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NARRATOR: A mysterious metal object that defies ex

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Very strange.

So what does the museum have to say about this?

It is a strange piece for us as well.

NARRATOR: An ancient stone carving

that may possess advanced technology.

DAVID SEDAT: Inside the crystalline structure were great

memory chip banks.

NARRATOR: An extraordinary crystal skull

with strange properties.

So, what are we looking at here?

JAMIE JONES: It seems to be a very strong,

protective energy.

NARRATOR: On Ancient Aliens, we've investigated

the world's oldest and most incredible

relics up close and in person.

Now, we take a look back at some of the most mysterious artifacts

we've examined all over the globe.

Artifacts that, according to ancient astronaut theorists,

provide undeniable proof of extraterrestrial contact.

♪ ♪

On Ancient Aliens, we have examined

some of the most mysterious artifacts on Earth.

Artifacts that, I believe,

offer compelling evidence that our ancestors

were visited by extraterrestrials.

And that is exactly what I found when I traveled

to a museum in Romania with Erich von Däniken to examine

one of the most extraordinary relics ever discovered.

NARRATOR: Workers digging a trench

along the banks of the Mures River

unearth two giant bones.

And with them, a mysterious metal object,

buried 35 feet beneath the surface.

The discovery brings the project to a halt

as the crew takes their findings to a nearby museum.

This strange object, known today as the Wedge of Aiud,

continues to baffle archaeologists

because it is an aluminum alloy

that appears to have been made thousands of years

before humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal.

It was 10 meters in depth associated with some bones,

which they later identified as woolly mammoth bones.

If they were contemporary,

all of them, then they were in use sometime in the period

when Neanderthals roamed the Earth.

So they were extinct 40,000 years ago,

so they must be older than that.

The Wedge was analyzed three times to my knowledge.

The main metal in its composition is aluminum.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Humans didn't really start working

with aluminum until well into the 1800s.

So when you look at this wedge and you analyze it,

it really has most of the modern properties

we would associate with aluminum.

NARRATOR: In January of 2017,

ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich von Däniken

were offered a rare opportunity

to get a firsthand look at the Wedge of Aiud.

Museum curator Ana Gruia

has taken it out of a storage locker

where it has been deliberately hidden

from the public since the early 1970s.

Okay.

This is exciting.

Okay, I'm just gonna put my gloves on.

TSOUKALOS: This is great.

GRUIA: So this is it.

-VON DÄNIKEN: Oh, wow. -TSOUKALOS: Okay.

VON DÄNIKEN: This is strange.

It's very heavy.

-Giorgio, take it, it's heavy. -This is crazy.

TSOUKALOS: Wow.

And this was found at a depth

of 10 meters, which is about 30 feet,

-in the ground. -GRUIA: Yes.

TSOUKALOS: Yes, and here, this is

where they took the sample out, and here, to make the analysis.

And here you see two pieces

that are broken off, sort of.

So maybe it was attached or something.

But very strange.

So what does the museum have to say about this?

This is a very strange piece.

It is, it is a strange piece for us as well.

As historians, we do not consider it

a historical object that we're used to.

We don't know what it was used for,

and we acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating,

and its composition as well.

VON DÄNIKEN: So, for what can you use this?

It looks like a hammer or a shovel, but, Giorgio,

what is the word of, in English?

(speaking in foreign language)

-Oh, an excavator tooth. -VON DÄNIKEN: Well,

it looks like this.

-It could have been something like it. -Yeah.

VON DÄNIKEN: But these excavator tooths

-are never made out of aluminum. -TSOUKALOS: No, it's too weak.

-VON DÄNIKEN: Aluminum is too soft. -TSOUKALOS: Yeah.

VON DÄNIKEN: They are made out of steel.

Especially hard steel, so it could not be that.

So we have a real mystery here.

But you see this patina over this whole object?

And this creates another problem.

TSOUKALOS: Yes, because you cannot fake a patina.

It's impossible

to artificially create a patina.

NARRATOR: The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds

that forms on the surface of the metal

during exposure to atmospheric elements.

The older the object,

the thicker the patina layer will be.

It takes hundreds, if not thousands of years

for a thick layer of patina,

as this apparently is,

for it to develop.

Yes, we agree there are two basic problems.

One, that aluminum was not invented

at the age when we presume this was in use.

And second, it's the patina, as you noted.

VON DÄNIKEN: Which speaks for the date.

-TSOUKALOS: Yes. -VON DÄNIKEN: For the age of it.

So we-we still have a mystery here.

TSOUKALOS: Thank you very much for

showing us this object because I know that there was a time

when nobody knew where it was,

somewhere in a box in the back.

Which means present-day archaeology has a problem.

And they're doing magnificent work.

But when something like this comes along,

you know, we should investigate this

and not put it in a box in the back.

-Definitely. -GRUIA: It did depend on mentalities

-in official position. -Yes. (chuckling)

It isn't currently exhibited

because we have to admit,

as historians, that we do not know

more details about it.

For us it's just baffling at this point.

But taking the-the logic further, this conflicting

information could have just two solutions so far:

One, that it is really not so old and the context

is irrelevant, and the patina was somehow produced

in special circumstances.

So it's a new object strangely preserved, let's say.

And the second option is, of course,

that it's not of terrestrial origin.

In all of your adventures,

how does this compare

to some of the other things that are inexplicable?

I am helpless. I have no idea.

-That says it all right there. -(chuckling)

Very bizarre. Bizarre.

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I've known about this thing since the early 1990s,

and I have to tell you that looking at it

in person was a dream come true.

And it's a very strange thing.

I mean, how do you explain this?

It certainly looks

as if it was part of a larger object.

The question is, was it a component of a device?

Was it a component of something larger?

NARRATOR: If the Wedge of Aiud really is over 40,000 years old,

then who made it, and what was it used for?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe they may have the answer.

An aeronautical engineer who saw the Aiud Wedge

looked at it and said,

"That's a piece of a landing gear

for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft."

Ancient astronaut theorists have also looked at this wedge

and surmised that it's possible

that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.

NARRATOR: Could the Wedge of Aiud

really be a remnant of an extraterrestrial craft?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And they suggest that the truth

about these otherworldly visitors

can be found half a world away, encoded in stone.

Some of the most mysterious artifacts

we've investigated on Ancient Aliens

have come in the form of ancient stone statues

known as stelae.

On a recent trip to Copán, Honduras,

I met with an archaeologist

who showed me some intriguing examples

of these Mayan artifacts

that he suggests

may have served a technological purpose.

NARRATOR: Ancient Astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos travels

to Copán, Honduras, to meet up

with renowned Mayan archaeologist David Sedat

who's been involved in the excavation

of the site for more than three decades.

TSOUKALOS: David, great pleasure to meet you.

SEDAT: Well, I've been looking forward to this.

I'm sure you have a lot of things you want to see.

TSOUKALOS: This is... Yes, I do.

So, David, what are we looking at here?

SEDAT: Well,

this is the Great Plaza.

It's over 100 meters, uh, larger than a football field.

And it's the southern portion

of the Great Plaza with the majority of the great

standing stone giants that you've come to see are located.

NARRATOR: On the grounds at Copán

are dozens of stone statues called stelae.

The most well-known of these

were built during the 43-year reign of the ruler

Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil,

better known by the nickname "18 Rabbit."

TSOUKALOS: This is the first time

I'm standing next to one of these.

Absolutely incredible.

What do the glyphs say about this particular statue

or stela here?

SEDAT: This is all a representation of

the 13th ruler, whom we have nicknamed 18 Rabbit.

And they show him taking on the persona

of the high god of Copán, Ju'n Ajaw, who was a sky god.

The supreme being.

The motifs on his headdress

and other attributes show that he is a sky deity.

This is amazing to me because here we have not only

a statue depicting something, which is a picture,

a carved picture,

but on the sides, we have writing,

glyphs carved that speak of a sky deity.

Now, when I look at something like this,

I'm immediately reminded of misunderstood technology.

Because imagine, if a people who are

intelligent yet their technological frame of reference

from 1,000 or 2,000 years ago we have to admit was primitive,

not their intelligence,

their technological frame of reference.

Of course, let me just add to that

that everything

shows his connectedness of the cosmos

and this living space of mankind in all of its senses.

And by the way,

I have seen that headdress right there

elsewhere on planet Earth.

And that is in Mesopotamia.

So the fact that we have these examples worldwide

leads me to think that it was

a flesh and blood extraterrestrial

whom our ancestors misinterpreted as being God.

Why? Because they came from the sky.

Arthur C. Clarke said it best when he said,

"Any sufficiently advanced technology

is indistinguishable from magic."

Imagine showing

your great-great-grandfather your smart phone.

-Right. That's right. (laughing) -All of a sudden,

you've become a magician, a wizard.

When we talk about technology,

I imagine someday in the future

that the technology will be such

that we'll be able to scan

this stela here...

...and receive the resonances

that are inside the crystalline structure of the stone.

In other words, that these were great

memory chip banks.

Wow, okay.

And in the appropriate algorithm

we could peel back into time

by hearing the sights and sounds

and everything that happened in this

sacred space and maybe answer some of the questions

that you were posing.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that these Mayan stone giants

were designed in such a way

as to be able to digitally store valuable data?

NOVA SPIVACK: We've learned a lot about how ancient civilizations

understood our solar system and their world.

These civilizations had advanced technologies

for working with stone and metal,

and in some cases crystals.

We still don't know how they did what they did.

It's reasonable that, given these monuments exist,

that we should analyze them to see if there's

other layers of information encoded in them.

DAVID CHILDRESS: If these statues were

in fact devices that had recorded information,

you wonder if we have also

some evidence here from the statues of Copán

that extraterrestrials are coming to this planet.

NARRATOR: Could the ancient stone giants of Copán

really be encoded with precious information

about the ancient world?

And if so, might they also hold evidence

of extraterrestrial contact?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the answer is a profound yes.

And to prove their point,

they believe that one of the keys

can be found by examining the elaborate carvings

located on what is referred to as Stela C...

the same one that David Sedat

considers the most incredible.

The inscription on this side

starts a 20-year period

equivalent to December 5 of 711.

And midnight on that night, the Milky Way was standing

precisely straight up in the tropical sky here.

The text goes on to say

that this also happened 4,600 years before.

And there is strong implication that he was as well,

like on that night, witnessing this celestial event.

NARRATOR: Witnessing the event?

Is it possible that the ruler depicted on the stelae

known as 18 Rabbit

was able to observe an astronomical event

that occurred more than 4,000 years before his time?

Let me show you how the narrative

picks up on the other side.

All right, let's check it out.

So now here,

-this guy has a beard. -Well, yes.

This is still 18 Rabbit,

but he's achieved great age, great wisdom.

Telling us that he is

witnessing this astronomical conjunction of the Milky Way

two million years ago.

Two million years ago?

-Two million years ago. -So this guy here...

And he witnessed it.

Now, he witnesses this astronomical

conjunction of the Milky Way

two million years in the future.

-As well? -As well.

TSOUKALOS: That's extraordinary.

SEDAT: So these stones have to be seen

as the supernatural personas that can travel

in time simultaneously backwards and forwards.

You've just blown my mind.

NARRATOR: Supernatural personas that can travel through time?

If the statues of Copán were really created

as a means of storing valuable ancient knowledge,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

then how and why did that knowledge come to be lost...

...along with the keys needed to unlock their secrets?

Perhaps the answers can be found by examining

another group of mysterious stones

that may have extraterrestrial origins.

Many of the mystererious artifacts

we've investigated on Ancient Aliens are,

in my opinion,

objects that our ancestors created to document

encounters with otherworldly beings.

But every now and then we have come across an artifact

that may itself be of extraterrestrial origin.

In 2019, David Childress got the rare opportunity

to scientifically test strange stones that are unlike

anything we've ever found on planet Earth.

NARRATOR: Sierra Leone, Africa.

The early 1990s.

As civil war rages across the country...

...rebels begin forcing villagers to mine

so-called "blood diamonds."

But from deep within the earth emerges a vast treasure

they weren't expecting.

They discover mysterious figures

ranging from five to ten inches tall...

...often with reptilian or amphibian features

known as Nomoli.

CHILDRESS: They're very strange statues.

Some are clay, some are of granite or limestone.

They are humans and human figures with lizard heads.

There are hundreds of them.

NARRATOR: According to legend, the Nomoli represent sky gods.

When they fell from the heaven,

part of the sky turned to stone and rained down with them.

Curiously, strange blue stones

can be found buried with many of the Nomoli figurines.

These strange blue stones called skystones

have been found with the statues and at first,

archaeologists thought, okay, it's just blue stones.

But when they analyzed it,

they couldn't figure out how these had been made, too.

Although the people in Sierra Leone felt

that they were actually pieces of the blue sky

that fell with the Nomoli.

NARRATOR: If these mysterious blue stones are really connected

to the legend of the sky turning to stone

and raining down on the Earth with the arrival of the Nomoli,

what could they be?

Seattle, Washington. March 6, 2019.

In search of further evidence that the Nomoli statues may have

an extraterrestrial connection,

ancient astronaut theorist David Childress

has arranged to meet up with skystone collector

and researcher Jared Collins.

Wow.

NARRATOR: Jared has in his possession

a number of the mysterious blue stones

that were found near the statues.

So how was it that these stones

were actually discovered in modern time?

This was actually discovered in 1991

by a man named David Leadbetter.

He was in Sierra Leone on a mining concession

looking for gold and diamonds.

And when he was having his crew dig,

occasionally, these stones would appear.

What do other geologists say about

stones like this? Are they able to identify them?

COLLINS: We've sent these now to 12 different labs.

There is not one piece of consensus in here.

Everybody has a different opinion.

We still don't know, actually, if these are

-natural or man-made. -So maybe it's from another planet.

I don't know.

I really wish I did, and I would love a chance

to actually be able to get this

in front of somebody else who could look at it again.

I've got some friends at the University of Washington

and I think we can set this up and have another test done.

That would be fantastic.

I would love to get some consensus on this

to understand what this actually is.

NARRATOR: While tests conducted on the stones found

with the Nomoli statues have so far produced

conflicting and sometimes even confounding results,

David is eager to have them tested for himself.

At the University of Washington,

David and Jared meet with renowned geologist

Professor Peter Ward.

Hi, I'm David Childress.

-I talked to you on the phone. -David.

It's good to meet you.

And this is Jared Collins.

Thank you so much for seeing us today.

Jared, both of you guys,

welcome to the University of Washington IsoLab.

So, what do we have in this beautiful box?

Well, we're sort of hoping that you can tell us.

Well, well, well, what are these beauties?

We have been through many tests on these,

and no one can identify them.

They cannot tell us whether

these are natural or artificial, what's causing the blue color,

if this is ancient or modern.

So, they've been checked for

the common blue minerals, I take it?

One thing that we know for sure is that this is not turquoise.

This is not lapis. This is not erinite.

WARD: The fact that it's so unbelievably light

really suggests that there's an organic component to it.

Anything that goes blue generally is much heavier,

So this is, this is really a mystery.

COLLINS: I should mention also

that this only comes from one very specific part,

from one very specific village.

It has never been found anywhere else in the world.

Well, let's do a test that removes any doubt

about them being partly organic.

So Erin is gonna take this rock

and she's gonna scrape it into these

tiny little tin cups.

The tin cups themselves will load into our mass spectrograph.

They will then be heated to a thousand degrees centigrade.

Everything inside will combust and turn to gas.

And those individual gas molecules will then

be sampled and we can examine if there are any truly organic

molecules in this rock.

Was there some life process that was involved in its formation?

NARRATOR: David and Jared return home to wait for the results.

When Dr. Ward receives them two weeks later,

he sends an email to David

remarking that what the scientists found

was so strange, they ran the tests three times,

thinking it was a machine error and added:

"This gives me the creeps."

To learn more, David contacted Dr. Ward through video chat.

Hi, Doctor Ward.

So I wanted to learn about the results?

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

I mean, it was much stranger than we thought.

There really seems to be some sort of organic

aspect to this.

It's got element nitrogen in it

in really high concentrations.

Having this high amount of nitrogen

puts it into a, "Wow, that's a very peculiar rock" category.

We were looking for a possible extraterrestrial origin.

Is it possibly a meteorite or even

part of a spaceship that exploded?

(laughing)

Let's just say that there's a possibility that it came

from off the Earth.

As we scientists say, "It's worth more study."

NARRATOR: Although the skystones are still a mystery,

David and Jared have confirmed

that they are unlike any other stone ever examined.

Could they have arrived on Earth with the strange beings

that are depicted in the Nomoli statues?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they claim that further evidence of extraterrestrial

visitation in the distant past

can be found in one of the most remote places in the world.

On Ancient Aliens we have traveled around the world

to get a closer look at mysterious artifacts.

And sometimes, we find evidence of alien contact

hiding in plain sight.

This is exactly what happened

when David Childress and I traveled

to the remote Marquesas Islands and were shown

an ancient statue that, as far as we were concerned,

clearly represents something

very different from what mainstream scholars suggest.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress

are in the Marquesas Islands, investigating potential evidence

that this remote part of the world

was once inhabited by extraterrestrial visitors.

Hello.

CHILDRESS: It's good to see you.

-TSOUKALOS: Yeah. -CHILDRESS: Okay.

NARRATOR: As their local guide,

they've enlisted Hiva Oa resident

Heimata Bonno who will show them

some of the mysterious sculptures

found on the island, known as tikis.

These statuaries represent the ancestral gods and goddesses

that came to the islands in ancient times.

-TSOUKALOS: This is incredible. -CHILDRESS: Yeah.

TSOUKALOS: So what are we looking at here? What is this?

Oh, it totally looks like a llama.

TSOUKALOS: I totally think this looks like a llama.

I mean, there is no question in my mind.

And I also don't think that this was altered.

This is original.

And I don't see any changes.

CHILDRESS: So either this is not authentic,

or if it is authentic it's a llama,

and it proves connection to-to South America.

NARRATOR: South America?

Is it possible that the llama,

believed to be native to South America,

was known to people living on this remote island chain

some 3,500 miles away?

But how?

CHILDRESS: Some people say that

it's a woman giving birth.

Do the women here

in the Marquesas islands, do they do this?

They lie on their stomach and give birth?

No.

TSOUKALOS: This is crazy. Huh.

To me, it looks like something from the sky.

It's like... (groans) Maybe some flying vehicle.

-It's a great question. -Yeah.

TSOUKALOS: Perhaps what we're looking at here

is some type of a craft.

Because you have the windows in the front,

which are these giant goggles

and then you have the mouth in the front

which to me it looks like some type of an air intake.

Underneath you have a lifting body

that goes underneath the entire body.

And if you combine that with the story of this object

or this woman giving birth,

if someone has never seen

passengers disembarking from an actual airplane...

...if they have no idea what is happening,

well, all of a sudden...

...a flying vehicle is giving birth to people.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that this ancient statue

that has been interpreted in modern times

as a fertility goddess

is actually depicting an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

I think that tikis are nothing else

but misunderstood technology

that over time turned into divine objects

of magic and sorcery.

Can we go look at it?

Great.

TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow.

Clearly this tiki, the head is missing.

But I see that it has six fingers.

It's very feasible to me that they actually tried to imitate

whoever visited or whoever came here to impart this knowledge.

Why would they carve six fingers if they did not see six fingers?

So we should not say, "Oh, this is just fantasy."

I think they saw someone with six fingers.

Is that possible?

Yeah.

Yes.

TSOUKALOS: So these are protectors.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the mysterious statues

and carvings found throughout the Marquesas Islands

were made to commemorate extraterrestrial visitation?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence of alien contact can be found

by examining strange skulls made of crystal.

Of the many mysterious artifacts

we've investigated on Ancient Aliens,

some of the most jaw-dropping are the crystal skulls.

Crystal skulls have been found all around the world

and some of them have been

carved with such extraordinary precision that,

in my opinion, they must have been created

with some type of advanced technology.

In 2013, David Childress got to examine

the largest crystal skull ever discovered.

NARRATOR: This is Einstein,

believed to be the largest ancient crystal skull

as yet discovered.

Its owner, Carolyn Ford, says she obtained

the 33-pound crystal object more than 20 years ago

from an explorer who discovered it in Mexico in the early 1900s.

She was unaware that it possessed any strange abilities

until the day when, she claims,

it actually communicated with her.

CAROLYN FORD: It was revealed to me by Einstein

at the moment that I got him

when I knew nothing about crystal skulls, he said,

"I'm an ancient computer. In fact, I'm a master computer.

And we record everything,

like a live feed, 24/7.

And that's our purpose."

He's been recording history on this planet

since the beginning of time, so indeed he was in Atlantis.

A lot of the ancient crystal skulls have been

in Atlantis, and even before that time.

NARRATOR: Could the so-called Einstein skull

really be an artifact

from the lost civilization of Atlantis as its owner claims?

Sedona, Arizona.

2013.

CHILDRESS: It's very clear down here, and then it gets cloudy.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist David Childress

enlists the help of aura photography

expert Jamie Jones

in an effort to test the Einstein skull

for unusual energy pulses or auras.

These auras are believed to appear as colors

that correspond to various physical, emotional,

mental and spiritual states.

JONES: With aura technology, we're able to use

biofeedback imaging to pick up electromagnetic

energy field around the human body.

I'm not expecting any energy

to be coming out of the inanimate object.

So I'm a little skeptical

in that I'm not sure what to expect

when I photograph the skull.

And I've been told a lot of things about skulls,

as far as information that they're holding,

what civilizations they're from,

or if they're actually from the extraterrestrials.

So I'm kind of excited to see

this particular skull and what it emits.

-Hi, Jamie. -Hi.

Hey.

And this is Carolyn, and wow,

here is the skull.

JONES: Wow, this is fabulous.

-So what do we do? -These are biofeedback censors

and they're gonna be reading the energy,

if there's energy around the skull.

So you're gonna place it on here for me.

Perfect.

CHILDRESS: So it has to go on both

of the two sensors?

Yes, because both sensors are picking up energy,

so we want as much coverage as possible.

-Okay, that's perfect. -All right.

And now, uh, you just take a photo of it, huh?

We're gonna take a picture.

All right.

All right.

-And here is the aura of the skull. -FORD: Oh, wow.

-CHILDRESS: Okay, wow. -FORD: Whoa, look at those colors.

JONES: That is amazing.

-It's amazing. -Really?

-Oh. -So, what are we looking at here?

I mean, here we can see the skull.

It seems to be very strong, warrior type protective energy.

And if you look closely,

that energy is arced over.

-Right. -Literal arc of protection over the skull.

Now, the blue that we see throughout the entire picture

is wisdom and knowledge

from traveling many lifetimes and many dimensions.

CHILDRES: I was surprised, really, that the aura camera

would pick up so much energy

from the skull and the different colors.

Some people believe

that crystal skulls have electro radio wave type

energy that emits from them.

And that the skull can actually communicate

to people through this energy.

And it seems that aura photography

can actually pick up and we can see

these waves that are being emitted from the skull.

I feel, more than ever, there is something

to crystal skulls and the energy behind them.

NARRATOR: Does the photographed energy field surrounding Einstein

help to prove that the crystal skull could,

in fact, be some sort of recording device?

An extraterrestrial object used to harness

both energy and information?

Although there have been hundreds of other crystal skulls

found throughout the world,

the Einstein Skull is believed to be

one of only 13 authentic ancient artifacts.

And according to legend,

when all 13 are finally unearthed,

humankind's true past will be revealed.

CHILDRESS: Part of this legend is that yes, these 13 crystal skulls

are extraterrestrial skulls.

And when the 13 skulls are together,

it'll create a new epoch for planet Earth.

CHRIS MORTON: There is certainly a belief

amongst certain Native American tribes,

when humanity is at its most desperate,

all of these original

ancient crystal skulls will come back together

and that they will divulge their knowledge, their wisdom

that can help the human race survive.

NARRATOR: Could these mysterious crystal artifacts

not only be of alien origin,

but serve a purpose that has yet to be revealed?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further proof that extraterrestrials

visited ancient cultures all over the world

can be found by examining

a mysterious Middle Eastern artifact

discovered in South America.

Any list of mysterious artifacts

would be incomplete without featuring

the amazing relics

of Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.

Of all the astounding objects

we've examined from there on Ancient Aliens,

one of the most baffling

is the Fuente Magna Bowl.

This beautiful piece of pottery is covered

in an ancient script that is native not to Bolivia

but to a culture that existed on the other side of the world.

Situated at an elevation of over 12,000 feet

on the Altiplano, lay the ruins

of an ancient temple complex thought to predate

the Incan Empire.

Standing at the center of the site is a large statue

believed by many to represent the creator god Viracocha.

But curiously,

the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco chose to depict this god

with features unlike their own.

CHILDRESS: He has got a beard and a moustache.

And that is an unusual thing

because American Indians do not have beards and moustaches.

BRIEN FOERSTER: Exactly.

That indicates that this person

was not a South American native

but clearly came from another land.

CHILDRESS: And an important person too,

who's somehow one of the founders

here of Tiahuanaco.

Maybe even somebody who's come from Sumeria to South America.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Sumerians,

a civilization established in 4,000 BC

and located nearly 8,000 miles away

could be connected to the early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?

If so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer can be found at the Precious Metals Museum

in La Paz, Bolivia.

CHILDRESS: This is perhaps

one of the most important archaeological artifacts

ever discovered in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.

This is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl

discovered near Tiahuanaco.

It's a ceramic bowl and it has written on it

Sumerian cuneiform

plus proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic script.

This script is coming from circa 3,000 BC.

It draws a direct connection

between the ancient Sumerians and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.

NARRATOR: Discovered near Lake Titicaca by a local farmer in the 1950s,

researchers believe the vessel provides the proof

of extraterrestrial intervention at Puma Punku.

CHILDRESS: The idea of Sumerian

writing being here at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco...

...would seem to relate to the late

Zecharia Sitchin and his ideas

that the Sumerians were also interacting

with these space beings

called the Anunnaki.

So in that case the Anunnaki were there in Sumeria,

but also here at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco in South America.

To me, when you consider the many mysterious artifacts

we've examined on Ancient Aliens,

from bizarre metal alloys

to strange statues

and even crystal skulls,

it all adds up to one thing:

Undeniable evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.

As we continue to dig deeper

and unearth more extraordinary relics of the past,

perhaps we will finally discover

the key to reuniting with our alien ancestors.

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