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NARRATOR: Mysterious surgeries performed by early humans.

Very well planned and it happened well before the advent

of modern medicine.

NARRATOR: Strange beings, with miraculous powers.

Even though the gods forbade it,

he was actually able to raise the dead.

NARRATOR: And a cover-up destroying centuries

of scientific knowledge.

People are afraid of it.

The religious side especially afraid.

NARRATOR: Are recent breakthroughs

in medicine really the result of years of research?

Or does the knowledge of healing really come

from an otherworldly source?

It would seem to be that this is medical knowledge that's

coming from some advanced civilization

of extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, do stories of advanced medical procedures

in the distant past provide further proof of mankind's

extraterrestrial origins?

[theme music]

[monitor beeping]

2012, Houston, Texas.

Doctors use robotic technology to perform complex heart

surgery through incisions no larger than a keyhole.

Chicago, Illinois.

An amputee climbs 103 floors using

a thought-controlled bionic leg.

[clapping and cheering]

At the University of Iowa, researchers

develop technology that fabricates custom body

parts using 3D printers.

In the last 100 years, scientific advances

have dramatically improved mankind's ability

to heal itself, more in fact, than at any time

in the last five centuries.

Throughout history, medicine is

about correcting physical problems,

restoring a patient to health, relieving suffering.

We've seen tremendous advances over the last three decades.

But there was a remarkable degree of sophistication

and a surprisingly high success rate achieved

by prehistoric surgeons.

Many of the procedures of modern medicine

are derivatives of the ancient operations.

NARRATOR: Evidence of advanced medical procedures practiced

in the ancient world has been found everywhere from carvings

on the walls of temples to skeletal

remains all over the world.

But just who were the practitioners

of this extraordinary science?

And where did their knowledge of the human body come from?

Most cultures around the world thought

that if something was physically wrong with you,

it probably also related to something, perhaps,

spiritually wrong with you.

And so we also find that physicians or healers very

often were not just healing the body, in our mundane sense,

but also healing the soul.

And therefore they had to be somewhat of a religious figure

as well.

To be a doctor in the ancient world,

you have some kind of special relationship

with a god who has gifted you with the power to heal.

A doctor was simultaneously a kind of tradesman

and had kind of learned a skill, but also

a sort of cultic figure as well who

had an association with a god and would, therefore,

use magical cures to deal with problems.

Our ancestors said that medicine came from the gods.

Our ancestors have said that the gods really gave manuals

as to how to be living healthy, how to restore health

to the human individual.

They realized something about our physical bodies

which we are only beginning to understand once again.

NARRATOR: Could it be that ancient healers were guided

by alien beings?

And if so, are recent advances in modern medicine

actually a rediscovery of methods practiced thousands

of years ago?

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Sikora, Egypt.

Here, across from this towering step pyramid,

lies the physician's tomb, also known

as the Tomb of Ankh-ma-hor.

According to archaeologists, it was built more than 4,000 years

ago for one of the most important officials

of the ancient Egyptian civilization.

I'm taking you inside the physician's tomb, where you get

a glimpse of how they performed complex medical and surgical

operations in ancient times.

But what's amazing about this tomb

is that the physician Ankh-ma-hor lived 4,300 years

ago, and he performed very complex

surgical and medical operations.

We can see here a circumcision 2,000 years before the Bible.

And here we see a scene of reflexology.

We can see them muscling and flexing the muscles.

Also here an amazing operation, a surgical operation,

on the hands It is even suggested

that they may have had brain surgery, removing tumors.

But where did they get the knowledge from?

Well, they say that they got it from Thoth, the god of wisdom

and science, who brought to them all the knowledge

from the gods.

NARRATOR: Known for his abilities

in science, magic, and medicine, Thoth

was worshipped for centuries as the god of wisdom and healing.

According to ancient myth, this divine physician

healed the eye of the Egyptian God Horus after his Uncle Set

gouged it out in an epic battle for power.

As a result, The Eye of Horus became an important symbol

of restoration and good health.

But was Thoth only a mythical deity, as mainstream scholars

believe?

Or might he have been something or someone

who actually existed?

Ancient Egyptian medicine was anything but primitive.

There are clear examples of energetic medicine

that are beyond our technological capabilities.

It seems as if these technologies were brought in

and were given to them as a complete package

rather than something that developed out of a society

that before then had been extremely primitive.

And the Egyptians themselves said that Thoth

was responsible for this.

NARRATOR: But who or what was Thoth?

Might he have been not a divine being but an alien visitor, one

possessing advanced scientific knowledge?

In the Egyptian pantheon of Gods,

Thoth is the one with the head of an ibis

but the body of a human being.

He was the Egyptian father of medicine,

meaning he descended from the sky,

and he gave them that knowledge.

NARRATOR: Might Thoth have been not a divine

being, as the Egyptians believed,

but an alien visitor who possessed

advanced scientific knowledge, one from whom

the Egyptians learned their ability to heal?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the story of one

of the most advanced surgeons in the history of India.

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Varanasi, India.

500 miles southeast of Delhi.

Located on the banks of the Ganges,

Varanasi is one of the oldest cities on earth.

A city that, according to legend,

was founded by the gods.

Long known as a center of knowledge and learning.

Varanasi was once home to an ancient physician

by the name of Sushruta, who many historians credit

with developing the art of surgery.

In ancient India, the early physician

was a guy named Sushruta.

And he was a surgeon and physician

who would do skin grafts, cataract removals,

even early plastic surgery on people.

So once again, we have someone whose medical knowledge seems

so advanced for his time.

NARRATOR: Sushruta is also considered

to be the first practitioner of Ayurveda,

one of the oldest known systems of medicine in the world.

According to Hindu legend, Sushruta

is said to have received this knowledge from a god known

as Dhanvantari.

Dhanvantari was a high-level god, as we would know them,

who provided all the information on this complete healing

modality based on an understanding of the physical

and subtle aspects of the body.

And it was passed through to Indian culture in ancient times

and has been preserved and expanded since then.

NARRATOR: Though he is most often depicted

as having four arms and holding medicinal herbs,

the god Dhanvantari was also a shapeshifter.

According to legend, during his journeys to earth,

he could take on other forms, including that of a bird.

Is it possible that both Dhanvantari

and the half-man, half-bird Egyptian God of healing, Thoth,

were connected in some way?

And if so, how?

WILLIAM HENRY: Whether it's Dhanvantari or Thoth,

we learn of these extraterrestrial divinities

very often being portrayed as birdlike beings who delivered

the knowledge of ancient medicine to earth.

This tells us that our original knowledge of medicine,

human anatomy, and how to heal the body

came from extraterrestrial sources.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Sushruta, he

was very clear in stating that he learned this knowledge

from the Gods.

Who were the Gods?

Extraterrestrials.

PHILIP COPPENS: Every culture will tell you

that the first surgeon, that medicine, that healing

was a gift of the Gods.

That is extraordinarily interesting because it really

shows that the benefit of mankind

was accomplished through the intervention and the knowledge

of the deities.

NARRATOR: How is it possible that ancient cultures,

separated by thousands of miles, shared similar stories

about a bird-like creature?

Could it be true, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that this extraordinary being was actually

a highly-skilled extraterrestrial

from another world?

And might he have traveled across the globe in an effort

to teach early humans the art of healing?

Perhaps more clues can be found in a collection

of mysterious skulls, discovered in the ruins of yet

another ancient civilization.

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Northern Turkey, 2010.

While digging at an archaeological site

in the Samson province, archaeologists

unearth hundreds of skeletal remains and ancient skulls

dating back more than 4,000 years.

Strangely, 14 of the skulls have large holes,

providing what some scholars believe is proof

that ancient man carried out a remarkably sophisticated type

of brain surgery called cranial trepanation.

NEIL MARTIN: Trepanation is making an opening

into the skull.

We do it on a routine basis in today's neurosurgery

to get exposure of the brain to remove a tumor

or remove a blood clot, but it was done in ancient times

probably to repair traumatic brain injuries from accidents

and war injuries.

Ancient cultures did this all over the world in Peru,

in Europe, in Asia, and Africa.

They were literally cutting holes in people's heads,

successfully opening up their skulls,

removing skull material, and then covering it up again.

And the patients were surviving this and living long lives.

NARRATOR: Even with the delicate and highly sophisticated

tools in use today, neurosurgery is a complicated and risky

procedure.

One involving the body's most complex organ the human brain.

Today's neurosurgery provides us

with some remarkable new digital tools.

We have what is equivalent now of a GPS system that

allows us to navigate around the intracranial space.

We also are able to use preoperative imaging now

to create an individual map of the brain and the brain

function.

Those maps are critical to do modern neurosurgery.

NARRATOR: But how could an ancient civilization

have learned such highly advanced methods for operating

on a human brain hundreds of years

before such procedures were even attempted

in other parts of the world?

Perhaps the answers can be found by looking at a collection

of human skulls discovered a century ago

near the Peruvian Andes

[suspenseful music]

Here, at the San Diego Museum of Man,

is an extensive display of pre-Columbian antiquities,

including one of the largest collections of skulls

in the world.

Dr. Tori Randall, a chief paleoanthropologist,

has spent years studying the ancient practice

of trepanation.

These skulls are about 1,000 years old.

They're Incan skulls, and they're special because they

have trepanations.

And you can see from the hole right here

in the head they've had skull surgery performed on them.

It seems likely that a lot of these trepanations

were happening based on warfare or healing

some type of traumatic injury.

They seem to have performed the actual trepanations in parts

of the skull where there wasn't a lot of cranial musculature,

which would have made it more difficult.

One thing that they used were tumies, which are usually

made out of bronze or copper.

And they are this little, curved, linear knife.

This is definitely a very well-planned out practice,

very successful, and it happened well before the advent

of modern medicine.

And the fact that so many individuals survived

meant that they were very good at it.

It's remarkable that we see evidence of healing,

and recovery, and survival.

In so many of the archaeological specimens,

the skulls show signs of bone healing.

They must have had a good sense of meticulous technique,

but it had to be a rough ordeal for the individual patient.

NARRATOR: According to Dr. Randall's findings,

the Incan surgeons were also skilled

at avoiding parts of the brain that

would have damaged important nerves and affected motor

skills.

What this means is that our ancient ancestors had

extraordinary information about the brain.

It means that they had detailed knowledge

about human anatomy way beyond what we normally attribute

to them.

It involves an extraordinary amount

of scientific information.

All over the world we seek skulls with curious small holes

drilled in.

In these ancient cultures, the practice of trepanation

was often said to have been given to them by the Gods.

So it's possible that extraterrestrial technology

had the ability to see into the brain.

NARRATOR: Could the ancient Incan knowledge

of brain surgery have really come

from an extraterrestrial source?

And if so, might ancient alien visitors have passed

on any other medical knowledge?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence can

be found just a few miles from where the trepanned Incan

skulls were found.

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80 miles Northwest of the famous Nazca Lines

lies the small city of Ica, Peru.

In 1966, a local physician named Javier Cabrera acquired

several andesite stones unearthed in the desert here,

stones etched with mysterious depictions

of ancient pre-Columbian people.

The Ica stones really give a different perspective

on what the locals believed history was all about.

And the Ica stones, what it really spell out or indicate,

at least, is that history is not the way we know it.

Each of these stones is inscribed with unusual scenes.

People interacting with what seems

to be prehistoric animals.

People looking through telescopes.

Some of the Ica stones seem to be strange maps of the world

before ours.

And one of the things that the Ica stones depicts

is ancient surgeries.

NARRATOR: Also carved on dozens of these stones

are images of brain surgeries, cesarean sections, and even

tracheotomies.

But one stone is among the most mysterious.

It is thought to depict two surgeons with a heart

between them as they appear to be reconnecting the blood

vessels.

Could this really be evidence that ancient man

was capable of transplanting a human heart?

The Ica stones are one of the very few examples

of our ancients actually performing surgery.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It seems impossible that ancient people

were doing anything like this.

And therefore, it would seem to be that this is knowledge

and medical knowledge that's coming

from some advanced civilization of extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that extraterrestrial beings taught mankind advanced

medical procedures, like cranial trepanation and heart

transplants, in the distant past?

And if so, might these alien beings

have shared other, perhaps, even more profound secrets

and techniques of healing?

Some researchers believe further evidence

can be found in the legends and mythologies

of the ancient Irish people and a God they knew as Dian Cecht.

[suspenseful music]

Chicago, Illinois, 2006.

Scientists pioneer a stunning bio-mechanical advancement...

A thought-controlled robotic arm.

Outfitted with electrodes that connect

to the nerves of the wearer, the prosthetic

works just like an actual arm and hand,

receiving signals from the brain and giving the user

a functioning new limb.

But as scientifically sophisticated as this is,

ancient astronaut theorists point to a remarkably similar

account in an ancient story from the British Isles.

Irish myth has a story about a divine physician called Dian.

Cecht.

He has herbs to heal every affliction of the human body

and soul.

And the people, whether they're wounded in battle

or they're afflicted in childbirth, or miscarriage,

or headaches, or whatever the malady is,

they will go to Dian Cecht for healing.

TOK THOMPSON: Dian Cecht is known as the physician

of the Gods, or he was the celebrated physician

of the Tuatha de Danann, which was

sort of a semi-divine early group of people in Irish lore.

NARRATOR: According to Celtic tradition,

the Tuatha de Danann were a race of supernatural beings

that came to Ireland riding on dark clouds.

Dian Cecht was one of these otherworldly beings

and a physician who sometimes used his knowledge

to treat humans.

In the most famous account of his medical feats,

the Irish God heals a King named Nuada

who becomes injured in battle.

During a heated battle, Nuada lost his arm.

Because of this he could no longer be king.

Kings were supposed to be physically pure,

according to the ideas of this time,

so he had to surrender his kingship for a while.

And during this time period, Dian Cecht

was the one who actually fashioned

him an arm out of silver.

So he became known as Nuada of the silver hand

or Nuada of the silver arm.

The story of Dian Cecht giving King Nuada an arm that was made

out of silver really sounds like a modern science fiction story.

It almost sounds like prosthetics.

NARRATOR: Is the story of Dion Cecht a myth, as mainstream

historians believe?

Or might King Nuada's silver arm have actually

been an advanced bionic machine, just

like the ones being developed today?

If so, is it possible that the Celtic God Dion Cecht

was in fact an extra terrestrial being?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: According to this legend,

Dion Cecht replaced King Nuada's arm with a silver arm that

was fully functional.

So is it possible that what we have here is

an account of some type of prosthetics that existed

already way back in the past?

It would seem that these legends are talking about what

are really pretty high tech medical devices and knowledge.

The kind of medical knowledge that we have today and has

taken hundreds of years of expensive research to find.

So it would seem that they had these devices in ancient times,

too, but where would they have gotten them?

It would seem to have been from extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: If the stories of Dion Cecht are true,

might similar myths from other cultures

also be based on historical fact?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and point to the stories of an ancient Greek God who wielded

the incredible power of bringing the dead back to life.

Epidaurus, Greece.

In a small valley, 30 miles southwest of Athens,

lie the 2,400-year-old ruins of the most celebrated healing

center of the ancient world...

The Asclepeion, or Temple of Asclepius.

RICHARD RADER Asclepius was the child of the God Apollo,

one of the principal divinities associated with magic

and healing.

Now, Asclepius, because he is the child of Apollo,

would necessarily develop this skill as well.

He becomes almost entirely associated with healing.

RICHARD LEVITON: Asclepius is the Greek name

for the divine physician.

Classical Greece did have healing temples in which people

could go and have either daytime healing experiences

or what they would call healings during sleeping and dreaming,

in which it was believed they would

have an audience with Asclepius and receive

some kind of diagnosis and prescription

that they could apply in the daytime.

RICHARD RADER: There's a very famous

and a very interesting practice called incubation, which

is people would go sleep in a temple of Asclepius,

and Asclepius would visit them in a dream

and tell them what the remedy was to whatever sickness

or ailment they were suffering.

NARRATOR: According to Greek mythology,

Asclepius carried a serpent entwined staff, the inspiration

for the medical symbol still in use today.

[suspenseful music]

But perhaps the most mysterious legend

associated with the Greek God of medicine

was his reported ability to provide the ultimate cure...

The power to restore life.

RICHARD RADER: His healing arts are so powerful that he can

wake people from the dead, which is the line that can never

be crossed, of course.

He got into a bit of trouble.

He was using his power that he had gotten from his father,

Apollo, to raise the dead, which obviously poses a problem.

Zeus didn't like it because people that he had killed,

Asclepius was raising from the dead.

PHILIP COPPENS: What this story is telling

us is that the story of Asclepius

is the story of some extraordinarily powerful

technology, knowledge, or application of whatever it was,

whereby physical death is not the end of it.

DAVID WILCOCK: Asclepius is on record of raising people

from the dead.

This is not anything within the purview

of conventional medical technology.

We're talking about no pulse, no respiration, and perhaps even

brain dead as well.

Asclepius may have been operating off

of an extraterrestrial derived body of knowledge

and possibly technology that made it possible for him

to achieve these seemingly supernatural feats in which

a dead body is brought back to life.

NARRATOR: If Asclepius was a flesh and blood

extraterrestrial being, as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, then might he have had some sort

of advanced scientific technology

that allowed him to raise the dead?

If so, what happened to this incredible knowledge?

Why has the secret of life and death been lost to mankind?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the story of one

of the bloodiest eras in recorded history.

[suspenseful music]

France, in the year 1233 AD.

Pope Gregory IX establishes the Inquisition...

A group of institutions within the Roman Catholic Church

charged with investigating and prosecuting heresy.

During the next 500 years, the Inquisition

spreads throughout Western Europe.

Those suspected of sorcery or witchcraft

are interrogated, tortured, and executed, most

by being burned at the stake.

And included as targets of this brutal and bloody purge

are scientists, healers, and other practitioners

of the so-called black arts.

There was a time in the Church when any type of progress

was considered to be the work of the devil.

And so things were done in the name of God

in order to suppress new knowledge.

Science was always something that

was held back by the Church, out of fear of changing the status

quo.

Historically the Catholic Church has always

been threatened by knowledge, especially

about healing and medicine.

One example is the invention of eyeglasses.

The Catholic Church went ballistic with the invention

of eyeglasses because with it came

an idea, the idea that the human body is improvable.

During the inquisitions, the Catholic Church took

a full-steam charge on squashing out a lot of these pagan ideas

that were medical science to them at the time,

revolutionary, but did not jive well with the Church.

One reason the Church launched the Inquisition

was to eliminate the average person's connection

with this ancient indigenous knowledge that put power

in the hands of the individual and took the power out

of the hands of the Church.

Long before Christianity you had healings, absolutely

supernaturally healings.

So people are afraid of it.

The religious side especially afraid.

[suspenseful music]

NARRATOR: Was the Catholic Church's attack

on scientific knowledge a deliberate attempt

to erase any connection between mankind and its relationship

to otherworldly visitors, visitors whose very existence

would undermine the Church's strongly held teaching

that life on earth was the only life that

existed in the universe?

Did the Inquisition succeed in destroying centuries

of advanced scientific and medical knowledge, knowledge

we are only now starting to retrieve?

Perhaps another clue can be found

by studying a medical procedure that actually survived

the Inquisition, one that has been practiced for thousands

of years.

[suspenseful music]

The Italian Alps, September 19, 1991.

Here, high on a snow laden mountainside

near the Austrian border, two hikers

discover the mummified corpse of a man.

Frozen in place for an estimated 5,000 years,

the body, later nicknamed Otzi, is carefully examined and so

well-preserved that scientists are able to determine

his age, how he died, and even the contents of his final meal.

But perhaps the most incredible discovery of all

were the markings found along Otzi's legs and back...

50 geometric designs that correspond to those

found in the science of acupuncture.

Acupuncture is a long and well-tested modality that moves

energy through a kind of subway system in the body.

They're known as meridians with about 1,000 treatment points.

All the treatment points have names, and many of them

have references to stars and very interesting things that

don't seem to correlate with the body.

[chinese music]

NARRATOR: A medical therapy that targets an energy field

that practitioners believe flows through the human body.

Acupuncture was originally believed

to have been developed in China approximately 3,000 years ago.

The tattoos found on the skin of this Bronze Age

mummy suggest that acupuncture was not only

practiced in Europe but practiced centuries earlier

than most archeologists and historians had believed

possible.

But how?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining

the ancient Chinese medical book called "The Huangdi Neijing,"

the oldest text known to give a detailed description

of acupuncture.

YI QIAO: First, the medical book, as old as 2,500 years

ago, is called "Huangdi Neijing Yellow Empress Classic.

Medicine."

In this book, this whole system is

to talk about all the channels, meridians, and the treatment

mythology and strategies.

NARRATOR: According to Chinese mythology,

one of the first practitioners of acupuncture

was a physician named Bian Que, often depicted

as a human-headed bird.

Bian Que is a legendary example

of a healer who used supernatural means in order

to accomplish his treatments.

Bian Que apparently could consume some herb,

and once he ingested this substance, whatever it was,

he could apparently see through walls

and see directly into the human body, much like a CAT

scan or an MRI.

And he was accredited with doing a double heart transplant

on an emperor and another person,

where he switched their hearts.

So you have to wonder, now, where

did they even get this idea?

Bian Que is another of those extraordinary beings who's

described as half human and half bird.

This puts him in the league with such figures as Thoth

and other divine beings, who are also half human and half bird,

and who delivered to humanity amazing knowledge, especially

about medicine and human transformation.

NARRATOR: Could it be mere coincidence

that the half-human, half-bird Chinese healer known as Bian.

Que closely resembles both the ancient Egyptian deity Thoth

and the Indian God Dhanvantari?

Or is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists claim,

that these ancient so-called Gods were actually

extraterrestrial beings, beings in possession of highly

advanced medical knowledge?

I think acupuncture is one of these sciences which

came from the Gods and was given to our ancestors.

And so even though we might think that acupuncture

is specifically linked to a specific culture right now,

I think in the past this was actually information which

existed throughout mankind.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Medicine always

came from a, quote unquote, "divine origin," meaning

that some type of a deity descended from the sky

and gave this knowledge of healing people

to those particular cultures.

And now, why would all cultures all around the world

speak of the exact same thing that this knowledge was

imparted to them by people descending from the sky?

NARRATOR: Are ancient astronaut theorists correct?

Did extraterrestrial beings really give early man

highly advanced medical knowledge

about how to heal the human body, knowledge,

that with the exception of acupuncture,

has been lost through the centuries?

Perhaps proof can be found, not in the carvings on the wall

of a tomb or in the words of an ancient document,

but the most unlikely of places...

The cells of the human body.

In 2003, US government researchers

announced they had completed one of the most

monumental and scientifically significant projects

in human history.

After 13 years of work, they had identified and mapped

the over 20,000 genes in the human genome,

giving scientists new insight into the genetic makeup

of the human species.

What we don't know about humans in terms

of evolutionary genetics is sort of

based on what we don't know about genetics nowadays.

For example, we do not know the genetic basis of the thought

process.

We don't know memory.

We cannot create any ideas of how changes occurred to evolve

the human brain to the functional being that it is

right now.

NARRATOR: Could this incredible map eventually

solve the great mystery of human evolution?

Might it help explain why humans, unlike any other living

species, can think, reason, and have the power of speech?

Or why they can create art, music,

and spend time contemplating the reason for their own existence?

It's not until about 40,000 years

ago that you get a very radical change in human behavior.

Our hunting strategies get better, our tools

and our weapons get better.

It's as though some untapped faculty of the human brain and

of the human imagination switched on.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the reason humans suddenly

evolved from primitive beasts to sentient humans

is due to otherworldly intervention?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer is a profound yes.

One of the basic tenets of the ancient astronaut theory

suggests that a long time ago our DNA

was artificially changed by extraterrestrials.

And we can see that this is exactly what happened

because all of a sudden we made a giant intellectual leap

and all of a sudden we became Homo sapien sapiens.

This was the time when the very first

extraterrestrial genetic engineering took place.

And in some ways, this was like phase one and the creation

of modern human beings as we know them.

NARRATOR: Did extraterrestrials deliberately alter Homo sapien

DNA?

And if so, did they also give humans the knowledge of how

to maintain their bodies and heal themselves,

knowledge that we are only now rediscovering?

There is a very widespread prevalence worldwide

of a divine providence to medicine,

that the gods wanted to help us to have happier, longer, more

fulfilling lives.

And that they brought out their best technology and their best

wisdom teachings to us in order to make that healing possible.

Is there any surgeon out there who just woke up one

day and said, I'm going to perform surgery?

Of course not.

Every single surgeon had to receive

sophisticated and lengthy instruction, training.

We know that our ancestors told us

that the knowledge for medicine was given to them by none

other than what they referred to as the Gods.

PHILIP COPPENS: This is knowledge and information which

exceeds the human capabilities.

And this is, once again, within part of a larger framework,

a framework of divine healers who allow this capability to be

used for surgery, to be used for diagnosis,

to be used for healing purposes.

They sit between us and the gods,

and they were somehow able to apply the divine information

when it came to medicine to very noble purposes

here on planet Earth.

NARRATOR: Did ancient aliens really alter our DNA

in an effort to make us better, smarter, and perhaps

more like themselves?

And if so, did they also give early man medical knowledge,

knowledge that was lost over the centuries

and that modern science is only now beginning to rediscover?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answer is yes and suggest that incredible new discoveries

and rediscoveries lie ahead, discoveries that may reveal

the secrets of life and death, the key to immortality,

and the answer to the question of who and what we really are.

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