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In every corner of the world,

archaeologists have found strange, elongated skulls.

The elongated skull phenomena is global in scope.

We find them in Mesoamerica,

in Europe, in Asia.

Many of the skulls possess other unusual features.

Some of these skulls had very large eye sockets.

And ancient astronaut theorists suggest they are highly

reminiscent of how our ancestors depicted the gods.

The Anunnaki have the elongated skulls.

The Ubaid figures, too.

And a Japanese deity named Fukurojin.

Could the elongated skulls be the ultimate evidence

of our alien origins?

Some of these skulls are in fact extraterrestrial.

They're right in front of our eyes.

Archaeologists from Jilin University

begin excavations at an ancient settlement known as Houtaomuga.

The team unearths ancient pottery,

animal remains, and agricultural tools.

But their most prized discovery is a burial ground

that was used by the inhabitants of Houtaomuga.

Curiously, among the skeletons

are nearly a dozen that have highly unusual skulls.

These skulls are so bizarre looking.

I mean the-the eye sockets and jaws

are pretty much like a normal human skull,

but the cranium is severely elongated.

I mean, they look like they're something from another world.

Dr. Qian Wang was part of the scientific team

that sent out bone samples

from the first skeleton to have them dated.

The results indicate the remains

are far older than expected.

The Houtaomuga site

has the oldest deformed skulls

in China that we know of so far.

They discovered at least 11 elongated skulls

stretching all the way back to 12,000 years.

It's truly exciting.

So, it's an incredibly important site.

The extraordinary remains recovered in Houtaomuga

are believed to represent

the oldest elongated skulls ever discovered.

But curiously, many other similarly misshapen skulls

have been found all over the world.

The elongated skull phenomena is global in scope.

In North America, we find them predominantly in the southwest.

We find them in Mesoamerica.

We have it in Africa, Europe,

in the Middle East,

India, China.

We know that it comes as south as the Indonesian islands,

even possibly as far south as Australia, so

absolutely everywhere.

What could explain the discovery of elongated skulls

in so many locations separated by thousands of miles?

Many of the finds predate any historical record,

but anthropologists believe all of these skulls

are the result of artificial cranial deformation.

Artificial cranial deformation is the cultural practice

of manipulating the skull, which is typically done in infants

because the infant skull is more malleable.

The earliest known reference to artificial cranial deformation

is found in a text from 400 BC called

On Airs, Waters, and Places.

Written by the Greek physician and philosopher Hippocrates,

it describes the Macrocephali,

a group of people believed to be from either India

or somewhere in Africa.

Hippocrates wrote that the most noble

of the Macrocephali had the longest heads

and that skull elongation was achieved during childhood

by binding an infant's head to a hard board.

There are different forms of this.

There's cradle boarding, where they literally

wrap around the head with different types of materials

with hard boards to create this flat area.

There's elongation of the skull, where it's often just

wrapped around with material.

So, it kind of almost stretches out to a point.

So, there's lots of different techniques.

While elongated skulls have been found worldwide,

the Houtaomuga site in China provides

significant insights into this phenomenon.

Not only does it contain the world's oldest known

elongated skulls, but it also provides evidence

of artificial cranial deformation taking place

over thousands of years in a single location.

The important site in China has, as we know it,

a continuation of cranial deformation

in the local area and on site for at least 7,000 years,

which as far as we know, there's no other site

that can demonstrate this continuation of the practice

of cranial deformation in one local area.

It's amazing.

Why certain people had their heads elongated

and others didn't is unknown.

But for archaeologists, an even more puzzling question

is what would cause a civilization

to continue such a strange custom for 7,000 years?

Curiously, in some parts of the world,

artificial cranial deformation is still practiced even today.

This shows that it's not just, uh, a fashion trend

or done amongst one particular group that died out,

but that it is being continued millennia after millennia.

Archeologists, anthropologists

have no real consensus on exactly why it was done.

Most of academia would lead to the suggestion

that cranial deformation was mainly for social status.

And it was used by the elite,

the priests, the scholars.

In Chinese art, these Taoist immortals,

they are often shown as having extremely

elongated heads and foreheads.

And this indicates that they are in touch with divine beings.

I mean, this is the kind of thing

that makes you above the normal human.

You are now almost a god.

Could it be that ancient people practiced

artificial cranial deformation to look like the gods?

But if so, why would people all around the world

envision their gods with elongated heads?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining mysterious ancient sites

where archaeologists have unearthed highly unusual skulls.

In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea

lie the islands of Malta.

While they cover only 120 square miles,

the islands are home to some of the most impressive

megalithic sites on the planet.

The Ggantija temple was built with stones

weighing more than 20 tons,

and Hagar Qim features one of the largest

freestanding stones in the world.

But many believe Malta's most impressive ancient site

lies beneath the Earth.

It is called the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni.

The Hypogeum site in Malta, Hal Saflieni,

was first found in the 1900s by accident by a builder

who was digging foundations for houses

that eventually uncovers this mysterious archaeological site

that dates back to at least 4000 BC.

You have all these caverns perfectly cut out

of the bedrock going down multiple levels

with these tunnels between them.

In 1907, during one of the first excavations of the Hypogeum,

archaeologists discovered an estimated 7,000 skeletons,

some with strangely shaped skulls.

Thousands of skeletons were discovered in the Hypogeum,

and what's amazing is that some of the elongated skulls

had this large sloping aspect to the back of their head,

which were studied by archeologists.

But despite the remarkable discovery,

many of the original excavation reports

and many of the skulls themselves have disappeared.

Quite a lot of them were recorded,

but some have been lost, and this is where

the big mystery lies 'cause we really want to know

what happened to the ones that are in the old photos.

What happened to the 7,000 skeletons

that were found down there?

I mean, no one knows what's happened to them.

They just vanished.

Adding to the intrigue of the Malta skeletons

is the fact that it's-it's not known that cranial deformation

was practiced on the island of Malta.

It's-it's simply not there.

I think the reason why they vanished is because

they're so startling to look at,

and it's mainstream archeologists

and anthropologists don't have an explanation

for what's going on here.

So, it's just easier to pack 'em up in a box

and chuck 'em away rather than

to talk about what's actually happening.

Only a few of the elongated skulls recovered

from the Hypogeum are still known to exist,

and are periodically put on display

at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

But an even more mysterious skull was recently discovered

thousands of miles away

at a site known as Russia's Stonehenge.

This mysterious ancient settlement

features earthen circles made nearly 4,000 years ago.

Located in the Southern Urals is a place called Arkaim.

It's referred to as Russia's Stonehenge

because of the circular structure

of the monuments that were discovered there.

And a very unusual skeleton was discovered at Arkaim.

In 2015, archaeologists

unearthed a skeleton at the site.

Photographs from the Arkaim Museum

reveal a surprising feature.

What was unusual about it was the skull,

and it had this massive protuberance

extending from the forehead.

This was an elongated skull

apparently of a female.

Possibly some kind of priestess or revered person at that time.

It had an elongation of the skull like,

almost like a conehead.

But also a kind of area here that kind of stuck out,

which is a style we get when you have a wrapping of materials

around the skull to create this particular look.

It brings a whole other dimension to what was going on

there in prehistoric times.

What compelled the ancient people of Malta and Russia

to elongate the skulls of certain individuals?

While very little is known about the early people

who inhabited these two sites,

another group that practiced head binding

holds a prominent place in history: the Huns.

The Huns were a horse-riding warrior clan,

basically, that came out of Central Asia into Europe,

during the fourth to fifth centuries of the Common Era.

They had head deformation

as part of their tradition.

So, they introduced this particularly into, uh, Hungary.

And basically, the cemeteries

that have been uncovered in Hungary

have dozens and dozens of skulls that have been deformed.

The Huns took this veneration of the elongated skulls

to such an extent that they created money of it.

It was on their coins.

So, you know, if that does not indicate

significance or importance, I don't know what does.

It's known that they widely practiced

cranial deformation as a way of displaying status and power,

and in fact, as a way of displaying their strength.

If it's true that the Huns elongated

their skulls to display power and strength,

what inspired them to take such a drastic action?

Some believe the Huns were influenced by

encounters with otherworldly beings.

Amongst the Maya of Central America,

artificial cranial deformation was incredibly important.

And when the earliest missionaries

reached Mexico in the 16th, 17th centuries,

they said to them, "Why are you doing this?"

And they said. "The gods told us to do this

so that we might better serve them."

Ancient astronaut theorists

find it intriguing that the Maya claimed their inspiration

for head binding came from the gods...

...because in many ancient cultures worldwide,

the gods were depicted with elongated heads.

In ancient Egypt, the god Osiris

is portrayed with an elongated skull.

You cross over into the Americas,

and you find among the Olmecs that they're often portrayed

wearing helmets that are suggestive of elongated skulls.

We have a Japanese deity named Fukurojin,

and he also has this very long, extended cranium and forehead.

And the Japanese say, "Yeah,

this shows that he has supernatural powers and wisdom."

Have people throughout the world

practiced head binding to emulate the gods,

who they envisioned as having elongated heads?

And if so, why did cultures scattered across the globe

represent their gods with this same strange feature?

Anthropologists suggest

that this was something that cultures

spontaneously started doing all around the world.

To display status, power, beauty,

increased intelligence, these sorts of things, but

that just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

What makes more sense to me is that all of these cultures

came into contact with a group of beings who

had elongated skulls.

Over and again in the ancient world,

they witnessed these beings and then started

to mimic what they saw in these beings themselves

in order to become more like them.

The bottom line is that elongated skulls were found

all around the world, and always with one explanation:

that our ancestors

tried to look like their gods.

The ancient astronaut theory suggests that these gods

were extraterrestrials.

Did ancient cultures across the world

engage in the extreme practice of head binding

to emulate extraterrestrial visitors with elongated heads?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that further evidence can be found

by taking a closer look at a collection

by taking a closer look at a collection

of elongated skulls which possess mysterious features

that defy explanation.

Peru.

This South American country

is home to some of the ancient world's

greatest mysteries, including the incredible

megalithic sites of Sacsayhuamán and Ollantaytambo,

as well as the strange band of holes

that stretches across the Pisco valley

and the thousands of massive geoglyphs

known as the Nazca Lines.

Here, in the small, coastal town of Paracas,

archaeologists discovered yet another ancient mystery,

some of the most unusual elongated skulls ever found.

Amongst the strangest elongated skulls in the world

are those from Paracas in Peru.

As early as 1928, under the leadership

of an archaeologist there by the name of Julio Tello,

uncovered dozens and dozens of these skulls that

look incredibly strange.

They are seriously elongated.

I've seen some of these skulls in various museums,

and they are just astonishing.

It's outrageous how long some of the skulls are.

I mean, they literally just go up and up and up.

Often, they have ginger or red hair on them,

or sometimes blond hair.

And some of the jaws are very big as well.

But it's just the cranial mass inside it.

It's almost like they must've had larger heads

because they look much bigger than

any other skulls I've seen anywhere on the planet.

These deserts of Southern Peru are super dry.

It rarely rains there.

So, therefore, the skeletal material that they're able

to excavate from the graveyards and pyramids and things

in that area are very, very well-preserved.

Given the remarkable quality of these skulls,

researchers have been able to study them in great detail.

And they have found several anomalies that challenge

the theory that they are all the result of head binding.

One anomaly present in several of the Paracas skulls

is the absence of a sagittal suture,

which is the seam where the two parietal bones of the skull

come together.

The elongated skulls lack what we call

the sagittal suture, which goes from here to the back.

Only this suture is visible.

Which baffles most scientists.

The Paracas skulls are missing the key sagittal suture

that indicates that this is a human skull.

So, if there's no suture,

we have to be open to the question

are these in fact non-human skulls?

Now, according to science, sutures only disappear

when an individual achieves old, old age,

and many of these elongated skulls,

the individual is not old.

Some of these individuals, in fact, are children,

The Paracas skulls also present anomalies

in terms of the measurements of facial features

and openings in the skulls.

In some cases, the eye sockets are about

20 to 25% larger on the elongated skulls.

The jaw is bigger,

and there are two holes in the back of the skull,

which were likely for blood and nerve flow,

which you do not find in a typical human skull.

Also, what we call the foramen magnum,

which is where the spinal cord enters the bottom of the skull

is a full inch or two and a half centimeters back

from where it should be

because, in us, it's at the perfect balance point,

but with the elongated skulls,

it's two and a half centimeters, one inch backwards,

and I think that's compensation, genetically

for the skull having a tendency of wanting to move backwards.

The foramen magnum being off from where it should be

by a full two centimeters is not a small thing.

That's highly unusual,

and when you see that in an elongated skull,

you have to ask if this is a human skull.

Another unusual feature found on some of the Paracas skulls

is a prominent ridge that appears on the forehead.

What's important with these skulls is

this bump here, this-this forehead ridge right here

'cause this is something that you really cannot achieve

with artificial head binding.

But perhaps the most intriguing abnormality of all

is that some of the Paracas skulls are significantly larger

in volume than a normal human skull should be.

What we find among the oldest of the Paracas skulls,

that their cranial volume is about 20% larger

than a normal human being, especially a modern human being.

Practices like head binding and cradle boarding change the shape

of a child's skull, but they do not make it larger.

So what's going on here?

I think that the Paracas people were closely related

to Homo sapien sapiens,

but I think they were a subspecies that were able

to interbreed with what we call humans.

Might the elongated skulls of Paracas

be the remnants of a human-like species

that once existed on Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest it's possible that this mysterious lost race

came from another planet.

All the skulls that I think are the extraterrestrial ones

have the larger eye socket, have the pronounced

forehead ridge, and the missing sutures.

I really do think that we are looking at extraterrestrials.

Are these, in fact, extraterrestrial beings?

Are they alien-human hybrids?

Are they carryovers from a previous civilization,

for example, from the time before the ice age?

We don't have definitive answers,

but all of those are worthy questions.

Could the elongated skulls

that feature other unexplainable anomalies

really be the remains of extraterrestrials

who visited planet Earth in the distant past?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

the strange depictions of Egypt's most infamous pharaoh.

Amarna, Egypt. December 1891.

While excavating a necropolis east of the city,

a team of Italian archeologists

uncover the entrance to a royal tomb.

Inside, they make a surprising discovery.

Rather than being filled with magnificent artwork

and treasures, the burial chamber has been defaced.

Its sarcophagus destroyed, and its mummy has vanished.

The few legible carvings on the wall reveal it is the tomb

of Egypt's most reviled pharaoh, Akhenaten.

In the 14th century BCE

Akhenaten became the most controversial pharaoh...

...because he went from the pantheon

of all the previous dynasties

to a monotheistic system

worshiping the sun god Aten.

So, he moved the capital, built new temples,

made this new religion the religion of Egypt.

In the story of Akhenaten,

we know that he introduced a religious revolution,

the religion of light to ancient Egypt.

This religion of light called the Aten

was symbolized by the disc.

But just what could have inspired Akhenaten

to make such a drastic change in Egyptian society?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe there may have been

an otherworldly influence guiding his decision

and point to the unusual way

he was depicted by artists of the time.

Akhenaten was the first and only pharaoh to institute a rule

amongst his people saying

any artisan that creates

either a statue or a carving or a drawing

of him has to create images of him the way he actually looks.

And it goes without saying that Akhenaten

immediately looks rather strange.

We have this guy with the high cheekbones,

with a very weird and pear-like torso,

with thin arms, and chicken legs,

and an elongated skull.

Curiously, Akhenaten's wife Nefertiti

and their children are also portrayed with elongated heads.

What's so interesting about Akhenaten is that his children,

including Tutankhamun, when they did CT scans

on Tutankhamun's skull, they found

that he had an elongated skull.

So, too, did Akhenaten's daughter Meritaten.

Following Akhenaten's death,

his enemies went to extreme lengths

to destroy any images of him they could find.

When you go into the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,

you will see sculptures of Akhenaten

clearly portraying the elongated skull, but

the ancient Egyptians did not want us to know

anything about Akhenaten,

They made every effort they possibly could

to erase all references to his existence.

But what inspired the Ancient Egyptians

to try to erase Akhenaten from history?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest Akhenaten

had a profound connection to otherworldly beings.

Akhenaten introduced to the Egyptian people

the Aten disc,

which is often depicted as a winged disc.

And that means that it's a disc that flies.

Akhenaten had an encounter with the so-called Aten sun disc,

from which he kept receiving knowledge.

There are pictures of Akhenaten

standing underneath a sun disc with hands coming down

as so-called rays,

handing down items like the ankh, for example.

So, these are all renderings, to me,

that try to depict misunderstood technology-type situations

because that Aten sun disc was said

to have moved in the sky

and was able to descend in front of people

and then lift off again.

We have multiple references about this.

So what is that?

Well, if it wasn't the sun,

the only answer to that is

a visiting extraterrestrial craft.

You have to ask the question,

is it possible that Akhenaten was from another planet?

Could it be that Akhenaten had extraterrestrial origins?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that, if his mummy is ever found,

it might change everything we thought we knew

about our history.

Akhenaten's mummy is still missing,

and his wife Nefertiti's, too.

How awesome would it be if his mummy would be found

because we would then be able, most likely,

to test an extraterrestrial.

If the mummies of Akehnaten and Nefertiti are ever discovered,

could they provide undeniable proof that extraterrestrials

visited Earth in the distant past?

And also solve the mystery of why, for thousands of years,

people have taken extreme measures

to elongate the skulls of their children?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining discoveries made in the region that gave rise

to humankind's first known civilization.

British archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley

undertakes an extensive excavation

of the Mesopotamian city of Ur.

Based on previous discoveries made here,

Woolley believes this could be the location of the city of Ur

that is mentioned in the Bible's Book of Genesis

and was the home of Abraham.

The excavations began to reveal

an extraordinary necropolis.

And as more and more rich, funerary goods,

pieces of art and jewelry

and remains started to come up.

This treasure became almost as important as that

of the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb,

which had occurred just a few years earlier.

And what this did was to make Leonard Woolley

a very famous archeologist.

Of all the artifacts uncovered during the excavation,

perhaps none are more extraordinary

than the discovery of the elaborate tomb of Queen Puabi.

They found her body intact, covered with gold ornaments

and wearing this incredible golden headdress

with cylinder seals attached to her body

that identified her as this queen.

Queen Puabi's burial chamber had almost been untouched

since its original burial.

It was quite amazing.

There was a headdress, there were gold artifacts,

and even a lyre.

Queen Puabi is believed to have belonged to the royal family

of the world's first known civilization, the Sumerians.

But what's even more intriguing

is that researchers examining her remains

determined that her skull had an unusual shape.

When you look at the old photos and the reports,

you can see that it's kind of been crushed probably over time.

It looked like she had an elongated skull.

Whether it was elongated, we don't know,

but there's a good chance it could've been.

Curiously, a number of other mysterious skulls

have been discovered in the region.

Almost a hundred years after the discovery

of Queen Puabi's tomb, in 2022,

a team of archeologists in nearby Iran

unearthed a site that contained 13 ancient, elongated skulls.

In Iran, at Chega Sofla,

they have uncovered quite a large number of deformed skulls.

And these skulls had peculiarities

about them that showed that they were from

families that were clearly inbred,

and I think this is really significant

because they were all elongating their heads,

and this begs the question

of why exactly they were deforming their heads?

While the skulls unearthed in the Middle East

are not as old as those found in China,

researchers consider them equally significant

because these discoveries suggest

that artificial cranial deformation was practiced

not just by primitive tribes in remote areas,

but in the very first civilizations on Earth.

And ancient astronaut theorists believe clues as to what might

have inspired the Sumerians to elongate their heads

can be found by examining the cuneiform writings

concerning the Anunnaki.

The Anunnaki are the founder gods

of the Sumerian civilization,

and writings about them refer to a much earlier epoch

where the gods and goddesses ruled and created mankind.

And the Anunnaki were masters of the arts and sciences

bringing civilizing qualities to this part of the world.

The original name for the Anunnaki is the Anunna.

Now, the Anunna means "those of the sky"

or "the sky people."

And they were the people with the knowledge of the stars,

the knowledge of astronomy,

and they were the prime movers

behind the foundation of civilization.

The Anunnaki were also

talked about as having elongated skulls.

They were tall, taller than most people.

They also wore special hats and things like that.

And so, they look really, you know, different.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

it's highly intriguing that 13 elongated skulls

have been discovered in the same region

where the Anunnaki are said to have descended to Earth.

Mainstream anthropology suggests the reason

why head binding was done is in order to

delineate the ruling class from the so-called masses.

Basically, the idea is that they tried

to emulate or imitate their gods.

Well, what do you mean?

Does that mean whomever they saw had elongated skulls?

The answer to that is a resounding yes.

Our ancestors tried to look like whoever it was

that visited them because our ancestors always say

that somebody descended from the sky to impart knowledge.

Our ancestors tried to look like their gods.

Considering that elongated skulls have been found

across the globe and date back to the first known civilization,

is it possible that, worldwide,

people witnessed the same otherworldly visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest further evidence can be found

at the world's oldest archeological site.

In southeastern Turkey

stands one of the most important archaeological sites

in the world, Göbekli Tepe.

When it was first excavated in 1994,

archaeologists discovered megalithic structures

that were found to date back an astounding 12,000 years,

long before humans were thought to be capable

of such sophisticated construction.

What we can see from, uh, monumental architecture

at Göbekli Tepe is that

you have a high culture

at a very early age.

Many people today believe in the idea

that, before the end of the last ice age,

there was a high culture, a global culture,

that achieved advances in technology, innovation,

and science that was destroyed in some kind of cataclysm

that took place probably around 12,000 years ago.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

Göbekli Tepe offers compelling evidence

that an advanced civilization existed on Earth

before our earliest recorded history.

And they find it intriguing that the dating of Göbekli Tepe

to 12,000 years ago matches the age

of the world's oldest elongated skulls found in China.

The discovery of elongated skulls in China

from 12,000 years ago is enormously significant.

It clearly points to something very mysterious happening

in the ancient world.

And perhaps, at this time, there were beings

who displayed these elongated skull features.

Elevated beings, perhaps even otherworldly-looking beings,

extraordinary beings that had this elongated skull,

and people decided to copy them.

It is thought possible that the descendants

of this civilization

moved into every part of the world,

and that new civilizations arose from that.

Could it be that the worldwide practice of head binding

was inspired by real encounters our ancestors had

with non-human entities thousands of years ago?

Is this why so many ancient cultures

depicted their gods with elongated heads?

And while it is certain that many elongated skulls

are the product of artificial cranial deformation,

could there be some that belong to

an entirely different species?

Most, if not all, archeologists believe that the skulls

that we were looking at would be the result of head binding

or cranial deformation. I do not agree with them.

I think that they were a subspecies of human,

which I would call Homo sapiens Paracas

as compared to Homo sapien sapiens.

So, a subspecies,

not necessarily a different species

or an alien entity, though that is a possibility.

I think as we continue to study the elongated skulls,

especially using DNA research processes,

we're gonna discover that there's a non-human component

to these skulls.

Now, whether they're extraterrestrial or not,

we might not be able to definitively say that,

but I do believe we're looking at

an entirely different species of beings.

Ultimately, it's exciting.

You know, here we have a real mystery.

And we're still finding out new things about them.

And doesn't this deserve our attention?

To find out who these people really were?

And how they are all connected?

And are they connected to extraterrestrials

who came thousands of years ago?

The fact that these artificial elongated skulls

exist worldwide-- that, to me, is the smoking gun

we've been visited by extraterrestrials.

It only happened because somebody saw something,

and they were like, "You know what?

"Those are amazing beings. They taught us something,

so you know what? Let's emulate this."

Otherwise, why would there be all these elongated skulls

around the world if there was no contact?

There had to have been an inspiration for it.

Is it possible that the extreme and highly mysterious custom

of head binding,

that has been practiced for at least 12,000 years,

was first inspired by an extraterrestrial encounter?

Are the many ancient depictions of gods with elongated heads

portraying otherworldly visitors?

And if so, could some of the strange skulls

that have been unearthed around the world

be of non-human origin?

Perhaps scientists will soon discover

that we have already come face-to-face

with our alien ancestors.

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