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[Narrator] Enormous
granite sarcophagi

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that weigh more than 70 tons,

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mysterious monoliths
inspired by flying crafts,

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and massive sphere-shaped stones
that defy explanation.

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I've always said,

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you know something is important
if it is built out of stone.

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Why? Because it could
potentially last

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for not just centuries
but millennia,

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and that's exactly what we see

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in remarkable
ancient constructions

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that have withstood
the test of time,

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but in addition
to the stone structures

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we see around the world, there
are also mysterious monuments,

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strange objects,

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and secret spaces
that defy explanation,

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like in the case
of a stone settlement

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that predates history
as we know it.

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[Narrator] Abu Shahrayn, Iraq.

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6,000 years ago this ancient
mound was the site of Eridu,

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the oldest city
of the Sumerian empire.

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According
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this is the cradle
of civilization.

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[Felicia Beardsley] Many
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civilization began
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some 6,000 years ago.

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It is built on small bands
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who adopt agriculture.

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The population starts to grow,
and we begin to recognize,

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we need to organize

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our communities.

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You start seeing
these step-sided pyramids,

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where the religious practitioner

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might conduct his rites
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and we have
an urban planning environment.

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That also means we've got
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we have a lot of science,
a lot of mathematics.

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

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[Narrator] Many researchers
around the world believe

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there is evidence to suggest

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civilization existed on Earth
long before the Sumerians,

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and one key source
is the writing

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of the Sumerians themselves.

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Ancient cuneiform tablets
list kings

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who ruled tens of thousands
of years ago...

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...and they tell
of an earlier age

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when humans lived
among powerful beings

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that came down from the sky
called the Anunnaki.

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[Andrew Collins] The Anunnaki
were the builder gods

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behind the creation

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of the civilizations
of Sumer and Babylon.

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They provided humanity with
the rudiments of civilization.

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They gave humanity
animal husbandry

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but also agriculture
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[Narrator] The Sumerians
also wrote

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that the Anunnaki were
responsible for bringing

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a devastating cataclysm
upon the Earth...

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[thunder cracks]

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...eerily similar to the story
that would later appear

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in the Hebrew Bible
as the Great Flood.

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While nearly identical stories
of a great deluge

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can be found
in the ancient texts

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of many religions and cultures,

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mainstream archaeologists
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that there was no evidence
of any civilization

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existing
more than 6,000 years ago

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to support the idea that such
a cataclysm actually took place.

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But in the early 1990s,

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Klaus Schmidt of the German
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began excavations
at the ancient site

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of Göbekli Tepe
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and what he unearthed
changed everything.

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[Paul Bahn] Once Klaus Schmidt

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started excavating Göbekli Tepe,
it just blew everybody away

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because we'd never before known
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that people 12,000 years ago

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could produce such spectacular
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as he found at Göbekli Tepe.

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[Tsoukalos] It is the first
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that proves its age,
dating as far back

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

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The discovery
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of Göbekli Tepe's dating

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has changed
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[Robert Schoch] This is
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of a major civilization

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at that remote time,

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a time when the standard
historians all along have said,

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"Well, no, civilization
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They were just simple hunter
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They were primitive people."

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But we now have evidence
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[Bahn] It really did send
shock waves

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through the whole world
of early prehistory

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because we have never,

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ever seen anything like this

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from anywhere in the world

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at that time, 12,000 years ago.

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[Narrator] Göbekli Tepe's

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nearly two dozen
enormous T-shaped pillars,

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some weighing more than 20 tons,

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feature numerous carvings

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that include depictions
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and intricately designed
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Archaeologists estimate
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a team of 50 men an entire week

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to move just one of
the monolithic pillars

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from the limestone quarry

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to the top of the hill
where they stand today

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and over 300 hours
to carve the bas-reliefs.

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[Roy Fisher] The structures seem
to reflect coordinated effort

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among significant numbers
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which is not how
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hunter-gatherer societies, which
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[Narrator] For years
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that Göbekli Tepe was
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and while highly impressive,

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it was not large enough
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what would be considered
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But then, in 2004,
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was shown photographs
of a location

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that looked remarkably similar
to parts of Göbekli Tepe.

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[Collins] I was visiting
Göbekli Tepe, and some children

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came up to me
and showed me a picture

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of this T-shaped standing stone
with this snake along the side.

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

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Wh-Where is this?"

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some unexcavated site
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which is about 25 miles

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away from Göbekli Tepe,
and so I set out to find it,

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and eventually I came
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and as I walked up towards it,
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sticking out of the ground,

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these heads
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again, exactly as you see
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and I realized
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was something as grand
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[Narrator] For 15 years, only
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were aware of the pillars
protruding from the earth

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at the site
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When it was finally excavated,

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archaeologists
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In 2019, digging begins.

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the archaeologists
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dozens
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[David Childress] You have about
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They're typically 13 feet high,
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certain depictions of animals
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So we have, really,
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[Narrator] The discovery
of the vast megalithic complex

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made headlines around the world,

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as it was estimated by experts
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somewhere between 11,000
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just like Göbekli Tepe.

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[Tsoukalos] Both Karahan Tepe
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are striking in beauty,

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striking in how massive
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those megaliths are, and...

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in my opinion they are related,

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so it's also possible that
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that entire region
was one gigantic city.

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of the most mysterious
monuments on Earth,

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many of which tower
over a hundred feet tall,

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but deep within a forest
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several unusual monoliths
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that are not only massive,

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they are almost perfect spheres.

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[Narrator] Zavidovici,
Bosnia, 1999.

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Archaeologist Dr. Sam Osmanagich
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are hiking along the Bosna River

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when they come
upon an astonishing sight.

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In the midst of the dense forest
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that do not appear to be
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We discovered six of them
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and perfectly spherical.

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[Narrator] To Dr. Osmanagich,

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the near-perfect shape
of the objects is compelling.

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[Osmanagich speaks
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And he begins to comb the region

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in search
of other stone spheres.

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[Osmanagich] We have been
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the stone spheres
in Bosnia for 25 years,

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and we have discovered
20 different locations.

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The stone spheres in Bosnia come
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granite, volcanic stone,
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and different sizes also.

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In most cases
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[Narrator] After his initial
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Dr. Osmanagich expanded
his search,

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and in 2016 he spotted
the most enormous stone sphere

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he had ever seen
hidden in the forest floor.

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[Osmanagich] We could see
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of the sphere was sticking out.

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We started clearing it,

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realizing that it was huge,
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in size.

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Once we cleared almost all of
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It is more than three meters
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The specific weight: 37 tons.

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So this was the largest
stone sphere discovery

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in the world.

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[Narrator] How the Bosnian
stone spheres were created

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remains a mystery.

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Some geologists suggest they
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but others believe the spheres
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to have been formed naturally.

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There is a process called

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spherical, or spheroidal,
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that is very, very common.

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We see them on the landscape
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Called hoodoos.

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You can see 'em
out in Alabama Hills.

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Out in Owens Valley
there's a lot of examples

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of this sort
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but rarely are they
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and so it could be
that some of these stones

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started out mostly spheroidal

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and then were worked
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The one in particular
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that's been, um,
in the headlines lately

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has evidence of heat-treating
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[McGowan] These are not
just round stones.

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They are 96% perfect

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in their spherical form.

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That's not something
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[Narrator] The near-perfect
measurements

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of the stone spheres
convinced Dr. Osmanagich

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that they were carved
by artificial means.

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And in 2016 he sparked
controversy when he announced

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that he believed they originated
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[Osmanagich] Who made them?

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We don't have precise answer,
but we know that they were made

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by ancient builders.

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Why? Granite never

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comes in spherical shape
in nature.

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[Narrator] If the stone spheres
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as Dr. Osmanagich suggests,
when were they made?

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Many of the spheres
are impossible

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to scientifically date,
but based on the layers of soil

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where the largest stone sphere
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Dr. Osmanagich believes
it is up to 100,000 years old.

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We don't have
very specific time,

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but what we do know--
extremely old.

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How do we know that?

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The Bosnian stone spheres--

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the biggest one
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The tree-- 50 years.

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Dark soil-- hundred years.

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Light soil--
couple of hundred years.

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We have light clay--
almost thousand years.

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We have dark clay,
we have gray clay--

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tens of thousands of years.

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And finally we have
sandstone plate--

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100,000-plus years.

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[Narrator] Is it possible
that the stone spheres in Bosnia

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were created
by some unknown culture

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tens of thousands of years ago?

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And if so, how?

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[Osmanagich] According to
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until a couple
of thousands of years back,

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the only tools
were copper tools.

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Copper is soft material.

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You cannot use copper tools
to shape granite stones.

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Of course this is us,
21st century civilization.

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What did they use?

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[Narrator] To try and understand
how these artifacts were shaped,

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Dr. Osmanagich had several
samples taken from the spheres

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analyzed in a lab

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at the University
of Belgrade in Serbia.

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We realized
that there is a difference

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between their physical
and chemical properties

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and natural stone materials.

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[McGowan] There is
a chemical component

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that was found
within the spheres,

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and this chemical has not been
able to be identified.

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[Narrator] If the giant stone
spheres in Bosnia were created

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by an ancient civilization,
what purpose did they serve?

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The precise engineering
of the monoliths

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and the fact
that many are made of granite

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has convinced Dr. Osmanagich

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that the stone spheres'
true purpose was to transmit

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Earth energy
that occurs in the region.

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It seems that they had
multilayer purpose.

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According to the new science
BioGeometry,

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three most powerful
geometrical shapes,

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when it comes
to the energy, are:

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four-sided pyramid,

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conical shape,

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and the third one is the sphere.

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Those three geometrical shapes
amplify the energies.

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[McGowan] Dr. Semir Osmanagic
talks

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about the use of these spheres
as, potentially,

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small power supplies,

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and this makes sense
when you look at them

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in context
with the rest of Bosnia.

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When you're sitting
in this creek bed

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surrounded by these spheres,

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it's hard to describe,
but it does feel powerful.

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It feels
like it is generating energy.

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20 miles south
of the Great Pyramids of Giza

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lies an astonishing structure
called the Serapeum.

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Built underground,
the Serapeum is larger

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than two football fields,

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but the most extraordinary part
of this subterranean complex

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are two dozen giant stone boxes

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that appear to have been created
with advanced technology.

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[Narrator] Saqqâra, Egypt.

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Inside the mysterious
subterranean structure

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known as the Serapeum
are 24 massive boxes

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that are carved
from exceptionally hard stone

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like granite, basalt,
and diorite.

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[Ramy Romany] Each sarcophagus
was over 70 tons.

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70 tons is not a weight
that 200 people can carry.

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It is an impossible weight
to move anywhere,

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let alone a hundred feet
under the ground

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and then 700 feet
into a tiny corridor

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and then
inside a little chamber.

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[Colin Reader] If you think
of a pyramid or a temple,

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it's in the open air.

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If you're hauling
a big block of stone

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or an obelisk,

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you've got space
to get teams of people.

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You can get draft animals on it.

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But the thing
that really startles me--

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they didn't have the space
to get huge teams of men

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to start moving them,

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and they couldn't get animals
down there

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for any practical intent.

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[Narrator] Just as baffling
as how the ancient Egyptians

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managed to move
these giant boxes

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is how they were able
to carve them

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with such incredible precision.

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Machinists have gone
in there with tools

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to measure just how
precisely carved they were.

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We're talking, in some cases,
to the thousandths of an inch,

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right angles
which are incredibly perfect.

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[Tsoukalos] Now, you need
sophisticated technology

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for this because in some cases
we're talking about basalt.

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Basalt is harder than granite,

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and according to what we know,

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the ancient Egyptians only had
bronze and copper tools.

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It is wishful thinking
to suggest

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that you can cut basalt
with copper.

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You just can't do it.

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But the surface is
as if you're touching glass,

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so, to me, it's possible
that the ancient Egyptians

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figured out
a way to vitrify stone.

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[Narrator] What compelled
the ancient Egyptians

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to place 24 enormous and
precisely crafted stone boxes

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deep beneath the earth?

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Based on inscriptions found
within the underground chamber,

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Egyptologists determined
that the Serapeum was built

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to be the burial place
of the sacred Apis bull.

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[Salima Ikram] The ancient
Egyptians believed

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that animals and gods had
special relationships

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and each deity was associated
with one particular animal.

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The Apis bull is related
to the Egyptian god Ptah,

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who was a major creator god.

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He was the god of Memphis,
the capital city.

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He was the god of all craftsmen.

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The Apis bull was one
of the most sacred animals

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in all of ancient Egypt.

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But here is the thing.

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When August Mariette opened
the sarcophagus,

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they were empty,
there was nothing in there.

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[Childress] What Egyptologists
will speculate is that

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somehow the Serapeum
was looted in antiquity

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and the mummified bulls were
removed from the sarcophagi.

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But who would want
a mummified bull?

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[Narrator] Were the giant stone
containers in the Serapeum

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simply designed to hold
the remains of an Apis bull?

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Some researchers believe
that these massive objects

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served
an entirely different purpose.

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[Schoch] Most of these boxes
have no inscriptions on them,

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but there's one in particular
that has a lot

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of hieroglyphics all over it.

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Those inscriptions
are incredibly crude

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compared to the finesse,
the precision

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of the actual stone boxes,

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so this leads me,
and I'm not alone in this,

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to suggest that these boxes

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go back to a much earlier period

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and they were being reused
and reappropriated

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at a much later time.

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It's thought by some researchers
that the Serapeum was used

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at a later date
for the mummified Apis bulls,

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but the Serapeum itself
predates this

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and its original purpose
was for something else.

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So what was the Serapeum for?

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[Narrator] While the purpose
of the stone boxes continues

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to perplex researchers,

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some believe clues can be found
by examining the contents

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of another box
found in the Serapeum,

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one not made of stone but wood.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

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[Narrator] After discovering
24 massive stone sarcophagi

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within the Serapeum,
Auguste Mariette

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comes upon a much smaller coffin
made of wood.

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There is a body inside it,

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and at first glance
it appears human.

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He came across
a very unique burial.

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It looked human.

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And yet,
when the bones were examined,

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they were actually found
to be those of a bull.

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[Ikram] Mariette found
no head of a bull

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but just bits of bone of a bull
wrapped up and then

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sort of a mask
of a human being on it.

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[Narrator] Egyptologists
assumed that the mask

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must belong to the builder
of the Serapeum

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and determined
the face it depicts

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is that of a prince who lived
in the 13th century BC

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named Khaemweset.

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[Ikram] People think
that the person who built

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the Serapeum
was Prince Khaemweset.

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Khaemweset was the fourth son
of King Ramses II.

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He was in charge
of the temple of Ptah

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and also, therefore,
the temple of the Apis bull

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in the capital city of Memphis.

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[Narrator] Archaeologists
also discovered evidence

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that the only two bulls
found in the Serapeum

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were put there
by Prince Khaemweset

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around 1200 BC.

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[Romany] He has a couple
of sarcophagi down there

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that he had put
Apis bull mummies in them,

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and he wrote that
on a little tablet

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next to that specific chamber

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that he added to the place
and he added to the Serapeum.

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[Childress] This was
a typical thing in ancient Egypt

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because many of the monuments
in Egypt were

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thousands of years old,
even for them,

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so the idea that the Serapeum
is actually much older

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than even we think it is
is a pretty valid theory.

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Two of the largest monoliths
on the planet

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can be found in Japan,

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and perhaps even more compelling

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than the size
of these mysterious monuments

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are the local legends that say

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they were created to honor
otherworldly beings

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who traveled in flying craft.

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[Narrator] One of the greatest
mysteries of the ancient world

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is why enormous stone structures

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appear
on nearly every continent.

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And at one time
megalithic monuments

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could be found
throughout the islands of Japan.

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[Jonathan Clements] Not many
people know this,

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but ancient Japan was strewn

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with megaliths and henges.

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The ancient peoples of Japan

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had these stone monuments
all over the place.

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During the samurai era,
which was war all the time,

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most of them were ripped up
and used to make castle walls

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and castle foundations.

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Some survived
'cause they're so weird.

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[Narrator] Perhaps
the most curious

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and awe-inspiring
of Japan's megaliths

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is Ishi-no-Hoden,

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a giant stone monument
near Osaka

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carved out of the bedrock

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and believed
to date back 16,000 years.

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The Ishi-no-Hoden megalith is

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sometimes called
the heavenly floating rock.

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It's huge,
probably around 500 tons.

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It's about a 20-foot square cube

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that has been built
in such a strange way

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that underneath it,

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there's a base that holds it up
above the ground,

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so it appears for all the world
to be hovering in the air.

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It is said to commemorate a god
that once came to Earth

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in a huge cubic-shaped object

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and landed somewhere
in that area.

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[Tsoukalos] In Japanese
mythologies and legends,

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it says that long ago,

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physical gods
were amongst our ancestors

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that had the capability
of flying or of flight.

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So the fact that they used
this water mirror

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underneath this stone

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to show as if it is hovering
and floating in the air,

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to me,

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is to signify flight.

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[Narrator] Curiously,
Ishi-no-Hoden

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is not the only
Japanese megalith

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that appears to document

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an ancient
extraterrestrial visitation.

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[Dominic Steavu] The
Masuda-no-Iwafune,

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which translates
to "the stone ship of Masuda,"

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is another megalithic structure.

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This is an even larger
granite, uh, megalith--

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30 feet across
and about 20 feet, uh, in width

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and, uh, 15 or so in height--

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that has a central depression,
or trough.

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[Phillips] This monolith is said
to have marked the Earth side

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of a so-called floating bridge

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that connected Earth
to the heavens.

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Now, what is a floating bridge?

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It's described as something
that the gods descend in.

499
00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:51,625
[Steavu] There is a story
in Shinto annals

500
00:27:51,750 --> 00:27:54,750
about the bridge that unites

501
00:27:54,958 --> 00:27:57,375
the earthly realm
with the heavenly realm

502
00:27:57,542 --> 00:28:00,500
collapsing and falling
onto the Earth.

503
00:28:00,667 --> 00:28:02,792
So these megaliths,
according to some,

504
00:28:02,958 --> 00:28:05,333
are the remnants
or the building blocks of this

505
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:09,208
celestial bridge
that has since collapsed.

506
00:28:10,708 --> 00:28:12,875
This floating bridge
sounds exactly like

507
00:28:13,042 --> 00:28:16,000
the bridge Bifröst
of the Nordic tradition,

508
00:28:16,167 --> 00:28:18,833
upon which the gods
would come and go from the Earth

509
00:28:19,042 --> 00:28:21,708
into the heavenly realms,
or Asgard.

510
00:28:21,875 --> 00:28:24,083
This suggests
that the same people

511
00:28:24,292 --> 00:28:26,958
are descending
to these various cultures.

512
00:28:28,583 --> 00:28:30,333
[Narrator] Might
the Ishi-no-Hoden

513
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,208
and Masuda-no-Iwafune megaliths

514
00:28:32,375 --> 00:28:35,333
have an extraterrestrial
connection?

515
00:28:36,292 --> 00:28:39,167
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

516
00:28:39,333 --> 00:28:43,542
and suggest the most intriguing
of Japan's megalithic structures

517
00:28:43,708 --> 00:28:47,375
can be found beneath the sea.

518
00:28:49,792 --> 00:28:52,833
On the western tip
of the Japanese archipelago

519
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,125
lies the tiny island
of Yonaguni.

520
00:28:56,292 --> 00:28:58,167
In 1986,

521
00:28:58,375 --> 00:29:01,292
scuba divers exploring
just off the coast

522
00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:03,375
make a shocking discovery.

523
00:29:04,583 --> 00:29:06,958
60 feet beneath
the ocean surface,

524
00:29:07,125 --> 00:29:09,667
they find a massive
rectangular structure

525
00:29:09,875 --> 00:29:12,333
roughly 328 feet long

526
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:16,000
and 196 feet wide.

527
00:29:16,167 --> 00:29:20,500
It has since become known
as the Yonaguni Monument.

528
00:29:20,708 --> 00:29:25,375
[Phillips] The Yonaguni
Monument is huge,

529
00:29:25,542 --> 00:29:29,167
and it looks for all the world
like an artificial construction.

530
00:29:30,375 --> 00:29:31,792
There are steps,

531
00:29:31,917 --> 00:29:34,708
there are what appear
to be columns

532
00:29:34,875 --> 00:29:37,417
and all sorts
of geometric formations

533
00:29:37,542 --> 00:29:41,458
that seem to have been
artificial constructions.

534
00:29:42,458 --> 00:29:46,792
Professor Masaaki Kimura
spent ten years

535
00:29:46,917 --> 00:29:50,250
examining the structure
with divers

536
00:29:50,417 --> 00:29:53,625
and the most sophisticated
equipment at the time,

537
00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:56,958
and he was convinced
beyond any doubt

538
00:29:57,125 --> 00:30:00,083
that it was
an artificial formation.

539
00:30:01,333 --> 00:30:03,958
[Tsoukalos] Yonaguni
boggles the mind

540
00:30:04,125 --> 00:30:06,667
because at some point

541
00:30:06,792 --> 00:30:09,833
that was a land bridge
that existed

542
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,792
when the water levels
were lower,

543
00:30:11,958 --> 00:30:14,500
and that means we're talking
around the last ice age,

544
00:30:14,708 --> 00:30:17,042
which was 10,000 or so BC.

545
00:30:17,208 --> 00:30:20,958
Now, that means that back then

546
00:30:21,083 --> 00:30:23,750
a culture must have existed

547
00:30:23,875 --> 00:30:27,833
to carve Yonaguni
the way it appears today.

548
00:30:32,583 --> 00:30:33,667
For ancient astronaut theorists,

549
00:30:33,958 --> 00:30:36,208
the mythology found
throughout ancient cultures

550
00:30:36,375 --> 00:30:40,583
of sky gods visiting Earth
to instruct humans

551
00:30:40,708 --> 00:30:42,917
could be evidence
of our ancestors

552
00:30:43,125 --> 00:30:47,750
witnessing misunderstood
extraterrestrial technology.

553
00:30:47,958 --> 00:30:51,292
For example,
a 3,000-year-old stone carving

554
00:30:51,417 --> 00:30:52,958
found in Mesoamerica

555
00:30:53,125 --> 00:30:55,458
looks so much like
a pilot in a cockpit

556
00:30:55,667 --> 00:30:58,958
that this mysterious monument
is often called

557
00:30:59,125 --> 00:31:01,500
the La Venta Astronaut.

558
00:31:03,333 --> 00:31:06,583
[Narrator] Teotihuacán, Mexico.

559
00:31:06,708 --> 00:31:09,833
At the southern end
of this ancient metropolis

560
00:31:10,042 --> 00:31:13,292
stands the Temple
of the Feathered Serpent.

561
00:31:13,417 --> 00:31:16,167
Its magnificent facade
is embellished

562
00:31:16,333 --> 00:31:18,167
with numerous
ornate stone statues

563
00:31:18,375 --> 00:31:21,458
of a snake head
ringed in feathers.

564
00:31:21,583 --> 00:31:24,667
This visage depicts
one of the most prominent gods

565
00:31:24,833 --> 00:31:27,042
worshipped
throughout Mesoamerica,

566
00:31:27,208 --> 00:31:31,583
a being known to the Aztecs
as Quetzalcoatl.

567
00:31:31,708 --> 00:31:33,042
[Barnhart] Quetzalcoatl was

568
00:31:33,208 --> 00:31:36,250
undoubtedly
one of the major gods

569
00:31:36,417 --> 00:31:40,042
for multiple civilizations
in Mesoamerica.

570
00:31:40,208 --> 00:31:44,292
A particular characteristic
of the Quetzalcoatl

571
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,583
is the feathers
on the bottom of his body

572
00:31:47,750 --> 00:31:50,208
that really denote the deity.

573
00:31:51,083 --> 00:31:53,000
Quetzalcoatl is one of the,

574
00:31:53,167 --> 00:31:55,708
if not the primary
Mesoamerican god.

575
00:31:55,875 --> 00:31:57,833
He's a god of light,
a god of wisdom,

576
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,667
a god of healing,

577
00:31:59,875 --> 00:32:02,583
and ultimately a peacemaker.

578
00:32:03,625 --> 00:32:06,708
[Narrator] In their codices,
the Aztecs write about

579
00:32:06,875 --> 00:32:09,292
Quetzalcoatl
teaching their ancestors

580
00:32:09,417 --> 00:32:11,375
various disciplines
that were essential

581
00:32:11,542 --> 00:32:14,375
to establishing
their vast civilization.

582
00:32:16,042 --> 00:32:18,167
Quetzalcoatl descended
from the sky

583
00:32:18,333 --> 00:32:22,333
in physical form and taught
the local populations

584
00:32:22,542 --> 00:32:25,000
in different
scientific disciplines

585
00:32:25,208 --> 00:32:27,333
like mathematics...

586
00:32:28,250 --> 00:32:31,167
...agriculture, medicine,

587
00:32:31,333 --> 00:32:34,083
writing,
all these different things.

588
00:32:35,208 --> 00:32:38,333
It's interesting to see
that this is not the only place

589
00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:42,167
where, in ancient mythology,
the same takes place.

590
00:32:42,333 --> 00:32:46,292
Because there are other cultures
around the world that also refer

591
00:32:46,458 --> 00:32:50,667
to teacher gods
who descended from the sky.

592
00:32:52,042 --> 00:32:53,417
[Narrator] Throughout
the ancient world,

593
00:32:53,583 --> 00:32:56,083
stories can be found
of powerful beings

594
00:32:56,208 --> 00:32:57,875
who came from the stars

595
00:32:58,042 --> 00:32:59,833
and shared wisdom
with early humans

596
00:33:00,042 --> 00:33:02,250
to help jump-start civilization.

597
00:33:03,208 --> 00:33:06,583
In Egypt,
the god Ptah shared knowledge

598
00:33:06,750 --> 00:33:09,292
of technology and metalworking.

599
00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:11,583
Prometheus taught
the ancient Greeks

600
00:33:11,750 --> 00:33:13,500
how to wield fire.

601
00:33:14,458 --> 00:33:16,333
And the world's
first civilization,

602
00:33:16,542 --> 00:33:19,042
the Sumerians,
wrote that they were visited

603
00:33:19,250 --> 00:33:22,542
by divine teachers
known as the Anunnaki.

604
00:33:24,083 --> 00:33:25,792
[Amir Hussain] In the Sumerian
tradition,

605
00:33:25,917 --> 00:33:27,875
one of the gods, Enlil,

606
00:33:28,042 --> 00:33:29,917
teaches human beings
about agriculture,

607
00:33:30,042 --> 00:33:34,792
teaches human beings how to plow
into the ground and plant seeds.

608
00:33:34,917 --> 00:33:36,583
It's the gods
who show human beings

609
00:33:36,792 --> 00:33:40,583
how to use technology,
how to create this technology.

610
00:33:41,625 --> 00:33:44,708
[Tsoukalos] This idea
that there were teacher gods

611
00:33:44,875 --> 00:33:46,167
a long time ago,

612
00:33:46,375 --> 00:33:49,167
the ancient astronaut
theory suggests

613
00:33:49,375 --> 00:33:53,083
that our ancestors were all
visited by the same teachers.

614
00:33:53,250 --> 00:33:54,708
The same extraterrestrials.

615
00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:57,583
[Narrator] Could Quetzalcoatl

616
00:33:57,708 --> 00:34:00,417
represent
an extraterrestrial visitor

617
00:34:00,583 --> 00:34:04,083
who helped to establish
civilization in Mesoamerica?

618
00:34:05,417 --> 00:34:08,000
According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

619
00:34:08,208 --> 00:34:10,000
support for this notion
can be found

620
00:34:10,167 --> 00:34:13,042
not only in the Aztec codices

621
00:34:13,208 --> 00:34:17,167
but also by examining
a number of curious depictions

622
00:34:17,333 --> 00:34:19,208
of the Feathered Serpent god.

623
00:34:23,125 --> 00:34:24,500
La Venta, Mexico.

624
00:34:26,042 --> 00:34:28,208
1955.

625
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:33,417
American archaeologists
Philip Drucker and Robert Heizer

626
00:34:33,583 --> 00:34:37,083
begin an excavation
of an Olmec pyramid mound.

627
00:34:38,042 --> 00:34:39,625
North of the main pyramid,

628
00:34:39,708 --> 00:34:41,958
they unearth
a mysterious carved stela

629
00:34:42,083 --> 00:34:46,125
that they date
to around 1200 BC.

630
00:34:46,292 --> 00:34:49,000
Now known as Monument 19,

631
00:34:49,208 --> 00:34:51,708
it is believed by many
to be the oldest depiction

632
00:34:51,875 --> 00:34:55,125
of Quetzalcoatl ever discovered.

633
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,542
[Barnhart] La Venta Monument 19

634
00:34:58,708 --> 00:35:02,208
is such an interesting
and evocative piece of art

635
00:35:02,375 --> 00:35:04,125
that it's gotten a ton of names.

636
00:35:04,292 --> 00:35:06,625
One of them is the Rocket Man.

637
00:35:07,625 --> 00:35:09,958
[Tsoukalos] It depicts
this weird scenery

638
00:35:10,042 --> 00:35:14,917
of some guy
enclosed inside a snake,

639
00:35:15,083 --> 00:35:19,500
and it's as if he's sitting
on some sort of a seat.

640
00:35:19,708 --> 00:35:22,750
The guy's, you know,
wearing some sort of a suit

641
00:35:22,875 --> 00:35:24,625
with a helmet,

642
00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:27,667
and he is, you know, just
sitting inside this enclosure.

643
00:35:27,833 --> 00:35:33,250
In my opinion, it's an example
of misunderstood technology.

644
00:35:33,375 --> 00:35:37,333
Monument 19 is a representation

645
00:35:37,542 --> 00:35:39,625
of Quetzalcoatl,
the teacher god,

646
00:35:39,792 --> 00:35:42,250
inside of a flying craft.

647
00:35:43,333 --> 00:35:45,667
[Narrator] Does Monument 19's
unique depiction

648
00:35:45,875 --> 00:35:48,750
of Quetzalcoatl,
not as a feathered serpent

649
00:35:48,917 --> 00:35:50,625
but as a humanlike figure

650
00:35:50,792 --> 00:35:52,750
sitting within the body
of a serpent,

651
00:35:52,917 --> 00:35:54,875
provide further evidence

652
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,333
that he was a real-life visitor
from another world?

653
00:35:59,375 --> 00:36:02,292
Curiously, the Olmecs
weren't the only people

654
00:36:02,458 --> 00:36:05,667
to depict Quetzalcoatl
in human form.

655
00:36:05,833 --> 00:36:09,125
There are also Maya and Aztec
depictions of Quetzalcoatl

656
00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:11,250
that show a human face

657
00:36:11,417 --> 00:36:14,458
seeming to emerge
from the mouth of a serpent.

658
00:36:16,542 --> 00:36:19,375
[Von Däniken] Now, according
to Central American tradition,

659
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:23,208
Quetzalcoatl is supposed
to have descended from a star.

660
00:36:24,458 --> 00:36:27,792
He's represented
as the Feathered Serpent,

661
00:36:27,958 --> 00:36:30,625
but also he's represented

662
00:36:30,792 --> 00:36:33,708
in the human form
with the helmet.

663
00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:37,708
There are many of these
representations of Quetzalcoatl.

664
00:36:37,875 --> 00:36:41,583
Quetzalcoatl was definitely
an extraterrestrial.

665
00:36:47,417 --> 00:36:47,625
High in the mountains of Peru

666
00:36:48,875 --> 00:36:51,875
stands one of the most
mysterious monuments on Earth.

667
00:36:52,042 --> 00:36:54,042
It's an ancient fortress

668
00:36:54,250 --> 00:36:56,958
with walls built
from gigantic stones

669
00:36:57,167 --> 00:36:59,208
that are joined so tightly,

670
00:36:59,375 --> 00:37:02,333
it'd be difficult
to recreate them today.

671
00:37:02,458 --> 00:37:05,375
But for some researchers,
the most compelling question

672
00:37:05,542 --> 00:37:08,250
isn't how this structure
was created

673
00:37:08,417 --> 00:37:11,375
but, rather, when.

674
00:37:16,292 --> 00:37:18,375
[Narrator] Cusco, Peru.

675
00:37:18,542 --> 00:37:21,750
Nestled in a high river valley
of the Andes Mountains,

676
00:37:21,875 --> 00:37:25,375
among peaks towering
over 20,000 feet,

677
00:37:25,542 --> 00:37:29,125
this once-great city
served as the capital

678
00:37:29,333 --> 00:37:30,625
of the Inca Empire

679
00:37:30,792 --> 00:37:34,333
from the 13th
to 16th centuries AD.

680
00:37:34,542 --> 00:37:39,542
In 1533, Spanish conquistadors
arrived in Cusco

681
00:37:39,708 --> 00:37:43,000
and were astonished
by the incredible stonework

682
00:37:43,125 --> 00:37:47,958
found at a site just north
of the city called Sacsayhuamán.

683
00:37:49,542 --> 00:37:51,583
[Brien Foerster] Above the city
of Cusco, we find

684
00:37:51,792 --> 00:37:55,000
the megalithic site
and huge ceremonial Inca complex

685
00:37:55,125 --> 00:37:56,667
called Sacsayhuamán.

686
00:37:57,708 --> 00:38:02,042
Its most prominent feature is
a zigzag wall of three levels.

687
00:38:02,208 --> 00:38:06,875
Some of the stones there
weigh as much as 125 tons

688
00:38:07,042 --> 00:38:11,250
and were moved from the quarry
at least three miles away.

689
00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:12,667
[Tsoukalos] Sacsayhuamán

690
00:38:12,875 --> 00:38:15,167
is one of the most beautiful
ancient structures

691
00:38:15,375 --> 00:38:16,875
you will ever see in your life.

692
00:38:17,083 --> 00:38:21,583
There are massive,
gigantic megalithic blocks,

693
00:38:21,750 --> 00:38:26,208
and you find the most amazing
of masonry style

694
00:38:26,375 --> 00:38:28,667
where you can't even fit
a dollar bill

695
00:38:28,875 --> 00:38:33,000
in between the fittings
of any of the blocks.

696
00:38:33,125 --> 00:38:36,792
[Narrator] Sacsayhuamán
served both as a fortress

697
00:38:36,958 --> 00:38:38,833
and a ceremonial center.

698
00:38:39,042 --> 00:38:43,208
A circular structure that lies
within the megalithic walls,

699
00:38:43,375 --> 00:38:46,500
called Muyuq Marka,
was the base of a tower

700
00:38:46,708 --> 00:38:49,417
where the Inca worshipped
the sun god Inti.

701
00:38:50,417 --> 00:38:53,667
However, many experts suggest
that while the Inca

702
00:38:53,792 --> 00:38:56,542
certainly utilized
this megalithic structure,

703
00:38:56,708 --> 00:38:59,333
they were not the ones
to build it.

704
00:38:59,542 --> 00:39:00,667
[Foerster] Standard belief
is that

705
00:39:00,875 --> 00:39:03,500
the Inca constructed
Sacsayhuamán

706
00:39:03,667 --> 00:39:05,750
less than a thousand years ago.

707
00:39:07,542 --> 00:39:11,333
But some of the earliest
Spanish chronicles, it is said

708
00:39:11,542 --> 00:39:14,833
that the Spanish
were completely astounded

709
00:39:15,042 --> 00:39:18,333
by seeing this site,
and they asked the local Inca,

710
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:21,750
"Did you build it?"
and the Inca replied, "No.

711
00:39:21,875 --> 00:39:26,042
This was here
when we arrived 500 years ago."

712
00:39:27,667 --> 00:39:31,042
[Narrator] Many experts believe
Sacsayhuamán predates the Inca

713
00:39:31,208 --> 00:39:32,958
by thousands of years

714
00:39:33,167 --> 00:39:37,333
and that the Inca built on top
of what came before.

715
00:39:37,542 --> 00:39:38,917
[Foerster] The Inca were

716
00:39:39,042 --> 00:39:40,667
a Bronze Age civilization,

717
00:39:40,792 --> 00:39:43,083
and the stones at Sacsayhuamán

718
00:39:43,250 --> 00:39:46,000
are metamorphosed limestone,

719
00:39:46,208 --> 00:39:48,875
which is much harder than bronze

720
00:39:49,042 --> 00:39:52,833
and could not be cut or shaped
using bronze tools.

721
00:39:53,042 --> 00:39:54,958
Inca built on top

722
00:39:55,125 --> 00:39:57,000
'cause you can tell
a major difference

723
00:39:57,208 --> 00:39:59,500
between megalithic construction,

724
00:39:59,708 --> 00:40:02,000
where the stones fit
perfectly together,

725
00:40:02,083 --> 00:40:05,208
and the Inca, which is stones
piled on top of stones

726
00:40:05,375 --> 00:40:08,083
with mortar as filler.

727
00:40:08,250 --> 00:40:12,708
[Narrator] But if Sacsayhuamán
really does predate the Inca,

728
00:40:12,833 --> 00:40:15,875
as the Inca themselves claimed,

729
00:40:16,042 --> 00:40:18,500
how could an even
earlier civilization

730
00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:21,875
have possessed
far superior technology?

731
00:40:22,083 --> 00:40:23,833
[Tsoukalos] The ancient Inca
talk about

732
00:40:24,042 --> 00:40:29,500
celestial beings who descended
from the sky a long time ago

733
00:40:29,667 --> 00:40:32,583
and imparted
the first knowledge of anything

734
00:40:32,750 --> 00:40:36,208
toward people of Earth.

735
00:40:36,375 --> 00:40:38,375
The ancient astronaut
theory suggests

736
00:40:38,542 --> 00:40:41,833
it was human beings
who built Sacsayhuamán

737
00:40:42,042 --> 00:40:45,958
but under the tutelage
of the extraterrestrials.

738
00:40:47,708 --> 00:40:49,917
The remarkable engineering

739
00:40:50,083 --> 00:40:52,667
of the stone walls
at Sacsayhuamán

740
00:40:52,833 --> 00:40:55,583
is just one of many
fascinating enigmas

741
00:40:55,750 --> 00:40:58,500
that the ancient
Peruvian site holds.

742
00:40:58,667 --> 00:41:01,333
And as we've seen,
mysterious monuments

743
00:41:01,542 --> 00:41:04,042
come in all shapes and sizes.

744
00:41:04,250 --> 00:41:07,500
From colossal megaliths in Japan

745
00:41:07,708 --> 00:41:10,708
and baffling stone spheres
in Bosnia

746
00:41:10,917 --> 00:41:14,333
to giant stone boxes in Egypt,

747
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what they all have
in common is that

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they were created to last
for thousands of years,

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perhaps to honor
or to immortalize

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extraterrestrial contact
in the distant past.

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