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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,002 A mighty empire ruled by the descendants of gods. 2 00:00:00,002 --> 00:00:00,004 A remote island where stone giants walked the Earth. 3 00:00:00,004 --> 00:00:00,005 And a fertile garden where modern man was born. 4 00:00:00,005 --> 00:00:00,007 Are the legends behind these ancient locations really based on fact? 5 00:00:00,007 --> 00:00:00,008 If so, why did they exist? 6 00:00:00,008 --> 00:00:00,009 And why have the answers been lost to history? 7 00:00:00,009 --> 00:00:00,009 How in the heck did they make these? 8 00:00:00,009 --> 00:00:00,010 How did they move them? 9 00:00:00,010 --> 00:00:00,010 Nobody has the answer. 10 00:00:00,011 --> 00:00:00,012 It may well be that the Garden of Eden today is underwater. 11 00:00:00,013 --> 00:00:00,013 These cultures were connected by 12 00:00:00,013 --> 00:00:00,014 flying machines operated by 13 00:00:00,014 --> 00:00:00,015 extraterrestrials. 14 00:00:00,015 --> 00:00:00,016 Millions of people around the world believe 15 00:00:00,016 --> 00:00:00,017 we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 16 00:00:00,017 --> 00:00:00,018 What if it were true? 17 00:00:00,018 --> 00:00:00,020 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 18 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:00,020 And might we find proof by 19 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:00,022 searching for our planet's mysterious lost worlds? 20 00:00:00,027 --> 00:00:00,028 sync and corrections by Bellows www.addic7ed.com 21 00:00:00,031 --> 00:00:00,031 Central America 22 00:00:00,032 --> 00:00:00,032 In a fertile valley between 23 00:00:00,032 --> 00:00:00,034 the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, in what is now Honduras, 24 00:00:00,034 --> 00:00:00,035 lie the monumental ruins of Copan. 25 00:00:00,035 --> 00:00:00,036 This archaeological site is believed to have been the 26 00:00:00,036 --> 00:00:00,038 cultural and political center of the once mighty Maya civilization 27 00:00:00,038 --> 00:00:00,039 that thrived between 2000 BC and 800 AD. 28 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:00,041 People have called Copan the paradise of Mesoamerica 29 00:00:00,041 --> 00:00:00,043 because it was such a place for the arts and humanities 30 00:00:00,043 --> 00:00:00,044 The sculpture is beautiful. 31 00:00:00,044 --> 00:00:00,045 Architecture is just magnificent. 32 00:00:00,045 --> 00:00:00,046 It is believed that, at one time, Copan was 33 00:00:00,046 --> 00:00:00,047 inhabited by as many as 20,000 people 34 00:00:00,047 --> 00:00:00,048 and covered an area of ten square miles. 35 00:00:00,048 --> 00:00:00,049 But in the ninth century, this incredible Mayan city 36 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:00,050 was abandoned, and its people vanished. 37 00:00:00,051 --> 00:00:00,052 When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 16th century, 38 00:00:00,052 --> 00:00:00,053 they found only a few farming hamlets. 39 00:00:00,053 --> 00:00:00,054 But why? 40 00:00:00,054 --> 00:00:00,054 They decimated their environment. 41 00:00:00,054 --> 00:00:00,054 Warfare became endemic. 42 00:00:00,055 --> 00:00:00,055 And it ended. 43 00:00:00,055 --> 00:00:00,056 And people left. 44 00:00:00,056 --> 00:00:00,056 They walked away. 45 00:00:00,056 --> 00:00:00,057 To some extend, the idea that the Mayans became a lost culture 46 00:00:00,057 --> 00:00:00,058 is a yes and a no. 47 00:00:00,058 --> 00:00:00,058 We know that they stopped building. 48 00:00:00,058 --> 00:00:00,060 But at the very heart of the Mayan, it's a belief, it's a religion. 49 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:00,060 which continues to beaten to this very day. 50 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:00,062 saying, please pay attention to us because we have this vast body of knowledge 51 00:00:00,062 --> 00:00:00,062 "want to share with the world." 52 00:00:00,064 --> 00:00:00,065 At Copan, the Mayan had built a complex of 53 00:00:00,065 --> 00:00:00,066 monuments, temples and plazas, as well as sculptured 54 00:00:00,066 --> 00:00:00,067 stone pillars depicting ancient kings. 55 00:00:00,067 --> 00:00:00,069 The Maya were also one of the earliest ancient civilizations 56 00:00:00,069 --> 00:00:00,069 to create a written language. 57 00:00:00,069 --> 00:00:00,071 In the last 20, 30 years, it's been a huge advance in 58 00:00:00,071 --> 00:00:00,071 the decoding of their hieroglyphs. 59 00:00:00,072 --> 00:00:00,072 This is obvious happened in our generation is still ongoing. 60 00:00:00,072 --> 00:00:00,073 Might a closer look at the Mayan stone carvings 61 00:00:00,073 --> 00:00:00,075 and their hieroglyphs provide proof of contact with 62 00:00:00,075 --> 00:00:00,075 extraterrestrials at Copan? 63 00:00:00,075 --> 00:00:00,077 According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is yes. 64 00:00:00,077 --> 00:00:00,078 Some of the large stautes at Copan 65 00:00:00,078 --> 00:00:00,079 are infantly fascinating to me the gear they are wearing 66 00:00:00,079 --> 00:00:00,080 is very reminiscent of something technological. 67 00:00:00,081 --> 00:00:00,082 One of the figures has a box with tubes coming out 68 00:00:00,082 --> 00:00:00,083 and buttons and just very weird things. 69 00:00:00,084 --> 00:00:00,084 These statues look like some type of a being 70 00:00:00,085 --> 00:00:00,085 wearing an astronaut suit. 71 00:00:00,085 --> 00:00:00,087 And, in my opinion, that means that we were visited by some 72 00:00:00,087 --> 00:00:00,087 type of extraterrestrials who 73 00:00:00,087 --> 00:00:00,089 were very similar in appearance to us, because according to the 74 00:00:00,089 --> 00:00:00,090 ancient texts, we were created in their image. 75 00:00:00,091 --> 00:00:00,092 Researchers working in Copan have also found stone sculptures 76 00:00:00,092 --> 00:00:00,093 called stelae, which have provoked controversy since 77 00:00:00,093 --> 00:00:00,094 the site was discovered in 1576. 78 00:00:00,094 --> 00:00:00,096 And various interpretations of the carvings suggest the Maya 79 00:00:00,096 --> 00:00:00,097 may have had knowledge of a world far beyond their own continent. 80 00:00:00,097 --> 00:00:00,099 This is one of the curious dragon sculptures here at Copan, 81 00:00:00,099 --> 00:00:00,100 of which there are many. In fact, this very oriental statues 82 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:00,102 would look right at place in China or some other Oriental country. 83 00:00:00,102 --> 00:00:00,104 Some archeologists believe that they are elephants on either side 84 00:00:00,104 --> 00:00:00,105 of this Copan ruler. 85 00:00:00,105 --> 00:00:00,107 So why would there be, here at Copan, such Asian motifs as 86 00:00:00,107 --> 00:00:00,109 elephants and dragons in a place in Central America that is so 87 00:00:00,109 --> 00:00:00,110 far away from China and Southeast Asia? 88 00:00:00,110 --> 00:00:00,111 Is there some kind of extraterrestrial connection 89 00:00:00,111 --> 00:00:00,112 between the Mayans and the Chinese, 90 00:00:00,112 --> 00:00:00,113 and an origin for both that comes from the stars? 91 00:00:00,115 --> 00:00:00,115 How could the early Maya of Central America 92 00:00:00,115 --> 00:00:00,117 have had knowledge possessed by people living in Asia-- 93 00:00:00,117 --> 00:00:00,118 on the other side of the Pacific Ocean? 94 00:00:00,118 --> 00:00:00,119 One of the basic premises of the ancient 95 00:00:00,119 --> 00:00:00,120 astronaut theory suggests that there was contact between 96 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:00,121 ancient cultures way before we give them credit. 97 00:00:00,122 --> 00:00:00,123 These ancient cultures were, in fact, connected by flying machines, 98 00:00:00,124 --> 00:00:00,125 and those flying machines were usually operated 99 00:00:00,125 --> 00:00:00,126 by extraterrestrials. 100 00:00:00,126 --> 00:00:00,127 And especially in the Mayan carvings, we find many 101 00:00:00,127 --> 00:00:00,128 references of the gods descending from the sky 102 00:00:00,128 --> 00:00:00,129 in flying serpents. 103 00:00:00,129 --> 00:00:00,130 Now, do flying serpents actually exist? 104 00:00:00,130 --> 00:00:00,131 Of course not. 105 00:00:00,131 --> 00:00:00,132 But it is a beautiful and very 106 00:00:00,132 --> 00:00:00,134 poetic description of something that is rooted in technology. 107 00:00:00,135 --> 00:00:00,137 Due to the many strange carvings found at Copan really 108 00:00:00,137 --> 00:00:00,138 provide proof of contact between the Maya and otherworldly beings? 109 00:00:00,139 --> 00:00:00,140 And if so, might that contact have produced offspring 110 00:00:00,140 --> 00:00:00,141 that could also be traced to an extraterrestrial source? 111 00:00:00,142 --> 00:00:00,143 On the west side of the main temple at Copan stands a 63-step 112 00:00:00,143 --> 00:00:00,144 structure known as the Hieroglyphic Stairway. 113 00:00:00,144 --> 00:00:00,146 It contains more than 1,200 stones carved with symbols that 114 00:00:00,146 --> 00:00:00,147 record the history of the kings of Copan. 115 00:00:00,147 --> 00:00:00,148 This Hieroglyphic Stairway is the longest Mayan 116 00:00:00,148 --> 00:00:00,148 inscription in the world. 117 00:00:00,148 --> 00:00:00,150 It emphasizes the divine right of the 16 rulers of the Copan 118 00:00:00,150 --> 00:00:00,151 dynasty to rule their subjects-- 119 00:00:00,151 --> 00:00:00,152 a power given to them by the gods. 120 00:00:00,153 --> 00:00:00,154 The Hieroglyphic Stairway mentions the various rulers of Copan. 121 00:00:00,155 --> 00:00:00,156 And talks about them in a semi divine sense. 122 00:00:00,157 --> 00:00:00,158 So, they are human, they're mortal, but they are much more than that. 123 00:00:00,158 --> 00:00:00,158 They are royal. 124 00:00:00,158 --> 00:00:00,160 They have a spirit in their blood, and Maya called it Xuit Lel. 125 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:00,162 A Xuit Lel is in the blood and is the most powerful thing to 126 00:00:00,162 --> 00:00:00,162 get access to the supernatural. 127 00:00:00,163 --> 00:00:00,163 So a king's Xuit Lel, 128 00:00:00,163 --> 00:00:00,165 when shed in a bloodletting ceremony and burned with copal incense, 129 00:00:00,165 --> 00:00:00,166 goes up into the heavens and takes a message to the deities, 130 00:00:00,166 --> 00:00:00,167 and they did things for the Maya. 131 00:00:00,167 --> 00:00:00,169 Could the Maya rulers really have been the descendants 132 00:00:00,169 --> 00:00:00,170 of extraterrestrials, as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 133 00:00:00,171 --> 00:00:00,172 Perhaps conclusive evidence can be found in what is widely believed 134 00:00:00,172 --> 00:00:00,173 to be the most advanced celestial calendar system of ancient times. 135 00:00:00,174 --> 00:00:00,175 The Mayas had most the most precise calendar 136 00:00:00,175 --> 00:00:00,176 of all the people in antiquity, even the Babylonian, the Sumerian 137 00:00:00,176 --> 00:00:00,178 They did not only observed our planetary system 138 00:00:00,178 --> 00:00:00,178 They observed Orion, 139 00:00:00,179 --> 00:00:00,179 they observed Sirius 140 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:00,180 and all the far away systems. 141 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:00,181 One of the things that says about the Maya part 142 00:00:00,181 --> 00:00:00,182 it was the their ability to monitor the passage of astronomical 143 00:00:00,182 --> 00:00:00,183 events and to track the movement of constellations, 144 00:00:00,183 --> 00:00:00,183 to predict eclipses 145 00:00:00,183 --> 00:00:00,184 They really developed some of this knowledge and skills 146 00:00:00,184 --> 00:00:00,185 to a pretty high degree. 147 00:00:00,185 --> 00:00:00,185 It's remarkable. 148 00:00:00,185 --> 00:00:00,187 No telescopes, no metal, 149 00:00:00,187 --> 00:00:00,188 yet the ability to predict time and advance in time 150 00:00:00,188 --> 00:00:00,189 in a way that it was really unprecedented in the world. 151 00:00:00,190 --> 00:00:00,191 But why did the Maya create such precise maps of the Cosmos? 152 00:00:00,191 --> 00:00:00,193 According to ancient astronauts theorists, the Maya's knowledge of the stars, 153 00:00:00,193 --> 00:00:00,194 in fact, came to them, from the stars, 154 00:00:00,194 --> 00:00:00,195 brought by extraterrestrial beings. 155 00:00:00,195 --> 00:00:00,196 When it comes to the ancient Maya that creation mythology 156 00:00:00,196 --> 00:00:00,197 evokes these legends, which say somewhere, just south 157 00:00:00,197 --> 00:00:00,198 of Orion's belt is this place where life originated from 158 00:00:00,198 --> 00:00:00,199 and they came to planet Earth on 1,200 BC 159 00:00:00,199 --> 00:00:00,200 when the ancient Mayans said the gods came to Earth. 160 00:00:00,201 --> 00:00:00,201 Their teachers were the gods, 161 00:00:00,201 --> 00:00:00,202 and the gods were the extraterrestrials. 162 00:00:00,202 --> 00:00:00,203 If beings from another star system really came 163 00:00:00,203 --> 00:00:00,204 to Earth in the ancient past, did they create the foundations 164 00:00:00,204 --> 00:00:00,205 of Mayan civilization and breed with its rulers? 165 00:00:00,206 --> 00:00:00,207 Might they have also visited other areas of our planet? 166 00:00:00,207 --> 00:00:00,208 Perhaps further evidence can be found at a desolate mountain 167 00:00:00,208 --> 00:00:00,210 kingdom visited by ancient priests from the East as the Magi. 168 00:00:00,211 --> 00:00:00,211 Southeastern Turkey. 169 00:00:00,211 --> 00:00:00,213 7,000 feet high, atop a barren mountain called Nemrud Dagi, 170 00:00:00,213 --> 00:00:00,214 lie the ruins of the lost Kingdom of Commagene. 171 00:00:00,214 --> 00:00:00,216 Here, in 62 BC, a mysterious royal sanctuary was built by 172 00:00:00,216 --> 00:00:00,217 King Antiochus I. 173 00:00:00,217 --> 00:00:00,219 Colossal statues were created of lions and eagles, and Persian 174 00:00:00,219 --> 00:00:00,220 and Greek gods, as well as two 175 00:00:00,220 --> 00:00:00,221 massive sculptures of the king himself. 176 00:00:00,221 --> 00:00:00,222 Now, what Antiochus was trying to do was to produce 177 00:00:00,222 --> 00:00:00,224 a synthesis, a new version of the old religions. 178 00:00:00,224 --> 00:00:00,225 And what he basically did was to take the Persian gods and put 179 00:00:00,225 --> 00:00:00,226 them into Greek dress. 180 00:00:00,226 --> 00:00:00,227 So you've got a synthesis happening of the Persian gods 181 00:00:00,227 --> 00:00:00,228 with their Greek equivalents. 182 00:00:00,229 --> 00:00:00,229 The reason he build a colossal statue of himself 183 00:00:00,229 --> 00:00:00,230 among the gods was, I guess, a presumption on his part 184 00:00:00,230 --> 00:00:00,231 that he would indeed ascend to heaven and eventually be among them. 185 00:00:00,232 --> 00:00:00,233 The conical peak was the highest point in the 186 00:00:00,233 --> 00:00:00,233 kingdom of King Antiochus. 187 00:00:00,233 --> 00:00:00,235 Measuring 150 feet high and 500 feet wide, it is man-made with 188 00:00:00,235 --> 00:00:00,236 countless small limestone rocks, 189 00:00:00,236 --> 00:00:00,237 and was said to be the location of the king's royal tomb. 190 00:00:00,238 --> 00:00:00,239 Researchers believe the memorial was originally built as two large plazas. 191 00:00:00,239 --> 00:00:00,240 The one on the east side was used to celebrate the birthday 192 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:00,241 of King Antiochus. 193 00:00:00,241 --> 00:00:00,242 The one on the west side was used to commemorate the day in 194 00:00:00,242 --> 00:00:00,243 62 BC when Antiochus became the leader of a secret society. 195 00:00:00,243 --> 00:00:00,244 I think it's meant to symbolize Mount Olympus, 196 00:00:00,244 --> 00:00:00,245 the home of the gods. 197 00:00:00,246 --> 00:00:00,246 Because you've got the God seated round it and then you've 198 00:00:00,246 --> 00:00:00,247 got a peak above them. 199 00:00:00,247 --> 00:00:00,248 I think this is all very symbolic. 200 00:00:00,248 --> 00:00:00,249 It's a stage for carrying out certain rituals and performances. 201 00:00:00,249 --> 00:00:00,251 And he also shows himself in the relief stelae 202 00:00:00,251 --> 00:00:00,252 shaking hands to all the gods, as if the gods recognize him as 203 00:00:00,252 --> 00:00:00,253 one of their own and are welcoming him into Heaven. 204 00:00:00,253 --> 00:00:00,254 Mysteriously, both the site and the kingdom were 205 00:00:00,254 --> 00:00:00,255 abandoned in the first century AD. 206 00:00:00,255 --> 00:00:00,257 And, so far, the king's legendary burial chamber has never been found. 207 00:00:00,257 --> 00:00:00,259 But another question still just why did King 208 00:00:00,259 --> 00:00:00,260 Antiochus build this mysterious and massive monumental sanctuary? 209 00:00:00,262 --> 00:00:00,263 According to researchers, evidence found at Nemrud Dagi 210 00:00:00,263 --> 00:00:00,264 suggests the king had a profound interest in, and understanding 211 00:00:00,264 --> 00:00:00,265 of star sciences. 212 00:00:00,265 --> 00:00:00,266 One example of the advanced knowledge 213 00:00:00,266 --> 00:00:00,267 of astronomy that they had is actually the 214 00:00:00,267 --> 00:00:00,268 lion horoscope, which gives us a very precise date. 215 00:00:00,268 --> 00:00:00,269 We know that the position of the stars on the lion's body 216 00:00:00,269 --> 00:00:00,270 fits with the positions of stars of Leo given in a book 217 00:00:00,270 --> 00:00:00,271 of Eratosthenes, who was a Greek 218 00:00:00,271 --> 00:00:00,272 astronomer from Alexandria who wrote a book about the stars. 219 00:00:00,273 --> 00:00:00,274 The arrangement of stars on the lion horoscope 220 00:00:00,274 --> 00:00:00,276 represented the constellation of Leo as seen in the sky in July 62 BC, 221 00:00:00,276 --> 00:00:00,278 a configuration that wouldn't be visible again for 25,000 years. 222 00:00:00,279 --> 00:00:00,280 Further evidence of the exceptional knowledge of the 223 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:00,281 stars was found in a nearby shaft 224 00:00:00,281 --> 00:00:00,281 that Antiochus built into the mountain. 225 00:00:00,282 --> 00:00:00,283 The shaft runs into the mountainside there, 226 00:00:00,283 --> 00:00:00,284 at an angle of 35 degrees to the horizontal, 227 00:00:00,284 --> 00:00:00,285 and it's about 150 meters long, 228 00:00:00,285 --> 00:00:00,286 and there's nothing at the bottom. 229 00:00:00,286 --> 00:00:00,287 Computer analysis reveals that on two days of the 230 00:00:00,287 --> 00:00:00,288 year, the sun's rays would illuminate the bottom of the 231 00:00:00,288 --> 00:00:00,290 shaft-- once when in line with the constellation of Leo and 232 00:00:00,290 --> 00:00:00,291 once when in line with Orion. 233 00:00:00,291 --> 00:00:00,292 Now, that is a very interesting point in the sky, 234 00:00:00,292 --> 00:00:00,294 because it's the path where the sun crosses over the Milky Way, our galaxy. 235 00:00:00,294 --> 00:00:00,295 And that, to the ancient world, was known as the Gate of Heaven. 236 00:00:00,295 --> 00:00:00,296 And there were two of these-- one where they cross in the 237 00:00:00,296 --> 00:00:00,296 north and the other where they cross in the south. 238 00:00:00,296 --> 00:00:00,297 There were two Gates to Heaven. 239 00:00:00,297 --> 00:00:00,299 So we can understand that that gateway would be where the soul 240 00:00:00,299 --> 00:00:00,300 of the king is going back to heaven through Heaven's Gate. 241 00:00:00,301 --> 00:00:00,302 Given the fact that neither Antiochus's tomb or 242 00:00:00,302 --> 00:00:00,303 remains have been found, is it possible that the king actually 243 00:00:00,303 --> 00:00:00,303 journeyed to the stars through 244 00:00:00,303 --> 00:00:00,305 a heavenly gate, as ancient astronaut theorists contend? 245 00:00:00,307 --> 00:00:00,308 During his life, researchers believe Antiochus studied with 246 00:00:00,308 --> 00:00:00,309 a priestly sect of Eastern astrologers called the Magi, 247 00:00:00,309 --> 00:00:00,310 who were thought to be able to predict and even manipulate 248 00:00:00,310 --> 00:00:00,311 events based on their knowledge of the stars. 249 00:00:00,312 --> 00:00:00,313 The Magi were renown priests from the far near east. 250 00:00:00,313 --> 00:00:00,314 who had advanced astronomical knowledge 251 00:00:00,314 --> 00:00:00,315 and it's well known that most of the astronomers from the near east 252 00:00:00,315 --> 00:00:00,316 specifically ancient Irak, Sumer, 253 00:00:00,316 --> 00:00:00,317 recorded series of events happening in the heavens 254 00:00:00,317 --> 00:00:00,317 over hundreds of thousands of years. 255 00:00:00,317 --> 00:00:00,319 This information was kept on stone tablets, held very 256 00:00:00,319 --> 00:00:00,320 sacredly and only passed down to the high priests. 257 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,321 According to the Gospel of Matthew 258 00:00:00,321 --> 00:00:00,322 in the New Testament, it was three of these magi who followed 259 00:00:00,322 --> 00:00:00,323 celestial signs and stars to the birthplace of Jesus 260 00:00:00,323 --> 00:00:00,324 in Bethlehem. 261 00:00:00,324 --> 00:00:00,324 A coincidence? 262 00:00:00,324 --> 00:00:00,325 What's interesting about this story is that the 263 00:00:00,325 --> 00:00:00,326 Star of Bethlehem wasn't used as a navigation point. 264 00:00:00,326 --> 00:00:00,328 It is clearly stated as it guided the wise men to the place of Christ. 265 00:00:00,328 --> 00:00:00,329 A star cannot guide someone. 266 00:00:00,329 --> 00:00:00,329 It can only be used as a navigation point. 267 00:00:00,329 --> 00:00:00,331 So this brings up the idea that the star was possibly a UFO. 268 00:00:00,331 --> 00:00:00,332 Today we think that the Magi were magicians 269 00:00:00,332 --> 00:00:00,334 and that is actually why we have the word magic today. 270 00:00:00,334 --> 00:00:00,335 But when I hear about magical powers, that raises a flag 271 00:00:00,335 --> 00:00:00,337 because magic as such does not exist. 272 00:00:00,337 --> 00:00:00,339 So were these Magi, in fact, in possession of some type of an 273 00:00:00,339 --> 00:00:00,340 extraterrestrial technology? 274 00:00:00,340 --> 00:00:00,341 Because, according to the ancient texts, it was the 275 00:00:00,341 --> 00:00:00,342 initiates of each culture who were in touch with extraterrestrials. 276 00:00:00,342 --> 00:00:00,344 And it was the initiates who later became priests or magi. 277 00:00:00,344 --> 00:00:00,346 Is it possible that Antiochus was, in fact, a magi, 278 00:00:00,346 --> 00:00:00,347 one who learned celestial knowledge from extraterrestrial sources? 279 00:00:00,348 --> 00:00:00,349 If so, might the monumental sanctuary at Nemrud Dagi have 280 00:00:00,349 --> 00:00:00,351 been built as a place to contact star travelers? 281 00:00:00,351 --> 00:00:00,353 The answer may have been found among the ruins of Nemrud Dagi. 282 00:00:00,353 --> 00:00:00,354 The head of Antiochus is placed on the 283 00:00:00,354 --> 00:00:00,354 statue which is appropriate for Mercury, and that's because 284 00:00:00,354 --> 00:00:00,356 Mercury is the planet of initiation for priests. 285 00:00:00,356 --> 00:00:00,357 And he's one himself, so he models it on himself. 286 00:00:00,357 --> 00:00:00,358 And people think this is him being boastful-- sitting among the gods. 287 00:00:00,358 --> 00:00:00,358 It's not. 288 00:00:00,358 --> 00:00:00,359 It's actually a code to say that he's one with the priests. 289 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:00,361 Eventually annexed by the Romans in the first 290 00:00:00,361 --> 00:00:00,362 century AD, King Antiochus and his court became scattered 291 00:00:00,362 --> 00:00:00,363 throughout the region. 292 00:00:00,363 --> 00:00:00,363 Or were they? 293 00:00:00,363 --> 00:00:00,364 According to ancient astronaut theorists, they may have instead 294 00:00:00,364 --> 00:00:00,366 used a heavenly gate to depart through--- to a distant realm. 295 00:00:00,366 --> 00:00:00,367 An audacious idea? 296 00:00:00,367 --> 00:00:00,367 Perhaps. 297 00:00:00,367 --> 00:00:00,369 And there are those who believe further evidence can be found in 298 00:00:00,369 --> 00:00:00,370 one of the driest areas of the world-- in South America. 299 00:00:00,372 --> 00:00:00,373 Peru, South America. 300 00:00:00,373 --> 00:00:00,374 250 miles south of the capital of Lima lies one of the driest 301 00:00:00,374 --> 00:00:00,376 places on Earth-- a wasteland that once was home to an ancient 302 00:00:00,376 --> 00:00:00,377 civilization called Nazca. 303 00:00:00,377 --> 00:00:00,378 Thriving between the 15th century BC and 500 AD, 304 00:00:00,378 --> 00:00:00,380 the Nazca were a deeply religious and spiritual people who built 305 00:00:00,380 --> 00:00:00,381 their ceremonial center in the temple city of Cahuachi. 306 00:00:00,382 --> 00:00:00,384 Cahuachi is the largest adobe ceremonial center in the world 307 00:00:00,384 --> 00:00:00,385 Therefore, we find groups of temples and pyramids 308 00:00:00,385 --> 00:00:00,386 of immense size. Spirituality was the most important thing in Cahuachi 309 00:00:00,387 --> 00:00:00,388 The people of Nazca used the sacred spaces to elevate themselves 310 00:00:00,388 --> 00:00:00,389 in order to communicate with the deities. 311 00:00:00,389 --> 00:00:00,390 The Nazca were predominantly were farming people 312 00:00:00,390 --> 00:00:00,392 So Cahuachi was built at the prime when they had all the food they needed 313 00:00:00,392 --> 00:00:00,393 and they had enough resources to be able to develop 314 00:00:00,393 --> 00:00:00,394 a highly evolved religious system. 315 00:00:00,394 --> 00:00:00,395 But the Nazca people and their culture 316 00:00:00,395 --> 00:00:00,396 mysteriously vanished some 1,200 years ago, though not 317 00:00:00,396 --> 00:00:00,397 before etching a series of enormous geoglyphs-- 318 00:00:00,397 --> 00:00:00,398 or ground drawings-- into the nearby desert floor. 319 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:00,400 The Nazca Lines were an important 320 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:00,402 element of their religious worship and their ceremonies. 321 00:00:00,402 --> 00:00:00,403 They would walk through these lines during their ceremonies, 322 00:00:00,403 --> 00:00:00,404 breaking ceramics and offering 323 00:00:00,404 --> 00:00:00,405 important elements to the deities from their own culture. 324 00:00:00,406 --> 00:00:00,407 The great geoglyphs are composed of dozens of 325 00:00:00,407 --> 00:00:00,410 spirals, triangles and trapezoids, as well as miles of zigzagging lines. 326 00:00:00,410 --> 00:00:00,411 This whole flat area, which covers several 327 00:00:00,411 --> 00:00:00,412 square miles, is covered in stones made of iron oxide, 328 00:00:00,412 --> 00:00:00,413 either red or black, and that's what gives it the darkish, 329 00:00:00,413 --> 00:00:00,414 brownish red appearance. 330 00:00:00,414 --> 00:00:00,414 But right underneath the surface 331 00:00:00,414 --> 00:00:00,416 is clay, which is white, and all I have to do--- 332 00:00:00,417 --> 00:00:00,418 is that. 333 00:00:00,418 --> 00:00:00,419 The contrast between the clay 334 00:00:00,419 --> 00:00:00,420 and the iron oxide gives a Nazca Line. 335 00:00:00,420 --> 00:00:00,422 Acre size drawings depict a hummingbird, a spider, 336 00:00:00,422 --> 00:00:00,424 a killer whale and a human figure with owl-like eyes. 337 00:00:00,424 --> 00:00:00,425 They would have had to have had observation from the 338 00:00:00,425 --> 00:00:00,426 sky in order to guide the workforce the ground 339 00:00:00,426 --> 00:00:00,428 as to how to draw complicated figures such as the spider and 340 00:00:00,428 --> 00:00:00,428 the hummingbird. 341 00:00:00,428 --> 00:00:00,429 Preserved for centuries by the lack of wind 342 00:00:00,429 --> 00:00:00,430 and rain, the lines are best seen from the air, and were 343 00:00:00,430 --> 00:00:00,432 first spotted by aviators in the 1930s. 344 00:00:00,432 --> 00:00:00,433 But why did the Nazca create patterns that could only 345 00:00:00,433 --> 00:00:00,434 be properly seen from a great height? 346 00:00:00,434 --> 00:00:00,435 The obvious answer is because you can see only from the sky. 347 00:00:00,435 --> 00:00:00,437 Many of our ancestors would talk about the star people. 348 00:00:00,437 --> 00:00:00,439 All these sacred sites we consider it is for whom? For the star people 349 00:00:00,439 --> 00:00:00,440 At Nazca and other areas in Peru 350 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:00,442 there are legends of sky people and gods coming down from the sky. 351 00:00:00,443 --> 00:00:00,444 But might the so-called star people referred 352 00:00:00,444 --> 00:00:00,445 to in the Nazca legends really have been extraterrestrial 353 00:00:00,445 --> 00:00:00,446 beings, as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 354 00:00:00,447 --> 00:00:00,447 In the beginning there was just one line 355 00:00:00,447 --> 00:00:00,449 made by some robot or some extraterrestrial spaceship 356 00:00:00,449 --> 00:00:00,450 or space shuttle because they were looking for raw material for energy. 357 00:00:00,450 --> 00:00:00,452 After a while the local population would see all those tracks on the ground. 358 00:00:00,452 --> 00:00:00,454 And they would say, that these tracks were just left behind 359 00:00:00,454 --> 00:00:00,455 by these divine beings, by the gods. 360 00:00:00,455 --> 00:00:00,457 And then they would wonder and "what can we do for those gods to return?" 361 00:00:00,458 --> 00:00:00,459 According to ancient astronaut theory, 362 00:00:00,459 --> 00:00:00,460 the earliest of the Nazca Lines were made in imitation of the 363 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:00,461 trails left by the first space visitors. 364 00:00:00,461 --> 00:00:00,462 Later generations added more elaborate lines, and then 365 00:00:00,462 --> 00:00:00,463 shapes and figures, all in an 366 00:00:00,463 --> 00:00:00,464 attempt to signal the star gods to return. 367 00:00:00,464 --> 00:00:00,465 But they never did. 368 00:00:00,465 --> 00:00:00,467 And this caused the population to doubt the deities, because it 369 00:00:00,467 --> 00:00:00,468 was mainly a psychological problem they had with their 370 00:00:00,468 --> 00:00:00,469 deities that brought about the 371 00:00:00,469 --> 00:00:00,470 abandonment and collapse of the Nazca culture. 372 00:00:00,472 --> 00:00:00,472 But could there be other evidence of alien contact 373 00:00:00,472 --> 00:00:00,474 with the ancient people of Peru that is even more astounding 374 00:00:00,474 --> 00:00:00,474 than the Nazca Lines? 375 00:00:00,475 --> 00:00:00,475 Some of the skulls that we find today, because it's 376 00:00:00,475 --> 00:00:00,476 a very dry desert and they're well preserved, are some of the 377 00:00:00,476 --> 00:00:00,477 most astonishing, elongated skulls that you'll ever see. 378 00:00:00,477 --> 00:00:00,478 And they look like extraterrestrials. 379 00:00:00,478 --> 00:00:00,479 According to Nazca 380 00:00:00,479 --> 00:00:00,480 legends, the gods had elongated heads, 381 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:00,481 much like the distended skulls of the controversial 382 00:00:00,481 --> 00:00:00,482 Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamen and his sister Meretaten. 383 00:00:00,483 --> 00:00:00,483 I honestly believe that the largest of the 384 00:00:00,483 --> 00:00:00,485 elongated skulls represent hybrid human beings dating 385 00:00:00,485 --> 00:00:00,486 back thousands of years, who lived here very peacefully 386 00:00:00,486 --> 00:00:00,487 and could very well be the ancestors of the lnca. 387 00:00:00,487 --> 00:00:00,489 And that could be the reason why the Inca suddenly were these 388 00:00:00,489 --> 00:00:00,490 people of incredible sophistication who came from 389 00:00:00,490 --> 00:00:00,490 seemingly nowhere. 390 00:00:00,490 --> 00:00:00,492 It's possible that they're descendants from star beings. 391 00:00:00,492 --> 00:00:00,493 Were they trying to imitate people they had 392 00:00:00,493 --> 00:00:00,494 already seen, gods from outer space? 393 00:00:00,495 --> 00:00:00,495 Is it possible the ancient Nazca altered their 394 00:00:00,495 --> 00:00:00,497 bodies and their lands in order to communicate with or emulate 395 00:00:00,497 --> 00:00:00,497 something their ancestors may 396 00:00:00,497 --> 00:00:00,499 have witnessed, something out of this world? 397 00:00:00,499 --> 00:00:00,500 Perhaps further clues to mankind's extraterrestrial 398 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:00,501 connection can be found in the 399 00:00:00,501 --> 00:00:00,502 most remote place on planet in the South Pacific. 400 00:00:00,504 --> 00:00:00,504 The South Pacific Ocean. 401 00:00:00,505 --> 00:00:00,506 2,300 miles west of South America, in one of the most 402 00:00:00,506 --> 00:00:00,507 remote places on Earth, giant 403 00:00:00,507 --> 00:00:00,508 stone figures stand with their backs to the sea. 404 00:00:00,509 --> 00:00:00,510 Called moai by the native inhabitants, they are the silent 405 00:00:00,510 --> 00:00:00,511 sentinels of Easter Island. 406 00:00:00,511 --> 00:00:00,512 The moais are scattered throughout the island, 407 00:00:00,512 --> 00:00:00,513 and they're positioned on top of platforms, for the most part. 408 00:00:00,513 --> 00:00:00,515 A moai is a stone sculpture of a deceased ancestor 409 00:00:00,515 --> 00:00:00,515 They were once living individuals 410 00:00:00,515 --> 00:00:00,516 who ruled the society or led the society. 411 00:00:00,516 --> 00:00:00,517 They were chiefs. 412 00:00:00,517 --> 00:00:00,517 And then, upon their death, 413 00:00:00,517 --> 00:00:00,518 we believe that they've become represented in stone. 414 00:00:00,519 --> 00:00:00,520 Nearly 900 moai were carved between the 12th and 18th centuries. 415 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:00,522 Hewn with stone tools from volcanic rock, the tallest 416 00:00:00,522 --> 00:00:00,524 stands a towering 33 feet high and weighs a staggering 75 tons. 417 00:00:00,524 --> 00:00:00,526 They were even more unique-looking in the past. 418 00:00:00,526 --> 00:00:00,526 They may have been painted. 419 00:00:00,526 --> 00:00:00,527 And they also had large white coral eyes with obsidian pupils. 420 00:00:00,527 --> 00:00:00,528 So it's a very effective way of kind of telling people, not 421 00:00:00,528 --> 00:00:00,530 verbally but symbolically, that someone's watching you and you 422 00:00:00,530 --> 00:00:00,530 should toe the line. 423 00:00:00,530 --> 00:00:00,530 You should do what you're supposed to do. 424 00:00:00,531 --> 00:00:00,532 The people who created the moai called 425 00:00:00,532 --> 00:00:00,533 themselves the Rapa Nui, and mainstream historians 426 00:00:00,533 --> 00:00:00,534 believe their Polynesian ancestors came to the island in 427 00:00:00,534 --> 00:00:00,535 canoes from across the vast 428 00:00:00,535 --> 00:00:00,536 Pacific Ocean between 700 and 1100 AD. 429 00:00:00,536 --> 00:00:00,538 But over several centuries, for reasons that are still unclear, 430 00:00:00,538 --> 00:00:00,539 what was once an island paradise withered into a treeless desert, 431 00:00:00,539 --> 00:00:00,541 stalked by famine, violence and some say cannibalism. 432 00:00:00,542 --> 00:00:00,543 When the first europeans arrived in 1722, the Rapa Nui culture 433 00:00:00,543 --> 00:00:00,544 had already been nearly wiped out... 434 00:00:00,544 --> 00:00:00,545 and few could imagine how such primitive people could have 435 00:00:00,545 --> 00:00:00,546 created the moai. 436 00:00:00,546 --> 00:00:00,547 How in the heck did they make these? Where did they come from? 437 00:00:00,547 --> 00:00:00,548 And how did they move them? 438 00:00:00,548 --> 00:00:00,549 Nobody has the answer. 439 00:00:00,549 --> 00:00:00,550 Modern scientists have tried, and so far have failed 440 00:00:00,550 --> 00:00:00,551 to duplicate the feats of the ancient Rapa Nui. 441 00:00:00,552 --> 00:00:00,553 In 1987, anthropologist Charles Love used rollers to move a 442 00:00:00,553 --> 00:00:00,555 nine-ton moai replica at Western Wyoming Community College. 443 00:00:00,555 --> 00:00:00,555 Ready? 444 00:00:00,555 --> 00:00:00,555 On three. 445 00:00:00,555 --> 00:00:00,556 One, two, three. 446 00:00:00,556 --> 00:00:00,556 Come on, Rick. 447 00:00:00,556 --> 00:00:00,557 - Come on. - Get it 448 00:00:00,557 --> 00:00:00,557 Good. 449 00:00:00,557 --> 00:00:00,558 Thank you. 450 00:00:00,558 --> 00:00:00,558 Whoa. 451 00:00:00,558 --> 00:00:00,559 Only able to budge it about half an inch. 452 00:00:00,559 --> 00:00:00,560 Other researchers have tried pulling moai with sleds. 453 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:00,562 But there is a unique problem with the idea of moving moai 454 00:00:00,562 --> 00:00:00,562 with sleds or rollers. 455 00:00:00,562 --> 00:00:00,563 When you go to Easter Island, you don't get the 456 00:00:00,563 --> 00:00:00,564 impression they had enough wood to have rollers. 457 00:00:00,564 --> 00:00:00,566 And in fact, in the 1700s, the first four expeditions to Easter 458 00:00:00,566 --> 00:00:00,566 Island never really saw a tree. 459 00:00:00,567 --> 00:00:00,567 And so that's the real mystery of Easter Island 460 00:00:00,567 --> 00:00:00,569 how can you move a multi-ton statue if you have no trees for rollers? 461 00:00:00,569 --> 00:00:00,571 According to the oral history of the Rapa Nui, 462 00:00:00,571 --> 00:00:00,572 the moai were moved in a very unusual way. 463 00:00:00,573 --> 00:00:00,574 They all reply basically the same thing. 464 00:00:00,574 --> 00:00:00,575 The moai walked to the ahu, and that's the only explanation that they give. 465 00:00:00,575 --> 00:00:00,577 But who or what had the power to make multi-ton moai 466 00:00:00,577 --> 00:00:00,578 appear to walk to their ahu, or stone platforms? 467 00:00:00,579 --> 00:00:00,580 In 1919, British archaeologist Katherine Routledge, who lived 468 00:00:00,580 --> 00:00:00,581 on Easter Island for a year, recorded the legends and 469 00:00:00,581 --> 00:00:00,583 testimony of an old woman who said the moai were moved with 470 00:00:00,583 --> 00:00:00,584 a mystical energy called mana. 471 00:00:00,584 --> 00:00:00,585 And according to the oral histories of the Rapa Nui, 472 00:00:00,585 --> 00:00:00,586 mana came from the gods. 473 00:00:00,586 --> 00:00:00,588 Mana was a direct gift of the gods given to the Easter islanders 474 00:00:00,588 --> 00:00:00,590 Was this mana really a type of magical force? 475 00:00:00,590 --> 00:00:00,590 Of course not. 476 00:00:00,590 --> 00:00:00,591 It was some type of misunderstood technology, 477 00:00:00,591 --> 00:00:00,593 some type of a device, an extraterrestrial tool with which 478 00:00:00,593 --> 00:00:00,594 you could move those massive Easter Island heads rather easily. 479 00:00:00,595 --> 00:00:00,596 Did early inhabitants of Easter Island 480 00:00:00,596 --> 00:00:00,597 really know how to unlock the secrets of gravity using mana? 481 00:00:00,597 --> 00:00:00,599 And if so, where might such power over the physical world have come from? 482 00:00:00,599 --> 00:00:00,601 Researchers believe there are clues hidden within mysterious 483 00:00:00,601 --> 00:00:00,602 written texts called rongorongo, inscribed on pieces 484 00:00:00,602 --> 00:00:00,603 of wood, discovered on the island in the 19th century. 485 00:00:00,604 --> 00:00:00,605 This is a rongorongo board. And it's a replica of ones of old. 486 00:00:00,605 --> 00:00:00,606 About 25 of them are known. 487 00:00:00,606 --> 00:00:00,606 We have had about six or eight different attempts at 488 00:00:00,606 --> 00:00:00,608 translating these things, with six or eight different results. 489 00:00:00,608 --> 00:00:00,609 You have to ask yourself, how could the Easter islanders 490 00:00:00,609 --> 00:00:00,611 have invented their own writing without some other cultural 491 00:00:00,611 --> 00:00:00,612 influence coming there. 492 00:00:00,612 --> 00:00:00,613 Would it have been ancient seafarers coming to Easter Island 493 00:00:00,613 --> 00:00:00,614 or perhaps even space visitors? 494 00:00:00,615 --> 00:00:00,616 Further evidence of early contact with otherworldly beings 495 00:00:00,616 --> 00:00:00,617 can be found in numerous strange stone carvings-- 496 00:00:00,617 --> 00:00:00,618 called petroglyphs. 497 00:00:00,618 --> 00:00:00,619 What we see in the petroglyph art of the island are 498 00:00:00,619 --> 00:00:00,620 these figures of bird men, these tangata manus, carved in bas 499 00:00:00,620 --> 00:00:00,622 relief on the rocks on the very edge of the precipice. 500 00:00:00,622 --> 00:00:00,623 In the myths of Easter Island's Rapa Nui, 501 00:00:00,623 --> 00:00:00,625 the bird man represents Makemake, the chief god and creator of humanity. 502 00:00:00,625 --> 00:00:00,625 Did at some point in the past a creature come, 503 00:00:00,625 --> 00:00:00,626 which was Bird man who flew in from somewhere? 504 00:00:00,626 --> 00:00:00,627 Did he arrive on this island and did he indeed 505 00:00:00,627 --> 00:00:00,628 live very much like a pariah? 506 00:00:00,628 --> 00:00:00,629 Did he die or did he take off again, and is this what the 507 00:00:00,629 --> 00:00:00,630 locals keep this legend of this creature who came to them alive 508 00:00:00,630 --> 00:00:00,631 through myth, legend and ritual. 509 00:00:00,632 --> 00:00:00,633 Walking stone giants, 510 00:00:00,633 --> 00:00:00,634 petroglyphs of flying beings--- 511 00:00:00,634 --> 00:00:00,635 might the ancient inhabitants of Easter Island have been 512 00:00:00,635 --> 00:00:00,636 familiar with antigravity levitation and spaceflight? 513 00:00:00,636 --> 00:00:00,638 If so, might these astounding abilities-- forever lost to 514 00:00:00,638 --> 00:00:00,640 time, have been made possible by extraterrestrial visitors? 515 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,641 Perhaps more evidence can be found in the most famous and 516 00:00:00,641 --> 00:00:00,642 alluring of all lost worlds-- the Garden of Eden. 517 00:00:00,643 --> 00:00:00,644 The Middle East 518 00:00:00,644 --> 00:00:00,645 For centuries, archaeologists, 519 00:00:00,645 --> 00:00:00,646 theologians and scholars have debated the location-- and even 520 00:00:00,646 --> 00:00:00,648 the existence of the ultimate of all lost worlds-- 521 00:00:00,648 --> 00:00:00,649 the biblical "Garden of Eden." 522 00:00:00,649 --> 00:00:00,651 It was here, according to the Hebrew Book of Genesis, that 523 00:00:00,651 --> 00:00:00,651 a paradise once existed-- 524 00:00:00,651 --> 00:00:00,653 a paradise where the first human beings, Adam and Eve, were 525 00:00:00,653 --> 00:00:00,653 actually created by God. 526 00:00:00,654 --> 00:00:00,655 But could such a paradise, now shrouded in myth and legend, 527 00:00:00,655 --> 00:00:00,656 have actually been a real place? 528 00:00:00,656 --> 00:00:00,657 When we're looking at the Garden of Eden 529 00:00:00,657 --> 00:00:00,659 we know there is actually a physical description as to where it was. 530 00:00:00,659 --> 00:00:00,660 It is set at four very specific rivers, came from it, over near it 531 00:00:00,660 --> 00:00:00,661 So we can actually go in search of this. 532 00:00:00,661 --> 00:00:00,662 Two of these rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, 533 00:00:00,662 --> 00:00:00,663 are well known and actually run through what is Irak today. 534 00:00:00,663 --> 00:00:00,665 The other two rivers that are described are not very clear. 535 00:00:00,665 --> 00:00:00,666 Researchers now believe the third river, known 536 00:00:00,666 --> 00:00:00,667 as the Karun River, runs through Iran and joins the Euphrates 537 00:00:00,667 --> 00:00:00,668 just north of the Persian Gulf. 538 00:00:00,668 --> 00:00:00,670 Then, in 2010, satellite imagery revealed a fossil river, or dry 539 00:00:00,670 --> 00:00:00,672 riverbed, called the Wadi Baton, that once flowed through 540 00:00:00,672 --> 00:00:00,673 northern Arabia and also joined with the Euphrates. 541 00:00:00,673 --> 00:00:00,675 Could these two rivers have been the location of the Pishon 542 00:00:00,675 --> 00:00:00,675 and Gihon rivers-- the lost rivers mentioned in the Bible-- 543 00:00:00,675 --> 00:00:00,677 that point to the actual location of the Garden of Eden? 544 00:00:00,677 --> 00:00:00,678 When you read the account in the Genesis 545 00:00:00,678 --> 00:00:00,679 it says that the four rivers form one river 546 00:00:00,679 --> 00:00:00,680 So very careful reading indicates that the two rivers 547 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,681 which are today in Irak, Tigris and Euphrates, and the one which 548 00:00:00,681 --> 00:00:00,682 is in Iran, the Karun and a false river, in Arabia, and then when you join them up 549 00:00:00,682 --> 00:00:00,683 to form one river that is the approximate location of northern Persian Gulf. 550 00:00:00,683 --> 00:00:00,684 And according to the Bible, that one river flowed 551 00:00:00,684 --> 00:00:00,685 through the Garden of Eden. 552 00:00:00,685 --> 00:00:00,686 And so, based upon Landsat images and a close 553 00:00:00,686 --> 00:00:00,687 reading of the Hebrew text, I think that the location of the 554 00:00:00,687 --> 00:00:00,687 Garden of Eden is under the 555 00:00:00,687 --> 00:00:00,688 waters of the Persian Gulf and not on land. 556 00:00:00,689 --> 00:00:00,690 Scientists believe that during the last ice age, 557 00:00:00,690 --> 00:00:00,691 the polar ice caps were two miles high and ocean levels were 558 00:00:00,691 --> 00:00:00,692 170 feet lower than they are today. 559 00:00:00,692 --> 00:00:00,694 Recent studies suggest the area of the Persian Gulf would have 560 00:00:00,694 --> 00:00:00,695 been a dry, fertile plain the size of Great Britain, providing 561 00:00:00,695 --> 00:00:00,696 an ideal refuge to some of the earliest humans outside Africa 562 00:00:00,696 --> 00:00:00,697 nearly 75,000 years ago. 563 00:00:00,697 --> 00:00:00,699 But as the ice caps melted over the course of thousands of 564 00:00:00,699 --> 00:00:00,700 years, the waters of what is now the Indian Ocean flooded the 565 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:00,701 land and formed the Persian Gulf. 566 00:00:00,701 --> 00:00:00,702 During that long period, there were at least 567 00:00:00,702 --> 00:00:00,703 three episodes of very very major flooding. 568 00:00:00,703 --> 00:00:00,704 When you would be looking at 30 or 40 ft rises in sea level 569 00:00:00,704 --> 00:00:00,705 virtually over night. 570 00:00:00,705 --> 00:00:00,706 Might a great flood-- perhaps the one 571 00:00:00,706 --> 00:00:00,707 described in the biblical story of Noah's Ark, really be 572 00:00:00,707 --> 00:00:00,709 responsible for the disappearance of the so-called "Garden of Eden"? 573 00:00:00,709 --> 00:00:00,710 Ancient astronaut theorists believe it is not only possible, 574 00:00:00,710 --> 00:00:00,711 but that the proof can be found by studying ancient Sumerian texts. 575 00:00:00,712 --> 00:00:00,714 The earliest known civilization of Sumer dates to 5,000 BC, 576 00:00:00,714 --> 00:00:00,715 and their first settlement in southern Mesopotamia was called Eridu. 577 00:00:00,716 --> 00:00:00,716 The ancient Sumerians have a wonderful story. 578 00:00:00,717 --> 00:00:00,717 They believe that they had lived in an area that was probably to 579 00:00:00,717 --> 00:00:00,718 the south of what is today Sumer. 580 00:00:00,719 --> 00:00:00,719 And the reason we know that is because they said they came out of the sea. 581 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:00,721 Ancient cuneiform writings that have survived on 582 00:00:00,721 --> 00:00:00,722 clay tablets suggest the Sumerians had been brought to 583 00:00:00,722 --> 00:00:00,723 Eridu by their god Enki. 584 00:00:00,723 --> 00:00:00,724 The cuneiform texts also describe an alien race named 585 00:00:00,724 --> 00:00:00,726 the Anunnaki who came to Earth and created the first modern human beings. 586 00:00:00,727 --> 00:00:00,728 Adam in sumerian or a very early form of 587 00:00:00,728 --> 00:00:00,729 Sumerian, means "a small rural settlement." 588 00:00:00,730 --> 00:00:00,731 "Eve," however, isn't Sumerian. "Eve" in Arabic and the Semitic 589 00:00:00,731 --> 00:00:00,732 languages means "one who gives birth." 590 00:00:00,732 --> 00:00:00,733 The word "Eden" is a pre-Sumerian word and it means "plain." 591 00:00:00,733 --> 00:00:00,734 But, according to ancient astronaut theory, the 592 00:00:00,734 --> 00:00:00,735 Sumerian accounts may actually refer to a more ancient time, 593 00:00:00,735 --> 00:00:00,737 and to a distant fertile plain now lost under the waters of the Persian Gulf. 594 00:00:00,738 --> 00:00:00,738 Now the question is this, was the Garden of Eden 595 00:00:00,738 --> 00:00:00,739 really some kind of laboratory where certain things were 596 00:00:00,739 --> 00:00:00,740 created by the ancient scientists of their day? 597 00:00:00,741 --> 00:00:00,742 Well, if mankind was created in a Garden of Eden, then clearly 598 00:00:00,742 --> 00:00:00,743 whoever was creating this wasn't a human being, 599 00:00:00,743 --> 00:00:00,743 it was somebody else. 600 00:00:00,744 --> 00:00:00,745 So is it possible that the Garden of Eden 601 00:00:00,745 --> 00:00:00,745 was located here on planet Earth? 602 00:00:00,745 --> 00:00:00,747 Yes, but was it a specific geographic location? 603 00:00:00,747 --> 00:00:00,747 I'm not sure. 604 00:00:00,748 --> 00:00:00,749 Personally, I'm leaning more towards the idea that the Garden 605 00:00:00,749 --> 00:00:00,750 of Eden was some type of a closed environment somewhere 606 00:00:00,750 --> 00:00:00,751 in nature, but it definitely was 607 00:00:00,751 --> 00:00:00,753 some type of a laboratory from where modern man originated. 608 00:00:00,754 --> 00:00:00,755 Is it really possible that the first humans 609 00:00:00,755 --> 00:00:00,756 were created by extraterrestrial beings in what is referred to 610 00:00:00,756 --> 00:00:00,757 in the Bible as a "Garden of Eden"? 611 00:00:00,757 --> 00:00:00,759 If so, has the evidence existed all along, on the cuneiform 612 00:00:00,759 --> 00:00:00,760 tablets of the ancient Sumerians? 613 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:00,761 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is a 614 00:00:00,761 --> 00:00:00,762 definite yes. 615 00:00:00,762 --> 00:00:00,763 And there are those who believe that such an incredible notion 616 00:00:00,763 --> 00:00:00,764 is not only possible, but that the proof lies in the further 617 00:00:00,764 --> 00:00:00,766 investigation of lost civilizations and ancient worlds-- 618 00:00:00,766 --> 00:00:00,767 an investigation that will not only uncover our past, 619 00:00:00,767 --> 00:00:00,768 but reveal our future. 620 00:00:00,768 --> 00:00:02,768 �9moovlmvhd�g� �g� 54020

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