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ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: A doorway to other dimensions--

DAVID WILCOCK: They were traveling through some sort

of energetic portal.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: --an unexplained

disappearance--

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The idea that all of a sudden

they would just disappear into thin air,

there's something going on there.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: --and a cave

said to be the gateway to Hell.

ANDREW COLLINS: Even today, any birds going near it

fall down dead.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Is it possible

that portals to other points in the universe

truly exist right here on Earth?

And might these so-called stargates

actually provide a connection to alien civilizations?

WILLIAM HENRY: It's possible that we were created

by these ancient gods who came here in stargates

and they intended for us to one day join them in the stars.

Perhaps today is that day.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Millions

of people around the world believe

we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might they have arrived here through stargates?

[music playing]

Pamukkale, Turkey.

Here, 200 miles south of Istanbul,

lay the ruins of Hierapolis, an ancient city that

served as a sacred site to the Phrygians

in the third century BC.

In March, 2013, Italian archaeologists

announced that they had unearthed something

the ancient Greeks described as a gateway to Hell.

The ancients in Greece and Roman civilizations

had a fascination with the underworld,

the realm of Hades and Pluto.

There were many stories of travelers

who were able to transit into these unseen realms.

To go to the land of the dead and survive

was a great miracle showing great heroism.

[screams]

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: According to the accounts

of Greek geographer Strabo, this cave, now partially bricked up,

was known as Plutonium, or Pluto's Gate,

for the god of the underworld.

It was considered so sacred that only cult

priests were allowed near it.

These priests worshipped a powerful goddess

known as Sibylle.

Sibylle started out as a goddess that

was important in Asia Minor and then spread

west into Greece and Rome.

She is known as the guardian of the gateways.

You would have to get Sibylle's permission

to move through time and space.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Iconographically, she's often

portrayed as standing next to the gate

to the other world I think the realm of the gods

has always fascinated humans because it

is imagined as being very different from our own realm.

And so humans have always sought a way

to enter the realm of the gods to have

those ecstatic experiences that happen when you are

in communication with a deity.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Legends from around the world

describe secret entryways similar to Pluto's Gate that

led to the land of the gods.

In many cases, these gates not only

provided instant passage outside the confines of Earth,

but even beyond space and time.

And according to some myths, they were traversed

by otherworldly beings.

Throughout the ancient world, we're

presented with stories of advanced beings

who came from the stars--

star beings.

In many of these instances, they are described as passing

through portals or star doors.

The term we use today is stargate.

TIM SWARTZ: A stargate is a place

that allows transportation to another planet

or somewhere out in the stars.

There have been a number of locations across the planet

where it's been felt that the ancients built stargates.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Are

such passages or stargates just the product

of our ancestors' imaginations?

Or, might this kind of interstellar travel

have actually existed in the ancient world?

If so, who or what created such advanced technology

thousands of years ago?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe more clues can be found

in the descriptions of the elaborate rituals that took

place at the Turkish Plutonium.

JONATHAN YOUNG: It was a great spectacle

when the priests of Sibylle would

do their ceremonial sacrifice.

They'd lead a bull into the cave and the bull would

die of the gases in this cave.

And the people were gathered watching this whole thing.

Then, the priests would bring out this sacrificed animal

and everyone would notice the priests were alive,

showing they had some great power or direct connection

to the divine source to be able to survive

the rituals themselves.

This would prove, then, that this was the gate to Hell,

and all the people would be afraid

and have great respect for it.

The fact that these rituals existed,

the fact that Sibylle was known as the guardian of the gateway,

tells us that the ancients were doing

something really important with this idea of time travel,

of portals.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Excavations

have revealed that, in fact, there are vapors rising

from the ground at the site that contain poisonous

levels of carbon dioxide and other gases

capable of killing anyone or anything that breathes them in.

The ancient stories said that animals that came anywhere

near this would drop down dead, and the same

still occurs today.

Any birds going near it fall down dead.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: If the toxins within the cave

were potent enough to kill a bull,

how did the priests survive this ritual?

Is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe,

that the priests had received secret knowledge and perhaps

even access to a stargate from an otherworldly being known

as Sibylle?

In Pamukkale, Turkey, this does

appear to be a preserved record of a possible stargate

technology that is being used.

As these special priests were able to go into this area,

they may have been traveling through some sort

of energetic portal that gave them the ability

to reach some other location that was completely

different from where people normally were going

if they walked into this area.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if there was something

secret in this cave that they were hiding, perhaps

some kind of interdimensional stargate technology,

and that they would put on this show

to basically frighten them, make sure

that they realized this cave was a forbidden place to go into,

and in fact was some kind of repository for alien technology

and possibly stargates.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Could the Plutonium really

be an extraterrestrial stargate, one

that was protected by priests in order

to dissuade others from approaching it?

And if so, why?

Perhaps the answer can be found at another ancient site

more than 7,000 miles away.

Machu Picchu, Peru, approximately 50

miles northwest of Cusco, nestled

high up in the Andes mountains.

These ancient Inca ruins, believed

to have been a palace complex, date back to the 15th century.

Located in the southwestern corner of what archaeologists

contend was the site's main plaza

is the Temple of Three Windows, a stone hall 35 feet long

and 14 feet wide containing three trapezoidal windows

along one wall.

Textbooks say that the windows of the Temple of the Three

Windows are aligned perfectly to let June solstice sunrise come

right in at a perfect angle, that the entire building is

oriented to receive the first light as it comes

over the mountains through those three

windows at summer solstice.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Some scholars

believe the three windows symbolized

the Incan creation myth.

According to legend, the children of the sun god

Viracocha stepped into the world through three

mysterious openings in a mountain

and gave rise to the Incan civilization.

In the creation story of the Incan people,

the children of the sun-- the Ayar brothers--

came down through three portals, three windows

to begin the Incan people.

The temple at Machu Picchu with three windows

is said to represent this miraculous event.

ANDREW COLLINS: These brothers were the offspring of the god

Viracocha that seemed to have brought the first wisdom,

and knowledge, and rudiments of civilization

to the peoples of South America.

And by simply looking through these three windows,

the Mayan could reach out and connect

once more with these gods and communicate with them.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Some ancient astronaut

theorists believe the Incan creation story may

be more than simply mythology.

They believe it could be a description

of stargate travel taking place thousands of years ago.

You read this story, you're instantly thinking that this is

some kind of a stargate they're describing,

and that these children of the sun,

these advanced solar beings possess

some kind of stargate technology that enabled

them to open these gateways.

And maybe the Inca story is a recollection

of their utilization of this stargate technology.

DAVID WILCOCK: The Ayar brothers could be very real beings who

came in, visited the Incans, gave them

the basis of their science, their technology,

their spoken language, all of the aspects of civilization,

and used a stargate portal technology on the side

of a mountain to get there.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Was the great Inca empire

actually created by extraterrestrials

that traveled to Earth through a so-called stargate?

And might that explain why ancient sites

like the Plutonium were so highly guarded?

Perhaps the answer has already been

discovered not in the ancient world, but by modern science.

Princeton, New Jersey, July, 1935.

While collaborating at the Institute for Advanced Study,

physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen

publish a groundbreaking idea.

They come to the conclusion that the theory of relativity

actually allows for shortcuts across

the space-time continuum.

These paths, called Einstein-Rosen bridges--

more commonly known as wormholes--

connect two distant locations, making

travel to the most remote stars in the universe a possibility.

What you're talking about is a structure in space

that involves very, very strong bending

of space and the connecting of two different parts of space.

So if you think of a piece of paper curved around and then

punched out and connected from one place to the other,

that's your basic wormhole.

NICK REDFERN: If we look at the distance from our planet

to the nearest star system, it's 4.2 light years away.

That means you would have to travel for 4.2 years

at the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles

a second, just to get there.

The only way, really, to do that would be

by something like a wormhole.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: While the idea

of wormhole travel offers incredible possibilities,

realizing this technology poses immense challenges.

Scientists estimate that creating a traversable wormhole

would require a far greater amount of energy

than anything we can produce today.

But there is a theory that so-called exotic matter

may provide the key to unlocking wormhole travel.

What you need is matter with negative mass.

And we're only aware of matter with positive mass

so we call this exotic matter.

Not that it couldn't exist, we're just not aware of it yet.

The bottom line is, it takes huge amounts of energy

to create these.

Imagine taking all of Jupiter now, its entire mass,

and converting that to energy.

[explosion]

You know, you're talking of millions

and millions of times more energy

than you have in a nuclear bomb.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Although most scientists say

that we're a long way from developing the technology

to create wormholes--

if such a thing is even possible at all--

there are those who believe these celestial shortcuts

already exist.

In 1991, scientists at Vanderbilt University

proposed that the chaos of the Big Bang

not only created the universe, but also may

have caused the formation of many wormholes

billions of years ago.

During the Big Bang space time itself was being mashed

together, expanded, contracted.

And one theory says that if you had something like the size

of the Himalayan mountains, the space time around it

could have been so badly stressed

that it would mash this matter inside its own event horizon.

In the same way, you can imagine space time

being mashed together and forming a mini wormhole.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: The possible result,

according to researchers, would be a wormhole

about the size of an atom.

Once located, these many wormholes

could possibly be stretched to create a traversable wormhole.

MICHAEL DENNIN: One of the things

we know is that since the Big Bang,

the universe has been expanding, which means space time

overall has been stretching.

So when the universe is quite small,

you make a teeny little wormhole.

As that hole structure stretches,

that whole wormhole stretches and grows big as well.

So you could end up with a very large wormhole now.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: If wormholes were created

in the earliest stages of the universe,

is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that celestial beings have already used them to travel

to Earth in the distant past?

It's very possible that wormholes

are stargates opening.

And beings coming through them are

a way to explain how man was interacting

with the ancient gods.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Chihuahua, Mexico, just 125

miles from the Texas border.

This vast archeological site situated near the base

of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range

dates back to 1,200 AD.

Known as both Paquimé and Casas Grandes, only

part of the extensive remains--

estimated to contain more than 2,000 clay rooms--

have been excavated, revealing a well planned city containing

plazas, stores, workshops, and multistory

residential buildings, with an advanced

water and sewage system.

Paquimé, or Casas Grandes, is larger

than any other site for hundreds of miles in any direction.

And there's an interesting melding of different cultures.

In some aspects, it's a very Mesoamerican or Aztec city.

In other regards, it's a very Pueblo or Southwest culture

city.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: At its height,

Paquimé is believed to have had a population

of more than 10,000.

But this thriving pre-Colombian civilization

declined, and mysteriously disappeared

by the 16th century.

While no one knows exactly who the inhabitants of Paquimé

were, it is believed that their descendants may

be the indigenous people of the region,

known as the Tarahumara.

The Tarahumara now live high up in the canyons of the Sierra

Madre, and much of what is known about the ancient city

of Paquimé comes from the stories passed down

to them from their ancestors.

According to their legends, Paquimé

is a sacred place where star people

have appeared for centuries.

Described as light, tall, and blond,

the Tarahumara say these mysterious beings emerged

from doorways in the ruins.

LOGAN HAWKES: The Tarahumara truly

believe that the star people exist still

today in the Chihuahua desert.

They believe that these tall, blond people represent--

may be the heirs of the star people

that first brought them to this world.

They believe that there is a portal

and that these star people use this portal today

to transport to various places on the Earth and off world

as well.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Throughout

the architecture of Paquimé are hundreds

of uniquely T shaped openings--

openings that closely resemble an ancient doorway

more than 4,000 miles away in southern Peru.

[music playing]

Here, perched high in the Andes mountains, this shallow T

shaped opening called the Doorway of Aramu Muru,

is surrounded by many legends describing it

as an active portal that transports beings both into

and out of this world.

This could be a coincidence if it weren't for the fact that

at Paquimé, there are strange stories of the appearance

of these Caucasian-like beings.

And there are very similar stories to do with this gate

of the gods in Peru.

It's possible that this does represent a stargate location

in which extraterrestrial humans are seen as coming and going

during certain opportune points in the year

when the stargate becomes active.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Considering the similar

doorways and legends of otherworldly beings at Paquimé

and Aramu Muru, is it possible that

extraterrestrials once accessed these ancient

sites through stargates?

Some ancient astronaut theorists say that not only were

stargates present at places like Paquimé and Aramu Muru

in the distant past, but that there

may be functioning stargates here on Earth even today.

The Sargasso Sea.

Stretching 700 miles wide and 2,000 miles long,

this strange body of water is completely

isolated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.

It is a sea without shores surrounded

by some of the strongest currents in the world.

And due to a number of unexplained incidents

that have occurred here, it has earned

the nicknames Sea of Lost Ships, The Calms of Death,

and The Sea of Fear.

And curiously, although the waters around it are violent,

the Sargasso Sea itself is calm.

The water is unusually blue, mysterious, as if the currents

don't affect this one area.

As if the winds stop, or as if time stands still.

Back in the time of sailing ships,

if sailing ships went into this area

they could not necessarily get out,

and they were seen as sort of being

trapped by the Sargasso Sea.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Boats would be found perfectly

intact there, but the crew will have

disappeared without a trace.

Now, why would that be?

Because it's strange since the Sargasso Sea

is known for its calm waters.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Perhaps

the oldest known and most famous disappearance reported

from the Sargasso Sea occurred in August,

1840, when a merchant ship called the Rosalie was

traveling from Germany to Cuba.

According to "The London Times," when it was discovered drifting

aimlessly, the vessel was completely

abandoned, although perfectly intact,

with the sails still set.

What happened to the Rosalie remains a mystery.

But similar occurrences have continued to plague

the Sargasso Sea for centuries.

MICHAEL BARA: In 1881, a ship by the name of the Ellen Austin

found a derelict schooner in the Sargasso Sea.

They put a crew aboard it and sailed

in tandem back towards London for several days.

About two days later, the schooner was found

to be sailing erratically.

And when it was boarded again, that crew had also disappeared

absolutely into thin air.

It was as if the people were simply beamed out of it.

It is also interesting to note that the Sargasso

Sea is directly in contact with the area

we call the Bermuda Triangle.

There may be some type of stargate or portal

activation in this area.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Could the reports

of strange disappearances occurring in the Sargasso Sea,

and also in the Bermuda Triangle that overlaps

this body of water, be explained by the presence of a stargate?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence can

be found deep within one of North America's largest lakes,

Lake Michigan.

Stretching across this 22,300 square mile body of water

from Manitowoc, Wisconsin to Ludington and Benton Harbor,

Michigan, is another mysterious area

known as the Michigan Triangle.

Like the Sargasso Sea, this portion

of the massive freshwater lake has

been associated with bizarre and puzzling disappearances.

MICHAEL DENNIN: In 1937, there was

a freighter named the McFarland which passed

through the Michigan Triangle.

The captain of the ship went to his cabin

to get some sleep, told his second mate to come and awaken

him at a specific time.

When the second mate knocked on the door, there was no answer.

The door was locked from the inside.

They broke in, and the captain had simply disappeared.

None of the portholes were open.

None of the windows were open.

There was no way for the captain to have gotten out of the ship.

GEORGE NOORY: They never could find the guy.

Did he jump off the ship?

Who knows.

But the ship was exactly in this triangle in Lake Michigan.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: But ships

aren't the only crafts affected by this area of Lake Michigan.

There are accounts of as many as 40 planes

that have disappeared in the Michigan Triangle.

In 1950, 13 years after the captain of the McFarland

went missing, Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, carrying 55

passengers and three crew, disappeared as it passed

over the Michigan Triangle.

The wreckage has never been discovered,

and investigations continue to this day.

MICHAEL DENNIN: No wreckage was ever found.

The families have been despondent over it.

They continue to look for the wreckage.

There's a monument to them on the shores of Lake Michigan.

But not a trace, not a belt buckle, not

a wallet, not a chair, nothing from the aircraft

has ever been found.

And the area was searched for six days afterwards.

It's been searched extensively by salvagers in the decades

since.

And no one has ever found a thing.

Ships have been there, they've disappeared.

Airplanes have flown into the region, they've disappeared.

NICK REDFERN: These aircraft and ships are just gone.

Now, for me, the very fact that they are totally vanished,

that makes me think that possibly they've been sucked

into some form of wormhole and unfortunately

get trapped on the other side.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Could the murky waters

of Lake Michigan actually be hiding

the entrance to a wormhole, as some researchers suggest?

Might that explain why there has been such peculiar phenomenon

here, including countless sightings

of strange unidentified flying objects both overhead and

coming from below the surface?

MICHAEL DENNIN: There have been witnesses

that have actually seen green glowing disks

fly up out of the lake.

They've seen blue spherical objects fly into the lake.

DAVID WILCOCK: Gateways through space and time

will have a luminous quality.

They will appear as spherical formations of plasma.

It seems that certain areas of water

are often where these portals are naturally forming.

It's possible that extraterrestrials may

have been accessing that area.

And in fact, it may still be active today,

thus accounting for these UFO sightings and all

the bizarre disappearances.

DAVID CHILDRESS: These areas are very inaccessible.

The whole concept of some of these stargates

and portals being actually underwater

makes a lot of sense.

WILLIAM HENRY: It's possible that there's

a network of underwater portals spread throughout the world.

These portals could be accessed by extraterrestrial beings

who use them to come and go from the stars.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Could there

be stargates hidden deep within our lakes and oceans

that extraterrestrials might still

be using even to this day?

And if so, might humans one day be able to access

these stargates as well?

Some scientists believe that not only will we

travel through stargates which already exist,

but that we may even be close to creating them ourselves.

Cal State Fullerton, 2013.

Here, in a small lab at this public university,

physicist Jim Woodward conducts experiments

that he believes will one day change the way

we travel through space.

JAMES WOODWARD: I was primarily interested in trying to figure

out how to make stuff go fast.

And to do that, you need to master

the problem of propulsion.

To master the problem of propulsion

to achieve speeds that are a significant fraction

of the speed of light, you have to be

able to manipulate inertia.

And so that's how I got interested

in gravity and inertia.

What I found is that it may indeed be possible to get

around space time quickly.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Dr. Woodward's work

seeks to prove a controversial theory known

as Mach's principle, which says that there is

a direct relationship between the motion of mass

here on Earth, and that of distant matter

that exists throughout the universe.

Woodward theorizes that if this proves true,

it could be the key to unlocking stargate travel.

The idea was first introduced in 1883 by Austrian physicist

Ernst Mach.

JAMES WOODWARD: Mach's principle, at the simplest

level, is the assertion that when you push on an object,

the reason why it pushes back on you

is because of the gravitational action

of the most distant matter of the universe

acting through the object.

And so the matter out there, far, far away,

is this stuff that determines the inertial properties

of objects locally.

ROBERT H FRISBEE: Mach's principle basically

says that all the stars, all the planets,

all the galaxies out there do, in fact, have an effect on us

here.

And the reason they do is because of the way

they warp space time.

So even though you may not see it, the world around you

is determined by what's going on potentially light years

away from you.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Dr. Woodward's initial interest

in Mach's principle was not to create wormholes,

but to revolutionize space travel

by creating propulsion without expelling

matter from the craft.

Our standard way of thinking of propulsion

is, we send stuff out the back of something.

So you have a rocket, it sends hot gases out the back.

You have a jet engine, it sucks air in through the front

and shoots it out the back.

So almost all of our propulsion systems

are that basic principle-- throw something out the back,

you move forward.

The Mach principle, I almost think about it

maybe as a surf wave, right?

You're riding along on the wave and that's moving you forward.

You don't actually have to send anything out back.

In this sort of effect, the idea is,

essentially, to create a wave in space that you move forward on.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: But Dr. Woodward

discovered that Mach's principle could have implications

beyond just propulsion.

He believes it holds the key to actually creating

traversable wormholes, giving us the ability

to travel to the most remote corners of the universe.

The experiments suggest that if scientists could somehow

separate or decouple ordinary mass from the influence

of this distant matter, huge amounts of negative energy

could potentially be exposed.

In principle, you should be able to engineer devices that

will enable you to screen matter from the influence of gravity

of distant matter in the universe.

And if you can do that, you can make stargates.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: While the existence of Mach's

principle is still debated in the scientific community,

Dr. Woodward believes his experiments prove its validity.

By running electricity through a stack of lead zirconium

titanite crystals known as PZTs, Woodward

accelerates and temporarily changes

the rest mass of the device he calls the Mach effect thruster.

If Mach's principle holds true, when the mass of the Mach

thruster fluctuates, it will interact

with the distant matter in the universe,

resulting in a small amount of measurable thrust.

All of this is happening through

a gravitational connection between this local device

and the rest of the matter in the universe.

We have the Mach effect thruster here mounted

in the Faraday cage, and it's located on the end of the beam

like so.

The reason why you put the thrust balance in a vacuum

chamber is because you're trying to detect

exceedingly small thrusts on the order of a micronewton.

This display is of data taken over a period of one day.

The red trace is thrust.

The dark blue traces the power being delivered to the device.

This is the clearest evidence for the Mach effect--

this large thrust transient when the center frequency

is turned on, followed by a thrust transient point that

is turned off.

None of that thrust should be there if there

aren't any Mach effects.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Could Dr. Woodward's

experiments really be proof that Mach's principle is true

and wormhole travel is a real scientific possibility?

If so, might we be able to create actual stargates

in the near future?

JAMES WOODWARD: If you're willing to devote

significant resources to trying to do this,

I would think that you should be able to build

prototype very crude stargates within a decade or two.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Once we have this concept and, in theory,

could develop the technology to move through wormholes,

it's only natural that we would think

that ancient extraterrestrials and alien

societies would have also thought

of this thousands of years ago.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Does modern research

into wormholes really suggest that stargates have

a basis in scientific reality?

And might more advanced alien beings

have used this knowledge to travel

to Earth in the distant past?

Some ancient astronaut theorists say the strongest proof

that extraterrestrials arrived here through stargates

may lie in a 3,200 year old Egyptian temple

and a mysterious hieroglyph carved on its wall.

Abydos, Egypt, 300 miles South of Cairo.

This 5,000 year old archeological site

near the Nile River was a burial place

for the first kings of Egypt.

The ancient city was a major center of religious pilgrimage

where Osiris, the god of the underworld, was revered.

ANDREW COLLINS: Osiris was the god

that was said to have brought wisdom

and knowledge to those who preceded

the dynastic Egyptians.

Abydos was a place that people came

to communicate with Osiris.

ROBERT BAUVAL: It was considered the place where

the god Osiris had been buried.

Osiris had been the originator of the pharaonic civilization.

He was the first pharaoh, if you like.

The myth is that Osiris was cut in several pieces

by his evil brother.

And the head was found and kept at Abydos.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS: Abydos was said to have been

the burial place of Osiris.

But this is where he was supposed

to physically stand guard between this world

and the next.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Construction on the largest

of the temples at Abydos was started in the 13th century BC

by the pharaoh Seti, and is dedicated to Osiris.

Depicted on the wall of the temple's Osiris chapel

is a mysterious hieroglyph that some researchers

believe represents the vessel that held

the head of the powerful god.

ROBERT BAUVAL: The relic of Abydos,

it is this sort of bell shaped object,

and on top of it is usually two plumes.

WILLIAM HENRY: When we look at the hieroglyphs of the head

of Osiris, what we see is something

that appears to be very technological or mechanical.

It looks like some kind of an ancient antenna

type of a device.

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ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Might this depiction of Osiris

really represent an ancient technological device, one

so important that the Egyptians memorialized it here

on the walls of this sacred temple?

And if so, what was its purpose?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe more clues can be found

on the opposite wall of the chapel, where Pharaoh Seti is

shown transforming into this Osiris device

while traveling on a solar barge.

The solar barge was a vehicle that

was able to make that journey from this world to the next.

So in other words, in many ways it was

actually a boat of the stars.

DAVID WILCOCK: But the shape of the solar barge

bears a curious similarity to the Einstein-Rosen bridge.

So the solar barge could be a primitive depiction of people

watching a luminous stargate appearing,

and then it being used as a teleportation device.

VINCENZO MACRINO: On the depiction of the solar barge,

the head of Pharaoh Seti appears to be

emerging from that portal.

Perhaps Seti was a time traveler utilizing

just such technology given to him by the ancient gods.

WILLIAM HENRY: It suggests that Seti utilized

this ancient technology to turn himself into a star being

so that he could travel the stargates

and wormholes for eternity.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Maybe gods like Osiris

were actually extraterrestrials using

this stargate technology to come to Earth and teach mankind.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Could these hieroglyphs really

be depicting a device that allowed Pharaoh Seti to travel

across time and space?

Is it possible that the Egyptians

and other ancient cultures around the world

really encountered extraterrestrials who came

to Earth through stargates?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Just because our scientists of today

haven't quite figured it out yet doesn't

mean that some other civilization thousands, maybe

even hundreds of thousands of years

older hasn't figured it out, either.

Remember, the universe is infinite,

which means that there are infinite possibilities.

DAVID CHILDRESS: We may have known

in the past what was going on and about these portals

and wormholes.

And that is why stories like astral travel, and stargates,

and interdimensional voyages are something

that we've been hearing about for thousands of years.

And we're just now rediscovering it

for ourselves, this knowledge given

to us by the extraterrestrials.

It's possible that this is the next step in human evolution.

It will represent a new beginning for humankind.

And perhaps this was always the plan from ancient times.

We were created by these ancient gods who came here in stargates

and wormholes, and they intended for us to one day

join them in the stars.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]: Could Earth really

be home to stargates that link us

to distant points throughout the universe, pathways

that extraterrestrials have used for thousands of years

and that we are only beginning to rediscover?

And if we ever do unlock the key to stargate travel,

will we discover that we've been connected to

alien civilizations all along?

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