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NARRATOR:
Ancient stories
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that describe civilizations
long before our own.
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FELICIA BEARDSLEY:
Oral histories
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always talk about
the "before the before."
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When gods and people
walked the land.
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NARRATOR:
New discoveries
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that challenge
conventional history.
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MARK CARLOTTO:
These Meso‐American sites
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actually extends
the time frame for archeology
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from 10,000 years to...
tens of thousands of years.
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And monumental structures
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that suggest that
everything we think we know
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about our planet is wrong.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
This pyramid city is
so deep in the ocean,
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it must be 50,000 years old.
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GEORGE NOORY:
There's no question in my mind
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that preexisting civilizations
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on this planet
had high technology.
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They had help from
the extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR:
But if human civilizations
existed on Earth
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tens of thousands of years ago,
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what happened to them?
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And could it be only a matter
of time before their fate...
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becomes our own?
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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NARRATOR:
April 2018.
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A groundbreaking paper
is published
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by NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt
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and astrophysicist Adam Frank
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that tackles
an intriguing question.
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Might advanced civilizations
have existed on Earth
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in the remote past that have
been completely lost to history?
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MICHAEL DENNIN:
This paper asked
a very interesting question,
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which is: can we detect
ancient civilizations
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that are tens of thousands
of years old?
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And the intriguing answer
is really no.
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Because all evidence of these
civilizations and remnants
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of them would've been
destroyed in that time frame.
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CHILDRESS:
The evidence for them would be
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hard to find, they were saying.
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Cataclysms and Earth changes
in the past
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would have erased the evidence
for these civilizations.
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DENNIN:
You know, we're only
a couple hundred years
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into a technological
civilization.
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That's not a very long
time frame in the fossil record.
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So, if our civilization
got wiped out,
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we would possibly
disappear from that record
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in the future.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Once humankind is gone,
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all those skyscrapers,
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all the results
of human civilization
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will be gone
after a thousand years.
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So, who knows what will
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be left after 100,000 years,
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or in some cases, hundreds
of thousands of years.
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NARRATOR:
According to mainstream
archaeology,
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the Earth's earliest
civilization emerged
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in the area of modern‐day Iraq
around 3000 BC.
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But the surviving histories
of many ancient peoples
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tell of an earlier age,
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one where mortals
and beings known as "gods"
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lived side by side.
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Oral histories
have been around generations
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upon generations
upon generations.
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And they always talk about
the "before the before,"
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when gods and people
walked the land.
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BETTANY HUGHES: Hesiod was
a‐a Greek author who wrote
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that there were
Five Ages of Man:
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the Golden Age,
the Silver Age, the Bronze Age,
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the Age of Heroes
and the Age of Iron.
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In the Golden Age,
basically, people were
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living beautiful lives
along with the gods.
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And he thought this was real,
he didn't think this was a myth.
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BEARDSLEY:
The Aztecs have
other ages of man.
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Other cultures have
similar ways of breaking up time
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and going back into deep time.
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It's their understanding
of their origins.
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When we look into
the historical records
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of the Greeks and the Aztecs,
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they're often talking
about ages.
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Often, ages that span
many thousands of years.
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And it opens up the possibility
that humanity, in fact, has gone
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through intermittent
periods of dark and light
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for many, many thousands
of years, for millennia.
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And it's just part
of our experience here on Earth.
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NARRATOR:
Stories of an age
before modern humans
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can even be found
in early Judaic texts,
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which describe a race of humans
that existed on the Earth
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long before the biblical Adam.
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ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
The pre‐Adamic civilizations
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are hinted to in the Bible.
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There is a curious genealogy,
which is portrayed
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in the Book of Genesis,
Chapter 36,
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which states these are the kings
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who reigned in the land of Edom,
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prior to there being
a king in Israel.
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There was intelligent,
technologically advanced
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civilizations
of a humanoid nature
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here on Earth prior to Adam.
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According
to Enochian literature,
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we have a record of it
being technologically advanced,
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even to the point
of having nuclear technology.
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CARLOTTO:
I think there's
extensive knowledge
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from many cultures,
many traditions
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that something existed
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before our modern human
civilization developed.
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There might have been,
uh, other, uh,
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civilizations on Earth, um,
that predated us
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that were not the only
technological civilization
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on the planet,
but just the latest one.
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That there had been
previous ones that existed
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that were destroyed and that
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had become forgotten over time.
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NARRATOR:
Could it be that
these ancient stories
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are more than just
fanciful tales,
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and that our planet
has witnessed the rise and fall
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of more than one so‐called
"advanced civilization"?
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TSOUKALOS: We have stories
of the Golden Era,
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when the so‐called "gods"
still mingled among men.
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So, you have to wonder,
what gods,
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and what time,
and who were they?
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According to mainstream
archeology, the gods were
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nothing but a figment
of our ancestors' imagination.
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And I wholeheartedly
disagree with this,
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because our ancestors
were very clear
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in distinguishing
gods of nature,
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and gods who actually
descended from the sky
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physically and taught mankind
in various disciplines.
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So, if there's a prehistoric
civilization, what I'm saying is
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that that knowledge did come
from the extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR:
A central idea
behind what is known
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as "ancient astronaut theory"
is the notion
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that extraterrestrials came
to Earth in the distant past
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and altered
the course of humanity.
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If the various stories
of ancient civilizations
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are true,
including those concerning
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gods living among mortals,
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could it mean
that alien visitations
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may have happened
more than once?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
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that not only is such
a profound notion possible,
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but that evidence can be found
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by examining the stories
of the Sumerian civilization
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that emerged 5,000 years ago...
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and the beings
they called the Anunnaki.
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TSOUKALOS:
The term "Anunnaki" means
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"those who from
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And our ancestors thought
they were being visited
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by these divine magical beings.
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CHILDRESS:
In the ancient Sumerian texts,
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they were described as
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bringing knowledge and science.
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They were often depicted
as bird‐type people.
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NARRATOR:
Curiously, a similar figure
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to the bird‐headed Anunnaki
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exists in cave art
discovered in Lascaux, France,
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which dates back
to roughly 16,000 BC.
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In the Lascaux cave,
is a deep shaft
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with an incredible
pictorial story on the wall.
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It shows a huge
bull‐like creature,
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next to which is a birdman,
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a figure with a bird's beak.
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HENRY:
The Birdman of Lascaux
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was considered to be
a‐a shamanistic figure.
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But we have to ask the question:
could this be something more?
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Could this be
an otherworldly being,
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an extraterrestrial being,
who interacted
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with this prehistoric culture
in France?
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NARRATOR:
In 2019,
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archaeologists
in Indonesia announced
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that they had
discovered rock art in a cave
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on the island of Sulawesi
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that they believe was created
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at least 44,000 years ago.
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If true, it is
the oldest pictorial record
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of storytelling ever found.
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And curiously, among the images
painted on the cave walls
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is a depiction of a humanlike
figure with a bird's head.
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The paintings depict a group
of eight humanoid hunters
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approaching a group of animals.
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And one of them appears
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to have a very large bird beak.
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44,000 years ago,
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we have these birdmen
in Indonesia.
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18,000 years ago,
they're in France.
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So, what are the chances
of these birdmen figures
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being just, uh,
coincidently created
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in these different areas?
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We have to ask ourselves:
are these birdmen
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actually representatives
of the Anunnaki
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who are extraterrestrials,
who came
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all over the world
in prehistory?
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NARRATOR:
But if,
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as ancient astronaut theorists
insist,
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the Earth played host to
numerous advanced civilizations
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long before our own,
what happened to them?
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And why is there no hard
evidence to prove they existed?
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For many, the answer can be
found hiding in plain sight,
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and the hard evidence exists
in the form of objects
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made using the only substance
that can stand the test of time,
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stone.
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NARRATOR:
Aerospace engineer
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and satellite imaging expert
Dr. Mark Carlotto
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has spent the past three years
investigating
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some of the world's most
impressive archaeological sites.
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After closely examining
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each site's precise
geographical orientation,
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he has come
to the incredible conclusion
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that many ancient structures
provide evidence
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of being far older
than has been suggested
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by mainstream archaeology
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and were likely built tens
of thousands of years ago.
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CARLOTTO:
If you look at many monuments,
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uh, today, um,
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they're often built
with respect,
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uh, to the cardinal directions.
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So, knowledge of the Earth,
of astronomy,
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of the heavens was
very important in alignments.
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NARRATOR:
Because most of the world's
megalithic structures
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were built so that they would be
in precise alignment
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with the Earth's
cardinal directions of north,
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south, east and west,
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Dr. Carlotto's investigation
had a breakthrough
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after he noticed
that Teotihuacán,
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the ancient complex north
of Mexico City,
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didn't properly line up.
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An extraordinary possibility
then occurred to him:
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perhaps the structure was built
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tens of thousands of years
earlier,
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when the Earth's poles were not
in their current locations.
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It was an idea that was not
as farfetched as it seems.
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In the 1950s,
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Harvard‐educated scientist
Charles Hapgood
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proposed a theory known
as crustal displacement,
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whereby,
at certain moments in history,
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the Earth's crust suddenly
and rapidly shifts positions
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and, in the process,
changes the positions
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of the North and South Poles.
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DENNIN: Plate tectonics
have plates moving slowly
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as individual separate plates.
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Um, Charles had a theory
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that, basically, instead
of a slow, steady movement,
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he was really interested
in sudden, quick movements
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of the crust as a whole.
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CHILDRESS:
What Hapgood was saying
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was that the thin crust
of the Earth
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can slip forward on the mantle.
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And, therefore,
the North Pole and South Pole
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can shift somewhat,
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and this causes
huge, cataclysmic changes.
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CARLOTTO:
Hapgood's analysis was based
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on climate data‐‐ looking
at patterns of climate change,
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uh, changes in glacial patterns,
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uh, ice ages
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and then correlating
those patterns
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with what he believed
was the cause,
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which was a shift of the poles.
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Hapgood believed that,
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over the last 100,000 years
or so,
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that there were three previous
locations of the North Pole.
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And when I looked at the imagery
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of these Mesoamerican sites
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and realized
that these pyramids and temples
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were not aligned to north,
I thought perhaps
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they were aligned
to former North Poles
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that Hapgood had discovered.
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Hapgood actually sent
this theory to Albert Einstein,
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who endorsed it.
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And when Einstein died,
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he actually had Hapgood's book
open on his desk.
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NARRATOR:
Dr. Carlotto believes
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that some of the world's most
impressive ancient structures
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not only confirm
Hapgood's theory
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but radically alters
our understanding
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of intelligent life
on planet Earth.
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CARLOTTO:
So, my process
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for analyzing these images
starts
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with a geographically registered
image,
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where north is up.
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So, for example, uh,
here we have Teotihuacán.
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And this is where my search,
uh, began.
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And let me just highlight
the four sides
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so we can define a direction
towards the north.
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As you can see in this image,
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the pyramid is not oriented
to the cardinal directions‐‐
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north, south, east and west.
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NARRATOR:
To test his theory,
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Dr. Carlotto
was curious to find out
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if other ancient structures
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shared Teotihuacán's
same geographic anomaly.
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What I ended up doing
was developing an algorithm
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as the basis for analyzing
their alignment.
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So now, as we'll see
when we zoom out,
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we'll find that Teotihuacán
is aligned to other sites,
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uh, nearby.
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And I'll show you that
by zooming out here.
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And this shows a number of other
sites in the Valley of Mexico
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that are aligned
in the same g‐general direction.
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All of these, uh,
lines are meridians
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that lead to a point east
of Hudson Bay.
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NARRATOR:
Incredibly, these sites align
with a location
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that Hapgood proposed
was once the North Pole.
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CARLOTTO:
Hapgood believed
the Hudson Bay pole existed
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12,000 to 18,000 years ago.
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So these sites,
by virtue of their alignment
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to this particular pole,
could be that old.
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NARRATOR:
If Dr. Carlotto's analysis
is correct,
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it would date
the construction of Teotihuacán
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to at least 10,000 BC,
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which is 10,000 years older
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than mainstream archaeologists
propose.
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And he contends
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that other ancient sites
were built even earlier.
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CARLOTTO:
One of the most enigmatic sites
on Earth is Baalbek,
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the Temple of Jupiter,
in Lebanon.
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As you can see, this site
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is oriented to a point
in Northern Greenland
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that Hapgood believed
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was a former location
of the North Pole.
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NARRATOR:
Based on Hapgood's theory,
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Baalbek's alignment
to Northern Greenland
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would date it to
a staggering 50,000 years ago.
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CARLOTTO:
Another site nearby,
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the Western Wall
in the city of Jerusalem,
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is aligned in the direction
of the Greenland pole.
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And let's take a look
at a third site,
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the Parthenon in Athens.
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We believe that the original
structures at these sites‐‐
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in other words,
the original sites themselves‐‐
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were established
as long ago as 50,000 years.
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NARRATOR:
According to Dr. Carlotto,
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these are still not the oldest
structures that exist on Earth.
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Based on Hapgood's theory,
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the North Pole was located
in the Bering Sea
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more than 100,000 years ago.
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So, this is
the Temple of the Six Monoliths
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at Ollantaytambo,
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and it's the Sun Temple.
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Normally,
sun temples are aligned
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to the cardinal directions.
They have
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an eastern side that faces
the rising sun on the equinox.
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Here, the Sun Temple is tilted
approximately 45 degrees.
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An alignment to the current pole
doesn't make any sense.
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But if we now change
our reference
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and look at an earlier pole,
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this, uh, pole thought to have
existed in the Bering Sea,
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then the orientation of the
Sun Temple makes perfect sense.
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So what's significant
about this analysis
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is that it actually extends
the time frame
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for archaeology
from 10,000 years
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to tens of thousands of years
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to perhaps 100,000 years
or more.
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So it's my contention that
the five ages of the Aztecs,
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the five ages of the Greeks
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and the previous and current
locations of the pole
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are all correlated.
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They all tell the same story.
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CHILDRESS:
The idea that cataclysmic
pole shifts
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actually occurred,
uh, is startling.
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These structures can be much
older than archaeologists admit.
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And, ultimately, hundreds,
thousands of years later,
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people found them again
and‐and started reusing them.
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It's a fascinating thought.
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NARRATOR:
Are the remnants
of long‐lost civilizations
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still standing today?
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Civilizations
that existed on Earth
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as much as 100,000 years ago,
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but misinterpreted by scholars
as being much more recent?
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Perhaps the proof can be found
by examining
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physical evidence
of ancient writing
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dating back
more than 10,000 years.
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NARRATOR:
Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch
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and his colleague
Dr. Manu Seyfzadeh
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announce a discovery that has
the potential to radically alter
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the currently accepted timeline
of human history.
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They believe they have found
hieroglyphic writing
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at the 12,000‐year‐old
archaeological site
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of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey.
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If true, it would predate
the earliest known writing
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by thousands of years.
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SCHOCH: At Gobekli Tepe,
I'm convinced now
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that we have evidence
of actual‐‐
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what we can only call writing,
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symbolic notation,
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writing on some of the pillars.
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We're still trying
to interpret them.
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But if this analysis is correct,
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they had writing.
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And according to standard
conventional thinking
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up until now,
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writing and literacy
did not exist anywhere on Earth
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until 6,000 or 7,000 years
after Gobekli Tepe.
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And what we see at Gobekli Tepe,
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I don't believe
that's the beginning.
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NARRATOR:
Could the strange symbols found
on the stone pillars
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at Gobekli Tepe
represent a writing system
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that was developed
by a long‐lost civilization,
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one that thrived
more than 12,000 years ago?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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physical evidence of lost
civilizations has been found
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that they believe
to be much, much older.
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Canadian explorer
Paulina Zelitsky and her team
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are conducting an oceanic survey
off the coast
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when they detect
curious formations
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more than 2,000 feet underwater.
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HUGH NEWMAN:
They found
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when they were taking images,
some kind
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of pyramidical structure
and other structures.
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There were circular areas.
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There was what appeared to be
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some kind of city
built down there.
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It was about
two square kilometers in size.
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And so, this is
something quite astonishing
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if this is, you know, a reality.
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CHILDRESS: This pyramid city
is so deep in the ocean
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that geologists
and archaeologists are saying
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that it must be 50,000 years old
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for sea levels
to‐to be that low.
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NARRATOR:
50,000 years old?
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Might the formations
found off the coast of Cuba
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corroborate the findings
of Dr. Mark Carlotto,
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who suggests that the alignments
of Baalbek,
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the Greek Parthenon
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and numerous other
ancient structures
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date back some 50,000 years?
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We've got ruins
all over the world
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that are underwater.
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Ruins have been found underwater
in Lake Titicaca.
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The formation of Yonaguni
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off the southern Japanese island
of Yonaguni.
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We have underwater cities
around India,
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such as Dwarka, which is
the famous home of Krishna.
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And Indian archaeologists
for years
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thought it was
just a mythical city
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until they started finding
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these underwater ruins
off of Gujarat.
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There's over 200
known sunken cities
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in the Mediterranean.
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So, much of the evidence
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for early civilizations
on planet Earth
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would be underwater today.
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So, they were obviously built
at a time
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when the ocean levels
and the seas and the continents
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were quite different
than they are today.
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HUGHES:
All of this evidence tells us
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that there were extraordinary
civilizations and cultures
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that have been lost to the story
of the world until now.
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NARRATOR:
Although many of the world's
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known underwater ruins
still await excavation
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due to the difficulty
of reaching them
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and retrieving artifacts,
it is hoped
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that divers will someday be able
to examine these structures
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and find symbols
carved into them that match
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those found at Gobekli Tepe.
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But as far as Dr. Robert Schoch
is concerned,
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the wait may already be over.
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In 1991, he ignited
a firestorm of controversy
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when he suggested
the Great Sphinx of Giza
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was built long before
the age of the pharaohs.
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SCHOCH:
At that time,
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all the Egyptologists agreed
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that the Sphinx had been carved
in 2500 BC,
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that it was carved from scratch
from the limestone bedrock.
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I'm a geologist.
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I went there.
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I looked at the Sphinx.
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Within the first couple
of minutes,
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I knew
there was something amiss.
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What we did is we looked
at subsurface weathering,
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mineralogical changes
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to figure out
when the rock was carved.
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I came to the conclusion
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that the Sphinx goes back
not just a few thousand years
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but to the end
of the last ice age,
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so to about 10,000 BC or so.
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NARRATOR:
Key to Dr. Schoch's analysis
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was the type of erosion
he observed
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in the base of the Sphinx.
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SCHOCH:
You look at the body
of the Sphinx itself.
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I, as a geologist,
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noticed immediately
that the core body is eroded
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not by wind and sand
as you expect
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for the Sahara Desert,
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but it is water precipitation.
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NARRATOR:
Water erosion?
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In the Sahara Desert?
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If this analysis is correct,
what could have caused it?
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SCHOCH:
There's a huge increase
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in global temperatures
at 9700 BC.
500
00:25:00,541 --> 00:25:01,834
This correlates
501
00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:03,836
with the melting
of the glaciers,
502
00:25:03,836 --> 00:25:05,587
rising of sea levels.
503
00:25:05,587 --> 00:25:10,009
But when you have all this water
being put into the atmosphere,
504
00:25:10,009 --> 00:25:14,138
the atmosphere
can only hold so much water.
505
00:25:14,138 --> 00:25:16,140
It comes down as precipitation.
506
00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:17,933
It comes down
as torrential rains.
507
00:25:19,018 --> 00:25:20,019
NARRATOR:
But if,
508
00:25:20,019 --> 00:25:22,229
as ancient astronaut theorists
believe,
509
00:25:22,229 --> 00:25:24,523
the great Egyptian
megalithic structures
510
00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:27,151
were built
more than 10,000 years ago,
511
00:25:27,151 --> 00:25:29,653
what happened
to the advanced civilization
512
00:25:29,653 --> 00:25:30,988
that created them?
513
00:25:30,988 --> 00:25:32,614
Perhaps the answer
514
00:25:32,614 --> 00:25:34,199
is closer than we think
515
00:25:34,199 --> 00:25:37,244
and can be found
embedded in the pages
516
00:25:37,244 --> 00:25:39,204
of the Holy Bible.
517
00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:50,966
NARRATOR:
Dr. Irving Finkel,
518
00:25:50,966 --> 00:25:52,926
one of the world's
foremost experts
519
00:25:52,926 --> 00:25:54,261
on cuneiform writing
520
00:25:54,261 --> 00:25:56,472
and a curator
at the British Museum,
521
00:25:56,472 --> 00:26:00,642
publishes a book titled
The Ark Before Noah.
522
00:26:00,642 --> 00:26:04,271
In it, Finkel translates
a Sumerian tablet
523
00:26:04,271 --> 00:26:07,149
that dates back 3,700 years
524
00:26:07,149 --> 00:26:09,401
and rewrites the biblical story
525
00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:11,987
of Noah and the Great Flood.
526
00:26:11,987 --> 00:26:15,574
The book sparks
a global sensation.
527
00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:17,701
IRVING FINKEL:
When this tablet
528
00:26:17,701 --> 00:26:20,162
came across the desk to me
and I realized
529
00:26:20,162 --> 00:26:22,664
clearly how important it was,
530
00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:24,917
it was one
of those heart‐stopping moments.
531
00:26:24,917 --> 00:26:28,337
Everybody in the world
is interested in Noah's Flood
532
00:26:28,337 --> 00:26:32,007
and where it might've come from,
so it's a really big thing.
533
00:26:32,007 --> 00:26:35,344
In the Bible, God decided,
534
00:26:35,344 --> 00:26:38,180
because human race
was so sinful and wicked,
535
00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:39,932
to destroy everything
536
00:26:39,932 --> 00:26:44,061
and at the last minute,
relented enough to inform Noah
537
00:26:44,061 --> 00:26:46,647
that he has to build a boat
really fast
538
00:26:46,647 --> 00:26:49,817
and put all the animals in it
and shut the doors.
539
00:26:49,817 --> 00:26:51,777
Then afterwards,
life could continue
540
00:26:51,777 --> 00:26:53,195
when the waters went down.
541
00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:58,075
But the tablet is
at least a thousand years older
542
00:26:58,075 --> 00:27:00,452
than the story in the Bible.
543
00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:03,288
So, of course,
this means that the question
544
00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:04,832
of where the story came from
545
00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:08,710
has a whole different
explanation.
546
00:27:10,754 --> 00:27:13,966
JONATHAN YOUNG:
There's a similar story
in India.
547
00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:16,510
King Manu was warned by a fish
548
00:27:16,510 --> 00:27:18,387
that there would be
a great flood.
549
00:27:18,387 --> 00:27:21,723
The king built a great boat
and survived.
550
00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:24,977
In an Aztec version,
a sacred couple
551
00:27:24,977 --> 00:27:28,230
hide in a hollow tree
with a little corn
552
00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:31,817
and somehow manage to survive
the deluge.
553
00:27:31,817 --> 00:27:34,820
Other versions come
from Irish legend,
554
00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:37,072
Norse lore, also from China.
555
00:27:37,072 --> 00:27:40,701
This is
a terribly important motif.
556
00:27:40,701 --> 00:27:42,077
We're used to history
being something
557
00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:43,495
that's written down in books,
558
00:27:43,495 --> 00:27:45,706
but for most
of the human experience,
559
00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:49,376
history was told in stories,
shared around campfires.
560
00:27:49,376 --> 00:27:50,711
It doesn't mean
that it's all made up,
561
00:27:50,711 --> 00:27:52,754
and I think
it's one of those moments
562
00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:56,466
where the myths are telling us
about the truth of the past.
563
00:28:05,434 --> 00:28:07,269
NARRATOR:
Dutch archaeologist
564
00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:10,522
Cornelis Hijszeler
is excavating a sandpit
565
00:28:10,522 --> 00:28:12,858
when he notices
something strange:
566
00:28:12,858 --> 00:28:17,863
a thin layer of ash
buried 50 feet deep in the soil.
567
00:28:19,281 --> 00:28:22,200
NEWMAN:
It's like a layer of black ash.
568
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,744
Now, this suggests
569
00:28:23,744 --> 00:28:26,705
there was a great conflagration
that took place,
570
00:28:26,705 --> 00:28:31,710
and it dates to between 11,000
and 13,000 years ago.
571
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,921
NARRATOR:
Over the next few years,
572
00:28:33,921 --> 00:28:36,840
the ash layer,
dubbed Usselo horizon,
573
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,009
is found all over the world.
574
00:28:39,009 --> 00:28:42,512
CHILDRESS: The Usselo horizon
is found, actually,
575
00:28:42,512 --> 00:28:44,431
in ten countries
on four continents.
576
00:28:44,431 --> 00:28:47,059
In Australia, in South Africa,
577
00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:49,478
in other parts of Europe
and India.
578
00:28:49,478 --> 00:28:53,941
And this deposit of ash
around the world
579
00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:57,986
is evidence
of a worldwide cataclysm.
580
00:28:57,986 --> 00:28:59,655
NARRATOR:
Could this layer of ash
581
00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:02,658
really be evidence
of a devastating global event,
582
00:29:02,658 --> 00:29:06,620
like the one known as
the Great Flood, for instance?
583
00:29:06,620 --> 00:29:09,414
Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch
584
00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:11,625
believes the cataclysmic event
585
00:29:11,625 --> 00:29:13,418
and the resulting layer of ash
586
00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:16,755
was created
by a devastating solar flare,
587
00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:19,132
a sudden flash
of increased brightness
588
00:29:19,132 --> 00:29:20,634
on the Sun.
589
00:29:20,634 --> 00:29:23,720
SCHOCH:
Based on my analysis
of the evidence,
590
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,516
there was a major,
major solar outburst.
591
00:29:27,516 --> 00:29:30,102
This caused, in a flash,
592
00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:33,105
the glaciers to melt
593
00:29:33,105 --> 00:29:35,273
virtually instantaneously.
594
00:29:35,273 --> 00:29:38,068
It caused evaporation of water.
595
00:29:38,068 --> 00:29:40,737
We have physical evidence
of this
596
00:29:40,737 --> 00:29:42,781
in the geological record.
597
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:45,575
NARRATOR:
To many,
598
00:29:45,575 --> 00:29:46,994
the Usselo horizon
599
00:29:46,994 --> 00:29:49,621
is the strongest evidence
yet discovered
600
00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:52,416
that supports stories
of the Great Flood.
601
00:29:52,416 --> 00:29:56,670
For ancient astronaut theorists,
proof of a global flood
602
00:29:56,670 --> 00:29:59,464
could offer some
of the most compelling evidence
603
00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:01,299
that extraterrestrial
intervention
604
00:30:01,299 --> 00:30:04,553
occurred on Earth
in the distant past.
605
00:30:05,554 --> 00:30:07,806
In the Babylonian poem
606
00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:09,224
the Epic of Gilgamesh,
607
00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:11,059
the hero, Utnapishtim,
608
00:30:11,059 --> 00:30:14,980
is told of a coming flood
by the god Enki.
609
00:30:14,980 --> 00:30:16,690
In Vedic texts,
610
00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:19,651
King Manu is alerted
by Lord Vishnu,
611
00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:22,821
who appeared
in the form of a fish.
612
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:27,242
And in the biblical tale,
Noah is warned by God.
613
00:30:28,243 --> 00:30:29,995
The common denominator
614
00:30:29,995 --> 00:30:32,414
in the flood myths
around the world
615
00:30:32,414 --> 00:30:34,875
is that there was
an otherworldly being,
616
00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:37,878
an extraterrestrial being
who is providing knowledge
617
00:30:37,878 --> 00:30:40,922
to certain humans
of what is to come.
618
00:30:40,922 --> 00:30:42,924
This tells us
that there was definitely
619
00:30:42,924 --> 00:30:44,843
an extraterrestrial connection.
620
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:47,179
NARRATOR:
If advanced civilizations
621
00:30:47,179 --> 00:30:50,682
existed on Earth
that were lost to history,
622
00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:54,644
could the story of the Flood
explain what happened?
623
00:30:54,644 --> 00:30:58,023
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
624
00:30:58,023 --> 00:31:00,859
and suggest that
further evidence can be found
625
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,153
within the Dead Sea Scrolls,
626
00:31:03,153 --> 00:31:07,115
discovered in a cave
in Jerusalem in 1947.
627
00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:10,911
♪ ♪
628
00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:13,955
COLLINS:
Some Bedouin shepherds
629
00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:15,707
came across these jars,
630
00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:19,711
and inside these were
ancient texts.
631
00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:22,714
Very quickly,
archaeologists and linguists
632
00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:25,258
started to realize
that these contained
633
00:31:25,258 --> 00:31:29,805
Jewish religious literature
that were
634
00:31:29,805 --> 00:31:31,723
of incredible importance,
635
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,059
not just to the Jewish people
636
00:31:34,059 --> 00:31:36,228
but to the world as a whole.
637
00:31:36,228 --> 00:31:38,438
NARRATOR:
Among the texts is a story
638
00:31:38,438 --> 00:31:40,524
that describes the birth of Noah
639
00:31:40,524 --> 00:31:42,901
that doesn't appear
in the Old Testament.
640
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:44,986
TSOUKALOS:
Noah is described
641
00:31:44,986 --> 00:31:47,656
of having skin
that is whiter than snow,
642
00:31:47,656 --> 00:31:49,658
of having hair that is
643
00:31:49,658 --> 00:31:51,743
whiter than the whitest of wool,
644
00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:55,497
and Noah's eyes were brighter
than the Sun.
645
00:31:55,497 --> 00:31:57,749
Now, when Noah was born,
646
00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:01,128
the father, Lamech,
went to his father, Methuselah,
647
00:32:01,128 --> 00:32:03,088
and says, "This is not my son.
648
00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:04,506
What happened here?"
649
00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:06,299
And Methuselah then says
650
00:32:06,299 --> 00:32:08,301
he may have come
from a different place
651
00:32:08,301 --> 00:32:11,012
where man has met the angels.
652
00:32:11,012 --> 00:32:13,265
Now, we need to first figure out
653
00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:16,768
what is the kernel of truth.
654
00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:19,437
And in my opinion, it
certainly was not a giant ship
655
00:32:19,437 --> 00:32:20,647
made out of wood.
656
00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:23,150
And you combine that with Noah,
657
00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:25,610
who looks very otherworldly‐‐
658
00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:27,779
well, there's your answer.
659
00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,739
♪ ♪
660
00:32:29,739 --> 00:32:32,784
NARRATOR:
Could a worldwide flood
explain the disappearance
661
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:35,954
of an advanced civilization
that preceded our own?
662
00:32:37,038 --> 00:32:39,833
And if so, were there survivors
663
00:32:39,833 --> 00:32:42,627
that kept the memory
of this pre‐Flood world alive
664
00:32:42,627 --> 00:32:44,796
through oral traditions?
665
00:32:46,006 --> 00:32:47,966
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
666
00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:50,969
that not only did
an advanced civilization exist
667
00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:53,638
for many centuries
before the Great Flood,
668
00:32:53,638 --> 00:32:56,308
but that remnants
of its lost technology
669
00:32:56,308 --> 00:32:58,518
can be found...
670
00:32:58,518 --> 00:33:00,478
all over the world.
671
00:33:10,739 --> 00:33:13,658
NARRATOR:
Researchers with the
Israel Antiquities Authority
672
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:15,577
studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
673
00:33:15,577 --> 00:33:18,496
make a major discovery.
674
00:33:18,496 --> 00:33:21,166
Using state‐of‐the‐art
imaging technology,
675
00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:23,752
they uncover a passage
of ancient text
676
00:33:23,752 --> 00:33:27,130
previously unseen
by the naked eye.
677
00:33:27,130 --> 00:33:29,966
These researchers
have discovered a new passage
678
00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:33,178
in the Dead Sea Scrolls
that indicates that Noah's Ark
679
00:33:33,178 --> 00:33:35,972
wasn't in the shape
of a ship at all,
680
00:33:35,972 --> 00:33:38,350
but was in the shape
of a pyramid.
681
00:33:40,352 --> 00:33:43,021
NARRATOR:
Curiously, this is not
the first time
682
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:46,483
that Noah's Ark
has been depicted as a pyramid.
683
00:33:46,483 --> 00:33:50,528
In the 15th century,
Italian artist Lorenzo Ghiberti
684
00:33:50,528 --> 00:33:52,948
created his masterpiece...
685
00:33:54,824 --> 00:33:57,619
...a series of ten panels
that depict scenes
686
00:33:57,619 --> 00:33:59,746
from the Old Testament.
687
00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:04,167
HENRY: The Italian sculptor
Lorenzo Ghiberti was selected
688
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:07,379
to create the doors going
into the new Florence cathedral,
689
00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:08,838
the Il Doumo.
690
00:34:11,091 --> 00:34:14,469
These doors are called
the "Gates of Paradise."
691
00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:17,013
And something that is
very extraordinary about them
692
00:34:17,013 --> 00:34:20,892
is that in one instance he shows
Noah's Ark as a pyramid
693
00:34:20,892 --> 00:34:24,396
that resembles
the Great Pyramid of Giza.
694
00:34:24,396 --> 00:34:26,564
CHILDRESS:
Was it possible that Lorenzo,
695
00:34:26,564 --> 00:34:29,359
while he was working
for the Church...
696
00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:32,237
learned about the true nature
of Noah's Ark
697
00:34:32,237 --> 00:34:34,614
and then depicted it
in his sculpture?
698
00:34:39,577 --> 00:34:41,746
NARRATOR:
According to historians,
699
00:34:41,746 --> 00:34:45,959
the Pyramid of Djoser,
constructed in 2600 BC,
700
00:34:45,959 --> 00:34:48,920
was the first pyramid
ever built in Egypt,
701
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,590
and the Great Pyramid was built
100 years later.
702
00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:54,801
But the dating
of the Great Pyramid,
703
00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:57,721
and the two smaller pyramids
that stand next to it,
704
00:34:57,721 --> 00:35:00,098
is a point of major contention,
705
00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:04,102
with many researchers suggesting
they were built much earlier.
706
00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:09,065
The step pyramid of Djoser
is considered
707
00:35:09,065 --> 00:35:10,859
the world's first pyramid.
708
00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:14,362
It's a six‐tiered pyramid
709
00:35:14,362 --> 00:35:16,615
built very near
the Giza plateau.
710
00:35:16,615 --> 00:35:19,117
CHILDRESS:
Egyptologists often assume
711
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:22,579
that the older pyramids are...
712
00:35:22,579 --> 00:35:25,957
less well created and smaller,
713
00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:28,293
such as Djoser's pyramid,
and that ultimately,
714
00:35:28,293 --> 00:35:30,587
their building
got better and better,
715
00:35:30,587 --> 00:35:32,797
until they finally built
the Great Pyramid
716
00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:36,301
as their, uh,
final construction masterpiece.
717
00:35:36,301 --> 00:35:39,346
But it may be
completely reversed of that,
718
00:35:39,346 --> 00:35:40,889
and that the Great Pyramid,
719
00:35:40,889 --> 00:35:43,308
which is by far the best
of all the pyramids,
720
00:35:43,308 --> 00:35:46,478
is actually the oldest
of the pyramids.
721
00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:50,106
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Two and a half thousand BC,
722
00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:53,443
according to archaeology,
humans made the Great Pyramid.
723
00:35:53,443 --> 00:35:56,154
Now, in old writings,
especially in the Book of Enoch,
724
00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:58,490
and in the so‐called Hitat,
725
00:35:58,490 --> 00:36:00,367
which is a book
from Arabian writer,
726
00:36:00,367 --> 00:36:03,495
they say the Great Pyramid
was constructed
727
00:36:03,495 --> 00:36:05,497
before the Great Flood.
728
00:36:05,497 --> 00:36:07,374
HENRY: What if
the Great Pyramid existed,
729
00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:10,710
perhaps even for millennia,
before the Djoser Pyramid?
730
00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:13,046
Then the Egyptians come along,
discover it,
731
00:36:13,046 --> 00:36:15,840
decide, "Hey, maybe we
can make one of those, too,"
732
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,301
and that's when they build
the Djoser Pyramid?
733
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:22,138
CARLOTTO: Perhaps the...
the most similar common motif,
734
00:36:22,138 --> 00:36:24,724
or style, is the pyramidal,
735
00:36:24,724 --> 00:36:28,603
uh, shape that seems to exist
throughout the world‐‐
736
00:36:28,603 --> 00:36:31,022
in Egypt, in Mesoamerica,
737
00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:34,275
in China‐‐ giant earthen mounds
in the shape of pyramids.
738
00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:36,152
Why pyramids?
739
00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:39,280
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that pyramids were built
740
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,409
by cultures all around the world
because they were trying
741
00:36:42,409 --> 00:36:44,160
to recreate
much older structures
742
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,662
that survived a great flood?
743
00:36:45,662 --> 00:36:49,124
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes.
744
00:36:49,124 --> 00:36:51,710
And some researchers
have even suggested
745
00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:55,213
that those pyramids that were
built by pre‐Flood civilizations
746
00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:58,758
represent a form
of lost technology.
747
00:36:58,758 --> 00:37:02,929
In his 1998 book,
The Giza Power Plant,
748
00:37:02,929 --> 00:37:06,224
noted machinist and engineer
Christopher Dunn
749
00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:09,561
proposed that the shape,
positions of chambers
750
00:37:09,561 --> 00:37:12,147
and proximity
to underground rivers
751
00:37:12,147 --> 00:37:16,317
indicate the Great Pyramids of
Giza functioned as power plants.
752
00:37:16,317 --> 00:37:18,069
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753
00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:20,739
CHILDRESS:
I personally think
that the pyramids
754
00:37:20,739 --> 00:37:23,533
were some kind
of energy generators.
755
00:37:23,533 --> 00:37:26,119
And here we have
the strange idea
756
00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:30,540
that the ark itself
wasn't a boat‐type‐shaped thing
757
00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:33,126
but was actually a pyramid.
758
00:37:33,126 --> 00:37:37,255
So was it possible that whoever
built the pyramids of Egypt
759
00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:40,633
was doing so to try to preserve
760
00:37:40,633 --> 00:37:42,635
their technology?
761
00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:47,849
NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
762
00:37:47,849 --> 00:37:50,268
the possibility that
the Great Pyramid served
763
00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:54,147
a technological purpose
presents an intriguing question:
764
00:37:54,147 --> 00:37:58,860
If a lost civilization was able
to build massive power plants,
765
00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:02,530
perhaps with the assistance
of extraterrestrials,
766
00:38:02,530 --> 00:38:05,408
could they also have had
the means to escape
767
00:38:05,408 --> 00:38:09,287
a world‐ending cataclysm
by leaving the Earth?
768
00:38:22,967 --> 00:38:24,803
NARRATOR:
Geneticist Erich Jarvis
769
00:38:24,803 --> 00:38:28,014
and data management company
DNAnexus
770
00:38:28,014 --> 00:38:31,017
announce plans to create
a biological database
771
00:38:31,017 --> 00:38:34,145
of every vertebrate species
on Earth.
772
00:38:35,855 --> 00:38:39,943
The development
of this new genetic DNA database
773
00:38:39,943 --> 00:38:43,780
is essentially
a modern‐day version
774
00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:46,658
of Noah's Ark...
775
00:38:46,658 --> 00:38:49,077
where all of these animals,
776
00:38:49,077 --> 00:38:52,455
their DNA is selected and kept
777
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:54,666
in these special databases.
778
00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:56,960
And in the future,
we could resurrect
779
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,838
any of these animals
if we had to,
780
00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:02,507
if there had been some
mass extinction on the planet.
781
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:07,178
NARRATOR:
But many researchers are hopeful
782
00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:10,223
that by the time
a global cataclysm strikes,
783
00:39:10,223 --> 00:39:12,016
humanity will have developed
784
00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:16,104
the means to transport
this modern‐day ark into space
785
00:39:16,104 --> 00:39:19,774
and seek out a new home planet.
786
00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:23,361
We don't have...
787
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:25,864
forever on this planet.
788
00:39:27,115 --> 00:39:30,118
Let's say our resources
are running out.
789
00:39:30,118 --> 00:39:32,078
Let's say
something else happens.
790
00:39:32,078 --> 00:39:35,081
Or let's even say‐‐ we know
and we can calculate this‐‐
791
00:39:35,081 --> 00:39:38,877
that 252 years from now,
we will be met
792
00:39:38,877 --> 00:39:41,796
by a giant collision
with an asteroid.
793
00:39:41,796 --> 00:39:44,424
Well, we better do something
about that.
794
00:39:44,424 --> 00:39:46,968
So we better start working
on that today.
795
00:39:46,968 --> 00:39:51,097
NARRATOR: In 2018,
a company named Axiom Space
796
00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:54,225
revealed plans to put a hotel
in Earth's orbit.
797
00:39:55,935 --> 00:40:00,356
Meanwhile, NASA is preparing
to send astronauts to Mars.
798
00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:05,945
Considering humanity's current
efforts to venture into space,
799
00:40:05,945 --> 00:40:09,949
if advanced civilizations
existed in Earth's distant past,
800
00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:12,076
might they have done the same?
801
00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:15,413
Cultures all around the world
802
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:17,916
talk about humans deciding
on their own
803
00:40:17,916 --> 00:40:19,250
to leave the planet.
804
00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:20,919
They call this "ascension."
805
00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:22,921
In many of the flood myths,
806
00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:25,465
the common theme is
that it had been prophesied,
807
00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:27,467
and people knew it was coming.
808
00:40:27,467 --> 00:40:30,970
Maybe their answer was
to migrate into space.
809
00:40:30,970 --> 00:40:34,265
CHILDRESS:
There are a number of craters
on the Moon that have
810
00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:36,225
what look like pyramids
811
00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:38,561
right in the middle
of the crater.
812
00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:42,774
Mars apparently has similar
pyramid structures on it.
813
00:40:42,774 --> 00:40:47,612
Maybe they were created by this
super civilization of the past,
814
00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:50,949
just like, uh, we're going to do
in the near future.
815
00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:55,954
NARRATOR:
Could it be that pyramids
and other structures
816
00:40:55,954 --> 00:40:58,122
were built on the Moon and Mars
817
00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:01,209
not by beings
who were coming to planet Earth,
818
00:41:01,209 --> 00:41:03,628
but by those
who were fleeing it?
819
00:41:05,630 --> 00:41:08,800
Did Earth's refugees build
these structures to sustain them
820
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,970
while they sought out
a new home?
821
00:41:11,970 --> 00:41:15,515
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
822
00:41:15,515 --> 00:41:17,725
this notion presents another,
823
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:20,812
perhaps even more profound
possibility.
824
00:41:22,271 --> 00:41:24,899
CHILDRESS:
With modern UFO activity,
825
00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:27,694
you have to ask yourself,
are these UFOs
826
00:41:27,694 --> 00:41:32,323
from this ancient civilization
that left before the cataclysm
827
00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:34,742
and now they've come back?
828
00:41:34,742 --> 00:41:36,911
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that civilizations
829
00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:40,415
that inhabited the Earth
tens of thousands of years ago
830
00:41:40,415 --> 00:41:42,333
did not die off,
831
00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:45,420
but survived on another world?
832
00:41:45,420 --> 00:41:48,256
And if so, might they be capable
833
00:41:48,256 --> 00:41:51,759
of returning to their
home planet as alien visitors?
834
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:56,139
Perhaps as we venture deeper
into space,
835
00:41:56,139 --> 00:41:59,517
we will make contact,
not with extraterrestrials,
836
00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:04,355
but with mankind's
ancient ancestors.
837
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