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An island of giant statues.
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A vast plateau covered
in enormous geoglyphs.
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A megalithic settlement
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that dates back
more than 12,000 years.
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On Ancient Aliens,
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we've trekked across deserts,
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hacked through jungles,
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flown to remote islands,
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and climbed
rugged mountains
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in order to investigate
extraordinary sites
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that seem to defy
any conventional explanation.
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We're going to look back
at what I consider
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to be the top ten ancient sites
we've visited.
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And you can decide for yourself,
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do these places hold the proof
that Earth has been visited
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by extraterrestrials?
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*ANCIENT ALIENS*
Season 17 Episode 02
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Episode Title:
"The Top Ten Mysterious Sites"
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Aired on: August 13, 2021.
Sync corrections by srjanapala
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When I think
of all the mysterious sites
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we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens,
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it's really tough to narrow them
down to the top ten
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and even tougher to rank them.
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Each of these sites offers
compelling evidence
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that extraterrestrials
visited our ancestors.
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And at one particular site
in Peru,
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that evidence is imprinted right
on the vast desert floor.
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And what makes it
even more incredible
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is that you can only see it
from high above the Earth.
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At number ten on my list
of top ten mysterious sites,
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the Nazca Lines.
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Southern Peru. 1927.
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While hiking in the foothills
of the arid Nazca Desert,
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archaeologist
Toribio Mejía Xesspe
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discovers what appears to be
a large network of ancient roads
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carved into the earth.
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Years later,
as airplane travel to the region
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becomes more frequent,
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aerial flyovers reveal
nearly 100 other designs
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in the nearby landscape.
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The Nazca Lines consist
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of these massive drawings
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or carvings, if you like,
on the ground.
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Everything
from geometric symbols, lines
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to animals, even fish, birds.
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But the intriguing thing
about them is, you know,
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that, number one,
they're massive.
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And they can really only be seen
properly from the sky.
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According to
mainstream archaeologists,
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these mysterious earth drawings
were created by the Nazca,
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an ancient people
that flourished in the region
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between the first century
and eighth century AD.
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But what was their purpose?
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Archaeology has still no answer.
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In my opinion,
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it has something to do
with the extraterrestrials.
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Our ancestor made these
gigantic signs in the ground
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because they want to signalize
to the beings up there,
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"We are here. Come down here."
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If you leave Nazca
and travel due west
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some 2,400 miles out
into the Pacific Ocean,
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you'll eventually reach one
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of the most remote islands
on Earth.
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It was discovered by
Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen
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on Easter Sunday, 1722,
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and he was amazed
by the gigantic stone statues
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he found all over the island.
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They've become one of
archaeology's greatest riddles.
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Mysterious site number nine,
Easter Island.
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April 5, 1722.
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Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen
and his crew
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are 2,400 miles
off the coast of Chile
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when they spot a small landmass
completely isolated
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in the Pacific Ocean.
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As they draw closer,
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they are surprised to find
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that the remote island
is inhabited.
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But even more unexpected
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are the giant stone figures
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staring out at them
from the shore.
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The statues on
Easter Island, which we call moai,
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are one of the great
archaeological wonders
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of the world.
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We know they carved
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something like
a thousand of them
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over a period of probably
roughly about 500 years,
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weighing tens of tons.
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No other culture in the world
has ever done this,
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certainly not on this scale.
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In many ways, we still don't
know exactly how they did it.
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The moai were
found to have been carved
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from the volcanic bedrock
at the center of the island.
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But exactly how the native
people managed to move
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such enormous statues out
to Easter Island's shoreline,
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in some cases more
than 11 miles from the quarry,
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has been the subject
of endless debate.
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There have been many theories
over the years
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as to how they were moved.
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The first theory is thought
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that they must have been
dragged horizontally
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on sledges or rollers
or something of that kind.
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It was tried again recently
for a TV film,
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and, again,
they moved it a few meters,
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but it really doesn't prove
anything.
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You're talking
about several hundred statues.
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And it would depend on the size
and weight of the statue,
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the number of people
you had available to help,
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the distance
you were going to go,
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the kind of terrain.
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So, basically,
we don't really know.
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According with the oral
tradition and the legends...
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So one has to
wonder if mana was some type
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of extraterrestrial technology
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that allowed these stones
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to be levitated into place.
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Some have suggested
that sound technology was used
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in order to move
some of these rocks.
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Because scientists have proposed
that levitation technology
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can be achieved with one thing,
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sound frequencies.
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This mana is an energy
that no one understands today.
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Is it some kind
of extraterrestrial energy?
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We just don't know.
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You know, what's really curious
is that so many
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of the world's most massive
megaliths are found on islands,
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where, in ancient times,
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resources and manpower
were extremely limited.
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And on one island nation in the
middle of the Mediterranean Sea,
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you'll find some of the oldest
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and most enormous structures
anywhere on Earth.
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Number eight in our countdown
of mysterious sites,
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the islands of Malta.
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The Maltese islands lie
in the center of the Mediterranean Sea,
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just south of Italy.
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Scholars believe the first
inhabitants migrated here
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from the nearby island of Sicily
in 5200 BC.
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Today, stone structures
on two of the islands,
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Malta and Gozo, are considered
by archaeologists
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to be among
the greatest achievements
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by ancient builders
anywhere in the world.
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There are engineering features
in these temples
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that are just astonishing.
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We're talking about walls
enclosing space,
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paved walkways.
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They were ceilinged at one time.
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Definitely much more complex
than anything else
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that was appearing on Earth
for a very long time.
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In 2014, Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to Malta
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to get an up close look
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at its incredible
megalithic structures.
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At the temple of Hagar Qim,
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he met with Dr. Anthony Bonanno,
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a professor of archaeology
and classical literature.
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- What does "Hagar Qim" actually mean?
- So... Oh, well,
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"stones of worship"
or "standing stones."
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- Like this one.
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- That's right.
- Check this out. This is huge.
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- Wow.
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by six meters, 50 wide
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and about another meter thick.
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That makes about 20-odd tons.
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- Minimum?
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- That's right.
- This is incredible.
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So, this is one of the largest
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- freestanding stones?
- It is.
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I mean, you know,
when I see stuff like this,
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- that's when I wonder, you know, how...
- Yeah, h-how did they carry it?
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- Was...
- How did they...
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They quarried it, in this case.
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- Yes, they must have quarried it.
- And put upright.
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While visitors to
these islands are immediately struck
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by the massive megaliths,
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one of Malta's most incredible
structures remained hidden
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for centuries.
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In 1902,
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construction workers
accidentally discovered
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one of Malta's
most curious features,
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a mysterious underground
sanctuary dating to 2500 BC.
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Called the Hypogeum,
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the subterranean structure
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was revealed
to be three levels deep,
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all hewn from solid stone.
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How could
people from that far back,
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how could they know
how to construct such a thing?
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But if you look
at some of the chambers,
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it looks like
it's actually been carved
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with some type of a laser.
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So I don't... I don't know
exactly how it was done,
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but I do know
that they had a technology
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that far exceeds what we have
today as far as stonecutting.
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If you look at the way
some of these walls have been cut,
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there had to have been
a type of plan
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or construction plan beforehand.
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And one has to wonder
if that engineering knowledge
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was imparted upon the builders,
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which were our ancestors,
by extraterrestrials.
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Could the incredible
stonework found at the Hypogeum
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have been achieved using
extraterrestrial technology?
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Curiously, the first
archaeological investigations
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performed at the site in 1907
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turned up
more than 7,000 skeletons.
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And according to a National
Geographic Magazine article
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from May 1920,
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many were found
to have unusually long skulls.
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In 2014,
I had the great privilege
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of looking at five
of these elongated skulls,
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and they were very interesting
because one of those skulls
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that I looked at
had a missing sagittal suture.
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The sagittal
suture connects to the sides
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and roof of the cranium.
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This suture is open
when a person is born
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and closes around the age of 35.
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As you can see,
even from the inside,
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there's no sign
of the middle suture.
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- Right.
- Completely fused.
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That's fascinating.
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Even if you have a suture
that ossifies or fuses together,
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you still have a fine line
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that you can discover or detect.
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And with the one skull that
I was able to look at in Malta,
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that suture
was completely missing.
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Enormous megalithic structures
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built more than 5,000 years ago.
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A mysterious underground
sanctuary hidden for centuries.
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Ancient skulls
of abnormal size and shape.
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the evidence all points
to one conclusion,
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that the islands of Malta
were once home
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to extraterrestrial beings.
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There aren't many places on Earth
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that can turn modern archaeology
on its head
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like the next mysterious site
on our countdown.
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It's a place
that mainstream science says
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can't possibly exist.
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But not only does it exist,
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it may even provide evidence
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of the Great Flood described
in the Bible.
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Number seven on our countdown
of the top ten mysterious sites,
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Gobekli Tepe.
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Sanliurfa, Turkey.
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October 1994.
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While plowing his field,
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shepherd Savak Yildiz spots
a strangely shaped stone
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protruding from the ground.
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After brushing away the dirt,
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he realizes that it may be part
of a much larger object.
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It wasn't until German
archaeologist Klaus Schmidt
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visited the site
and began digging
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when they realized
what was really at this site.
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What he
discovered was mind-blowing.
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After discovering
the first T-shaped pillar
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buried at the site,
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he soon found more
of these massive structures.
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Klaus Schmidt
had the sediment layers
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of the site radiocarbon-dated.
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The results indicated
that the stone structures
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could be as much
as 12,000 years old,
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more than 5,000 years older
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than mankind's first known
civilization in Mesopotamia.
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Some researchers propose,
the megalithic structures
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provide evidence that
an advanced civilization existed
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on Earth many thousands
of years ago,
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one that was assisted
by otherworldly visitors
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before falling victim
to a deadly cataclysm.
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There is evidence
of a great cataclysm
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that took place
around 12,900 years ago.
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It's called the Younger Dryas
impact event...
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...where comets and air bursts
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impacted the land
and the ice sheets,
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causing massive flooding.
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I mean, Gobekli Tepe
dates to the time
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of the Younger Dryas events
that were taking place
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over a few thousand-year period.
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Gobekli Tepe
could be the smoking gun
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of a lost civilization,
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'cause it confirms that,
at the time of the last ice age,
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there was high culture
existing in the world.
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This is something that had
been speculated for many years.
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If you think Gobekli Tepe is one
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of the most mysterious sites
on Earth,
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there's another that I think
is even more baffling.
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It's a series of massive stones
in Northern France
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that have been arranged
in a very deliberate
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and perplexing
geometric pattern.
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Even modern archaeology
can't explain their purpose.
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At number six on our countdown
of the top ten mysterious sites,
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the standing stones of Carnac.
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On the
northwest coast of France,
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just south of Brittany,
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lies one of the most important
prehistoric sites
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in Europe.
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At the seaside village
of Carnac,
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over 3,000 megalithic stones
are placed in rows
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over two miles long.
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The Carnac stones were hewn
from local rock formations
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and erected between 4500
to 2500 BC,
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at the end of the Stone Age.
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They are the largest collection
of standing stones in the world.
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Archaeologists are baffled
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by the many megaliths
at Carnac here.
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It's clearly
a massive construction project,
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with blocks of granite
weighing 50 to 100
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to even up to 350 tons.
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Although
mainstream archaeologists speculate
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that the Carnac stones
are most likely tomb markers,
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ancient astronaut theorists
believe
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these stones
are intentionally laid out
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in a unique geometric formation.
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The Carnac
stones were laid out incredibly precisely
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using standard units
of measurement
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that show
very sophisticated mathematics.
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It's been suggested
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that they were using
the Pythagorean theorem
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thousands of years ago.
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It may elude us now,
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exactly what they were trying
to accomplish,
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but it seems
like they were encoding
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some kind of information.
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The Pythagorean theorem
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wasn't established
until 2,000 years
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after the last Carnac stones
were erected.
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So how could the builders
have possessed this knowledge?
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And why were the stones arranged
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in such precise
geometrical patterns?
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The Carnac stones are
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a perfect marker for any kind
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of aerial vehicle
looking down on the Earth.
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The
extraterrestrials told our ancestor,
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"Do this. Move stones.
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Put it exactly in this pattern.
We order you."
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It was on purpose.
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The idea was that generations
in the far future
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will start to ask questions.
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That's the situation
we have today.
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Could the Carnac
stones contain a mathematical message
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left by extraterrestrials?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
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and suggest further evidence
can be found
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by examining a famous
megalithic site to the north.
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We're nearly halfway is,
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we through our countdown
of my top ten
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most mysterious sites
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that we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens.
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And the next site on my list
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is one that some believe
has the power to heal,
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while others say it was once
a portal through space and time.
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But what's most amazing to me
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is that ancient people
arranged these stones
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to be an exact replica
of our solar system.
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Number five, Stonehenge.
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Wiltshire, England.
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The Neolithic monument
known as Stonehenge
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has dominated the landscape here
for no less than 5,000 years.
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The iconic stone circle consists
of vertical standing stones
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towering 13 feet tall
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and weighing 25 tons each,
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topped by connecting
horizontal lintel stones
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and surrounding a smaller ring
of stones in the center.
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Stonehenge is unlike
any stone circle anywhere on the planet.
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It's perfectly circular.
It has lintels above it.
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It's designed
with precision-engineered
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astronomical alignments.
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How could the ancient
Stone Age people of Britain
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move these stones into place?
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However
Stonehenge was constructed,
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it involved moving much more
than just the stone blocks
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that stand today.
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According to researchers,
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this is just 25%
of the original monument...
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...the center
of a much larger structure
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that was surrounded
by multiple concentric circles
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constructed over a period
of more than a thousand years.
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So,
Stonehenge is very interesting
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in that it evolves
over a very long period of time.
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And the first thing
that goes up at Stonehenge
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is not there anymore.
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It's the 56 holes that today
are known as the Aubrey circle.
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It used to be filled with 56
stones in a big stone circle
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just inside the henge.
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Stonehenge is a replica
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of our solar system on Earth.
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Each circle corresponds
with one of our planets
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inside our solar system,
including Pluto.
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So, now we have a structure
that's at least 4,000 years old,
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00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,764
and our ancestors knew
about Pluto?
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Without telescopes?
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Someone told them about Pluto
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and all of our planets
in our solar system,
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and that is the message.
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Because, in Neolithic time,
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there is no way
that they knew about this.
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As amazing
as Stonehenge looks today,
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remember, what's still standing
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is only a fraction
of the original structure.
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But 2,400 miles to the south
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is an even more extraordinary
ancient site
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that remains
almost perfectly intact.
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The number four site
on my countdown,
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Egypt's Giza Plateau.
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In April 2018,
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ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos,
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00:21:50,381 --> 00:21:52,867
Egyptologist Ramy Romany,
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00:21:53,055 --> 00:21:56,085
and archaeoastronomer
Dr. Giulio Magli
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traveled to Cairo to investigate
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what is perhaps
the most impressive structure
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ever constructed on Earth,
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the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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00:22:10,361 --> 00:22:12,038
This is...
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- Look at the size of this thing.
- ...incredible.
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Every single
block is bigger than this car.
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Yeah.
It is insane. It really is.
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00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,362
Are you ready for some climbing?
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00:22:21,446 --> 00:22:26,023
I have goose
bumps on my calves right now.
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Built from more
than two million limestone blocks
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each weighing
thousands of pounds,
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the pyramid is aligned perfectly
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to the cardinal points
of the compass...
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North, south, east and west...
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Suggesting
that its builders possessed
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extraordinary
geographical knowledge.
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00:22:46,437 --> 00:22:49,303
According to
mainstream Egyptologists,
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the Great Pyramid was built
sometime around 2500 BC
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as the burial tomb
of the Pharaoh Khufu.
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00:22:57,221 --> 00:23:00,234
But this claim
has yet to be proven.
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00:23:01,399 --> 00:23:03,665
Archaeologists
and Egyptologists claim
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00:23:03,749 --> 00:23:05,929
that they were tombs
for the pharaohs,
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00:23:06,013 --> 00:23:09,351
and yet no Egyptian pharaoh
was ever found
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00:23:09,460 --> 00:23:11,757
in a pyramid in Egypt.
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00:23:12,697 --> 00:23:15,502
We have found the mummies
of many Egyptian pharaohs,
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but they're found in vaults
deep underground
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at the Valley of the Kings
in Luxor,
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hundreds of miles away
from the pyramids.
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The pyramids have
no real explanation
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00:23:27,444 --> 00:23:29,489
of what their purpose was.
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00:23:30,835 --> 00:23:33,906
But if the
pyramids at Giza were not intended
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to house the remains
of dead pharaohs,
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00:23:36,604 --> 00:23:40,390
then why were
these towering monuments built?
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00:23:41,744 --> 00:23:45,620
In his 1998 book
The Giza Power Plant,
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00:23:45,704 --> 00:23:48,885
noted machinist and engineer
Christopher Dunn
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00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:52,279
proposed that the shape,
positions of chambers,
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00:23:52,363 --> 00:23:55,281
and proximity
to underground rivers indicate
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00:23:55,453 --> 00:23:59,445
the pyramids of Giza functioned
as ancient power plants.
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00:23:59,585 --> 00:24:02,132
This incredible hypothesis,
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00:24:02,286 --> 00:24:03,891
which has since been adopted
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00:24:03,976 --> 00:24:06,321
by other scientists
and researchers,
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00:24:06,406 --> 00:24:09,273
may be impossible to ever prove.
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00:24:09,903 --> 00:24:13,461
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe new information
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00:24:13,546 --> 00:24:16,210
about the Great Pyramid
may soon be revealed.
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00:24:16,716 --> 00:24:19,305
In March 2016,
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00:24:19,499 --> 00:24:22,309
archaeologists examining
the ancient structure
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00:24:22,393 --> 00:24:25,233
with a new technology
known as muography
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00:24:25,318 --> 00:24:27,453
made a shocking discovery,
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00:24:27,636 --> 00:24:30,686
a mysterious chamber
inside the structure
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00:24:30,771 --> 00:24:33,960
that is as large
as the Statue of Liberty.
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00:24:34,523 --> 00:24:35,780
This new room
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is only the beginning of it.
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00:24:37,974 --> 00:24:41,415
I'm sure, within the next months
or at least two years,
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00:24:41,499 --> 00:24:44,389
they will discover more rooms
in the Great Pyramid.
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00:24:44,474 --> 00:24:48,960
I personally think
that the Great Pyramid in Egypt
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00:24:49,148 --> 00:24:51,999
holds some sort of time capsule.
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00:24:53,441 --> 00:24:55,951
Perhaps what
lies within the Great Pyramid
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00:24:56,036 --> 00:25:00,608
will reveal not only incredible
truths about ancient Egypt
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00:25:00,819 --> 00:25:03,717
but about the history
of humankind.
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00:25:04,375 --> 00:25:06,293
Could there be clues that reveal
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00:25:06,378 --> 00:25:11,436
that Egypt was once home to an
extraterrestrial civilization?
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00:25:16,013 --> 00:25:17,670
High in the mountains of Peru
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00:25:17,754 --> 00:25:18,859
lies a city
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00:25:18,944 --> 00:25:21,874
with monumental walls
so tightly joined
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00:25:21,966 --> 00:25:24,145
that modern engineers admit
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00:25:24,288 --> 00:25:26,511
that they couldn't replicate it
today.
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00:25:26,595 --> 00:25:28,251
Which begs the question,
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00:25:28,335 --> 00:25:30,732
how did ancient people
accomplish this
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without the help
of modern technology?
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And at an altitude
of 12,000 feet?
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Number three on my countdown
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of the world's
top ten mysterious sites,
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Sacsayhuamán.
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Cuzco, Peru.
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On the northern outskirts
of what was once
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the capital city of the Inca,
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at an elevation
of more than 12,000 feet,
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looms the ancient fortress
of Sacsayhuamán.
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00:26:03,858 --> 00:26:06,210
Mainstream archaeologists
suggest
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00:26:06,311 --> 00:26:11,003
the Inca built this megalithic
site in the 15th century AD,
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00:26:11,088 --> 00:26:13,292
but many researchers now believe
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00:26:13,406 --> 00:26:15,411
that the foundation
of Sacsayhuamán
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dates back centuries earlier.
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00:26:18,749 --> 00:26:19,975
My feeling is
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that we're lookingat a two-phase,
uh, construction site
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00:26:23,452 --> 00:26:26,811
in many of the so-called,
uh, Inca stone monuments
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00:26:27,311 --> 00:26:30,165
and that the Inca structures
sit on top
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00:26:30,249 --> 00:26:32,341
of much more ancient
rock-cut structures
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00:26:32,425 --> 00:26:33,758
and megalithic structures
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00:26:33,843 --> 00:26:35,997
that we just don't know
who built them.
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00:26:36,081 --> 00:26:38,983
And this actually fits
with the Incas' own view.
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00:26:40,147 --> 00:26:41,843
Like many Inca sites,
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00:26:41,928 --> 00:26:45,640
Sacsayhuamán features
astonishing stonework
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00:26:45,905 --> 00:26:48,967
but not all of it credited
to the Inca.
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According to
conventional archaeology,
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00:26:51,929 --> 00:26:55,461
the Killke culture built
the older sections of the site
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00:26:55,546 --> 00:26:58,452
approximately 1,000 years ago.
503
00:26:58,921 --> 00:27:00,848
But the Inca themselves believed
504
00:27:00,932 --> 00:27:05,741
the site was constructed by an
earlier, unnamed race of people
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00:27:05,866 --> 00:27:10,655
led by a powerful god
who descended from the skies.
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00:27:10,818 --> 00:27:12,773
Throughout time,
there has been witness
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00:27:12,857 --> 00:27:14,862
to a god named Viracocha
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00:27:14,952 --> 00:27:16,733
that visited
the South American people
509
00:27:16,817 --> 00:27:20,632
and blessed them and gave them
all types of technology.
510
00:27:21,170 --> 00:27:23,422
Some of his
physical characteristics
511
00:27:23,507 --> 00:27:26,390
make him stand out
from the indigenous population,
512
00:27:26,475 --> 00:27:28,273
because he was
not at all similar
513
00:27:28,358 --> 00:27:30,413
to the indigenous people.
514
00:27:30,639 --> 00:27:34,359
Viracocha was
the primary deity of the Andes,
515
00:27:34,444 --> 00:27:36,492
going back
many thousands of years.
516
00:27:36,835 --> 00:27:38,755
He was thought to be the founder
517
00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:44,085
of all the ancient sites we see
in Peru and Bolivia today.
518
00:27:45,237 --> 00:27:48,983
But did
Viracocha actually exist?
519
00:27:49,256 --> 00:27:52,900
Could he have been, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,
520
00:27:52,984 --> 00:27:56,248
a visitor from an alien world?
521
00:27:57,067 --> 00:27:59,608
If so, it might help to explain
522
00:27:59,693 --> 00:28:03,591
just how the ancient site
was constructed.
523
00:28:03,864 --> 00:28:06,111
It's amazing, all these, uh...
524
00:28:06,196 --> 00:28:08,591
the-the weight of the stones.
525
00:28:24,885 --> 00:28:29,026
The walls are
put together with blocks of stone
526
00:28:29,111 --> 00:28:31,545
weighing 50 or 100 tons...
527
00:28:32,067 --> 00:28:34,811
...cut and shaped like
the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle
528
00:28:34,895 --> 00:28:36,639
so that they lock together
so tightly
529
00:28:36,723 --> 00:28:40,131
that you can't even get
a sheet of paper between them.
530
00:28:42,512 --> 00:28:44,299
According to local legend,
531
00:28:44,459 --> 00:28:48,037
a bird was responsible
for the seamless construction.
532
00:28:48,385 --> 00:28:50,928
Legends say
the winged creature carried
533
00:28:51,013 --> 00:28:53,133
a powerful chemical in its beak,
534
00:28:53,218 --> 00:28:56,693
a substance capable
of melting stone.
535
00:29:13,586 --> 00:29:17,680
But is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists suggest,
536
00:29:17,764 --> 00:29:21,684
that the mythical bird might
actually have been a spacecraft,
537
00:29:21,818 --> 00:29:26,888
piloted by alien visitors known
to the locals as space brothers?
538
00:29:58,107 --> 00:29:59,741
Many of the sites we've featured
539
00:29:59,825 --> 00:30:01,959
on my countdown are famous
540
00:30:02,044 --> 00:30:04,398
because they were constructed
with stone blocks
541
00:30:04,483 --> 00:30:08,373
of the most extraordinary size
and weight.
542
00:30:08,458 --> 00:30:13,396
And no megalithic construction
on Earth is more staggering
543
00:30:13,895 --> 00:30:16,379
than my number two
most mysterious site,
544
00:30:16,464 --> 00:30:18,623
the ruins of Baalbek.
545
00:30:26,215 --> 00:30:27,756
Eastern Lebanon.
546
00:30:27,841 --> 00:30:29,709
The Bekaa Valley.
547
00:30:29,935 --> 00:30:32,364
Here at this archaeological site
548
00:30:32,521 --> 00:30:35,466
stand the ruins of Heliopolis...
549
00:30:35,999 --> 00:30:39,639
...built in the fourth century
BC by Alexander the Great
550
00:30:39,724 --> 00:30:41,372
to honor Zeus.
551
00:30:42,193 --> 00:30:44,419
But beneath
the Corinthian columns
552
00:30:44,568 --> 00:30:47,596
and remnants of both Greek
and Roman architecture
553
00:30:47,771 --> 00:30:51,927
lie the ruins of a site
that is much, much older.
554
00:30:52,511 --> 00:30:54,382
According to archaeologists,
555
00:30:54,467 --> 00:30:57,966
it dates back
nearly 9,000 years.
556
00:30:58,213 --> 00:31:00,870
The ancient city of Baalbek,
557
00:31:00,954 --> 00:31:05,045
named after the early Canaanite
deity Baal.
558
00:31:06,612 --> 00:31:11,359
Baal is the god of life,
the god of the sky, the god of the sun.
559
00:31:11,568 --> 00:31:16,103
He was the god that was
venerated on the site of Baalbek
560
00:31:16,187 --> 00:31:19,623
during the Canaanite
and the Phoenician times.
561
00:31:21,366 --> 00:31:23,522
And so,
because it was already sacred
562
00:31:23,607 --> 00:31:24,981
to the god Baal,
563
00:31:25,131 --> 00:31:27,506
then later the Greeks
and the Romans
564
00:31:27,590 --> 00:31:31,560
then would build temples
on this very same spot.
565
00:31:32,513 --> 00:31:34,990
Archaeological
surveys have revealed
566
00:31:35,075 --> 00:31:37,749
that the enormous
stone foundation that lies
567
00:31:37,834 --> 00:31:41,796
at the base of the site
dates back thousands of years.
568
00:31:41,881 --> 00:31:45,264
Baalbek, as we know from
the archaeological evidence,
569
00:31:45,349 --> 00:31:47,850
must have existed
during Neolithic period,
570
00:31:47,935 --> 00:31:52,990
between 6,000 to 8,000 years
or even 9,000 years BC.
571
00:31:56,227 --> 00:31:59,668
But even more
significant to ancient astronaut theorists
572
00:31:59,752 --> 00:32:02,889
is their belief
that the colossal stone platform
573
00:32:03,027 --> 00:32:06,956
may have been built using
extraterrestrial technology.
574
00:32:08,142 --> 00:32:10,635
As evidence, researchers point
575
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,681
to the gigantic
megalithic stones
576
00:32:12,765 --> 00:32:15,417
incorporated
into the foundation,
577
00:32:15,502 --> 00:32:19,814
each weighing
between 800 to 1,600 tons
578
00:32:19,990 --> 00:32:22,636
and perfectly fitted together.
579
00:32:24,512 --> 00:32:25,465
In Baalbek,
580
00:32:25,550 --> 00:32:28,349
stone blocks were transported
581
00:32:28,567 --> 00:32:33,049
which have a weight
of over 1,500 tons.
582
00:32:33,133 --> 00:32:35,745
And this not in a flat land.
583
00:32:35,830 --> 00:32:37,310
It's all mountain.
584
00:32:38,153 --> 00:32:43,707
We have absolutely no idea
how such heavy loads
585
00:32:43,934 --> 00:32:46,138
could have been transported
in the mountain.
586
00:32:46,223 --> 00:32:48,520
I have nothing
but a speculation to this.
587
00:32:48,605 --> 00:32:51,519
But for sure it does never fit
588
00:32:51,715 --> 00:32:56,026
into the prehistoric knowledge
of our ancestors.
589
00:32:56,809 --> 00:32:59,591
This is the real mystery
of Baalbek...
590
00:32:59,676 --> 00:33:01,556
How these stones
came to be there,
591
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,689
why they were placed there,
and specifically
592
00:33:03,835 --> 00:33:06,059
how they were transported
into place.
593
00:33:06,828 --> 00:33:09,443
Because some of the stones
are of such magnitude
594
00:33:09,528 --> 00:33:12,677
that modern machinery is
incapable of putting them there.
595
00:33:12,762 --> 00:33:15,864
But somehow our ancestors
were able to do this.
596
00:33:17,517 --> 00:33:21,576
It is one of the oldest,
oldest megalithic sites on the planet.
597
00:33:21,661 --> 00:33:23,969
And it has these huge stones
laid out
598
00:33:24,137 --> 00:33:26,583
in a precise geometrical shape
599
00:33:26,668 --> 00:33:30,059
at a time
when the prehistoric people
600
00:33:30,153 --> 00:33:31,372
who would have lived there
601
00:33:31,496 --> 00:33:35,950
would have no concept of how
to move stones of that nature.
602
00:33:37,806 --> 00:33:40,576
But if the
moving, hoisting and setting
603
00:33:40,661 --> 00:33:44,164
of such massive stones
was so incredibly difficult,
604
00:33:44,248 --> 00:33:48,255
then who, or what,
helped to place them there?
605
00:33:48,339 --> 00:33:51,954
And, perhaps
more importantly, why?
606
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,130
We know that the ancients
always went to power places,
607
00:33:55,215 --> 00:33:57,786
and Baalbek
clearly is one of them.
608
00:33:57,870 --> 00:33:59,745
It is a place where the gods
were worshipped,
609
00:33:59,829 --> 00:34:01,872
where the gods were said
to be present.
610
00:34:01,957 --> 00:34:03,583
And so,
when it comes to Baalbek,
611
00:34:03,668 --> 00:34:06,142
this platform was built there
for a reason.
612
00:34:06,226 --> 00:34:07,666
For what purpose it was used
613
00:34:07,750 --> 00:34:10,625
is a question we can't answer
at this moment in time.
614
00:34:10,709 --> 00:34:13,759
But what we do know is that
whatever was happening there
615
00:34:13,843 --> 00:34:15,804
had a great
religious significance to them
616
00:34:15,888 --> 00:34:18,590
and was linked
with worshipping deities,
617
00:34:18,674 --> 00:34:21,745
deities which clearly are
of an otherworldly origin.
618
00:34:21,830 --> 00:34:23,667
Hopefully, at one point,
619
00:34:23,752 --> 00:34:26,175
archaeology
will be so open-minded
620
00:34:26,260 --> 00:34:28,611
that they actually want
to explore this further.
621
00:34:30,249 --> 00:34:32,628
We're just moments away
622
00:34:32,713 --> 00:34:34,347
from the top site on my list.
623
00:34:34,432 --> 00:34:35,911
And in my opinion,
624
00:34:35,995 --> 00:34:38,773
we've definitely saved
the best for last.
625
00:34:38,858 --> 00:34:40,816
Can you guess what it is?
626
00:34:44,408 --> 00:34:46,588
We've finally reached number one
627
00:34:46,673 --> 00:34:48,979
on my top ten countdown
628
00:34:49,197 --> 00:34:51,976
of Ancient Aliens'
most mysterious sites.
629
00:34:52,061 --> 00:34:56,800
Lying in ruins atop a vast
plateau in the Andes Mountains
630
00:34:56,885 --> 00:34:59,717
at an altitude
of over 12,000 feet,
631
00:34:59,802 --> 00:35:03,315
the megalithic stones found
at this incredible location
632
00:35:03,432 --> 00:35:06,202
are among the largest
on planet Earth.
633
00:35:06,286 --> 00:35:09,380
But even more impressive
is how they were cut
634
00:35:09,549 --> 00:35:11,817
with such exact precision.
635
00:35:11,901 --> 00:35:15,386
And, to me, they provide
the strongest evidence
636
00:35:15,526 --> 00:35:18,302
that extraterrestrials
visited our planet
637
00:35:18,386 --> 00:35:21,674
and changed the course
of human history.
638
00:35:22,860 --> 00:35:26,995
My number one most mysterious
site, Puma Punku.
639
00:35:32,829 --> 00:35:36,705
Bolivia, South America.
640
00:35:37,690 --> 00:35:42,385
Here lie the mysterious
ancient ruins of Puma Punku.
641
00:35:42,940 --> 00:35:45,415
Spread across a desert plateau
642
00:35:45,580 --> 00:35:48,010
are dozens
of megalithic stone blocks
643
00:35:48,095 --> 00:35:50,229
cut with extreme precision
644
00:35:50,557 --> 00:35:54,479
and some weighing
more than 100 tons.
645
00:35:55,043 --> 00:35:57,792
These are the mysterious ruins
646
00:35:57,876 --> 00:35:59,137
of Puma Punku,
647
00:35:59,486 --> 00:36:04,369
nearly 13,000 feet
in the Altiplano of Bolivia.
648
00:36:04,854 --> 00:36:09,744
What you have here are
massive blocks of granite
649
00:36:09,853 --> 00:36:15,592
scattered like some kid's
toy blocks around the site.
650
00:36:16,104 --> 00:36:21,887
Archaeologists are baffled
by what Puma Punku was,
651
00:36:21,971 --> 00:36:25,238
how it looked,
and what the purpose
652
00:36:25,322 --> 00:36:28,893
of this enormous structure
would have been.
653
00:36:31,330 --> 00:36:35,487
What sets Puma Punku
apart from other ancient megalithic sites
654
00:36:35,572 --> 00:36:37,772
is the incredible stonework,
655
00:36:37,901 --> 00:36:41,730
which some researchers suggest
is far too sophisticated
656
00:36:41,815 --> 00:36:44,916
to have been accomplished
using primitive tools.
657
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,609
One of the amazing things here
at Puma Punku
658
00:36:48,838 --> 00:36:51,830
is the precision of the blocks.
659
00:36:52,111 --> 00:36:54,572
You can see with this block
of granite
660
00:36:54,786 --> 00:37:00,604
that it's really been cut
at very accurate right angles.
661
00:37:01,793 --> 00:37:05,877
Not only do these granite blocks
have precision corners
662
00:37:06,002 --> 00:37:10,291
but they also have
these difficult drill holes
663
00:37:10,410 --> 00:37:14,371
that are going
right through the rock.
664
00:37:16,255 --> 00:37:18,173
Mainstream scientists believe
665
00:37:18,350 --> 00:37:20,399
the site
was originally constructed
666
00:37:20,508 --> 00:37:22,948
about 2,000 years ago.
667
00:37:23,032 --> 00:37:27,541
But in 1945, archaeologist
Arthur Posnansky proposed
668
00:37:27,626 --> 00:37:31,221
that Puma Punku
was much, much older.
669
00:37:31,344 --> 00:37:34,354
By examining the structures
and what he believed
670
00:37:34,479 --> 00:37:36,918
were their original alignment
with the stars,
671
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:41,224
he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC.
672
00:37:42,531 --> 00:37:44,549
But how could
such primitive people,
673
00:37:44,682 --> 00:37:47,486
living perhaps
over 10,000 years ago,
674
00:37:47,571 --> 00:37:50,881
have produced
such flawless stonework?
675
00:37:51,260 --> 00:37:53,808
The Spanish
conqueror asked the Inca,
676
00:37:53,893 --> 00:37:57,761
the people living there,
including the king of the Inca,
677
00:37:57,846 --> 00:38:00,464
"What is this Puma Punku?"
678
00:38:00,548 --> 00:38:03,510
And they all said, "It's not us.
679
00:38:03,594 --> 00:38:06,165
"It's not our forefather
who make this.
680
00:38:06,249 --> 00:38:10,558
These were made by the gods
in one single night."
681
00:38:12,821 --> 00:38:15,914
One of the
earliest chronicles that we have
682
00:38:15,998 --> 00:38:21,397
in regards to Puma Punku talks
about that these giant platforms
683
00:38:21,481 --> 00:38:27,360
were moved through the air
by the sound of a trumpet.
684
00:38:27,580 --> 00:38:31,103
They basically floated
into place.
685
00:38:31,203 --> 00:38:33,583
And here's another
very interesting thing that,
686
00:38:33,668 --> 00:38:37,413
according to the myths,
this is exactly what happened
687
00:38:37,497 --> 00:38:40,369
with the moai on Easter Island.
688
00:38:40,663 --> 00:38:44,409
Could it be that
the local traditions of Easter Island
689
00:38:44,548 --> 00:38:48,773
and Puma Punku tell nearly
identical stories of levitation
690
00:38:48,943 --> 00:38:51,905
because the ancient people
at both sites witnessed
691
00:38:51,990 --> 00:38:55,301
the same
extraterrestrial technology?
692
00:38:56,244 --> 00:38:58,739
And if the stone blocks
of Puma Punku
693
00:38:58,823 --> 00:39:01,675
were once part
of a megalithic structure,
694
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,133
how did it end up in ruins?
695
00:39:05,526 --> 00:39:07,400
I honestly believe
that Puma Punku
696
00:39:07,484 --> 00:39:10,768
is more than 12,000 years old.
697
00:39:10,966 --> 00:39:14,059
12,000 years ago,
there was a global cataclysm
698
00:39:14,143 --> 00:39:17,453
that destroyed a lot
of ancient sites that we find,
699
00:39:17,537 --> 00:39:21,315
whether in Egypt
or the Altiplano of Bolivia.
700
00:39:22,393 --> 00:39:24,504
We had, at the end
of the last ice age,
701
00:39:24,588 --> 00:39:26,985
all kinds
of catastrophic flooding
702
00:39:27,069 --> 00:39:29,770
due to the events
in the climate changes
703
00:39:29,854 --> 00:39:33,905
and the melting of the glaciers
and increased precipitation.
704
00:39:34,338 --> 00:39:38,083
There were incredible rises
in sea levels
705
00:39:38,167 --> 00:39:40,651
since the end
of the last ice age.
706
00:39:40,735 --> 00:39:42,914
More than 12,000 years ago,
707
00:39:42,998 --> 00:39:47,614
Lake Titicaca was 100 feet
higher than it is today.
708
00:39:47,698 --> 00:39:49,921
And I believe that Puma Punku
709
00:39:50,005 --> 00:39:53,098
was literally on the shore
of the lake at that time,
710
00:39:53,183 --> 00:39:56,791
whereas now
it's eight miles away.
711
00:39:57,010 --> 00:39:58,494
12,000 years ago,
712
00:39:58,578 --> 00:40:03,456
it was hit by a wave of mud
coming from Lake Titicaca
713
00:40:03,540 --> 00:40:05,281
as a tsunami.
714
00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:12,088
A megalithic structure
built more than 12,000 years ago
715
00:40:12,252 --> 00:40:15,643
with the help
of extraterrestrial technology
716
00:40:15,728 --> 00:40:19,205
destroyed by a great cataclysm.
717
00:40:19,447 --> 00:40:22,736
If this incredible story
is true,
718
00:40:22,820 --> 00:40:25,166
one question still remains.
719
00:40:25,301 --> 00:40:28,960
What was Puma Punku?
720
00:40:29,307 --> 00:40:32,316
When you look
at the complexity of Puma Punku,
721
00:40:32,401 --> 00:40:35,331
the huge platforms,
the interlocking blocks
722
00:40:35,416 --> 00:40:37,446
that was made into
what they thought
723
00:40:37,531 --> 00:40:39,541
were indestructible walls...
724
00:40:40,882 --> 00:40:42,713
...what you could have is
725
00:40:42,901 --> 00:40:48,463
a kind of perfectly made
granite spaceport
726
00:40:48,585 --> 00:40:51,651
that extraterrestrials
would want.
727
00:40:53,533 --> 00:40:56,706
Although the origins
of many of the incredible sites
728
00:40:56,791 --> 00:41:00,361
we've featured on Ancient Aliens
continue to be debated,
729
00:41:00,466 --> 00:41:03,864
to me,
Puma Punku is so extraordinary
730
00:41:04,049 --> 00:41:07,738
that it is the one site
where I will say, yes,
731
00:41:07,924 --> 00:41:13,503
this was likely built directly
by the aliens themselves.
732
00:41:13,588 --> 00:41:15,223
But make no mistake,
733
00:41:15,307 --> 00:41:18,198
each and every one of the sites
on our countdown
734
00:41:18,283 --> 00:41:22,187
deserves to be investigated
with an open mind.
735
00:41:22,271 --> 00:41:25,059
And it is only by asking
the questions
736
00:41:25,143 --> 00:41:28,158
that we can finally uncover
the truth
737
00:41:28,283 --> 00:41:31,544
of our extraterrestrial
origins.
738
00:41:31,629 --> 00:41:34,229
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