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NARRATOR: Sealed vaults
believed to be cursed--

DAVID WILCOCK: There seems
to be a bizarre magical power

that hides behind that door.

NARRATOR: --mysterious relics
under guard from above.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS:
And as they approach,

the skies opened up
and the gods intervene.

NARRATOR: --and riches so great,
it has cost men their lives.

PAUL DILLMAN: 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?

DAVID CHILDRESS:
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?

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Cumran, 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 three

was much different
than the rest.

Known as the Copper Scroll,
it is the only scroll that

is not parchment or papyrus.

ROBERT FEATHER:
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.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN
COPPENS: The Copper Scroll is

possibly the greatest
treasure map in human history.

It gives us 64 locations
where a treasure

that is worth potentially
$2 billion could be found.

ROBERT FEATHER: People assume
that the 64 items of treasure

had to have been borrowed
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.

ROBERT FEATHER: When you start
to analyze the phraseology,

you get things
like (non-english),,

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.

ROBERT FEATHER: I took the
first 10 Greek letters.

I put them together and
read the name Akhenaten.

I came to the
conclusion the Copper

Scroll was talking about
at Amarna, the capital

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, Aten.

And the Aten is the sun disk.

NARRATOR: Ancient
astronaut theorists

contend that Aten was not
merely a symbolic deity

but based on something Akhenaten
actually witnessed in the sky.

Akhenaten and
other Atenists are

seen worshipping this
special disk of a sun that

is reaching down to touch them.

And you have to wonder
if this sun disk isn't

a representative of some kind of
alien spaceship or a flying saucer.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS:
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
archeologist 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
archeological evidence

has led others to suggest
the body found in this tomb

belongs to someone else.

ROBERT BAUVAL:
Egyptologists would

agree that the bodies found
in his tomb is not Akhenaten.

Akhenaten just disappeared.

But had his tomb
survived, for example,

one would imagine that
the treasures, the wealth,

would have been probably
equivalent, if not more

than, Tutankhamen's tombs.

DAVID 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.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN
COPPENS: 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.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Gold
is 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 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.

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 BC

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.

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS:
One of the lesser

known great treasures of
history is Solomon's ring.

And it is said
that this ring had

the name of God engraved
upon it in a very

secret and cryptic way.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: 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.

JONATHAN YOUNG: 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 djinn or genies.

NARRATOR: According to both the
Quran and the Hebrew Talmud,

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

MIKE BARA: 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.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: Solomon was
in need of a higher technology

in order to build his temple.

He knew that he had to
contact Ashmedai, later

known by the Greek
name Asmodeus,

who is the head of the demons.

With this ring, clearly
not of human origins,

Ashmedai was hereby
compelled and required

to provide for
Solomon whatever he

needed to fulfill the
building of the temple of God.

So Ashmedai gave to Solomon
something called the shamir.

Now the shamir is described
in traditional literature

as this little world
you'd put on the stone

and it would cut it precisely.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: 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?

ARIEL 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 BC, 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 mapped the vault

under the temple
ruins and discovered

pointed arches with key
stones 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
AD 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.

SEAN MARTIN: By 1139, the pope
makes them answerable to nobody

except himself.

MIKE 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 of 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 other-worldly powers
vanish from the earth forever?

Or might it have
been spirited away

and hidden with the rest of the
purported Templar treasures?

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN COPPENS:
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 (french),, known
to be a Templar stronghold,

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

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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 a 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.

(ominous music)

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.

PAUL DILLMAN: 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.

DANIEL DILLMAN
(VOICEOVER): 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.

20 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 Aztlan.

And this is a city that
was apparently in what's

now the American Southwest--

a very, very advanced
civilisation.

NARRATOR: In the Aztec stories,
their homeland of Aztlan

was created through an
extraordinary event; an event

that according to ancient
astronaut theorists,

depicts an encounter with
extraterrestrial beings.

The Aztec chronicler
Geronimo 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.

DAVID WILCOCK: 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 Aztec codices,

their ancestors were
instructed by the gods

to migrate south to
Mexico around 1064 AD.

Over the course of
the next 500 years,

they grew to be the greatest
empire in North America.

But on June 29th,
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 disk 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

and 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.

This wealth of the Aztecs
was being held in safekeeping

for their god, Quetzalcoatl.

So it was a sacred treasure.

Quetzalcoatl 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 Quetzalcoatl was an
historical figure and not

just a mythological being?

ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Quetzalcoatl 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.

Quetzalcoatl was definitely
an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: If Quetzalcoatl
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 Aztec's have
brought their treasure

back to their ancestral
homeland in the hopes

that Quetzalcoatl would exact
vengeance on their enemies?

The purpose of
this treasure was

to preserve it as
tribute for Quetzalcoatl

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 Quetzalcoatl returns.

(soft music)

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 DILLMAN: Check this out.
Look at the markings.

DANIEL DILLMAN: This
is amazing, man.

PAUL DILLMAN: You got
an Indian headdress.

You got the sun symbol.

The sun symbol,
just like the tablet.

PAUL DILLMAN: Right here-- cave,

wavy lines, and the arch,
the T. Everything's on here.

It matches the tablet perfect.

PAUL DILLMAN: Yeah.

NARRATOR: But if the Dillmans
ever do uncover the entrance

to the Aztec homeland
of Aztlan and the hiding

place of Montezuma's
gold, might they

find more than
they bargained for?

MIKE BARA: If Aztlan was founded
by an extraterrestrial god,

as treasure hunters get closer
and closer to perhaps finding

the location of Aztlan, 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.

(ominous music)

Delphi, Greece.

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

a religious shrine known
as the Sanctuary of Apollo

was established some
time before 1200 BC.

It was here that the
legendary Oracle of Delphi,

a succession of
priestesses of Apollo,

prophesies 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 trance-like
state from which he could

communicate with the gods.

RICHARD RADER: It was the
seat of Apollo's Oracle.

So he was the one who
provided prophecies there.

The priestess is there
just as a conduit for it.

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

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.

RICHARD RADER: Well,
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
mindset to talk to the gods.

Sometimes it's just a stone.

GIORGIO A. 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 BC, 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 is 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.

(thunder cracking)

JONATHAN YOUNG: Apollo
caused the ground to shake

and fierce storms and landslides

and, 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 AD.

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 a Greek
religion in the ancient world.

And so, of course, it just got
a big, old bull's eye on it once

Christianity starts taking off.

And the omphalos stone--

which if you believe that
was invested with the power

that made the Oracle
whir, 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.

(tense music)

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 SS 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?

MIKE 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.

(suspenseful music)

Kerala, India, 2011.

Police officers with
high-powered rifles

stand guard at the entrance
to the Sri Padmanabhaswamy

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.

JONATHAN YOUNG: It
has three doors on it.

The first one is a kind
of a grating metal door.

And the second has
a heavy, wood door.

Finally, it 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.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: And then
the last door has no locks.

It has no latches.

According to legend, it
was sealed with a mantra.

It's called (non-english speech)
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, TP Sundarajan, 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.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: The
locals started circulating

the rumors that any
attempt made by a 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.

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?

DAVID 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.

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?

(thunder roiling)

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?

JONATHAN 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.

DANIEL DILLMAN: Life is
so full of mysteries.

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.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Man has
always been fascinated

with ancient treasures
and discovering

these treasures-- the gold
and silver, the jewels.

But in other cases,
it can be technology

of the extraterrestrial
gods themselves.

(dramatic music)

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.