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Mysterious golden orbs believed to be part of an ancient power plant. A sacred wooden

box said to facilitate communication with the heavens, and an elaborately carved

ancient tomb that appears to depict an astronaut. For more than a decade Ancient

Aliens has examined evidence of what could could be the

remnants of an advanced and perhaps otherworldly civilization.

Now, we're going to explore ten of the most compelling

examples of unexplained technologies ever discovered.

Technologies that just may hold the proof that

Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.

History and mythology are filled with incredible stories of human encounters

with otherworldly beings, flying ships and powerful weapons that defy explanation.

For ancient astronaut theorists like me, these are descriptions of misunderstood

technology that might be extraterrestrial in origin.

And some of the most compelling evidence that our ancestors witnessed Alien

technology can be found in ancient artwork like a mysterious carving in Egypt created

thousands of years ago that appears strikingly

similar to an electrical device from the modern world.

At number ten on our countdown of the top ten

unexplained technologies, The Dendera Light Bulb.

Dendera, Egypt, 370 miles south of the Giza Plateau, stands the Hathor Temple.

This 2,000-year-old monument is remarkably well-preserved

and covered with elaborate artwork inside and out.

Among the hundreds of carvings, a curious object can be found that,

according to Egyptologists, is a representation of a lotus flower.

We have depictions of this so-called lotus flower of Dendera.

And there are not just a few inside the crypt, but

they're in fact also on the outside wall on top.

So what are we looking at here?

Egyptology suggests that this bulb-like thing is the

depiction of the beautiful aroma of a lotus flower.

What's often not discussed is the surrounding hieroglyphics that say that

this has something to do with a bringer of light.

When physicists and electrical engineers and people look at this, they can readily

see that there appears to be what is a filament inside

this tube that could be interpreted as a glass tube.

It appears to be a blueprint for what we would say is an incandescent light bulb.

It's got a filament inside it that looks like a snake.

There's a cable coming out of the back.

It's then attached to a small box.

So here we have what appears to be a depiction of an electrical device.

This means that the ancient Egyptians, they knew about electricity.

They were actually lighting many of their temples and tubes with electrical lights.

How did the ancient Egyptians light the insides of their structures?

Because some structures are deep underground and filled with hieroglyphics.

The ancient astronaut theory suggests that perhaps the ancient Egyptians had access

to electricity and these lighting materials were

given to the Egyptians by the extraterrestrials.

The idea that ancient Egyptians had light bulbs almost 2,000 years before Thomas

Edison introduced them in modern times is truly amazing.

And in the 1930s an archaeologist in Iraq discovered incredible artifacts that may

reveal just where they got the power to illuminate the ancient world.

Number 9 on our countdown of the top 10

unexplained technologies, the Baghdad Battery.

Baghdad, Iraq, 1938 While combing through the collection at the Baghdad

Archaeological Museum, a German archaeologist discovers several terracotta

pots and copper cylinders dating to around the 1st century BC.

Remarkably, the pots appear to have been used for generating electricity more than

1,800 years before the invention of modern batteries.

The Baghdad Battery is a very interesting piece of ancient technology.

They're made up of very simple materials from that region, usually a clay pot,

copper and an iron rod surrounded by an asphalt stopper.

In 2009, Ancient Astronaut Theorist Jason Martell showed

Giorgio Tsoukalos just how the so-called Baghdad Batteries work.

This is made out of a clay pot.

Clay just found naturally in that region in southern Iraq.

And then they would use a small copper lining and

an asphalt stopper wrapped around an iron rod.

What we're going to do is basically just fill the clay

pot with some weak acidic acid, orange juice in this case.

We'll go ahead and put the copper rod back in there.

Okay.

And these all applied together, creates electricity.

You can consistently get about 4 volts with something about that large.

So if we think of a Baghdad Battery around this size generating

4 volts, what if we increase the size to around 6 feet?

That might generate 20, 30, 50 volts and have the sufficient

power to actually utilize energy in a way that we do today.

So it's very possible that the Baghdad Battery was being

utilized in conjunction with other technological devices.

When we look at this through the ancient astronaut lens, we see that throughout

history man has been given technology by the Gods.

We have to wonder if Baghdad Batteries aren't pieces of

technology that were given to man by the extraterrestrials.

Next on our list is a weapon used by the Roman Empire that was so powerful it

struck terror throughout the ancient world.

But what's even more intriguing is that this blazing

device has baffled scientists for over 1600 years.

Number 8 on our countdown, Greek Fire.

Constantinople, 674 A.D.

The magnificent capital of the Roman Empire is

under attack by a fleet of 5,000 Arab ships.

To defend his city, Emperor Constantine IV unleashes a powerful and mysterious new

weapon that destroys the Arab Navy in minutes.

It was the most devastating weapon of the time and was called Greek Fire.

Greek Fire was a liquid that could be pumped through hoses.

It was like the early flamethrowers of the time.

And when it was ignited, as it came out of these hoses, it would then be directed

onto ships or sometimes onto docks and things like that.

And it would start a tremendous fire and water could not put it out.

It was said to burn so violently and so hot that even

in the greatest of rainstorms, fire would not go out.

And when projected out to sea, when it sunk into the

water, it would still burn on the bottom of the ocean.

It gave them enormous technological advantage in naval and land battles.

Some of the chronicles would say that water would in fact enhance its ability.

Perhaps even more astounding than the incredible power of Greek Fire is the fact

that scientists have not been able to reproduce it even after 1,600 years.

The recipe for this Greek Fire had been very closely guarded as a secret and it

still represents one of the greatest enigmas in ancient history.

What was this mysterious technology?

And more importantly, where did it come from?

One story goes that Greek Fire was given to the Romans by an angel.

Just changed the word angel to extraterrestrial

and all of a sudden the whole story makes sense.

You have to ask, why would an angel offer such

a powerful weapon and advantage to the Romans?

Is this an example of extraterrestrial interference in human affairs?

For ancient astronaut theorists like me, some of the most intriguing accounts of

unexplained technology can be found in the pages of the Old Testament.

Like the next item on our list, which we all know

as the vessel used to hold the Ten Commandments.

But it is also written that this mysterious wooden box could part rivers,

destroy armies and even communicate with otherworldly beings.

At number seven on our countdown of the top ten unexplained technologies,

The Ark of the Covenant.

Mount Sinai, Egypt.

According to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible, it was here that the prophet

Moses was instructed by God to build one of the most

important artifacts in Judeo-Christian tradition.

The Ark of the Covenant.

Moses was given very specific measurements.

It was to be four feet long and about two feet wide and two feet deep.

The container must be made of acacia wood, that it must be covered with gold.

The top of the Ark was to be surmounted by two cherubim that would face each other.

God commands Moses to build this chest, which

the original Ten Commandments was to be placed.

And the presence of God would then be seen.

Sounds very simple, but yet there were properties to the Ark that made it far

more than just a symbolic representation of something religious.

Biblical accounts of the Ark portray it as possessing mysterious powers that aided

the Israelites during their journey to the Promised Land, helping to part rivers,

level mountains and destroy armies.

The most important thing about trying to understand how the Ark of the Covenant

functioned is the fact that specific instructions were

given by God to Moses about how it was to be manufactured.

The exact size, how it was to be raised off the ground, how it was to be carried.

And this tells us, almost certainly, that we are dealing with technology.

Is it possible that the baffling powers ascribed to the Ark provide evidence that

it held highly advanced and perhaps extraterrestrial technology?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest clues can be found in rabbinical

texts that describe what the Ark contained.

It is said that the Ark housed the actual Hebrew word is kavod, or glory, of God.

Now, this in-quote glory of God was not something symbolic, it was something

actual, something tangible, something energetic.

We know from the Biblical story that when the two sons of the high priest Aaron came

forth to make an offering, fire entered into the nostrils and burned them from the

inside, leaving their external forms intact.

We might refer to that as an electrocution.

According to religious texts, the Ark of the Covenant was

placed inside Solomon's temple, and then it simply vanished.

But the extraordinary and unexplained powers of the Ark continue to interest

researchers and ancient astronaut theorists to this very day.

What are we missing here in the Biblical understanding of this mysterious box?

It was clearly far more than just a religious icon.

There was a technology involved here, and that is what makes the Ark this day

one of the greatest mysteries of our history.

Another ancient description of the Ark of the Covenant

can be found in a sacred Hebrew text called the Zohar.

And according to one translation, the Ark contained another mysterious

device that supplied the Israelites with limitless supplies of food.

Number six in our countdown, The Manna Machine.

According to the Hebrew Bible's Book of Exodus, after Moses helped the Israelites

escape across the Red Sea, he led them into the

Sinai Desert, where they lived for 40 years.

It is said that they survived by eating a mysterious food called manna.

Manna is this magical substance that's sort of

white, like cardamom with a taste like honey.

You know, the Bible tells us this is what feeds people.

Moses commands the people to take some, put it in a jar, keep

it so that you can always tell the story of how God fed you.

And that's one of the things that's put in the Ark of the Covenant.

That's how special this is.

While the story of the Israelites receiving manna from heaven

is traditionally understood as divine intervention. Some researchers have suggested

that it could also be interpreted as an event

involving some kind of advanced technology.

In 1978, linguistic expert George Sassoon and electrical

engineer Rodney Dale publish The Manna Machine.

In it, they point to an ancient rabbinical text called the

Zohar that describes manna coming from a curious device.

George Sassoon and Rodney Dale, by reading the

Zohar, determined that the translation was wrong.

It was supposed to be the transportable one of the tanks.

What does that mean?

So they actually came to the conclusion that what is described was a type of a

machine that they proposed was driven with nuclear power.

And that that produced the so-called manna to the Hebrews wandering out in the desert.

Is it possible that the Ark of the Covenant contained a nuclear-powered device?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and point to clues in the Bible.

In the Bible, we have multiple stories of people not only dying when they came in

contact with the Ark, but some only died a week or two later.

And how did they die?

Because they had boils on their skin and their hair started to fall out.

Well, that is a sign of radioactive poisoning.

And the only way that such a result could have been gotten is if the Ark is an

extraterrestrial device that is radioactive.

We're coming up on the halfway point in our

countdown of the top ten unexplained technologies.

And the next item on our list can be found across the globe in the form of mysterious

stone statues and strange figures painted on canyon walls.

In my opinion, these images aren't just products of our ancestors' imagination,

but instead are depictions of space travelers.

Number five on our countdown, Ancient Astronauts.

La Venta, Mexico, 1939.

American archaeologists Matthew Sterling and Philip

Drucker begin an excavation of an ancient pyramid mound.

Over the next two decades, the unearthed extraordinary statues, carvings and

mosaics from a previously unknown culture

The Olmecs, a civilization that emerged around 1400 BC.

The discovery is a major archaeological find and produced a

sensational piece of evidence for the ancient astronaut theory.

At the Museum of Natural History in New York City, there is a Olmec figurine.

And if you look at this figurine, you can tell

that this guy is wearing some sort of a suit.

He has some type of controls with tubes on his chest.

On the side, you have six wings coming out of him.

So you have to wonder what is depicted here.

And in my opinion, it is a smoking gun of our

ancestors having access to aviation technology.

Could it be that a figurine made more than 2400 years ago

depicts a person wearing some sort of advanced flying technology?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest even more

compelling imagery can be found 1700 miles to the north in Utah.

Here, along the walls of Nine Mile Canyon, dozens of ancient

cave paintings depict figures wearing very curious attire.

One of the most important galleries is referred to as the Family Panel.

What's interesting about this one is that it shows these apparently luminous

humanoid type beings that appear to have spacesuits on, a helmet, even antenna.

The Navajos themselves claim that these petroglyphs were from people who were

before the flood, before this cataclysm had come to the Earth.

And they maintain that these images were many thousands of years old.

Could it be that these figures really depict beings in spacesuits?

Halfway across the world, in Northwestern Australia, are dozens of cave paintings

that depict other mysterious beings who appear

to be wearing spacesuits known as the Juanjina.

The Juanjinas are incredible because they have

these gigantic heads and these long bodies.

It seems as if they're inside some sort of a pressurized suit.

Now, the stories behind the Juanjinas goes that they descended from the sky and gave

knowledge and jump-started civilization in

Australia thousands and thousands of years ago.

Now, this is accepted history in Australia.

So my suggestion is that the extraterrestrials that came to Earth

thousands and thousands of years ago didn't just visit Australia.

They visited each and every continent on Earth,

and that is why we have the similar motifs.

When it comes to evidence of unexplained technology in the distant past,

sometimes the best examples are hiding in plain sight.

Like the next item on our countdown, which when you know how to look at it,

reveals what I consider to be an actual depiction of an ancient astronaut.

Coming in at number four, King Pakal's Tomb.

Southern Mexico, 1949.

Under a pyramid called the Temple of Inscriptions at the ruins of Palenque,

archeologist Alberto Ruz-Louis discovers a mysterious

underground stairway obstructed with large stones.

Over the next three years, Ruz and his team carefully clear the stairwell,

consisting of 71 steps.

When the door at the base of the stairwell is finally opened,

they encounter room after room of skeletons and artifacts.

And in the final room, they find the tomb of King Kenich, Janab, Pakal.

The tomb of Pakal is one of the most amazing

pieces of Maya art that we've ever found.

On the top of the lid is a very elaborate carving that we believe is a depiction of

Pakal falling into the underworld upon his death.

Although many historians and archeologists interpret the carving on Pakal's lid as

the king's descent into the underworld, ancient astronaut

theorists suggest it depicts a very different type of journey.

The sarcophagus of Lord Pakal forever will remain one

of the smoking guns of the ancient astronaut theory.

He is in a reclining position, he has a breathing apparatus attached to

his nose, his hands are manipulating some buttons, and his feet are on petals.

It looks as if Pakal is lifting off into space inside some type of a rocket vehicle.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the idea that King Pakal's

sarcophagus lid depicts a journey to space is supported

by Maya writing that surrounds the iconic carving.

Those Maya glyphs say that this is King Pakal's journey to Xibalba.

Xibalba means underworld.

Well, archeologists about 15 years ago revisited the term Xibalba and concluded

that actually Xibalba can also be translated as Milky Way.

And all of a sudden this depiction makes sense because what we have here is a

representation of King Pacal on his journey to the Milky Way.

Located in central Mexico are the ruins of a mysterious city

that is home to some of the most impressive pyramids ever built.

While the purpose of this complex is still unknown, archeologists have found evidence

of what appears to be the makings of an advanced technological device.

Number three on our countdown of the top ten unexplained technologies, Teotihuacan.

The Valley of Mexico, located just 35 miles northeast of Mexico City,

is one of the most unique ancient sites on Earth.

Called Teotihuacan, this vast Metropolis was

discovered by the Aztecs in the 15th century.

According to Aztec writings, this city was once home to powerful, otherworldly beings.

The name Teotihuacan basically means birthplace of the Gods.

And the Aztecs believed that the Gods themselves out

of Aztec mythology were born there at Teotihuacan.

The city of Teotihuacan covers an area of eight square

miles, which is roughly the same size as ancient Rome.

At its heart is a two-mile-long thoroughfare named the

Avenue of the Dead that connects three massive pyramids.

The Pyramid of the Moon sits at the very beginning of the Avenue of the Dead.

The Pyramid of the Sun sits about midway along the length of the Avenue of the Dead.

Those are their two big buildings.

Then they build The Temple of Quetzalcoatl.

The Temple of Quetzalcoatl is the most ornate building in all of Teotihuacan.

Its entire face is covered with mosaic stones with the face of Quetzalcoatl,

or the plumed serpent.

With his feathers coming off of his face and

his snake head coming out of the building.

Most mainstream historians believe this city was once a religious center.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest the city's

massive buildings once served a more profound purpose.

And as evidence, they point to an extraordinary

discovery made beneath the Temple of Quetzalcoatl.

In May 2013, researchers employed a small robot called

Talalok II TC to explore a chamber under the pyramid.

Inside, archaeologists found more than a hundred gold-colored metallic spheres.

These bolts are probably anything between an inch to about five inches in diameter.

Nobody knows the purpose of them, why they were made, or even who made them.

But the fact that they're there tells us they're

of utmost importance to what went on at the Temple.

Many archaeologists believe the gold spheres are

representations of celestial bodies observed in the night sky.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest they

could have served a more profound purpose.

And point to another discovery made almost a

mile away at the Pyramid of the Sun in 1906.

At Teotihuacan, huge mica seats have been found beneath

a layer of stone flooring that were 90 feet square.

And they were placed directly on top of each other, and yet you couldn't see them.

So they clearly weren't decorative or aesthetic.

They were clearly functional in their use.

So what were they doing there?

We use mica today in spacefaring technology.

It's a heat shield for high, very, very high temperatures.

What is it doing at Teotihuacan?

Curiously, mica wasn't the only unusual substance found within the ancient site.

They actually found Mercury under some of the pyramids as well.

So what does this all mean?

Well, Mercury is used in different electrical

components, and it conducts electricity.

So can we suggest that they were using this for some advanced technological purpose?

Mercury itself is very special.

It's a metal, it's a liquid, it's an electrical conductor.

Mercury can be used for many, many devices, all of which are high-tech.

So you have to wonder what is going on here at Teotihuacan.

Are these small balls and the mica and the Mercury all working together to create

some kind of electrical device that's doing something?

That would seem to be the case.

In 2017, Eric von D�niken and I were thrilled to visit the National History

Museum of Transylvania to examine one of the most exciting artifacts I've ever seen.

It is a 40,000-year-old aluminum relic that may provide

definitive evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.

Number two in our countdown of the top ten

unexplained technologies, the wedge of Aiud.

Transylvania, Romania, 1974.

Workers digging a trench along the banks of the Muresh River, unearthed two giant

bones, and with them, a mysterious metal object buried 35 feet beneath the surface.

Intrigued by what they found, the crew takes their discovery to a nearby museum.

The object was 10 meters in depth, associated with some

bones, which they later identified as mammoth bones.

Mammoth were extinct 40,000 years ago, so considering the association with the

mammoth bones, then the object could be older than 40,000 years ago.

This strange object, known today as the wedge of Aiud, continues to baffle

archaeologists because it is made from a mysterious alloy and appears to have been

created thousands of years before humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal.

The wedge of Aiud weighs about five pounds.

It's about nine inches long.

And it is made out of about 89% aluminum.

And this was very curious to researchers because

the wedge of Aiud had to be a very old artifact.

Humans didn't really start working with aluminum to well into the 1800s.

But when you look at this wedge and you analyze it, it really has most of the

modern properties we would associate with aluminum.

On January 18th, 2017, at the National History Museum of Transylvania,

Ancient Astronaut Theorists, Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich von D�niken,

were offered a rare opportunity to get a first-hand look at the wedge of Aiud.

Museum curator Anna Gruya has taken it out of a storage locker, where it has been

deliberately hidden from the public since the early 1970s.

Okay.

This is exciting.

So this is it?

Oh, okay.

Here this is where they took the sample out and here to make the analysis.

And here you see two pieces that are broken off, sort of.

So maybe it was attached or something, but very strange.

So what does the museum have to say about this?

This is a very strange piece.

It is a strange piece for us as well.

We don't know what it was used for and we acknowledge these

uncertainties about its dating and its composition as well.

We have a real mystery here.

But you see this patina over this whole object and this creates another problem.

Yes.

And because you cannot fake a patina.

The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds that forms on the surface

of the aluminum during exposure to atmospheric elements.

It was covered with aluminum oxide, which they said would

have taken three or four hundred years to have developed.

And that also baffled scientists.

So, for what can you use this?

It looks like a hammer or a shovel, but...

Chocho, what is the word of an English bakar shovel?

Oh, an excavator tooth.

Well, it looks like this.

It could have been something like it.

But these excavator tubes are never made out of aluminum.

No, it's too weak.

It's too soft.

A lot of people dismiss this as a tooth on an excavation bucket.

If you ever looked at these excavators, they usually have a row of teeth in the

front and that's designed to cut through the material.

I think, first of all, they would have noticed they were missing one.

Second of all, they don't use aluminum and they're usually made out of hardened steel.

If the wedge of IUD really is over 40,000 years old,

could it be part of an even more advanced technology?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is yes.

And they suggest it is a fragment of an extraterrestrial device.

An aeronautical engineer who saw the IUD wedge looked at it and said, that's a

piece of a landing gear for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Ancient astronaut theorists have also looked at this wedge and surmised that

it's possible that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.

Aluminum is often used in spacecraft because it's a very light material.

So could it be that the object of IUD was part of some type of spacecraft?

Perhaps.

It certainly looks as if it was part of a larger object.

And the question is, well, what object?

And at what time was this?

Perhaps there is an extraterrestrial connection.

There is only one unexplained technology left on our countdown.

And this one has truly stood the test of time.

We've reached the end of our countdown of the top 10 unexplained technologies.

And this last one is as extraordinary as it is massive.

It's a towering monument of ancient Egypt built thousands

of years ago that some believe was an energy generator.

Number one on our list, the Great Pyramid Power Plant.

Giza, Egypt.

On the western bank of the Nile River stands the most

extraordinary example of ancient engineering, the Great Pyramid.

It towers above the landscape at roughly 450 feet

tall and consists of over two million stone blocks.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is a marvel of architecture.

Every block was five tons and there is about two million of them to create a

perfect pyramid shape that is one of the seven ancient

wonders of the world, the most ancient one of them all.

And the only one standing.

Inside the Great Pyramid are a number of fascinating chambers and corridors,

like the Grand Gallery, this towering stairway

that goes up into the so-called King's Chamber.

Mainstream scholars theorize that the Great Pyramid was built as a tomb for the

Pharaoh Khufu who reigned from 2589 to 2566 B.C.

But many experts claim this dating is based on highly questionable data and

suggest the origins of the three pyramids at Giza are far more profound.

Archeologists and Egyptologists claim that they were tombs for the pharaohs,

and yet no Egyptian pharaoh was ever found in a pyramid in Egypt.

We have found the mummies of many Egyptian pharaohs, but they're found in vaults deep

underground at the Valley of the Kings in

Luxor, hundreds of miles away from the pyramids.

We're taught in school that the Great Pyramid is a tomb, but if you look at the

complexity of these buildings, the precision with which they were built,

the features that you see on the inside, these various shafts and passageways,

for me it looks like a machine.

The design of the tunnel system and chamber rooms within the Great Pyramid

have convinced engineering expert Chris Dunn that the massive

structure was actually an advanced technological device.

I propose that the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid to be a power plant.

The pyramids were actually geomechanical devices.

In other words, they were attached to the Earth, they were tuned to vibrate with the

frequencies of the Earth, and they converted the

energies of the Earth into electromagnetic energy.

That energy is broadcast from the pyramid, it's picked up by the transmitters,

which are the obelisks placed at key sites that are able to

be tuned to the specific frequencies coming from the pyramid.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the mysteries of the Great

Pyramid of Egypt require further study, and perhaps someday soon advances in

technology will shed new light on its true purpose.

Archaeology is rooted in interpretation, just like the ancient astronaut theory.

Something extraordinary happened right here in ancient Egypt, perhaps under the

tutelage of extraterrestrials, teachers from another star system.

Was the Great Pyramid of Egypt a massive power plant?

The answer may never be known, but one thing is clear.

From fire that can burn underwater, to a 40,000-year-old aluminum artifact,

and a biblical relic that could topple stone walls and feed the masses,

the ancient past is filled with evidence that

highly advanced civilizations were here on Earth.

And perhaps once we solve the riddle of these unexplained technologies,

we will finally unlock the secret of our extraterrestrial past.

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