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>> NARRATOR: Ancient tales

of strange, otherworldly

creatures...

>> JASON MARTELL: There was a

time when giants were upon the

earth.

Sumerians were living with their

gods, the Anunnaki.

>> NARRATOR: Legends of gods who

came from the heavens to create

mankind...

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: They were,

in a sense, extraterrestrials.

They walked the earth.

They ruled people.

>> NARRATOR: And clay tablets

revealing an extraterrestrial

agenda.

>> NICK REDFERN: Potentially,

they kind of upgraded the human

race and used them as sort of a

slave species.

>> NARRATOR: Did alien visitors

really change the course of

humanity in the distant past?

>> GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Our

ancestors received help and that

help came from nowhere else but

up there.

>> 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 proof be

found when we examine the

found when we examine the Anunnaki connection?

Anunnaki connection?

>> NARRATOR: Iraq.

April 10, 2003.

United States forces make their

way to the capital city of

Baghdad, just three weeks after

the launch of Operation Iraqi.

Freedom.

American troops attempt to

create and maintain order, but

looters fill the streets,

ransacking museums and

destroying thousands of ancient

destroying thousands of ancient artifacts.

Artifacts.

>> CHILDRESS: Looters forced

their way into the National.

Museum and stole all kinds of

artifacts, including musical

instruments and cuneiform

tablets that told the history of

ancient Sumeria going back 6,000

years or more.

The genealogies and histories of

the gods were there and stories

of the flood, but now many of

these texts are missing from us.

>> MARTELL: Now, it wasn't just

people off the streets smashing

a window and taking an artifact.

There were people wearing

earpieces... a very coordinated

event... penetrating

double-locked doors and stealing

instruments and jewelry and all

kinds of artifacts that date

back thousands of years, all the

way back to the cradle of our

civilization.

>> NARRATOR: But why would

militants destroy such precious

objects of the ancient world?

Was it really just a consequence

of war?

Or a deliberate attempt to

obliterate forbidden knowledge

of the past?

Perhaps answers can be found by

taking a closer look at the

origins of these priceless lost

treasures.

According to archaeologists,

many of the lost Iraqi artifacts

dated back to the time of the.

Sumerians, an ancient

civilization that most

researchers believe is the

oldest in all of Mesopotamia.

>> ROBERT MULLINS: Mesopotamia

means "between rivers" in Greek,

referring to the Tigris and.

Euphrates rivers in what is

today known as Iraq.

There were four main kingdoms in.

Mesopotamia.

Sumer was the oldest one,

followed by the Kingdom of Akkad

begun by Sargon I.

Um, after that, you have.

Babylonia and Assyria.

And even though languages

changed and people changed to

some degree, the culture that

was established by the Sumerians

really continued throughout the

lifetime of Mesopotamia.

>> ROBERT SCHOCH: Ancient.

Sumeria in Southern Mesopotamia

is often cited as the most

ancient civilization, even the

first civilization.

It goes back to approximately

3000 to 4000 B.C.

And here we see writing in the

form of cuneiform tablets on

clay and on stone.

>> MULLINS: The Sumerians were

the ones who invented the

cuneiform writing system.

The word cuneiform means

"wedge-shaped."

It refers to a system of writing

whereby scribes would take a

wedge-shaped stylus and impress

signs on wet clay tablets.

Those tablets could later be

fired and harden and preserve

what was ever written on them.

>> NARRATOR: Deciphering these

cuneiform tablets was next to

impossible until a key discovery

of thousands of tablets at an.

Assyrian palace in March of

1843.

This new abundance of cuneiform

inscriptions provided some of

the first tangible evidence of

an ancient kingdom that had been

believed to exist thousands of

years ago.

>> DAVID WILCOCK: A French

scientist named Paul-Emile.

Botta found this gigantic

underground area in Northern

Iraq, in Khorsabad, opened up

this incredible room filled with

statues of gods and kings, all

kinds of wonderful treasures,

and many written inscriptions

all over the walls in the

all over the walls in the ancient Sumerian cuneiform.

Ancient Sumerian cuneiform.

>> NARRATOR: Within ten years,

archaeologists had also

discovered the ruins of the

legendary Sumerian capital city

of Ur, home of the biblical

figure Abraham.

At the site, scientists

unearthed the great Ziggurat of.

Ur, a step pyramid-shaped

structure that was the

administrative center of the

city, ell as cuneiform

tablets and tombs adorned in

gold.

>> CHILDRESS: So, here they had

found this legendary capital of

the Sumerians with its gold-clad

tombs and cuneiform tablets,

something that they thought was

simply a myth until the actual

discovery of it, proving that it

was indeed historical fact.

>> MARTELL: When we look at the

ancient Sumerian civilization,

we attribute them with over 100

of the firsts for a modern

society.

Things like agriculture,

science, medicine, mathematics,

kingship, laws, courts, judges,

schools, literally all of this

shows up in Sumerian times

6,000 years ago, right out of

6,000 years ago, right out of the Stone Age.

The Stone Age.

>> NARRATOR: According to

mainstream researchers, Ur was

sacked by their warring

neighbors, the Elamites, nearly

2000 years B.C.

But some researchers believe the

cuneiform texts reveal something

much more than evidence of an

ancient race.

They point to descriptions of a

group of divine beings called

the Anunnaki, the so-called

"princely offspring of God,"

who, according to the Sumerians,

descended from the sky.

>> MULLINS: The religious

system of Mesopotamia was

polytheism, which means that

they worshipped hundreds of

different gods... both male and

female... often depicted in human

form, having personalities very

much like people do.

And, um, these gods were

arranged in a kind of political

hierarchy that in many ways

mimic the political systems of.

Mesopotamia itself.

And what this means is that you

had the high gods, uh, the

heavenly gods.

And you also had lesser gods who

inhabited Earth and the

underworld.

Now, according to the Sumerian

text, the heavenly gods, the.

Anunnaki, were the supreme

deities, the higher deities.

>> WILLIAM HENRY: The Anunnaki

are among the most mysterious

and powerful beings of myth and

sacred tradition.

The Sumerians described them as

humanoid but nonphysical spirit

beings who had the capability of

morphing or phasing into human

form.

They came to Earth on a special

mission to bring wisdom and also

to mine certain materials from

the Earth plane itself.

>> CHILDRESS: In cuneiform

texts, the Anunnaki are

described in great detail,

including how they lived for

hundreds of years.

They had tremendous knowledge

and power, uh, over the entire

world.

Thnew everything.

They had knowledge of all of the

sciences and arts.

Where they got this knowledge

and where they came from is a

complete mystery to

archaeologists.

And you have to ask yourself,

were they, in fact,

extraterrestrials?

>> NARRATOR: Might the strange

gods described in the cuneiform

texts really have existed?

And if so, might they have been

extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer is a profound

yes, and for proof they point

to an ancient legend also found

written on clay tablets, a

legend that tells of the

creation of man by ancient

creation of man by ancient creatures who came from the sky.

Creatures who came from the sky.

>> NARRATOR: Nineveh, Iraq.

1849.

A treasure trove of ancient

cuneiform texts is uncovered,

detailing accounts of the

creation of Earth, man and the

lives of the gods.

>> MULLINS: In 1849, Austen

Henry Layard made an

archaeological expedition to the

city of Nineveh, a city that's

mentioned in the Bible.

And in his excavations, he

discovered the palace of.

Sennacherib, who is well-known

from the Bible.

This really galvanized interest

of the world.

Well, three years after this,

his assistant found the palace

of his grandson Ashurbanipal on

the opposite side of the mount.

Now, in both cases, they found

archives.

And together the archives form.

And together the archives form about 20,000 to 30,000 tablets.

About 20,000 to 30,000 tablets.

>> NARRATOR: Recorded on seven

of the tablets is the Babylonian

creation myth called the Enuma.

Elish.

>> MULLINS: Enuma Elishwas

probably composed in the 11th

century B.C.

But almost certainly the story

goes back to much earlier

periods.

>> NARRATOR: The tablets tell

of a god named Marduk, who took

blood from the god Kingu and

mixed it with clay in order

to create the earth's first

humans.

>> ERIK POLTORAK: When the.

Anunnaki create the model man,

that person gets picked up as a

story in the Bible and he's

called Adam.

What I find interesting is that

the Bible left out some of the

most important details and cut

the story short.

So the Sumerian tablets, the.

Mesopotamian tablets, have the.

Mesopotamian tablets, have the more detailed versions.

More detailed versions.

>> NARRATOR: According to

mainstream scholars, the Enuma.

Elishis simply an example of

an ancient creation myth.

But ancient astronaut theorists

believe that the epic story is

not fiction but based on fact.

>> POLTORAK: Anunnaki is a term

that means "from Heaven to.

Earth they came."

So the knowledge that came out

from Nineveh is a complete look

of a civilization that sprung up

out of nowhere.

>> MARTELL: Many of the tablets

that were unearthed in Nineveh

describe nuances into the actual

mindset of the gods, these.

Anunnaki, and they describe

being flesh-and-blood beings

just like us.

>> TSOUKALOS: The Anunnaki

themselves were physical beings

that came here in giant

spaceships that our ancestors

thought were some type of divine

apparitions.

Our ancestors, especially theSum

that help came from nowhere else

that help came from nowhere else but up there.

But up there.

>> NARRATOR: According to

ancient astronaut theorists,

the Enuma Elishvividly

describes not mythic gods but

otherworldly beings, alien

visitors who possessed a highly

advanced knowledge of genetics.

>> M.J. EVANS: The Anunnaki

began to figure out how they

could create the docile worker.

So they took genes from a

female hominid and after many,

many trials, they figured out

that they could blend genes

together and create the perfect

being.

>> CHILDRESS: In a sense, what

these tablets are really talking

about is a genetic engineering

and the changing of the DNA

and the changing of the DNA within human beings.

Within human beings.

>> TSOUKALOS: Clearly something

happened where we went from

nothing to all of a sudden

coming up with the most

incredible of thought models.

So the question then is: How was

it done?

And according to the ancient

alien theory, our ancestors were

given intelligence by a

deliberate change of our DNA by

space travelers who came here

space travelers who came here thousands of years ago.

Thousands of years ago.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the Anunnaki created the human

race using their own DNA?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, startling evidence

can be found in the numerous

similarities between the.

Babylonian myths and the.

Judeo-Christian Bible and most

notably in writings from another

ancient cuneiform tablet known

as the Sumerian King List.

>> MULLINS: The Sumerian King.

List was found on a tablet in

ancient Mesopotamia and dates to

somewhere around 2100 B.C.

The list contains names of 140

kings.

What's most interesting about

this list is that the deities

have enormously long lives.

One king, for example, ruled for

36,000 years.

>> CHILDRESS: And you have to

wonder, how could people have

lived that long?

But yet we have the same thing

in the Bible.

Methuselah and Noah lived to be

800 or 900 years old, which

800 or 900 years old, which seems so fantastic to us.

Seems so fantastic to us.

>> HENRY: One explanation for

why Noah and Methuselah could

live so long is that it's

possible that they themselves

were star seeds or seeded by,

perhaps, the Anunnaki and

contained their

extraterrestrial genes that

prolonged their lives.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: And so

clearly, we can do one of two

things: Pretend that this is

all myth, that this doesn't

exist, or take what our

ancestors gave us at face value.

And then we're confronted with

the possibility that we are

indeed talking about incredible

extraterrestrial beings whose

lifespan might have been normal

for their whereabouts but

definitely were extraordinary

definitely were extraordinary for Planet Earth.

For Planet Earth.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the Sumerian kings lived and

ruled for hundreds, even

thousands of years?

And if so, could these

so-called ancient kings have

been our extraterrestrial

ancestors, alien beings who

created man using their own DNA?

There are those who believe that

question was already answered

question was already answered more than 35 years ago.

More than 35 years ago.

New York City, 1976.

Author and researcher Zecharia.

Sitchin publishes his book The

12th Planet, introducing his

revolutionary interpretation of

the Anunnaki deities.

After studying Sumerian

cuneiform tablets for 30 years,

he asserts that these so-called.

Sumerian gods were in fact

extraterrestrials that landed

on Earth in Mesopotamia more

on Earth in Mesopotamia more than 450,000 years ago.

Than 450,000 years ago.

According to Sitchin's

translations, the Anunnaki both

created human beings and also

had a part in mankind's downfall

when a great flood nearly

destroyed all life on Earth.

But why?

What was the purpose of the.

Anunnaki's earthly visitations?

And why did they create the.

And why did they create the creature known as man?

Creature known as man?

>> REDFERN: Zecharia Sitchin

wrote a number of well-received

books on the Anunnaki, which he

believed were basically

extraterrestrial entities from a

planet called Nibiru, which he

quite controversially believed

actually exists in our solar

system.

His theory was: They upgraded

the human race and used them as

sort of a slave species.

>> EVANS: Sitchin understood,

based on his interpretation of

the tablets, that the mission

had to do with the failing

atmosphere around the planet.

Nibiru.

And that when they came, they

came to mine gold.

>> MARTELL: The Anunnaki had

damaged their atmosphere.

And by using gold, they found

that they could patch these

atmospheric holes.

Becomes the story of our

humanity.

The Anunnaki literally came to.

Earth to mine the gold.

And when realizing it was such a

toil to do so, created us as a

toil to do so, created us as a worker race to do that for them.

Worker race to do that for them.

>> NARRATOR: Zecharia Sitchin's

hypothesis... that the Anunnaki

came to Earth to mine gold and

then created humans to perform

the task... was both bold and

controversial.

Needless to say, it was not

embraced by mainstream scholars.

But many ancient astronaut

theorists believe that Sitchin's

interpretation of the tablets is

not only correct, but also

provides compelling evidence

that the Anunnaki created

mankind.

>> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: What if

the whole Anunnaki story is

a global story of a nonhuman

intelligence that was

manipulating genes all over the

planet?

That it wasn't just gold.

It was a planetary base.

>> HENRY: The Anunnaki said that

they came from the Nibiru, and

they believe that Nibiru is

a star, a gate, and a crossing

place, opening up the

possibility that the Anunnaki

are actually traveling the stars

through star gates and

through star gates and wormholes.

Wormholes.

>> NARRATOR: Do the descriptions

of Nibiru actually offer proof

of the Anunnaki's

extraterrestrial origins?

And if so, might similar tales

of otherworldly beings

descending from the sky, not

only in Mesopotamia but

throughout the world, provide

further evidence that an

advanced celestial race came to.

Earth in the distant past?

Perhaps the answers can be found

in the mysterious remains of an

in the mysterious remains of an ancient Sumerian queen.

Ancient Sumerian queen.

>> NARRATOR: 1927.

Southeast Iraq.

During advanced excavations at

the ancient Mesopotamian city of.

Ur, British archaeologist

Leonard Woolley discovers the

remains of Queen Puabi.

According to reports, the queen

is found with an unusually

large skull... similar to that

possessed by some Egyptian

pharaohs and mummies in Peru.

For many ancient astronaut

theorists, the queen's skull

provides further evidence of

mankind's extraterrestrial

origins.

>> POLTORAK: The description of

the queen was highly unusual.

A head that was huge.

She was not a normal human.

She may not have been full.

Anunnaki.

She could have been a hybrid.

>> EVANS: There is an effort

underway to try to get genetic

analysis of the bones.

There are characteristics that

allude to Anunnaki genes.

>> CHILDRESS: This is what the.

Anunnaki supposedly looked like,

with these cone-head type

skulls.

So we would naturally think that

she is one of the original.

Anunnaki or certainly an

extraterrestrial-human hybrid.

>> COPPENS: What's of interest

of Queen Puabi is that she's a

first dynasty queen and/or

priestess.

So the fact that she's first

dynasty means that she's very

close to the reign of the.

Anunnaki.

This puts her in a very unique

position, because she really

holds the key.

She might be the evidence to

suggest whether or not the

ancient Anunnaki were physically

real and that, specifically, the.

Anunnaki interbred.

>> NARRATOR: But if the unusual

skulls found in Mesopotamia and

elsewhere are really evidence of

the Anunnaki's reign on Earth,

might the legends about them

descending from the sky also be

true?

And if so, might the same be

said for other legends that

describe similar beings, found

in ancient texts all over the

world?

Angels...

The flying serpents of Central.

America...

The Star People of the.

Anasazi...

The notion that otherworldly

beings came to Earth from the

heavens is one of the most

common themes in ancient

mythology and religion.

Could the stories really have a

basis in truth?

>> REDFERN: If we go back and

look into ancient history, we

find stories that sound very,

very similar.

They're sort of all-powerful,

magical, superior entities, and

they come from above.

>> HOWE: When you go into

mythology, when you go into the.

Star People tales, when you go

into the Anunnaki, it is the

sameness, the similarity around

the planet, that makes you say

something has to be responsible

for the same dreams, the same

mythology.

The same idea that life came.

The same idea that life came from the stars.

From the stars.

>> HENRY: All across the world,

we find stories of otherworldly

or extraterrestrial beings

coming to Earth and influencing

humanity.

This raises a question.

Are there different races of

beings coming from the stars and

influencing all these cultures?

Or is it possible that, in fact,

it's one race of beings, the.

Anunnaki, who influenced all of

these cultures and they told the

story of the same beings?

>> NARRATOR: Do worldwide

legends of so-called gods really

help to prove that ancient man

was actually in contact

extraterrestrial beings?

And if so, is it possible that

religious tales of otherworldly

beings interbreeding with humans

support the notion that the

stories of the Anunnaki are

based on historical fact?

According to some researchers,

the answers may lie in the

Hebrew Bible's story of the.

Nephilim.

>> FATHER WILLIAM FULCO: The.

Nephilim are mentioned in the

sixth chapter of Genesis, where

we have the, the sons of the

gods mating with the-the

daughters of men.

And producing, therefore,

superhuman folk.

>> SCOTT ROBERTS: The Nephilim

are described in some

translations as being giants.

The relationship between the.

Anunnaki and the Nephilim is

really a story of two cultures.

But are related.

The Anunnaki was the god caste

who created primordial man to

enslave them, while the Nephilim

were the offspring of those who

came down and intermingled with

humans.

>> HENRY: Now, these beings

could be giant in stature, but

we're also told that the.

Nephilim possessed extraordinary

supernatural knowledge that they

shared with certain portions of

humanity.

>> NARRATOR: In Greek mythology,

Zeus, the ruler of the gods, is

said to have fathered two hybrid

sons... Hercules and Perseus...

Both with earthly women.

And the apocryphal Book of Enoch

describes beings known as the.

Watchers... angels who fell from

heaven and procreated with

humans.

Could these tales actually have

their origins in the ancient

stories of the Anunnaki?

>> MARTELL: The story of the.

Anunnaki might seem like

something right out of sci-fi.

But whe compare the fact

that every culture around the

world... from the Hindus to the

Greeks, the Romans, Egyptians,

Mayans, all around the world...

We have a similar description of

these beings coming to Earth

from the heavens... having

offspring that were then

one-half divine, one-half human.

>> NARRATOR: But if legends of

gods, angels, and giants coming

to Earth and breeding with human

females are to be believed,

might there need to be

some evidence?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

the answer is yes and believe

that evidence exists in the

countless depictions of the.

Anunnaki as winged,

giant creatures.

Evidence found all throughout

the region formerly known

as Mesopotamia.

>> TSOUKALOS: The Anunnaki... we

can also see them on different

carvings or on cylinder seals

where they are depicted as

having wings, sometimes they

have faces like birds with

beaks, but they're also

very humanlike.

Giant beings with muscular

bodies wearing things that look

bodies wearing things that look like wristwatches.

Like wristwatches.

Now, is this an exact replica of

what people saw?

>> MARTELL: Clearly, the

evidence that we have here in

the Sumerian culture of wall

descriptions, the artwork,

the esoteric cuneiform script.

They went to great lengths to

record this very momentous

information.

We have to start to look at this

in a fresh new light and stop

thinking of it as

just mythology.

>> COPPENS: Looking into the.

Sumerian accounts, what we're

finding is that the Anunnaki are

described as special.

Their age spans are far longer

than anything a human being

can have.

And afterwards, whether they

disappeared inomplete

oblivion or whether they somehow

remained here on Planet Earth

remains a question mark.

>> NARRATOR: Might the similar

images and descriptions of gods

who descended from the heavens

to rule on Earth be something

of a smoking gun?

Proof that the Anunnaki were

actual beings who came to Earth

from another world?

But if so, why has very little

evidence of their time on Earth

survived?

Why are they virtually

forgotten?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe that the answers can be

found in the ancient stories

found in the ancient stories of a great flood.

Of a great flood.

>> NARRATOR: Shuruppak,

South Central Iraq, 1931.

While digging at this ancient.

Sumerian city, archaeologists

find what they believe to be

sedimentary evidence of flooding

from approximately 2900 B.C.

According to accounts in the.

Sumerian King List, King.

Ziusudra was the last Sumerian

ruler before a great flood

on Earth.

>> WILCOCK: Excavations of

the great city of Shuruppak

began in 1931.

And it was from these

excavations that they began

putting together the story

of King Ziusudra.

At the city of Shuruppak we find

sediment deposits that appear to

show a flood that occurred in

show a flood that occurred in around 2900 B.C.

around 2900 B.C.

This is one link that shows that

the biblical flood may in fact

be genuine and a way in which

we can ultimately prove that

to be true.

Have a story of a flood, ultures

which is intriguing.

The fact that the Mesopotamians

had a story of a flood is not

surprising because Mesopotamian

history is fraught with stories

of trying to contain the Tigris

and Euphrates and make them

usable for agriculture.

Until they built the canal

system there were regular floods

that wiped out cities.

>> HENRY: It appears that the

story of Noah's Ark may not be

an original Hebrew story.

In the Sumerian texts we find a

much older story of Ziusudra who

also survived the flood, who

constructed an ark and was able

to save part of his family

as well.

Is this merely coincidence or

does it suggest that, in fact,

the biblical tale is based upon

the Sumerian original?

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>> MULLINS: The similarities

have caused many to suggest that

perhaps the biblical account is

drawn in some sense from a.

My feeling is that most

certainly the biblical writers

adapted it for their own

theological reasons.

In the biblical account, the

rationale for the flood is

human sinfulness.

And so what the biblical writer

has done is used the flood

account in order to provide a

theological rationale for why

the flood took place.

>> NARRATOR: According to

ancient Sumerian legend, the

great flood was not a natural

event, but was directed by the

god Enlil who had grown tired of

god Enlil who had grown tired of the noise of humans.

The noise of humans.

>> EVANS: The Anunnaki who came

to Earth essentially had

two leaders:

Enlil, who was the legal,

legitimate son of Anu, the king

on the planet Nibiru, and his

half-brother Enki, who was

actually the firstborn.

They were in charge

of the Earth contingent.

Procreation was out of col,

and Enlil gets enraged.

He decides he's going to

eliminate all the humans,

and created what we know

as Noah's flood.

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>> HOWE: Enlil thought

that humans should be erased.

They were too troublesome.

And Enki, like Prometheus in the

Greeks, took the side of

the humans and said, no,

they should be preserved.

>> NARRATOR: According to

legend, Enki warned King.

Ziusudra to build a boat so that

he might be saved from the great

flood, just as Noah was directed

to build an ark in the stories

of the Hebrew Bible.

Could both stories have their

origins in historical fact?

>> SCHOCH: At Ur and other

cities we have evidence of

floods, major floods.

People have associated this with

the story of Noah's flood, and

there are flood stories

in other cultures.

So I think we have a trend here,

where over and over, people have

doubted the myths, have doubted

the legends, but, in fact, with

more research, we find that they

more research, we find that they have a genuine basis.

Have a genuine basis.

>> NARRATOR: Could the

similarities of these two tales

be attributed to mere

coincidence?

Or might the story of Noah

be directly based on the story

of a displeased Anunnaki god?

A god who was bent on destroying

the hybrid creatures that

inhabited the earth?

>> CHILDRESS: Enki, the Anunnaki

god, told the Sumerian King.

Ziusudra that there was going to

be this flood, the same flood of

the Bible, and that he needed to

build a craft... we would say

today a boat... to escape it.

However, it's quite possible

that the craft that he made to

escape this flood was actually a

spaceship, ahat he went into

space in order to escape the

flood and into orbit around

our planet.

Our planet. [zapping sound]

[zapping sound]

>> REDFERN: If there's one thing

that unites ancient cultures all

across the world, is that pretty

much each and every one of them

have flood mythologies attached

to them.

Deluges, great floods, you know,

just swamping and covering the

entire planet, wiping out whole

races of people.

In most cultures, this is put

down to the work of the gods or

a god displeased with the

human race.

Now, of course today, you know,

many people place that in

a UFO context.

Other people place it in a

religious context.

But many researchers sort of

view biblical accounts and

stories as having a basis in

fact but of extraterrestrial

origins.

>> COPPENS: Both the Bible

and, specifically, the ancient.

Sumerian accounts make it clear

that the flood was something

which the gods created.

The gods made this flood happen.

And so what we're seeing in the

ancient accounts is basically an

interaction between the Anunnaki

on the one hand and our

ancestors on the other hand.

The Anunnaki basically

make sure that we, as a

species, will survive, because

sections of the Anunnaki were

intent on destroying everything

on this planet.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the Anunnaki were responsible

for causing what has been called

"the great flood"?

And did the flood destroy

virtually all evidence of the.

Anunnaki's time on Earth?

Perhaps the answer can be found

not here on Earth

but on another planet

more than 34 million miles

more than 34 million miles away.

Away.

>> NARRATOR: Gale Crater, Mars.

August 6, 2012.

The Curiositylands on the.

Martian surface to evaluate the

suitability of the planet for

human exploration.

The one-ton rover will find

signs of surface water, a key

element for sustaining life.

>> MICHAEL DENNIN: I think one

of the very fascinating things

from a biology point of view is,

let's say Mars for a period in

its history was similar enough

to Earth that life could start

to evolve.

You could ask the question "how

far did it make it?"

What happened historically

on Mars?

When did it start to, say,

lose an atmosphere?

When was it not able to sustain

it anymore?

And we could learn a lot about

the processes on Earth that were

successful by, I think,

comparing it to how far if at

all did life get on Mars, and

where did it fail?

>> NARRATOR: But is it possible,

as some ancient astronaut

theorists believe, that.

Curiosity'smission may also

reveal evidence that the

mysterious beings known as the.

Anunnaki also once

inhabited Mars?

>> CHILDRESS: Zecharia Sitchin

theorized that the Anunnaki

were coming from this planet,

Nibiru, and that Mars was like

a way station for them to come

from Nibiru to Mars and

then to Earth.

So you would think that if this

is the case, that on Mars, we

would find some kind of traces

of this Anunnaki civilization

there.

Are we gonna find pyramids,

giant dolmens,

huge constructions on Mars,

just like we have here on Earth?

I suspect we will.

>> NARRATOR: If an

extraterrestrial presence on

Mars can be found, might a

global awareness of our own.

Anunnaki ancestry also be

possible?

According to author and.

Sumerian researcher, Zecharia.

Sitchin, Nibiru...

The home of the Anunnaki...

Is on an elliptical path that

brings the planet into our

orbit every 3,450 years,

and the next visit is

projected to be

in the year 2900.

>> POLTORAK: Zecharia wrote

in the book of The End of Days

about some of the prophecy of

the return.

Next time Nibiru comes around,

there should be another

appearance of Anunnaki.

Some of the Anunnaki may be

really excited and happy to see

what developed and what we have

become.

Some may be upset that we've

gone too far.

Maybe we've overstepped

our bounds.

They may pass judgment on us,

and it could be good or it

could be bad.

>> COPPENS: The ancient

Egyptians spoke of the duat,

which was basically the crossing

between this and another world,

and Nibiru was the Sumerian

equivalent of that.

And it is a realm which exists

both in this space but also

somewhere else.

It is basically a bridge, a

territory, whereby human beings

can go from here in life on.

Earth to realm of the gods.

>> NARRATOR: According to.

Sitchin's interpretation of the.

Sumerian texts, Nibiru also

played a major role in the

cataclysmic creation of Earth

and the asteroid belt

between Mars and Jupiter.

If true, might a similar change

be in store the next time we

come in contact with the.

Anunnaki?

>> HENRY: Human reunions

with the Anunnaki, whenever they

take place, almost always result

in the same thing, the

stimulation of human evolution.

The Anunnaki enter into human

culture and consciousness,

bringing wisdom, knowledge and

often technology.

So when we see a mass return of

the Anunnaki, based upon the

past, we can expect that we will

once again see new technology,

new wisdom and new ideas being

seeded into human consciousness.

>> MARTELL: When we look at the

story of the Anunnaki and their

involvement in the Sumerian

culture, we have to understand

that this is potentially a

legacy of information, in

looking at humanity's record to

interpret where we really do

come from.

>> TSOUKALOS: There is one

common denominator in all of

these stories of

extraterrestrials visiting us in

the remote past, and that is

their promise of a return.

How can we prepare for this

return of those

extraterrestrials in the future?

It's very simple: Accept the

idea that we are not alone in

the universe, number one.

And number two, that they were

here in the past, they will

return in the future, and that,

hey, it's okay.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible, as

ancient astronaut theorists

argue, that the human race was

jump-started or perhaps even

genetically created by

extraterrestrial beings in the

remote past?

Might this really be the missing

piece in Darwin's theory of

human evolution?

And does the notion of an

extraterrestrial presence on.

Earth also help to reconcile the

supposed conflict between

science and religion?

Perhaps such a profound notion

is why the museums in Iraq were

looted and ransacked: Because

the truth may be too

disturbing to contemplate.

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