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NARRATOR:
Enormous humanoid figures
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descending from the stars.
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RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
We have in our ancient
Midrashic teachings
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that when the Adamic race
descended to Earth,
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they were beings
approximately 100 feet tall.
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NARRATOR:
Massive structures
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built with stones weighing
thousands of pounds.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
Cyclopean architecture
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is associated with the Cyclopes,
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the one-eyed giants.
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It really indicates something
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that's almost impossible
to make.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Some of these blocks,
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I've heard,
are up to 30 tons each?
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DANILA BRACAGLIA:
Yes.
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I mean, this is incredible.
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NARRATOR:
Mysterious tombs
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said to contain
gigantic skeletons.
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TIMOTHY ALBERINO:
I personally went there,
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measured the tombs myself.
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Even in the smaller tombs,
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you could fit
a nine- to 12-foot giant.
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NARRATOR:
Could the ancient legends
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of giants in the Mediterranean
really be true?
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The giants were a fact.
They did exist.
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TSOUKALOS:
You have the stories of giants,
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you have structures
that are incredible,
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and you have to wonder,
what are their origins?
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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NARRATOR:
The Mediterranean.
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This majestic inland sea,
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spanning
nearly one million square miles,
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has been dubbed the "incubator
of Western civilization."
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Its temperate climate
and fertile soil
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enabled the rise of some of the
greatest civilizations on Earth,
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including the Mesopotamians,
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Egyptians, Persians,
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Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans.
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JONATHAN YOUNG:
Throughout the Mediterranean,
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there were great civilizations.
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Their art, their philosophy,
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their scientific findings,
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the accumulative knowledge
is this strong connection
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to the ancient roots
of Western civilization.
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RIC RADER:
It's really earth-shattering
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how sophisticated the ancient
Mediterranean cultures were
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in their understanding
of astronomy
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and astrology and mathematics,
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going all the way back
to the Babylonians.
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NARRATOR:
Each civilization
developed innovations
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that shaped the modern world.
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Mesopotamian astronomers devised
the 12-month calendar.
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Phoenician sailors pioneered
celestial navigation.
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Greek philosophers established
the principles
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of democratic government
and trial by jury.
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Each culture had
the written word, the arts,
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and, curiously,
stories of giants.
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YOUNG:
There are legends of giants
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that appear
throughout the Mediterranean.
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The Roman historian
Dio Cassius wrote
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that giants roamed the land
before Mount Vesuvius erupted.
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We call them mythology,
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but they were seen as truth
at the time.
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There are these stories
of humans interacting
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with these giants, and they're
often in conflict with them
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in the Greek tales
of the Gigantomachy.
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YOUNG:
There is a story
of the Gigantomachy,
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a great battle
between the Olympians
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and the race of giants.
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NARRATOR:
Giants play a major role
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in the earliest Greek stories.
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In the Gigantomachy,
these strange, enormous figures,
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who are neither gods nor humans,
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are battling
for control of the heavens.
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The Giants were actually
descendants of the Titans.
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Um, oftentimes,
people confuse the two.
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But the Giants
were said to have been born
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from Gaia and Uranus,
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and this is
where the name derives.
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Hercules was pivotal in the gods
overcoming the giants
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in the Gigantomachia.
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YOUNG:
Hercules' victory
over the Giants
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was called the Pompeii,
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and the ancient city of Pompeii
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is said
to have been named for it.
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NARRATOR:
Stories of giants can be found
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in the traditions of ancient
cultures throughout the world.
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Native tribes
of the American Southwest
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told of a race
of red-haired giants
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curiously similar
to the accounts
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of the Celtic people of Europe,
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who described red-haired giants
called the Tuatha Dé Danann.
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In India, early Sanskrit texts
portray Buddha
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as a nine-foot-tall,
blue-skinned giant.
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And on Easter Island,
local traditions have it
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that the enormous stone moai
statues were erected by giants.
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But as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the incredible volume of stories
found in the Mediterranean,
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and the details contained
within them,
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may indicate that this part of
the world was an arrival point
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for actual giant beings
that came to Earth
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from another planet.
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We have a great concentration
of these stories
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in the Mediterranean area.
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You have them in Greece,
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in Italy and in ancient Sumeria.
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So the idea that at some point
giants roamed the land,
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you have to wonder,
who were these giants?
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What are their origins?
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NARRATOR:
If actual giants
once lived alongside humans,
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as some ancient texts suggest,
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did they leave behind
any physical evidence
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of their presence on Earth?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
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the answer might be found
by examining
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another race of giants
from the Greek tradition.
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In the 7th century BC,
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the poet Hesiod wrote
about the Cyclopes,
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a group of giants
responsible for building
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incredible structures
out of stone.
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Now, the Cyclopes were
one-eyed giants.
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They are builders.
They are craftsmen.
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They can make things.
They make armor.
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They make weapons.
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They're able
to build walls and gates,
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and these are
very important divine figures.
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OSEQUEDA:
In the Mediterranean,
there are structures
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thought to have been built
by giants.
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One of those is
the Lion's Gate in Mycenae.
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This is said to have been built
by the Cyclopes.
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And the reason for this is,
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one, because
of the architecture of it--
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it's called "cyclopean masonry,"
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which are usually large stones
placed upon each other.
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NARRATOR:
Could real-life giants
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have built structures
in the Mediterranean
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that have survived
the ravages of time
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and still stand to this day?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the answer is a resounding yes.
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And not just one or two...
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but thousands.
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In the middle
of the Mediterranean Sea,
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just south of Sicily,
lie the islands of Malta.
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With three inhabited islands
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covering an area
of roughly 120 square miles,
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it is one of the smallest
countries in the world.
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But this tiny nation boasts
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no less than seven
enormous megalithic structures,
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containing some of the most
massive freestanding stones
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in the world.
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TSOUKALOS:
Malta is an incredible place,
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because there we have
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some of the biggest megalithic
sites in all of Europe.
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LINDA ENEIX:
The temples on Malta and Gozo
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are more than
a thousand years older
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than the pyramids of Egypt.
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They are the earliest monumental
architecture in the world.
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Looks very much
as if that architecture
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developed right here in Malta.
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NARRATOR:
Mainstream historians believe
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the first inhabitants of Malta
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traveled from Sicily in 5200 BC.
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Today, the stone structures
erected on the Maltese islands
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are considered by archeologists
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to be among the greatest
creations of ancient builders
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found anywhere on Earth.
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One of the oldest
megalithic sites in Europe
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is a place called Ggantija
on the Maltese island of Gozo,
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and this was actually
the oldest free-standing temple
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in the world before Gobekli Tepe
was discovered.
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ENEIX:
At the time that
the Ggantija temples were built,
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about 3500 BC,
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there was no one else in the
world doing anything like this.
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Some of the walls
of Ggantija temple
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are more than 20 feet high--
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still standing,
have never fallen.
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There's very little in the world
that could survive
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for 5,000 years
the way Ggantija has.
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NARRATOR:
While a structure
lasting 5,000 years
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is astonishing, many believe
these megalithic buildings
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could be far older.
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But mainstream historians
are unable to explain
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how the ancient builders
were able to precisely arrange
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the massive stones--
each weighing over 20 tons--
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before metal tools,
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or even the wheel,
had been invented.
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CHILDRESS:
Modern cranes
cannot lift that today.
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It would appear
that the builders at Malta had
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some special technology
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that is probably
beyond our own capabilities.
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ENEIX:
"Ggantija" is translated
from the Maltese
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into "place of the giants,"
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or "place made by giants."
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It's always been called that.
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YOUNG:
It was said to have been built
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by a giant goddess, Sunsuna,
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who built it
while nursing an infant.
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TSOUKALOS:
In Malta,
the archaeologists agree
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with the local legends
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that the giants built
the ancient structures of Malta.
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And who were those giants?
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MICHAEL CARTER:
These are not gods.
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These are false gods.
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They're extraterrestrials,
if you will.
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NARRATOR:
Was the Mediterranean
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home to a race of colossal
beings thousands of years ago?
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And if so, were they born
of this Earth,
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or did they come
from somewhere else?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
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another mysterious
megalithic structure on Malta,
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one that has a very specific
cosmic connection.
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NARRATOR:
Qrendi, Malta
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Located on the rugged
south coast of the main island,
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this historic village is home to
a mysterious megalithic temple
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called Mnajdra.
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This complex consists
of stone structures
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that are laid out
in the pattern of a trefoil,
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three interconnected
circular chambers.
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There are actually three temples
at the complex of Mnajdra.
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The south temple seems
to be aligned specifically
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to function as a solar calendar.
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The temple is aligned so that
the sunrise on the equinox,
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the two times each year
when daylight and darkness
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are exactly equal, the sun rises
exactly in the central corridor
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and lights up the whole temple
all the way to the back.
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On other times of the year,
there are other stones
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that reflect
the solstice daybreak.
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NARRATOR:
Mainstream archaeologists
estimate that the oldest temple
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at Mnajdra was built
sometime around 3600 BC,
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by the same builders who
constructed the Ggantija temple.
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According to local folklore,
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these ancient builders
were giants.
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ENEIX:
The idea of giants comes from
the fact that it's so big.
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There's no way that regular
human people could stack
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all these stones up and
create such mammoth buildings.
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It had to be giants.
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NARRATOR:
In 1992,
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University of Malta professor
Paul Micallef
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published a book
that claimed Mnajdra
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is thousands of years older
than historians believe,
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and pinpoints the construction
to 10,200 BC.
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He came to this conclusion
because based on the tilt
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of the Earth
at that point in time,
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on the morning
of the summer solstice,
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a beam of light would have come
through the main entrance
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of the Mnajdra temple
and been cast directly
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on the center of an altar stone.
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The only way
this could be achieved
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is if Mnajdra
was built specifically
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with the end effect in mind.
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NEWMAN:
Over huge periods of time,
the rising of the Sun
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on the summer solstice moves
to different parts of the sky.
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And this is called
the precession of the equinox,
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it's the Earth's wobble over
a nearly 26,000-year period.
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NARRATOR:
If Paul Micallef's analysis
is correct,
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it would predate the Earth's
earliest known civilizations
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by some 6,000 years.
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So, how were sophisticated
megalithic structures
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with precise
astronomical alignments,
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built on an isolated island
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thousands of years before
the emergence of civilization?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the knowledge to do this
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was given to the people of Malta
by giants,
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who were not of this Earth.
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WILLIAM HENRY:
We automatically assume
that extraterrestrials
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might be what we describe today
as the Grey aliens.
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But more than likely we're gonna
have-- be confronted
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with the fact that these species
are far different
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than we've previously
understood.
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[creature screaming]
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
Astrophysicists are
typically saying
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that the larger the planet, the
greater the gravitational field.
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And in theory, if some aliens
are actual giants,
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uh, even twice the size of us,
as an example,
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perhaps they're coming
from planets
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that are actually smaller
than the Earth
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and has a smaller gravity
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and therefore,
they grow larger than we are.
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NARRATOR:
Could the megalithic temples
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on Malta have been built
by a lost civilization
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that thrived 12,000 years ago,
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possibly with the aid
of giant beings
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who descended from the sky?
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Misrah Ghar il-Kbir.
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Located on the southwest coast
of Malta,
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this region is home to some
of the most baffling formations
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found anywhere on the planet,
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a complex network of grooves
carved into the rock
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known simply as cart ruts.
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ANDREWS:
The cart ruts on Malta
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are about, uh, four feet wide.
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They're-they're
uniformly spaced.
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Some of them run
hundreds of yards.
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Some of them run miles.
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These parallel incisions
in the bedrock
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have been identified
as cart ruts
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because that's what
they look like.
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What they really were,
what their purpose was
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we don't know.
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There's nothing written.
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There's no way, really, to tell.
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But there are a lot of them.
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In some places,
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they are so crisscrossed
and complex
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that the area has been called
Clapham Junction,
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after the train station
in London.
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NARRATOR:
Author Gordon Weston
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has been studying
this strange anomaly
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for more than a decade
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and, in 2010,
wrote a book called
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The Maltese Cart-Ruts:
Unraveling an Enigma,
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in which he examines
the various theories
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about how they might
have been formed.
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So, Gordon,
tell me what you think.
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Well, got a-- what,
you got half a lifetime?
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-Absolutely. Yes.
-[laughs]
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Basically, you couldn't drive
a cart down here.
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The cart would be wrecked.
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Early researchers
looked at vehicles
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that would scrape away the rock,
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because that's what it looks
like's happened.
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There was three devices.
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The first one was a sledge.
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Probably the oldest form
of human transport.
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But they found that the sledge
immediately got stuck.
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So two other devices
have been looked at.
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Uh, one was the travois.
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They're used
by the Plains Indians
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to transport their teepees
from camp to camp.
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The problem is the poles
would be wider than these ruts
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when they touch the ground.
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The next device
is called the slide car.
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It's a load platform
with two runners on it.
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It's a fanciful
and ridiculous idea.
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Practical experiments and that--
it just doesn't work.
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Science is useless
for this problem.
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There is no methodology
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which can be applied
scientifically to these ruts.
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So, in St. George's Bay,
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in a city called Birzebbuga,
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there are a couple of ruts
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that go straight
into the Mediterranean Sea.
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WESTON:
They are famous.
You're-you're right.
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It is interesting to see
the ruts go into the sea.
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They also are said to have come
up on the other side of the bay.
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But it's now built over.
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So, how do you explain it?
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ANDREWS:
It might be that we're looking
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at a technology
we don't understand.
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The ruts go off into the sea.
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Underwater, people have dived
down and found them, miles away.
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So, apparently,
either the sea level rose
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or the land subsided
or maybe both.
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During the last ice age,
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the sea level
was 300 feet lower.
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So, it could have been
that, 10,000, 15,000 years ago,
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the islands were inhabited
by people who used
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these so-called cart ruts
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to transport, uh, stones
across the island.
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NARRATOR:
According to geologists,
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the last ice age ended
around 10,000 BC.
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Might the existence
of these cart ruts
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corroborate the findings
of Professor Paul Micallef,
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who claimed the Mnajdra temple
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was constructed
more than 12,000 years ago?
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Perhaps even more baffling
to researchers
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is the fact
that these mysterious grooves
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are not confined
to the Maltese islands.
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ENEIX:
These cart ruts
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are found also in Tunisia
and in Sicily.
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So, they seem to relate
to a people
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who are occupying
all of those areas.
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NARRATOR:
Might the so-called cart ruts
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be a remnant
of a vast transportation network
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that existed
throughout the Mediterranean
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some 12,000 years ago?
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Could they be physical evidence
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to support
the stories of giants?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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on another Mediterranean island,
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one that contains
ancient stone structures
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known as the Tombs
of the Giants.
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NARRATOR:
Sardinia, Italy
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Located 116 miles west
of the Italian peninsula,
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this picturesque island
in the Mediterranean
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boasts rugged mountains,
arid grasslands,
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and white sand beaches.
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It is also home
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to many mysterious
ancient stone structures
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similar to those found on Malta
just 400 miles away.
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Sardinia is probably best known
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for its abundance of structures
called nuraghe.
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And these are conical towers,
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usually truncated at the top,
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so that there's a flat base.
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There are
approximately 7,000 nuraghe
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that scholars have uncovered
on Sardinia,
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though that number could be
as high as 20,000 or more.
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CHILDRESS:
These nuraghe
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are made out
of huge basalt boulders.
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They're stacked up
into towers and walls
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and beehive chambers.
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Archaeologists do not know
how they were all built.
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They assume that huge ramps
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were built to-to move all
of this material,
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which, uh, seems unlikely,
frankly,
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when you're there
and you see it.
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NARRATOR:
According
to mainstream archaeologists,
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these structures were built
by the Nuraghe,
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a civilization that is believed
to have inhabited the island
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nearly 4,000 years ago,
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emerging in 1800 BC
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and mysteriously disappearing
around 200 AD.
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Among the thousands
of ancient structures
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found on Sardinia,
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perhaps the most baffling
to researchers
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are megalithic tombs
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said to have been built
for giants.
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There are nearly 800
so-called Tombs of the Giants
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found in Sardinia.
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And the reason why
they're called giant
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is because
they're remarkably long tombs,
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usually with stone slabs
in them,
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and they appear
extraordinarily large.
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ALBERINO:
There is a lot of controversy
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concerning what these tombs
were built for.
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More specifically,
for whom were they built?
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I personally went there,
measured the tombs myself.
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In the larger tomb,
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you could fit
a nine- to 12-foot giant.
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NARRATOR:
A nine- to 12-foot giant?
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Could the strange tombs
in Sardinia
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have once contained the corpses
of actual giants?
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But if Sardinia was home
to a race of colossal beings,
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who were they?
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Cagliari, Sardinia.
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2014.
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The National
Archaeological Museum
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debuts its newest exhibit,
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a number
of enormous stone statues
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known collectively
as the Giants of Mont'e Prama.
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So, the Giants of Mont'e Prama
are very tall stone giants
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that were found on the, uh,
western coast of Sardinia
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back in 1974.
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Uh, since then, there's been
numerous excavations,
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and over 40
of these stone giants,
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over eight feet tall,
have now been reconstructed
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from pieces
that were found there.
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ALBERINO:
The Giants of Mont'e Prama are
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very strange-looking
stone statues.
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And what makes them so bizarre
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is their faces.
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TOUSKALOS:
For all intents and purposes,
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the face looks like a replica
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of C-3PO, the robot.
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And the fact that archaeologists
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suggest
that these are the replicas
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of the local population--
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and they even call them
the Giants of Mont'e Prama--
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you have to wonder,
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what did our ancestors
try to carve?
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NARRATOR:
If these statues
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depict giants
that once lived on the island
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as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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what might
their strange appearance
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00:23:52,518 --> 00:23:54,911
reveal about them?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining another
of Sardinia's ancient mysteries:
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the more than 300
stone monuments
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scattered across the island
known as menhirs.
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A menhir is a megalithic,
uh, monument
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comprising of a single stone
inserted in the ground,
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and it goes
straight up vertically.
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They're usually quite large
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and have
a religious significance.
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NEWMAN:
We find them all over the world,
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but the ones in Sardinia
are very interesting
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because they often have carvings
on them
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of this upside-down kind of
abstract human form on them
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as though someone is diving
from the sky to the Earth.
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And there's been no explanation
as to exactly what
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these represent.
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TSOUKALOS:
Some people have suggested
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that they represent
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people descending from the sky
and imparting knowledge.
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What's incredible
is that bird people
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or birdmen cults
exist worldwide.
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00:24:57,670 --> 00:25:00,542
In fact,
the further back you go in time,
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you see carvings and statues
500
00:25:04,111 --> 00:25:07,157
of beings that have wings.
501
00:25:07,244 --> 00:25:09,812
Even earlier than angels,
502
00:25:09,899 --> 00:25:13,424
you have depictions
of people up in the sky,
503
00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:17,254
fixed wings,
like a modern-day airplane.
504
00:25:17,298 --> 00:25:20,214
So, you have to wonder
if our ancestors
505
00:25:20,257 --> 00:25:24,697
saw winged machines
up in the sky.
506
00:25:25,828 --> 00:25:27,787
NARRATOR:
If the giant statues
507
00:25:27,874 --> 00:25:30,137
found on the island of Sardinia
508
00:25:30,224 --> 00:25:31,573
depict extraterrestrials
509
00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:34,402
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
510
00:25:34,489 --> 00:25:36,099
then is it possible
511
00:25:36,186 --> 00:25:38,754
that the menhirs
are meant to reveal
512
00:25:38,798 --> 00:25:41,235
how these visitors arrived?
513
00:25:43,367 --> 00:25:45,282
For ancient astronaut theorists,
514
00:25:45,369 --> 00:25:48,155
the idea of giants
descending from the heavens
515
00:25:48,242 --> 00:25:50,070
is reminiscent of the stories
516
00:25:50,157 --> 00:25:52,638
of another
ancient Mediterranean people:
517
00:25:52,725 --> 00:25:54,857
the Sumerians.
518
00:25:55,902 --> 00:25:58,818
This civilization, which existed
519
00:25:58,905 --> 00:26:01,255
at the same time
archaeologists believe
520
00:26:01,342 --> 00:26:03,213
the menhirs on Sardinia
were carved,
521
00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:06,956
also wrote of enormous beings
who came from the sky:
522
00:26:07,043 --> 00:26:09,568
the Anunnaki.
523
00:26:12,266 --> 00:26:15,661
The Anunnaki
are the so-called creator gods
524
00:26:15,748 --> 00:26:18,054
of ancient Sumeria and Babylon.
525
00:26:19,099 --> 00:26:21,144
Our ancestors thought
526
00:26:21,188 --> 00:26:24,495
they were
these divine, magical beings
527
00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:28,369
described as descending
from the sky.
528
00:26:28,456 --> 00:26:31,328
There's all types
of wall reliefs
529
00:26:31,415 --> 00:26:33,548
and artifacts and inscriptions
530
00:26:33,635 --> 00:26:35,594
which depict the Anunnaki
531
00:26:35,681 --> 00:26:38,553
standing amongst
the other Sumerian human beings.
532
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,990
They're always depicted
as larger beings,
533
00:26:41,077 --> 00:26:43,253
uh, of great stature.
534
00:26:43,340 --> 00:26:45,516
ANDREW COLLINS:
This is intriguing
535
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:48,171
because on the island
of Sardinia
536
00:26:48,215 --> 00:26:52,480
is a huge, great,
truncated pyramid
537
00:26:52,567 --> 00:26:55,701
with a long ramp
running up towards it.
538
00:26:55,788 --> 00:26:58,007
It's made of local stone,
539
00:26:58,051 --> 00:27:02,795
and it would seem
to look extremely like
540
00:27:02,838 --> 00:27:07,843
a ziggurat from ancient Sumeria.
541
00:27:07,930 --> 00:27:11,891
So, were the Anunnaki
in any way linked
542
00:27:11,978 --> 00:27:15,503
with the Giganteslegends
on the island itself?
543
00:27:16,809 --> 00:27:19,550
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that a race of colossal beings
544
00:27:19,594 --> 00:27:22,075
known to the Sumerians
as the Annunaki
545
00:27:22,162 --> 00:27:26,514
visited the island of Sardinia
in the distant past?
546
00:27:26,557 --> 00:27:28,559
And if so,
547
00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:31,780
might Sardinia
hold evidence that giants
548
00:27:31,867 --> 00:27:34,043
not only existed
throughout the Mediterranean
549
00:27:34,130 --> 00:27:37,568
but have
extraterrestrial origins?
550
00:27:38,613 --> 00:27:42,008
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
551
00:27:42,095 --> 00:27:45,054
and suggest further evidence
can be found
552
00:27:45,141 --> 00:27:47,404
by examining ancient walls
553
00:27:47,448 --> 00:27:50,407
that still stand
in what was once the very heart
554
00:27:50,494 --> 00:27:52,845
of the Roman Empire.
555
00:27:58,459 --> 00:28:00,548
NARRATOR:
Ferentino, Italy.
556
00:28:00,635 --> 00:28:02,681
June 2019.
557
00:28:02,768 --> 00:28:05,945
Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos
558
00:28:06,032 --> 00:28:08,295
is in the heart
of the Italian peninsula,
559
00:28:08,382 --> 00:28:10,993
about 50 miles southeast
of Rome.
560
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,431
This area of Italy,
known as Latium,
561
00:28:14,475 --> 00:28:18,697
was considered the epicenter
of the Roman civilization.
562
00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:21,961
Located 300 miles east
of Sardinia
563
00:28:22,048 --> 00:28:24,920
and 600 miles north of Malta,
564
00:28:24,964 --> 00:28:26,748
Ferentino is also connected
565
00:28:26,835 --> 00:28:29,882
to stories of giants.
566
00:28:29,969 --> 00:28:32,014
Giorgio is eager to investigate
567
00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:35,583
the ancient city's
massive megalithic walls,
568
00:28:35,626 --> 00:28:39,108
considered to be some of the
finest constructions in Italy.
569
00:28:39,195 --> 00:28:42,808
For expert insight,
he has called upon
570
00:28:42,895 --> 00:28:45,332
local historian
Danila Bracaglia.
571
00:28:45,419 --> 00:28:48,291
-Danila? [speaks Italian]
-Giorgio.
572
00:28:48,335 --> 00:28:50,729
-Welcome to Italy
and to Ciociaria.
-Thank you.
573
00:28:50,816 --> 00:28:52,643
This is, uh, beautiful.
574
00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:54,950
-What can you tell me
about this area?
-Well,
575
00:28:55,037 --> 00:28:56,909
Ferentino, where we are today,
576
00:28:56,996 --> 00:28:59,520
is actually known
for these constructions
577
00:28:59,607 --> 00:29:01,522
of, uh, the megalithic walls,
578
00:29:01,609 --> 00:29:05,047
founded, according to
the tradition, by god Saturn.
579
00:29:06,135 --> 00:29:08,529
TSOUKALOS:
Okay. This is fascinating to me
580
00:29:08,616 --> 00:29:10,792
because this is one
of the reasons why I'm here.
581
00:29:10,879 --> 00:29:14,274
What can you tell me
about the mythologies of Saturn
582
00:29:14,361 --> 00:29:15,841
in this area here?
583
00:29:15,884 --> 00:29:17,930
So, the Five Cities of Saturn
are all
584
00:29:18,017 --> 00:29:20,149
a few kilometers
one from another,
585
00:29:20,193 --> 00:29:22,804
and they all start
with the letter "A."
586
00:29:22,848 --> 00:29:25,198
Alatri, Arpino,
587
00:29:25,285 --> 00:29:28,636
Anagni, Atina and Ferentino.
588
00:29:28,679 --> 00:29:30,638
The original name was Atino.
589
00:29:30,725 --> 00:29:32,205
The tradition says,
590
00:29:32,248 --> 00:29:35,948
you know, the towns were founded
by Saturn and the Titans.
591
00:29:36,992 --> 00:29:38,907
NARRATOR:
In Greek mythology,
592
00:29:38,994 --> 00:29:42,519
the Titans were humanlike gods
of enormous stature
593
00:29:42,563 --> 00:29:45,174
who were eventually overthrown
by their children,
594
00:29:45,261 --> 00:29:46,785
the Olympians.
595
00:29:46,872 --> 00:29:50,658
Saturn is the Roman name
for the Titan Cronus,
596
00:29:50,701 --> 00:29:52,268
the father of Zeus
597
00:29:52,355 --> 00:29:55,315
and one of the primary gods
of ancient Rome,
598
00:29:55,402 --> 00:29:57,491
after whom
both the planet Saturn
599
00:29:57,578 --> 00:30:00,146
and the day Saturday are named.
600
00:30:01,277 --> 00:30:03,236
The ancient Romans wrote
601
00:30:03,323 --> 00:30:05,804
that Saturn once reigned
as an earthly king
602
00:30:05,891 --> 00:30:09,198
alongside Janus
during a golden age
603
00:30:09,285 --> 00:30:11,853
when the gods
walked among humans.
604
00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,377
Could it be that Saturn
and the Titans
605
00:30:14,421 --> 00:30:17,076
are not merely the product
of mythology
606
00:30:17,163 --> 00:30:19,948
but actually existed on Earth
607
00:30:20,035 --> 00:30:23,430
and were responsible
for helping to construct
608
00:30:23,473 --> 00:30:27,347
the megalithic structures found
throughout the Mediterranean?
609
00:30:27,434 --> 00:30:30,306
So, Danila,
where are we right now?
610
00:30:30,393 --> 00:30:33,179
So, this is one of
the entrance gates to the town.
611
00:30:33,266 --> 00:30:35,268
And here
it's actually a perfect point
612
00:30:35,311 --> 00:30:38,010
where you can understand
the stratification of the time.
613
00:30:39,794 --> 00:30:44,103
You see the huge blocks
from the pre-Roman time,
614
00:30:44,146 --> 00:30:48,150
then smaller, uh, blocks in...
built in the Roman time
615
00:30:48,237 --> 00:30:50,892
and finally the Middle Age
on top.
616
00:30:50,936 --> 00:30:53,460
So, basically,
you can see the...
617
00:30:53,547 --> 00:30:55,592
the megalithic structure,
then the Roman,
618
00:30:55,636 --> 00:30:57,464
-and then medieval age.
-Exactly.
619
00:30:57,551 --> 00:30:59,727
-TSOUKALOS: Okay.
-And it's like reading
a history book.
620
00:30:59,814 --> 00:31:03,383
So, it's, uh, because here it's
evident that people lived here
621
00:31:03,426 --> 00:31:06,038
for thousands of years and...
622
00:31:06,125 --> 00:31:08,431
and they had different technique
of construction.
623
00:31:08,518 --> 00:31:10,129
Some of them,
like the megalithic,
624
00:31:10,216 --> 00:31:12,131
uh, constructions, are lost,
625
00:31:12,174 --> 00:31:16,265
uh, so we don't know exactly,
uh, when they were built.
626
00:31:16,352 --> 00:31:19,790
TSOUKALOS:
Do you know if all
these Five Cities of Saturn
627
00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:22,445
-have the cyclopean walls?
-Yes.
628
00:31:22,489 --> 00:31:24,099
They have, uh, these walls,
629
00:31:24,143 --> 00:31:26,275
megalithics or huge stones,
630
00:31:26,362 --> 00:31:29,278
and some of them are
better preserved than others.
631
00:31:29,365 --> 00:31:31,411
TSOUKALOS:
I mean, this is incredible.
632
00:31:31,498 --> 00:31:34,501
And this region is not the only
place that has these walls.
633
00:31:34,588 --> 00:31:36,982
For example,
we have them also in Greece.
634
00:31:37,069 --> 00:31:39,593
But what's even more fascinating
635
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,510
is that we have similar walls
on the other side of the world
636
00:31:43,597 --> 00:31:45,164
in Sacsayhuamán, Peru.
637
00:31:45,207 --> 00:31:48,776
So, from completely opposite
sides of the planet,
638
00:31:48,863 --> 00:31:51,126
we have similar,
if not identical,
639
00:31:51,213 --> 00:31:53,172
construction styles.
640
00:31:53,259 --> 00:31:55,087
According to
the ancient astronaut theory,
641
00:31:55,130 --> 00:31:58,525
Saturn was one
of the founding gods
642
00:31:58,612 --> 00:32:01,093
of civilization on Earth,
643
00:32:01,180 --> 00:32:05,314
so the idea that this
may have had something to do
644
00:32:05,401 --> 00:32:07,403
with an extraterrestrial visit,
to me,
645
00:32:07,490 --> 00:32:09,101
is-is fascinating.
646
00:32:15,890 --> 00:32:19,633
NARRATOR: If the Mediterranean
really was home to giants,
647
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:20,982
where did they go?
648
00:32:21,069 --> 00:32:23,767
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe
649
00:32:23,854 --> 00:32:27,510
traces of these giants can still
be found on Earth today
650
00:32:27,597 --> 00:32:31,123
hidden within our own DNA.
651
00:32:36,432 --> 00:32:38,869
NARRATOR:
Porto Torres, Sardinia.
652
00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:41,698
October, 1953.
653
00:32:41,742 --> 00:32:44,875
Excavators performing
an archaeological dig
654
00:32:44,919 --> 00:32:48,140
in what was the Roman Empire's
first colony on the island
655
00:32:48,227 --> 00:32:51,708
reportedly make
an astonishing find.
656
00:32:51,752 --> 00:32:54,537
In a place called Porto Torres,
657
00:32:54,624 --> 00:32:56,713
in 1953, it was reported
658
00:32:56,757 --> 00:32:59,934
that two over eight-foot-tall
skeletons were discovered
659
00:33:00,021 --> 00:33:03,633
in the area with grave goods
and bronze furnishings
660
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,767
and other such things actually
within the tomb itself,
661
00:33:06,854 --> 00:33:10,379
suggesting that indeed giants
did exist in Sardinia.
662
00:33:10,466 --> 00:33:14,688
TIMOTHY ALBERINO:
Full skeletons of giants
663
00:33:14,731 --> 00:33:16,777
have been unearthed
664
00:33:16,864 --> 00:33:18,997
in the soils of Sardinia,
665
00:33:19,084 --> 00:33:22,739
especially among
the Nuragic ruins.
666
00:33:22,826 --> 00:33:24,785
I interviewed two individuals
667
00:33:24,872 --> 00:33:27,483
who worked on the excavation
of the Nuragic ruins
668
00:33:27,570 --> 00:33:29,398
in the town of Sardara,
669
00:33:29,485 --> 00:33:33,098
underneath
the Church of Santa Anastasia.
670
00:33:33,185 --> 00:33:35,100
Both of these individuals
dug up,
671
00:33:35,143 --> 00:33:38,494
at different periods of time,
multiple skeletons
672
00:33:38,581 --> 00:33:41,323
of giants
from nine to 12 feet tall.
673
00:33:43,499 --> 00:33:45,762
NARRATOR:
Multiple giant skeletons,
674
00:33:45,849 --> 00:33:48,200
nine to 12 feet tall?
675
00:33:48,243 --> 00:33:51,420
Curiously,
this is the same length
676
00:33:51,507 --> 00:33:55,642
of many of the so-called giants'
tombs found all over Sardinia.
677
00:33:55,729 --> 00:34:00,125
But if such massive bones
have indeed been discovered,
678
00:34:00,212 --> 00:34:02,127
what happened to them?
679
00:34:02,214 --> 00:34:04,346
Some researchers believe
680
00:34:04,433 --> 00:34:07,915
these findings have been
deliberately covered up.
681
00:34:07,958 --> 00:34:11,832
NEWMAN:
We hear these stories,
but we don't have any evidence.
682
00:34:11,919 --> 00:34:13,660
It's all been taken away.
683
00:34:13,747 --> 00:34:16,445
For example, another account
from the 1950s--
684
00:34:16,489 --> 00:34:19,187
there was a gentleman
who actually witnessed
685
00:34:19,274 --> 00:34:22,799
bones being dug up
on his farm when he was a child.
686
00:34:22,886 --> 00:34:25,498
And people
in large black cars arrived,
687
00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:27,369
official-looking people,
688
00:34:27,456 --> 00:34:30,111
and took the bones away
in the middle of the night.
689
00:34:30,155 --> 00:34:32,200
NARRATOR:
When it comes
690
00:34:32,287 --> 00:34:36,552
to the alleged discovery of
giant skeletons, does the fact
691
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:41,122
that the bones have gone missing
suggest a cover-up or a hoax?
692
00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:43,255
While skeptics say
693
00:34:43,342 --> 00:34:46,214
that many of these stories come
from dubious sources,
694
00:34:46,301 --> 00:34:49,304
there is at least one discovery
that was documented
695
00:34:49,391 --> 00:34:52,220
by one of the oldest
universities in the world.
696
00:34:52,307 --> 00:34:54,614
In 1892,
697
00:34:54,701 --> 00:34:56,833
it was reported that scientists
698
00:34:56,877 --> 00:35:00,663
at the University of Montpellier
in France studied bones
699
00:35:00,750 --> 00:35:04,319
that had been excavated on
France's Mediterranean coast,
700
00:35:04,406 --> 00:35:06,147
and found that they belonged
701
00:35:06,234 --> 00:35:09,803
to a human
who stood over 11 feet tall.
702
00:35:09,890 --> 00:35:12,501
NEWMAN:
So there have been
numerous reports
703
00:35:12,588 --> 00:35:14,764
of giant bones, teeth, skulls.
704
00:35:14,851 --> 00:35:18,638
The lack of physical evidence
is quite frustrating,
705
00:35:18,681 --> 00:35:20,292
but I'm sure it will come out.
706
00:35:20,379 --> 00:35:22,381
NARRATOR:
But if reports
707
00:35:22,468 --> 00:35:25,079
of giant skeletons are true,
708
00:35:25,166 --> 00:35:28,996
were these enormous beings human
or something else?
709
00:35:29,083 --> 00:35:32,086
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
710
00:35:32,173 --> 00:35:35,959
the answer may be hidden
within our own DNA.
711
00:35:38,614 --> 00:35:40,616
Copenhagen, Denmark.
712
00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:42,705
2020.
713
00:35:42,792 --> 00:35:46,274
A team of geneticists studying
an ancient hominin
714
00:35:46,361 --> 00:35:51,192
called Homo antecessormake
a groundbreaking discovery.
715
00:35:51,236 --> 00:35:53,542
This species was
a close relative
716
00:35:53,629 --> 00:35:57,546
of the last common ancestor to
humans and two other hominins:
717
00:35:57,633 --> 00:36:01,420
Neanderthals and Denisovans.
718
00:36:01,507 --> 00:36:06,294
It is just the latest in a
series of incredible discoveries
719
00:36:06,381 --> 00:36:08,470
that have revealed humans
not only shared the Earth
720
00:36:08,557 --> 00:36:10,951
with at least eight other
humanlike species,
721
00:36:11,038 --> 00:36:15,477
but even mated and produced
offspring with them.
722
00:36:15,564 --> 00:36:20,569
For quite a long period of time,
many of us, myself included,
723
00:36:20,656 --> 00:36:22,745
thought that humans
and other hominins,
724
00:36:22,789 --> 00:36:25,922
particularly Neanderthals,
didn't interbreed.
725
00:36:25,966 --> 00:36:28,925
After 2010,
when technology allowed us
726
00:36:29,012 --> 00:36:33,147
to sequence the entire genomes
of several Neanderthals
727
00:36:33,234 --> 00:36:36,019
and other species
and modern humans,
728
00:36:36,063 --> 00:36:38,108
we began to see traces
729
00:36:38,196 --> 00:36:40,589
of a little bit
of Neanderthal mixture.
730
00:36:40,676 --> 00:36:43,723
We see traces
of Neanderthal ancestry
731
00:36:43,810 --> 00:36:46,029
in Europe,
and we see it in Asia,
732
00:36:46,116 --> 00:36:49,424
as well as in the Americas
amongst Native Americans.
733
00:36:49,468 --> 00:36:51,470
NARRATOR:
Mysteriously,
734
00:36:51,557 --> 00:36:54,603
scientists have found
one hominid is represented
735
00:36:54,647 --> 00:36:58,303
in human DNA that has not yet
been identified.
736
00:36:58,390 --> 00:37:00,696
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe
737
00:37:00,783 --> 00:37:03,656
clues as to what other ancestors
might exist
738
00:37:03,743 --> 00:37:06,572
within the human genome
can be found
739
00:37:06,659 --> 00:37:08,443
in the Bible's Book of Genesis.
740
00:37:08,530 --> 00:37:10,619
HENRY:
In the Book of Genesis, it says
741
00:37:10,706 --> 00:37:13,840
that the sons of God came
into the daughters of men.
742
00:37:13,883 --> 00:37:16,930
They created a hybrid offspring
who are called "the Nephilim,"
743
00:37:17,017 --> 00:37:18,758
or "the fallen ones."
744
00:37:18,801 --> 00:37:24,111
They're referred to as "the
giants" or "the mighty ones,"
745
00:37:24,198 --> 00:37:28,028
and some believed they were
between eight and 15 feet tall.
746
00:37:28,115 --> 00:37:31,988
VON DANIKEN:
This is handed down
not only in the Bible.
747
00:37:32,032 --> 00:37:36,123
This is also handed down
in Sumerian languages,
748
00:37:36,166 --> 00:37:38,517
that some of the gods had sex
with humans,
749
00:37:38,604 --> 00:37:41,476
and the offsprings were giants.
750
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,567
Mythology is full of giants,
751
00:37:45,654 --> 00:37:50,224
and we have to look at these
old myths with modern languages,
752
00:37:50,311 --> 00:37:53,445
change the word of "angel"
into "extraterrestrial."
753
00:37:53,532 --> 00:37:55,273
In the beginning of time,
754
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,406
extraterrestrials had sex
with humans,
755
00:37:58,493 --> 00:38:03,150
and the product of
this sexual contact were giants.
756
00:38:05,065 --> 00:38:07,546
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that as geneticists continue
757
00:38:07,633 --> 00:38:10,723
to decode the human genome,
they will find
758
00:38:10,810 --> 00:38:14,683
that among our various hominid
ancestors is a missing link
759
00:38:14,770 --> 00:38:17,077
to enormous beings
from another world?
760
00:38:17,164 --> 00:38:18,861
FENTON:
Ancient DNA
761
00:38:18,948 --> 00:38:20,907
is perhaps, for me,
762
00:38:20,994 --> 00:38:24,693
the most important area of study
in all of my work,
763
00:38:24,737 --> 00:38:28,306
because there is
the potential chance here
764
00:38:28,349 --> 00:38:30,046
that we can find direct evidence
765
00:38:30,133 --> 00:38:32,092
of the ancestors
of modern humans.
766
00:38:32,179 --> 00:38:34,399
I suspect we'll find lineages
767
00:38:34,486 --> 00:38:36,618
of a race of giants.
768
00:38:38,359 --> 00:38:40,405
NARRATOR:
Could it be
769
00:38:40,492 --> 00:38:44,887
that just like some humans have
traces of Neanderthal DNA,
770
00:38:44,974 --> 00:38:48,151
there could still be similar
traces of alien-human giants
771
00:38:48,238 --> 00:38:51,241
that scientists have yet
to discover?
772
00:38:51,285 --> 00:38:54,419
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
773
00:38:54,506 --> 00:38:57,378
the answer is a profound yes,
774
00:38:57,465 --> 00:39:00,599
and suggest further insights
could be revealed
775
00:39:00,686 --> 00:39:02,775
in early Judaic texts,
776
00:39:02,818 --> 00:39:06,735
which give a curious description
of the world's first man,
777
00:39:06,779 --> 00:39:10,217
otherwise known as "Adam."
778
00:39:14,439 --> 00:39:16,702
[wind whistling]
779
00:39:16,789 --> 00:39:20,270
NARRATOR:
The Book of Genesis,
Chapter Six.
780
00:39:20,314 --> 00:39:23,491
Placed just after
the story of creation
781
00:39:23,578 --> 00:39:26,625
and the generations
of Adam and Eve,
782
00:39:26,712 --> 00:39:31,369
this section of the Hebrew Bible
contains a curious passage.
783
00:39:32,805 --> 00:39:35,721
There is
a very interesting teaching
784
00:39:35,808 --> 00:39:39,725
in older Kabbalistic traditions
785
00:39:39,768 --> 00:39:43,946
that dates back to temple times.
786
00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:47,907
Legend states
that Adam originally was,
787
00:39:47,994 --> 00:39:51,432
by our definition, a giant,
788
00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:55,915
that the original Adamic race
was not
789
00:39:55,958 --> 00:39:58,874
of the same physical stature
as we human beings are today.
790
00:39:58,961 --> 00:40:02,182
Some claim that the original
Adamic race were giants.
791
00:40:02,269 --> 00:40:05,359
Is this a legend of symbolism,
792
00:40:05,446 --> 00:40:07,622
or is there something actual
to it?
793
00:40:07,666 --> 00:40:12,061
NARRATOR:
Was the biblical Adam a giant?
794
00:40:12,148 --> 00:40:15,761
Could it be that all of humanity
is descended
795
00:40:15,848 --> 00:40:19,808
from a race that was
of a much greater stature?
796
00:40:19,852 --> 00:40:21,506
And that there was a time
on Earth
797
00:40:21,593 --> 00:40:25,988
when giants were prevalent,
and humans were the anomaly?
798
00:40:26,075 --> 00:40:29,905
When we look
at the modern evolutionary cycle
799
00:40:29,992 --> 00:40:31,820
for human beings,
800
00:40:31,907 --> 00:40:34,910
it's still put on the shoulders
of Darwinistic views.
801
00:40:34,997 --> 00:40:37,826
So anything that steps outside
802
00:40:37,870 --> 00:40:41,526
of those viewpoints
is usually greatly challenged.
803
00:40:41,613 --> 00:40:43,484
Mainstream science has had
a very hard time
804
00:40:43,528 --> 00:40:45,834
wrapping their head
around the idea
805
00:40:45,878 --> 00:40:47,880
that there could have been
a lost race,
806
00:40:47,967 --> 00:40:51,231
part extraterrestrial,
part human.
807
00:40:51,318 --> 00:40:55,627
In mythology, the giants
were a fact. They did exist.
808
00:40:55,714 --> 00:40:58,804
What we are missing are
the bones of giants.
809
00:40:58,891 --> 00:41:00,980
From time to time,
810
00:41:01,067 --> 00:41:03,852
anthropologists found
some big bones,
811
00:41:03,896 --> 00:41:08,378
but then, other anthropologists
contradicted it.
812
00:41:08,422 --> 00:41:11,251
But definitely giants did exist
in the past,
813
00:41:11,338 --> 00:41:14,384
and they were the result
of a mixture
814
00:41:14,428 --> 00:41:16,474
between extraterrestrials
and humans.
815
00:41:18,301 --> 00:41:21,043
NARRATOR:
Do incredible
megalithic structures,
816
00:41:21,087 --> 00:41:23,785
curious religious traditions
817
00:41:23,872 --> 00:41:26,222
repeated in culture
after culture,
818
00:41:26,266 --> 00:41:30,052
and reports
of enormous human remains
819
00:41:30,139 --> 00:41:34,709
represent the remnants of
a lost civilization of giants?
820
00:41:34,753 --> 00:41:38,670
And if so,
could these enormous beings
821
00:41:38,757 --> 00:41:43,892
have actually had a hand
in the creation of humankind?
822
00:41:43,936 --> 00:41:46,721
Perhaps one day soon
823
00:41:46,808 --> 00:41:49,898
conclusive evidence of the link
between humans and giants
824
00:41:49,942 --> 00:41:55,382
will finally come to light,
and we will discover
825
00:41:55,425 --> 00:41:59,255
that within the mythological
tales of our ancestors
826
00:41:59,299 --> 00:42:03,782
lies the true history
of the human race.
827
00:42:03,869 --> 00:42:07,350
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