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NARRATOR: Human corpses preserved
for thousands of years...
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RAMY ROMANY: The ancient Egyptians
were convinced that the dead
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could and would reawaken one day.
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NARRATOR: Strange relics placed
on the bodies of the dead...
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ED BARNHART: One of them
had images of winged beings.
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NARRATOR: And monks
buried... while still alive.
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WILLIAM HENRY: These funerary
rites would be all about humans
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becoming, not just like the
gods, but gods themselves.
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NARRATOR: Mysterious burial rituals
and elaborate mummification processes
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have been found on every
continent on the planet.
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But why?
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Were the ancients simply
trying to cheat death?
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Or could there be another...
more otherworldly... explanation?
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DAVID WILCOCK: It is possible
the mummies were being preserved
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so that they may be reunited with the gods
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that actually started their culture.
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NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world
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believe we have been visited in
the past by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And if so,
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might the ultimate proof be hidden
in the secrets of the mummies?
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NARRATOR: Vatican City. April 2, 2005.
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Pope John Paul II dies,
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bringing his historic
26-year papacy to a close.
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His corpse is chemically preserved
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and transported to St. Peter's
Basilica for public viewing.
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In a funeral service watched by millions,
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
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speaks of the beloved pontiff's soul
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being guided to the
"eternal glory" of Heaven.
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His body is then interred in a large,
underground tomb beneath the church.
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HENRY: We can see that a great deal of care
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was taken to preserve
Pope John Paul's body.
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And the idea is that death, in fact,
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is just the beginning of this journey.
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KEN JEREMIAH: Many modern funerals,
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those that take place in
Europe and the Americas,
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many of the initial ideas actually
have their roots in Ancient Egypt.
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In ancient Egypt, bodies were mummified
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and put into sarcophagi
that resemble human beings.
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And this is still done today,
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in many religious traditions,
including the Roman Catholic Church.
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NARRATOR: Mummification is any process
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used to prevent the decaying of the body
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that naturally occurs after death.
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The preserved body of Pope John Paul II is,
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essentially, a mummy.
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And, in fact, modern-day mummies
can be found all over the world.
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When Communist revolutionary
Vladimir Lenin died in 1924,
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Russian scientists preserved his body
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by removing the organs and replacing them
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with a secret system to simulate
the movement of bodily fluids.
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The process has kept him
looking astonishingly lifelike
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to this day, and was also
used to preserve the bodies
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of Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh.
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il,
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President Ferdinand
Marcos of the Philippines,
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and Chinese emperor Mao Zedong also
remain preserved in remarkable condition.
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But it is not just world
leaders who are being mummified.
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Any body that is embalmed at
a funeral home is, in effect,
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undergoing a type of mummification.
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But why do so many people
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go to such great lengths to
preserve the body after death.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: Our ancestors
believed in an afterlife
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and that the proper ceremonial
rites at time of death
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allowed the departed
to travel to the reward,
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to the next life,
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which was often imagined to
be in the heavens, the stars,
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and that this travel
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allowed the person to come
into their full reward.
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JEREMIAH: All over the world,
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people continue to preserve bodies
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and it's because there is
this idea of living forever;
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that death is not the
end, it's a beginning...
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it's a transitory state.
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For some reason, everyone has
this idea that we need the body
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to live forever.
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If people truly believed there was a
spiritual essence that infused the body,
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that left at the moment of death,
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they can't justify mummification.
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NARRATOR: What can explain the
fact that, for thousands of years,
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in cultures throughout the world,
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people have held a belief
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that the preservation of the body
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is necessary to transition
into the afterlife?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe clues can be found
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hidden beneath the desert
sands of Upper Egypt.
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The Valley of the Kings.
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Located on the western
bank of the Nile River
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lies one of the most expansive
burial grounds in all of Egypt.
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The tombs were constructed
between 1539 and 1075 BC,
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for pharaohs and other nobility.
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To date,
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63 tombs have been discovered
in the Valley of the Kings.
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One of the best preserved
is that of Pharaoh Ramses VI,
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who ruled from approximately
1145 to 1137 BC.
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ROMANY: More than 4,000 years ago,
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King Ramses would have started
digging this to become his tomb.
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Or, as he called it,
his "House of Eternity."
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For Ancient Egyptians,
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a tomb wasn't just a place
where they would end up dead.
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A tomb was a place where they
would start their eternal life.
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NARRATOR: The Egyptians
believed that, in death,
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the soul would split into several parts,
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and begin the journey to the afterlife.
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But to make this
transition, it was essential
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to reunite the soul with the physical body.
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And while the Egyptians were not
the first to mummify their dead,
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no other ancient culture
went to such great lengths
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to preserve the body, and ensure
entrance into the next life.
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TORI RANDALL: Ancient Egyptians would put a
body that needed to be mummified in a dry room.
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They would first take
out the internal organs,
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and they'd pack that body with natron salt
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to start the drying process.
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And then they would remove the brain.
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Then they would rinse the
body with sweet-smelling oils
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and cover the entire body in natron salt
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and it would stay that way
for about 35 to 70 days.
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Once the body was all dried out,
they would wrap the entire body,
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putting amulets and other
special jeweled objects
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in the linen and then...
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once it was completely wrapped...
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and be done.
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NARRATOR: The Egyptians
understood the most important
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factor in mummification...
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the removal of fluids,
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which ensures that bacteria cannot survive
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and the body will not decay.
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Although archeologists
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have discovered much about how
these mummies were prepared,
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the Egyptians left behind no texts
or instructionson mummification.
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Just how the Egyptians came to create
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this complex practice remains a mystery.
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But they did leave behind extensive records
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regarding their thoughts on the afterlife.
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ROMANY: This right here
is a very good depiction
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of the journey of the
afterlife with King Ramses.
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You see him here on a solar barge
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being protected by all the
different gods behind him,
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goddess Isis and god Osiris.
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This right here is god Anubis,
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and god Anubis is the
god of the mummification.
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YOUNG: The most important story in
Egyptian mythology is the god Osiris,
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how his brother, Seth, coveted his
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brother's power and killed him.
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Then...
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his wife, Isis, in grief,
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got help from Anubis,
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who then helped Isis
breathe life back into him,
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to survive into the next life
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with the help of Anubis the inventor
of embalming and mummification.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: The
mummification process in Egypt
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is often related to, uh,
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the star Sirius which we call the Dog Star.
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And the mummification rights were overseen
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by the Egyptian god Anubis,
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who was a jackal-headed god.
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And so you have to wonder if Anubis
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wasn't some real, physical,
extraterrestrial god.
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HENRY: The ancient
Egyptian temple walls are...
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are covered with images of transformation,
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and what it reveals is that
their core sacred science
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was about human transformation or
ascension into celestial beings.
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So you wonder is it possible it's because
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those who originally taught these
concepts came from the stars?
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NARRATOR: Could it be that
the ancient Egyptians' beliefs
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about the afterlife were influenced
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by extraterrestrial visitors?
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Was it from these visitors
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that they learned the
process of mummification?
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And if so,
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what was their ultimate agenda?
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Perhaps the answers can be found
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in ancient mummies that
predate the Egyptians
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by thousands of years.
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NARRATOR: Arica, Chile. 1983.
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Workers digging a trench
in this coastal city
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just seven miles from the Peruvian border
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make a remarkable discovery.
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They unearth a cemetery
containing 96 mummies
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from the prehistoric Chinchorro culture.
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Scientists determine
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that some of the remains
date back over 7,000 years,
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making these the oldest
known mummies in the world.
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JEREMIAH: The Chinchorro were fishermen
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who lived along the
ocean in Chile and Peru,
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and in fact, 4,000 years before the
ancient Egyptians started doing it,
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the Chinchorro were mummifying
their dead in South America.
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BARNHART: The Chinchorros would
open up the cavity of the body.
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They would take out all the They would put
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sand and grass and other
things inside the body.
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They would carefully cover it with mud
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and then they'd make mud
masks over their face.
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It was a very elaborate
system, embalming these things.
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NARRATOR: The Chinchorro
method of mummification
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is strikingly similar to the
process used by the Egyptians
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thousands of years later.
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But why was this strange
burial ritual continued,
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not just in Egypt,
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but in civilizations
across the ancient world?
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El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru.
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January, 2013.
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Researchers announce
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that they've discovered
an archaeological rarity...
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an untouched, 1,300-year-old royal tomb
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from the Wari Empire.
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A predecessor to the Inca,
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the Wari civilization
thrived in central Peru
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between 600 and 1100 AD
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before mysteriously disappearing.
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Inside the tomb was a
treasure trove of gold,
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textiles, artifacts and 63 mummified women,
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including three Wari queens.
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BARNHART: From the three
"royaled" women, one of them had
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earrings that had images of winged beings.
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These winged, anthropomorphic birds
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that we see in religious
art happen from the very
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earliest art we know of in South America.
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CHILDRESS: And that's something
also that you see, uh, at Tiahuanaco,
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where winged beings are running
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towards Viracocha in the center
of the famous Door of the Sun.
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So why are these winged beings, then,
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on jewelry with the Wari people?
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And we find that with Egyptians, too.
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WILCOCK: The Egyptian god Thoth
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is depicted in Egyptian
iconography as a half-bird,
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half-man deity.
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And it was Thoth
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who gave the knowledge
of mummification to Isis.
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What's interesting is that there
are other cultures around the world
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that also have half-bird,
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half-human beings that
are treated as gods.
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This suggests
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that there was some global culture
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of extraterrestrial visitors here who were
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teaching this mummification
as a technology.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
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that the Wari images of winged gods
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really represent extraterrestrials
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who came down from the sky?
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Did they visit not just Peru,
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but ancient cultures across the world?
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And does the fact that these
images are found on Wari mummies
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suggest that this was a
science brought to planet earth
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by otherworldly beings?
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Utcubamba Valley, Peru.
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Perched on a mountain cliff in
this isolated region of the Amazon,
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stand six massive, clay sarcophagi
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known by locals as simply
the "ancient wise men."
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Researchers estimate these
eight-foot clay coffins
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were constructed between 1100 and 1300 AD.
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They were built to house
the mummified remains
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of elite members of the Chachapoya tribe,
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a pre-Columbian civilization
of fierce warriors.
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(Shouting)
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CHILDRESS: So we don't know much about
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the Chachapoyas people, who they were.
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They seemed to be very different
from the other tribes in Peru
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and just exactly where they had
come from and where they went
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is today, a complete mystery.
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BARNHART: I don't know of any other
culture in South America that created
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sarcophaguses or coffins.
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These coffins were big.
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And they were made in the form of humans.
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Not unlike the sarcophaguses in Egypt.
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WILCOCK: The Chachapoya mummies
were buried in a fetal position,
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and this is interesting.
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The fetal position suggests the possibility
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that the mummification rite was
going to lead to a new birth.
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It's like the idea that
there's a new incubation,
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and this may explain why
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we see mummification not
just with the Chachapoya,
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but we also see it in Egypt,
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and this mummification technology
on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean
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does suggest that these people
are after some sort of goal
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that we don't yet
understand in modern times.
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NARRATOR: Could mummification have
been an attempt by the ancients
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to not only preserve the body after death,
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but to enable the dead to be reborn?
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A technique used by extraterrestrials
to achieve power over death?
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Perhaps further clues can be found
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by examining mummies
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made not from the bodies of the dead,
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but from the bodies of people buried alive.
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NARRATOR: Mount Yudono, Japan.
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In the 1,200-year-old Dainichibo temple,
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at the base of this holy mountain,
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sitting on an alter within a glass case,
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is the mummy of the revered Buddhist monk
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Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai-Shonin.
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Shonin is what is known in Japan
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as a Sokushinbutsu, or a Living Buddha.
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He died in 1783 at the age of 96,
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but shockingly,
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this is not when the
mummification process was started.
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It began 6 years before his death.
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This ritual of self-mummification
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was commonly practiced by monks
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in the Shingon sect of
Buddhism in northern Japan
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between the 11th and 19th centuries.
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DOMINIC STEAVU: They would willingly embark
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on a process of self-mortification, which
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was tantamount to suicide.
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The first phase would
last about 1,000 days,
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and they would begin the
self-mummification process
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by embarking on a very
rigorous low-calorie diet.
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In the second phase of the process,
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the practitioner would be
imbibing the urushi tea.
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Now, the urushi tea is highly toxic.
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However, it was believed to
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lacquer, basically, the tissues
and organs from the inside out
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in order to favor the
mummification process.
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And because of its toxicity,
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the flesh was so
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poisonous that even maggots
would not consume it.
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YOUNG: When they were nearly dead,
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they would go into a small chamber,
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just big enough to sit
in the lotus position.
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It would be sealed up, except for a reed
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that allowed a little air in,
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and inside, the monk had a bell.
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One day the bell would not ring
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and the followers would withdraw
the reed and seal up the chamber.
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After 1,000 days, they would
open it to see what had happened.
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JEREMIAH: If the bodies had mummified,
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they were considered Living Buddhas,
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and they were redressed in sacerdotal robes
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and displayed in special
temple halls called ***.
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If they had not mummified,
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an exorcism was performed
and they were simply buried.
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NARRATOR: Although hundreds
of monks tried to attain
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Sokushinbutsu,
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only 24 are known to have succeeded.
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But why would these
devout followers of Buddha
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have endured such pain in order
to mummify their own bodies?
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One of the central beliefs of Buddhism
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is reincarnation,
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but according to the Shingon sect,
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those who successfully complete
the self-mummification process
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become higher beings.
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JEREMIAH: The idea was they
didn't think they were dying.
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They perceived this as a
state of suspended animation.
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It wasn't death for them. It wasn't life.
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It was somewhere in between.
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They needed the body preserved
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to enter this other dimension of reality
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and to continue life, although it's
not life as we would interpret it.
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DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: They
do not have to be reborn
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because when you become a Living Buddha,
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you have already attained
your nirvana so that, you know,
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your... your body remains
kind of immortal in a sense.
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STEAVU: They were trying to emulate these
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high-ranking or highly-achieving,
spiritually speaking,
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beings such as Buddhas or Bodhisattvas.
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NARRATOR: But what did
it mean to a Shingon monk
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to become a Living Buddha,
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and transition to a higher realm?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
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by examining the life of
the original Buddha himself.
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STEAVU: The historical Buddha
was known as Siddhartha Gautama,
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and he was born
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around the mid-6th century BCE.
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He founded the Buddhist tradition,
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in which he expounds on
the path to enlightenment.
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It's very important that
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the historical Buddha
was understood as a human.
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That gives every human practitioner
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access to the same level of
ability and enlightenment.
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However, he also took
on some magical powers
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that, in some ways,
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brought him much closer to a
divine being or semi-divine being
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than to a normal mortal human.
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He was known to teleport
across the Ganges River,
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appearing from one side of the river
to the other in the blink of an eye.
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CHILDRESS: When you look at the
life of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha,
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he would appear to be somebody that
we would maybe call a star child:
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part human, part extraterrestrial.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the first Buddha
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had extraterrestrial origins?
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Might the Shingon monks have believed
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that through the process
of self-mummification
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they too could be transformed
into more advanced beings?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe
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that further answers can be found
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by examining the story
of an Egyptian pharaoh
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with extraterrestrial origins.
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NARRATOR: Amarna, Egypt. 1891.
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Italian archaeologist Alessandro Barsanti
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explores the tomb constructed
for the Pharaoh Akhenaton,
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but finds no evidence of his mummy.
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: What's really interesting
is that the Egyptologists were certain
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that they would find Akhenaton behind
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that tomb, and they didn't.
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NARRATOR: Just what happened
to this revolutionary leader
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after his death is as mysterious
as the pharaoh himself.
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Was he never actually buried in his tomb,
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or could he have been removed?
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Akhenaton ruled from 1353 B.C.
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until his death 17 years later.
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His reign was dominated by controversy
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when he abandoned the
pantheon of old Egyptian gods
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and instead demanded that his subjects
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worship the sun god Aten.
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WILCOCK: The Aten was
something that he saw in the sky
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between two mountains
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that inspired him to create
the sacred city of Amarna.
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Now, the typical view is
the Aten must be the sun,
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but it is entirely possible
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that what Akhenaten was seeing
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was, in fact, an
extraterrestrial flying craft.
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NARRATOR: Did Akhenaten uproot
the entire Kingdom of Egypt
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because of an extraterrestrial encounter?
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Or could there be an even
more profound explanation?
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TSOUKALOS: If you compare
images of Akhenaten
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to other depictions of pharaohs
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you'll notice that Akhenaten
looks very different.
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He had this very bizarre elongated skull
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and he had this weird
potbelly and weird arms.
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So was he really a human?
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Perhaps Akhenaten was not of this earth.
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NARRATOR: While archaeologists have
yet to uncover the remains of Akhenaten,
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ancient astronaut theorists believe
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that depictions of him
having an elongated skull
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could be more than just artistic license.
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Because there are other
mummies that do, in fact,
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have unusual skulls.
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Some elongated skulls can be explained
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by the fact that numerous ancient
cultures practiced head-binding...
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a form of body modification
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where the heads of
infants were tightly bound
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to force their skulls to
become conical in shape.
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But several misshapen skulls
appear to defy explanation.
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In Peru and Malta,
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elongated skulls have been discovered
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that are mysteriously
missing a sagittal suture...
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the fibrous jagged joint
found in all human skulls.
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TSOUKALOS: When you compare
some of these elongated skulls,
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some have sutures like we have as humans,
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and then there are other skulls
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that do not have the same sutures.
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So, is it possible that
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some of them are of actual
extraterrestrial origin?
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It would not surprise me
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in the least bit, in the least bit.
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NARRATOR: Could the elongated
skulls found on certain mummies
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actually be of extraterrestrial origin?
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Might they be proof
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that humans learned the process of
mummification from alien visitors?
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For years, researcher Brien Foerster
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has been studying elongated skulls
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found in Paracas, Peru,
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and recent DNA tests have
yielded startling results.
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BRIEN FOERSTER: Initial
results, though ambiguous,
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seem to indicate that
partial segments of their DNA
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are not to be found in
what is called GenBank,
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which is the record of human
DNA that's been decoded so far.
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Astonishingly, the geneticist
who's been studying them
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has said that their DNA,
at least in some aspects,
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are not human.
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NARRATOR: Might the DNA of
the mummified Paracas skulls
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contain the truth about ancient
man's contact with extraterrestrials?
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Could it be that the mummy of Akhenaten
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has never been found because
it was deliberately hidden
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or destroyed to keep us from
discovering its alien origins?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
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that the most compelling
evidence of a connection
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between mummification and extraterrestrials
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can be found with the Inca,
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who treated the dead as though
they were still very much alive.
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NARRATOR: Cuzco, Peru.
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This sacred city was once the
capital of the Inca Empire,
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and by the 13th century was the center
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of one of the largest
and most sophisticated
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Pre-Columbian civilizations
in the Americas.
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The Inca were renowned for
their proficiency in architecture
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and widely regarded as the most important
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of their many temple complexes
was the one known as Qurikancha.
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Historical accounts describe it
as a magnificent palace of gold
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that housed the most holy
objects of worship for the Inca...
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the mummies of their dead kings.
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BARNHART: That's where the king
did his most important rituals
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and where the mummies of
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the previous Sapa Incas,
or kings, were kept.
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And those mummies were communicated
with on a regular basis.
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NARRATOR: Even today,
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descendants of the Inca
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recreate the centuries-old practice
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of using the mummies in sacred ceremonies.
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FOERSTER: Four times a
year they were brought out
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and the living descendants
would then consult with them
493
00:32:32,269 --> 00:32:33,974
about the affairs of state,
494
00:32:33,998 --> 00:32:36,890
as well as what they
should do in the future.
495
00:32:38,453 --> 00:32:42,426
JEREMIAH: It was believed that these
mummies could communicate with deities
496
00:32:42,546 --> 00:32:46,432
or otherworldly beings
in this twilight realm
497
00:32:47,473 --> 00:32:50,950
or in this state between life and death.
498
00:32:51,859 --> 00:32:53,237
They even had
499
00:32:53,268 --> 00:32:56,576
people specially trained to
take care of the royal mummies.
500
00:32:56,622 --> 00:33:01,980
And some of the duties that these
caretakers had were interpreting
501
00:33:02,023 --> 00:33:03,670
what the mummy wished to say,
502
00:33:03,790 --> 00:33:06,353
arranging meetings with
the living and the dead
503
00:33:06,389 --> 00:33:11,689
and strangely even taking the
mummy outside so he could urinate.
504
00:33:17,746 --> 00:33:19,185
NARRATOR: But why would the Inca...
505
00:33:19,228 --> 00:33:22,868
the most advanced civilization
in South America at the time...
506
00:33:23,343 --> 00:33:27,540
treat corpses as though they
were living, thinking beings?
507
00:33:28,451 --> 00:33:30,845
Perhaps the answer can be found
508
00:33:30,908 --> 00:33:34,261
by examining the Incan creation story.
509
00:33:34,872 --> 00:33:38,000
WILCOCK: The Incan creation myth describes
510
00:33:38,054 --> 00:33:41,295
how the world was created
by the Ayar brothers.
511
00:33:41,949 --> 00:33:45,868
And the word "ayar" actually means mummy,
512
00:33:46,528 --> 00:33:49,658
so written right into the
myth from the very beginning
513
00:33:49,778 --> 00:33:53,674
is the idea that mummification
is of central importance
514
00:33:53,723 --> 00:33:57,605
to whomever and whatever these gods are.
515
00:33:57,811 --> 00:33:59,198
Is it possible
516
00:33:59,258 --> 00:34:02,256
that those mythical gods were actually
517
00:34:02,311 --> 00:34:06,338
extraterrestrial flesh and
blood beings of some kind?
518
00:34:09,724 --> 00:34:11,680
NARRATOR: But if the Ayar brothers
519
00:34:11,711 --> 00:34:14,194
really were extraterrestrials,
520
00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:17,064
why would the Inca have used the same term
521
00:34:17,082 --> 00:34:21,401
for these alien visitors as they
did for their mummified dead?
522
00:34:22,267 --> 00:34:24,854
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
523
00:34:24,974 --> 00:34:28,991
that the Inca may have witnessed
these other-worldly space travelers
524
00:34:28,991 --> 00:34:32,255
emerging from a state
of suspended animation.
525
00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:37,792
TSOUKALOS: What if they
were trying to mimic
526
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,681
whatever it is they saw?
527
00:34:41,783 --> 00:34:47,004
And so, if someone with
no technological knowledge,
528
00:34:47,628 --> 00:34:51,752
witnesses someone who is
in suspended animation,
529
00:34:52,685 --> 00:34:55,725
and then they come alive.
530
00:34:56,107 --> 00:34:58,892
They have just witnessed
the resurrection of someone,
531
00:34:59,012 --> 00:35:01,776
someone coming back from the dead,
532
00:35:01,842 --> 00:35:04,865
when in reality, that was never the case.
533
00:35:08,929 --> 00:35:11,116
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Inca
534
00:35:11,236 --> 00:35:15,023
witnessed alien visitors
coming out of hibernation
535
00:35:15,241 --> 00:35:18,784
and that this is why
they mummified their dead?
536
00:35:19,814 --> 00:35:22,747
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
537
00:35:22,783 --> 00:35:25,733
and claim that this might also explain
538
00:35:25,782 --> 00:35:31,288
mummification in other cultures,
most notably the Egyptians.
539
00:35:31,408 --> 00:35:32,821
WILCOCK: It's possible
540
00:35:33,033 --> 00:35:36,055
that the extraterrestrials
who visited Egypt
541
00:35:36,132 --> 00:35:39,713
would have needed to have some sort
of hyperbaric isolation chambers
542
00:35:39,781 --> 00:35:42,232
to get from their home world to here.
543
00:35:42,513 --> 00:35:45,799
Now, if that is true,
then it's also possible
544
00:35:45,978 --> 00:35:47,951
that the mummification ritual
545
00:35:48,071 --> 00:35:50,960
actually originated from this
546
00:35:51,042 --> 00:35:53,246
long-term hyperbaric storage
547
00:35:53,275 --> 00:35:55,887
that they were doing
with their bodies inside
548
00:35:55,930 --> 00:35:58,188
sarcophagus-like chambers.
549
00:35:58,919 --> 00:36:01,376
CHILDRESS: One idea, certainly, is that
550
00:36:02,248 --> 00:36:04,255
human beings and these societies
551
00:36:04,274 --> 00:36:06,774
were seeing extraterrestrials who were
552
00:36:06,794 --> 00:36:09,056
wrapped in certain body suits
553
00:36:09,231 --> 00:36:10,287
and then they would
554
00:36:10,407 --> 00:36:12,176
come back alive.
555
00:36:12,380 --> 00:36:15,660
They were put in a
special suspended animation
556
00:36:15,685 --> 00:36:18,864
that was similar to mummification.
557
00:36:19,145 --> 00:36:21,538
And perhaps this is why
558
00:36:21,592 --> 00:36:25,381
the Egyptians were doing mummification.
559
00:36:27,906 --> 00:36:29,413
NARRATOR: Could mummification
560
00:36:29,524 --> 00:36:32,237
really have been an
attempt by ancient people
561
00:36:32,290 --> 00:36:35,672
to imitate extraterrestrial
space travelers?
562
00:36:35,745 --> 00:36:36,952
Perhaps.
563
00:36:37,252 --> 00:36:39,947
But ancient astronaut theorists propose
564
00:36:40,067 --> 00:36:43,833
that there may be an even
more profound explanation:
565
00:36:44,608 --> 00:36:48,994
that early humans were not
simply imitating alien visitors,
566
00:36:49,741 --> 00:36:53,903
but intended to join them in the future.
567
00:36:58,817 --> 00:37:00,576
NARRATOR: Ju�rez, Mexico.
568
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,141
2008.
569
00:37:04,035 --> 00:37:07,315
Just eight miles southwest
of El Paso, Texas,
570
00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:11,196
in this notoriously violent border town,
571
00:37:13,369 --> 00:37:16,177
Dr. Alejandro Hern�ndez C�rdenas
572
00:37:16,297 --> 00:37:18,841
develops a groundbreaking new technique
573
00:37:18,878 --> 00:37:20,501
in forensic science.
574
00:37:20,774 --> 00:37:23,214
By using a secret chemical formula,
575
00:37:23,311 --> 00:37:25,437
he is able to rehydrate the flesh
576
00:37:25,443 --> 00:37:28,351
of unrecognizable homicide victims,
577
00:37:28,471 --> 00:37:31,034
including bodies that were mummified
578
00:37:31,064 --> 00:37:34,892
after years of being dried
out in the hot desert climat.
579
00:37:36,821 --> 00:37:39,820
KIRSTEN FISHER: Out of sort of
compassion or concern for the
580
00:37:39,849 --> 00:37:42,490
huge number of unidentified
bodies in Ju�rez,
581
00:37:43,192 --> 00:37:45,702
he figured out a solution
that you can place
582
00:37:45,712 --> 00:37:47,742
a mummified corpse in.
583
00:37:48,455 --> 00:37:51,440
The corpse becomes recognizable in terms of
584
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,120
identifying scars or tattoos.
585
00:38:01,738 --> 00:38:03,666
NARRATOR: The naturally mummified corpses
586
00:38:03,695 --> 00:38:06,899
are put in a tank that
Dr. C�rdenas refers to
587
00:38:06,976 --> 00:38:08,289
as "The Jacuzzi,"
588
00:38:09,162 --> 00:38:12,336
which holds 60 gallons
of his secret formula.
589
00:38:14,289 --> 00:38:16,392
Over the course of a few days,
590
00:38:16,512 --> 00:38:20,994
the shriveled remains are
rehydrated to look almost lifelike.
591
00:38:23,388 --> 00:38:26,294
But as astounding as his formula is,
592
00:38:26,414 --> 00:38:29,283
it's not the first time
science has attempted
593
00:38:29,322 --> 00:38:32,816
to in some way restore a mummified body.
594
00:38:36,818 --> 00:38:38,621
In 1968,
595
00:38:38,699 --> 00:38:42,348
Robert Connolly, a researcher
from the University of Liverpool,
596
00:38:42,468 --> 00:38:45,449
attempted to virtually regenerate the blood
597
00:38:45,522 --> 00:38:47,953
of a completely mummified body...
598
00:38:48,346 --> 00:38:53,005
only this mummy was 3,300 years old.
599
00:38:53,357 --> 00:38:57,365
It was the mummy of Egypt's
most famous pharaoh...
600
00:38:57,705 --> 00:39:00,036
King Tutankhamen.
601
00:39:01,267 --> 00:39:04,343
Connelly's method was to combine antigens
602
00:39:04,373 --> 00:39:06,760
taken from a skin sample of King Tut
603
00:39:06,821 --> 00:39:08,947
with his own blood cells.
604
00:39:10,370 --> 00:39:12,012
FISHER: Connolly is actually Type O,
605
00:39:12,042 --> 00:39:14,837
which means you don't have any
antigens on your blood cells.
606
00:39:14,846 --> 00:39:18,156
He was actually able to put
the antigens from King Tut
607
00:39:18,185 --> 00:39:20,965
on his sort of "clean
slate" of a blood cell...
608
00:39:22,821 --> 00:39:26,761
so, then, recreating whatever
blood type the mummy had.
609
00:39:26,829 --> 00:39:29,426
You mix those red blood cells
with different blood types,
610
00:39:29,503 --> 00:39:31,038
and if it's not the correct blood type,
611
00:39:31,111 --> 00:39:32,963
what you get is sort of
clumping of the blood cells,
612
00:39:32,982 --> 00:39:34,824
because there's an immune
response against them.
613
00:39:34,868 --> 00:39:36,099
But if it's the correct blood type,
614
00:39:36,099 --> 00:39:38,919
then you don't see any sort
of immunological response.
615
00:39:39,109 --> 00:39:41,753
And so in that way they were able
to figure out which blood type
616
00:39:41,787 --> 00:39:43,338
King Tut possessed.
617
00:39:46,738 --> 00:39:48,641
NARRATOR: Since Connelly's experiment,
618
00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:50,849
scientists have gone even further
619
00:39:51,001 --> 00:39:52,757
and discovered what they believe
620
00:39:52,784 --> 00:39:55,206
is King Tut's true DNA.
621
00:39:57,327 --> 00:40:00,763
Could the next step be
an actual resurrection?
622
00:40:02,444 --> 00:40:04,455
Was the preservation of the body
623
00:40:04,523 --> 00:40:08,681
not just a ritualistic attempt
to imitate alien visitors,
624
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,956
but an actual form of suspended animation?
625
00:40:13,290 --> 00:40:14,439
But if so,
626
00:40:14,647 --> 00:40:17,056
how could they have
foreseen such incredible
627
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,694
scientific advancements
thousands of years ago?
628
00:40:22,070 --> 00:40:23,611
WILCOCK: It is possible
629
00:40:23,916 --> 00:40:26,528
that the ancient astronauts
630
00:40:26,648 --> 00:40:28,409
taught the Egyptians
631
00:40:28,569 --> 00:40:30,303
that mummification
632
00:40:30,342 --> 00:40:32,717
was a way of preserving their
633
00:40:32,741 --> 00:40:35,537
genetic information in the DNA.
634
00:40:38,207 --> 00:40:42,799
CHILDRESS: One of the startling
discoveries in the study of mummies,
635
00:40:42,919 --> 00:40:44,723
in Egypt and elsewhere,
636
00:40:44,824 --> 00:40:49,820
is that quite a bit of DNA
is actually preserved for
637
00:40:49,835 --> 00:40:51,491
is that quite a bit thousands of years
638
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:53,744
in the mummification process.
639
00:40:54,583 --> 00:40:56,435
This makes it possible
640
00:40:56,555 --> 00:41:01,134
to clone ancient mummies and, in a sense,
641
00:41:01,173 --> 00:41:03,189
bring them back to life.
642
00:41:04,022 --> 00:41:05,534
WILCOCK: It is possible
643
00:41:05,664 --> 00:41:07,810
that, at some point in the future,
644
00:41:08,057 --> 00:41:10,844
if your body had been
successfully mummified,
645
00:41:10,887 --> 00:41:14,482
that these ancient extraterrestrials
were well aware that a clone
646
00:41:14,502 --> 00:41:16,072
of who you were before
647
00:41:16,149 --> 00:41:18,886
could then be reborn many years later.
648
00:41:19,104 --> 00:41:20,538
And is it possible
649
00:41:20,596 --> 00:41:23,058
that with the magnificence of the DNA
650
00:41:23,087 --> 00:41:25,449
and with all of the
information that it contains,
651
00:41:26,067 --> 00:41:30,022
that you might also come
back with the memories
652
00:41:30,470 --> 00:41:32,245
of what you lived,
653
00:41:32,445 --> 00:41:34,595
and who you were, and what you knew
654
00:41:34,649 --> 00:41:36,127
the last time?
655
00:41:36,496 --> 00:41:38,629
And that may be the purpose
656
00:41:38,690 --> 00:41:41,567
which will actually be
used in the future...
657
00:41:41,687 --> 00:41:43,106
not yet present,
658
00:41:43,513 --> 00:41:47,188
but with a technology that
we are very rapidly acquiring.
659
00:41:48,859 --> 00:41:52,641
HENRY: When the extraterrestrials
taught the art of mummification,
660
00:41:52,761 --> 00:41:54,914
did they have it in the
back of their mind that,
661
00:41:54,967 --> 00:41:57,714
maybe 5,000 years into the future,
662
00:41:57,834 --> 00:42:00,127
medical science would advance to the level
663
00:42:00,127 --> 00:42:01,939
where we would be able to extract
664
00:42:01,992 --> 00:42:04,695
the DNA from those mummies?
665
00:42:06,124 --> 00:42:08,644
And maybe this is part of the
purpose of the mummification,
666
00:42:08,654 --> 00:42:10,752
is to create this time capsule.
667
00:42:15,443 --> 00:42:16,946
NARRATOR: Could our ancestors
668
00:42:16,984 --> 00:42:19,805
really have been taught
the process of mummification
669
00:42:19,858 --> 00:42:22,198
by extraterrestrial beings?
670
00:42:22,969 --> 00:42:24,442
Was it their intention
671
00:42:24,515 --> 00:42:27,142
that we would eventually
develop the technology
672
00:42:27,214 --> 00:42:29,972
to retrieve the DNA of the ancient mummies
673
00:42:29,981 --> 00:42:31,963
and restore them, to life.
674
00:42:33,451 --> 00:42:36,167
And if we do, might we discover
675
00:42:36,201 --> 00:42:38,280
that these human time capsules
676
00:42:38,323 --> 00:42:41,323
hold the secrets to our very origins?
677
00:42:42,398 --> 00:42:43,702
Perhaps one day,
678
00:42:43,803 --> 00:42:46,687
we will truly be able
to reanimate the dead,
679
00:42:47,365 --> 00:42:49,162
and from these ancient mummies,
680
00:42:49,242 --> 00:42:50,786
we will learn the truth
681
00:42:50,951 --> 00:42:52,845
about our alien ancestors.
682
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,148
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