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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,828 --> 00:00:03,167 Deep beneath the sands of Egypt 2 00:00:03,333 --> 00:00:06,833 lie 24 enormous stone coffins, 3 00:00:07,042 --> 00:00:10,125 and every one of them is empty. 4 00:00:10,208 --> 00:00:13,208 They're some of the biggest stone sarcophagi 5 00:00:13,375 --> 00:00:15,000 ever discovered in Egypt. 6 00:00:15,167 --> 00:00:17,583 And we still have not answered 7 00:00:17,750 --> 00:00:19,417 what was inside the boxes. 8 00:00:19,583 --> 00:00:22,625 What purpose they served remains a mystery. 9 00:00:22,792 --> 00:00:26,667 The precision in which they were carved 10 00:00:26,833 --> 00:00:29,875 and polished is beyond words. 11 00:00:30,042 --> 00:00:31,628 There has been some theorizing 12 00:00:31,708 --> 00:00:34,667 that the boxes themselves are a type of technology. 13 00:00:34,875 --> 00:00:36,000 And there are many 14 00:00:36,208 --> 00:00:38,875 who believe these giant stone boxes 15 00:00:39,083 --> 00:00:41,083 were designed not by humans 16 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:43,833 but by otherworldly visitors. 17 00:00:44,042 --> 00:00:46,167 One thing is clear. 18 00:00:46,333 --> 00:00:50,458 The Egyptians definitely had contact with extraterrestrials. 19 00:00:52,833 --> 00:00:54,917 There is a doorway 20 00:00:55,042 --> 00:00:57,833 in the universe. 21 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 22 00:01:02,333 --> 00:01:04,542 It demands we question everything 23 00:01:04,708 --> 00:01:06,833 we have ever been taught. 24 00:01:06,958 --> 00:01:11,000 The evidence is all around us. 25 00:01:11,167 --> 00:01:14,625 The future is right before our eyes. 26 00:01:14,750 --> 00:01:17,167 We are not alone. 27 00:01:17,375 --> 00:01:20,792 We have never been alone. 28 00:01:32,250 --> 00:01:35,167 French archaeologist Auguste Mariette 29 00:01:35,292 --> 00:01:38,875 embarks on an expedition to purchase ancient manuscripts 30 00:01:39,042 --> 00:01:41,333 for the Louvre Museum in Paris. 31 00:01:41,542 --> 00:01:44,667 A self-taught expert in hieroglyphics, 32 00:01:44,833 --> 00:01:46,833 Mariette is at the forefront 33 00:01:46,958 --> 00:01:49,708 of the budding field of Egyptology. 34 00:01:49,875 --> 00:01:53,792 When Mariette started to work in Egypt, people were 35 00:01:53,917 --> 00:01:55,875 increasingly interested in the culture 36 00:01:56,083 --> 00:01:57,833 of the ancient Egyptians. 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,458 So this was a time when Egyptology 38 00:02:00,583 --> 00:02:02,583 really started to come into being. 39 00:02:03,583 --> 00:02:07,000 Mariette, being a Frenchman, was well-versed 40 00:02:07,208 --> 00:02:09,667 in French history concerning Egypt. 41 00:02:09,833 --> 00:02:12,708 In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte, 42 00:02:12,917 --> 00:02:14,917 along with his army of savants, 43 00:02:15,083 --> 00:02:17,792 came into Egypt and massively documented 44 00:02:17,917 --> 00:02:20,333 the wonders of ancient Egypt. 45 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:24,250 Champollion had just translated the hieroglyphics 46 00:02:24,375 --> 00:02:27,375 from the Rosetta Stone just 30 years before. 47 00:02:27,542 --> 00:02:29,333 And so, as he's coming into Egypt, 48 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:31,750 he's thinking he's gonna make his mark on history. 49 00:02:33,625 --> 00:02:36,000 According to mainstream historians, 50 00:02:36,208 --> 00:02:37,917 ancient Egyptian civilization 51 00:02:38,125 --> 00:02:41,375 began over 5,000 years ago 52 00:02:41,542 --> 00:02:44,208 and flourished until it was conquered 53 00:02:44,375 --> 00:02:48,458 by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. 54 00:02:48,583 --> 00:02:52,125 At its fall, this empire left behind 55 00:02:52,250 --> 00:02:54,500 30 centuries of rich history 56 00:02:54,708 --> 00:02:56,417 and wondrous monuments 57 00:02:56,583 --> 00:03:00,083 that continue to reveal hidden secrets. 58 00:03:00,208 --> 00:03:02,625 Egypt is the one place in the world 59 00:03:02,750 --> 00:03:05,083 that is filled with sites, 60 00:03:05,250 --> 00:03:07,167 with monuments and stories 61 00:03:07,375 --> 00:03:09,542 that really capture everyone's imagination. 62 00:03:10,708 --> 00:03:12,833 You have the pyramids, 63 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,833 massive temples, 64 00:03:14,958 --> 00:03:17,292 and of course mummies. 65 00:03:17,458 --> 00:03:19,833 Egypt has been fascinating people for millennia. 66 00:03:21,333 --> 00:03:24,167 When Auguste Mariette is, in Egypt, 67 00:03:24,375 --> 00:03:26,542 the world is going through 68 00:03:26,708 --> 00:03:28,958 a huge explosion 69 00:03:29,083 --> 00:03:31,333 of obsession with Egypt that happens 70 00:03:31,458 --> 00:03:33,625 post-the Napoleonic Wars. 71 00:03:33,750 --> 00:03:37,375 French artists had come and drawn the monuments. 72 00:03:37,542 --> 00:03:40,708 Engravings of Egypt were being sold all across Europe. 73 00:03:43,375 --> 00:03:46,083 As researchers descended on Egypt, 74 00:03:46,250 --> 00:03:48,917 Auguste Mariette found himself on the verge 75 00:03:49,042 --> 00:03:51,042 of failing his assignment. 76 00:03:51,208 --> 00:03:53,042 He was on commission by the Louvre 77 00:03:53,208 --> 00:03:55,750 to look for Egyptian manuscripts. 78 00:03:55,875 --> 00:03:58,667 But he's in competition with private collectors 79 00:03:58,750 --> 00:04:00,550 and other museums, and he's kind of desperate. 80 00:04:00,708 --> 00:04:02,708 He's really not finding anything. 81 00:04:05,875 --> 00:04:08,750 Mariette was determined not to leave Egypt 82 00:04:08,958 --> 00:04:12,333 empty-handed and had heard from a tribe of Bedouins 83 00:04:12,542 --> 00:04:14,208 that there were treasures to be found 84 00:04:14,375 --> 00:04:16,875 beneath the sands of Saqqâra. 85 00:04:17,875 --> 00:04:21,083 Located 20 miles south of the Giza Pyramids, 86 00:04:21,208 --> 00:04:23,500 Saqqâra served as a burial ground 87 00:04:23,708 --> 00:04:27,000 for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. 88 00:04:27,125 --> 00:04:29,125 It was the destination 89 00:04:29,292 --> 00:04:31,458 of all ancient Egyptians 90 00:04:31,625 --> 00:04:34,167 across the thousands and thousands of years. 91 00:04:34,292 --> 00:04:38,000 The destination for religious beliefs, 92 00:04:38,167 --> 00:04:40,500 for a burial, funeral. 93 00:04:40,667 --> 00:04:45,000 And then, after the ancient Egyptian empire 94 00:04:45,167 --> 00:04:47,417 had completely fallen and the Greek 95 00:04:47,542 --> 00:04:50,125 and Roman Empire took over, 96 00:04:50,250 --> 00:04:53,333 they still went and prayed in Saqqâra. 97 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:55,958 One of the greatest monuments in Egypt is 98 00:04:56,125 --> 00:04:58,125 the step pyramid at Saqqâra. 99 00:04:58,292 --> 00:05:00,625 It's referred to as "the stairway to heaven." 100 00:05:00,833 --> 00:05:03,917 It's considered to be the oldest stone structure 101 00:05:04,083 --> 00:05:06,167 on Earth, built for King Djoser 102 00:05:06,333 --> 00:05:07,833 by the great Imhotep. 103 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,708 It's a place of immense mystery. 104 00:05:10,750 --> 00:05:12,750 The ancient accounts said 105 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:16,042 that there was an avenue that ran all the way 106 00:05:16,208 --> 00:05:20,125 from Memphis all the way out into the desert 107 00:05:20,250 --> 00:05:23,125 that was lined by sphinxes. 108 00:05:23,333 --> 00:05:25,625 And Auguste Mariette 109 00:05:25,708 --> 00:05:29,083 realized that there was something still 110 00:05:29,292 --> 00:05:33,458 to be discovered in the area of Saqqâra. 111 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,333 Mariette decided that the best place 112 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:41,167 to start exploring Saqqâra 113 00:05:41,292 --> 00:05:43,875 was near its towering step pyramid. 114 00:05:45,875 --> 00:05:48,458 While surveying the area, he was astonished 115 00:05:48,625 --> 00:05:51,292 to find a stone object protruding from the ground 116 00:05:51,417 --> 00:05:54,833 that appeared to be the head of a sphinx. 117 00:05:54,958 --> 00:05:58,083 He started to clear the area, and his team 118 00:05:58,250 --> 00:06:02,875 dug down and revealed sphinx after sphinx after sphinx. 119 00:06:04,375 --> 00:06:07,792 He soon lines up over 100 sphinxes, 120 00:06:07,917 --> 00:06:09,333 follows the pathway, 121 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:11,458 and is led to an underground tunnel. 122 00:06:11,625 --> 00:06:13,208 An entrance that's blocked. 123 00:06:13,375 --> 00:06:15,583 He dynamites the entrance. 124 00:06:19,375 --> 00:06:22,375 He's now in a 700-foot-long tunnel 125 00:06:22,542 --> 00:06:25,000 that's been carved out of the limestone. 126 00:06:25,167 --> 00:06:28,000 The walls are rough, and he must have imagined 127 00:06:28,167 --> 00:06:30,917 that these walls must have been painted and covered, 128 00:06:31,042 --> 00:06:32,750 but that's no longer there. 129 00:06:32,917 --> 00:06:36,708 Instead there's these rough and sort of primitive looking walls 130 00:06:36,875 --> 00:06:41,458 and there are alcoves that are also cut out of the limestone. 131 00:06:41,625 --> 00:06:44,083 And he's not quite sure what this place is 132 00:06:44,250 --> 00:06:45,833 or even what he's looking at, 133 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,583 but he knows he's made the discovery of a lifetime. 134 00:06:48,708 --> 00:06:51,500 Inside the ancient structure, 135 00:06:51,625 --> 00:06:53,542 Mariette discovered inscriptions 136 00:06:53,708 --> 00:06:55,833 that identify the underground complex 137 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 as the Serapeum. 138 00:06:58,208 --> 00:06:59,500 And within its chambers 139 00:06:59,667 --> 00:07:04,167 Mariette found more than 7,000 precious artifacts, 140 00:07:04,333 --> 00:07:07,833 including ancient figurines... 141 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,208 ornate amulets... 142 00:07:10,375 --> 00:07:13,500 and a gold mask. 143 00:07:13,625 --> 00:07:16,542 After shipping much of his discovery to the Louvre, 144 00:07:16,708 --> 00:07:20,458 Mariette opened the Serapeum to the public. 145 00:07:20,625 --> 00:07:23,458 People came in carriages from Cairo. 146 00:07:23,625 --> 00:07:24,792 Took a couple of hours. 147 00:07:24,958 --> 00:07:27,208 But when they descended into this place, 148 00:07:27,375 --> 00:07:28,667 it was all dark. 149 00:07:28,833 --> 00:07:30,833 But he had people from the villages around 150 00:07:31,042 --> 00:07:33,458 holding flaming torches, 151 00:07:33,625 --> 00:07:36,458 and so people could come and visit the Serapeum, 152 00:07:36,542 --> 00:07:38,458 and it must have been extraordinary 153 00:07:38,625 --> 00:07:41,208 to see this place in the flickering light 154 00:07:41,375 --> 00:07:44,917 just like the ancient Egyptians would have. 155 00:07:45,958 --> 00:07:48,375 Word of Mariette's discovery of the Serapeum 156 00:07:48,542 --> 00:07:51,208 and its treasures spread throughout Europe. 157 00:07:52,542 --> 00:07:54,625 But the most extraordinary objects found 158 00:07:54,792 --> 00:07:56,500 within the underground labyrinth 159 00:07:56,708 --> 00:07:59,458 were not made of silver or gold. 160 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:03,083 They were made of stone. 161 00:08:04,125 --> 00:08:08,750 The Serapeum has been cut out of the granite bedrock, 162 00:08:08,917 --> 00:08:11,958 and inside that Serapeum are 163 00:08:12,125 --> 00:08:14,292 24 niches 164 00:08:14,417 --> 00:08:18,333 that contain boxes made of basalt 165 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:21,000 and rose granite. 166 00:08:21,208 --> 00:08:23,583 Now, when I say boxes, 167 00:08:23,750 --> 00:08:27,083 they're not little sarcophagi, but they're humongous. 168 00:08:27,250 --> 00:08:30,083 They're some of the biggest stone sarcophagi 169 00:08:30,250 --> 00:08:32,500 ever discovered in Egypt. 170 00:08:32,625 --> 00:08:36,167 The boxes themselves range in weight 171 00:08:36,375 --> 00:08:39,333 from 70 to 75 tons, 172 00:08:39,542 --> 00:08:42,042 and the lids alone 173 00:08:42,208 --> 00:08:46,500 weigh between 20 and 25 tons. 174 00:08:46,667 --> 00:08:51,167 Most of these sarcophagi were discovered empty. 175 00:08:51,375 --> 00:08:54,125 At the time, it was thought 176 00:08:54,333 --> 00:08:58,042 that most of the sarcophagi 177 00:08:58,208 --> 00:08:59,500 were broken into 178 00:08:59,667 --> 00:09:01,875 and completely looted. 179 00:09:04,792 --> 00:09:06,667 Mariette assumed the giant boxes 180 00:09:06,875 --> 00:09:09,292 were enormous stone coffins. 181 00:09:09,417 --> 00:09:11,625 Who or what they contained 182 00:09:11,792 --> 00:09:13,542 remains a mystery. 183 00:09:13,750 --> 00:09:16,792 But Mariette believed he would find the answer 184 00:09:16,958 --> 00:09:20,750 when he came upon one box that was completely sealed. 185 00:09:21,917 --> 00:09:25,667 We know that of the 24 sarcophagi 186 00:09:25,833 --> 00:09:28,500 that were found by Auguste Mariette, 187 00:09:28,667 --> 00:09:31,292 23 of them were empty, 188 00:09:31,458 --> 00:09:34,000 their lids just slightly ajar. 189 00:09:34,208 --> 00:09:38,583 But it's that one unopened sarcophagi 190 00:09:38,708 --> 00:09:41,083 that is the greatest mystery because 191 00:09:41,250 --> 00:09:45,417 what Mariette decided was, he would dynamite it 192 00:09:45,542 --> 00:09:48,208 to try and blow it open, 193 00:09:48,375 --> 00:09:50,792 and when he looked inside, 194 00:09:50,958 --> 00:09:52,667 he was absolutely staggered to find 195 00:09:52,833 --> 00:09:55,125 that it was completely empty. 196 00:09:56,750 --> 00:10:00,500 What are the giant stone boxes within the Serapeum? 197 00:10:00,708 --> 00:10:03,625 Are they simply giant sarcophagi? 198 00:10:03,792 --> 00:10:07,917 Or might they have a more profound purpose? 199 00:10:08,083 --> 00:10:12,417 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest clues can be found 200 00:10:12,542 --> 00:10:15,000 by further examining the Serapeum 201 00:10:15,125 --> 00:10:16,542 and its connection 202 00:10:16,667 --> 00:10:19,750 to otherworldly beings. 203 00:10:25,042 --> 00:10:27,667 The mysterious subterranean structure in Saqqâra, EgyptAT: 204 00:10:27,833 --> 00:10:29,417 known as the Serapeum 205 00:10:29,542 --> 00:10:33,417 is an extraordinary feat of engineering 206 00:10:33,583 --> 00:10:35,917 built 100 feet beneath the earth 207 00:10:36,083 --> 00:10:39,667 and spanning the length of more than two football fields. 208 00:10:39,875 --> 00:10:41,583 But even more impressive 209 00:10:41,792 --> 00:10:43,833 are 24 massive stone boxes 210 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,500 found within the complex 211 00:10:45,708 --> 00:10:48,792 that are carved from exceptionally hard stone 212 00:10:48,958 --> 00:10:52,500 like granite, basalt and diorite. 213 00:10:52,667 --> 00:10:57,167 Each sarcophagus was over 70 tons. 214 00:10:57,375 --> 00:10:59,458 70 tons is not a weight 215 00:10:59,625 --> 00:11:01,792 that 200 people can carry. 216 00:11:01,958 --> 00:11:05,208 It is an impossible weight 217 00:11:05,375 --> 00:11:07,542 to move anywhere, 218 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:12,042 let alone a hundred feet under the ground 219 00:11:12,208 --> 00:11:15,542 and then 700 feet into a tiny corridor 220 00:11:15,708 --> 00:11:18,000 and then inside a little chamber. 221 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,170 If you think of a pyramid 222 00:11:20,250 --> 00:11:21,625 or a temple, it's in the open air. 223 00:11:21,833 --> 00:11:24,125 If you're hauling a big block of stone 224 00:11:24,208 --> 00:11:25,708 or an obelisk, 225 00:11:25,875 --> 00:11:27,750 you've got space to get teams of people. 226 00:11:27,917 --> 00:11:29,833 You can get draft animals on it. 227 00:11:30,958 --> 00:11:33,792 But the thing that really startles me, 228 00:11:33,875 --> 00:11:35,167 they didn't have the space to get 229 00:11:35,375 --> 00:11:37,750 huge teams of men to start moving them. 230 00:11:37,875 --> 00:11:39,708 And they couldn't get animals down there 231 00:11:39,875 --> 00:11:41,792 for any practical intent. 232 00:11:43,042 --> 00:11:46,125 Just as baffling as how the ancient Egyptians 233 00:11:46,292 --> 00:11:48,917 managed to move these giant boxes is 234 00:11:49,083 --> 00:11:52,500 how they were able to carve them with such incredible precision. 235 00:11:53,542 --> 00:11:57,417 Machinists have gone in there with tools to measure 236 00:11:57,542 --> 00:12:00,167 just how precisely carved they were. 237 00:12:00,333 --> 00:12:04,792 We're talking, in some cases, to the thousandths of an inch, 238 00:12:04,958 --> 00:12:09,000 right angles, which are incredibly perfect. 239 00:12:09,125 --> 00:12:12,292 Now, you need sophisticated technology for this 240 00:12:12,458 --> 00:12:14,708 because, in some cases, 241 00:12:14,875 --> 00:12:16,917 we're talking about basalt. 242 00:12:17,083 --> 00:12:20,625 Basalt is harder than granite. 243 00:12:20,792 --> 00:12:22,167 And according to what we know, 244 00:12:22,333 --> 00:12:24,792 the ancient Egyptians only had bronze 245 00:12:24,958 --> 00:12:26,583 and copper tools. 246 00:12:26,708 --> 00:12:30,333 It is wishful thinking to suggest that you can 247 00:12:30,542 --> 00:12:32,375 cut basalt with copper. 248 00:12:32,542 --> 00:12:33,917 You just can't do it. 249 00:12:34,042 --> 00:12:37,167 But the surface is as if 250 00:12:37,333 --> 00:12:39,417 you're touching glass. 251 00:12:39,583 --> 00:12:41,917 So, to me, it's possible that 252 00:12:42,083 --> 00:12:44,500 the ancient Egyptians figured out a way 253 00:12:44,667 --> 00:12:47,292 to vitrify stone. 254 00:12:49,833 --> 00:12:52,125 What compelled the ancient Egyptians to 255 00:12:52,292 --> 00:12:56,333 place 24 enormous and precisely crafted stone boxes 256 00:12:56,500 --> 00:12:57,917 deep beneath the earth? 257 00:12:58,958 --> 00:13:01,875 Based on inscriptions found within the underground chamber, 258 00:13:02,042 --> 00:13:05,167 Egyptologists determined that the Serapeum 259 00:13:05,375 --> 00:13:09,458 was built to be the burial place of the sacred Apis bull. 260 00:13:11,875 --> 00:13:13,833 The ancient Egyptians believed that 261 00:13:14,042 --> 00:13:16,917 animals and the gods had special relationships, 262 00:13:17,125 --> 00:13:21,042 and each deity was associated with one particular animal. 263 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,083 The Apis bull is related to the Egyptian god Ptah, 264 00:13:26,208 --> 00:13:29,083 who was a major creator god. 265 00:13:29,250 --> 00:13:31,792 He was the god of Memphis, the capital city. 266 00:13:31,917 --> 00:13:33,833 He was the god of all craftsmen. 267 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,917 The Egyptians believed that the spirit of the god 268 00:13:37,083 --> 00:13:39,500 would enter into the body of that animal. 269 00:13:40,708 --> 00:13:44,208 During its lifetime, it would be treated as a god on Earth. 270 00:13:44,375 --> 00:13:46,500 When it died, it would be buried with 271 00:13:46,625 --> 00:13:48,375 great pomp and circumstance. 272 00:13:48,542 --> 00:13:51,167 The Apis bull was one of 273 00:13:51,375 --> 00:13:55,875 the most sacred animals in all of ancient Egypt. 274 00:13:56,042 --> 00:13:57,667 But here is the thing. 275 00:13:57,833 --> 00:14:01,750 When Auguste Mariette opened the sarcophagus, 276 00:14:01,917 --> 00:14:04,292 they were empty. There was nothing in there. 277 00:14:04,417 --> 00:14:07,333 What Egyptologists will speculate is that 278 00:14:07,458 --> 00:14:12,542 somehow the Serapeum was looted in antiquity 279 00:14:12,708 --> 00:14:16,000 and the mummified bulls were removed from the sarcophagi. 280 00:14:17,292 --> 00:14:20,708 But who would want a mummified bull? 281 00:14:21,750 --> 00:14:24,542 Were the giant stone containers in the Serapeum 282 00:14:24,708 --> 00:14:27,958 simply designed to hold the remains of an Apis bull? 283 00:14:28,125 --> 00:14:31,750 Some researchers believe that these massive objects 284 00:14:31,917 --> 00:14:34,250 served an entirely different purpose. 285 00:14:36,250 --> 00:14:39,833 Most of these boxes have no inscriptions on them, 286 00:14:40,042 --> 00:14:41,295 but there's one in particular that has 287 00:14:41,375 --> 00:14:43,292 a lot of hieroglyphics all over it. 288 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:48,000 Those inscriptions are incredibly crude 289 00:14:48,208 --> 00:14:51,833 compared to the finesse, the precision of 290 00:14:51,958 --> 00:14:54,167 the actual stone boxes. 291 00:14:54,292 --> 00:14:57,458 So this leads me, and I'm not alone in this, 292 00:14:57,667 --> 00:14:59,708 to suggest that these boxes 293 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:02,917 go back to a much earlier period, 294 00:15:03,083 --> 00:15:06,417 and they were being reused and reappropriated 295 00:15:06,542 --> 00:15:08,792 at a much later time. 296 00:15:08,875 --> 00:15:11,333 It's thought by some researchers that 297 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:14,792 the Serapeum was used at a later date 298 00:15:14,958 --> 00:15:18,042 for the mummified Apis bulls. 299 00:15:18,208 --> 00:15:21,417 But the Serapeum itself predates this, 300 00:15:21,583 --> 00:15:25,500 and its original purpose was for something else. 301 00:15:25,708 --> 00:15:28,250 So what was the Serapeum for? 302 00:15:28,417 --> 00:15:30,833 While the purpose of the stone boxes 303 00:15:31,042 --> 00:15:33,250 continues to perplex researchers, 304 00:15:33,417 --> 00:15:35,333 some believe clues can be found 305 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:38,000 by examining the contents of another box 306 00:15:38,125 --> 00:15:40,000 found in the Serapeum, 307 00:15:40,167 --> 00:15:42,750 one not made of stone 308 00:15:42,917 --> 00:15:44,583 but wood. 309 00:15:50,208 --> 00:15:53,833 After discovering 24 massive stone sarcophagi 310 00:15:54,042 --> 00:15:56,958 within the Serapeum, Auguste Mariette 311 00:15:57,167 --> 00:15:59,333 comes upon a much smaller coffin 312 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:01,083 made of wood. 313 00:16:01,250 --> 00:16:03,500 There is a body inside it, 314 00:16:03,625 --> 00:16:05,292 and at first glance 315 00:16:05,458 --> 00:16:07,500 it appears human. 316 00:16:08,875 --> 00:16:12,292 He came across a very unique burial. 317 00:16:12,375 --> 00:16:13,833 It looked human. 318 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,167 And yet, when the bones were examined, 319 00:16:17,250 --> 00:16:20,958 they were actually found to be those of a bull. 320 00:16:21,917 --> 00:16:24,000 Mariette found no head of a bull 321 00:16:24,167 --> 00:16:26,958 but just bits of bone 322 00:16:27,083 --> 00:16:29,667 of a bull wrapped up and then 323 00:16:29,833 --> 00:16:32,375 sort of a mask of a human being on it. 324 00:16:33,833 --> 00:16:36,542 Egyptologists assumed that the mask 325 00:16:36,708 --> 00:16:39,333 must belong to the builder of the Serapeum 326 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,167 and determined the face it depicts 327 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:42,833 is that of a prince who lived 328 00:16:43,042 --> 00:16:44,833 in the 13th century BC 329 00:16:45,042 --> 00:16:47,167 named Khaemweset. 330 00:16:48,208 --> 00:16:50,292 People think that the person who built 331 00:16:50,458 --> 00:16:53,458 the Serapeum was Prince Khaemweset. 332 00:16:53,583 --> 00:16:56,750 Khaemweset was the fourth son of King Ramses II. 333 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,333 He was in charge of the Temple of Ptah 334 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:03,000 and also, therefore, the temple of the Apis bull 335 00:17:03,208 --> 00:17:06,167 in the capital city of Memphis. 336 00:17:07,208 --> 00:17:08,962 There are many researchers, however, 337 00:17:09,042 --> 00:17:10,875 who believe that Khaemweset 338 00:17:11,042 --> 00:17:12,875 did not build the Serapeum 339 00:17:13,042 --> 00:17:15,542 but only restored it. 340 00:17:15,708 --> 00:17:18,417 He's considered the first Egyptologist. 341 00:17:18,542 --> 00:17:20,625 He starts documenting who are the builders of 342 00:17:20,750 --> 00:17:21,910 all of these massive temples. 343 00:17:23,083 --> 00:17:24,625 He goes up to the Giza plateau, 344 00:17:24,792 --> 00:17:27,167 he restores the pyramids. 345 00:17:27,333 --> 00:17:30,125 All his life, he is not a builder 346 00:17:30,292 --> 00:17:33,250 but a restorer and a documenter 347 00:17:33,375 --> 00:17:35,208 of these ancient structures. 348 00:17:35,333 --> 00:17:39,125 Archaeologists also discovered evidence 349 00:17:39,250 --> 00:17:42,083 that the only two bulls found in the Serapeum 350 00:17:42,208 --> 00:17:44,583 were put there by Prince Khaemweset 351 00:17:44,750 --> 00:17:47,250 around 1200 BC. 352 00:17:47,417 --> 00:17:51,167 He has a couple of sarcophagi down there 353 00:17:51,292 --> 00:17:55,083 that he had put Apis bull mummies in them. 354 00:17:55,292 --> 00:17:57,167 And he wrote that on a little tablet 355 00:17:57,375 --> 00:18:00,667 next to that specific chamber 356 00:18:00,792 --> 00:18:03,625 that he added to the place and he added to the Serapeum. 357 00:18:04,792 --> 00:18:07,458 This was a typical thing in ancient Egypt 358 00:18:07,625 --> 00:18:10,333 because many of the monuments in Egypt were 359 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:12,833 thousands of years old, even for them. 360 00:18:13,042 --> 00:18:14,667 So the idea that the Serapeum 361 00:18:14,833 --> 00:18:16,667 is actually much older than 362 00:18:16,875 --> 00:18:19,125 even we think it is 363 00:18:19,250 --> 00:18:21,167 is a pretty valid theory. 364 00:18:22,917 --> 00:18:26,042 If the Serapeum predates Prince Khaemweset, 365 00:18:26,208 --> 00:18:29,500 just how old is this underground structure? 366 00:18:30,958 --> 00:18:32,667 Some researchers suggest 367 00:18:32,750 --> 00:18:36,000 the Serapeum is associated with the Apis bull 368 00:18:36,167 --> 00:18:39,083 not because it was a tomb for burying them 369 00:18:39,208 --> 00:18:41,333 but because it was built at a time 370 00:18:41,458 --> 00:18:43,500 when worship of the Apis bull cult 371 00:18:43,708 --> 00:18:45,375 first appeared in Egypt 372 00:18:45,542 --> 00:18:48,500 around 3200 BC. 373 00:18:58,708 --> 00:19:01,917 While excavating the underground structure at Saqqâra, 374 00:19:02,083 --> 00:19:04,750 Egyptologist Auguste Mariette 375 00:19:04,917 --> 00:19:07,958 discovers a stela that identifies the complex 376 00:19:08,083 --> 00:19:09,792 as the Serapeum. 377 00:19:10,833 --> 00:19:15,875 The Serapeum gets its name from, Serapis... 378 00:19:17,083 --> 00:19:19,750 which was a Greek god 379 00:19:19,917 --> 00:19:22,458 that was a combination between 380 00:19:22,625 --> 00:19:26,292 an ancient Egyptian bull Apis 381 00:19:26,458 --> 00:19:28,500 and a Greek god at the time. 382 00:19:28,625 --> 00:19:31,708 The combination between both was Serapis, 383 00:19:31,875 --> 00:19:33,500 and the Serapeum was the place 384 00:19:33,667 --> 00:19:36,708 where you go pray for that specific god. 385 00:19:38,083 --> 00:19:40,208 The cult of the Apis bull, 386 00:19:40,375 --> 00:19:43,958 which later becomes known as Serapis, 387 00:19:44,125 --> 00:19:46,167 dates back to the very first dynasty. 388 00:19:46,375 --> 00:19:48,000 The very early kings of Egypt 389 00:19:48,167 --> 00:19:50,750 worshipped these particular bulls. 390 00:19:50,917 --> 00:19:54,125 The Apis bull cult was 391 00:19:54,292 --> 00:19:56,375 extremely popular in Egypt all the way back 392 00:19:56,583 --> 00:19:57,833 5,000 years ago. 393 00:19:59,458 --> 00:20:01,500 One of the first kings of ancient Egypt, 394 00:20:01,667 --> 00:20:04,292 the First Dynasty, King Menes, 395 00:20:04,458 --> 00:20:07,542 who unified North Egypt and South Egypt together, 396 00:20:07,708 --> 00:20:10,625 would represent himself as a bull. 397 00:20:11,667 --> 00:20:15,625 King Menes is documented as the first human pharaoh 398 00:20:15,750 --> 00:20:19,833 and is believed to have ruled around 3200 BC. 399 00:20:20,042 --> 00:20:22,083 According to their written history, 400 00:20:22,250 --> 00:20:23,958 before the reign of Menes, 401 00:20:24,125 --> 00:20:26,042 Egypt was ruled by the gods, 402 00:20:26,208 --> 00:20:28,542 who lived among humans on Earth. 403 00:20:28,750 --> 00:20:32,167 When the gods left, Menes inherited the throne 404 00:20:32,333 --> 00:20:34,583 from the god-king Horus. 405 00:20:34,750 --> 00:20:36,792 The ancient Egyptians believed that Horus 406 00:20:36,958 --> 00:20:38,667 was actually a god-man. 407 00:20:38,833 --> 00:20:41,875 He was a being of flesh and blood. 408 00:20:42,042 --> 00:20:45,458 The ancient Egyptians were in contact with the gods, 409 00:20:45,625 --> 00:20:48,333 physical manifestations, extraterrestrial beings 410 00:20:48,542 --> 00:20:49,958 who came and lived with them. 411 00:20:51,167 --> 00:20:52,647 At the end of Horus's reign, 412 00:20:52,792 --> 00:20:54,958 the Egyptians wrote that the gods 413 00:20:55,167 --> 00:20:57,667 no longer lived among humans 414 00:20:57,875 --> 00:21:00,417 but still held influence over earthly events. 415 00:21:00,583 --> 00:21:03,750 One point of connection between the gods 416 00:21:03,875 --> 00:21:07,083 and the mortal world was the Apis bull. 417 00:21:07,208 --> 00:21:10,292 In many ways, the Apis bull was seen to be 418 00:21:10,458 --> 00:21:13,250 a personification of that contact 419 00:21:13,375 --> 00:21:17,708 between this world and the star world. 420 00:21:17,875 --> 00:21:19,625 So, is it possible that 421 00:21:19,792 --> 00:21:24,667 the Serapeum is associated with the Apis bulls 422 00:21:24,875 --> 00:21:27,833 because there is some kind of connection 423 00:21:28,042 --> 00:21:29,625 with a celestial intelligence 424 00:21:29,708 --> 00:21:34,000 and what these underground structures really represent? 425 00:21:35,042 --> 00:21:38,167 Could it be that the Serapeum of Saqqâra 426 00:21:38,292 --> 00:21:41,333 was built more than 5,000 years ago 427 00:21:41,458 --> 00:21:45,583 and has a connection to otherworldly visitors? 428 00:21:45,792 --> 00:21:47,958 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 429 00:21:48,083 --> 00:21:52,458 clues can be found by examining the size of these boxes. 430 00:21:52,625 --> 00:21:54,542 When you think of a sarcophagus, 431 00:21:54,708 --> 00:21:57,750 you don't think of something so large 432 00:21:57,917 --> 00:22:00,125 as what's in the Serapeum. 433 00:22:00,250 --> 00:22:03,167 They're about ten feet high 434 00:22:03,375 --> 00:22:06,583 and almost 20 feet long. 435 00:22:06,708 --> 00:22:11,708 And it's way too large for these Apis bulls. 436 00:22:12,750 --> 00:22:15,333 In traditional Egyptian sarcophagi building, 437 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,458 they would create the sarcophagus so that 438 00:22:17,542 --> 00:22:19,500 it very closely matched the dimensions 439 00:22:19,708 --> 00:22:22,458 of the body inside it in order to preserve it. 440 00:22:22,625 --> 00:22:26,250 These boxes are many times too large 441 00:22:26,375 --> 00:22:29,000 for even an Apis bull, 442 00:22:29,167 --> 00:22:30,750 so this is pointing to the idea 443 00:22:30,917 --> 00:22:35,000 that something else was concealed within these boxes. 444 00:22:35,125 --> 00:22:39,917 Some ancient astronaut theorists believe an important clue 445 00:22:40,042 --> 00:22:43,292 as to what the giant stone boxes may have held 446 00:22:43,458 --> 00:22:47,417 can be found at a site 400 miles to the south. 447 00:22:49,042 --> 00:22:52,333 Armant, Egypt. 1929. 448 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:55,500 British archaeologist Sir Robert Mond 449 00:22:55,583 --> 00:22:58,583 begins an excavation of an ancient catacomb 450 00:22:58,708 --> 00:23:02,917 called the Bucheum and makes an extraordinary discovery. 451 00:23:03,042 --> 00:23:07,500 There is a place called the Bucheum 452 00:23:07,667 --> 00:23:11,333 where they found similar type sarcophagi 453 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:13,250 to the Serapeum, 454 00:23:13,417 --> 00:23:15,333 and it was at the Bucheum 455 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,500 where they found remains mummified 456 00:23:17,708 --> 00:23:20,000 in the shape of a bull. 457 00:23:20,125 --> 00:23:24,333 And they thought, "Finally, we found the remains 458 00:23:24,542 --> 00:23:26,917 of a mummified Apis bull." 459 00:23:27,958 --> 00:23:30,500 And they opened up the mummified remains 460 00:23:30,708 --> 00:23:34,500 and they were confronted with this stinking mass of bitumen, 461 00:23:34,667 --> 00:23:37,958 which is asphalt, in which they found 462 00:23:38,125 --> 00:23:41,583 tiny, tiny fragments of bones. 463 00:23:41,750 --> 00:23:45,167 Now, it was anathema in ancient Egypt 464 00:23:45,333 --> 00:23:48,333 to destroy any dead bodies. 465 00:23:48,542 --> 00:23:50,833 You had to mummify them 466 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,375 and you had to mummify them intact. 467 00:23:55,375 --> 00:23:58,333 All Egyptians, they mummified everything. 468 00:23:58,542 --> 00:24:00,833 They mummified not only humans. 469 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,458 They mummified birds. 470 00:24:03,667 --> 00:24:07,750 They mummified apes. They mummified dogs. 471 00:24:07,875 --> 00:24:11,292 Why do they mummify every animal? 472 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:13,583 Because you can only be reincarnated 473 00:24:13,750 --> 00:24:15,708 when your body is conserved. 474 00:24:17,458 --> 00:24:18,878 What could explain the mixture 475 00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:22,750 of broken animal bones found in this one sarcophagus? 476 00:24:22,917 --> 00:24:25,667 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 477 00:24:25,833 --> 00:24:29,667 they could be the remains of a monster. 478 00:24:29,833 --> 00:24:32,292 I have speculated and I have suggested 479 00:24:32,458 --> 00:24:34,333 that these broken bones 480 00:24:34,542 --> 00:24:38,792 come from mixed creatures in mythology. 481 00:24:39,875 --> 00:24:41,337 All throughout ancient Egypt, 482 00:24:41,417 --> 00:24:44,042 you have not just ancient stories 483 00:24:44,167 --> 00:24:46,792 of these hybrid mixture beings 484 00:24:46,917 --> 00:24:49,583 between half-man, half-animal, 485 00:24:49,750 --> 00:24:53,250 but you have thousands of depictions 486 00:24:53,417 --> 00:24:54,542 in figurines, 487 00:24:54,708 --> 00:24:57,792 in statues, in carvings, 488 00:24:57,958 --> 00:25:00,500 in all the ancient Egyptian texts, 489 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:03,750 you have reference to these hybrid creatures. 490 00:25:03,875 --> 00:25:08,167 The classical writer Alexander Polyhistor 491 00:25:08,333 --> 00:25:10,417 talked about the ancient world 492 00:25:10,542 --> 00:25:13,458 being filled with hybrid creatures. 493 00:25:13,625 --> 00:25:16,250 And he said that these actually existed 494 00:25:16,417 --> 00:25:18,167 as living creatures. 495 00:25:19,542 --> 00:25:21,750 The Egyptians were very clear 496 00:25:21,917 --> 00:25:24,417 in making the distinction between 497 00:25:24,583 --> 00:25:28,292 regular animals and then these celestial creatures 498 00:25:28,458 --> 00:25:31,375 that they themselves say these beings existed. 499 00:25:31,583 --> 00:25:34,208 And in the opinion of the classic 500 00:25:34,417 --> 00:25:35,875 ancient astronaut theory, 501 00:25:36,042 --> 00:25:38,708 they were genetic experiments by extraterrestrials. 502 00:25:39,750 --> 00:25:42,083 I think it's quite possible that the reason 503 00:25:42,292 --> 00:25:43,667 why these boxes were built 504 00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:45,833 is that these hybrid monsters, 505 00:25:46,042 --> 00:25:49,458 these genetic mutations by extraterrestrials 506 00:25:49,625 --> 00:25:51,000 were placed in there 507 00:25:51,167 --> 00:25:54,042 so they would be ensured never to come back. 508 00:25:54,208 --> 00:25:58,667 Because the ancient Egyptians were very, very adamant that, 509 00:25:58,875 --> 00:26:03,875 if you bury your dead intact, they will one day come back. 510 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,458 Could it be that the Serapeum and the giant stone boxes 511 00:26:08,667 --> 00:26:11,208 found within it were built to entomb 512 00:26:11,375 --> 00:26:14,000 dangerous hybrid creatures? 513 00:26:14,208 --> 00:26:17,500 Is this why it is buried so deep beneath the earth 514 00:26:17,667 --> 00:26:21,125 and also why the sarcophagi are so massive? 515 00:26:21,333 --> 00:26:23,625 Some ancient astronaut theorists 516 00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:26,542 suggest the Serapeum wasn't built 517 00:26:26,708 --> 00:26:28,167 to hold dangerous creatures 518 00:26:28,375 --> 00:26:32,208 but rather dangerous technology. 519 00:26:40,375 --> 00:26:42,500 In the 1970s, 520 00:26:42,667 --> 00:26:45,250 archaeologists begin a massive excavation 521 00:26:45,375 --> 00:26:46,458 and restoration effort 522 00:26:46,583 --> 00:26:49,833 in the ancient burial complex, 523 00:26:50,042 --> 00:26:54,875 which includes a deeper examination of the Serapeum. 524 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,250 The undertaking sparks interest among engineers, 525 00:26:59,458 --> 00:27:01,125 who hope that modern technology 526 00:27:01,333 --> 00:27:04,833 can shed new light on the structure's mysterious past. 527 00:27:05,042 --> 00:27:07,667 And in 1978, 528 00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:10,750 American construction expert James Ernest Brown 529 00:27:10,917 --> 00:27:14,625 makes a curious discovery. 530 00:27:14,750 --> 00:27:18,208 He goes into this crypt, into the catacombs, 531 00:27:18,375 --> 00:27:21,625 and he notices that the walls are covered with salt 532 00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:24,875 and sodium chloride that's actually visible. 533 00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:28,208 This is curious to Brown because in Europe 534 00:27:28,375 --> 00:27:32,000 proposals had been made to house nuclear waste 535 00:27:32,167 --> 00:27:35,625 in granite boxes that were filled with salt water. 536 00:27:35,750 --> 00:27:37,542 And in his mind, he's thinking 537 00:27:37,708 --> 00:27:40,167 this is some kind of a toxic waste dump. 538 00:27:41,292 --> 00:27:43,833 After noticing salt on the stone boxes, 539 00:27:44,042 --> 00:27:47,292 Brown decided to measure radiation levels 540 00:27:47,458 --> 00:27:48,750 within the Serapeum. 541 00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:50,125 What he found 542 00:27:50,333 --> 00:27:53,917 was that the levels of, um, 543 00:27:54,125 --> 00:27:58,167 radiation inside the sarcophagi 544 00:27:58,333 --> 00:28:03,417 was as much as three times that of the corridors 545 00:28:03,583 --> 00:28:08,417 that linked to the side chambers that contained the sarcophagi. 546 00:28:09,458 --> 00:28:13,917 So why is it that there are such high levels of radiation? 547 00:28:14,042 --> 00:28:16,292 These are not dangerous levels, by the way, 548 00:28:16,458 --> 00:28:18,000 so don't worry about going there. 549 00:28:18,167 --> 00:28:23,125 But it's certainly very, very interesting that you have 550 00:28:23,292 --> 00:28:27,292 this radiation present inside the Serapeum. 551 00:28:28,458 --> 00:28:31,333 Is it possible that the Serapeum was used 552 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:33,833 to house radioactive material? 553 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,708 While it may sound far-fetched, 554 00:28:36,875 --> 00:28:40,042 aerospace engineer and machinist Chris Dunn 555 00:28:40,208 --> 00:28:43,542 has measured the boxes and believes their precision 556 00:28:43,708 --> 00:28:47,792 supports the idea that they were designed to be airtight. 557 00:28:48,708 --> 00:28:51,667 To say it was a mind-blowing experience 558 00:28:51,875 --> 00:28:54,167 would be an understatement 559 00:28:54,292 --> 00:28:56,875 because when I measured 560 00:28:57,042 --> 00:28:59,875 the precision of the box on just the outside, 561 00:29:00,042 --> 00:29:05,000 I found that they were quite precise, quite flat. 562 00:29:05,208 --> 00:29:07,917 And the question in my mind was, 563 00:29:08,083 --> 00:29:10,625 why do they need to be so precise? 564 00:29:10,750 --> 00:29:13,792 Because in manufacturing and engineering, 565 00:29:13,958 --> 00:29:16,333 we don't manufacture that kind of precision 566 00:29:16,542 --> 00:29:18,833 unless there is a need for it. 567 00:29:18,958 --> 00:29:22,750 The extraordinary precision with which they were crafted 568 00:29:22,875 --> 00:29:27,083 speaks to a much higher purpose than a-a simple coffin. 569 00:29:28,875 --> 00:29:31,667 So what exactly is going on down there? 570 00:29:31,875 --> 00:29:35,458 Is it possible that the granite sarcophagi 571 00:29:35,667 --> 00:29:37,792 give off an energy 572 00:29:37,917 --> 00:29:41,333 that somehow increases the radiation levels down there? 573 00:29:41,542 --> 00:29:45,333 Or is that radiation seeping up 574 00:29:45,542 --> 00:29:49,083 into the corridors and chambers 575 00:29:49,208 --> 00:29:54,000 that is mixing with the natural electromagnetic properties 576 00:29:54,208 --> 00:29:57,833 of the sarcophagi to make them into some kind of 577 00:29:58,042 --> 00:30:00,167 functional chamber? 578 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:05,125 I mean, one of the ideas, too, of the sarcophagi is that 579 00:30:05,292 --> 00:30:08,750 they're super high-tech storage devices. 580 00:30:08,958 --> 00:30:11,833 They're hermetically sealed. They're, you know, 581 00:30:12,042 --> 00:30:14,917 in spaces that would be difficult to get to. 582 00:30:15,083 --> 00:30:17,958 The lids are very heavy. It would be hard to remove them. 583 00:30:19,542 --> 00:30:21,833 Could it be that the giant stone boxes 584 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,750 of the Serapeum had a technological function? 585 00:30:25,875 --> 00:30:28,792 Some scientists suggest 586 00:30:28,917 --> 00:30:31,750 that the type of rock the giant boxes were made from... 587 00:30:31,875 --> 00:30:34,042 which is rich in quartz crystal... 588 00:30:34,250 --> 00:30:36,542 can produce electromagnetic energy 589 00:30:36,667 --> 00:30:40,625 through what's known as the piezoelectric effect. 590 00:30:40,750 --> 00:30:43,167 It's a known effect that pressure 591 00:30:43,333 --> 00:30:46,833 on some natural crystals can generate light. 592 00:30:47,042 --> 00:30:48,500 For quartz, you can get it to glow. 593 00:30:48,708 --> 00:30:49,962 If you strike two crystals together, 594 00:30:50,042 --> 00:30:51,082 you will get them to glow. 595 00:30:51,208 --> 00:30:53,208 Quartz crystal 596 00:30:53,375 --> 00:30:54,917 have a distribution 597 00:30:55,083 --> 00:30:57,125 of negative charges on one side 598 00:30:57,250 --> 00:30:59,000 and more positive charges on the other. 599 00:30:59,167 --> 00:31:02,083 And if you squeeze that, 600 00:31:02,250 --> 00:31:04,958 you can actually get an electrical current through that. 601 00:31:05,042 --> 00:31:07,375 This is called the piezoelectric effect. 602 00:31:08,875 --> 00:31:10,917 It's really interesting that this box 603 00:31:11,083 --> 00:31:13,750 is made out of this material. 604 00:31:13,875 --> 00:31:15,917 It's really intriguing to me 605 00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:17,708 what the electromagnetic conditions 606 00:31:17,875 --> 00:31:19,875 might be inside this box. 607 00:31:20,042 --> 00:31:23,000 Is this some sort of shielded box 608 00:31:23,208 --> 00:31:25,917 for, of electromagnetic energy? 609 00:31:26,125 --> 00:31:29,458 Is it an amplifier of electromagnetic energy? 610 00:31:29,542 --> 00:31:31,500 Is it doing something else? 611 00:31:33,542 --> 00:31:36,250 Is it possible that the giant granite boxes 612 00:31:36,417 --> 00:31:39,750 in the Serapeum were able to generate energy? 613 00:31:39,875 --> 00:31:42,750 Is this the answer as to why the boxes 614 00:31:42,917 --> 00:31:45,167 of the Serapeum are so large? 615 00:31:46,375 --> 00:31:48,750 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 616 00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:53,000 and believe further evidence can be found in historic accounts 617 00:31:53,167 --> 00:31:56,542 that claimed the giant boxes could transport people 618 00:31:56,708 --> 00:31:59,292 through space and time. 619 00:32:05,958 --> 00:32:08,458 The 24 mysterious stone boxes 620 00:32:08,583 --> 00:32:12,500 inside the Serapeum have fascinated Egyptologists 621 00:32:12,625 --> 00:32:15,667 for more than 170 years. 622 00:32:15,833 --> 00:32:18,167 But even with modern technology, 623 00:32:18,333 --> 00:32:22,500 archaeologists are no closer to unraveling their secrets. 624 00:32:22,708 --> 00:32:24,667 While there are many theories 625 00:32:24,875 --> 00:32:26,833 as to what they might have held, 626 00:32:27,042 --> 00:32:29,000 some researchers suggest 627 00:32:29,125 --> 00:32:33,833 that the boxes themselves were a technological instrument. 628 00:32:33,958 --> 00:32:35,500 One interesting line of thought 629 00:32:35,625 --> 00:32:38,083 concerning these boxes involves sound. 630 00:32:38,292 --> 00:32:39,833 The boxes are granite. 631 00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:42,250 Granite is mostly quartz crystal, 632 00:32:42,417 --> 00:32:45,333 which responds to sound when activated. 633 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:47,500 I've literally been in the presence 634 00:32:47,667 --> 00:32:51,542 of one of the obelisks, which is also composed of granite, 635 00:32:51,667 --> 00:32:53,500 that when struck with a fist, 636 00:32:53,667 --> 00:32:55,333 that obelisk will start humming, 637 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:57,458 massively humming. 638 00:32:57,583 --> 00:33:00,083 It's profound. 639 00:33:00,208 --> 00:33:01,833 So what if there was something like that 640 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,333 that was involved with the granite boxes as well? 641 00:33:04,542 --> 00:33:07,250 That they're activated by sound and they're doing something 642 00:33:07,417 --> 00:33:10,083 to whatever is held within that box? 643 00:33:11,375 --> 00:33:15,750 One idea about the sarcophagi at the Serapeum is 644 00:33:15,917 --> 00:33:18,125 that the measurements and dimensions 645 00:33:18,292 --> 00:33:21,958 of the box itself can have like 646 00:33:22,125 --> 00:33:24,333 a harmonic vibration. 647 00:33:24,542 --> 00:33:28,417 And it's been suggested that it's a vibration tool. 648 00:33:31,208 --> 00:33:32,625 It almost seemed important 649 00:33:32,792 --> 00:33:35,375 that there was some kind of vibration 650 00:33:35,542 --> 00:33:39,125 associated with these sarcophagi that will 651 00:33:39,292 --> 00:33:41,833 affect human consciousness, 652 00:33:42,042 --> 00:33:44,375 send us into altered states of consciousness. 653 00:33:45,583 --> 00:33:48,667 Some researchers and others have gone 654 00:33:48,875 --> 00:33:50,708 to the Serapeum 655 00:33:50,875 --> 00:33:54,875 and they've experienced psychic-type experiences. 656 00:33:55,042 --> 00:33:57,083 And I don't dismiss that out of hand. 657 00:33:57,250 --> 00:33:59,458 Some people have suggested that maybe they were used 658 00:33:59,625 --> 00:34:02,000 for some kind of initiation rites, 659 00:34:02,125 --> 00:34:04,875 out-of-body experiences, 660 00:34:05,042 --> 00:34:08,042 some kind of increased consciousness, 661 00:34:08,208 --> 00:34:11,375 or going into altered states of consciousness. 662 00:34:11,542 --> 00:34:15,292 Many of these ancient sites could be multipurpose 663 00:34:15,458 --> 00:34:19,208 even if they were being used for "practical purposes." 664 00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:23,042 In some cases they may have been used also 665 00:34:23,208 --> 00:34:25,167 to induce psychic phenomena. 666 00:34:26,375 --> 00:34:30,708 Could it be that the sarcophagi in the Serapeum 667 00:34:30,875 --> 00:34:32,667 were crafted so precisely 668 00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:36,625 in order to produce some sort of vibrational effect? 669 00:34:36,792 --> 00:34:39,375 One that can alter the mind, 670 00:34:39,542 --> 00:34:42,292 perhaps to communicate with beings existing 671 00:34:42,458 --> 00:34:45,167 in higher dimensional realms? 672 00:34:47,958 --> 00:34:49,542 While some researchers believe 673 00:34:49,667 --> 00:34:53,208 that energy produced by the sarcophagi was intended 674 00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:56,208 to induce altered states of consciousness, 675 00:34:56,375 --> 00:35:00,583 others have proposed an even more profound possibility. 676 00:35:01,625 --> 00:35:06,292 That the stone boxes were used for teleportation. 677 00:35:06,458 --> 00:35:09,000 The granite boxes at the Serapeum have connections 678 00:35:09,167 --> 00:35:11,667 with the sacred Apis bulls. 679 00:35:11,833 --> 00:35:14,625 And what's fascinating is that the later Greeks claimed 680 00:35:14,792 --> 00:35:18,583 that Apis bulls were created by flashes of light. 681 00:35:18,750 --> 00:35:21,375 They connected them with lightning. 682 00:35:22,917 --> 00:35:24,583 They also connected their creation 683 00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:27,208 with flashes of light that came from the Moon. 684 00:35:28,167 --> 00:35:31,083 What are we talking about here? 685 00:35:31,292 --> 00:35:33,250 We're talking about a bull 686 00:35:33,417 --> 00:35:35,792 produced by a flash of lightning? 687 00:35:35,958 --> 00:35:37,542 Or are we talking about a god 688 00:35:37,708 --> 00:35:40,958 who suddenly appears in a flash of lightning? 689 00:35:41,167 --> 00:35:43,333 This flash of lightning business is really integral 690 00:35:43,458 --> 00:35:46,333 to what we're talking about because 691 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:49,042 we also have the pyramid texts. 692 00:35:49,208 --> 00:35:51,167 They have utterances within them that say 693 00:35:51,375 --> 00:35:53,333 the pharaohs became like lightning. 694 00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:55,250 The pharaoh went through the portal. 695 00:35:55,417 --> 00:35:57,542 The pharaoh is now a god. 696 00:35:57,708 --> 00:36:00,500 When we put all these pieces together, 697 00:36:00,667 --> 00:36:04,042 it sounds as if that the Serapeum could be a place 698 00:36:04,208 --> 00:36:06,958 where a god could enter the box 699 00:36:07,083 --> 00:36:09,458 and somehow, in a flash of lightning, 700 00:36:09,625 --> 00:36:13,542 could return to its place of origin. 701 00:36:13,667 --> 00:36:17,208 The idea that these sarcophagi 702 00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:22,000 or boxes are some kind of teleportation device 703 00:36:22,167 --> 00:36:24,667 may seem, you know, pretty amazing, 704 00:36:24,833 --> 00:36:28,625 but the ancient Egyptians did believe in this kind of a thing. 705 00:36:28,833 --> 00:36:35,583 And the idea of pharaohs going to stars and other places... 706 00:36:35,708 --> 00:36:39,167 that's part of the Egyptian religion. 707 00:36:39,375 --> 00:36:42,542 This is not far-fetched in light of what we know 708 00:36:42,708 --> 00:36:45,000 about the ancient Egyptian belief 709 00:36:45,167 --> 00:36:47,125 in the transfiguration of the human body 710 00:36:47,333 --> 00:36:48,667 into light or lightning. 711 00:36:48,833 --> 00:36:52,500 It seems that that idea is pointing us 712 00:36:52,667 --> 00:36:55,250 to the actual purpose of the Serapeum 713 00:36:55,417 --> 00:36:58,000 and a true understanding of what the bull represents. 714 00:36:59,042 --> 00:37:01,667 Is it possible that the giant stone boxes 715 00:37:01,875 --> 00:37:05,917 at the Serapeum are ancient teleportation devices? 716 00:37:06,042 --> 00:37:08,708 Were they designed to hold the mummified remains 717 00:37:08,917 --> 00:37:10,625 of an Apis bull? 718 00:37:10,833 --> 00:37:15,750 Or could they even have been used to contain hybrid monsters? 719 00:37:16,708 --> 00:37:19,458 Ancient astronaut theorists believe 720 00:37:19,583 --> 00:37:22,167 new discoveries being made beneath the sands of Saqqâra 721 00:37:22,375 --> 00:37:27,250 may soon provide the key to solving the mystery. 722 00:37:37,708 --> 00:37:41,167 Archaeologists digging near the Step Pyramid of Djoser 723 00:37:41,375 --> 00:37:45,792 make a remarkable find 33 feet beneath the earth... 724 00:37:45,958 --> 00:37:50,292 a mummy that may be the oldest ever found in Egypt. 725 00:37:50,458 --> 00:37:53,917 The mummy... believed to date to 2300 BC... 726 00:37:54,083 --> 00:37:57,333 is sealed tightly within a limestone sarcophagus. 727 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,000 And this sarcophagus, 728 00:38:00,167 --> 00:38:02,625 like the more than 450 others 729 00:38:02,792 --> 00:38:04,708 that have been unearthed in Saqqâra, 730 00:38:04,875 --> 00:38:08,917 is nowhere near as large or precisely crafted 731 00:38:09,083 --> 00:38:12,792 as the stone boxes that reside in the Serapeum. 732 00:38:12,958 --> 00:38:16,292 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 733 00:38:16,458 --> 00:38:18,333 this serves as further evidence 734 00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:21,042 that the Serapeum belongs to a far older 735 00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:23,333 and more sophisticated civilization 736 00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:26,458 than most Egyptologists propose. 737 00:38:26,625 --> 00:38:28,125 What we're learning is 738 00:38:28,292 --> 00:38:32,333 that whoever was making these sarcophagi 739 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:37,250 had technology that's at least equal to us today. 740 00:38:37,375 --> 00:38:40,083 So it really shows us 741 00:38:40,250 --> 00:38:43,042 that things were going on in ancient Egypt 742 00:38:43,208 --> 00:38:44,667 that are just inexplicable 743 00:38:44,833 --> 00:38:48,000 and cannot be explained by normal science. 744 00:38:49,792 --> 00:38:52,667 One of the things that is crystal clear to me 745 00:38:52,792 --> 00:38:57,583 is that a technology was used, especially in the Serapeum, 746 00:38:57,708 --> 00:38:59,333 that has since been lost. 747 00:39:00,708 --> 00:39:03,833 We today would have great difficulties 748 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,417 recreating the Serapeum. 749 00:39:06,542 --> 00:39:08,250 And today we would use 750 00:39:08,417 --> 00:39:13,083 the most sophisticated technology available to us. 751 00:39:13,250 --> 00:39:17,958 Nobody in their right mind would take on a construction project 752 00:39:18,125 --> 00:39:21,958 like that unless there was a pressing reason. 753 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,667 While nothing like the Serapeum of Saqqâra 754 00:39:25,833 --> 00:39:28,792 has ever been found anywhere else on Earth, 755 00:39:28,958 --> 00:39:31,292 experts believe that many lost marvels 756 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:34,125 of the ancient world still lie hidden 757 00:39:34,292 --> 00:39:37,250 beneath the sands of Egypt. 758 00:39:37,458 --> 00:39:39,042 They are finding new things 759 00:39:39,208 --> 00:39:41,917 in Saqqâra literally every day. 760 00:39:42,083 --> 00:39:43,667 It is one of the most active 761 00:39:43,875 --> 00:39:46,250 and exciting archaeological sites in the world. 762 00:39:46,417 --> 00:39:49,333 There could be more Serapeums, 763 00:39:49,458 --> 00:39:51,417 there could be more temples. 764 00:39:51,583 --> 00:39:54,500 The possibilities are literally endless. 765 00:39:54,625 --> 00:39:57,417 And the more technology we have moving into the future, 766 00:39:57,583 --> 00:40:00,458 the more we can survey the land in Egypt 767 00:40:00,625 --> 00:40:04,583 and understand how much there is still to be excavated. 768 00:40:06,375 --> 00:40:11,792 Two-thirds of ancient Egypt is still under the sands. 769 00:40:12,833 --> 00:40:16,333 There will be discoveries in Saqqâra, 770 00:40:16,542 --> 00:40:18,625 maybe right next to the Serapeum, 771 00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:20,833 maybe inside the Serapeum, 772 00:40:21,042 --> 00:40:25,333 that will uncover more and more of the secrets 773 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:28,667 and mysteries about the Serapeum. 774 00:40:29,750 --> 00:40:33,000 The question is not if, the question is when. 775 00:40:33,208 --> 00:40:36,708 And it might be right there, right under our noses. 776 00:40:37,708 --> 00:40:40,292 The Serapeum is a treasure trove 777 00:40:40,375 --> 00:40:43,292 for the ancient astronaut theory 778 00:40:43,375 --> 00:40:47,000 because the stories which are combined 779 00:40:47,208 --> 00:40:50,500 with the gigantic boxes is always 780 00:40:50,708 --> 00:40:54,667 in reference to the so-called guardians of the sky. 781 00:40:54,875 --> 00:40:56,542 Now, who were these guys? 782 00:40:56,708 --> 00:40:58,500 Well, according to the ancient Egyptians, 783 00:40:58,708 --> 00:41:00,167 they were their gods, 784 00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:03,125 gods that lived in a celestial realm. 785 00:41:03,333 --> 00:41:04,917 But at some point 786 00:41:05,083 --> 00:41:10,833 those celestial gods mingled with people on Earth. 787 00:41:11,042 --> 00:41:12,750 And that, in my opinion, 788 00:41:12,917 --> 00:41:15,750 cannot be a figment of somebody's imagination. 789 00:41:15,875 --> 00:41:17,542 And so, 790 00:41:17,708 --> 00:41:24,167 is the smoking gun still waiting somewhere underneath the sand? 791 00:41:24,292 --> 00:41:28,000 I think the answer to that is a resounding yes. 792 00:41:30,125 --> 00:41:33,167 170 years since its discovery, 793 00:41:33,292 --> 00:41:35,833 the Serapeum of Saqqâra remains one 794 00:41:35,958 --> 00:41:38,000 of the world's greatest mysteries. 795 00:41:38,208 --> 00:41:39,958 Could it have been built 796 00:41:40,125 --> 00:41:42,917 to entomb monstrous hybrid creatures? 797 00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:47,500 Was it connected to an advanced alien technology? 798 00:41:47,625 --> 00:41:50,625 Or might it have served a more profound purpose 799 00:41:50,792 --> 00:41:53,375 than we can even imagine? 800 00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:57,500 Perhaps the answer lies buried beneath the sands of Egypt, 801 00:41:57,625 --> 00:41:59,542 and when it is finally uncovered, 802 00:41:59,708 --> 00:42:01,375 it will reveal the truth 803 00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:05,500 about our extraterrestrial origins. 804 00:42:05,667 --> 00:42:08,042 >>>>oakislandtk<<<<< www.opensubtitles.org 61700

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