All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S07E04 Treasures Of The Gods

[Male Narrator]
Sealed vaults, believed to be cursed-

There seems to be a bizarre magical power
that hides behind that door.

[Narrator]
Mysterious relics under guard from above-

As they approach, the skies open up
and the gods intervene.

[Narrator] and riches so great,
it has cost men their lives.

People have died over this.
This is for real.

[Narrator]
On every continent, there are stories...

of incredible treasures
that have been lost for centuries.

But how have these vast fortunes
remained hidden for so long?

Is it possible that the world's
greatest lost treasures...

have a connection
to otherworldly beings?

[ Man ] Man has always been
fascinated with ancient treasures-

the gold, the silver, the jewels.

But in other cases, it can be technology
of the extraterrestrial gods themselves.

[Narrator]
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 proof lie hidden
with the treasures of the gods?

[Narrator]
Qumran, the West Bank.

It was here, between 1947 and 1956...

that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered-

religious writings that include
the earliest known surviving manuscripts...

of works from the Hebrew Bible.

But one of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
found in Cave 3...

was much different than the rest.

Known as the "Copper Scroll"...

it is the only scroll
that is not parchment or papyrus.

[ Man ♪2 ] The first translation
of the Copper Scroll...

was probably done
by John Allegro in 1956...

and he immediately realized that it was
a list of treasure, buried treasure.

[Woman ] The Copper Scroll is possibly
the greatest treasure map in human history.

It gives us 64 locations...

where a treasure that is worth potentially
two billion dollars could be found.

[ Feather] People assume
that these 64 items of treasure...

had to have been buried
or come from Jerusalem...

because there clearly
were references to temple-type treasure.

A number of very intrepid explorers...

have tried to find the treasure,
but no one has been successful yet.

It has not been discovered in Jerusalem.

[Narrator] Does the vast treasure
described in the Copper Scroll...

remain buried in Jerusalem to this day?

Or is it possible that it has
remained hidden for all these years...

because it's actually buried
in another part of the world?

Metallurgist and treasure hunter
Robert Feather...

has spent years
studying the Copper Scroll...

and believes that the treasure
isn't that of the Israelites.

As a metallurgist,
the first thing I kind of noticed was...

you don't measure gold in kilograms,
which is what they were doing.

So I looked at it again...

and interspersed amongst
the ancient Hebrew letters...

were Greek letters-
14 Greek letters-

and also, the weight terms were Egyptian.

And it's engraved
on highly pure copper, 99.9%.

I began to research it...

and realized the only place that you
could find copper of that purity...

was in Egypt.

[Narrator] After examining
the Copper Scroll from every angle...

Robert came to the conclusion that
the treasure does not lie in Jerusalem...

but over 600 miles southwest, in Egypt.

[ Feather] When you start to
analyze the phraseology...

you get things like-
[ Speaks Foreign Language ]

Which is "great river."

There's no great river near Jerusalem
or in Judea at that time at all.

The only great river- and it's always
referred to in those same terms-

is the Nile.

[Narrator] But most compelling
of all Robert's finds...

was a name he found hidden
within the text of the Copper Scroll.

I took the first 10 Greek letters...

and put them together...

and read the name Akhenaten.

And I came to the conclusion
that the Copper Scroll...

was talking about Amarna,
the capitol city of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

[Narrator] Is it possible that the famous
treasure of the Copper Scroll-

millions of dollars in gold and silver-

is really hidden, not in Jerusalem...

but somewhere in Amarna, Egypt?

And if Robert Feather's analysis
of the scroll is correct...

why is there a connection to Akhenaten?

Akhenaten was known historically-

or rather through modern history,
as the heretical pharaoh.

Akhenaten banishes multiple gods...

and declares that
there is only one god, Aton...

and the Aton is the sun disc.

[Narrator]
Ancient astronaut theorists contend...

that Aton was not merely
a symbolic deity...

but based on something
Akhenaten actually witnessed in the sky.

Akhenaten and other Atonists are seen...

worshiping this special disc of the sun
that is reaching down to touch them.

And you have to wonder if this sun disc
isn't a representative...

of some kind of alien spaceship
or flying saucer.

Prior to Akhenaten,
the pharaoh was one of the gods...

but not god incarnate.

Akhenaten changes this.

With Akhenaten, he is the living god
in a way that no pharaoh had been before.

Akhenaten was a very interesting fellow...

because of the way he looked.

He had a very bizarre face...

with an elongated skull...

with a spindly body...

sort of a potbelly,
and chicken legs.

And so some have proposed
that Akhenaten himself...

might have been an extraterrestrial.

[Narrator] Is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists contend...

that Akhenaten was actually
an extraterrestrial being?

Curiously, much like the treasure
written of in the Copper Scroll...

the fate of Akhenaten
remains shrouded in mystery.

There was a concerted effort
to eliminate Akhenaten.

His name was stricken,
carved out of the temple walls.

The "Amarna heresy," as it was known...

had to be completely deleted
from the Egyptian record.

[Narrator] In 1932...

when British archaeologist John Pendlebury
excavated Akhenaten's tomb...

he found no evidence that Akhenaten
had ever been buried there.

Some speculate the final
resting place of the pharaoh...

was in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings:

Tomb 55.

However, recent archaeological evidence...

has led others to suggest
the body found in this tomb...

belongs to someone else.

Most Egyptologists would agree...

that the body found in this tomb
is not Akhenaten.

Akhenaten just disappeared.

But had we-Had his tomb survived,
for example...

one would imagine
that the treasures, the wealth...

would have been probably equivalent,
if not more, than Tutenkhamen's tomb.

[ CHILDRESS ] One of the great mysteries
of ancient Egypt...

is where the body of Akhenaten is.

If they could find his body,
it might reveal...

that he was, in fact,
part extraterrestrial...

and that this is why
he looked as he did.

[Narrator] Could the treasure locations
given on the Copper Scroll...

also lead to the mummy
of the heretic pharaoh?

And if Akhenaten truly had alien origins...

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

might this treasure hold some value
to beings from beyond our world?

According to author Zecharia Sitchin,
Sumerian texts...

suggest ancient humans
were made to mine gold for their gods...

gods who were, in fact, extraterrestrials.

Many ancient cultures
were in the pursuit...

of finding precious gold and silver
and jewels.

They always did this under the premise
that they were gathering it for their gods.

It's very possible that, just like we have
from the ancient Sumerian texts...

man was actually created to mine
the gold and precious jewels for the gods.

[ McGowan ] Zecharia Sitchin speculates
that gold is absolutely necessary...

for the people of the 12th planet...

who we often think of as
the extraterrestrials who visit us as gods.

[Narrator] Gold has also proven to be
a valuable element for space travel.

[ Man ]
Gold's highly conductive...

and obviously you would probably have a lot
of electrical-based equipment on your ship.

Gold also has great thermal properties.

It's incredibly easy to work with.

You can make it very thin.

So I think the properties of gold
really make it very useful...

for interstellar travel.

[Narrator]
Might our ancestors have secreted away...

vast caches of gold upon the orders
of extraterrestrial gods?

Or if the treasure
described in the Copper Scroll...

is truly buried in Amarna,
hidden with the mummy of Akhenaten...

is it possible that once it is found...

it will reveal something even more
valuable than just gold and silver?

Could the treasure be buried
with some type of alien technology?

I think the Copper Scroll...

will lead to much more than just
the simple finding of material treasure.

The more I immerse myself in the subject...

the more I realize that it opens up
a whole panoply of truths...

that are far more important
than mere gold and silver.

[Narrator]
Once the code is finally cracked...

will the Copper Scroll lead us
to evidence...

that aliens visited Earth
in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and believe that not far from
where the Copper Scroll was found...

a treasure of even greater significance
is still waiting to be uncovered.

[Narrator]
Temple Mount, Jerusalem.

Summer 2013.

Just 164 feet from
the Temple Mount's southern wall...

archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar
makes a stunning discovery-

an inscribed earthenware jug
that dates back 3, 000 years...

to the time of King Solomon.

The discovery may confirm
what many historians have suggested-

that Solomon's Temple once stood
at this exact location.

In addition to the
historical significance...

the find intrigues treasure hunters...

as it may indicate that other,
much more valuable relics...

may also lie buried at Temple Mount.

Solomon's Temple was built
in the 10th century B.C...

by the great king of Israel, Solomon...

and it was built initially
to house the Ark of the Covenant.

[Narrator]
According to the Hebrew Bible...

Solomon's Temple was constructed
upon direct orders from God.

Although it is best known for having
housed the Ark of the Covenant...

and possibly even the Holy Grail...

some treasure hunters believe...

another relic
of profound historical significance...

may lie buried at the site-

a relic
that ancient astronaut theorists claim...

is of extraterrestrial origin...

Solomon's Ring.

[ McGowan ] One of the lesser known great
treasures of history is Solomon's Ring.

It is said that this ring had
the name of God engraved upon it...

in a very secret and cryptic way.

The ring was representative
of the authority from beyond this world.

The wielder of that ring
would be able to compel...

any and all who recognized that
source of extraterrestrial power...

to do whatever he wished.

[ Man ]
In the Islamic records...

the Ring of Solomon
was given to him by angels.

It gave him magical powers.

Through this ring he could
control the jinn, or genies.

[Narrator] According to both
the Koran and the Hebrew Talmud...

Solomon's Ring also aided him
in constructing the temple itself.

[ Man ] Somehow this ring gave him
the power to control otherworldly beings...

for want of a better term,
demons, you can call them genies.

Or you can call them extraterrestrials.

[ Bar Tzadok] Solomon was in need of a higher
technology in order to build his temple.

He knew that he had
to contact Asmoday-

later known by the Greek name Asmodeus-
who is the head of the daemons.

With this ring,
clearly not of human origins...

Asmoday was hereby
compelled and required...

to provide for Solomon
whatever he needed...

to fulfill the building
of the Temple of God.

So Asmoday gave to Solomon
something called a shamir.

Now, the shamir is described
in traditional literature...

as this little worm that you put
on the stone and it would cut it precisely.

The shamir was a,
quote-unquote, "worm"...

that could cut and drill...

through even the hardest
of stones rather with ease.

What if this shamir
was some type of laser cutting device?

[Narrator] Is it possible that Solomon
possessed an extraterrestrial device...

wielding incredible power...

power that gave its bearer control
and command of otherworldly beings?

And if so, might this
explain the mystery...

surrounding the disappearance
of Solomon's Ring?

[ Bar Tzadok] Solomon's Ring,
like many of the other temple treasures-

like the Ark of the Covenant-

were considered too hot to handle
by average human beings.

These things were concealed
when the time was made proper.

In 586 B.C., the first temple,
Solomon's Temple, was destroyed...

sacked by Nebuchadnezzar,
the Babylonian king.

One theory holds that the most fabulous
treasure we can almost conceive of-

gold, silver, the Ark of the Covenant,
possibly Solomon's Ring-

are buried in a secret chamber
beneath the Temple Mount.

[Narrator] Could the Ring of Solomon,
like the Ark of the Covenant...

have been hidden somewhere under
Temple Mount for hundreds of years?

Or has it been discovered
and secreted away to another location?

In 1867, British army engineers...

map the vaults under the temple ruins...

and discover pointed arches
with keystones after the Gothic style.

Archaeologists
would later discover artifacts...

including a sword, a spur,
a lance and a small cross...

all of which belonged to
the 12th century warrior monks...

known as the Knights Templar.

Originally formed in 1118 A.D...

to protect pilgrims
traveling to Jerusalem...

the Knights Templar
were based at Temple Mount.

During their time in Jerusalem...

the group of warrior monks
rose from relative obscurity...

to being the most powerful order
of the Crusades.

By 1139, the pope makes them
answerable to nobody except himself.

[ BARA ] When you look at ancient
biblical histories-

and I do treat them as histories-

basically, the Ark of the Covenant
and Solomon's Ring...

are the two most powerful weapons
in the Bible...

and the possession of
either one of those...

would have made their order-
the Knights Templar-virtually invincible.

[Narrator] Did the Knights Templar
actually find the lost Temple treasures...

including Solomon's Ring?

If so, could they have discovered...

that the ring really did possess
some otherworldly power?

And might that power
have led to their untimely end?

On a Friday the 13th in 1307...

the Knights Templar were rounded up
and burned at the stake for heresy.

With their demise, did Solomon's Ring
and its otherworldly powers...

vanish from the Earth forever?

Or might it have been spirited away...

and hidden with the rest
of the purported Templar treasures?

[ McGowan ] It is said that Solomon
imprisoned the demon Asmodeus...

to protect the treasure in his temple.

Later on in the legends
of the Knights Templar...

we discover that the Templars
are communicating with Asmodeus.

And to this day, there is a church
in the southwest of France...

near Rennes-Le-Château-
known to be a Templar stronghold-

which has a statue of Asmodeus
in the front of the church.

[Narrator] Was Solomon's Ring
more than just a myth...

and will it someday be rediscovered
with the rest of the Templar treasure?

And is it possible
that this ancient artifact...

along with the treasure
of the Copper Scroll...

could reveal an alien connection
in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and claim that yet
another long lost treasure...

with a direct link to extraterrestrials...

may still lie hidden
on the other side of the world.

[Narrator] Kanab, Utah.

Located on the western Colorado Plateau...

this town of less than 4, 000...

is the site of a treasure hunt
that's been going on for over a century.

And what many believe is hidden here
among the red rocks and canyons...

is one of the greatest lost treasures
in the world.

[ Man ]
Something's buried here...

that's very valuable,
that cost people their lives.

People have died over this.

This ain't no fun and games.
This is for real.

[ Man ] If you've ever seen Indiana Jones
or National Treasure, that's fictional...

but the treasure
that we're looking after is real...

and that's what all of those movies
were based off of...

is the truth and history of the ancients.

Twenty years
of investigation and research...

has us convinced that
Montezuma's treasure is here in Utah.

[Narrator] Montezuma's treasure?

In the American Southwest?

Why would the lost treasure of a culture that
existed in Mexico hundreds of years ago...

lie hidden in Utah?

According to legend...

the ancestral birthplace
of the Aztec people is, in fact...

somewhere in this area
of the United States.

The Aztec mythology says that
they came from a land called Aztlán.

And this is a city that was apparently
in what's now the American Southwest.

Very, very advanced civilization.

[Narrator] In the Aztec stories,
their homeland of Aztlán...

was created through
an extraordinary event-

an event that, according
to ancient astronaut theorists...

depicts an encounter
with extraterrestrial beings.

The Aztec chronicler
Gerónimo de Mendieta...

recorded a very interesting
creation myth...

in which a goddess threw
a giant flint knife from the heavens...

into the seven caves of Chicomoztoc...

causing the birth of 1,600 gods.

Now imagine for a moment
that you know nothing about high tech.

You'll use words with which
to best describe what you see...

and all of a sudden you have these giant
flint knives descending from the sky.

[ Man ]
So what are we really looking at here?

Could it have been
that these 1,600 settlers...

were, in fact, extraterrestrials
who had crash-landed on Earth...

and then brought their civilization
to the indigenous people of that time?

[Narrator]
According to the Aztec codices...

their ancestors
were instructed by the gods...

to migrate south
to Mexico around 1064 A.D.

Over the course of the next 500 years...

they grew to be the greatest empire
in North America.

But on June 29, 1520...

King Montezuma II was killed
during the Spanish conquest of Mexico...

and the Aztec empire came to an end.

What happened in the aftermath
is debated by historians.

But according to some accounts...

the Aztecs gathered as much
of their valuables as they could carry...

and fled to the north.

This treasure was spectacular.
It was epic.

It was hundreds of pounds
of gold and silver and priceless objects-

a golden disc the size of a cartwheel
that was shaped like the sun.

They needed to get this treasure
out to a safe place.

And this is the story
behind the Aztec exodus...

north into what we now know
as the American Southwest.

[Narrator] The Aztecs are said to have
carried tens of thousands of pounds...

of gold, silver and priceless relics...

north in the direction
of their ancestral homeland.

But why?

Why would the Aztecs
travel nearly 2, 000 miles...

putting both their lives
and their treasure at risk...

to reach a homeland that
they had left over 500 years earlier?

According to their own stories...

the Aztecs' vast treasure was a gift
for their most important god.

[ McGowan ]
This wealth of the Aztecs...

was being held in safekeeping
for their god, Quetzalcóatl.

So it was a sacred treasure.

Quetzalcóatl is said to have brought
understandings of astronomy and astrology.

He is really the father
of the Aztec empire.

But we have to ask ourselves...

is it possible that Quetzalcóatl
was an historical figure...

and not just a mythological being?

[ Man ] Quetzalcóatl is represented
as a feathered serpent...

but also he's represented-

He's a big being, with a helmet...

and he's sitting on a
half-open sort of egg.

Quetzalcóatl was definitely
an extraterrestrial.

[Narrator] If Quetzalcóatl
really was an alien being...

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

could this be further proof
of Zecharia Sitchin's theory...

that gold is an important commodity
to extraterrestrial space travelers?

And might the Aztecs have brought their
treasure back to their ancestral homeland...

in the hopes that Quetzalcóatl would
exact vengeance on their enemies?

The purpose of this treasure
was to preserve it...

as tribute for Quetzalcóatl
when he returned...

and helped them, hopefully,
eventually vanquish their enemies.

What's really interesting is that as you
get into the American Southwest...

what you find is that there are Aztec writings,
Aztec hieroglyphs and petroglyphs on rocks...

even as far north as Utah.

Perhaps, somewhere, they actually do
have these treasures still stored away...

still waiting for the day
when Quetzalcóatl returns.

[Narrator] In the 1950s, four stone tablets
known as the Peralta Stones...

were discovered near
the Superstition Mountains in Arizona.

Treasure hunters
Paul and Dan Dillman are convinced...

that the symbols carved on these stones...

along with a fifth tablet
they discovered in 1982...

will one day lead them
to the legendary gold of Montezuma...

hidden here in the mountains
and canyons of Utah.

[ Paul ] Check this out.
Look at the markings.

[ Dan ] This is amazing, man.

You got an Indian headdress.
You got the sun symbol.

[ Dan ]
Sun symbol, just like the tablet.

[ Paul ] Right here, cave.

Wavy lines.

And the arch, the "T."
Everything's on here.

- It matches the tablet perfect.
- Yeah.

[Narrator] But if the Dillmans
ever do uncover the entrance...

to the Aztec homeland of Aztlán...

and the hiding place
of Montezuma's gold...

might they find
more than they bargained for?

[ BARA ] If Aztlán was founded
by an extraterrestrial god...

as treasure hunters get closer and closer to
perhaps finding the location of Aztlán...

do they really want
to break that seal?

Because no one really knows
what's behind it...

and what the consequences of such a find
might actually be to the human race.

[Narrator] Is Kanab, Utah, really the
hiding place of the lost Aztec treasure?

And if so, when it is found...

might it reveal evidence
of alien contact in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and claim that more evidence...

of a connection between
the world's greatest lost treasures...

and extraterrestrial intervention
can be found...

in Greece.

[Narrator] Delphi, Greece.

Near the Gulf of Corinth,
on the slopes of Mount Parnassus...

a religious shrine
known as the Sanctuary of Apollo...

was established
sometime before 1200 B.C.

It was here that
the legendary Oracle of Delphi-

a succession of priestesses of Apollo-

prophesized for the people of Greece.

According to the Greek author Plutarch...

the oracle would enter a small chamber
in the Temple of Apollo...

take her seat on a tripod
and inhale sweet-smelling vapors...

inducing a trancelike state...

from which she could communicate
with the gods.

[ Man ]
It was the seat of Apollo's oracle...

so he was the one who provided
prophesies there.

The priestess is there
just as a conduit for it.

And, in fact,
she has no power of her own.

[Horse Whinnies]

So Apollo himself is not going to show up
to actually deliver the oracles.

He's on Mount Olympus.
He's with the other Olympian gods.

His line is open for questions,
but he's not going to show up himself.

Lots of people came to visit, looking
for answers to questions that they had.

And these are people
not only in mythology...

but, in fact, actual people
in history coming to visit.

If you go to Delphi today...

you can see inscriptions of the answers
that were given to questions.

[Narrator] Although the oracle made
her final prophecy over 1, 600 years ago...

for many, the Sanctuary of Apollo
remains an important site...

because of the relics and offerings...

that may still lie there to this day.

But some believe
that among these riches...

lies a much more profound treasure-

an omphalos stone.

In Greek, the word omphalos
literally translates to "navel."

And while there were numerous
omphalos stones throughout Greece...

the egg-shaped omphalos stone
at Delphi was the most significant.

This navel really just represents
sort of the center of the Earth.

Now, not the center
of what we think of as the Earth...

but the center as in, the most
important place for the Olympian gods.

One story is that Zeus sent some birds
flying in different directions...

and where they met was the omphalos.

That was the navel of the Earth.

This is where this oracle
would be established.

[Narrator] But in addition to marking the
center of the Earth for the Olympians...

in some ancient Greek accounts...

the omphalos stone was also
the source of her prognostications.

[ RADER] Sometimes the omphalos stone
exerts some power.

Sometimes it's just a vessel
for gaseous fumes...

that get you high and put you
in the right mind-set to talk to the gods.

Sometimes it's just a stone.

[TSOUKALOS ] If true communication
took place between our world...

and extraterrestrials-
which the ancient Greek gods were-

then I prefer to think
that some type of transmitter was used...

and only the oracle
knew how to operate it.

Why?

Because she was the chosen one.

It may be that the omphalos stone
is a depiction...

of a working technological device
that was not made of stone at all.

[Narrator] Could the omphalos really
have been a technological device...

that enabled humans to communicate
with extraterrestrials?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and, as proof, they point to the stories...

of what happened to those
who dared to go after the treasure.

According to the second century
Greek author Pausanias...

in 279 B.C., the Celtic king Brennus...

led an attack on Greece
with a force of more than 200, 000 men...

intent on claiming the treasure of Delphi.

And it's said that the Celts were coming
to Delphi in order to steal the treasure.

But as they approach
and they get close to the Oracle...

the skies open up and the gods intervene.

[Young ]
Apollo caused the ground to shake...

fierce storms...

landslides...

finally, a terrible frost.

Legends grew that
the great treasure was protected.

[Narrator] After over 1,500 years
of offering divine guidance...

the Temple of Apollo was shut down...

by Roman Emperor Theodosius in 395 A.D.

And ever since,
the fate of the Delphi treasure...

and the omphalos
has remained a mystery.

This was probably one
of the most important centers...

for Greek religion in the ancient world.

And so, of course, it has got a big old bull's-eye
on it once Christianity starts taking off.

And the omphalos stone,
which, if you believe...

that it was invested with the power
that made the oracle work...

they would naturally get rid of that.

[Narrator] Curiously, a Roman recreation
of the omphalos stone...

carved with
an intricate net-like pattern...

remains in the Museum of Delphi
to this day.

And there are those that believe that
the original was not, in fact, destroyed...

but confiscated and hidden away...

at the Vatican.

But others believe
the omphalos still lies in Greece.

And in 1936...

the German government funded
an excavation of Olympia and Delphi...

headed by archaeologist Hans Schleif...

a member of the famous Nazi
Ahnenerbe Society.

The Nazi Ahnenerbe Society
was basically the S.S. paranormal division.

It apparently was the inspiration
for films like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

And the purpose of it
was to find relics and evidence...

and possibly weapons
from these very advanced Aryan gods...

that the Nazis believed
they were directly descended from.

The Ahnenerbe expeditions in Delphi...

were looking for something mysterious,
something hidden.

Was it just a treasure of gold and jewels,
or was it something more?

[ BARA ] It may not have been
a treasure hunt at all.

It may have been an attempt
to establish direct communication...

between the Nazis and the gods.

If the omphalos stone was, in fact,
a piece of ancient alien technology...

then their ability to have obtained that could
have actually changed the outcome of the war.

[Narrator] If the omphalos stone
is indeed a direct line...

to advanced beings
from other worlds...

could its power be used
for destructive ends?

And if so, is that why
it remains hidden to this day?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest there is yet
another extraterrestrial treasure...

with even more devastating powers...

yet to be found.

[Narrator] Kerala, India. 2011.

Police officers
with high-powered rifles...

stand guard at the entrance
to the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple...

a sacred Vedic structure
dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu.

Under orders
from the India Supreme Court...

appointees unlock five secret vaults
hidden beneath the temple...

that have been sealed for centuries.

And door after door,
they unearth giant caches of relics-

together valued at nearly $22 billion.

But when they reach
the final chamber, Chamber B...

it cannot be opened.

[Young ]
It has three doors on it.

First one is a kind of
a grating metal door.

The second has a heavy wood door.

Finally was a strong iron door
that is shut.

It's stuck.

Among the warnings in Chamber B...

are depictions of cobras,
a terrifying image...

suggesting bad things
will happen if you open this.

[ Man ] And the last door has no locks,
it hasn't any latches.

According to legend,
it was sealed with a mantra.

It's called
Ashta Naga Bandhana mantra...

and no one knows
what that mantra is.

There seems to be a bizarre curse
around whatever is in this room.

Anyone who tries to get into the room...

has all sorts of bad luck
or even illness or fatalities.

[Narrator] On July 17, 2011...

just three weeks after
the first five chambers were accessed...

the person who petitioned the court
to force the chambers opened...

T.P. Sundara Rajan,
came down with a fever and died.

The following month...

a group of Indian diviners
issued a dire warning...

that opening the final chamber
would have deadly consequences...

for the people involved
and for the land.

[ Shimkhada ] The locals started circulating
the rumors that any attempt made by man...

would cause tremendous harm.

We do not know
what is in the chamber...

and there has been rumors
that it contains deadly weapons.

[Narrator] But what is it that lies
behind the door of Chamber B?

Could it be simply monetary treasure?

Or is it something
more profound and dangerous?

Indian texts,
such as the Mahabharata...

describe gods wielding
ancient divine weapons...

and waging epic battles in the sky.

[TSOUKALOS ]
In the Mahabharata...

there is a fierce battle that reads
like modern-day science fiction...

with reference to unknown weapons-

and a single projectile charged
with all the power in the universe...

an iron thunderbolt...

a gigantic messenger of death
which reduced everything to ashes.

[Narrator] Is it possible that Chamber B
is the hiding place...

for the kind of deadly technology
described in the Vedic texts?

[ CHILDRESS ] What's behind it is something
special and dangerous.

It's possible that what's inside
of this unopened chamber...

is some kind of extraterrestrial technology
that could change the world.

[ BARA ] You're talking about
extraterrestrial technology...

which is not meant to be found...

it is not meant to be understood,
and it is not meant to be utilized by man.

[Narrator]
Could Vishnu's treasures...

sealed behind the ironclad door
of Chamber B...

really be an ancient link
to some devastating alien technology?

And if so,
might this mysterious treasure...

like other so-called
ancient lost treasures...

in Egypt...

Greece...

Jerusalem...

or the American Southwest...

be far more valuable-

or perhaps dangerous-

than mere monetary riches?

[Young ] The buried treasure...

may not be the reason
for our yearning or our searching.

It might be the meaning of life.

It might be the good life itself.

[ Dan ] Life is so full of mysteries,
and you have to open your eyes.

There's so much to uncover here,
so much treasure.

And it's not just gold and silver.
It's knowledge.

[ CHILDRESS ] Man has always been
fascinated with ancient treasures...

and discovering these treasures-

the gold, the silver, the jewels.

But in other cases,
it can be technology...

of the extraterrestrial gods themselves.

[Narrator]
Could the world's lost treasures...

like those listed on the Copper Scroll...

serve as a direct link
to our extraterrestrial ancestors...

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, would finding them help us
unlock the mysteries of the universe...

or lead to our own destruction?

Perhaps it's meant to be a puzzle...

one designed to take centuries to solve...

and only after solving it...

will we know the truth
about our alien origins.