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[ Man Narrating ] Human corpses
preserved for thousands of years.

[ Man ]
The ancient Egyptians were convinced...

that the dead could and would
reawaken one day.

[ Narrator] Strange relics
placed on the bodies of the dead.

One of them
had images of winged beings.

[ Narrator]
And monks buried while still alive.

[ Man #2 ] These funerary rites would
be all about humans becoming...

not just like the gods,
but gods themselves.

[ Narrator] Mysterious burial rituals and
elaborate mummification processes...

have been found on
every continent on the planet.

But Why?

Were the ancients
simply trying to cheat death?

Or could there be another
more otherworldly explanation?

[ Man #3] it is possible the mummies
were being preserved...

so that they may
be reunited with the gods...

that actually started their culture.

[ 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 if so,
might the ultimate proof be hidden...

in the secrets of the mummies?

[ Narrator]
Vatican City.

April 2, 2005.

Pope John Paul II dies...

bringing his historic 26-year papacy
to a close.

His corpse is chemically preserved...

and transported to Saint Peter's Basilica
for public viewing.

In a funeral service
watched by millions...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
speaks of the beloved pontiffs soul...

being guided to the eternal glory
of Heaven.

His body is then interred in a large,
underground tomb beneath the church.

We can see that a great deal of care was
taken to preserve Pope John Paul's body.

And the idea is that death, in fact,
is just the beginning of this journey.

Many modern funerals, those that
take place in Europe and the Americas...

many of the initial ideas
actually have their roots in ancient Egypt.

In ancient Egypt,
bodies were mummified...

and put into sarcophagi
that resemble human beings.

And this is still done today
in many religious traditions...

including the Roman Catholic Church.

[ Narrator]
Mummification is any process...

used to prevent
the decaying of the body...

that naturally occurs after death.

The preserved body of Pope John Paul II
is, essentially, a mummy.

And, in fact, modern-day mummies
can be found all over the world.

When Communist revolutionary
Vladimir Lenin died in 1924...

Russian scientists preserved his body
by removing the organs...

and replacing them with a secret system
to simulate the movement of bodily fluids.

The process has kept him looking
astonishingly lifelike to this day...

and was also used to preserve the bodies
of Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il...

President Ferdinand Marcos
of the Philippines...

and Chinese emperor Mao Zedong...

also remain preserved
in remarkable condition.

But it is not just world leaders
who are being mummified.

Any body that is embalmed
at a funeral home is, in effect...

undergoing a type of mummification.

But why do so many people...

go to such great lengths
to preserve the body after death?

[ Man ]
Our ancestors believed in an afterlife...

and that the proper ceremonial rites
at time of death...

allowed the departed to travel
to the reward, to the next life...

which was often imagined to be
in the heavens, the stars...

and that this travel allowed the person
to come into their full reward.

You have, all over the world,
people continue to preserve bodies...

And it's because
there is this idea of living forever...

that death is not the end-
it's a beginning, it's a transitory state.

For some reason, everyone has this idea
that we need the body to live forever.

If people truly believed there was
a spiritual essence that infused the body...

that left at the moment of death,
they can't justify mummification.

[ Narrator] What can explain
the fact that, for thousands of years...

in cultures throughout the world...

people have held a belief...

that the preservation of the body is
necessary to transition into the afterlife?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe
clues can be found...

hidden beneath the desert sands
of Upper Egypt.

The Valley of the Kings.

Located on the western bank
of the Nile River...

lies one of the most expansive
burial grounds in all of Egypt.

The tombs were constructed
between 1539 and 1075 BC...

for pharaohs and other nobility.

To date, 63 tombs have been discovered
in the Valley of the Kings.

One of the best preserved
is that of Pharaoh Ramses VI...

who ruled from approximately
1145 to 1137 BC.

More than 4,000 years ago...

King Ramses would have started
digging this to become his tomb.

Or, as he called it,
his “House of Eternity.”

For ancient Egyptians, a tomb wasn't just
a place where they would end up dead.

A tomb was a place where
they would start their eternal life.

[ Narrator]
The Egyptians believed that, in death...

the soul would split into several parts...

and begin the journey
to the afterlife.

But to make this transition...

it was essential to reunite the soul
with the physical body.

And while the Egyptians were
not the first to mummify their dead...

no other ancient culture went to such
great lengths to preserve the body...

and ensure entrance
into the next life.

Ancient Egyptians would put a body
that needed to be mummified...

in a dry room.

They would first take out
the internal organs...

and they'd pack that body with natron salt
to start the drying process.

And then they would remove the brain.

Then they would rinse the body
with sweet-smelling oils...

and they cover the entire body
in natron salt...

and it would stay that way
for about 35 to 70 days.

Once the body was all dried out,
they would wrap the entire body...

putting amulets and other special
jeweled objects in the linen...

and then once it was completely wrapped
and be done.

[ Narrator ] The Egyptians understood
the most important factor in mummification-

the removal of fluids...

which ensures that bacteria cannot survive
and the body will not decay.

Although archaeologists have discovered much
about how these mummies were prepared...

the Egyptians left behind no texts
or instructions on mummification.

Just how the Egyptians came to create
this comp/ex practice remains a mystery.

But they did leave behind
extensive records...

regarding their thoughts
on the afterlife.

This right here is
a very good depiction...

of the journey of the afterlife
with King Ramses.

You see him here
on a solar barge...

being protected by
all the different gods behind him-

goddess Isis and god Osiris.

This right here is god Anubis...

and god Anubis is the god
of the mummification.

The most important story
in Egyptian mythology is the god Osiris...

how his brother, Seth, coveted
his brother's power and killed him.

Then his wife, Isis, in grief,
got help from Anubis...

who then helped Isis
breathe life back into him...

to survive into the next life
with the help of Anubis...

the inventor of embalming
and mummification.

The mummification process in Egypt has
often been related to, uh, the star Sirius...

which we call the Dog Star.

And the mummification rights were
overseen by the Egyptian god Anubis...

who was a jackal-headed god.

And so you have to wonder if Anubis...

wasn't some real, physical,
extraterrestrial god.

The ancient Egyptian temple walls
are covered with images of transformation.

And what it reveals is that
their core sacred science...

was about human transformation
or ascension into celestial beings.

So you wonder is it possible...

it's because those who originally taught us
the concept came from the stars?

[ Narrator] Could it be that the ancient
Egyptians' beliefs about the afterlife...

were influenced
by extraterrestrial visitors?

Was it from these visitors that they
learned the process of mummification?

And if so, what was
their ultimate agenda?

Perhaps the answers can be found
in ancient mummies...

that predate the Egyptians
by thousands of years.

[ Narrator]
Arica, Chile. 1983.

Workers digging a trench
in this coastal city...

just seven miles from the Peruvian border
make a remarkable discovery.

They unearth a cemetery
containing 96 mummies...

from the prehistoric Chinchorro culture.

Scientists determine that some of
the remains date back over 7,000 years...

making these the oldest known mummies
in the world.

[ Jeremiah ]
The Chinchorro were fishermen...

Who lived along the ocean
in Chile and Peru.

And in fact, 4,000 years before
the ancient Egyptians started doing it...

the Chinchorro were mummifying
their dead in South America.

[ Man ] The Chinchorros would
open up the cavity of the body.

They would take out all the organs.

They would put sand and grass
and other things inside the body.

They would carefully
cover it with mud...

and then they'd make mud masks
over their face.

It was a very elaborate system,
embalming these things.

[ Narrator] The Chinchorro method
of mummification...

is strikingly similar to the process used by
the Egyptians thousands of years later.

But why was this strange
burial ritual continued...

not just in Egypt, but in civilizations
across the ancient world?

El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru.
January 2013.

Researchers announce that they've
discovered an archaeological rarity-

an untouched, 7, 300- year-old royal tomb
from the Wan' Empire.

A predecessor to the Inca...

the Wari civilization
thrived in central Peru...

between 600 and 1100 AD...

before mysteriously disappearing.

Inside the tomb was a treasure trove
of gold, textiles, artifacts...

and 63 mummified women,
including three Wari queens.

[ Barnhart]
From the three royaled women...

one of them had earrings
that had images of winged beings.

These winged, anthropomorphic birds
that we see in religious art...

happen from the very earliest art
we know of in South America.

And that's something also that
you see, uh, at Tiahuanaco...

where winged beings
are running towards Viracocha...

in the center of the famous
Door of the Sun.

So why are these winged beings, then,
on jewelry with the Wari people?

And we find that with Egyptians too.

[ Man ] The Egyptian god Thoth
is depicted in Egyptian iconography...

as a half-bird, half-man deity.

And it was Thoth who gave the knowledge
of mummification to Isis.

What's interesting is that there
are other cultures around the world...

that also have half-bird,
half-human beings...

that are treated as gods.

This suggests that there
was some global culture...

of extraterrestrial visitors here...

who were teaching this mummification
as a technology.

[ Narrator] Is it possible that
the Wari images of winged gods...

really represent extraterrestrials
who came down from the sky?

Did they visit not just Peru...

but ancient cultures across the world?

And does the fact that these images
are found on Wari mummies...

suggest that this was a science brought
to planet Earth by otherworldly beings?

[ Narrator]
Utcubamba Valley, Peru.

Perched on a mountain cliff
in this isolated region of the Amazon...

stand six massive, clay sarcophagi...

known by locals as simply
the “ancient wise men.”

Researchers estimate
these eight-foot clay coffins...

were constructed between
1100 and 1300 AD.

They were built to house
the mummified remains...

of elite members
of the Chachapoya tribe...

a pre-Columbian civilization
of fierce warriors.

[Screaming ]

So we don't know much about
the Chachapoyas people, who they were.

They seemed to be very different
from the other tribes in Peru...

and just exactly where they had
come from and where they went...

is today a complete mystery.

I don't know of any other culture
in South America...

that created sarcophaguses
or coffins.

These coffins were big.

And they were made
in the form of humans.

Not unlike the sarcophaguses in Egypt.

The Chachapoya mummies
were buried in a fetal position...

and this is interesting.

The fetal position
suggests the possibility...

that the mummification rite
was going to lead to a new birth.

It's like the idea that
there's a new incubation...

and this may explain
why we see mummification...

not just with the Chachapoya
but we also see it in Egypt...

and this mummification technology
on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean...

does suggest that these people
are after some sort of goal...

that we don't yet understand
in modern times.

[ Narrator] Could mummification
have been an attempt by the ancients...

to not only preserve the body
after death...

but to enable the dead
to be reborn-

a technique used by extraterrestrials
to achieve power over death.

Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining mummies...

made not from the bodies of the dead...

but from the bodies of people
buried alive.

[ Narrator]
Mount Yudono, Japan.

In the 1,200-year-old
Dainichibo Temple...

at the base of this holy mountain...

sitting on an altar
within a glass case...

is the mummy of the revered Buddhist monk
Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai-Shonin.

Shonin is what is known in Japan as
a sokushinbutsu, or a living buddha.

He died in 1783 at the age of 96...

but shockingly, this is not when
the mummification process was started.

It began six years before his death.

This ritual of self-mummification...

was commonly practiced by monks
in the Shingon sect of Buddhism...

in northern Japan between
the 11th and 19th centuries.

They would willingly embark
on a process of self-mortification...

which was tantamount to suicide.

The first phase would last
about a thousand days...

and they would begin
the self-mummification process...

by embarking on a very rigorous
low-calorie diet.

In the second phase of the process...

the practitioner would be
imbibing the urushi tea.

Now, the urushi tea is highly toxic.

However, it was believed
to lacquer, basically...

the tissues and organs
from the inside out...

in order to favor
the mummification process.

And because of its toxicity...

the flesh was so poisonous that even
maggots would not consume it.

[ Young ] When they were nearly dead,
they would go into a small chamber...

just big enough to sit
in the lotus position.

It would be sealed up, except for
a reed that allowed a little air in...

and inside, the monk had a bell.

[ Bell Rings ]

One day, the bell would not ring...

and the followers would withdraw the reed
and seal up the chamber.

After 1,000 days, they would open it
to see what had happened.

[Jeremiah ] if the bodies had mummified,
they were considered living buddhas.

And they were redressed
in sacerdotal robes...

and displayed in special temple halls
called sokubutsudo.

If they had not mummified...

an exorcism was performed
and they were simply buried.

[ Narrator] Although hundreds of monks
tried to attain sokushinbutsu...

only 24 are known to have succeeded.

But why would these
devout followers of Buddha...

have endured such pain
in order to mummify their own bodies?

One of the central beliefs
of Buddhism is reincarnation...

but according to the Shingon sect...

those who successfully complete
the self-mummification process...

become higher beings.

The idea was they didn't think
they were dying.

They perceived this as
a state of suspended animation.

It wasn't death for them. it wasn't life.
It was somewhere in between.

They needed the body preserved
to enter this other dimension of reality...

and to continue life, although
it's not life as we would interpret it.

[ Man ]
They do not have to be reborn...

because when you become a living buddha,
you have already attained your nirvana...

so that, you know, your body
remains kind of immortal in a sense.

[ Steavu ]
They were trying to emulate...

these high-ranking or highly-achieving,
spiritually speaking, beings...

such as buddhas
or Bodhisattvas.

[ Narrator] Bu! what did it' mean to a
Shingon monk to become a living buddha...

and transition to a higher realm?

Perhaps the answer can be found...

by examining the life
of the original Buddha himself.

The historical Buddha was known
as Siddhartha Gautama...

and he was born around
the mid-sixth century BCE.

He founded the Buddhist tradition...

in which he expounds
on the path to enlightenment.

It's very important that the historical
Buddha was understood as a human.

That gives every human practitioner...

access to the same level of ability
and enlightenment.

However, he also took on
some magical powers...

that, in some ways...

brought him much closer to
a divine being or semi-divine being...

than to a normal mortal human.

He was known to teleport
across the Ganges River...

appearing from one side of the river
to the other in the blink of an eye.

[ Childress ] When you look at the life
of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha...

he would appear to be somebody
that we would maybe call a “star child”-

part human,
part extraterrestrial.

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that the first Buddha...

had extraterrestrial origins?

Might the Shingon monks
have believed...

that through the process
of self-mummification...

they too could be transformed
into more advanced beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe
that further answers can be found...

by examining the story
of an Egyptian pharaoh...

with extraterrestrial origins.

[ Narrator]
Amarna, Egypt. 1891.

Italian archaeologist
Alessandro Barsanti...

explores the tomb constructed
for the Pharaoh Akhenaten...

but finds no evidence
of his mummy.

What's really interesting is
that the Egyptologists were certain...

that they would find Akhenaten
behind that tomb...

and they didn't.

[ Narrator] Just what happened to this
revolutionary leader after his death...

is as mysterious
as the pharaoh himself.

Was he never actually buried in his tomb,
or could he have been removed?

Akhenaten ruled from 1353 BC...

until his death 17 years later.

His reign was dominated
by controversy...

when he abandoned the pantheon
of old Egyptian gods...

and instead demanded that his subjects
worship the sun god Aten.

The Aten was something that he saw
in the sky between two mountains...

that inspired him to create
the sacred city of Amarna.

Now the typical view
is the Aten must be the sun...

but it is entirely possible
that what Akhenaten was seeing...

was, in fact,
an extraterrestrial flying craft.

[ Narrator] Did Akhenaten
uproot the entire Kingdom of Egypt...

because of
an extraterrestrial encounter?

Or could there be
an even more profound explanation?

If you compare images of Akhenaten...

to other depictions of pharaohs...

you'll notice that Akhenaten
looks very different.

He had this very bizarre,
elongated skull...

and he had this weird potbelly
and weird arms.

So was he really a human?

Perhaps Akhenaten
was not of this earth.

[ Narrator] While archaeologists have
yet to uncover the remains of Akhenaten...

ancient astronaut theorists believe...

that depictions of him
having an elongated skull...

could be more
than just artistic license.

Because there are other mummies
that do, in fact, have unusual skulls.

Some elongated skulls
can be explained...

by the fact that numerous ancient cultures
practiced head binding-

a form of body modification where
the heads of infants were tightly bound...

to force their skulls
to become conical in shape.

But several misshapen skulls
appear to defy explanation.

In Peru and Malta,
elongated skulls have been discovered...

that are mysteriously missing
a sagittal suture-

the fibrous jagged joint
found in all human skulls.

[Tsoukalos ] When you compare
some of these elongated skulls...

some have sutures
like we have as humans...

and then there are other skulls
that do not have the same sutures.

So is it possible that some of them
are of actual extraterrestrial origin?

It would not surprise me
in the least bit. In the least bit.

[ Narrator] Could the elongated skulls
found on certain mummies...

actually be of extraterrestrial origin?

Might they be proof that humans
learned the process of mummification...

from alien visitors?

For years,
researcher Brien Foerster...

has been studying elongated skulls
found in Paracas, Peru...

and recent DNA tests
have yielded startling results.

Initial results, though ambiguous...

seem to indicate that
partial segments of their DNA...

are not to be found
in what is called GenBank...

which is the record of human DNA...

that's been decoded so far.

Astonishingly, the geneticist
who's been studying them has said...

that their DNA, at least in
some aspects, are not human.

[ Narrator] Might the DNA of
the mummified Paracas skulls...

contain the truth about ancient man's
contact with extraterrestrials?

Could it be that the mummy
of Akhenaten has never been found...

because it was deliberately
hidden or destroyed...

to keep us from discovering
its alien origins?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that the most compelling evidence
of a connection...

between mummification
and extraterrestrials...

can be found with the Inca...

who treated the dead as though
they were still very much alive.

[ Narrator]
Cuzco, Peru.

This sacred city was once the capital
of the Inca Empire...

and by the 13th century...

was the center of one of the largest...

and most sophisticated pre-Columbian
civilizations in the Americas.

The Inca were renowned
for their proficiency in architecture...

and widely regarded as the most important
of their many temple complexes...

was the one known as Qorikancha.

Historical accounts describe it
as a magnificent palace of gold...

that housed the most holy objects
of worship for the Inca-

the mummies of their dead kings.

[ Barnhart ] That's where the king
did his most important rituals...

and where the mummies of the previous
Sapa Incas, or kings, were kept.

And those mummies were communicated
with on a regular basis.

[ Narrator]
Even today, descendants of the Inca...

recreate the centuries-old practice...

of using the mummies
in sacred ceremonies.

[ Foerster ] Four times a year
they were brought out...

and the living descendants
would then consult with them...

about the affairs of state...

as well as what
they should do in the future.

It was believed that these mummies
could communicate with deities...

or otherworldly beings
in this twilight realm...

or in this state
between life and death.

They even had people specially trained
to take care of the royal mummies.

And some of the duties
that these caretakers had...

were interpreting
what the mummy wished to say...

arranging meetings
with the living and the dead...

and strangely even taking the mummy
outside so he could urinate.

[ Narrator]
But why would the Inca...

the most advanced civilization
in South America at the time...

treat corpses as though
they were living, thinking beings?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the Incan creation story.

The lncan creation myth describes...

how the world was created
by the Ayar brothers.

And the word “ayar”
actually means mummy...

so written right into the myth
from the very beginning...

is the idea that mummification
is of central importance...

to whomever and whatever
these gods are.

Is it possible that those mythical gods...

were actually extraterrestrial
flesh and blood beings of some kind?

[ Narrator] But if the Ayar brothers
really were extraterrestrials...

why would the Inca have used
the same term for these alien visitors...

as they did
for their mummified dead?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that the Inca may have witnessed
these other-worldly space travelers...

emerging from a state
of suspended animation.

What if they were trying to mimic
whatever it is they saw?

And so, if someone
with no technological knowledge...

witnesses someone
who is in suspended animation...

and then they come alive...

they have just witnessed
the resurrection of someone...

someone coming back
from the dead...

when, in reality,
that was never the case.

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that the Inca...

witnessed alien visitors
coming out of hibernation...

and that this is why
they mummified their dead?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and claim that this might also explain
mummification in other cultures...

most notably the Egyptians.

[Wilcock ] it's possible that
the extraterrestrials who visited Egypt...

would have needed to have some
sort of hyperbaric isolation chambers...

to get from their home world to here.

Now, if that is true,
then it's also possible...

that the mummification ritual...

actually originated from this
long-term hyperbaric storage...

that they were doing with their bodies
inside sarcophagus-like chambers.

One idea, certainly, is that
human beings and these societies...

were seeing extraterrestrials
who were wrapped in certain body suits...

and then they would come back alive.

They were put in a special
suspended animation...

that was similar to mummification.

And perhaps, this is why the Egyptians
were doing mummification.

[ Narrator] Could mummification really
have been an attempt by ancient people...

to imitate extraterrestrial
space travelers?

Perhaps.

But ancient astronaut theorists propose...

that there may be
an even more profound explanation-

that early humans were not
simply imitating alien visitors...

but intended to join them
in the future.

[ Narrator ]
Juérez, Mexico. 2008.

Just eight miles
southwest of El Paso, Texas...

in this notoriously violent border town...

Dr. Alejandro Hernéndez Cardenas...

develops a groundbreaking
new technique in forensic science.

By using a secret chemical formula...

he is able to rehydrate the flesh
of unrecognizable homicide victims...

including bodies that were mummified...

after years of being dried out
in the hot desert climate.

Out of sort of compassion or concern...

for the huge number
of unidentified bodies in Juérez...

he figured out a solution that you
can place a mummified corpse in.

The corpse becomes recognizable
in terms of identifying scars or tattoos.

[ Narrator] The naturally
mummified corpses are put in a tank...

that Dr. Cardenas
refers to as “The Jacuzzi”...

which holds 60 gallons
of his secret' formula.

Over the course of a few days...

the shriveled remains are rehydrated
to look almost lifelike.

But as astounding as his formula is...

it's not the first time
science has attempted...

to, in some way,
restore a mummified body.

In 1968...

Robert Connolly, a researcher
from the University of Liverpool...

attempted to virtually regenerate the blood
of a completely mummified body...

only this mummy
was 3,300 years old.

It was the mummy of Egypt's
most famous pharaoh-

King Tutankhamen.

Connolly's method was to combine antigens
taken from a skin sample of King Tut...

with his own blood cells.

Connolly is actually type O...

which means you don't have
any antigens on your blood cells.

He was actually able to
put the antigens from King Tut...

on his sort of clean slate
of a blood cell...

so then recreating
whatever blood type the mummy had.

You mix those red blood cells
with different blood types...

and if it's not
the correct blood type...

what you get is sort of
clumping of the blood cells...

because there's
an immune response against them.

But if it's the correct blood type...

then you don't see any sort
of immunological response.

So, in that way,
they were able to figure out...

which blood type
King Tut possessed.

[ Narrator]
Since Connolly's experiment...

scientists have gone even further...

and discovered what they believe
is King Tut's true DNA.

Could the next step
be an actual resurrection?

Was the preservation of the body...

not just a ritualistic attempt
to imitate alien visitors...

but an actual form
of suspended animation?

But if so, how could they have foreseen
such incredible scientific advancements...

thousands of years ago?

It is possible that
the ancient astronauts...

taught the Egyptians
that mummification...

was a way of preserving
their genetic information in the DNA.

[Childress ] One of the startling discoveries
in the study of mummies...

in Egypt and elsewhere...

is that quite a bit of DNA
is actually preserved...

for thousands of years
in the mummification process.

This makes it possible
to clone ancient mummies...

and, in a sense,
bring them back to life.

[Wilcock] it is possible that,
at some point in the future...

if your body had been
successfully mummified...

that these ancient extraterrestrials
were well aware...

that a clone of who you were before
could then be reborn many years later.

And is it possible that with
the magnificence of the DNA...

and with all of the information
that it contains...

that you might also come back...

with the memories
of what you lived...

and who you were
and what you knew the last time.

And that may be the purpose...

which will actually be used
in the future not yet present...

but with a technology that
we are very rapidly acquiring.

[ Henry] When the extraterrestrials
taught the art of mummification...

did they have it in
the back of their mind that...

maybe 5,000 years
into the future...

medical science
would advance to the level...

where we would be able to extract
the DNA from those mummies?

And maybe this is part of the purpose
of the mummification...

is to create this time capsule.

[ Narrator] Could our ancestors really have
been taught the process of mummification...

by extraterrestrial beings?

Was it their intention that we would
eventually develop the technology...

to retrieve the DNA
of the ancient mummies...

and restore them to life?

And if we do, might we discover
that these human time capsules...

hold the secrets to our very origins?

Perhaps one day, we will truly be able
to reanimate the dead...

and from these ancient mummies...

we will learn the truth
about our alien ancestors.