have been built using
extraterrestrial technology.
579
00:32:08,013 --> 00:32:10,406
As evidence, researchers point
580
00:32:10,450 --> 00:32:12,452
to the gigantic
megalithic stones
581
00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:15,281
incorporated
into the foundation,
582
00:32:15,324 --> 00:32:19,676
each weighing
between 800 to 1,600 tons
583
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,070
and perfectly fitted together.
584
00:32:23,942 --> 00:32:28,120
In Baalbek,
stone blocks were transported
585
00:32:28,163 --> 00:32:32,820
which have a weight
of over 1,500 tons.
586
00:32:32,863 --> 00:32:35,127
And this not in a flat land.
587
00:32:35,170 --> 00:32:36,650
It's all mountain.
588
00:32:37,738 --> 00:32:43,396
We have absolutely no idea
how such heavy loads
589
00:32:43,439 --> 00:32:45,572
could have been transported
in the mountain.
590
00:32:45,615 --> 00:32:48,096
I have nothing
but a speculation to this.
591
00:32:48,140 --> 00:32:51,360
But for sure it does never fit
592
00:32:51,404 --> 00:32:55,756
into the prehistoric knowledge
of our ancestors.
593
00:32:56,539 --> 00:32:59,107
This is the real mystery
of Baalbek--
594
00:32:59,151 --> 00:33:01,327
how these stones
came to be there,
595
00:33:01,370 --> 00:33:03,459
why they were placed there,
and specifically
596
00:33:03,503 --> 00:33:05,113
how they were transported
into place.
597
00:33:06,723 --> 00:33:09,117
Because some of the stones
are of such magnitude
598
00:33:09,161 --> 00:33:12,338
that modern machinery is
incapable of putting them there.
599
00:33:12,381 --> 00:33:15,776
But somehow our ancestors
were able to do this.
600
00:33:17,256 --> 00:33:21,173
BIRNES:
It is one of the oldest, oldest megalithic sites on the planet.
601
00:33:21,216 --> 00:33:23,740
And it has these huge stones
laid out
602
00:33:23,784 --> 00:33:26,178
in a precise geometrical shape
603
00:33:26,221 --> 00:33:29,572
at a time
when the prehistoric people
604
00:33:29,616 --> 00:33:31,183
who would have lived there
605
00:33:31,226 --> 00:33:35,317
would have no concept of how
to move stones of that nature.
606
00:33:37,537 --> 00:33:40,148
NARRATOR:
But if the moving, hoisting and setting
607
00:33:40,192 --> 00:33:43,934
of such massive stones
was so incredibly difficult,
608
00:33:43,978 --> 00:33:48,026
then who, or what,
helped to place them there?
609
00:33:48,069 --> 00:33:51,725
And, perhaps
more importantly, why?
610
00:33:51,768 --> 00:33:54,902
We know that the ancients
always went to power places,
611
00:33:54,945 --> 00:33:57,557
and Baalbek
clearly is one of them.
612
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,515
It is a place where the gods
were worshipped,
613
00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:01,387
where the gods were said
to be present.
614
00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:03,215
And so,
when it comes to Baalbek,
615
00:34:03,258 --> 00:34:05,913
this platform was built there
for a reason.
616
00:34:05,956 --> 00:34:07,436
For what purpose it was used
617
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,396
is a question we can't answer
at this moment in time.
618
00:34:10,439 --> 00:34:13,529
But what we do know is that
whatever was happening there
619
00:34:13,573 --> 00:34:15,575
had a great
religious significance to them
620
00:34:15,618 --> 00:34:18,360
and was linked
with worshipping deities,
621
00:34:18,404 --> 00:34:21,189
deities which clearly are
of an otherworldly origin.
622
00:34:21,233 --> 00:34:23,191
Hopefully, at one point,
623
00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:25,628
archaeology
will be so open-minded
624
00:34:25,672 --> 00:34:27,935
that they actually want
to explore this further.
625
00:34:29,980 --> 00:34:33,941
We're just moments away
from the top site on my list.
626
00:34:33,984 --> 00:34:35,682
And in my opinion,
627
00:34:35,725 --> 00:34:38,380
we've definitely saved
the best for last.
628
00:34:38,424 --> 00:34:40,382
Can you guess what it is?
629
00:34:46,388 --> 00:34:51,524
We've finally reached number one
on my top ten countdown
630
00:34:51,567 --> 00:34:54,701
of Ancient Aliens'
most mysterious sites.
631
00:34:54,744 --> 00:34:56,398
Lying in ruins atop a vast
plateau in the Andes Mountains
632
00:34:56,442 --> 00:34:59,488
at an altitude
of over 12,000 feet,
633
00:34:59,532 --> 00:35:02,970
the megalithic stones found
at this incredible location
634
00:35:03,013 --> 00:35:05,973
are among the largest
on planet Earth.
635
00:35:06,016 --> 00:35:09,150
But even more impressive
is how they were cut
636
00:35:09,194 --> 00:35:11,587
with such exact precision.
637
00:35:11,631 --> 00:35:15,156
And, to me, they provide
the strongest evidence
638
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,072
that extraterrestrials
visited our planet
639
00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,814
and changed the course
of human history.
640
00:35:22,685 --> 00:35:26,820
My number one most mysterious
site, Puma Punku.
641
00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:30,128
?
642
00:35:32,042 --> 00:35:36,482
NARRATOR:
Bolivia, South America.
643
00:35:36,525 --> 00:35:42,052
Here lie the mysterious
ancient ruins of Puma Punku.
644
00:35:42,096 --> 00:35:45,186
Spread across a desert plateau
645
00:35:45,230 --> 00:35:47,971
are dozens
of megalithic stone blocks
646
00:35:48,015 --> 00:35:49,886
cut with extreme precision
647
00:35:49,930 --> 00:35:54,848
and some weighing
more than 100 tons.
648
00:35:54,891 --> 00:35:59,026
These are the mysterious ruins
of Puma Punku,
649
00:35:59,069 --> 00:36:03,857
nearly 13,000 feet
in the Altiplano of Bolivia.
650
00:36:04,727 --> 00:36:09,515
What you have here are
massive blocks of granite
651
00:36:09,558 --> 00:36:15,434
scattered like some kid's
toy blocks around the site.
652
00:36:15,477 --> 00:36:21,657
Archaeologists are baffled
by what Puma Punku was,
653
00:36:21,701 --> 00:36:25,008
how it looked,
and what the purpose
654
00:36:25,052 --> 00:36:28,186
of this enormous structure
would have been.
655
00:36:30,884 --> 00:36:34,627
NARRATOR:
What sets Puma Punku apart from other ancient megalithic sites
656
00:36:34,670 --> 00:36:37,543
is the incredible stonework,
657
00:36:37,586 --> 00:36:41,242
which some researchers suggest
is far too sophisticated
658
00:36:41,286 --> 00:36:44,289
to have been accomplished
using primitive tools.
659
00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:48,380
One of the amazing things here
at Puma Punku
660
00:36:48,423 --> 00:36:51,600
is the precision of the blocks.
661
00:36:51,644 --> 00:36:54,473
You can see with this block
of granite
662
00:36:54,516 --> 00:36:59,913
that it's really been cut
at very accurate right angles.
663
00:37:01,523 --> 00:37:05,745
Not only do these granite blocks
have precision corners
664
00:37:05,788 --> 00:37:10,097
but they also have
these difficult drill holes
665
00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:14,101
that are going
right through the rock.
666
00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:18,061
NARRATOR:
Mainstream scientists believe
667
00:37:18,105 --> 00:37:20,194
the site
was originally constructed
668
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:22,718
about 2,000 years ago.
669
00:37:22,762 --> 00:37:27,810
But in 1945, archaeologist
Arthur Posnansky proposed
670
00:37:27,854 --> 00:37:31,031
that Puma Punku
was much, much older.
671
00:37:31,074 --> 00:37:33,947
By examining the structures
and what he believed
672
00:37:33,990 --> 00:37:36,689
were their original alignment
with the stars,
673
00:37:36,732 --> 00:37:40,954
he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC.
674
00:37:42,347 --> 00:37:44,218
But how could
such primitive people,
675
00:37:44,262 --> 00:37:47,395
living perhaps
over 10,000 years ago,
676
00:37:47,439 --> 00:37:50,790
have produced
such flawless stonework?
677
00:37:50,833 --> 00:37:53,401
VON DANIKEN:
The Spanish conqueror asked the Inca,
678
00:37:53,445 --> 00:37:57,405
the people living there,
including the king of the Inca,
679
00:37:57,449 --> 00:38:00,234
"What is this Puma Punku?"
680
00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:03,281
And they all said, "It's not us.
681
00:38:03,324 --> 00:38:05,935
"It's not our forefather
who make this.
682
00:38:05,979 --> 00:38:10,288
These were made by the gods
in one single night."
683
00:38:12,551 --> 00:38:15,684
TSOUKALOS:
One of the earliest chronicles that we have
684
00:38:15,728 --> 00:38:21,168
in regards to Puma Punku talks
about that these giant platforms
685
00:38:21,211 --> 00:38:27,130
were moved through the air
by the sound of a trumpet.
686
00:38:27,174 --> 00:38:30,873
They basically floated
into place.
687
00:38:30,917 --> 00:38:33,354
And here's another
very interesting thing that,
688
00:38:33,398 --> 00:38:37,184
according to the myths,
this is exactly what happened
689
00:38:37,227 --> 00:38:40,492
with the moai on Easter Island.
690
00:38:40,535 --> 00:38:44,322
NARRATOR:
Could it be that the local traditions of Easter Island
691
00:38:44,365 --> 00:38:48,630
and Puma Punku tell nearly
identical stories of levitation
692
00:38:48,674 --> 00:38:51,677
because the ancient people
at both sites witnessed
693
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:55,071
the same
extraterrestrial technology?
694
00:38:55,115 --> 00:38:58,510
And if the stone blocks
of Puma Punku
695
00:38:58,553 --> 00:39:00,860
were once part
of a megalithic structure,
696
00:39:00,903 --> 00:39:03,863
how did it end up in ruins?
697
00:39:04,777 --> 00:39:07,170
I honestly believe
that Puma Punku
698
00:39:07,214 --> 00:39:09,651
is more than 12,000 years old.
699
00:39:10,696 --> 00:39:13,829
12,000 years ago,
there was a global cataclysm
700
00:39:13,873 --> 00:39:17,224
that destroyed a lot
of ancient sites that we find,
701
00:39:17,267 --> 00:39:21,054
whether in Egypt
or the Altiplano of Bolivia.
702
00:39:21,968 --> 00:39:24,274
We had, at the end
of the last ice age,
703
00:39:24,318 --> 00:39:26,755
all kinds
of catastrophic flooding
704
00:39:26,799 --> 00:39:29,541
due to the events
in the climate changes
705
00:39:29,584 --> 00:39:33,675
and the melting of the glaciers
and increased precipitation.
706
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,853
There were incredible rises
in sea levels
707
00:39:37,897 --> 00:39:40,421
since the end
of the last ice age.
708
00:39:40,465 --> 00:39:42,684
More than 12,000 years ago,
709
00:39:42,728 --> 00:39:47,385
Lake Titicaca was 100 feet
higher than it is today.
710
00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:49,691
And I believe that Puma Punku
711
00:39:49,735 --> 00:39:52,868
was literally on the shore
of the lake at that time,
712
00:39:52,912 --> 00:39:55,741
whereas now
it's eight miles away.
713
00:39:55,784 --> 00:39:58,265
12,000 years ago,
714
00:39:58,308 --> 00:40:03,226
it was hit by a wave of mud
coming from Lake Titicaca
715
00:40:03,270 --> 00:40:05,011
as a tsunami.
716
00:40:07,709 --> 00:40:11,234
NARRATOR:
A megalithic structure built more than 12,000 years ago
717
00:40:11,278 --> 00:40:15,761
with the help
of extraterrestrial technology
718
00:40:15,804 --> 00:40:18,764
destroyed by a great cataclysm.
719
00:40:18,807 --> 00:40:22,507
If this incredible story
is true,
720
00:40:22,550 --> 00:40:24,987
one question still remains.
721
00:40:25,031 --> 00:40:28,730
What was Puma Punku?
722
00:40:28,774 --> 00:40:31,777
CHILDRESS:
When you look at the complexity of Puma Punku,
723
00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:34,736
the huge platforms,
the interlocking blocks
724
00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:37,217
that was made into
what they thought
725
00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:39,132
were indestructible walls...
726
00:40:40,612 --> 00:40:42,483
...what you could have is
727
00:40:42,527 --> 00:40:48,271
a kind of perfectly made
granite spaceport
728
00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:51,449
that extraterrestrials
would want.
729
00:40:52,667 --> 00:40:56,323
Although the origins
of many of the incredible sites
730
00:40:56,366 --> 00:41:00,153
we've featured on Ancient Aliens
continue to be debated,
731
00:41:00,196 --> 00:41:03,635
to me,
Puma Punku is so extraordinary
732
00:41:03,678 --> 00:41:07,508
that it is the one site
where I will say, yes,
733
00:41:07,552 --> 00:41:12,731
this was likely built directly
by the aliens themselves.
734
00:41:12,774 --> 00:41:14,994
But make no mistake,
735
00:41:15,037 --> 00:41:17,823
each and every one of the sites
on our countdown
736
00:41:17,866 --> 00:41:21,957
deserves to be investigated
with an open mind.
737
00:41:22,001 --> 00:41:24,830
And it is only by asking
the questions
738
00:41:24,873 --> 00:41:27,572
that we can finally uncover
the truth
739
00:41:27,615 --> 00:41:31,314
of our extraterrestrial
origins.
740
00:41:31,358 --> 00:41:33,360
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