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NARRATOR: Incredible megalithic sites

unearthed after thousands of years.

WILLIAM HENRY: We're talking about a complex that is so vast,

that it's almost beyond our comprehension.

NARRATOR: Mysterious subterranean dwellings

that stretch for miles.

HUGH NEWMAN: We have multiple underground cities that have been discovered

that are potentially 10,000 or more years old.

NARRATOR: Could recent discoveries provide evidence

of a civilization that existed far earlier

than we ever imagined?

Perhaps even before

the biblical story of the Great Flood,

at a time when humans shared the earth

with otherworldly beings?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The knowledge for building

these megalithic structures was imparted

by the so-called gods, who were

the extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: Abu Shahrain, Iraq.

6,000 years ago, this ancient mound

was the site of Eridu,

the oldest city of the Sumerian empire.

According to mainstream archaeologists,

this is the cradle of civilization.

FELICIA BEARDSLEY: Many archeologists will say civilization began

in Mesopotamia some 6,000 years ago.

It is built on small bands

of hunter-gatherers who then

become settled in that area

as, kind of, semi-sedentary communities.

They adopt agriculture,

the population starts to grow,

and we begin to recognize we need

to organize our communities.

You start seeing these step-sided pyramids,

where the religious practitioner

might conduct his rites or rituals and so on.

And we have

an urban planning environment that also means

we've got a lot of engineering going on.

We have a lot of science, a lot of mathematics.

It has all of those elements we would call a civilization.

NARRATOR: Many researchers around the world

believe there is evidence to suggest

civilization existed on Earth

long before the Sumerians.

And one key source

is the writing of the Sumerians themselves.

Ancient cuneiform tablets

list kings who ruled tens of thousands of years ago,

and they tell of an earlier age

when humans lived among powerful beings

that came down from the sky

called the Anunnaki.

ANDREW COLLINS: The Anunnaki were the builder gods

behind the creation of the civilizations

of Sumer and Babylon.

They provided humanity with the rudiments of civilization.

They gave humanity animal husbandry,

but also agriculture for the first time.

NARRATOR: The Sumerians also wrote that the Anunnaki

were responsible for bringing a devastating cataclysm

-upon the Earth... -(thunder crashing)

eerily similar to the story that would later appear

in the Hebrew Bible as the Great Flood.

This was only just discovered in 2009,

when Dr. Irving Finkel,

one of the world's foremost experts on cuneiform writing,

translated a 3,700-year-old Sumerian tablet.

FINKEL: In the Bible, God decided,

because the human race was so sinful and wicked,

to destroy everything, and at the last minute,

relented enough to inform Noah

that he has to build a boat really fast,

and put all the animals in it and shut the doors,

then, afterwards, life could continue

when the waters went down.

Everybody in the world is interested in Noah's flood

and where it might've come from,

so when this tablet came across the desk to me,

and I realized,

clearly, how important it was,

it was one of those heart-stopping moments.

When I picked it up for the first time

to look at it properly, and started to read it,

one of the first things you read

is when a human being finds out from the gods up in heaven

that there's going to be a dreadful flood,

and the world and all its life is going to be destroyed,

and a boat has to be built.

So, I thought to myself, "This is very exciting."

The tablet is at least a thousand years older

than the story in the Bible.

So, of course, this means that the question

of where the story came from

has a whole different explanation.

NARRATOR: Could the translation of this ancient cuneiform tablet

be evidence that a great flood did,

in fact, occur in the distant past?

While nearly identical stories of a great deluge

can be found in the ancient texts

of many religions and cultures,

mainstream archaeologists had argued

that there was no evidence of any civilization

existing more than 6,000 years ago

to support the idea that such a cataclysm

actually took place.

But in the early 1990s, Klaus Schmidt

of the German Archaeological Institute

began excavations at the ancient site

of Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey,

and what he unearthed

changed everything.

PAUL BAHN: Once Klaus Schmidt

started excavating Göbekli Tepe, it just blew everybody away

because we'd never before known or imagined, even,

that people 12,000 years ago

could produce such spectacular monumental structures

as he found at Göbekli Tepe.

TSOUKALOS: It is the first archaeological site in the world

that proves its age, dating as far back

as 12,000 years, around 10,000 BC.

The discovery and the official acceptance

of Göbekli Tepe's dating

has changed the history of archaeology.

ROBERT SCHOCH: This is indications of a major civilization

at that remote time,

a time when the standard historians all along have said,

"Well, no, civilization didn't occur at that time.

"They were just simple hunter and gatherers.

They were primitive people."

But we now have evidence to the contrary.

BAHN: It really did send shockwaves

through the whole world of early prehistory,

because we have never ever seen anything like this

from anywhere in the world at that time, 12,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: Göbekli Tepe's nearly two dozen

enormous T-shaped pillars,

some weighing more than 20 tons,

feature numerous carvings that include depictions of animals,

human hands,

and intricately designed symbols.

Archaeologists estimate that it would have taken

a team of 50 men an entire week

to move just one of the monolithic pillars

from the limestone quarry,

to the top of the hill where they stand today,

and over 300 hours to carve the bas-reliefs.

ROY FISHER: The structures seem to reflect

coordinated effort among significant numbers of people,

which is not how we typically imagine

hunter-gatherer societies,

which are usually smaller in size.

NARRATOR: For years, mainstream scholars maintained

that Göbekli Tepe was a completely unique site,

and while highly impressive,

it was not large enough to constitute

what would be considered a civilization.

But then, in 2004,

author Andrew Collins was shown photographs

of a location that looked remarkably similar

to parts of Göbekli Tepe.

COLLINS: I was visiting Göbekli Tepe,

and some children came up to me and showed me a picture

of this T-shaped standing stone

with this snake along the side.

And I thought, I've never seen this before.

Where is this?

And it became clear

that it was some unexcavated site

in the Tektek Mountains, which is about 25 miles

away from Göbekli Tepe.

And so I set out to find it,

and eventually,

I came to this bare limestone hill.

And as I walked up towards it, I could then see,

sticking out of the ground,

these heads of these T-shaped pillars,

again, exactly as you see at Göbekli Tepe.

And I realized

that somewhere beneath this soil

was something as grand and spectacular as Göbekli Tepe.

NARRATOR: For 15 years, only a small group of researchers

were aware of the pillars protruding from the earth

at the site known as Karahan Tepe.

When it was finally excavated,

archaeologists were shocked once again.

In 2019, digging begins...

...and beneath the surface layers,

the archaeologists start uncovering

dozens of these T-shaped pillars.

DAVID CHILDRESS: We have about 200

of these T-shaped megaliths.

They're typically 13 feet high,

weigh about 11 tons.

You have other phallic stones,

you have, uh, certain depictions of animals,

and some human faces as well.

So, we have really, uh, a pretty extensive site.

NARRATOR: The discovery of the vast megalithic complex

made headlines around the world,

as it was estimated by experts

to have been inhabited somewhere between 11,000

and 12,000 years ago,

just like Göbekli Tepe.

TSOUKALOS: Both Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe

are striking in beauty,

striking in how massive and incredible

those megaliths are.

And, in my opinion, they are related.

So, it's also possible

that at some point a long time ago,

that entire region was one gigantic city.

NARRATOR: Could these sites confirm the written accounts

found both in the Bible and on Sumerian tablets

of a sophisticated civilization

that existed on Earth in the remote past?

One in which humans lived alongside

powerful visitors from the sky,

but ultimately fell victim to a devastating cataclysm?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and claim there is evidence that these vast megalithic complexes

were built with the help

of otherworldly visitors.

NARRATOR: Nevsehir Province, central Turkey.

Here, 300 miles northwest

of the 12,000-year-old megalithic sites

of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe,

there is an ancient subterranean city called Derinkuyu

that archaeologists believe

once housed more than 20,000 people.

First discovered in 1963,

the maze of carved tunnels and rooms

lies 200 feet below ground.

Who built it and when remain unknown.

Derinkuyu is a multileveled city

that has existed since time immemorial.

It was certainly used during Christian times,

but there's also evidence

that there's prehistoric activity

going on at these places

as early as 11,000, perhaps even 12,000 years ago,

right after the end of the last Ice Age.

NARRATOR: Much like Göbekli Tepe,

Derinkuyu was thought to be an anomaly.

But in 2014,

just six miles to the north,

a local construction crew

excavating for an urban renovation project

stumbled across a strange series of carved rooms

and tunnels deep underground.

Upon further exploration,

they found a subterranean network

known as Kaymakli, which spans several miles

and extends hundreds of feet below

the surface of the Earth,

much like the nearby underground city

of Derinkuyu.

I was many times in the underground cities

in Turkey,

and this is a fantastic experience.

They are linked together.

Between Derinkuyu and Kaymakli,

there are seven kilometers long underground tunnels

connecting the two cities.

NARRATOR: Evidence that these cities

once housed thousands of people,

has been further supported by the discovery of air vents

and water wells that would have made it possible

for people to live underground for years at a time.

COLLINS: These are huge, vast cities

that have been cut out of the living rock themself.

Who exactly built them?

The fact that Göbekli Tepe

was built right at the end

of the last Ice Age

tells us that there is a possibility

that there is connection

between these underground cities

and the building of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan.

It could have been the same people.

NARRATOR: Is there a connection between Turkey's mysterious

underground dwellings and the extremely ancient sites

of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe?

Could both have been built by a preflood civilization?

But if so, who would have had the ability

to manufacture such sophisticated structures?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the answer may lie

within sacred texts that describe interactions

between early humans and otherworldly beings.

Uruk, southern Iraq.

In the early 19th century,

archaeologists excavating this ancient city

unearthed clay tablets covered in a form of symbolic writing

known as cuneiform.

It remains the world's first known writing system.

When the tablets were deciphered in the 1820s,

they revealed a record of Sumerian daily life,

names of important figures and rulers,

and accounts of sky gods called the Anunnaki.

These clay tablets are 5,000 years old and more,

and they tell of the arrival of

the Anunnaki, the pantheon of gods.

The chief was Anu.

This is the sky god who came along and created everything.

So, the origin of the civilization

on the planet came from the sky.

The high god of the Anunnaki,

Anu, presided over

the divine council.

There were a multitude of beings that came to this council.

They deliberated with Anu,

they made decisions for humanity,

they intervened in human affairs.

Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe

are in an area that is well-known for its mythology.

Which suggests that the Anunnaki

were responsible for giving humanity

the rudiments of civilization.

It was said that they gave humanity animal husbandry,

but also agriculture for the first time,

both of which we know

occurred in the area of Göbekli Tepe

and Karahan Tepe.

At Göbekli Tepe, there's a carving

of these three handbags

that appear above this bird-like creature.

And what's fascinating about this

is that you can find carvings of similar handbags

about 400 miles to the south

where the ancient Sumerians lived.

And there, the handbags are held

by these winged figures with bird-like heads

called Anunnaki,

and the bags are said to hold

all the knowledge of the universe.

Professor Klaus Schmidt,

the rediscoverer of Göbekli Tepe in 1994,

actually wrote that he believed

that the founders of Göbekli Tepe

were the Anunnaki.

NARRATOR: Similarly, the Bible also tells of early humans

having help from beings who came down from the sky

called the watchers.

The watchers are the fallen angels

who came to Earth and intermingled with humans.

We are told that they are here to observe,

and they're not going to interfere

in human development, although some of them did.

They're also seeding humanity with knowledge

that will help us to progress.

COLLINS: Both the watchers

and the Anunnaki, who almost certainly were the same,

have been associated with this culture

at Göbekli Tepe and Karahan.

And is it possible, therefore,

that they are behind the creation of these sites?

And if we consider the possibility

that there was a huge cataclysm,

the chances are, the underground cites of Cappadocia,

they would have been used as places of refuge.

NARRATOR: As mainstream scholars struggle to explain

how people living 12,000 years ago

were able to carve out

millions of square feet of rock from the earth,

and build sprawling megalithic sites,

could the answer be found in the ancient writings

that describe our earliest ancestors

receiving assistance from extraterrestrials?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by more closely examining the T-shaped pillars

at the ancient sites,

and the curious features

carved into them.

Karahan Tepe is really something quite spectacular.

Absolutely.

NARRATOR: Authors Andrew Collins

and Hugh Newman have spent decades

investigating ancient sites around the world,

and have made multiple trips to Karahan Tepe

in southeast Turkey.

NEWMAN: In the last couple of years,

they've uncovered it, only a small amount,

but enough to provide some remarkable insights

into what was going on here in southeast Turkey.

Absolutely. I mean, it's like

this is pieces of a jigsaw

that's just waiting to be put together.

NARRATOR: In September 2022,

Andrew and Hugh traveled to the site together

in search of further clues

as to just who built it and why.

Upon their arrival at Karahan Tepe,

Andrew and Hugh were joined

by local researcher Taha Ozyavuz.

COLLINS: Taha.

Nice to meet you.

This is Hugh.

Thank you, and good to meet you.

I'm absolutely astounded by this site,

how vast it is, how, like, immaculate it is,

and how it is just

literally one of the most

astonishing places I've ever visited.

Well, this is just, you know, just enormous,

everything that's here.

We can see T-pillars going in every direction.

And just think

what is below our feet right now.

And if you do compare it to Göbekli Tepe,

it is... it's got the T-pillars,

it's got the enclosures,

it's got the remarkable 3D relief carving,

the statues, the serpents and everything else.

There are incredible, uh,

images of different animals and creatures

of the natural world.

What do they mean?

NARRATOR: Most mainstream scholars identify the sites

of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe as temples of worship.

Others have suggested that the round enclosures

may have been used as corrals for animals,

and that the T-shaped pillars once supported roofs.

However, Klaus Schmidt,

the archaeologist behind the excavation

of Göbekli Tepe in the 1990s,

was certain that the T-shaped pillars

represent human forms,

but with some curious features.

I think what we see

when we look at these T-shaped pillars

is abstract human beings basically.

The heads are the actual T-shaped terminations.

The stems of the stones are the bodies.

Sometimes we see belts around them.

But what's so weird about these

is that the arms here

almost seem like an abstract animal as well.

Perhaps a bird, perhaps a snake.

NEWMAN: That is intriguing.

And this is a tradition we find linked with giants

all around the world.

Even in the Bible we have the giant of Gath

that had extra fingers.

We have stories of Goliath

and his family having extra fingers.

We have stories of great Irish giant gods

having extra digits as well.

And the fact that the watchers,

the Nephilim, and the Anunnaki

would seem to be associated

with the mythology of this region

suggests to us that they could be

one of the builders of Karahan Tepe.

NARRATOR: According to the Bible's Book of Genesis,

prior to the Great Flood,

angels known as the watchers defied God's will,

and came down to Earth to live among humans.

These otherworldly beings mated with their human subjects,

producing a race of hybrid human giants

that were known as the "Nephilim."

One of the most tantalizing small tidbits

in the Hebrew Bible,

is found in the opening verses of Genesis, chapter 6,

where we hear the story of the Nephilim,

who are described as, basically,

being the hybrid offspring of humans

and divine beings

who are called the "sons of God."

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: Who were these sons of God?

Legend expands and tells us

that they were rebellious angels.

But yet, we must understand angels

to not be spiritual beings,

but very tangibly physical.

Or else how could they take human wives

and bear children?

Now, the children of these sons of God and human women

became known as the hybrids called the fallen ones.

In Hebrew, the Nephilim.

They existed in the days before Noah.

MICHAEL CARTER: Aside from the Bible, religious texts

that talk about these demigods, these hybrids,

are the Hindu Upanishads,

and if we look at

Sumer, again,

gods coming down from the Earth,

fraternizing with the natives, which are us,

and creating a new race of people:

Half-human and half-extraterrestrial gods.

Yes, we can speculate

were those who were to become known

as the sons of God

originally inhabitants of a place like Karahan?

NARRATOR: Does the eight-fingered figure found at Karahan Tepe

provide evidence to support the biblical accounts

of giants existing on Earth before the Great Flood?

And if so, might they have been involved

in the creation of Turkey's mysterious sites,

both above ground and below?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and claim that these hybrid beings

not only built megalithic sites in Turkey,

but all over the world.

NARRATOR: At the famous site of Stonehenge

in Wiltshire, England,

are concentric circles of massive boulders,

each nearly 13 feet tall,

and weighing up to 25 tons.

On the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea,

the Ggantija Temples contain megalithic blocks

weighing as much as 50 tons.

And on the remote South Pacific Island of Rapa Nui,

better known as Easter Island,

there are nearly 900 ancient stone statues

that stand as tall as 30 feet high,

and weigh up to 90 tons.

These ancient megalithic sites

are thousands of miles from each other.

However, the local traditions of the indigenous cultures

at each location claim that they were constructed

by giants.

It's fascinating that around the world,

wherever you have megalithic ancient sites,

there are local legends

that the giants built these places.

For example, in Puma Punku, they say

it was built overnight by giants.

They say Stonehenge may have been built by giants.

In Malta, they are suggesting

that all this megalithic walls

and structures were built by giants.

JIM VIEIRA: To me what's astonishing is that you have

ancient sites associated with

giants building them all around the planet,

but you also have historical documents

that talk about the unearthing of giant bones at these sites.

Like at Baalbek, Lebanon,

in Stonehenge, in Sardinia.

You have these historical documents

that talk about giant bones that were unearthed.

We have an account

from the American geographic society in the 1860s

where giant bones were unearthed and documented.

NARRATOR: Until recently, the megalithic sites in southern Turkey

were hidden beneath the earth, and completely unknown,

even to the local populations,

so no record or ancient legends exist

to explain how they were constructed.

But might certain details,

like the eight-fingered figures

and the large stone head found at Karahan Tepe,

connect these sites with giants as well?

Could they have been built before the biblical event

known as the Great Flood,

and with the help of the Nephilim,

the hybrid beings described in the Hebrew Bible?

NEWMAN: As we go round the world,

there's talk about a race of giants

involved in the construction of these megalithic sites.

Well, so what can we say about this?

Were these the descendants

of the builders of Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe?

And did their giant genes get passed down from this early era

to these other megalithic areas around the world?

NARRATOR: Curiously,

many of the megalithic sites around the world

have features that perfectly align

with specific constellations,

star systems, or celestial events.

Stonehenge in England was built to align

with the sunrise on the summer solstice,

as was the Temple of Mnajdra on the island of Malta.

Pyramids in both Egypt and Mesoamerica

were positioned to line up with the belt stars of Orion.

And celestial alignments have also been found at Karahan Tepe,

with a stone face that is positioned

to align with the sun at certain times of the year.

COLLINS: One of the enclosure's structure at Karahan Tepe

points directly towards the sun

as it sets at the time of the summer solstice.

Another alignment is at

the mid-winter solstice at Karahan Tepe.

The sun, just after sunrise on this date,

would've illuminated this head

so that anybody actually inside this shrine

would've seen the head light up.

CHILDRESS: These are people who are now watching the stars,

they're looking at constellations,

they're seeing the movements, they're studying it.

In a way, they become the first astronomers.

And that would be, perhaps, what Karahan Tepe was,

in a sense, an astronomical observatory.

But at the same time,

perhaps they're interested in certain stars

because these are the stars where the Anunnaki came from.

NARRATOR: Could it be that Karahan Tepe,

and other megalithic sites around the world,

were intentionally aligned to the stars

to indicate that their architects

came from somewhere far beyond Earth?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

one of the most curious mysteries regarding Göbekli Tepe

and Karahan Tepe:

The fact that both ancient sites

were deliberately buried.

NARRATOR: In the Bible's Book of Genesis,

chapter 6, verse 9,

begins with the story of Noah and the flood...

(thunder crashing)

...in which God unleashes a great deluge

to rid the Earth of evil.

In Genesis, only Noah

is warned of the coming cataclysm

so that he may build the ark,

and restart life on Earth after the flood.

However, a very different story

is told in the Book of Enoch,

a controversial text that can be found in the Bible

used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church,

but was omitted in all other Christian traditions.

In this version of the story, Noah's great-grandfather Enoch

learns of the coming cataclysm

long before Noah is even born.

The Book of Enoch is sensational

because he speaks of the first person.

He says, it was evening,

then he hear the noise in the firmament.

(thunder crashing)

And two beings crossed him.

And he said, "They had not the breathe of humans."

So, if somebody does not breathe like humans, what are they?

Nonhumans.

Enoch describes, "They brought me over the Earth.

I saw the round face of the Earth."

Enoch was teached by the extraterrestrials.

When he came back down to Earth,

he told to the humans,

a gigantic flood would come

and destroy everything.

NARRATOR: One of the oldest religious traditions in the Middle East,

Zoroastrianism, also teaches

that it was not just one person

who knew of a coming cataclysm.

In the Vendidad, which predates

all the books of the Hebrew Bible,

a young priest named Yima

is warned of a disaster by the god Ahura Mazda,

who is often depicted seated inside a winged disk.

Yima is instructed to share this information with his people,

and even to build an underground shelter

that sounds very similar to the ancient man-made caves

that have been found in Turkey.

Ahura Mazda instructs Yima to build a vara.

This is a huge structure,

two miles long, two miles wide.

An underground hall, of sorts,

where things can be protected from the terrible winter.

Yima was to hide a remnant of the people,

and an extensive seed bank,

also a pair of each of the animal species.

Once Yima is finished building the vara,

he takes 2,000 people in,

a representation of mankind.

CHILDRESS: So again, we have a warning

to tell the people, "Get ready,

this terrible cataclysm is gonna happen."

And these underground cities,

like Derinkuyu, are huge.

They are vast.

They go many, many stories underground.

There's all kinds of streets and rooms.

So, you have to wonder

if these underground cities served as a refuge

for survivors of this cataclysm.

NARRATOR: If a great civilization of humans and giants

existed on Earth long ago,

is it possible that they received advanced warning

of a worldwide cataclysm by an extraterrestrial race?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

the evidence of such a warning

lies in the fact that both Göbekli Tepe

and Karahan Tepe were not overcome

by the sands of time,

but were intentionally buried.

Archaeologists are now pretty well certain

that Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe

were intentionally buried.

Why do you do that?

Perhaps they knew of an impending cataclysm.

The flood of the Old Testament, we're told, was premeditated.

People had foreknowledge that it was coming,

and they were preparing for it,

and they were trying to preserve elements of their civilization.

It was intended for us to ultimately discover it

later in the future.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the builders of Karahan Tepe

buried the entire site because they had been forewarned

of a coming cataclysm,

and wanted to preserve some record of a civilization

that was on the verge of extinction?

A civilization that was, perhaps,

far different from our own?

There are legends from around the world

that speak about a great, highly advanced,

wonderful civilization that predated our own.

We're familiar with this by names like Atlantis

or Lemuria and the like.

There are many legends which speak about

the existence of giants.

We know about them from the Bible.

Very famous story of David and Goliath.

It is also said that, in these days,

many of what we today call "angels"

walked among human beings openly.

Now today, we call these entities extraterrestrials.

When we see imagery from around the world,

and when we read about these things

in the ancient traditions, we need to ask the question,

is there some literal fact behind this?

And when we look at these excavations today in Turkey,

can we speculate

that these were the remnants of that civilization?

VIEIRA: These sites that we're talking about, these super ancient,

super complex sites, they are telling us something.

They're telling us about mythology being true.

They're telling us there's a larger story

to the-the history of humanity.

NARRATOR: Now that Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe

have been exhumed from the Earth

after being hidden for more than 11,000 years,

might we learn that the history of humankind

is much different than we ever imagined?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and propose that new excavations in southern Turkey

suggest that these sites have only begun to reveal

their ancient secrets.

NARRATOR: Sanliurfa Province.

June 27, 2021.

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy

appears before the international press corps

to make an historic announcement

regarding the ongoing excavations in southern Turkey.

The minister of tourism for Turkey announced

that we now have 12 sites,

many of which remained to be excavated.

And all of this forms part of what they call

the Tas Tepeler culture.

SCHOCH: The Turkish authorities

have been making a series of announcements

of new incredibly ancient sites.

Incredible number of sites,

we have at least a dozen sites now that are known.

And what this is really reconfirming

is that this was a major area

of early civilization.

NARRATOR: Since it was initiated in 2019

by Istanbul University,

the Göbekli culture and Karahan excavations project

has determined that these ancient settlements

cover a region that spans an astonishing

125 miles from one end to the other.

This suggests that approximately 12,000 years ago,

the area was an extensive

and highly advanced metropolis.

HENRY: This site is absolutely massive.

What we are working with right now represents,

perhaps, 1% of the entire site.

And they're forecasting it's literally gonna take centuries

to uncover everything that is

at Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe.

We're talking about a complex that is so vast,

that it's almost beyond our comprehension.

TSOUKALOS: I love this idea of a megalopolis,

a mega, ancient city,

where some archaeologists say,

"Oh, that could have never happened."

Well, maybe it did.

And Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe

and the other sites that have been found there

was a worldwide city

of millions of people.

NEWMAN: These excavations in the whole Tas Tepeler region,

are gonna rewrite history.

They're already doing so.

They're like the smoking gun

of an advanced lost civilization,

a supercivilization, I believe,

where there was highly advanced cultures working together.

And you have to, you know, really question

if the further they look, they're gonna find evidence

of these legendary Anunnaki,

these extraterrestrial beings.

Our ultimate questions have always revolved around

who are we, where did we come from,

why are we here,

where are we going from here, and how do we get there?

These questions are now being answered for us.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that what archeologists

are uncovering in southern Turkey

is the true record of the beginning

of mankind's development on Earth?

Do the ancient reliefs carved into limestone

depict advanced beings

that traveled to our planet to create hybrid humans,

and set in motion the dawn of modern civilization?

Perhaps as excavations continue,

we will unearth, not only startling new evidence

about the past,

but undeniable proof

of our otherworldly origins.

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