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NARRATOR: Sealed vaults believed to be cursed--

DAVID WILCOCK: There seems to be a bizarre magical power

that hides behind that door.

NARRATOR: --mysterious relics under guard from above.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS: And as they approach,

the skies opened up and the gods intervene.

NARRATOR: --and riches so great, it has cost men their lives.

PAUL DILLMAN: People have died over this.

This is for real.

NARRATOR: On every continent, there

are stories of incredible treasures

that have been lost for centuries.

But how have these vast fortunes remained hidden for so long?

Is it possible that the world's greatest

lost treasures have a connection to otherworldly beings?

DAVID CHILDRESS: Man has always been

fascinated with ancient treasures, the gold,

the silver, the jewels.

But in other cases, it can be technology

of the extraterrestrial gods themselves.

NARRATOR: 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 the proof lie hidden

with the treasures of the gods?

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Cumran, the West Bank.

It was here between 1947 and 1956

that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered,

religious writings

that include the earliest known surviving manuscripts

of works from the Hebrew Bible.

But one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in cave three

was much different than the rest.

Known as the Copper Scroll, it is the only scroll that

is not parchment or papyrus.

ROBERT FEATHER: The first translation

of the Copper Scroll was probably

done by John Allegro in 1956.

And he immediately realized that it was a list

of treasure-- buried treasure.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS: The Copper Scroll is

possibly the greatest treasure map in human history.

It gives us 64 locations where a treasure

that is worth potentially $2 billion could be found.

ROBERT FEATHER: People assume that the 64 items of treasure

had to have been borrowed or come from Jerusalem

because there clearly were references

to temple type treasure.

A number of very intrepid explorers

have tried to find the treasure but no one

has been successful yet.

It has not been discovered in Jerusalem.

NARRATOR: Does the vast treasure described in the Copper Scroll

remain buried in Jerusalem to this day

or is it possible that it has remained hidden for all

these years because it's actually buried

in another part of the world?

Metallurgist and treasure Hunter Robert Feather

has spent years studying the Copper Scroll

and believes that the treasure isn't that of the Israelites.

As a metallurgist, the first thing I kind of noticed

was you don't measure gold in kilograms,

which is what they were doing.

So I looked at it again.

And interspersed amongst the ancient Hebrew letters

were Greek letters-- 14 Greek letters.

And also the weight terms were Egyptian.

And it's engraved on highly pure copper, 99.9%.

I began to research it and realized

the only place that you could find copper

of that purity was in Egypt.

NARRATOR: After examining the Copper Scroll from every angle,

Robert came to the conclusion that the treasure

does not lie in Jerusalem but over 600

miles southwest in Egypt.

ROBERT FEATHER: When you start to analyze the phraseology,

you get things like (non-english),,

which is great river.

There's no great river near Jerusalem or in Judea

at that time at all.

The only great river, and it's always

referred to in those same terms, is the Nile.

NARRATOR: But most compelling of all Robert's finds

was a name he found hidden within the text

of the Copper Scroll.

ROBERT FEATHER: I took the first 10 Greek letters.

I put them together and read the name Akhenaten.

I came to the conclusion the Copper

Scroll was talking about at Amarna, the capital

city of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the famous treasure

of the Copper Scroll, millions of dollars in gold and silver,

is really hidden not in Jerusalem

but somewhere in Amarna, Egypt?

And if Robert Feather's analysis of the scroll

is correct, why is there a connection to Akhenaten?

Akhenaten was known historically,

or rather through modern history, as the heretical pharaoh.

Akhenaten banishes multiple gods

and declares that there is only one god, Aten.

And the Aten is the sun disk.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists

contend that Aten was not merely a symbolic deity

but based on something Akhenaten actually witnessed in the sky.

Akhenaten and other Atenists are

seen worshipping this special disk of a sun that

is reaching down to touch them.

And you have to wonder if this sun disk isn't

a representative of some kind of alien spaceship or a flying saucer.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS: Prior to Akhenaten,

the pharaoh was one of the gods but not god incarnate.

Akhenaten changes this.

With Akhenaten, he is the living god in a way

that no pharaoh had been before.

Akhenaten was a very interesting fellow

because of the way he looked.

He had a very bizarre face with an elongated skull,

with a spindly body, sort of a potbelly, and chicken legs.

And so some have proposed that Akhenaten himself might

have been an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists

contend, that Akhenaten was actually

an extraterrestrial being?

Curiously, much like the treasure written

of in the Copper Scroll, the fate of Akhenaten

remains shrouded in mystery.

There was a concerted effort to eliminate Akhenaten.

His name was stricken, carved out of the temple walls.

The Amarna heresy, as it was known,

had to be completely deleted from the Egyptian record.

NARRATOR: In 1932, when British archeologist John Pendlebury

excavated Akhenaten's tomb, he found

no evidence that Akhenaten had ever been buried there.

Some speculate the final resting place of the pharaoh

was in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, tomb 55.

However, recent archeological evidence

has led others to suggest the body found in this tomb

belongs to someone else.

ROBERT BAUVAL: Egyptologists would

agree that the bodies found in his tomb is not Akhenaten.

Akhenaten just disappeared.

But had his tomb survived, for example,

one would imagine that the treasures, the wealth,

would have been probably equivalent, if not more

than, Tutankhamen's tombs.

DAVID CHILDRESS: One of the great mysteries

of ancient Egypt is where the body of Akhenaten is.

If they could find his body, it might

reveal that he was, in fact, part extraterrestrial

and that this is why he looked as he did.

NARRATOR: Could the treasure locations given

on the Copper Scroll also lead to the mummy

of the heretic pharaoh?

And if Akhenaten truly had alien origins, as ancient astronaut

theorists suggest, might this treasure

hold some value to beings from beyond our world?

According to author Zecharia Sitchin Sumerian texts

suggest ancient humans were made to mine gold

for their gods, gods who were, in fact, extraterrestrials.

Many ancient cultures were in the pursuit

of finding precious gold, and silver, and jewels.

They always did this under the premise

that they were gathering it for their gods.

It's very possible that, just like we have

from the ancient Sumerian texts, man

was actually created to mine the gold

and precious jewels for the gods.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS: Zecharia Sitchin

speculates that gold is absolutely

necessary for the people of the 12th planet, who

we often think of as the extraterrestrials who

visit us as gods.

NARRATOR: Gold has also proven to be a valuable element

for space travel.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Gold is highly conductive.

And obviously, you would probably

have a lot of electrical based equipment on your ship.

Gold also has great thermal properties.

It's incredibly easy to work with.

You can make it very thin.

So I think the properties of gold

really make it very useful for interstellar travel.

NARRATOR: Might our ancestors have secreted

away vast caches of gold upon the orders

of extraterrestrial gods?

Or if the treasure described in the Copper Scroll is truly

buried in Amarna, hidden with the mummy of Akhenaten,

is it possible that once it is found,

it will reveal something even more valuable than just

gold and silver?

Could the treasure be buried with some type

of alien technology?

I think the Copper Scroll will lead to much more than just

the simple finding of material treasure.

The more I immerse myself in the subject,

the more I realize that it opens up

a whole panoply of truths that are far more

important than gold and silver.

NARRATOR: Once the code is finally cracked,

will the Copper Scroll lead us to evidence that aliens visited

Earth in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and believe that,

not far from where the Copper Scroll was found,

a treasure of even greater significance

is still waiting to be uncovered.

Temple Mount, Jerusalem, summer 2013.

Just 164 feet from the Temple Mount's southern wall,

archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar makes a stunning discovery,

an inscribed earthenware jug that dates back 3,000 years

to the time of King Solomon.

The discovery may confirm what many historians have

suggested, that Solomon's temple once

stood at this exact location.

In addition to the historical significance,

the find intrigues treasure hunters

as it may indicate that other much

more valuable relics may also lie buried at Temple Mount.

Solomon's temple was built in the 10th century BC

by the great king of Israel, Solomon.

And it was built initially to house the Ark of the Covenant.

NARRATOR: According to the Hebrew Bible,

Solomon's temple was constructed upon direct orders from God.

Although it is best known for having housed

the Ark of the Covenant and possibly even the Holy Grail,

some treasure hunters believe another relic

of profound historical significance

may lie buried at the site, a relic

that ancient astronaut theorists claim

is of extraterrestrial origin,

Solomon's ring.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS: One of the lesser

known great treasures of history is Solomon's ring.

And it is said that this ring had

the name of God engraved upon it in a very

secret and cryptic way.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: The ring was representative of the authority

from beyond this world.

The wielder of that ring would be

able to compel any and all who recognized

that source of extraterrestrial power to do whatever he wished.

JONATHAN YOUNG: the Islamic records, the ring of Solomon

was given to him by angels.

It gave him magical powers.

Through this ring, he could control the djinn or genies.

NARRATOR: According to both the Quran and the Hebrew Talmud,

Solomon's ring also aided him in constructing the temple itself.

MIKE BARA: Somehow this ring gave him

the power to control otherworldly beings,

for want of a better term. Demons.

You can call them genies or you can call them extraterrestrials.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: Solomon was in need of a higher technology

in order to build his temple.

He knew that he had to contact Ashmedai, later

known by the Greek name Asmodeus,

who is the head of the demons.

With this ring, clearly not of human origins,

Ashmedai was hereby compelled and required

to provide for Solomon whatever he

needed to fulfill the building of the temple of God.

So Ashmedai gave to Solomon something called the shamir.

Now the shamir is described in traditional literature

as this little world you'd put on the stone

and it would cut it precisely.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The shamir was a, quote unquote, "worm"

that could cut and drill through even the hardest of stones

rather with ease.

What if this shamir was some type of laser cutting device?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Solomon possessed

an extraterrestrial device wielding incredible power,

power that gave its bearer control and command

of otherworldly beings?

And if so, might this explain the mystery

surrounding the disappearance of Solomon's ring?

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: Solomon's ring,

like many of the other temple treasures,

like the Ark of the Covenant,

were considered too hot to handle by average human beings.

These things were concealed when the time was made proper.

In 586 BC, the first temple, Solomon's temple,

was destroyed, sacked by Nebuchadnezzar,

the Babylonian king.

One theory holds that the most fabulous treasure we can almost

conceive of-- gold, silver, the Ark of the Covenant,

possibly Solomon's ring--

are buried in a secret chamber beneath the Temple Mount.

NARRATOR: Could the Ring of Solomon,

like the Ark of the Covenant, have been hidden somewhere

under Temple Mount for hundreds of years,

or has it been discovered and secreted

away to another location?

In 1867, British army engineers mapped the vault

under the temple ruins and discovered

pointed arches with key stones after the Gothic style.

Archaeologists would later discover artifacts, including

a sword, a spur, a lance, and a small cross,

all of which belonged to the 12th century Warrior monks

known as the Knights Templar.

Originally formed in 1118 AD to protect pilgrims

traveling to Jerusalem, the Knights Templar

were based at Temple Mount.

During their time in Jerusalem, the group of warrior monks

rose from relative obscurity to being the most

powerful order of the Crusades.

SEAN MARTIN: By 1139, the pope makes them answerable to nobody

except himself.

MIKE BARA: When you look at ancient biblical histories,

and I do treat them as histories,

basically the Ark of the Covenant and Solomon's ring

are the two most powerful weapons of the Bible.

And the possession of either one of those

would have made their order, the Knights Templar,

virtually invincible.

NARRATOR: Did the Knights Templar

actually find the lost temple treasures,

including Solomon's ring?

If so, could they have discovered

that the ring really did possess some otherworldly power?

And might that power have led to their untimely end?

On a Friday the 13th in 1307, the Knights Templar

were rounded up and burned at the stake for heresy.

With their demise, did Solomon's Ring

and its other-worldly powers vanish from the earth forever?

Or might it have been spirited away

and hidden with the rest of the purported Templar treasures?

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS: It is said that Solomon

imprisoned the demon Asmodeus to protect

the treasure in his temple.

Later on in the legends of the Knights Templar,

we discover that the Templars are

communicating with Asmodeus.

And to this day, there is a church in the southwest

of France, near (french),, known to be a Templar stronghold,

which has a statue of Asmodeus in the front of the church.

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NARRATOR: Was Solomon's Ring more than just a myth?

And will it someday be rediscovered with the rest

of the Templar treasure?

And is it possible that this ancient artifact,

along with a treasure of the Copper Scroll,

could reveal an alien connection in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and claim that yet another long-lost treasure

with a direct link to extraterrestrials

may still lie hidden on the other side of the world.

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Kanab, Utah, located on the western Colorado plateau.

This town of less than 4,000 is the site of a treasure hunt

that's been going on for over a century.

And what many believe is hidden here among the Red Rocks

and canyons is one of the greatest

lost treasures in the world.

PAUL DILLMAN: Something's buried here that's very valuable,

that cost people their lives.

People have died over this.

This ain't no fun and games. This is for real.

DANIEL DILLMAN (VOICEOVER): If you've ever seen

"Indiana Jones" or "National Treasure,"

that's fictional, but the treasure that we're

looking after is real.

And that's what all of those movies were based off of

is the truth and history of the ancients.

20 years of investigation and research

has us convinced that Montezuma's

treasure is here in Utah.

NARRATOR: Montezuma's treasure?

In the American Southwest, why would the lost treasure

of a culture that existed in Mexico hundreds of years ago

lie hidden in Utah?

According to legend, the ancestral birthplace

of the Aztec people is, in fact, somewhere in this area

of the United States.

The Aztec mythology says that they

came from a land called Aztlan.

And this is a city that was apparently in what's

now the American Southwest--

a very, very advanced civilisation.

NARRATOR: In the Aztec stories, their homeland of Aztlan

was created through an extraordinary event; an event

that according to ancient astronaut theorists,

depicts an encounter with extraterrestrial beings.

The Aztec chronicler Geronimo de Mendieta

recorded a very interesting creation myth in which

a goddess threw a giant, flint knife from the heavens

into the seven caves of Chicomoztoc,

causing the birth of 1,600 gods.

Now, imagine for a moment that you

know nothing about high tech.

You'll use words with which to best describe what you see.

And all of a sudden, you have these giant, flint knives

descending from the sky.

DAVID WILCOCK: So what are we really looking at here?

Could it have been that these 1,600 settlers were, in fact,

extraterrestrials who had crash landed on Earth

and then brought their civilization to the Indigenous

people of that time?

NARRATOR: According to Aztec codices,

their ancestors were instructed by the gods

to migrate south to Mexico around 1064 AD.

Over the course of the next 500 years,

they grew to be the greatest empire in North America.

But on June 29th, 1520, King Montezuma II

was killed during the Spanish conquest of Mexico,

and the Aztec empire came to an end.

What happened in the aftermath is debated by historians.

But according to some accounts, the Aztecs

gathered as much of their valuables

as they could carry and fled to the north.

This treasure was spectacular. It was epic.

It was hundreds of pounds of gold and silver

and priceless objects; a golden disk the size

of a cartwheel that was shaped like the sun.

They needed to get this treasure out to a safe place.

And this is the story behind the Aztec exodus north

and what we now know as the American Southwest.

NARRATOR: The Aztecs are said to have carried tens of thousands

of pounds of gold, silver, and priceless relics

north, in the direction of their ancestral homeland.

But why?

Why would the Aztecs travel nearly 2,000 miles, putting

both their lives and their treasure

at risk to reach a homeland that they had

left over 500 years earlier?

According to their own stories, the Aztecs'

vast treasure was a gift for their most important god.

This wealth of the Aztecs was being held in safekeeping

for their god, Quetzalcoatl.

So it was a sacred treasure.

Quetzalcoatl is said to have brought understandings

of astronomy and astrology.

He is really the father of the Aztec empire.

But we have to ask ourselves, is it possible

that Quetzalcoatl was an historical figure and not

just a mythological being?

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Quetzalcoatl is represented

as a feathered serpent.

But also, he's represented-- he's a big being with a helmet.

And he's sitting on a half-open sort of egg.

Quetzalcoatl was definitely an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: If Quetzalcoatl really was an alien being

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

could this be further proof of Zecharia Sitchin's theory

that gold is an important commodity

to extraterrestrial space travelers?

And might Aztec's have brought their treasure

back to their ancestral homeland in the hopes

that Quetzalcoatl would exact vengeance on their enemies?

The purpose of this treasure was

to preserve it as tribute for Quetzalcoatl

when he returned and helped them hopefully,

eventually vanquish their enemies.

What's really interesting is that as you

get into the American Southwest, what you find

is that there are Aztec writings,

Aztec hieroglyphs and petroglyphs on rocks

even as far north as Utah.

Perhaps somewhere, they actually do have these treasures still

stored away, still waiting for the day

when Quetzalcoatl returns.

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NARRATOR: In the 1950s, four stone tablets

known as the Peralta Stones were discovered

near the Superstition Mountains in Arizona.

Treasure-hunters Paul and Dan Dillman

are convinced that the symbols carved on these stones,

along with a fifth tablet they discovered in 1982,

will one day lead them to the legendary gold

of Montezuma, hidden here in the mountains and canyons of Utah.

PAUL DILLMAN: Check this out. Look at the markings.

DANIEL DILLMAN: This is amazing, man.

PAUL DILLMAN: You got an Indian headdress.

You got the sun symbol.

The sun symbol, just like the tablet.

PAUL DILLMAN: Right here-- cave,

wavy lines, and the arch, the T. Everything's on here.

It matches the tablet perfect.

PAUL DILLMAN: Yeah.

NARRATOR: But if the Dillmans ever do uncover the entrance

to the Aztec homeland of Aztlan and the hiding

place of Montezuma's gold, might they

find more than they bargained for?

MIKE BARA: If Aztlan was founded by an extraterrestrial god,

as treasure hunters get closer and closer to perhaps finding

the location of Aztlan, do they really want to break that seal?

Because no one really knows what's behind it

and what the consequences of such a find

might actually be to the human race.

NARRATOR: Is Kanab, Utah, really the hiding place

of the lost Aztec treasure?

And if so, when it is found, might it

reveal evidence of alien contact in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and claim that more evidence of a connection

between the world's greatest lost treasures

and extraterrestrial intervention

can be found in Greece.

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Delphi, Greece.

Near the Gulf of Corinth, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus,

a religious shrine known as the Sanctuary of Apollo

was established some time before 1200 BC.

It was here that the legendary Oracle of Delphi,

a succession of priestesses of Apollo,

prophesies for the people of Greece.

According to the Greek author Plutarch,

the Oracle would enter a small chamber

in the Temple of Apollo, take her seat on a tripod,

and inhale sweet-smelling vapors,

inducing a trance-like state from which he could

communicate with the gods.

RICHARD RADER: It was the seat of Apollo's Oracle.

So he was the one who provided prophecies there.

The priestess is there just as a conduit for it.

And in fact, she has no power of her own.

So Apollo himself is not going to show up to actually

deliver the oracles. He's on Mount Olympus.

He's with the other Olympian gods.

His line is open for questions, but he's

not going to show up himself.

Lots of people came to visit, looking for answers

to questions that they had.

And these are people not only in mythology,

but, in fact, actual people in history coming to visit.

If you go to Delphi today, you can

see inscriptions of the answers that were given to questions.

NARRATOR: Although the Oracle made her final prophecy

over 1,600 years ago, for many, the Sanctuary of Apollo

remains an important site because

of the relics and offerings that may

still lie there to this day.

But some believe that among these riches

lies a much more profound treasure,

an omphalos stone.

In Greek, the word omphalos literally translates to navel.

And while there were numerous omphalos stones

throughout Greece, the egg-shaped omphalos stone

at Delphi was the most significant.

This navel really just represents sort of the center

of the Earth-- now, not the center of what we think

of as the Earth, but the center as in the most important

place for the Olympian gods.

One story is that Zeus sent some birds

flying in different directions, and where

they met was the omphalos.

That was the navel of the Earth.

This is where this Oracle would be established.

NARRATOR: But in addition to marking the center of the Earth

for the Olympians, in some ancient Greek accounts,

the omphalos stone was also the source of her prognostications.

RICHARD RADER: Well, sometimes the omphalos stone

exerts some power.

Sometimes it's just a vessel for gaseous fumes that get you high

and put you in the right mindset to talk to the gods.

Sometimes it's just a stone.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: If true communication took place

between our world and extraterrestrials, which

the ancient Greek gods were, then I

prefer to think that some type of transmitter was used

and only the Oracle knew how to operate it.

Why?

Because she was the chosen one.

It may be that the omphalos stone is a depiction

of a working technological device that

was not made of stone at all.

NARRATOR: Could the omphalos really

have been a technological device that

enabled humans to communicate with extraterrestrials?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And as proof, they point to the stories

of what happened to those who dared to go after the treasure.

According to the second century Greek author Pausanias,

in 279 BC, the Celtic King Brennus led an attack on Greece

with a force of more than 200,000 men intent

on claiming the treasure of Delphi.

And it is said that the Celts were coming to Delphi

in order to steal the treasure.

But as they approach and they get close to the Oracle,

the skies open up, and the gods intervene.

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JONATHAN YOUNG: Apollo caused the ground to shake

and fierce storms and landslides

and, finally, a terrible frost.

Legends grew that the great treasure was protected.

NARRATOR: After over 1,500 years of offering divine guidance,

the Temple of Apollo was shut down by Roman

emperor Theodosius in 395 AD.

And ever since, the fate of the Delphi

treasure and the omphalos has remained a mystery.

This was probably one of the most

important centers for a Greek religion in the ancient world.

And so, of course, it just got a big, old bull's eye on it once

Christianity starts taking off.

And the omphalos stone--

which if you believe that was invested with the power

that made the Oracle whir, they would

naturally get rid of that.

NARRATOR: Curiously, a Roman recreation

of the omphalos stone carved with

an intricate, net-like pattern remains in the Museum of Delphi

to this day.

And there are those that believe that the original was not,

in fact, destroyed, but confiscated

and hidden away at the Vatican.

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But others believe the omphalos still lies in Greece.

And in 1936, the German government

funded an excavation of Olympia and Delphi

headed by archaeologist Hans Schleif,

a member of the famous Nazi Ahnenerbe Society.

The Nazi Ahnenerbe Society was basically

the SS paranormal division.

It apparently was the inspiration for films

like "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

And the purpose of it was to find relics and evidence

and possibly weapons from these very advanced Aryan gods

that the Nazis believed they were directly descended from.

The Ahnenerbe expeditions in Delphi

were looking for something mysterious, something hidden.

Was it just a treasure of gold and jewels?

Or was it something more?

MIKE BARA: It may not have been a treasure hunt at all.

It may have been an attempt to establish direct communication

between the Nazis and the gods.

If the omphalos stone was, in fact,

a piece of ancient alien technology,

then their ability to have obtained

that could have actually changed the outcome of the war.

NARRATOR: If the omphalos stone is, indeed, a direct line

to advanced beings from other worlds,

could its power be used for destructive ends?

And if so, is that why it remains hidden to this day?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest there is yet another extraterrestrial treasure

with even more devastating powers yet to be found.

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Kerala, India, 2011.

Police officers with high-powered rifles

stand guard at the entrance to the Sri Padmanabhaswamy

Temple, a sacred Vedic structure dedicated

to the Hindu god Vishnu.

Under orders from the India Supreme Court,

appointees unlock five secret vaults

hidden beneath the temple that have been sealed for centuries.

And door after door, they unearth

giant caches of relics, together valued at nearly $22 billion.

But when they reach the final chamber,

Chamber B, it cannot be opened.

JONATHAN YOUNG: It has three doors on it.

The first one is a kind of a grating metal door.

And the second has a heavy, wood door.

Finally, it was a strong, iron door that is shut.

It's stuck.

Among the warnings in Chamber B are depictions of cobras,

a terrifying image suggesting bad things

will happen if you open this.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: And then the last door has no locks.

It has no latches.

According to legend, it was sealed with a mantra.

It's called (non-english speech) mantra, and no

one knows what that mantra is.

There seems to be a bizarre curse around whatever

is in this room.

Anyone who tries to get into the room has all sorts of bad luck

or even illness or fatalities.

NARRATOR: On July 17, 2011, just three weeks

after the first five chambers were accessed, the person who

petitioned the court to force the chambers

opened, TP Sundarajan, came down with a fever and died.

The following month, a group of Indian diviners

issued a dire warning that opening the final chamber

would have deadly consequences for the people involved

and for the land.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: The locals started circulating

the rumors that any attempt made by a man

would cause tremendous harm.

We do not know what is in the chamber,

and there has been rumors that it contains deadly weapons.

NARRATOR: But what is it that lies

behind the door of Chamber B?

Could it be simply monetary treasure?

Or is it something more profound and dangerous?

Indian texts, such as the Mahabharata,

describe gods wielding ancient, divine weapons

and waging epic battles in the sky.

In the Mahabharata, there is a fierce battle that reads like

modern-day science fiction with reference to unknown weapons

and a single projectile charged with all the power

in the universe, an iron thunderbolt,

a gigantic messenger of death which

reduced everything to ashes.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Chamber B is the hiding

place for the kind of deadly technology

described in the Vedic texts?

DAVID CHILDRESS: What's behind it

is something special and dangerous.

It's possible that what's inside of this unopened chamber

is some kind of extraterrestrial technology

that could change the world.

You're talking about extraterrestrial technology

which is not meant to be found, it is not

meant to be understood, and it is not

meant to be utilized by man.

NARRATOR: Could Vishnu's treasures,

sealed behind the ironclad door of Chamber B,

really be an ancient link to some

devastating alien technology?

(thunder roiling)

And if so, might this mysterious treasure,

like other so-called ancient lost treasures in Egypt,

Greece, Jerusalem, or the American Southwest,

be far more valuable or perhaps dangerous

than mere monetary riches?

JONATHAN YOUNG: The buried treasure

may not be the reason for our yearning or our searching.

It might be the meaning of life.

It might be the good life itself.

DANIEL DILLMAN: Life is so full of mysteries.

You have to open your eyes.

There's so much to uncover here, so much treasure,

and it's not just gold and silver.

It's knowledge.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Man has always been fascinated

with ancient treasures and discovering

these treasures-- the gold and silver, the jewels.

But in other cases, it can be technology

of the extraterrestrial gods themselves.

(dramatic music)

NARRATOR: Could the world's lost treasures,

like those listed on the Copper Scroll,

serve as a direct link to our extraterrestrial ancestors

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, would finding them help

us unlock the mysteries of the universe

or lead to our own destruction?

Perhaps it's meant to be a puzzle, one designed

to take centuries to solve.

And only after solving it will we know the truth

about our alien origins.