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>> In 2015, astrophysicists
Duncan Lorimer and Maura

McLaughlin stumbled upon a
strangely-flickering star.

Its radiation
pulsed so brightly,

they were unable to
match it to any known

object in the universe.

As the story made the headlines,
scientists around the world

were baffled.

Then, astronomers at
the Green Bank Telescope

confirmed that
these light signals

were emanating from a star
in the Cygnus constellation

1,200 light years away.

This fluctuating star
was cataloged KIC 8462852

and named Tabby's Star in
honor of Tabetha Suzanne

Boyajian, the first
astronomer who wrote about it.

>> Amongst the 100,000 stars
that was dipping its light,

or flux as they call
it, periodically.

Now, this is something which
happens if a planet moves

in front of a star.

You get a very slight dip
in the amount of light

that's reaching us.

In this case, the dips
were anything up to 22%.

Now if I can put this into
perspective, if, let's say,

Jupiter, the largest
planet in our solar system,

crosses in front of the sun.

If you were looking
at it from afar,

it would dip the
lights only about 1%.

So something that was dipping
the light, anything up to 22%,

is going to be huge,
massive, something

that is totally different.

Something that we've
not encountered

before in astronomy.

So what was going on?

>> Since 2015, the answer to
this question has garnered

the attention of
astronomers, scientists,

and space enthusiasts alike.

And a myriad of explanations
have been offered,

but none have been conclusive.

What is really odd about
this mystery is that,

uncharacteristically, even
the most staunch scientists

have not discounted
a popular hypothesis

that the expansive object
interrupting Tabby star's

brightness could be built
by an advanced space-faring

civilization.

Astoundingly, the BBC have
even released a documentary

advocating this theory.

Could it really be true?

>> Then in 2016, a new
burst was detected.

The distinctive
pulse of radio waves

released as the neutron stars
collided and were destroyed.

Followed by nothing.

Silence.

>> The BBC have shown for
the first time a documentary,

not just about this star,
but the fact that it almost

certainly has an ET vessel,
alien mega-structure around it.

We're not just talking
about bacteria.

We are talking about
advanced civilizations.

Thousands of years more advanced
than us down here on Earth.

The question comes is
that, if there really

is a structure around this
star, how does it affect us down

here?

I mean, is it possible
that these aliens

have been in touch with us in
some way in the recent past,

or perhaps even in
the distant past?

And the question comes
down to communication.

The star is approximately
1,300 light years

from our solar
system, which means

that when we're looking
towards it, anything we see

happened 1,300 years ago.

So that's around 700 AD.

The Maya civilization
was still full flight.

When they look at
us, of course they

are also looking at that
same timeframe around 700 AD.

>> Linda Moulton Howe's
theory suggests that the Mayan

civilization was created
in a hybridized program,

and then simply disappeared,
possibly off-planet.

Oddly enough, this connects
to the same timeframe

with the Tabby star.

Could there be an
ancient civilization

that once lived on Earth
trying to connect with us?

>> I will be sought out by
some people who have worked

for the CIA, NSA, DIA.

There was a man who
had said that he

had worked for the Central
Intelligence Agency.

And he said that was the
Mayan civilization created

in a hybridized program.

That there was a
collaboration teaching

tall of the mathematical
skills from history.

Then in 850 AD,
it wasn't drought.

It wasn't human war.

This man said to me,
for reasons unknown,

the Ebens came in
850 AD, and they

took the majority of
their hybridized Mayans

in a large craft and left Earth.

>> Could the Mayan disappearance
and the Tabby star anomaly be

linked?

Or could this mystery
in the sky actually have

a more ancient connection?

An ancient connection
that some believe

taps into the codes
of our planet.

>> Those astronomers, they
also said that these dips

in the lights could also be
used to broadcast information.

Whether this
information be binary.

Whether it be prime
numbers or some other form

of attention-seeking
information,

which a species like
ourself-- humanity--

could recognize as intelligent,
as universal information.

The work that I'm
carrying out suggests

that there is intelligence
in the broadcasts.

And that it may well be that
it is giving us not just

prime numbers or binary,
but very specific

mathematical formula.

What I have determined
is that there

are certain cycles associated
with the Kepler data.

They are all interlinked.

And they all reflect
certain key numbers.

All of them are multiples of 11.

Now, this may be just a very
simple piece of information.

But what's so
interesting is that we

find that this is
associated with the most

complex mathematical formula
that we have down here

on Earth.

For instance, Pascal's Triangle
is made up of multiples of 11.

It's like a pyramid of numbers.

The first number being 1,
the second number being 11,

the third number being 121,
the fourth number being 1,331.

11 squared, 11 cubed,
et cetera, et cetera.

These are exactly
the same numbers

that are being broadcast
from the KIC star right

at this moment.

This is where it gets weird,
because the Great Pyramid is

obviously one of the greatest
enigmas of the ancient world.

Certain researchers,
colleagues have found within it

certain key numbers that keep
cropping up again and again.

And those numbers
are the exact numbers

that are being broadcast
by this star KIC 8462852.

Is this a coincidence?

The Great Pyramid
and its two neighbors

are aligned to exactly the
same constellation as where

this star is, which is Cygnus.

>> And yet, just
1,000 miles Northeast,

another megalithic site that
is much older also points

to the Cygnus constellation.

In fact, it's the largest
and oldest megalithic site

on Earth, Gobekli Tepe.

>> Is it also a coincidence
that the oldest complex of stone

monuments in the world at
Gobekli Tepe in Southeast

Turkey is also aligned to
the constellation of Cygnus?

Is it also a coincidence that
in some of the oldest cave

art around the world,
we find evidence

of this same constellation
represented by celestial birds,

by bird men, birds on poles,
that all pointed and directed

towards this constellation?

>> I wish we could get into
the minds and into the heads

of the people who
made these sites.

All over the world in
megalithic structures,

they are all concerned
with lining themselves up

to the rising point of the sun
at certain times of the year.

They're telling us something
about our connection

to the cosmos and
our place on Earth.

>> Could Gobekli Tepe, the
oldest megalithic structure

on the planet, be revealing a
code that would connect us not

only to this anomaly in the sky,
but also to other ancient sites

around the world?

Translated into English, Gobekli
Tepe means "potbellied hill."

In 1994, Klaus Schmidt, an
archaeologist from Germany,

began digging into this
unnatural-looking bluff.

A few feet below the surface,
he discovered stone ruins.

Further investigation revealed
that this ancient formation

in Southern Turkey was 7,000
years older than Stonehenge,

throwing into
question much of what

has been written in
the history books.

Klaus Schmidt dedicated
his life's work

to uncovering what might
lie below the surface,

and continued to excavate until
he mysteriously died in 2014.

95% of the ruins
are still buried.

And the true purpose
of Gobekli Tepe

and its relationship
to the galaxy

is still an unsolved mystery.

>> Most archaeologists believe
the site is about 13,000 years

old.

And they believe it existed
for a couple of thousand years,

and then it was
deliberately buried.

Now, as far as I'm concerned,
it could date back much further

than that.

Because there is evidence
in Turkey that humans like

us existed millions
of years ago.

>> Gregg Braden points out
that more evidence is being

uncovered, pushing back
the date of antiquity.

Could Gobekli Tepe
be even older?

>> One of the consequences of
global warming is that the ice

on the poles has
receded tremendously,

including Antarctica.

And the thickness of
the ice as it is reduced

allows greater visibility
from Earth-penetrating radar

so we can see what's
underneath the ice.

One of the surprises is
that the satellite images

are sending back now
what appear to be

large-scale, complex
archaeological sites.

So they're not small hunting
villages and pit houses.

These look like advanced
technological civilizations

that we're seeing
underneath the ice.

So as a scientist, I have to
say one of two things happened.

Either someone built
these complex structures

under the ice after it already
formed, which is less likely.

And the more likely scenario
is that the structures existed,

and then the ice covered them.

Right now,
civilization-- the date

is being pushed back
to 13,500 years.

The last ice age ended
12,000 years ago.

The historic context of
civilizations going back

50,000, 60,000, 70,000 years
along these 5,000-year cycles

shows up in the mythology.

Maybe the mythology is
based on much more facts

than we've been led to
believe in the past,

or been willing to
embrace in the past.

>> If, indeed, it could be
older than mainstream scientists

believe, then what
could be its purpose?

Gobekli Tepe is the oldest stone
circle complex in the world.

If you can imagine
Stonehenge in England

and transpose it onto
the top of a mountain

top in Southeast Turkey,
and then multiply it

by at least 20 times.

And then, cover the stones
with beautiful carvings

of animals and representations
of abstract humans.

And give them T-shaped
tops because that's

what the stones have there,
this is what Gobekli is.

It was constructed at the
very end of the last ice

age around 9500
BC, and was in use

for a period of
1,500 years before it

was abandoned about 8,000 BC.

What's so interesting is
that the oldest and the most

accomplished of
technologically-advanced stone

enclosures, that alone gives
us evidence of possibly a lost

civilization.

The fact is that Gobekli Tepe
is in Northern Mesopotamia.

The area around Urfa, and
Harran, and Gobekli Tepe.

This is clearly the
cradle of civilization.

This is where the Anunnaki
had their power base.

>> I am on a trip with
geologist Robert Schoch,

who had had his PhD
in Yale University.

And we are standing down
inside of the excavation

of Gobekli Tepe surrounded by
these 19-foot-tall limestone

pillars.

Each weighed up to 15 tons.

And they're in rings.

And in that process of standing
there and talking about,

this is the most baffling place,
it doesn't feel like anything

that humans can understand.

Robert Schoch said, I've been
staring at these T-structures

and thinking about the old past.

And what could this
have been built for?

And he said, all of these
limestone pillars have T-tops.

And he said, it reminds
me of tuning forks.

And he said, Linda,
when you stand up

at the top of the hill, and
you realize that Gobekli Tepe

is built in a bowl.

You're always looking down at
the top of these big T-pillars

unless you climb down into
and then you're among them.

And he said, what if
this whole place was

built to resonate with
certain frequencies

by something above resonating
frequencies on big pillars

put in rings?

>> When you look
at Gobekli Tepe,

and you see all of
the constructions

of the inscriptions of all
of the animals of the Earth

on these giant pillars, it's
always been interesting to me

that perhaps what
these things were,

were a way of recording
a standing wave pattern

of a certain kind
of a life form.

For instance, a crocodile exists
on a different standing wave

pattern than a crane, than
an elephant, than a monkey.

And perhaps what they
were trying to do

was out of a state
of preservation,

trying to preserve these things.

They were trying
to preserve stones

that actually had those
frequencies recorded into them.

>> Could Gobekli Tepe have been
an ancient portal constructed

to communicate with gods
in far-away galaxies?

Is it possible that
Tabby star could

be a signal for humans to pay
attention to this gateway?

>> There is, for example,
evidence of very clear,

very precise astronomy
at Gobekli Tepe.

That it contains,
amongst other things,

the world's first perfectly
North-South aligned building.

You can't do that
without astronomy.

There are alignments
to specific star

groups and specific
moments of the year.

It's a highly-evolved site.

>> Shamanic cultures right
the way across the Eurasian

continent saw the northern
celestial pole as the point

of exit from the physical
world and the point of entry

into the sky world.

And it was seen as a hole.

Quite literally,
a hole connected

the different universes,
the middle world

to the upper world.

It would seem as if this
stone is a sign board showing

that journey and the
actual course, the route

that you would take to
reach the sky world.

I believe that one of the
indicators to our earliest

ancestors of a
place of great power

was the appearance
of mysterious lights.

It's known that a lot of
strange light phenomena

is seen in those very mountains
where Gobekli Tepe is sighted.

We call them UFOs today,
but these type of phenomena

have been occurring for many,
many thousands of years.

Arguably, since the beginning.

I think that our
ancestors would have

seen these as important signs
that here were places where you

could establish points of
contact, portals if you like,

with the other world.

And that by building
your monuments here,

that link with the
stars would be stronger.

The downloads of information
that create civilization

would be stronger.

Pillar 43 at Gobekli
Tepe is a sign board

for the shaman who
would be achieving

altered states of consciousness
within the enclosures,

and then journeying into an
astro form to the upper world.

Perhaps a deeper understanding
of the relationship

of these ancient monuments to
Tabby star and other galaxies

is the key to understanding
who built them and why.

>> I've not examined aerial
views of Gobekli Tepe,

but the fact that some people--

some researchers
are equating that

with a star map that depicts
our relationship would

be a perfect match for not
only the Egyptian culture,

but for what we've discovered
in the construction

of the pyramids themselves.

And the fact that this
harmonic relationship

exists between this star.

And it could very well be that
what that cosmology was meant

to encapsulate and
describe is this idea

that our star is
interacting harmonically

with these other stellar bodies.

And it could be that this
ancient extraterrestrial race

that came to visit here not
only understood that, but are

following that as
a sort of harmonic

map around the universe.

>> If it is, indeed, true
that Gobekli Tepe is a gateway

to other galaxies, then perhaps
somehow its architects knew

a global catastrophe was
imminent and buried this

ancient technology
to protect it.

>> As the excavations continued,
a number of surprising things

began to become clear.

First off, this potbellied
hill and this whole site

had not been covered up
by natural sedimentation.

After being in use
for about 1,000 years,

it was deliberately buried by
whoever was involved with it.

This was not some invading army
who came in and smashed it up.

This was in a kind
of preservation.

You must envisage teams
of hundreds of people

with sort of buckets filled
with stone and rubble.

And they're coming
and they're pouring it

in on top of the
existing stone circles.

And they just keep on
pouring until every stone

circle is covered.

>> Could the knowledge that
has been covered up preserved

the mythology from almost
every ancient culture?

>> Gobekli Tepe is a kind of--

it's like a potpourri
of cultures.

You see a lot of
Sumerian influence.

There's a lot of Egyptian
symbolism in Gobekli Tepe

as well.

There's Hindu
influence in there.

As well, Japanese.

And the fact is, this
is where you start

getting into this gray area.

Where does it come from?

Was there a world's book,
a central point where

everybody got their ideas from?

It seems to me that
Gobekli Tepe is

almost like a microcosm
of so many cultures

around the world that supposedly
never shared information

with each other.

And now, we begin to
realize, actually,

they got around much more
than we gave them credit for.

>> Could the big secret at
Gobekli Tepe be the connection

of every culture from
around the world?

And could it have been
discovered at the right time

to reveal information?

There are many who
believe uncovering

the answers to these
questions will transform

how we understand ourselves.

>> I would be lying if I said
I knew what was exactly buried

at Gobekli Tepe.

But I think what you can do
is draw a lot of similarities

and parallels to some of
these other megalithic sites

and get some pretty decent
scientific insight into what

they were trying to accomplish.

And what it looks like they
were trying to accomplish

is the preservation of
the scientific knowledge,

maybe at a time when there
was just such global upheaval

that the only way to
preserve it was to bury it.

It could very well
be why they purposely

buried the entire site.

You're going to construct
a megalithic site

of that kind of grandeur,
and scale, and put

that kind of effort into it.

And then you're going to
turn around and just bury it.

Why would any society do that?

>> But whoever
built Gobekli Tepe,

the fact that they buried
that very important 30 acres

of these rings of all of
these limestone columns meant

somebody--

something knew that
something potentially

destructive to the whole
planet and they didn't

want Gobekli Tepe destroyed.

But Gobekli Tepe
survived the 1990s.

>> Although Gobekli Tepe's
discovery in 1990 was

groundbreaking, research
has been problematic given

the dangerous upheaval in the
area and the knowledge that

still stays buried.

But perhaps the discovery
of the Tabby star

has become a beacon for
knowledge still preserved

at Gobekli Tepe, pointing
us in a direction

to uncover some human truths.

>> I think it is our
responsibility to preserve

those records that are being
destroyed in this cradle

of civilization, in the
Tigris-Euphrates, in Iraq,

in Syria, in Turkey.

Because they are
very intentionally

being destroyed in
some cases to wipe out

the memory of these
past civilizations

for a number of reasons.

But once they're gone,
they're gone forever.

And I think it's very sad
to see what's happening.

And I think it's a wake-up call.

We've taken for granted
for so long the fact

that these records are
here and that they exist.

We never really
considered that they

could be destroyed so easily.

If they actually got the
funding and got the effort

and they excavated the rest
of that 95% of that site,

I'm pretty sure what
it's going to do

is answer a whole
lot of mysteries

about these other
megalithic sites.

And the reason why I say
that is because here's

a site that's completely
preserved as far as we know.

It may be an actual perfect
construction of the science

that they were trying to save.

And if that ends
up being the case,

then I think what you'll
see is a resurgence

all through humanity
and a real effort

to try to rediscover what it
was that we're now missing.

That we are a species
living with amnesia

of what this science was.

And it's simply because we've
had such a turbulent history

as a species.

War after war after
cataclysm after cataclysm.

The Library of Alexandria being
burned, all of those things

mean that we've lost
more knowledge maybe

than we even possess right now.

And a lot of that
knowledge, when you really

begin to study these ancient
sites, can be regained.

And I'm hoping that's what
takes place with Gobekli Tepe.

We've got a lot of
mysterious cities built out

of stone around the world,
but that kind of structure,

and only 5% of it
has been excavated,

means that below that is such
a massive amount to be found.

>> I think Gobekli Tepe has
many more secrets to reveal.

The astronomy of the
site is something

that a number of researchers
are beginning to look into.

And I think that's going
to be one of the keys

to help us understand what
was going on at Gobekli Tepe.

But there's nothing to
beat plain, old-fashioned

excavation.

And that site
needs to be dug up.

I feel that Gobekli Tepe
is potentially so important

for unraveling the origins
of our present civilizations

that we really need to
expose the whole site

and understand absolutely
what's going on there.

It may change many
things about how

we view ourselves and our past.

>> There's something
more beyond that,

that some part of us comes
from the stars themselves.

And that at the point of
incarnation, that something,

we call it the
soul or the spirit,

embodies within flesh
and blood and exists.

And that this gives
us this connection

to the stars that the
soul or spirit actually

comes from an extraterrestrial
or a starry source.

>> What else lies buried
inside the potbellied grounds

at Gobekli Tepe?

Are there more secrets about
the true origins of mankind

to be unearthed?

Are we being prompted by the
communication with Tabby star

to dig deeper and connect
with these ancient sites?

Could there be some
kind of code that

interlocks celestial locations
with monuments on Earth?

Would it be possible
Gobekli Tepe could

be the ultimate smoking gun
when it comes to connecting

these ancient monuments
across the globe and the truth

on why they exist?

And could it reveal
a message that

helps us understand our
current civilization

and how to continue
humanity on this planet?

Researchers continue
to gather data,

but the answer may still
lie buried beneath the dirt.

As the unraveling of
these mysteries continue,

some interesting
evidence begins to emerge

from some unusual locations.

One such place has one of
the largest stones carved

by human hands at 1,650 tons--

>> Baalbek is one
of the big enigmas,

of which there is
very little answers.

We're talking about
a huge complex.

Around the temple of Jupiter,
there used to be 54 columns.

54, what's the
significance of that?

>> Could this number sequence
help reveal a code at Baalbek?

And is it possible
it could be more

evidence of an ancient message?

Stay tuned for the next season
of "Ancient Civilizations,"

where we dive deeper to
unravel the code of humanity.