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Mysterious golden orbs believed to be part of an ancient power plant.

A sacred wooden box said to facilitate communication with the heavens.

And an elaborately carved ancient tomb that appears to depict an astronaut.

For more than a decade, ancient aliens has examined evidence of what could be

the remnants of an advanced and perhaps...

otherworldly civilization.

Now we're going to explore 10 of the most compelling examples of unexplained

technologies ever discovered.

Technologies that just may hold the proof that Earth has been visited by

extraterrestrials.

History and mythology are filled with incredible stories of human encounters

with otherworldly beings, flying ships and powerful weapons that defy

explanation. For ancient astronaut theorists like me, these are

misunderstood technology that might be...

extraterrestrial in origin.

And some of the most compelling evidence that our ancestors witnessed alien

technology can be found in ancient artwork, like a mysterious carving in

created thousands of years ago that appears strikingly similar to an

device from the modern world.

At number 10 on our countdown of the top 10 unexplained technologies, the

Dendera light bulb.

Dendera, Egypt.

370 miles south of the Giza Plateau stands the Hathor Temple.

This 2 ,000 -year -old monument is remarkably well -preserved and covered

elaborate artwork inside and out.

Among the hundreds of carvings, a curious object can be found that,

Egyptologists, is a representation of a lotus flower.

You have depictions of this so -called lotus flower of Dendera.

And there are not just a few inside the crypt, but they're in fact also on the

outside wall on top.

So what are we looking at here?

Egyptology suggests that this bulb -like thing is the depiction

of the beautiful aroma of a lotus flower.

What's often not discussed is the surrounding hieroglyphics that say that

has something to do with a bringer of light.

When physicists and electrical engineers and people look at this, they can

readily see that there appears to be what is a filament inside this tube that

could be interpreted as a glass tube.

It appears to be a blueprint for what we would say is an incandescent light

bulb.

It's got a filament inside it that looks like a snake.

There's a cable coming out of the back.

It's then attached to a small box.

So here we have what appears to be a depiction of an electrical device.

This means that the ancient Egyptians, they knew about electricity.

They were actually lighting many of their temples and tombs with electrical

lights.

of their structures.

Because some structures are deep underground and filled with

The ancient astronaut theory suggests that perhaps the ancient Egyptians had

access to electricity and these lighting materials were given to

the Egyptians by the extraterrestrials.

The idea that ancient Egyptians had light bulbs almost 2 ,000 years before

Thomas Edison introduced them in modern times is truly amazing.

And in the 1930s an archaeologist in Iraq discovered incredible artifacts

that may reveal just where they got the power to illuminate the ancient world.

Number nine on our countdown of the top ten unexplained technologies, the

Baghdad Battery.

Baghdad, Iraq, 1938.

While combing through the collection at the Baghdad Archaeological Museum, a

German archaeologist discovers several terracotta pots and copper cylinders.

dating to around the first century B .C.

Remarkably, the pots appear to have been used for generating electricity more

than 1 ,800 years before the invention of modern batteries.

The Baghdad battery is a very interesting piece of ancient technology.

They're made up of very simple materials from that region, usually a clay pot,

copper, and an iron rod surrounded by an asphalt stopper.

In 2009, ancient astronaut theorist Jason Martell showed Georgios Tsouklos

how the so -called Baghdad batteries work.

This is made out of a clay pot. Clay just found naturally in that region in

southern Iraq.

And then they would use a small copper lining and an asphalt stopper wrapped

around an iron rod.

What we're going to do is basically just fill the clay pot with some weak acidic

acid, orange juice in this case.

We'll go ahead and put the copper rod back in there.

Okay.

And these all applied together creates electricity.

You can consistently get about 4 volts with something about that large.

So if we think of a Baghdad battery around this size generating 4 volts,

we increase the size to around 6 feet?

That might generate 20, 30, 50 volts and have the sufficient power to actually

utilize energy in a way that we do today.

So it's very possible that the Baghdad battery was being utilized in

with other technological devices.

When we look at this through the ancient astronaut lens, we see that throughout

history, man has been given technology by the gods.

We have to wonder if Baghdad batteries aren't pieces of technology that were

given to man by the extraterrestrials.

Next on our list is a weapon used by the Roman Empire that was so powerful it

struck terror throughout the ancient world.

But what's even more intriguing is that this blazing device has baffled

scientists for over 1 ,600 years.

Number eight on our countdown, Greek fire.

Constantinople, 674 A .D.

The magnificent capital of the Roman Empire is under attack by a fleet of 5

Arab ships.

To defend his city, Emperor Constantine IV unleashes a powerful and mysterious

new weapon that destroys the Arab navy in minutes.

It was the most devastating weapon of the time and was called Greek fire.

Greek fire was a liquid that could be pumped through hoses.

It was like the early flamethrowers of the time.

And when it was ignited, as it came out of these hoses, it would then be

directed onto ships or sometimes onto docks and things like that.

And it would start a tremendous fire, and water could not put it out.

It was set to burn so violently and so hot that even in the greatest of

rainstorms, fire would not go out.

And when projected out to sea, when it sunk into the water, it would still burn

on the bottom of the ocean.

It gave them enormous technological advantage in naval and land battles.

Some of the chroniclers would say that water would, in fact, enhance its

ability.

Perhaps even more astounding than the incredible power of Greek fire is the

that scientists have not been able to reproduce it even after 1 ,600 years.

The recipe for this Greek fire had been very closely guarded as a secret, and it

still represents one of the greatest enigmas in ancient history.

What was this mysterious technology?

And more importantly, where did it come from?

One story goes that Greek fire was given to the Romans by an angel.

Just change the word angel to extraterrestrial, and all of a sudden,

story makes sense.

You have to ask, why would an angel offer such a powerful weapon and

to the Romans?

Is this an example of extraterrestrial interference in human affairs?

For ancient astronaut theorists like me, some of the most intriguing accounts of

unexplained technology can be found in the pages of the Old Testament, like the

next item on our list, which we all know as the vessel used to hold the Ten

Commandments. But it is also written that this mysterious wooden box could

rivers, destroy armies, and even communicate with otherworldly beings.

At number seven on our countdown of the top ten unexplained technologies, the

Ark of the Covenant.

Mount Sinai, Egypt.

According to the book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible, it was here that the

prophet Moses was instructed by God to build... one of the most important

artifacts in Judeo -Christian tradition, the Ark of the Covenant.

Moses was given very specific measurements.

It was to be four feet long and about two feet wide and two feet deep. The

container must be made of acacia wood, but it must be covered with gold.

The top of the Ark was to be surmounted by two cherubim that would face each

other.

God. commands Moses to build this chest, which the original Ten

Commandments was to be placed, and the presence of God would then be

seen.

Sounds very simple, but yet there were properties to the Ark that made it far

more than just a symbolic representation of something religious.

Biblical accounts of the Ark portray it.

as possessing mysterious powers that aided the Israelites during their

to the Promised Land, helping to park rivers, level mountains, and

destroy armies.

The most important thing about trying to understand how the Ark of the Covenant

functions is the fact that specific instructions were given by God to Moses

about how.

it was to be manufactured, the exact size, how it's to be raised off the

how it's to be carried.

And this tells us, almost certainly, that we are dealing with technology.

Is it possible that the baffling powers ascribed to the Ark provide evidence

that it held highly advanced and perhaps extraterrestrial technology?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest clues can be found in rabbinical

texts that describe what the Ark contained.

It is said that the Ark housed the actual, the Hebrew word is kavod, or

glory of God.

Now, this, in quote, glory of God was not something symbolic. It was something

actual, something tangible.

Something energetic.

We know from the biblical story that when the two sons of the high priest

came forth to make an offering, fire entered into the nostrils

and burned them from the inside, leaving their external forms intact.

We might refer to that as an electrocution.

According to religious texts, The Ark of the Covenant was placed inside

Solomon's temple.

And then it simply vanished.

But the extraordinary and unexplained powers of the Ark continue to interest

researchers and ancient astronaut theorists to this very day.

What are we missing here in the biblical understanding of this mysterious box?

It was clearly far more than just a religious box. There was a technology

involved here, and that is what makes the Ark to this day one of the greatest

mysteries of our history.

Another ancient description of the Ark of the Covenant can be found in a sacred

Hebrew text called the Zohar.

And according to one translation, the Ark contained another mysterious device

that supplied the Israelites with limitless supplies of food.

Number six on our countdown, the manna machine.

According to the Hebrew Bible's book of Exodus, after Moses helped the

Israelites escape across the Red Sea, he led them into the Sinai Desert, where

they lived for 40 years.

It is said that they survived by eating a mysterious food called manna.

Manna is this magical substance that's sort of white like cardamom with a taste

like honey. You know, the Bible tells us this is what feeds people.

Moses commands the people to take some, put it in a jar, keep it so that you can

always tell the story of how God fed you.

And that's one of the things that's put in the Ark of the Covenant. That's how

special this is.

While the story of the Israelites receiving manna from heaven is

understood as divine intervention,

Some researchers have suggested that it could also be interpreted as an event

involving some kind of advanced technology.

In 1978, linguistic expert George Sassoon and electrical engineer

Rodney Dale publish The Mana Machine.

In it, they point to an ancient rabbinical text called the Zohar that

mana coming from a curious device.

George Sassoon and Rodney Dale, by reading the Zohar, determined that the

translation was wrong.

It was supposed to be the transportable one of the tanks.

What does that mean? So they actually came to the conclusion that what is

described was a type of a machine that they proposed was driven with nuclear

power.

and that that produced the so -called manna to the Hebrews wandering out in

desert.

Is it possible that the Ark of the Covenant contained a nuclear -powered

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and point to clues in the Bible.

In the Bible, we have multiple stories of people not only dying when they came

in contact with the Ark,

But some only died a week or two later.

And how did they die? Because they had boils on their skin and their hair

started to fall out.

Well, that is a sign of radioactive poisoning. And the only way that such a

result could have been gotten is if the Ark is an extraterrestrial device that

is radioactive.

We're coming up on the halfway point in our countdown of the top 10 unexplained

technologies. And the next item on our list can be found across the globe in

form of mysterious stone statues and strange figures painted on canyon walls.

In my opinion, these images aren't just products of our ancestors' imagination,

but instead are depictions of space travelers.

Number five on our countdown, ancient astronauts.

La Venta, Mexico, 1939.

American archaeologists Matthew Sterling and Philip Drucker begin an excavation

of an ancient pyramid mound.

Over the next two decades, they unearth extraordinary statues, carvings, and

mosaics from a previously unknown culture.

The Olmecs, a civilization that emerged around 1400 BC.

The discovery is a major archaeological find and produced a sensational piece of

evidence for the ancient astronaut theory.

At the Museum of Natural History in New York City, there is a Olmec figurine.

And if you look at this figurine, you can tell that this guy is wearing some

sort of a suit. He has some type of controls with tubes on his chest.

On the side, you have six wings coming out of him. So you have to wonder what

depicted here. And in my opinion, it is the smoking gun of our ancestors having

access to aviation technology.

Could it be that a figurine?

made more than 2 ,400 years ago, depicts a person wearing some sort of advanced

flying technology.

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest even more compelling imagery can

be found 1 ,700 miles to the north in Utah.

Here, along the walls of Nine Mile Canyon, dozens of ancient cave paintings

depict figures wearing very curious attire.

One of the most important galleries is referred to as the family panel. What's

interesting about this one is that it shows these apparently luminous,

-type beings that appear to have spacesuits on, a helmet, even antenna.

The Navajos themselves claim that...

These petroglyphs were from people who were before the flood, before this

cataclysm had come to the Earth, and they maintain that these images were

thousands of years old.

Could it be that these figures really depict beings in spacesuits?

Halfway across the world, in northwestern Australia, are dozens of

paintings that depict other mysterious beings who appear to be wearing

spacesuits known as the Wangina.

The Wanginas are incredible because they have these gigantic heads and these

long bodies. It seems as if they're inside some sort of a

pressurized suit.

Now, the stories behind the Wanginas goes that they descended from the sky.

and gave knowledge and jump -started civilization in australia thousands and

thousands of years ago now this is accepted history in australia so my

suggestion is that the extraterrestrials that came to Earth thousands and

thousands of years ago didn't just visit Australia.

They visited each and every continent on Earth, and that is why we have the

similar motifs.

When it comes to evidence of unexplained technology in the distant past,

sometimes the best examples are hiding in plain sight.

Like the next item on our countdown, which when you know how to look at it,

reveals what I consider to be an actual depiction of an ancient astronaut.

Coming in at number four, King Pakal's tomb.

Southern Mexico, 1949.

Under a pyramid called the Temple of Inscriptions at the ruins of Palenque,

archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luye discovers a mysterious underground stairway

obstructed with large stones.

Over the next three years, Ruz and his team carefully clear the stairwell

consisting of 71 steps.

When the door at the base of the stairwell is finally opened, They

room after room of skeletons and artifacts.

And in the final room, they find the tomb of King K 'nitch Janab Pakal.

The tomb of Pakal is one of the most amazing pieces of Maya art that we've

found. On the top of the lid is a very elaborate carving that we believe is a

depiction of Pakal falling into the underworld upon his death.

Although many historians and archaeologists interpret the carving on

as the king's descent into the underworld, ancient astronaut theorists

it depicts a very different type of journey.

The sarcophagus of Lord Pakal forever will remain one of the smoking guns of

ancient astronaut theory.

He is in a reclining position.

He has a breathing apparatus attached to his nose. His hands are manipulating

some buttons.

And his feet are unpedaled.

It looks as if Pakal is lifting off into space inside some type of a rocket

vehicle.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the idea that King

sarcophagus lid depicts a journey to space is supported by Maya writing that

surrounds the iconic carving.

Those Maya glyphs say that this is King Pakal's journey to Jibalba.

Jibalba means underworld.

Well, archaeologists about 15 years ago revisited the term Jibalba and

concluded that actually Jibalba can also be translated as Milky Way.

And all of a sudden, this depiction makes sense because what we have here is

representation of King Pakal on his journey to the Milky Way.

Located in central Mexico are the ruins of a mysterious city that is home to

some of the most impressive pyramids ever built.

While the purpose of this complex is still unknown, archaeologists have found

evidence of what appears to be the makings of an advanced technological

Number three on our countdown of the top ten unexplained technologies,

Teotihuacan.

Located just 35 miles northeast of Mexico City, is one of the most unique

ancient sites on Earth.

Called Teotihuacan, this vast metropolis was discovered by the Aztecs in the

15th century.

According to Aztec writings, this city was once home to powerful otherworldly

beings.

The name Teotihuacan basically means birthplace of the god.

And the Aztecs believed that the gods themselves out of Aztec mythology

were born there at Teotihuacan.

The city of Teotihuacan covers an area of eight square miles, which is roughly

the same size as ancient Rome.

At its heart, is a two -mile -long thoroughfare named the Avenue of the

that connects three massive pyramids.

The Pyramid of the Moon sits at the very beginning of the Avenue of the Dead.

The Pyramid of the Sun sits about midway along the length of the Avenue of the

Dead. Those are their two big buildings.

Then they build the Temple of Quetzalcoatl.

The Temple of Quetzalcoatl is the most ornate building in all of

Teotihuacan. Its entire face is covered with mosaic stones with the face

of Quetzalcoatl, or the plumed serpent, with his feathers coming off of his face

and his snake head coming out of the building.

Most mainstream historians believe this city was once a religious center.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest the city's massive buildings once served

a more profound purpose.

And as evidence, they point to an extraordinary discovery made beneath the

temple of Quetzalcoatl.

In May 2013,

researchers employed a small robot called Tlaloc II TC to explore a chamber

under the pyramid.

Inside, archaeologists found more than 100... gold -colored metallic spheres.

These bolts are probably anything between an inch to about five inches in

diameter.

Nobody knows the purpose of them, why they were made, or even who made them.

But the fact that they're there tells us they're of utmost importance to what

went on at the temple.

Many archaeologists believe The gold spheres are representations of celestial

bodies observed in the night sky.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest they could have served a more profound

purpose and point to another discovery made almost a mile away at the Pyramid

the Sun in 1906.

At Teotihuacan, huge microseats have been found beneath a

layer of stone flooring.

that were 90 feet square and they were placed directly on top of each other and

yet you couldn't see them.

So they clearly weren't decorative or aesthetic.

They were clearly functional in their use.

So what were they doing there?

We use mica today.

in spacefaring technology.

It's a heat shield for high, very, very high temperatures.

What is it doing at Teotihuacan?

Curiously, mica wasn't the only unusual substance found within the ancient site.

They actually found mercury under some of the pyramids as well. So what does

this all mean? Well, mercury is used in different electrical components and it

conducts electricity.

So can we suggest that they were using this for some advanced technological

purpose?

Mercury itself is very special. It's a metal, it's a liquid, it's an electrical

conductor. Mercury can be used for many, many devices, all of which are high

-tech. So you have to wonder what is going on here at Teotihuacan.

Are these small balls and the mica and the mercury all working

together?

To create some kind of electrical device that's doing something?

That would seem to be the case.

In 2017, Eric von Daniken and I were thrilled to visit the National History

Museum of Transylvania to examine one of the most exciting artifacts I've ever

seen. It is a 40 ,000 -year -old aluminum relic.

that may provide definitive evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.

Number two in our countdown of the top ten unexplained technologies, the

Wedge of Ayyut.

Transylvania, Romania, 1974.

Workers digging a trench along the banks of the Muresh River.

unearthed two giant bones and with them a mysterious metal object buried 35

feet beneath the surface.

Intrigued by what they found, the crew takes their discovery to a nearby

The object was 10 meters in depth, associated with some bones, which they

later identified as mammoth bones.

Mammoths were extinct 40 ,000 years ago, so considering the association with the

mammoth bones, then the object would be older than 40 ,000 years ago.

This strange object, known today as the Wedge of Ayud, continues to baffle

archaeologists because it is made from a mysterious alloy and appears to have

been created thousands of years before humans were able to smelt or fabricate

metal. The wedge of Ayud weighs about five pounds.

It's about nine inches long.

And it is made out of about 89 % aluminum.

And this was very curious to researchers because the wedge of Ayud had to be a

very old artifact.

Humans didn't really start working with aluminum until well into the 1800s.

But when you look at this wedge and you analyze it, it really has most of the

modern properties we would associate with aluminum.

On January 18, 2017, at the National History Museum of Transylvania,

ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich von Däniken were

a rare opportunity to get a firsthand look at the wedge of Ayud.

Museum curator Anna Gruia.

has taken it out of a storage locker where it has been deliberately hidden

the public since the early 1970s.

Okay.

This is exciting.

So this is it?

Oh, okay. Here, this is where they took the sample out and here to make the

analysis. And here you see two pieces that are broken off, sort of.

So maybe it was attached or something.

But very strange. So what does the museum have to say about this? This is a

strange piece.

It is. It is a strange piece for us as well. We don't know what it was used for

and we acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating and its composition as

well.

We have a real mystery here.

But you see this patina over this whole object and this creates another problem.

Yes. And because you cannot fake a patina.

The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds that forms on the

surface of the aluminum during exposure to atmospheric elements.

It was covered with aluminum oxide, which they said would have taken 300 or

years to have developed.

And that also baffled scientists.

So, for what can you use this?

It looks like a hammer or a shovel, but, Giorgio, what is the word in English,

backer shovel?

Oh, an excavator tooth.

Well, it looks like this. It could have been something like it.

But these excavator tubes are never made out of aluminum.

No, it's too weak. Aluminum is too soft. Yeah.

A lot of people dismiss this as a tooth on an excavation bucket.

If you ever looked at these excavators, they usually have a row of teeth in the

front, and that's designed to cut through the material.

I think, first of all, they would have noticed they were missing one.

Second of all, they don't use aluminum, and they're usually made out of hardened

steel.

If the Wedge of Ayud really is over 40 ,000 years old, could it be part of an

even more advanced technology?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is yes.

It is a fragment of an extraterrestrial device.

An aeronautical engineer who saw the Ayud wedge looked at it and said, that's

piece of a landing gear for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Ancient astronaut theorists have also looked at this wedge and surmised that

it's possible that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.

Aluminum is often used in spacecraft because it's a very light material. So

could it be that the object of Ayud was part of some type of spacecraft?

Perhaps. It certainly looks as if it was part of a

larger object.

And the question is, well, what object and at what time was this?

Perhaps there is.

an extraterrestrial connection, there is only one unexplained

technology left on our countdown.

And this one has truly stood the test of time.

We've reached the end of our countdown of the top 10 unexplained technologies,

and this last one is as extraordinary as it is massive.

It's a towering monument of ancient Egypt built thousands of years ago that

believe was an energy generator.

Number one on our list, the Great Pyramid Power Plant.

Giza. Egypt.

On the western bank of the Nile River stands the most extraordinary example of

ancient engineering, the Great Pyramid.

It towers above the landscape at roughly 450 feet tall and consists of over 2

million stone blocks.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is a marvel of architecture.

Every block was five tons, and there's about two million of them to create a

perfect pyramid shape that is one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, the

most ancient one of them all, and the only one standing.

Inside the Great Pyramid...

are a number of fascinating chambers and corridors, like the Grand Gallery,

this towering stairway that goes up into the so -called King's Chamber.

Mainstream scholars theorise that the Great Pyramid was built as a tomb for

pharaoh Khufu.

who reigned from 2589 to 2566 BC.

But many experts claim this dating is based on highly questionable data and

suggest the origins of the three pyramids at Giza are far more profound.

Archaeologists and Egyptologists claim that they were tombs for the pharaohs,

and yet no Egyptian pharaoh was ever found in a pyramid in Egypt.

We have found the mummies of many Egyptian pharaohs, but they're found in

deep underground at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, hundreds of miles away

from the pyramids.

We're taught in school that the Great Pyramid is a tomb.

But if you look at the complexity of these buildings, the precision with

they were built, the features that you see on the inside.

These various shafts and passageways, for me, it looks like a machine.

The design of the tunnel system and chamber rooms within the Great Pyramid

convinced engineering expert Chris Dunn that the massive structure was actually

an advanced technological device.

I propose that the Egyptians build the Great Pyramid to be a power plant.

The pyramids were actually geomechanical devices.

In other words, they were attached to the Earth.

They were tuned to vibrate with the frequencies of the Earth, and they

the energies of the Earth into electromagnetic energy.

That energy is broadcast from the pyramid. It's picked up by the

which are... The obelisks placed at key sites that are able to be tuned to

the specific frequencies coming from the pyramid.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the mysteries of the

Pyramid of Egypt require further study.

And perhaps someday soon, advances in technology will shed new light on its

purpose.

Archaeology is rooted in interpretation, just like the ancient astronaut theory.

Something extraordinary happened right here in ancient Egypt, perhaps

under the tutelage of extraterrestrials, teachers from

another star system.

Was the Great Pyramid of Egypt a massive power plant?

The answer may never be known, but one thing is clear.

From fire that can burn underwater to a 40 ,000 -year -old aluminum artifact

and a biblical relic that could topple stone walls and feed the masses,

the ancient past is filled with evidence that highly advanced civilization