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Human corpses preserved
for thousands of years...

The ancient Egyptians were
convinced that the dead

could and would reawaken one day.

Strange relics placed on
the bodies of the dead...

One of them had images of winged beings.

And monks buried... while still alive.

These funerary rites
would be all about humans

becoming, not just like the
gods, but gods themselves.

Mysterious burial rituals and
elaborate mummification processes

have been found on every
continent on the planet.

But why?

Were the ancients simply
trying to cheat death?

Or could there be another...
more otherworldly... explanation?

It is possible the mummies
were being preserved

so that they may be reunited with the gods

that actually started their culture.

Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in
the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so,

might the ultimate proof be hidden
in the secrets of the mummies?

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Vatican City. April 2, 2005.

Pope John Paul II dies,

bringing his historic
26-year papacy to a close.

His corpse is chemically preserved

and transported to St. Peter's
Basilica for public viewing.

In a funeral service watched by millions,

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

speaks of the beloved pontiff's soul

being guided to the
"eternal glory" of Heaven.

His body is then interred in a large,
underground tomb beneath the church.

We can see that a great deal of care

was taken to preserve
Pope John Paul's body.

And the idea is that death, in fact,

is just the beginning of this journey.

Many modern funerals,

those that take place in
Europe and the Americas,

many of the initial ideas actually
have their roots in Ancient Egypt.

In ancient Egypt, bodies were mummified

and put into sarcophagi
that resemble human beings.

And this is still done today,

in many religious traditions,
including the Roman Catholic Church.

Mummification is any process

used to prevent the decaying of the body

that naturally occurs after death.

The preserved body of Pope John Paul II is,

essentially, a mummy.

And, in fact, modern-day mummies
can be found all over the world.

When Communist revolutionary
Vladimir Lenin died in 1924,

Russian scientists preserved his body

by removing the organs and replacing them

with a secret system to simulate
the movement of bodily fluids.

The process has kept him
looking astonishingly lifelike

to this day, and was also
used to preserve the bodies

of Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il,

President Ferdinand
Marcos of the Philippines,

and Chinese emperor Mao Zedong also
remain preserved in remarkable condition.

But it is not just world
leaders who are being mummified.

Any body that is embalmed at
a funeral home is, in effect,

undergoing a type of mummification.

But why do so many people

go to such great lengths to
preserve the body after death.

Our ancestors believed in an afterlife

and that the proper ceremonial
rites at time of death

allowed the departed
to travel to the reward,

to the next life,

which was often imagined to
be in the heavens, the stars,

and that this travel

allowed the person to come
into their full reward.

All over the world,

people continue to preserve bodies

and it's because there is
this idea of living forever;

that death is not the
end, it's a beginning...

it's a transitory state.

For some reason, everyone has
this idea that we need the body

to live forever.

If people truly believed there was a
spiritual essence that infused the body,

that left at the moment of death,

they can't justify mummification.

What can explain the fact
that, for thousands of years,

in cultures throughout the world,

people have held a belief

that the preservation of the body

is necessary to transition
into the afterlife?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe clues can be found

hidden beneath the desert
sands of Upper Egypt.

The Valley of the Kings.

Located on the western
bank of the Nile River

lies one of the most expansive
burial grounds in all of Egypt.

The tombs were constructed
between 1539 and 1075 BC,

for pharaohs and other nobility.

To date,

63 tombs have been discovered
in the Valley of the Kings.

One of the best preserved
is that of Pharaoh Ramses VI,

who ruled from approximately
1145 to 1137 BC.

More than 4,000 years ago,

King Ramses would have started
digging this to become his tomb.

Or, as he called it,
his "House of Eternity."

For Ancient Egyptians,

a tomb wasn't just a place
where they would end up dead.

A tomb was a place where they
would start their eternal life.

The Egyptians believed that, in death,

the soul would split into several parts,

and begin the journey to the afterlife.

But to make this
transition, it was essential

to reunite the soul with the physical body.

And while the Egyptians were not
the first to mummify their dead,

no other ancient culture
went to such great lengths

to preserve the body, and ensure
entrance into the next life.

Ancient Egyptians would put a body that
needed to be mummified in a dry room.

They would first take
out the internal organs,

and they'd pack that body with natron salt

to start the drying process.

And then they would remove the brain.

Then they would rinse the
body with sweet-smelling oils

and cover the entire body in natron salt

and it would stay that way
for about 35 to 70 days.

Once the body was all dried out,
they would wrap the entire body,

putting amulets and other
special jeweled objects

in the linen and then...

once it was completely wrapped...

and be done.

The Egyptians understood the most important

factor in mummification...

the removal of fluids,

which ensures that bacteria cannot survive

and the body will not decay.

Although archeologists

have discovered much about how
these mummies were prepared,

the Egyptians left behind no texts
or instructionson mummification.

Just how the Egyptians came to create

this complex practice remains a mystery.

But they did leave behind extensive records

regarding their thoughts on the afterlife.

This right here is a very good depiction

of the journey of the
afterlife with King Ramses.

You see him here on a solar barge

being protected by all the
different gods behind him,

goddess Isis and god Osiris.

This right here is god Anubis,

and god Anubis is the
god of the mummification.

The most important story in
Egyptian mythology is the god Osiris,

how his brother, Seth, coveted his

brother's power and killed him.

Then...

his wife, Isis, in grief,

got help from Anubis,

who then helped Isis
breathe life back into him,

to survive into the next life

with the help of Anubis the inventor
of embalming and mummification.

The mummification process in Egypt

is often related to, uh,

the star Sirius which we call the Dog Star.

And the mummification rights were overseen

by the Egyptian god Anubis,

who was a jackal-headed god.

And so you have to wonder if Anubis

wasn't some real, physical,
extraterrestrial god.

The ancient Egyptian temple walls are...

are covered with images of transformation,

and what it reveals is that
their core sacred science

was about human transformation or
ascension into celestial beings.

So you wonder is it possible it's because

those who originally taught these
concepts came from the stars?

Could it be that the
ancient Egyptians' beliefs

about the afterlife were influenced

by extraterrestrial visitors?

Was it from these visitors

that they learned the
process of mummification?

And if so,

what was their ultimate agenda?

Perhaps the answers can be found

in ancient mummies that
predate the Egyptians

by thousands of years.

Arica, Chile. 1983.

Workers digging a trench
in this coastal city

just seven miles from the Peruvian border

make a remarkable discovery.

They unearth a cemetery
containing 96 mummies

from the prehistoric Chinchorro culture.

Scientists determine

that some of the remains
date back over 7,000 years,

making these the oldest
known mummies in the world.

The Chinchorro were fishermen

who lived along the
ocean in Chile and Peru,

and in fact, 4,000 years before the
ancient Egyptians started doing it,

the Chinchorro were mummifying
their dead in South America.

The Chinchorros would open
up the cavity of the body.

They would take out all the They would put

sand and grass and other
things inside the body.

They would carefully cover it with mud

and then they'd make mud
masks over their face.

It was a very elaborate
system, embalming these things.

The Chinchorro method of mummification

is strikingly similar to the
process used by the Egyptians

thousands of years later.

But why was this strange
burial ritual continued,

not just in Egypt,

but in civilizations
across the ancient world?

El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru.

January, 2013.

Researchers announce

that they've discovered
an archaeological rarity...

an untouched, 1,300-year-old royal tomb

from the Wari Empire.

A predecessor to the Inca,

the Wari civilization
thrived in central Peru

between 600 and 1100 AD

before mysteriously disappearing.

Inside the tomb was a
treasure trove of gold,

textiles, artifacts and 63 mummified women,

including three Wari queens.

From the three "royaled"
women, one of them had

earrings that had images of winged beings.

These winged, anthropomorphic birds

that we see in religious
art happen from the very

earliest art we know of in South America.

And that's something also that
you see, uh, at Tiahuanaco,

where winged beings are running

towards Viracocha in the center
of the famous Door of the Sun.

So why are these winged beings, then,

on jewelry with the Wari people?

And we find that with Egyptians, too.

The Egyptian god Thoth

is depicted in Egyptian
iconography as a half-bird,

half-man deity.

And it was Thoth

who gave the knowledge
of mummification to Isis.

What's interesting is that there
are other cultures around the world

that also have half-bird,

half-human beings that are treated as gods.

This suggests

that there was some global culture

of extraterrestrial visitors here who were

teaching this mummification
as a technology.

Is it possible

that the Wari images of winged gods

really represent extraterrestrials

who came down from the sky?

Did they visit not just Peru,

but ancient cultures across the world?

And does the fact that these
images are found on Wari mummies

suggest that this was a
science brought to planet earth

by otherworldly beings?

Utcubamba Valley, Peru.

Perched on a mountain cliff in
this isolated region of the Amazon,

stand six massive, clay sarcophagi

known by locals as simply
the "ancient wise men."

Researchers estimate these
eight-foot clay coffins

were constructed between 1100 and 1300 AD.

They were built to house
the mummified remains

of elite members of the Chachapoya tribe,

a pre-Columbian civilization
of fierce warriors.

So we don't know much about

the Chachapoyas people, who they were.

They seemed to be very different
from the other tribes in Peru

and just exactly where they had
come from and where they went

is today, a complete mystery.

I don't know of any other culture
in South America that created

sarcophaguses or coffins.

These coffins were big.

And they were made in the form of humans.

Not unlike the sarcophaguses in Egypt.

The Chachapoya mummies were
buried in a fetal position,

and this is interesting.

The fetal position suggests the possibility

that the mummification rite was
going to lead to a new birth.

It's like the idea that
there's a new incubation,

and this may explain why

we see mummification not
just with the Chachapoya,

but we also see it in Egypt,

and this mummification technology
on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean

does suggest that these people
are after some sort of goal

that we don't yet
understand in modern times.

Could mummification have been
an attempt by the ancients

to not only preserve the body after death,

but to enable the dead to be reborn?

A technique used by extraterrestrials
to achieve power over death?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining mummies

made not from the bodies of the dead,

but from the bodies of people buried alive.

Mount Yudono, Japan.

In the 1,200-year-old Dainichibo temple,

at the base of this holy mountain,

sitting on an alter within a glass case,

is the mummy of the revered Buddhist monk

Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai-Shonin.

Shonin is what is known in Japan

as a Sokushinbutsu, or a Living Buddha.

He died in 1783 at the age of 96,

but shockingly,

this is not when the
mummification process was started.

It began 6 years before his death.

This ritual of self-mummification

was commonly practiced by monks

in the Shingon sect of
Buddhism in northern Japan

between the 11th and 19th centuries.

They would willingly embark

on a process of self-mortification, which

was tantamount to suicide.

The first phase would
last about 1,000 days,

and they would begin the
self-mummification process

by embarking on a very
rigorous low-calorie diet.

In the second phase of the process,

the practitioner would be
imbibing the urushi tea.

Now, the urushi tea is highly toxic.

However, it was believed to

lacquer, basically, the tissues
and organs from the inside out

in order to favor the
mummification process.

And because of its toxicity,

the flesh was so

poisonous that even maggots
would not consume it.

When they were nearly dead,

they would go into a small chamber,

just big enough to sit
in the lotus position.

It would be sealed up, except for a reed

that allowed a little air in,

and inside, the monk had a bell.

One day the bell would not ring

and the followers would withdraw
the reed and seal up the chamber.

After 1,000 days, they would
open it to see what had happened.

If the bodies had mummified,

they were considered Living Buddhas,

and they were redressed in sacerdotal robes

and displayed in special
temple halls called ***.

If they had not mummified,

an exorcism was performed
and they were simply buried.

Although hundreds of monks tried to attain

Sokushinbutsu,

only 24 are known to have succeeded.

But why would these
devout followers of Buddha

have endured such pain in order
to mummify their own bodies?

One of the central beliefs of Buddhism

is reincarnation,

but according to the Shingon sect,

those who successfully complete
the self-mummification process

become higher beings.

The idea was they didn't
think they were dying.

They perceived this as a
state of suspended animation.

It wasn't death for them. It wasn't life.

It was somewhere in between.

They needed the body preserved

to enter this other dimension of reality

and to continue life, although it's
not life as we would interpret it.

They do not have to be reborn

because when you become a Living Buddha,

you have already attained
your nirvana so that, you know,

your... your body remains
kind of immortal in a sense.

They were trying to emulate these

high-ranking or highly-achieving,
spiritually speaking,

beings such as Buddhas or Bodhisattvas.

But what did it mean to a Shingon monk

to become a Living Buddha,

and transition to a higher realm?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the life of
the original Buddha himself.

The historical Buddha was
known as Siddhartha Gautama,

and he was born

around the mid-6th century BCE.

He founded the Buddhist tradition,

in which he expounds on
the path to enlightenment.

It's very important that

the historical Buddha
was understood as a human.

That gives every human practitioner

access to the same level of
ability and enlightenment.

However, he also took
on some magical powers

that, in some ways,

brought him much closer to a
divine being or semi-divine being

than to a normal mortal human.

He was known to teleport
across the Ganges River,

appearing from one side of the river
to the other in the blink of an eye.

When you look at the life
of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha,

he would appear to be somebody that
we would maybe call a star child:

part human, part extraterrestrial.

Is it possible that the first Buddha

had extraterrestrial origins?

Might the Shingon monks have believed

that through the process
of self-mummification

they too could be transformed
into more advanced beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

that further answers can be found

by examining the story
of an Egyptian pharaoh

with extraterrestrial origins.

Amarna, Egypt. 1891.

Italian archaeologist Alessandro Barsanti

explores the tomb constructed
for the Pharaoh Akhenaton,

but finds no evidence of his mummy.

What's really interesting is that
the Egyptologists were certain

that they would find Akhenaton behind

that tomb, and they didn't.

Just what happened to
this revolutionary leader

after his death is as mysterious
as the pharaoh himself.

Was he never actually buried in his tomb,

or could he have been removed?

Akhenaton ruled from 1353 B.C.

until his death 17 years later.

His reign was dominated by controversy

when he abandoned the
pantheon of old Egyptian gods

and instead demanded that his subjects

worship the sun god Aten.

The Aten was something
that he saw in the sky

between two mountains

that inspired him to create
the sacred city of Amarna.

Now, the typical view is
the Aten must be the sun,

but it is entirely possible

that what Akhenaten was seeing

was, in fact, an
extraterrestrial flying craft.

Did Akhenaten uproot the
entire Kingdom of Egypt

because of an extraterrestrial encounter?

Or could there be an even
more profound explanation?

If you compare images of Akhenaten

to other depictions of pharaohs

you'll notice that Akhenaten
looks very different.

He had this very bizarre elongated skull

and he had this weird
potbelly and weird arms.

So was he really a human?

Perhaps Akhenaten was not of this earth.

While archaeologists have yet to
uncover the remains of Akhenaten,

ancient astronaut theorists believe

that depictions of him
having an elongated skull

could be more than just artistic license.

Because there are other
mummies that do, in fact,

have unusual skulls.

Some elongated skulls can be explained

by the fact that numerous ancient
cultures practiced head-binding...

a form of body modification

where the heads of
infants were tightly bound

to force their skulls to
become conical in shape.

But several misshapen skulls
appear to defy explanation.

In Peru and Malta,

elongated skulls have been discovered

that are mysteriously
missing a sagittal suture...

the fibrous jagged joint
found in all human skulls.

When you compare some of
these elongated skulls,

some have sutures like we have as humans,

and then there are other skulls

that do not have the same sutures.

So, is it possible that

some of them are of actual
extraterrestrial origin?

It would not surprise me

in the least bit, in the least bit.

Could the elongated skulls
found on certain mummies

actually be of extraterrestrial origin?

Might they be proof

that humans learned the process of
mummification from alien visitors?

For years, researcher Brien Foerster

has been studying elongated skulls

found in Paracas, Peru,

and recent DNA tests have
yielded startling results.

Initial results, though ambiguous,

seem to indicate that
partial segments of their DNA

are not to be found in
what is called GenBank,

which is the record of human
DNA that's been decoded so far.

Astonishingly, the geneticist
who's been studying them

has said that their DNA,
at least in some aspects,

are not human.

Might the DNA of the
mummified Paracas skulls

contain the truth about ancient
man's contact with extraterrestrials?

Could it be that the mummy of Akhenaten

has never been found because
it was deliberately hidden

or destroyed to keep us from
discovering its alien origins?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that the most compelling
evidence of a connection

between mummification and extraterrestrials

can be found with the Inca,

who treated the dead as though
they were still very much alive.

Cuzco, Peru.

This sacred city was once the
capital of the Inca Empire,

and by the 13th century was the center

of one of the largest
and most sophisticated

Pre-Columbian civilizations
in the Americas.

The Inca were renowned for
their proficiency in architecture

and widely regarded as the most important

of their many temple complexes
was the one known as Qurikancha.

Historical accounts describe it
as a magnificent palace of gold

that housed the most holy
objects of worship for the Inca...

the mummies of their dead kings.

That's where the king did
his most important rituals

and where the mummies of

the previous Sapa Incas,
or kings, were kept.

And those mummies were communicated
with on a regular basis.

Even today,

descendants of the Inca

recreate the centuries-old practice

of using the mummies in sacred ceremonies.

Four times a year they were brought out

and the living descendants
would then consult with them

about the affairs of state,

as well as what they
should do in the future.

It was believed that these mummies
could communicate with deities

or otherworldly beings
in this twilight realm

or in this state between life and death.

They even had

people specially trained to
take care of the royal mummies.

And some of the duties that these
caretakers had were interpreting

what the mummy wished to say,

arranging meetings with
the living and the dead

and strangely even taking the
mummy outside so he could urinate.

But why would the Inca...

the most advanced civilization
in South America at the time...

treat corpses as though they
were living, thinking beings?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the Incan creation story.

The Incan creation myth describes

how the world was created
by the Ayar brothers.

And the word "ayar" actually means mummy,

so written right into the
myth from the very beginning

is the idea that mummification
is of central importance

to whomever and whatever these gods are.

Is it possible

that those mythical gods were actually

extraterrestrial flesh and
blood beings of some kind?

But if the Ayar brothers

really were extraterrestrials,

why would the Inca have used the same term

for these alien visitors as they
did for their mummified dead?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that the Inca may have witnessed
these other-worldly space travelers

emerging from a state
of suspended animation.

What if they were trying to mimic

whatever it is they saw?

And so, if someone with
no technological knowledge,

witnesses someone who is
in suspended animation,

and then they come alive.

They have just witnessed
the resurrection of someone,

someone coming back from the dead,

when in reality, that was never the case.

Is it possible that the Inca

witnessed alien visitors
coming out of hibernation

and that this is why
they mummified their dead?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and claim that this might also explain

mummification in other cultures,
most notably the Egyptians.

It's possible

that the extraterrestrials
who visited Egypt

would have needed to have some sort
of hyperbaric isolation chambers

to get from their home world to here.

Now, if that is true,
then it's also possible

that the mummification ritual

actually originated from this

long-term hyperbaric storage

that they were doing
with their bodies inside

sarcophagus-like chambers.

One idea, certainly, is that

human beings and these societies

were seeing extraterrestrials who were

wrapped in certain body suits

and then they would

come back alive.

They were put in a
special suspended animation

that was similar to mummification.

And perhaps this is why

the Egyptians were doing mummification.

Could mummification

really have been an
attempt by ancient people

to imitate extraterrestrial
space travelers?

Perhaps.

But ancient astronaut theorists propose

that there may be an even
more profound explanation:

that early humans were not
simply imitating alien visitors,

but intended to join them in the future.

Ju�rez, Mexico.

2008.

Just eight miles southwest
of El Paso, Texas,

in this notoriously violent border town,

Dr. Alejandro Hern�ndez C�rdenas

develops a groundbreaking new technique

in forensic science.

By using a secret chemical formula,

he is able to rehydrate the flesh

of unrecognizable homicide victims,

including bodies that were mummified

after years of being dried
out in the hot desert climat.

Out of sort of compassion
or concern for the

huge number of unidentified
bodies in Ju�rez,

he figured out a solution
that you can place

a mummified corpse in.

The corpse becomes recognizable in terms of

identifying scars or tattoos.

The naturally mummified corpses

are put in a tank that
Dr. C�rdenas refers to

as "The Jacuzzi,"

which holds 60 gallons
of his secret formula.

Over the course of a few days,

the shriveled remains are
rehydrated to look almost lifelike.

But as astounding as his formula is,

it's not the first time
science has attempted

to in some way restore a mummified body.

In 1968,

Robert Connolly, a researcher
from the University of Liverpool,

attempted to virtually regenerate the blood

of a completely mummified body...

only this mummy was 3,300 years old.

It was the mummy of Egypt's
most famous pharaoh...

King Tutankhamen.

Connelly's method was to combine antigens

taken from a skin sample of King Tut

with his own blood cells.

Connolly is actually Type O,

which means you don't have any
antigens on your blood cells.

He was actually able to put
the antigens from King Tut

on his sort of "clean
slate" of a blood cell...

so, then, recreating whatever
blood type the mummy had.

You mix those red blood cells
with different blood types,

and if it's not the correct blood type,

what you get is sort of
clumping of the blood cells,

because there's an immune
response against them.

But if it's the correct blood type,

then you don't see any sort
of immunological response.

And so in that way they were able
to figure out which blood type

King Tut possessed.

Since Connelly's experiment,

scientists have gone even further

and discovered what they believe

is King Tut's true DNA.

Could the next step be
an actual resurrection?

Was the preservation of the body

not just a ritualistic attempt
to imitate alien visitors,

but an actual form of suspended animation?

But if so,

how could they have
foreseen such incredible

scientific advancements
thousands of years ago?

It is possible

that the ancient astronauts

taught the Egyptians

that mummification

was a way of preserving their

genetic information in the DNA.

One of the startling discoveries
in the study of mummies,

in Egypt and elsewhere,

is that quite a bit of DNA
is actually preserved for

is that quite a bit thousands of years

in the mummification process.

This makes it possible

to clone ancient mummies and, in a sense,

bring them back to life.

It is possible

that, at some point in the future,

if your body had been
successfully mummified,

that these ancient extraterrestrials
were well aware that a clone

of who you were before

could then be reborn many years later.

And is it possible

that with the magnificence of the DNA

and with all of the
information that it contains,

that you might also come
back with the memories

of what you lived,

and who you were, and what you knew

the last time?

And that may be the purpose

which will actually be
used in the future...

not yet present,

but with a technology that
we are very rapidly acquiring.

When the extraterrestrials
taught the art of mummification,

did they have it in the
back of their mind that,

maybe 5,000 years into the future,

medical science would advance to the level

where we would be able to extract

the DNA from those mummies?

And maybe this is part of the
purpose of the mummification,

is to create this time capsule.

Could our ancestors

really have been taught
the process of mummification

by extraterrestrial beings?

Was it their intention

that we would eventually
develop the technology

to retrieve the DNA of the ancient mummies

and restore them, to life.

And if we do, might we discover

that these human time capsules

hold the secrets to our very origins?

Perhaps one day,

we will truly be able
to reanimate the dead,

and from these ancient mummies,

we will learn the truth

about our alien ancestors.

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