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NARRATOR: Incredible
megalithic sites

unearthed after
thousands of years.

WILLIAM HENRY: We're talking
about a complex that is so vast,

that it's almost beyond
our comprehension.

NARRATOR: Mysterious
subterranean dwellings

that stretch for miles.

HUGH NEWMAN: We have multiple underground
cities that have been discovered

that are potentially
10,000 or more years old.

NARRATOR: Could recent
discoveries provide evidence

of a civilization that
existed far earlier

than we ever imagined?

Perhaps even before

the biblical story
of the Great Flood,

at a time when
humans shared the earth

with otherworldly beings?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
The knowledge for building

these megalithic
structures was imparted

by the so-called gods, who were

the extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the
promise of truth.

It demands we
question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right
before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: Abu Shahrain, Iraq.

6,000 years ago,
this ancient mound

was the site of Eridu,

the oldest city of
the Sumerian empire.

According to mainstream
archaeologists,

this is the cradle
of civilization.

FELICIA BEARDSLEY: Many
archeologists will say civilization began

in Mesopotamia
some 6,000 years ago.

It is built on small bands

of hunter-gatherers who then

become settled in that area

as, kind of, semi-sedentary
communities.

They adopt agriculture,

the population starts to grow,

and we begin to
recognize we need

to organize our communities.

You start seeing these
step-sided pyramids,

where the religious practitioner

might conduct his rites
or rituals and so on.

And we have

an urban planning
environment that also means

we've got a lot of
engineering going on.

We have a lot of science,
a lot of mathematics.

It has all of those elements
we would call a civilization.

NARRATOR: Many
researchers around the world

believe there is
evidence to suggest

civilization existed on Earth

long before the Sumerians.

And one key source

is the writing of the
Sumerians themselves.

Ancient cuneiform tablets

list kings who ruled tens
of thousands of years ago,

and they tell of an earlier age

when humans lived
among powerful beings

that came down from the sky

called the Anunnaki.

ANDREW COLLINS: The
Anunnaki were the builder gods

behind the creation
of the civilizations

of Sumer and Babylon.

They provided humanity with
the rudiments of civilization.

They gave humanity
animal husbandry,

but also agriculture
for the first time.

NARRATOR: The Sumerians
also wrote that the Anunnaki

were responsible for bringing
a devastating cataclysm

- upon the Earth...
- (thunder crashing)

eerily similar to the story
that would later appear

in the Hebrew Bible
as the Great Flood.

This was only just
discovered in 2009,

when Dr. Irving Finkel,

one of the world's foremost
experts on cuneiform writing,

translated a 3,700-year-old
Sumerian tablet.

FINKEL: In the
Bible, God decided,

because the human race
was so sinful and wicked,

to destroy everything,
and at the last minute,

relented enough to inform Noah

that he has to build
a boat really fast,

and put all the animals
in it and shut the doors,

then, afterwards,
life could continue

when the waters went down.

Everybody in the world is
interested in Noah's flood

and where it might've come from,

so when this tablet came
across the desk to me,

and I realized,

clearly, how important it was,

it was one of those
heart-stopping moments.

When I picked it
up for the first time

to look at it properly,
and started to read it,

one of the first things you read

is when a human being finds
out from the gods up in heaven

that there's going to
be a dreadful flood,

and the world and all its
life is going to be destroyed,

and a boat has to be built.

So, I thought to myself,
"This is very exciting."

The tablet is at least
a thousand years older

than the story in the Bible.

So, of course, this
means that the question

of where the story came from

has a whole
different explanation.

NARRATOR: Could the translation
of this ancient cuneiform tablet

be evidence that
a great flood did,

in fact, occur in
the distant past?

While nearly identical
stories of a great deluge

can be found in
the ancient texts

of many religions and cultures,

mainstream
archaeologists had argued

that there was no
evidence of any civilization

existing more than
6,000 years ago

to support the idea
that such a cataclysm

actually took place.

But in the early
1990s, Klaus Schmidt

of the German
Archaeological Institute

began excavations
at the ancient site

of G�bekli Tepe in
southeast Turkey,

and what he unearthed

changed everything.

PAUL BAHN: Once Klaus Schmidt

started excavating G�bekli
Tepe, it just blew everybody away

because we'd never before
known or imagined, even,

that people 12,000 years ago

could produce such spectacular
monumental structures

as he found at G�bekli Tepe.

TSOUKALOS: It is the first
archaeological site in the world

that proves its age,
dating as far back

as 12,000 years,
around 10,000 BC.

The discovery and
the official acceptance

of G�bekli Tepe's dating

has changed the
history of archaeology.

ROBERT SCHOCH: This is
indications of a major civilization

at that remote time,

a time when the standard
historians all along have said,

"Well, no, civilization
didn't occur at that time.

"They were just simple
hunter and gatherers.

They were primitive people."

But we now have
evidence to the contrary.

BAHN: It really did
send shockwaves

through the whole
world of early prehistory,

because we have never
ever seen anything like this

from anywhere in the world
at that time, 12,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: G�bekli
Tepe's nearly two dozen

enormous T-shaped pillars,

some weighing more than 20 tons,

feature numerous carvings
that include depictions of animals,

human hands,

and intricately
designed symbols.

Archaeologists estimate
that it would have taken

a team of 50 men an entire week

to move just one of
the monolithic pillars

from the limestone quarry,

to the top of the hill
where they stand today,

and over 300 hours
to carve the bas-reliefs.

ROY FISHER: The
structures seem to reflect

coordinated effort among
significant numbers of people,

which is not how
we typically imagine

hunter-gatherer societies,

which are usually
smaller in size.

NARRATOR: For years,
mainstream scholars maintained

that G�bekli Tepe was
a completely unique site,

and while highly impressive,

it was not large
enough to constitute

what would be
considered a civilization.

But then, in 2004,

author Andrew Collins
was shown photographs

of a location that
looked remarkably similar

to parts of G�bekli Tepe.

COLLINS: I was
visiting G�bekli Tepe,

and some children came up
to me and showed me a picture

of this T-shaped standing stone

with this snake along the side.

And I thought, I've
never seen this before.

Where is this?

And it became clear

that it was some
unexcavated site

in the Tektek Mountains,
which is about 25 miles

away from G�bekli Tepe.

And so I set out to find it,

and eventually,

I came to this
bare limestone hill.

And as I walked up
towards it, I could then see,

sticking out of the ground,

these heads of these
T-shaped pillars,

again, exactly as you
see at G�bekli Tepe.

And I realized

that somewhere beneath this soil

was something as grand and
spectacular as G�bekli Tepe.

NARRATOR: For 15 years,
only a small group of researchers

were aware of the pillars
protruding from the earth

at the site known
as Karahan Tepe.

When it was finally excavated,

archaeologists were
shocked once again.

In 2019, digging begins...

and beneath the surface layers,

the archaeologists
start uncovering

dozens of these
T-shaped pillars.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
We have about 200

of these T-shaped megaliths.

They're typically 13 feet high,

weigh about 11 tons.

You have other phallic stones,

you have, uh, certain
depictions of animals,

and some human faces as well.

So, we have really, uh,
a pretty extensive site.

NARRATOR: The discovery
of the vast megalithic complex

made headlines around the world,

as it was estimated by experts

to have been inhabited
somewhere between 11,000

and 12,000 years ago,

just like G�bekli Tepe.

TSOUKALOS: Both Karahan
Tepe and G�bekli Tepe

are striking in beauty,

striking in how
massive and incredible

those megaliths are.

And, in my opinion,
they are related.

So, it's also possible

that at some point
a long time ago,

that entire region
was one gigantic city.

NARRATOR: Could these
sites confirm the written accounts

found both in the Bible
and on Sumerian tablets

of a sophisticated civilization

that existed on Earth
in the remote past?

One in which humans
lived alongside

powerful visitors from the sky,

but ultimately fell victim to
a devastating cataclysm?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

and claim there is evidence that
these vast megalithic complexes

were built with the help

of otherworldly visitors.

NARRATOR: Nevsehir
Province, central Turkey.

Here, 300 miles northwest

of the 12,000-year-old
megalithic sites

of G�bekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe,

there is an ancient
subterranean city called Derinkuyu

that archaeologists believe

once housed more
than 20,000 people.

First discovered in 1963,

the maze of carved
tunnels and rooms

lies 200 feet below ground.

Who built it and
when remain unknown.

Derinkuyu is a multileveled city

that has existed
since time immemorial.

It was certainly used
during Christian times,

but there's also evidence

that there's
prehistoric activity

going on at these places

as early as 11,000, perhaps
even 12,000 years ago,

right after the end
of the last Ice Age.

NARRATOR: Much
like G�bekli Tepe,

Derinkuyu was thought
to be an anomaly.

But in 2014,

just six miles to the north,

a local construction crew

excavating for an
urban renovation project

stumbled across a strange
series of carved rooms

and tunnels deep underground.

Upon further exploration,

they found a
subterranean network

known as Kaymakli,
which spans several miles

and extends
hundreds of feet below

the surface of the Earth,

much like the nearby
underground city

of Derinkuyu.

I was many times in
the underground cities

in Turkey,

and this is a
fantastic experience.

They are linked together.

Between Derinkuyu and Kaymakli,

there are seven kilometers
long underground tunnels

connecting the two cities.

NARRATOR: Evidence
that these cities

once housed thousands of people,

has been further supported
by the discovery of air vents

and water wells that
would have made it possible

for people to live
underground for years at a time.

COLLINS: These
are huge, vast cities

that have been cut out
of the living rock themself.

Who exactly built them?

The fact that G�bekli Tepe

was built right at the end

of the last Ice Age

tells us that there
is a possibility

that there is connection

between these underground cities

and the building of
G�bekli Tepe and Karahan.

It could have been
the same people.

NARRATOR: Is there a connection
between Turkey's mysterious

underground dwellings and
the extremely ancient sites

of G�bekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe?

Could both have been built
by a preflood civilization?

But if so, who would
have had the ability

to manufacture such
sophisticated structures?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer may lie

within sacred texts
that describe interactions

between early humans
and otherworldly beings.

Uruk, southern Iraq.

In the early 19th century,

archaeologists
excavating this ancient city

unearthed clay tablets covered
in a form of symbolic writing

known as cuneiform.

It remains the world's
first known writing system.

When the tablets were
deciphered in the 1820s,

they revealed a record
of Sumerian daily life,

names of important
figures and rulers,

and accounts of sky
gods called the Anunnaki.

These clay tablets are
5,000 years old and more,

and they tell of the arrival of

the Anunnaki, the
pantheon of gods.

The chief was Anu.

This is the sky god who came
along and created everything.

So, the origin
of the civilization

on the planet came from the sky.

The high god of the Anunnaki,

Anu, presided over

the divine council.

There were a multitude of
beings that came to this council.

They deliberated with Anu,

they made decisions
for humanity,

they intervened
in human affairs.

Karahan Tepe and G�bekli Tepe

are in an area that is
well-known for its mythology.

Which suggests that the Anunnaki

were responsible
for giving humanity

the rudiments of civilization.

It was said that they gave
humanity animal husbandry,

but also agriculture
for the first time,

both of which we know

occurred in the
area of G�bekli Tepe

and Karahan Tepe.

At G�bekli Tepe,
there's a carving

of these three handbags

that appear above
this bird-like creature.

And what's
fascinating about this

is that you can find
carvings of similar handbags

about 400 miles to the south

where the ancient
Sumerians lived.

And there, the handbags are held

by these winged figures
with bird-like heads

called Anunnaki,

and the bags are said to hold

all the knowledge
of the universe.

Professor Klaus Schmidt,

the rediscoverer of
G�bekli Tepe in 1994,

actually wrote that he believed

that the founders
of G�bekli Tepe

were the Anunnaki.

NARRATOR: Similarly, the
Bible also tells of early humans

having help from beings
who came down from the sky

called the watchers.

The watchers are
the fallen angels

who came to Earth and
intermingled with humans.

We are told that they
are here to observe,

and they're not
going to interfere

in human development,
although some of them did.

They're also seeding
humanity with knowledge

that will help us to progress.

COLLINS: Both the watchers

and the Anunnaki, who
almost certainly were the same,

have been associated
with this culture

at G�bekli Tepe and Karahan.

And is it possible, therefore,

that they are behind the
creation of these sites?

And if we consider
the possibility

that there was a huge cataclysm,

the chances are, the
underground cites of Cappadocia,

they would have been
used as places of refuge.

NARRATOR: As mainstream
scholars struggle to explain

how people living
12,000 years ago

were able to carve out

millions of square feet
of rock from the earth,

and build sprawling
megalithic sites,

could the answer be
found in the ancient writings

that describe our
earliest ancestors

receiving assistance
from extraterrestrials?

Perhaps further
clues can be found

by more closely examining
the T-shaped pillars

at the ancient sites,

and the curious features

carved into them.

Karahan Tepe is really
something quite spectacular.

Absolutely.

NARRATOR: Authors Andrew Collins

and Hugh Newman
have spent decades

investigating ancient
sites around the world,

and have made multiple
trips to Karahan Tepe

in southeast Turkey.

NEWMAN: In the
last couple of years,

they've uncovered it,
only a small amount,

but enough to provide
some remarkable insights

into what was going on
here in southeast Turkey.

Absolutely. I mean, it's like

this is pieces of a jigsaw

that's just waiting
to be put together.

NARRATOR: In September 2022,

Andrew and Hugh
traveled to the site together

in search of further clues

as to just who built it and why.

Upon their arrival
at Karahan Tepe,

Andrew and Hugh were joined

by local researcher
Taha Ozyavuz.

COLLINS: Taha.

Nice to meet you.

This is Hugh.

Thank you, and good to meet you.

I'm absolutely
astounded by this site,

how vast it is, how,
like, immaculate it is,

and how it is just

literally one of the most

astonishing places
I've ever visited.

Well, this is just, you
know, just enormous,

everything that's here.

We can see T-pillars
going in every direction.

And just think

what is below
our feet right now.

And if you do compare
it to G�bekli Tepe,

it is... it's got the T-pillars,

it's got the enclosures,

it's got the remarkable
3D relief carving,

the statues, the serpents
and everything else.

There are incredible, uh,

images of different
animals and creatures

of the natural world.

What do they mean?

NARRATOR: Most mainstream
scholars identify the sites

of G�bekli Tepe and Karahan
Tepe as temples of worship.

Others have suggested
that the round enclosures

may have been used
as corrals for animals,

and that the T-shaped
pillars once supported roofs.

However, Klaus Schmidt,

the archaeologist
behind the excavation

of G�bekli Tepe in the 1990s,

was certain that
the T-shaped pillars

represent human forms,

but with some curious features.

I think what we see

when we look at
these T-shaped pillars

is abstract human
beings basically.

The heads are the actual
T-shaped terminations.

The stems of the
stones are the bodies.

Sometimes we see
belts around them.

But what's so weird about these

is that the arms here

almost seem like an
abstract animal as well.

Perhaps a bird, perhaps a snake.

NEWMAN: That is intriguing.

And this is a tradition
we find linked with giants

all around the world.

Even in the Bible we
have the giant of Gath

that had extra fingers.

We have stories of Goliath

and his family
having extra fingers.

We have stories of
great Irish giant gods

having extra digits as well.

And the fact that the watchers,

the Nephilim, and the Anunnaki

would seem to be associated

with the mythology
of this region

suggests to us
that they could be

one of the builders
of Karahan Tepe.

NARRATOR: According to
the Bible's Book of Genesis,

prior to the Great Flood,

angels known as the
watchers defied God's will,

and came down to Earth
to live among humans.

These otherworldly beings
mated with their human subjects,

producing a race of
hybrid human giants

that were known
as the "Nephilim."

One of the most
tantalizing small tidbits

in the Hebrew Bible,

is found in the opening
verses of Genesis, chapter 6,

where we hear the
story of the Nephilim,

who are described as, basically,

being the hybrid
offspring of humans

and divine beings

who are called
the "sons of God."

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
Who were these sons of God?

Legend expands and tells us

that they were
rebellious angels.

But yet, we must
understand angels

to not be spiritual beings,

but very tangibly physical.

Or else how could
they take human wives

and bear children?

Now, the children of these
sons of God and human women

became known as the
hybrids called the fallen ones.

In Hebrew, the Nephilim.

They existed in the
days before Noah.

MICHAEL CARTER: Aside
from the Bible, religious texts

that talk about these
demigods, these hybrids,

are the Hindu Upanishads,

and if we look at

Sumer, again,

gods coming down from the Earth,

fraternizing with the
natives, which are us,

and creating a
new race of people:

Half-human and
half-extraterrestrial gods.

Yes, we can speculate

were those who
were to become known

as the sons of God

originally inhabitants
of a place like Karahan?

NARRATOR: Does the eight-fingered
figure found at Karahan Tepe

provide evidence to
support the biblical accounts

of giants existing on Earth
before the Great Flood?

And if so, might they
have been involved

in the creation of
Turkey's mysterious sites,

both above ground and below?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and claim that
these hybrid beings

not only built megalithic
sites in Turkey,

but all over the world.

NARRATOR: At the
famous site of Stonehenge

in Wiltshire, England,

are concentric circles
of massive boulders,

each nearly 13 feet tall,

and weighing up to 25 tons.

On the island of Malta
in the Mediterranean Sea,

the Ggantija Temples
contain megalithic blocks

weighing as much as 50 tons.

And on the remote South
Pacific Island of Rapa Nui,

better known as Easter Island,

there are nearly 900
ancient stone statues

that stand as tall
as 30 feet high,

and weigh up to 90 tons.

These ancient megalithic sites

are thousands of
miles from each other.

However, the local traditions
of the indigenous cultures

at each location claim
that they were constructed

by giants.

It's fascinating that
around the world,

wherever you have
megalithic ancient sites,

there are local legends

that the giants
built these places.

For example, in
Puma Punku, they say

it was built
overnight by giants.

They say Stonehenge may
have been built by giants.

In Malta, they are suggesting

that all this megalithic walls

and structures
were built by giants.

JIM VIEIRA: To me what's
astonishing is that you have

ancient sites associated with

giants building them
all around the planet,

but you also have
historical documents

that talk about the unearthing
of giant bones at these sites.

Like at Baalbek, Lebanon,

in Stonehenge, in Sardinia.

You have these
historical documents

that talk about giant
bones that were unearthed.

We have an account

from the American
geographic society in the 1860s

where giant bones were
unearthed and documented.

NARRATOR: Until recently, the
megalithic sites in southern Turkey

were hidden beneath the
earth, and completely unknown,

even to the local populations,

so no record or
ancient legends exist

to explain how they
were constructed.

But might certain details,

like the eight-fingered figures

and the large stone head
found at Karahan Tepe,

connect these sites
with giants as well?

Could they have been
built before the biblical event

known as the Great Flood,

and with the help
of the Nephilim,

the hybrid beings described
in the Hebrew Bible?

NEWMAN: As we
go round the world,

there's talk about
a race of giants

involved in the construction
of these megalithic sites.

Well, so what can
we say about this?

Were these the descendants

of the builders of Karahan
Tepe and G�bekli Tepe?

And did their giant genes get
passed down from this early era

to these other megalithic
areas around the world?

NARRATOR: Curiously,

many of the megalithic
sites around the world

have features
that perfectly align

with specific constellations,

star systems, or
celestial events.

Stonehenge in England
was built to align

with the sunrise on
the summer solstice,

as was the Temple of
Mnajdra on the island of Malta.

Pyramids in both
Egypt and Mesoamerica

were positioned to line up
with the belt stars of Orion.

And celestial alignments have
also been found at Karahan Tepe,

with a stone face
that is positioned

to align with the sun at
certain times of the year.

COLLINS: One of the enclosure's
structure at Karahan Tepe

points directly towards the sun

as it sets at the time
of the summer solstice.

Another alignment is at

the mid-winter solstice
at Karahan Tepe.

The sun, just after
sunrise on this date,

would've illuminated this head

so that anybody
actually inside this shrine

would've seen the head light up.

CHILDRESS: These are people
who are now watching the stars,

they're looking
at constellations,

they're seeing the
movements, they're studying it.

In a way, they become
the first astronomers.

And that would be, perhaps,
what Karahan Tepe was,

in a sense, an
astronomical observatory.

But at the same time,

perhaps they're
interested in certain stars

because these are the stars
where the Anunnaki came from.

NARRATOR: Could it
be that Karahan Tepe,

and other megalithic
sites around the world,

were intentionally
aligned to the stars

to indicate that
their architects

came from somewhere
far beyond Earth?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

one of the most curious
mysteries regarding G�bekli Tepe

and Karahan Tepe:

The fact that both ancient sites

were deliberately buried.

NARRATOR: In the
Bible's Book of Genesis,

chapter 6, verse 9,

begins with the story
of Noah and the flood...

(thunder crashing)

in which God
unleashes a great deluge

to rid the Earth of evil.

In Genesis, only Noah

is warned of the
coming cataclysm

so that he may build the ark,

and restart life on
Earth after the flood.

However, a very different story

is told in the Book of Enoch,

a controversial text that
can be found in the Bible

used by the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church,

but was omitted in all
other Christian traditions.

In this version of the story,
Noah's great-grandfather Enoch

learns of the coming cataclysm

long before Noah is even born.

The Book of Enoch is sensational

because he speaks
of the first person.

He says, it was evening,

then he hear the
noise in the firmament.

(thunder crashing)

And two beings crossed him.

And he said, "They had
not the breathe of humans."

So, if somebody does not
breathe like humans, what are they?

Nonhumans.

Enoch describes, "They
brought me over the Earth.

I saw the round
face of the Earth."

Enoch was teached
by the extraterrestrials.

When he came back down to Earth,

he told to the humans,

a gigantic flood would come

and destroy everything.

NARRATOR: One of the oldest
religious traditions in the Middle East,

Zoroastrianism, also teaches

that it was not just one person

who knew of a coming cataclysm.

In the Vendidad, which predates

all the books of
the Hebrew Bible,

a young priest named Yima

is warned of a disaster
by the god Ahura Mazda,

who is often depicted
seated inside a winged disk.

Yima is instructed to share
this information with his people,

and even to build an
underground shelter

that sounds very similar to
the ancient man-made caves

that have been found in Turkey.

Ahura Mazda instructs
Yima to build a vara.

This is a huge structure,

two miles long, two miles wide.

An underground hall, of sorts,

where things can be protected
from the terrible winter.

Yima was to hide a
remnant of the people,

and an extensive seed bank,

also a pair of each
of the animal species.

Once Yima is finished
building the vara,

he takes 2,000 people in,

a representation of mankind.

CHILDRESS: So
again, we have a warning

to tell the people, "Get ready,

this terrible cataclysm
is gonna happen."

And these underground cities,

like Derinkuyu, are huge.

They are vast.

They go many, many
stories underground.

There's all kinds of
streets and rooms.

So, you have to wonder

if these underground
cities served as a refuge

for survivors of this cataclysm.

NARRATOR: If a great
civilization of humans and giants

existed on Earth long ago,

is it possible that they
received advanced warning

of a worldwide cataclysm
by an extraterrestrial race?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

the evidence of such a warning

lies in the fact that
both G�bekli Tepe

and Karahan Tepe
were not overcome

by the sands of time,

but were intentionally buried.

Archaeologists are
now pretty well certain

that G�bekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe

were intentionally buried.

Why do you do that?

Perhaps they knew of
an impending cataclysm.

The flood of the Old Testament,
we're told, was premeditated.

People had foreknowledge
that it was coming,

and they were preparing for it,

and they were trying to preserve
elements of their civilization.

It was intended for us
to ultimately discover it

later in the future.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the builders of Karahan Tepe

buried the entire site because
they had been forewarned

of a coming cataclysm,

and wanted to preserve
some record of a civilization

that was on the
verge of extinction?

A civilization
that was, perhaps,

far different from our own?

There are legends
from around the world

that speak about a
great, highly advanced,

wonderful civilization
that predated our own.

We're familiar with this
by names like Atlantis

or Lemuria and the like.

There are many legends
which speak about

the existence of giants.

We know about
them from the Bible.

Very famous story
of David and Goliath.

It is also said
that, in these days,

many of what we
today call "angels"

walked among
human beings openly.

Now today, we call these
entities extraterrestrials.

When we see imagery
from around the world,

and when we read
about these things

in the ancient traditions,
we need to ask the question,

is there some literal
fact behind this?

And when we look at these
excavations today in Turkey,

can we speculate

that these were the
remnants of that civilization?

VIEIRA: These sites that we're
talking about, these super ancient,

super complex sites, they
are telling us something.

They're telling us about
mythology being true.

They're telling us
there's a larger story

to the-the history of humanity.

NARRATOR: Now that
G�bekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe

have been exhumed from the Earth

after being hidden for
more than 11,000 years,

might we learn that
the history of humankind

is much different than
we ever imagined?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and propose that new
excavations in southern Turkey

suggest that these sites
have only begun to reveal

their ancient secrets.

NARRATOR: Sanliurfa Province.

June 27, 2021.

Turkish Culture and Tourism
Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy

appears before the
international press corps

to make an historic announcement

regarding the ongoing
excavations in southern Turkey.

The minister of tourism
for Turkey announced

that we now have 12 sites,

many of which remained
to be excavated.

And all of this forms
part of what they call

the Tas Tepeler culture.

SCHOCH: The Turkish authorities

have been making a
series of announcements

of new incredibly ancient sites.

Incredible number of sites,

we have at least a dozen
sites now that are known.

And what this is
really reconfirming

is that this was a major area

of early civilization.

NARRATOR: Since
it was initiated in 2019

by Istanbul University,

the G�bekli culture and
Karahan excavations project

has determined that
these ancient settlements

cover a region that
spans an astonishing

125 miles from
one end to the other.

This suggests that
approximately 12,000 years ago,

the area was an extensive

and highly advanced metropolis.

HENRY: This site is
absolutely massive.

What we are working
with right now represents,

perhaps, 1% of the entire site.

And they're forecasting it's
literally gonna take centuries

to uncover everything that is

at Karahan Tepe
and G�bekli Tepe.

We're talking about a
complex that is so vast,

that it's almost beyond
our comprehension.

TSOUKALOS: I love
this idea of a megalopolis,

a mega, ancient city,

where some archaeologists say,

"Oh, that could have
never happened."

Well, maybe it did.

And G�bekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe

and the other sites that
have been found there

was a worldwide city

of millions of people.

NEWMAN: These excavations
in the whole Tas Tepeler region,

are gonna rewrite history.

They're already doing so.

They're like the smoking gun

of an advanced
lost civilization,

a supercivilization, I believe,

where there was highly
advanced cultures working together.

And you have to, you
know, really question

if the further they look,
they're gonna find evidence

of these legendary Anunnaki,

these extraterrestrial beings.

Our ultimate questions
have always revolved around

who are we, where
did we come from,

why are we here,

where are we going from
here, and how do we get there?

These questions are
now being answered for us.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that what archeologists

are uncovering
in southern Turkey

is the true record
of the beginning

of mankind's
development on Earth?

Do the ancient reliefs
carved into limestone

depict advanced beings

that traveled to our planet
to create hybrid humans,

and set in motion the
dawn of modern civilization?

Perhaps as excavations continue,

we will unearth, not only
startling new evidence

about the past,

but undeniable proof

of our otherworldly origins.

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