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>> In 2015, astrophysicists Duncan Lorimer and Maura

McLaughlin stumbled upon a strangely-flickering star.

Its radiation pulsed so brightly,

they were unable to match it to any known

object in the universe.

As the story made the headlines, scientists around the world

were baffled.

Then, astronomers at the Green Bank Telescope

confirmed that these light signals

were emanating from a star in the Cygnus constellation

1,200 light years away.

This fluctuating star was cataloged KIC 8462852

and named Tabby's Star in honor of Tabetha Suzanne

Boyajian, the first astronomer who wrote about it.

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

or flux as they call it, periodically.

Now, this is something which happens if a planet moves

in front of a star.

You get a very slight dip in the amount of light

that's reaching us.

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

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

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system,

crosses in front of the sun.

If you were looking at it from afar,

it would dip the lights only about 1%.

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

is going to be huge, massive, something

that is totally different.

Something that we've not encountered

before in astronomy.

So what was going on?

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

the attention of astronomers, scientists,

and space enthusiasts alike.

And a myriad of explanations have been offered,

but none have been conclusive.

What is really odd about this mystery is that,

uncharacteristically, even the most staunch scientists

have not discounted a popular hypothesis

that the expansive object interrupting Tabby star's

brightness could be built by an advanced space-faring

civilization.

Astoundingly, the BBC have even released a documentary

advocating this theory.

Could it really be true?

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

The distinctive pulse of radio waves

released as the neutron stars collided and were destroyed.

Followed by nothing.

Silence.

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

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

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

We're not just talking about bacteria.

We are talking about advanced civilizations.

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

The question comes is that, if there really

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

here?

I mean, is it possible that these aliens

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

or perhaps even in the distant past?

And the question comes down to communication.

The star is approximately 1,300 light years

from our solar system, which means

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

happened 1,300 years ago.

So that's around 700 AD.

The Maya civilization was still full flight.

When they look at us, of course they

are also looking at that same timeframe around 700 AD.

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

civilization was created in a hybridized program,

and then simply disappeared, possibly off-planet.

Oddly enough, this connects to the same timeframe

with the Tabby star.

Could there be an ancient civilization

that once lived on Earth trying to connect with us?

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

for the CIA, NSA, DIA.

There was a man who had said that he

had worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.

And he said that was the Mayan civilization created

in a hybridized program.

That there was a collaboration teaching

tall of the mathematical skills from history.

Then in 850 AD, it wasn't drought.

It wasn't human war.

This man said to me, for reasons unknown,

the Ebens came in 850 AD, and they

took the majority of their hybridized Mayans

in a large craft and left Earth.

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

linked?

Or could this mystery in the sky actually have

a more ancient connection?

An ancient connection that some believe

taps into the codes of our planet.

>> Those astronomers, they also said that these dips

in the lights could also be used to broadcast information.

Whether this information be binary.

Whether it be prime numbers or some other form

of attention-seeking information,

which a species like ourself-- humanity--

could recognize as intelligent, as universal information.

The work that I'm carrying out suggests

that there is intelligence in the broadcasts.

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

prime numbers or binary, but very specific

mathematical formula.

What I have determined is that there

are certain cycles associated with the Kepler data.

They are all interlinked.

And they all reflect certain key numbers.

All of them are multiples of 11.

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

But what's so interesting is that we

find that this is associated with the most

complex mathematical formula that we have down here

on Earth.

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

It's like a pyramid of numbers.

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

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

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

These are exactly the same numbers

that are being broadcast from the KIC star right

at this moment.

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

obviously one of the greatest enigmas of the ancient world.

Certain researchers, colleagues have found within it

certain key numbers that keep cropping up again and again.

And those numbers are the exact numbers

that are being broadcast by this star KIC 8462852.

Is this a coincidence?

The Great Pyramid and its two neighbors

are aligned to exactly the same constellation as where

this star is, which is Cygnus.

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

another megalithic site that is much older also points

to the Cygnus constellation.

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

on Earth, Gobekli Tepe.

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

monuments in the world at Gobekli Tepe in Southeast

Turkey is also aligned to the constellation of Cygnus?

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

art around the world, we find evidence

of this same constellation represented by celestial birds,

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

towards this constellation?

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

of the people who made these sites.

All over the world in megalithic structures,

they are all concerned with lining themselves up

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

They're telling us something about our connection

to the cosmos and our place on Earth.

>> Could Gobekli Tepe, the oldest megalithic structure

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

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

around the world?

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

In 1994, Klaus Schmidt, an archaeologist from Germany,

began digging into this unnatural-looking bluff.

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

Further investigation revealed that this ancient formation

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

throwing into question much of what

has been written in the history books.

Klaus Schmidt dedicated his life's work

to uncovering what might lie below the surface,

and continued to excavate until he mysteriously died in 2014.

95% of the ruins are still buried.

And the true purpose of Gobekli Tepe

and its relationship to the galaxy

is still an unsolved mystery.

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

old.

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

and then it was deliberately buried.

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

than that.

Because there is evidence in Turkey that humans like

us existed millions of years ago.

>> Gregg Braden points out that more evidence is being

uncovered, pushing back the date of antiquity.

Could Gobekli Tepe be even older?

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

on the poles has receded tremendously,

including Antarctica.

And the thickness of the ice as it is reduced

allows greater visibility from Earth-penetrating radar

so we can see what's underneath the ice.

One of the surprises is that the satellite images

are sending back now what appear to be

large-scale, complex archaeological sites.

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

These look like advanced technological civilizations

that we're seeing underneath the ice.

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

Either someone built these complex structures

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

And the more likely scenario is that the structures existed,

and then the ice covered them.

Right now, civilization-- the date

is being pushed back to 13,500 years.

The last ice age ended 12,000 years ago.

The historic context of civilizations going back

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

shows up in the mythology.

Maybe the mythology is based on much more facts

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

or been willing to embrace in the past.

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

believe, then what could be its purpose?

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

If you can imagine Stonehenge in England

and transpose it onto the top of a mountain

top in Southeast Turkey, and then multiply it

by at least 20 times.

And then, cover the stones with beautiful carvings

of animals and representations of abstract humans.

And give them T-shaped tops because that's

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

It was constructed at the very end of the last ice

age around 9500 BC, and was in use

for a period of 1,500 years before it

was abandoned about 8,000 BC.

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

accomplished of technologically-advanced stone

enclosures, that alone gives us evidence of possibly a lost

civilization.

The fact is that Gobekli Tepe is in Northern Mesopotamia.

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

This is clearly the cradle of civilization.

This is where the Anunnaki had their power base.

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

who had had his PhD in Yale University.

And we are standing down inside of the excavation

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

pillars.

Each weighed up to 15 tons.

And they're in rings.

And in that process of standing there and talking about,

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

that humans can understand.

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

and thinking about the old past.

And what could this have been built for?

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

And he said, it reminds me of tuning forks.

And he said, Linda, when you stand up

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

is built in a bowl.

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

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

And he said, what if this whole place was

built to resonate with certain frequencies

by something above resonating frequencies on big pillars

put in rings?

>> When you look at Gobekli Tepe,

and you see all of the constructions

of the inscriptions of all of the animals of the Earth

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

that perhaps what these things were,

were a way of recording a standing wave pattern

of a certain kind of a life form.

For instance, a crocodile exists on a different standing wave

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

And perhaps what they were trying to do

was out of a state of preservation,

trying to preserve these things.

They were trying to preserve stones

that actually had those frequencies recorded into them.

>> Could Gobekli Tepe have been an ancient portal constructed

to communicate with gods in far-away galaxies?

Is it possible that Tabby star could

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

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

very precise astronomy at Gobekli Tepe.

That it contains, amongst other things,

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

You can't do that without astronomy.

There are alignments to specific star

groups and specific moments of the year.

It's a highly-evolved site.

>> Shamanic cultures right the way across the Eurasian

continent saw the northern celestial pole as the point

of exit from the physical world and the point of entry

into the sky world.

And it was seen as a hole.

Quite literally, a hole connected

the different universes, the middle world

to the upper world.

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

that journey and the actual course, the route

that you would take to reach the sky world.

I believe that one of the indicators to our earliest

ancestors of a place of great power

was the appearance of mysterious lights.

It's known that a lot of strange light phenomena

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

We call them UFOs today, but these type of phenomena

have been occurring for many, many thousands of years.

Arguably, since the beginning.

I think that our ancestors would have

seen these as important signs that here were places where you

could establish points of contact, portals if you like,

with the other world.

And that by building your monuments here,

that link with the stars would be stronger.

The downloads of information that create civilization

would be stronger.

Pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe is a sign board

for the shaman who would be achieving

altered states of consciousness within the enclosures,

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

Perhaps a deeper understanding of the relationship

of these ancient monuments to Tabby star and other galaxies

is the key to understanding who built them and why.

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

but the fact that some people--

some researchers are equating that

with a star map that depicts our relationship would

be a perfect match for not only the Egyptian culture,

but for what we've discovered in the construction

of the pyramids themselves.

And the fact that this harmonic relationship

exists between this star.

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

to encapsulate and describe is this idea

that our star is interacting harmonically

with these other stellar bodies.

And it could be that this ancient extraterrestrial race

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

following that as a sort of harmonic

map around the universe.

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

to other galaxies, then perhaps somehow its architects knew

a global catastrophe was imminent and buried this

ancient technology to protect it.

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

began to become clear.

First off, this potbellied hill and this whole site

had not been covered up by natural sedimentation.

After being in use for about 1,000 years,

it was deliberately buried by whoever was involved with it.

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

This was in a kind of preservation.

You must envisage teams of hundreds of people

with sort of buckets filled with stone and rubble.

And they're coming and they're pouring it

in on top of the existing stone circles.

And they just keep on pouring until every stone

circle is covered.

>> Could the knowledge that has been covered up preserved

the mythology from almost every ancient culture?

>> Gobekli Tepe is a kind of--

it's like a potpourri of cultures.

You see a lot of Sumerian influence.

There's a lot of Egyptian symbolism in Gobekli Tepe

as well.

There's Hindu influence in there.

As well, Japanese.

And the fact is, this is where you start

getting into this gray area.

Where does it come from?

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

everybody got their ideas from?

It seems to me that Gobekli Tepe is

almost like a microcosm of so many cultures

around the world that supposedly never shared information

with each other.

And now, we begin to realize, actually,

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

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

of every culture from around the world?

And could it have been discovered at the right time

to reveal information?

There are many who believe uncovering

the answers to these questions will transform

how we understand ourselves.

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

at Gobekli Tepe.

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

and parallels to some of these other megalithic sites

and get some pretty decent scientific insight into what

they were trying to accomplish.

And what it looks like they were trying to accomplish

is the preservation of the scientific knowledge,

maybe at a time when there was just such global upheaval

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

It could very well be why they purposely

buried the entire site.

You're going to construct a megalithic site

of that kind of grandeur, and scale, and put

that kind of effort into it.

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

Why would any society do that?

>> But whoever built Gobekli Tepe,

the fact that they buried that very important 30 acres

of these rings of all of these limestone columns meant

somebody--

something knew that something potentially

destructive to the whole planet and they didn't

want Gobekli Tepe destroyed.

But Gobekli Tepe survived the 1990s.

>> Although Gobekli Tepe's discovery in 1990 was

groundbreaking, research has been problematic given

the dangerous upheaval in the area and the knowledge that

still stays buried.

But perhaps the discovery of the Tabby star

has become a beacon for knowledge still preserved

at Gobekli Tepe, pointing us in a direction

to uncover some human truths.

>> I think it is our responsibility to preserve

those records that are being destroyed in this cradle

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

in Syria, in Turkey.

Because they are very intentionally

being destroyed in some cases to wipe out

the memory of these past civilizations

for a number of reasons.

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

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

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

We've taken for granted for so long the fact

that these records are here and that they exist.

We never really considered that they

could be destroyed so easily.

If they actually got the funding and got the effort

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

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

is answer a whole lot of mysteries

about these other megalithic sites.

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

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

It may be an actual perfect construction of the science

that they were trying to save.

And if that ends up being the case,

then I think what you'll see is a resurgence

all through humanity and a real effort

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

That we are a species living with amnesia

of what this science was.

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

as a species.

War after war after cataclysm after cataclysm.

The Library of Alexandria being burned, all of those things

mean that we've lost more knowledge maybe

than we even possess right now.

And a lot of that knowledge, when you really

begin to study these ancient sites, can be regained.

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

We've got a lot of mysterious cities built out

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

and only 5% of it has been excavated,

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

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

The astronomy of the site is something

that a number of researchers are beginning to look into.

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

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

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

excavation.

And that site needs to be dug up.

I feel that Gobekli Tepe is potentially so important

for unraveling the origins of our present civilizations

that we really need to expose the whole site

and understand absolutely what's going on there.

It may change many things about how

we view ourselves and our past.

>> There's something more beyond that,

that some part of us comes from the stars themselves.

And that at the point of incarnation, that something,

we call it the soul or the spirit,

embodies within flesh and blood and exists.

And that this gives us this connection

to the stars that the soul or spirit actually

comes from an extraterrestrial or a starry source.

>> What else lies buried inside the potbellied grounds

at Gobekli Tepe?

Are there more secrets about the true origins of mankind

to be unearthed?

Are we being prompted by the communication with Tabby star

to dig deeper and connect with these ancient sites?

Could there be some kind of code that

interlocks celestial locations with monuments on Earth?

Would it be possible Gobekli Tepe could

be the ultimate smoking gun when it comes to connecting

these ancient monuments across the globe and the truth

on why they exist?

And could it reveal a message that

helps us understand our current civilization

and how to continue humanity on this planet?

Researchers continue to gather data,

but the answer may still lie buried beneath the dirt.

As the unraveling of these mysteries continue,

some interesting evidence begins to emerge

from some unusual locations.

One such place has one of the largest stones carved

by human hands at 1,650 tons--

>> Baalbek is one of the big enigmas,

of which there is very little answers.

We're talking about a huge complex.

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

54, what's the significance of that?

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

And is it possible it could be more

evidence of an ancient message?

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

where we dive deeper to unravel the code of humanity.