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A mighty empire ruled by
the descendants of gods.

A remote island where stone
giants walked the Earth.

And a fertile garden where
modern man was born.

Are the legends behind these ancient
locations really based on fact?

If so, why did they exist?

And why have the answers
been lost to history?

GEORGE NOORY: How in the
heck did they make these?

How did they move them?

Nobody has the answer.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It may well be that
the Garden of Eden today is underwater.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: These
cultures were connected by

flying machines operated by

extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe

we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And might we find proof by

searching for our planet's
mysterious lost worlds?

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Central America

In a fertile valley between

the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean
Sea, in what is now Honduras,

lie the monumental ruins of Copan.

This archaeological site is
believed to have been the

cultural and political center of
the once mighty Maya civilization

that thrived between
2000 BC and 800 AD.

PAYSON SHEETS: People have called
Copan the paradise of Mesoamerica

because it was such a place
for the arts and humanities

The sculpture is beautiful.

Architecture is just magnificent.

NARRATOR: It is believed
that, at one time, Copan was

inhabited by as many
as 20,000 people

and covered an area
of ten square miles.

But in the ninth century,
this incredible Mayan city

was abandoned, and
its people vanished.

When Spanish conquistadors
arrived in the 16th century,

they found only a
few farming hamlets.

But why?

DAVID CHEETHAM: They
decimated their environment.

Warfare became endemic.

And it ended.

And people left.

They walked away.

PHILIP COPPENS: To some extend, the idea
that the Mayans became a lost culture

is a yes and a no.

We know that they stopped building.

But at the very heart of the Mayan,
it's a belief, it's a religion.

which continues to
beaten to this very day.

saying, please pay attention to us because
we have this vast body of knowledge

"want to share with the world."

At Copan, the Mayan had
built a complex of

monuments, temples and plazas,
as well as sculptured

stone pillars depicting ancient kings.

The Maya were also one of the
earliest ancient civilizations

to create a written language.

ADRIAN GILBERT: In the last 20, 30
years, it's been a huge advance in

the decoding of their hieroglyphs.

This is obvious happened in our
generation is still ongoing.

NARRATOR: Might a closer look
at the Mayan stone carvings

and their hieroglyphs provide
proof of contact with

extraterrestrials at Copan?

According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer is yes.

TSOUKALOS: Some of the
large stautes at Copan

are infantly fascinating to me
the gear they are wearing

is very reminiscent of
something technological.

One of the figures has a
box with tubes coming out

and buttons and just very weird things.

These statues look like
some type of a being

wearing an astronaut suit.

And, in my opinion, that means
that we were visited by some

type of extraterrestrials who

were very similar in appearance
to us, because according to the

ancient texts, we were
created in their image.

NARRATOR: Researchers working in Copan
have also found stone sculptures

called stelae, which have
provoked controversy since

the site was discovered in 1576.

And various interpretations of
the carvings suggest the Maya

may have had knowledge of a world
far beyond their own continent.

CHILDRESS: This is one of the curious
dragon sculptures here at Copan,

of which there are many.
In fact, this very oriental statues

would look right at place in China
or some other Oriental country.

Some archeologists believe that
they are elephants on either side

of this Copan ruler.

So why would there be, here at
Copan, such Asian motifs as

elephants and dragons in a place
in Central America that is so

far away from China
and Southeast Asia?

Is there some kind of
extraterrestrial connection

between the Mayans and the Chinese,

and an origin for both
that comes from the stars?

How could the early
Maya of Central America

have had knowledge possessed
by people living in Asia--

on the other side of
the Pacific Ocean?

TSOUKALOS: One of the basic
premises of the ancient

astronaut theory suggests that
there was contact between

ancient cultures way before
we give them credit.

These ancient cultures were, in
fact, connected by flying machines,

and those flying machines
were usually operated

by extraterrestrials.

And especially in the Mayan
carvings, we find many

references of the gods
descending from the sky

in flying serpents.

Now, do flying serpents
actually exist?

Of course not.

But it is a beautiful and very

poetic description of something
that is rooted in technology.

NARRATOR: Due to the many strange
carvings found at Copan really

provide proof of contact between
the Maya and otherworldly beings?

And if so, might that contact
have produced offspring

that could also be traced to
an extraterrestrial source?

On the west side of the main
temple at Copan stands a 63-step

structure known as the
Hieroglyphic Stairway.

It contains more than 1,200
stones carved with symbols that

record the history of
the kings of Copan.

CHILDRESS: This Hieroglyphic
Stairway is the longest Mayan

inscription in the world.

It emphasizes the divine right
of the 16 rulers of the Copan

dynasty to rule their subjects--

a power given to them by the gods.

SHEETS: The Hieroglyphic Stairway
mentions the various rulers of Copan.

And talks about them
in a semi divine sense.

So, they are human, they're mortal,
but they are much more than that.

They are royal.

They have a spirit in their blood,
and Maya called it Xuit Lel.

A Xuit Lel is in the blood and
is the most powerful thing to

get access to the supernatural.

So a king's Xuit Lel,

when shed in a bloodletting ceremony
and burned with copal incense,

goes up into the heavens and takes a
message to the deities,

and they did things for the Maya.

NARRATOR: Could the Maya rulers
really have been the descendants

of extraterrestrials, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?

Perhaps conclusive evidence can
be found in what is widely believed

to be the most advanced celestial
calendar system of ancient times.

VON DANIKEN: The Mayas had
most the most precise calendar

of all the people in antiquity,
even the Babylonian, the Sumerian

They did not only observed
our planetary system

They observed Orion,

they observed Sirius

and all the far away systems.

JON LOHSE: One of the things
that says about the Maya part

it was the their ability to monitor
the passage of astronomical

events and to track the
movement of constellations,

to predict eclipses

They really developed some
of this knowledge and skills

to a pretty high degree.

It's remarkable.

No telescopes, no metal,

yet the ability to predict
time and advance in time

in a way that it was really
unprecedented in the world.

NARRATOR: But why did the Maya create
such precise maps of the Cosmos?

According to ancient astronauts theorists,
the Maya's knowledge of the stars,

in fact, came to them, from the stars,

brought by extraterrestrial beings.

COPPENS: When it comes to the ancient
Maya that creation mythology

evokes these legends, which
say somewhere, just south

of Orion's belt is this place
where life originated from

and they came to planet
Earth on 1,200 BC

when the ancient Mayans said
the gods came to Earth.

VON DANIKEN: Their
teachers were the gods,

and the gods were
the extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: If beings from another
star system really came

to Earth in the ancient past,
did they create the foundations

of Mayan civilization and
breed with its rulers?

Might they have also visited
other areas of our planet?

Perhaps further evidence can be
found at a desolate mountain

kingdom visited by ancient priests
from the East as the Magi.

Southeastern Turkey.

7,000 feet high, atop a barren
mountain called Nemrud Dagi,

lie the ruins of the lost
Kingdom of Commagene.

Here, in 62 BC, a mysterious
royal sanctuary was built by

King Antiochus I.

Colossal statues were created of
lions and eagles, and Persian

and Greek gods, as well as two

massive sculptures
of the king himself.

GILBERT: Now, what Antiochus was
trying to do was to produce

a synthesis, a new version
of the old religions.

And what he basically did was to
take the Persian gods and put

them into Greek dress.

So you've got a synthesis
happening of the Persian gods

with their Greek equivalents.

DONALD SANDERS: The reason he
build a colossal statue of himself

among the gods was, I guess,
a presumption on his part

that he would indeed ascend to
heaven and eventually be among them.

NARRATOR: The conical peak
was the highest point in the

kingdom of King Antiochus.

Measuring 150 feet high and 500
feet wide, it is man-made with

countless small limestone rocks,

and was said to be the location
of the king's royal tomb.

Researchers believe the memorial
was originally built as two large plazas.

The one on the east side was
used to celebrate the birthday

of King Antiochus.

The one on the west side was
used to commemorate the day in

62 BC when Antiochus became the
leader of a secret society.

GILBERT: I think it's meant
to symbolize Mount Olympus,

the home of the gods.

Because you've got the God
seated round it and then you've

got a peak above them.

I think this is all very symbolic.

It's a stage for carrying out
certain rituals and performances.

SANDERS: And he also shows
himself in the relief stelae

shaking hands to all the gods,
as if the gods recognize him as

one of their own and are
welcoming him into Heaven.

NARRATOR: Mysteriously, both
the site and the kingdom were

abandoned in the first century AD.

And, so far, the king's legendary
burial chamber has never been found.

But another question still
remains: just why did King

Antiochus build this mysterious
and massive monumental sanctuary?

According to researchers,
evidence found at Nemrud Dagi

suggests the king had a profound
interest in, and understanding

of star sciences.

GILBERT: One example of the
advanced knowledge

of astronomy that they
had is actually the

lion horoscope, which gives
us a very precise date.

We know that the position of
the stars on the lion's body

fits with the positions of
stars of Leo given in a book

of Eratosthenes,
who was a Greek

astronomer from Alexandria who
wrote a book about the stars.

The arrangement of stars
on the lion horoscope

represented the constellation of
Leo as seen in the sky in July 62 BC,

a configuration that wouldn't
be visible again for 25,000 years.

Further evidence of the
exceptional knowledge of the

stars was found in a nearby shaft

that Antiochus built
into the mountain.

GILBERT: The shaft runs into
the mountainside there,

at an angle of 35 degrees
to the horizontal,

and it's about 150 meters long,

and there's nothing at the bottom.

NARRATOR: Computer analysis
reveals that on two days of the

year, the sun's rays would
illuminate the bottom of the

shaft-- once when in line with
the constellation of Leo and

once when in line with Orion.

GILBERT: Now, that is a very
interesting point in the sky,

because it's the path where the sun
crosses over the Milky Way, our galaxy.

And that, to the ancient world,
was known as the Gate of Heaven.

And there were two of these--
one where they cross in the

north and the other where
they cross in the south.

There were two Gates to Heaven.

So we can understand that that
gateway would be where the soul

of the king is going back to
heaven through Heaven's Gate.

NARRATOR: Given the fact that
neither Antiochus's tomb or

remains have been found, is it
possible that the king actually

journeyed to the stars through

a heavenly gate, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?

During his life, researchers
believe Antiochus studied with

a priestly sect of Eastern
astrologers called the Magi,

who were thought to be able to
predict and even manipulate

events based on their
knowledge of the stars.

JASON MARTELL: The Magi were renown
priests from the far near east.

who had advanced
astronomical knowledge

and it's well known that most of
the astronomers from the near east

specifically ancient Irak, Sumer,

recorded series of events
happening in the heavens

over hundreds of thousands of years.

This information was kept
on stone tablets, held very

sacredly and only passed
down to the high priests.

NARRATOR: According to
the Gospel of Matthew

in the New Testament, it was
three of these magi who followed

celestial signs and stars
to the birthplace of Jesus

in Bethlehem.

A coincidence?

MARTELL: What's interesting
about this story is that the

Star of Bethlehem wasn't
used as a navigation point.

It is clearly stated as it guided the
wise men to the place of Christ.

A star cannot guide someone.

It can only be used as
a navigation point.

So this brings up the idea that
the star was possibly a UFO.

TSOUKALOS: Today we think
that the Magi were magicians

and that is actually why we
have the word magic today.

But when I hear about magical
powers, that raises a flag

because magic as such does not exist.

So were these Magi, in fact, in
possession of some type of an

extraterrestrial technology?

Because, according to the
ancient texts, it was the

initiates of each culture who were
in touch with extraterrestrials.

And it was the initiates who
later became priests or magi.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Antiochus was, in fact, a magi,

one who learned celestial knowledge
from extraterrestrial sources?

If so, might the monumental
sanctuary at Nemrud Dagi have

been built as a place to
contact star travelers?

The answer may have been found
among the ruins of Nemrud Dagi.

GILBERT: The head of
Antiochus is placed on the

statue which is appropriate for
Mercury, and that's because

Mercury is the planet of
initiation for priests.

And he's one himself, so
he models it on himself.

And people think this is him being
boastful-- sitting among the gods.

It's not.

It's actually a code to say
that he's one with the priests.

NARRATOR: Eventually annexed
by the Romans in the first

century AD, King Antiochus and
his court became scattered

throughout the region.

Or were they?

According to ancient astronaut
theorists, they may have instead

used a heavenly gate to depart
through--- to a distant realm.

An audacious idea?

Perhaps.

And there are those who believe
further evidence can be found in

one of the driest areas of the
world-- in South America.

Peru, South America.

250 miles south of the capital
of Lima lies one of the driest

places on Earth-- a wasteland
that once was home to an ancient

civilization called Nazca.

Thriving between the 15th
century BC and 500 AD,

the Nazca were a deeply religious
and spiritual people who built

their ceremonial center in
the temple city of Cahuachi.

GIUSEPPE OREFICI: Cahuachi is the largest
adobe ceremonial center in the world

Therefore, we find groups
of temples and pyramids

of immense size. Spirituality was the
most important thing in Cahuachi

The people of Nazca used the sacred
spaces to elevate themselves

in order to communicate
with the deities.

BRIEN FOERSTER: The Nazca were
predominantly were farming people

So Cahuachi was built at the prime
when they had all the food they needed

and they had enough resources
to be able to develop

a highly evolved religious system.

NARRATOR: But the Nazca
people and their culture

mysteriously vanished some
1,200 years ago, though not

before etching a series of
enormous geoglyphs--

or ground drawings-- into
the nearby desert floor.

OREFICI: The Nazca Lines
were an important

element of their religious
worship and their ceremonies.

They would walk through these
lines during their ceremonies,

breaking ceramics and offering

important elements to the
deities from their own culture.

The great geoglyphs are
composed of dozens of

spirals, triangles and trapezoids, as
well as miles of zigzagging lines.

FOERSTER: This whole flat
area, which covers several

square miles, is covered in
stones made of iron oxide,

either red or black, and that's
what gives it the darkish,

brownish red appearance.

But right underneath the surface

is clay, which is white, and all
I have to do---

is that.

The contrast between the clay

and the iron oxide gives a Nazca Line.

Acre size drawings depict
a hummingbird, a spider,

a killer whale and a human
figure with owl-like eyes.

FOERSTER: They would have had to
have had observation from the

sky in order to guide the
workforce the ground

as to how to draw complicated
figures such as the spider and

the hummingbird.

NARRATOR: Preserved for
centuries by the lack of wind

and rain, the lines are best
seen from the air, and were

first spotted by
aviators in the 1930s.

But why did the Nazca create
patterns that could only

be properly seen from a great height?

JORGE LUIS DELGADO MAMANI:
The obvious answer is because

you can see only from the sky.

Many of our ancestors would
talk about the star people.

All these sacred sites we consider
it is for whom? For the star people

CHILDRESS: At Nazca and
other areas in Peru

there are legends of sky people and
gods coming down from the sky.

NARRATOR: But might the
so-called star people referred

to in the Nazca legends really
have been extraterrestrial

beings, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

VON DANIKEN : In the beginning
there was just one line

made by some robot or some
extraterrestrial spaceship

or space shuttle because they were
looking for raw material for energy.

TSOUKALOS: After a while the local
population would see all those tracks

on the ground.

And they would say, that these
tracks were just left behind

by these divine beings, by the gods.

And then they would wonder and "what
can we do for those gods to return?"

According to ancient
astronaut theory,

the earliest of the Nazca Lines
were made in imitation of the

trails left by the
first space visitors.

Later generations added more
elaborate lines, and then

shapes and figures, all in an

attempt to signal the
star gods to return.

But they never did.

OREFICI: And this caused the population
to doubt the deities, because it

was mainly a psychological
problem they had with their

deities that brought about the

abandonment and collapse
of the Nazca culture.

NARRATOR: But could there be
other evidence of alien contact

with the ancient people of Peru
that is even more astounding

than the Nazca Lines?

CHILDRESS: Some of the skulls
that we find today, because it's

a very dry desert and they're
well preserved, are some of the

most astonishing, elongated
skulls that you'll ever see.

And they look like extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: According to Nazca

legends, the gods had
elongated heads,

much like the distended
skulls of the controversial

Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamen
and his sister Meretaten.

FOERSTER: I honestly believe
that the largest of the

elongated skulls represent
hybrid human beings dating

back thousands of years, who
lived here very peacefully

and could very well be the
ancestors of the lnca.

And that could be the reason why
the Inca suddenly were these

people of incredible
sophistication who came from

seemingly nowhere.

It's possible that they're
descendants from star beings.

CHILDRESS: Were they trying
to imitate people they had

already seen, gods
from outer space?

NARRATOR: Is it possible the
ancient Nazca altered their

bodies and their lands in order
to communicate with or emulate

something their ancestors may

have witnessed, something
out of this world?

Perhaps further clues to
mankind's extraterrestrial

connection can be found in the

most remote place on planet
Earth: in the South Pacific.

The South Pacific Ocean.

2,300 miles west of South
America, in one of the most

remote places on Earth, giant

stone figures stand with
their backs to the sea.

Called moai by the native
inhabitants, they are the silent

sentinels of Easter Island.

STEVENSON: The moais are
scattered throughout the island,

and they're positioned on top of
platforms, for the most part.

A moai is a stone sculpture
of a deceased ancestor

They were once living individuals

who ruled the society
or led the society.

They were chiefs.

And then, upon their death, we

believe that they've become
represented in stone.

Nearly 900 moai were carved between
the 12th and 18th centuries.

Hewn with stone tools from
volcanic rock, the tallest

stands a towering 33 feet high
and weighs a staggering 75 tons.

They were even more
unique-looking in the past.

They may have been painted.

And they also had large white
coral eyes with obsidian pupils.

So it's a very effective way
of kind of telling people, not

verbally but symbolically, that
someone's watching you and you

should toe the line.

You should do what
you're supposed to do.

NARRATOR: The people who
created the moai called

themselves the Rapa Nui,
and mainstream historians

believe their Polynesian
ancestors came to the island in

canoes from across the vast

Pacific Ocean between
700 and 1100 AD.

But over several centuries, for
reasons that are still unclear,

what was once an island paradise
withered into a treeless desert,

stalked by famine, violence
and some say cannibalism.

When the first europeans arrived
in 1722, the Rapa Nui culture

had already been nearly wiped out...

and few could imagine how such
primitive people could have

created the moai.

NOORY: How in the heck
did they make these?

Where did they come from?

and how did they move them?

Nobody has the answer.

Modern scientists have tried,
and so far have failed

to duplicate the feats
of the ancient Rapa Nui.

In 1987, anthropologist Charles
Love used rollers to move a

nine-ton moai replica at Western
Wyoming Community College.

Ready?

On three.

One, two, three.

Come on, Rick.

- Come on.
- Get it

Good.

Thank you.

Whoa.

Only able to budge it
about half an inch.

NARRATOR: Other researchers have
tried pulling moai with sleds.

But there is a unique problem
with the idea of moving moai

with sleds or rollers.

LOVE: When you go to Easter
Island, you don't get the

impression they had enough
wood to have rollers.

And in fact, in the 1700s, the
first four expeditions to Easter

Island never really saw a tree.

And so that's the real
mystery of Easter Island

how can you move a multi-ton statue
if you have no trees for rollers?

NARRATOR: According to the
oral history of the Rapa Nui,

the moai were moved
in a very unusual way.

LOVE: They all reply
basically the same thing.

The moai walked to the ahu, and that's
the only explanation that they give.

NARRATOR: But who or what had the
power to make multi-ton moai

appear to walk to their
ahu, or stone platforms?

In 1919, British archaeologist
Katherine Routledge, who lived

on Easter Island for a year,
recorded the legends and

testimony of an old woman who
said the moai were moved with

a mystical energy called mana.

And according to the oral
histories of the Rapa Nui,

mana came from the gods.

TSOUKALOS: Mana was a direct gift of
the gods given to the Easter lslanders

Was this mana really a
type of magical force?

Of course not.

It was some type of
misunderstood technology,

some type of a device, an
extraterrestrial tool with which

you could move those massive
Easter Island heads rather easily.

NARRATOR: Did early
inhabitants of Easter Island

really know how to unlock the
secrets of gravity using mana?

And if so, where might such power over
the physical world have come from?

Researchers believe there are
clues hidden within mysterious

written texts called rongorongo,
inscribed on pieces

of wood, discovered on the
island in the 19th century.

LOVE: This is a rongorongo board.

And it's a replica of ones of old.

About 25 of them are known.

We have had about six or
eight different attempts at

translating these things, with
six or eight different results.

CHILDRESS: You have to ask yourself,
how could the Easter islanders

have invented their own writing
without some other cultural

influence coming there.

Would it have been ancient
seafarers coming to Easter Island

or perhaps even space visitors?

NARRATOR: Further evidence of early
contact with otherworldly beings

can be found in numerous
strange stone carvings--

called petroglyphs.

LOVE: What we see in the
petroglyph art of the island are

these figures of bird men, these
tangata manus, carved in bas

relief on the rocks on the
very edge of the precipice.

NARRATOR: In the myths of
Easter Island's Rapa Nui, the

bird man represents Makemake,
the chief god and creator of humanity.

COPPENS: Did at some point
in the past a creature come,

which was Bird man who
flew in from somewhere?

Did he arrive on this
island and did he indeed

live very much like a pariah?

Did he die or did he take off
again, and is this what the

locals keep this legend of this
creature who came to them alive

through myth, legend and ritual.

Walking stone giants,

petroglyphs of flying beings---

might the ancient inhabitants
of Easter Island have been

familiar with antigravity
levitation and spaceflight?

If so, might these astounding
abilities-- forever lost to

time, have been made possible
by extraterrestrial visitors?

Perhaps more evidence can be
found in the most famous and

alluring of all lost worlds--
the Garden of Eden.

The Middle East

For centuries, archaeologists,

theologians and scholars have
debated the location-- and even

the existence of the ultimate
of all lost worlds--

the biblical "Garden of Eden."

It was here, according to the
Hebrew Book of Genesis, that

a paradise once existed--

a paradise where the first human
beings, Adam and Eve, were

actually created by God.

But could such a paradise, now
shrouded in myth and legend,

have actually been a real place?

COPPENS: When we're looking
at the Garden of Eden

we know there is actually a physical
description as to where it was.

It is set at four very specific rivers,
came from it, over near it

So we can actually go
in search of this.

ROBERT MULLINS: Two of these rivers,
the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers,

are well known and actually
run through what is Irak today.

The other two rivers that are
described are not very clear.

NARRATOR: Researchers now
believe the third river, known

as the Karun River, runs through
Iran and joins the Euphrates

just north of the Persian Gulf.

Then, in 2010, satellite imagery
revealed a fossil river, or dry

riverbed, called the Wadi Baton,
that once flowed through

northern Arabia and also
joined with the Euphrates.

Could these two rivers have
been the location of the Pishon

and Gihon rivers-- the lost
rivers mentioned in the Bible--

that point to the actual
location of the Garden of Eden?

JURIS ZARINS: When you read
the account in the Genesis

it says that the four
rivers form one river

So very careful reading
indicates that the two rivers

which are today in Irak, Tigris and
Euphrates, and the one which

is in Iran, the Karun and a false river,
in Arabia, and then when you join them up

to form one river that is the approximate
location of northern Persian Gulf.

NARRATOR: And according to the
Bible, that one river flowed

through the Garden of Eden.

ZARINS: And so, based upon
Landsat images and a close

reading of the Hebrew text, I
think that the location of the

Garden of Eden is under the

waters of the Persian Gulf
and not on land.

NARRATOR: Scientists believe
that during the last ice age,

the polar ice caps were two miles
high and ocean levels were

170 feet lower than they are today.

Recent studies suggest the area
of the Persian Gulf would have

been a dry, fertile plain the
size of Great Britain, providing

an ideal refuge to some of the
earliest humans outside Africa

nearly 75,000 years ago.

But as the ice caps melted over
the course of thousands of

years, the waters of what is now
the Indian Ocean flooded the

land and formed the Persian Gulf.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: During that
long period, there were at least

three episodes of very
very major flooding.

When you would be looking at
30 or 40 ft rises in sea level

virtually over night.

NARRATOR: Might a great
flood-- perhaps the one

described in the biblical story
of Noah's Ark, really be

responsible for the disappearance
of the so-called "Garden of Eden"?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe it is not only possible,

but that the proof can be found by
studying ancient Sumerian texts.

The earliest known civilization
of Sumer dates to 5,000 BC,

and their first settlement in

southern Mesopotamia
was called Eridu.

ZARINS: The ancient Sumerians
have a wonderful story.

They believe that they had lived
in an area that was probably to

the south of what is today Sumer.

And the reason we know that is because
they said they came out of the sea.

NARRATOR: Ancient cuneiform
writings that have survived on

clay tablets suggest the
Sumerians had been brought to

Eridu by their god Enki.

The cuneiform texts also
describe an alien race named

the Anunnaki who came to Earth and

created the first modern human beings.

ZARINS: Adam in sumerian
or a very early form of

Sumerian, means "a small
rural settlement."

"Eve," however, isn't Sumerian.

"Eve" in Arabic and the Semitic

languages means
"one who gives birth."

The word "Eden" is a pre-Sumerian
word and it means "plain."

NARRATOR: But, according to
ancient astronaut theory, the

Sumerian accounts may actually
refer to a more ancient time,

and to a distant fertile plain now lost
under the waters of the Persian Gulf.

COPPENS: Now the question is
this, was the Garden of Eden

really some kind of laboratory
where certain things were

created by the ancient
scientists of their day?

Well, if mankind was created in
a Garden of Eden, then clearly

whoever was creating this
wasn't a human being,

it was somebody else.

TSOUKALOS: So is it possible
that the Garden of Eden

was located here on planet Earth?

Yes, but was it a specific
geographic location?

I'm not sure.

Personally, I'm leaning more
towards the idea that the Garden

of Eden was some type of a
closed environment somewhere

in nature, but it definitely was

some type of a laboratory from
where modern man originated.

NARRATOR: Is it really
possible that the first humans

were created by extraterrestrial
beings in what is referred to

in the Bible as a "Garden of Eden"?

If so, has the evidence existed
all along, on the cuneiform

tablets of the ancient Sumerians?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer is a

definite yes.

And there are those who believe
that such an incredible notion

is not only possible, but that
the proof lies in the further

investigation of lost civilizations
and ancient worlds--

an investigation that will not
only uncover our past,

but reveal our future.

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