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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,800 2 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:02,976 [MUSIC PLAYING] 3 00:00:02,976 --> 00:00:28,780 4 00:00:28,780 --> 00:00:31,620 >> Few symbols convey the mysteries of ancient 5 00:00:31,620 --> 00:00:36,930 consciousness more potently than the Great Sphinx of Giza. 6 00:00:36,930 --> 00:00:39,870 Just south of the Great Pyramid, on the West Bank 7 00:00:39,870 --> 00:00:43,890 of the Nile River, this mythical limestone creature 8 00:00:43,890 --> 00:00:48,240 has the body of a lion and the head of a human. 9 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:53,430 The Sphinx is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt. 10 00:00:53,430 --> 00:00:55,500 According to mainstream scholars, 11 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:57,690 it was built by ancient Egyptians 12 00:00:57,690 --> 00:01:00,000 during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre, 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,970 between the dates 2558 and 2532 BC. 14 00:01:05,970 --> 00:01:10,350 But in 1992, author and independent Egyptologist, 15 00:01:10,350 --> 00:01:14,520 John Anthony West, claimed that the Great Sphinx of Giza 16 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:21,030 was not carved in 2,500 BC but 9,000 to 10,000 years earlier, 17 00:01:21,030 --> 00:01:26,430 before Egypt was a desert and even before the dawn of man 18 00:01:26,430 --> 00:01:28,310 as we know it. 19 00:01:28,310 --> 00:01:31,610 While studying the works of 1920s scholar Schwaller 20 00:01:31,610 --> 00:01:34,400 de Lubicz, John Anthony West discovered 21 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,980 that conventional Egyptologists had 22 00:01:36,980 --> 00:01:39,350 overlooked an important detail. 23 00:01:39,350 --> 00:01:42,830 The body of the Sphinx bore distinct markings 24 00:01:42,830 --> 00:01:43,730 of water erosion. 25 00:01:43,730 --> 00:01:47,390 26 00:01:47,390 --> 00:01:49,990 >> Through some friends, I had an introduction to a very 27 00:01:49,990 --> 00:01:53,530 well-known Oxford geologist, and I went into him with a very 28 00:01:53,530 --> 00:01:55,030 simple question. 29 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:57,910 On the basis of a clear photograph alone, 30 00:01:57,910 --> 00:02:00,430 could he, as a geologist, tell the difference 31 00:02:00,430 --> 00:02:03,340 between weathering by water and weathering by wind and sand. 32 00:02:03,340 --> 00:02:05,320 The answer was cautiously expressed, 33 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,084 as a general rule, yes. 34 00:02:07,084 --> 00:02:08,500 I asked him if he didn't mind if I 35 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:10,000 play a bit of the trick on him. 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,330 And what I did was I took a photograph of the Sphinx, 37 00:02:13,330 --> 00:02:16,650 and I masked off the head and the paws, 38 00:02:16,650 --> 00:02:18,460 and I asked him what did he think 39 00:02:18,460 --> 00:02:20,846 was responsible for that weathering? 40 00:02:20,846 --> 00:02:22,720 And he looked at it a moment, and said, well, 41 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,690 unquestionably, water. 42 00:02:24,690 --> 00:02:27,390 And I stripped the masking tape off. 43 00:02:27,390 --> 00:02:32,980 And he looked at it a minute, and he said, oh. 44 00:02:32,980 --> 00:02:37,030 >> If it was water erosion, then the entire history of ancient 45 00:02:37,030 --> 00:02:39,460 man would have to be rewritten. 46 00:02:39,460 --> 00:02:42,030 The conversation was a controversial subject 47 00:02:42,030 --> 00:02:45,700 the Oxford geologist didn't want to get involved with. 48 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:48,430 This did little to deter John West from wanting 49 00:02:48,430 --> 00:02:50,140 to solve the mystery. 50 00:02:50,140 --> 00:02:52,300 If the Great Sphinx of Egypt was built 51 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,390 thousands of years earlier than was written in mainstream 52 00:02:55,390 --> 00:02:58,720 history, could the water erosion marks he had examined 53 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,990 shed new light on the creation of the human race? 54 00:03:02,990 --> 00:03:06,550 Determined to find out, John sought other scientists 55 00:03:06,550 --> 00:03:08,680 willing to join his quest. 56 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,610 His search led him to Professor Robert Schoch, a geologist 57 00:03:12,610 --> 00:03:15,220 at Boston University. 58 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:18,970 >> I first went to see the Sphinx in 1990, 59 00:03:18,970 --> 00:03:23,350 and I noticed immediately that there was a disconnect, 60 00:03:23,350 --> 00:03:26,140 because the weathering and erosion that I saw 61 00:03:26,140 --> 00:03:31,540 on the Sphinx was not compatible with Sahara Desert hyper arid 62 00:03:31,540 --> 00:03:32,440 conditions. 63 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,680 What I was seeing, I was convinced, 64 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,060 was precipitation weathering and erosion, from rainfall, 65 00:03:40,060 --> 00:03:41,660 from water beating down on it. 66 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:43,450 Now, how do you have that when it's 67 00:03:43,450 --> 00:03:47,450 been Sahara Desert for 5,000 or more years? 68 00:03:47,450 --> 00:03:49,570 So immediately, I saw this anomaly, 69 00:03:49,570 --> 00:03:52,660 and the logical conclusion I had, again, 70 00:03:52,660 --> 00:03:56,080 virtually immediately, was that the Sphinx must go back 71 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,470 to an earlier climatic regime. 72 00:03:59,470 --> 00:04:03,010 >> Can the water erosion marks that John West discovered stand 73 00:04:03,010 --> 00:04:08,500 alone to prove the Sphinx was constructed before 2,500 BC? 74 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:13,000 In 2008, geoarcheologists Manichev and Parkhomenko, 75 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,830 argued that, through their research 76 00:04:14,830 --> 00:04:17,649 of the analyzation of erosion on the Sphinx, 77 00:04:17,649 --> 00:04:19,300 they figured it actually was part 78 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:22,680 of a civilization much older. 79 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:28,000 >> Two Ukrainian geologists believe that the Sphinx, 80 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,480 which is on the edge of a plateau at Giza could be 81 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,070 as much as 800,000 years old. 82 00:04:35,070 --> 00:04:36,990 Why do they believe this? 83 00:04:36,990 --> 00:04:43,900 What they propose is that originally the Mediterranean 84 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:51,160 Sea extended all the way to the plateau of Giza 85 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:56,620 and lapped up against the Sphinx to create 86 00:04:56,620 --> 00:05:00,820 the distinctive weathering patterns that we see. 87 00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:05,620 I think that they could be right about the weathering, 88 00:05:05,620 --> 00:05:09,490 but I think that we're talking about the Sphinx 89 00:05:09,490 --> 00:05:14,920 before it was actually carved into what we see today. 90 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:21,490 There was a rocky promontory or knoll at that site, 91 00:05:21,490 --> 00:05:25,840 which obviously, was later used to carve the Sphinx 92 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:27,940 and that would have had weathering patterns on it. 93 00:05:27,940 --> 00:05:31,990 And almost certainly, that does date back hundreds of thousands 94 00:05:31,990 --> 00:05:36,960 of years and could well have been weathered by water 95 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,790 at some point in the past, but certainly, that 96 00:05:39,790 --> 00:05:42,870 was not in the recent past. 97 00:05:42,870 --> 00:05:46,140 >> As theories about how old the Sphinx is continue, 98 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:49,080 Robert Schoch has found his research keeps leading him 99 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,610 further back in time. 100 00:05:50,610 --> 00:05:53,940 Since he first traveled to Giza in 1992, 101 00:05:53,940 --> 00:05:55,680 Professor Robert Schoch's research 102 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,430 has taken his first dating of the Sphinx even further. 103 00:05:59,430 --> 00:06:02,460 His most recent geological and seismic findings 104 00:06:02,460 --> 00:06:04,860 have convinced him that the Great Sphinx could 105 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:09,090 have been carved as far back as 12,000 years ago, 106 00:06:09,090 --> 00:06:12,460 at the end of the last Ice Age. 107 00:06:12,460 --> 00:06:17,340 >> We know geologically and from stage of ancient climatology, 108 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:22,860 that prior to about 3,000, what is now Sahara was much more 109 00:06:22,860 --> 00:06:26,220 moist, much more temperate, much more rainfall. 110 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:30,190 So I concluded that had to go back at least to that earlier 111 00:06:30,190 --> 00:06:30,990 period. 112 00:06:30,990 --> 00:06:34,560 My initial estimate was 5,000 to 7,000 BC. 113 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,505 This was very, very radical at the time. 114 00:06:37,505 --> 00:06:40,860 The Egyptologists were livid about this. 115 00:06:40,860 --> 00:06:44,640 They were saying all kinds of nasty things about me, 116 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,650 calling me a pseudoscientist, because they 117 00:06:46,650 --> 00:06:48,990 said this was absolutely impossible, because there's 118 00:06:48,990 --> 00:06:53,040 no civilization when you go back to 5,000 to 7,000 119 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,620 BC that could construct the Sphinx. 120 00:06:55,620 --> 00:06:58,260 Since then, I've continued my studies. 121 00:06:58,260 --> 00:07:00,120 I've carried on with this. 122 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,870 I've actually re-analyzed the seismic data, 123 00:07:03,870 --> 00:07:06,970 and I'm convinced, at this point, 124 00:07:06,970 --> 00:07:09,360 for a number of technical reasons, that actually 125 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:13,140 the seismic data suggests that we have to go back 126 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:16,430 to at least around 10,000 BC. 127 00:07:16,430 --> 00:07:19,680 And this also fits much better, the climatic regime, 128 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,840 and gives enough time for the erosion 129 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,450 and weathering that we're seeing. 130 00:07:24,450 --> 00:07:29,280 >> When could the Sphinx have been exposed to what turns out, 131 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,270 what needs to have been, about 1,000 years of very heavy 132 00:07:33,270 --> 00:07:34,610 rainfall? 133 00:07:34,610 --> 00:07:36,300 There was no rainfall like that in Egypt 134 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:38,610 in the time of the pharaohs either. 135 00:07:38,610 --> 00:07:44,640 The Giza Plateau was as dry 4,500 years ago as it is today. 136 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,960 And yet, here is a structure that has been heavily weathered 137 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,610 by rainfall, which has fallen on it for a long period of time. 138 00:07:53,610 --> 00:07:56,550 You have to go back, you know, more than 11,500 years. 139 00:07:56,550 --> 00:07:58,110 You have to go back to 12,000 years, 140 00:07:58,110 --> 00:08:02,640 really, to get the kind of climate conditions 141 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,680 in that part of the Sahara that would 142 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,440 have been capable of causing that level of erosion 143 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,030 on the Sphinx. 144 00:08:09,030 --> 00:08:12,960 The rainfall erosion is most visible on the trench 145 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:14,220 that surrounds the Sphinx. 146 00:08:14,220 --> 00:08:16,470 Nobody bothered to restore that, and there you 147 00:08:16,470 --> 00:08:19,970 can see this undulating profile and cuts through it. 148 00:08:19,970 --> 00:08:23,921 It's classic rainfall-induced weathering. 149 00:08:23,921 --> 00:08:26,597 And the Sphinx's body has been repaired again and again. 150 00:08:26,597 --> 00:08:28,680 It wasn't just in the Old Kingdom it was repaired. 151 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,720 There were more repairs done in the New Kingdom as well. 152 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,900 And, you know, right down into more recent times. 153 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:37,530 They're still restoring the core body of the Sphinx today. 154 00:08:37,530 --> 00:08:40,110 This, alone, should have alerted archaeologists to the fact 155 00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:42,090 that there's a problem because some 156 00:08:42,090 --> 00:08:44,580 of the most extensive restorations of the Sphinx 157 00:08:44,580 --> 00:08:47,850 when blocks were applied to that rock-hewn core 158 00:08:47,850 --> 00:08:51,540 body of the Sphinx to repair damage, some of those date 159 00:08:51,540 --> 00:08:52,950 from the Old Kingdom. 160 00:08:52,950 --> 00:08:56,876 They date from 2,500 BC. 161 00:08:56,876 --> 00:09:00,600 Now, if you've made your Sphinx in 2,500 BC, what on Earth 162 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,860 are you doing restoring it massively in 2,000? 163 00:09:03,860 --> 00:09:05,610 It should be pristine. 164 00:09:05,610 --> 00:09:08,370 >> Gregg Braden adds another layer to the dating 165 00:09:08,370 --> 00:09:09,715 of the Sphinx. 166 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:12,090 >> When we look at the mystery of the Sphinx and the Giza 167 00:09:12,090 --> 00:09:17,800 Plateau, in the traditional dating of only 4,000 years, 168 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,840 where that no longer makes sense is the erosion on the Sphinx 169 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,730 has now been proven by Robert Schoch to be fluvial erosion 170 00:09:26,730 --> 00:09:28,590 rather than aeolian erosion. 171 00:09:28,590 --> 00:09:33,420 And fluvial means vast amounts of water 172 00:09:33,420 --> 00:09:35,410 moving quickly over long periods of time, 173 00:09:35,410 --> 00:09:38,520 where aeolian erosion, that would be wind, 174 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,280 blowing and eroding over long periods of time. 175 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,150 Robert Schoch showed, beyond any reasonable doubt, 176 00:09:45,150 --> 00:09:48,500 that it is water erosion that has created the Sphinx. 177 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:52,410 His findings were accepted by AAPG, the American Association 178 00:09:52,410 --> 00:09:54,330 of Petroleum Geologists. 179 00:09:54,330 --> 00:09:57,220 They looked at the evidence, and they said, of course, 180 00:09:57,220 --> 00:09:58,300 this makes perfect sense. 181 00:09:58,300 --> 00:10:00,370 We have no problem with this. 182 00:10:00,370 --> 00:10:02,760 The historians have a huge problem, 183 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,380 because the last time there were vast amounts of water 184 00:10:07,380 --> 00:10:09,650 moving quickly over long periods of time 185 00:10:09,650 --> 00:10:12,970 is when the ice melted from the last Ice Age, 186 00:10:12,970 --> 00:10:16,260 and that is now being dated, in that part of Egypt, 187 00:10:16,260 --> 00:10:19,500 between 7,000 and 9,000 years before present. 188 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:21,765 So I think the evidence strongly supports 189 00:10:21,765 --> 00:10:26,030 that the Sphinx was in place when that water was melting. 190 00:10:26,030 --> 00:10:29,160 What it doesn't account for is the Ice 191 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:33,750 Age was there for 20,000 years. 192 00:10:33,750 --> 00:10:39,180 Was the Sphinx built before the ice happened and subject 193 00:10:39,180 --> 00:10:40,920 to the erosion, or was the Sphinx 194 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,730 built while the ice was in place? 195 00:10:42,730 --> 00:10:46,170 And we don't know the answer to that yet. 196 00:10:46,170 --> 00:10:49,000 >> Some researchers suggest that the Sphinx could have been 197 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,190 built during the precessional cycle, 198 00:10:51,190 --> 00:10:55,690 even before the current one, giving it the date of 36,000 199 00:10:55,690 --> 00:10:57,250 BC. 200 00:10:57,250 --> 00:11:00,760 >> John Anthony West's view is that actually it's not marking 201 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,222 12,500 years ago. 202 00:11:02,222 --> 00:11:03,680 It's marking the precessional cycle 203 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:05,920 before that, the previous Age of Leo, 204 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,490 which would be 25,920 years before that. 205 00:11:09,490 --> 00:11:13,090 The Age of Leo recurs every 25,920 years. 206 00:11:13,090 --> 00:11:16,570 So the astronomy doesn't absolutely 207 00:11:16,570 --> 00:11:18,852 commit us to the date of 12,500 years ago. 208 00:11:18,852 --> 00:11:21,310 But what does, I think, commit us to the date of 12 and 1/2 209 00:11:21,310 --> 00:11:23,310 thousand years ago, is the geology. 210 00:11:23,310 --> 00:11:25,300 The way that the Sphinx is measured 211 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:30,760 and the fact that that was a very rainy period in Egypt. 212 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:35,740 If you wind back the ancient skies to 10,500 BC, 213 00:11:35,740 --> 00:11:37,900 you go over to Giza, and you find 214 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,600 that two constellations are modeled on the ground there. 215 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,340 One is the constellation of Orion, 216 00:11:42,340 --> 00:11:44,650 the belt stars of Orion in the positioning of the three 217 00:11:44,650 --> 00:11:48,040 great pyramids, and the other is the constellation of Leo, 218 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,850 with the Great Sphinx gazing due east. 219 00:11:51,850 --> 00:11:55,690 And the strangest thing is that you again get a lock, 220 00:11:55,690 --> 00:12:00,370 not in 2,500 BC, when Giza is supposed to have been created, 221 00:12:00,370 --> 00:12:01,900 none of it works then. 222 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:06,430 You have to go back 12,500 years to 10,500 BC 223 00:12:06,430 --> 00:12:09,340 to get Leo locking perfectly with the Sphinx at dawn 224 00:12:09,340 --> 00:12:10,740 on the spring equinox. 225 00:12:10,740 --> 00:12:12,130 It's the Age of Leo. 226 00:12:12,130 --> 00:12:14,740 It's as though the lion-bodied Sphinx 227 00:12:14,740 --> 00:12:18,550 is looking at its own celestial counterpart in the sky. 228 00:12:18,550 --> 00:12:20,430 And the constellation of Orion due south 229 00:12:20,430 --> 00:12:22,930 on the meridian in exactly the pattern of the three pyramids 230 00:12:22,930 --> 00:12:24,030 on the ground. 231 00:12:24,030 --> 00:12:29,060 And that only happens 12,500 years ago. 232 00:12:29,060 --> 00:12:31,880 >> Could the Sphinx and the pyramids have been built 233 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,440 at the same time? 234 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,980 If so, could the ancient civilization that built it 235 00:12:36,980 --> 00:12:41,780 be marking a very important time for our current human race? 236 00:12:41,780 --> 00:12:43,970 >> Now, with modern computer software, 237 00:12:43,970 --> 00:12:48,410 we can look at the ancient skies in any period we wish. 238 00:12:48,410 --> 00:12:52,160 It's interesting when we switch from geology to astronomy, 239 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:57,050 and we start looking at the Sphinx and the pyramids 240 00:12:57,050 --> 00:12:59,870 as astronomically-connected monuments. 241 00:12:59,870 --> 00:13:02,360 And we can't do otherwise, because the Sphinx, 242 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:07,130 as I mentioned, is perfectly aligned on due east, perfect. 243 00:13:07,130 --> 00:13:10,060 That's the work of people who are studying the sky. 244 00:13:10,060 --> 00:13:13,260 245 00:13:13,260 --> 00:13:16,484 >> The temple has to be a mirror image of the cosmos. 246 00:13:16,484 --> 00:13:18,900 In other words, you have to represent what you're actually 247 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:19,710 looking at. 248 00:13:19,710 --> 00:13:21,990 A great example, of course, is the Sphinx. 249 00:13:21,990 --> 00:13:25,680 Looks at its mirror image on the horizon of the spring equinox, 250 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:27,000 10,500 BC. 251 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,680 Boom. 252 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,160 >> Robert Schoch challenges the conventional explanation behind 253 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,040 the Sphinx being constructed in 2,500 BC. 254 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,390 >> It's been claimed that the face of the Sphinx is the face 255 00:13:39,390 --> 00:13:42,000 of the pharaoh Khafre or Chephren. 256 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,300 So that would date it to 2,500 BC But all of this 257 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:47,460 is really very circumstantial. 258 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:49,290 I think there's a very good possibility 259 00:13:49,290 --> 00:13:53,460 that the Sphinx was not a Sphinx originally, but it was a lion. 260 00:13:53,460 --> 00:13:56,040 So a lion's body with a lion's head. 261 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:01,050 That the human head is a reconstruction or recarving. 262 00:14:01,050 --> 00:14:03,150 Maybe the head's been recarved more than once. 263 00:14:03,150 --> 00:14:08,100 But if you think about as a lion, during the Age of Leo, 264 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:12,900 at the end of the last Ice Age, circa 10,000 or so BC, 265 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:16,180 you had the Sphinx facing it's, essentially, 266 00:14:16,180 --> 00:14:19,345 own image in the sky on the vernal equinox, 267 00:14:19,345 --> 00:14:21,540 and I think this was something that may have 268 00:14:21,540 --> 00:14:24,190 been incredibly significant. 269 00:14:24,190 --> 00:14:26,830 >> What would be the purpose of such a marker at the Giza 270 00:14:26,830 --> 00:14:27,850 Plateau? 271 00:14:27,850 --> 00:14:31,180 Is there an unseen power that generations later 272 00:14:31,180 --> 00:14:32,950 tried to capture? 273 00:14:32,950 --> 00:14:38,770 >> The idea of a lion image as an important sacred notion 274 00:14:38,770 --> 00:14:43,270 in a solar-worshipping culture is completely understandable. 275 00:14:43,270 --> 00:14:45,370 First of all, the constellations in the heavens, 276 00:14:45,370 --> 00:14:48,100 so we're looking upward for inspiration. 277 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:52,530 And the image of a lion is a very strong, courageous, noble 278 00:14:52,530 --> 00:14:53,330 quality. 279 00:14:53,330 --> 00:14:57,100 So to put the head of a pharaoh on the body of a lion 280 00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:59,560 is to acknowledge that the pharaoh has 281 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,020 these great, powerful qualities. 282 00:15:02,020 --> 00:15:04,840 This is carved out of bedrock. 283 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,630 Not only is the leader's energy united 284 00:15:07,630 --> 00:15:10,440 with the image of a lion, it is also united with the Earth. 285 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,050 So we have powerful imagery of integration going 286 00:15:14,050 --> 00:15:17,620 on in the Great Sphinx of Giza. 287 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:21,040 >> Could there be a different kind of power we haven't yet 288 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,490 been able to understand attached with the Sphinx and the Giza 289 00:15:24,490 --> 00:15:25,405 Plateau? 290 00:15:25,405 --> 00:15:26,530 >> Well, it's bizarre. 291 00:15:26,530 --> 00:15:29,260 I mean, these are gigantic monuments, 292 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:31,150 left totally uninscribed, not even 293 00:15:31,150 --> 00:15:34,300 the name of the supposed pharaoh. 294 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:36,160 No architect's name, nothing. 295 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,160 It doesn't have hieroglyphs. 296 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,300 It doesn't have inscriptions. 297 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:42,220 But they do speak, once you understand 298 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:45,100 that the language that is being incorporated 299 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:46,950 or the designer, who used language, 300 00:15:46,950 --> 00:15:49,790 used mathematics and astronomy. 301 00:15:49,790 --> 00:15:53,140 >> If the Sphinx was a powerful image built only to reflect its 302 00:15:53,140 --> 00:15:56,140 magnificence from the surface of the Earth to its celestial 303 00:15:56,140 --> 00:15:59,590 home, why would it be uninscribed? 304 00:15:59,590 --> 00:16:03,160 Why would the creators not explain its purpose? 305 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,610 That answer might lie below its feet. 306 00:16:06,610 --> 00:16:09,730 Robert Schoch described how his investigations led him 307 00:16:09,730 --> 00:16:12,580 to another significant discovery. 308 00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:15,670 >> Below the Sphinx, I was looking for subsurface 309 00:16:15,670 --> 00:16:20,120 weathering features, mineralogical changes. 310 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:24,130 We also found a number of anomalies. 311 00:16:24,130 --> 00:16:26,620 One of the anomalies, probably the most 312 00:16:26,620 --> 00:16:29,770 important and significant, is under the left paw 313 00:16:29,770 --> 00:16:30,820 of the Sphinx. 314 00:16:30,820 --> 00:16:32,940 And it is, for-- 315 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:34,930 what we can tell from the seismic, 316 00:16:34,930 --> 00:16:38,590 I'm quite convinced that it is a cavity, but not 317 00:16:38,590 --> 00:16:42,190 a natural cavity, an artificial cavity or chamber 318 00:16:42,190 --> 00:16:44,320 under the left paw. 319 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,480 Our initial analysis indicates that there is something in it. 320 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,590 So it's not an empty cavity. 321 00:16:50,590 --> 00:16:52,840 >> John Anthony West and Robert Schoch, 322 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,780 in the very brief period that they had access to the Sphinx, 323 00:16:55,780 --> 00:16:58,570 they ran sidescan sonar survey all around it. 324 00:16:58,570 --> 00:17:02,170 And what was discovered beneath the left forepaw of the Sphinx, 325 00:17:02,170 --> 00:17:06,107 down at a depth of about 30 or 40 feet into the bedrock, 326 00:17:06,107 --> 00:17:07,690 beneath the left forepaw of the Sphinx 327 00:17:07,690 --> 00:17:10,450 is a very large, clearly man-made chamber. 328 00:17:10,450 --> 00:17:12,490 As soon as the Egyptian authorities discovered 329 00:17:12,490 --> 00:17:15,700 what they were really doing, they threw them off the site, 330 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:17,945 and they weren't allowed to continue with their work. 331 00:17:17,945 --> 00:17:19,720 Do perhaps the Egyptian authorities 332 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,010 or the Egyptian archaeologists and their colleagues 333 00:17:24,010 --> 00:17:26,349 at Western Archeology, do they perhaps already know? 334 00:17:26,349 --> 00:17:29,470 I mean, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, 335 00:17:29,470 --> 00:17:33,790 but there have subsequently been drilling and investigation 336 00:17:33,790 --> 00:17:36,670 projects under the Sphinx, which have been passed off 337 00:17:36,670 --> 00:17:38,574 as being to do with clearing groundwater 338 00:17:38,574 --> 00:17:39,490 from under the Sphinx. 339 00:17:39,490 --> 00:17:41,980 But I wonder if that's what they were really doing. 340 00:17:41,980 --> 00:17:45,520 I don't think we're being told the whole truth about what 341 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,580 is happening at Giza. 342 00:17:47,580 --> 00:17:51,130 >> If that might be true, could the Great Sphinx be guarding 343 00:17:51,130 --> 00:17:57,380 human behavior recorded for thousands or millions of years? 344 00:17:57,380 --> 00:18:00,280 >> One thing I would anticipate finding, 345 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,660 if there is something in those chambers beneath the Sphinx, 346 00:18:04,660 --> 00:18:09,940 is the records of those earlier civilizations that existed 347 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:11,860 on this planet. 348 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:17,680 Plato, the Greek philosopher, said that the Greek lawmaker 349 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:22,750 Solon once went to Egypt, and he was speaking with one 350 00:18:22,750 --> 00:18:25,750 of the Egyptian high priests. 351 00:18:25,750 --> 00:18:28,330 And the Egyptian high priest asked 352 00:18:28,330 --> 00:18:31,180 about the history of the Greek people, 353 00:18:31,180 --> 00:18:35,880 and Solon said, in the beginning, humans were created. 354 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,300 Then, there was a big flood, a big catastrophe. 355 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:44,090 And after that, they were created again. 356 00:18:44,090 --> 00:18:50,470 And the Egyptian priest began laughing. 357 00:18:50,470 --> 00:18:54,700 He explained to Solon that actually, there 358 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:59,520 have been many devastations in the long history of the world 359 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,300 and the earth has been repopulated again and again 360 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:09,400 and again over the course of many millions of years. 361 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,090 And he said, you Greeks just remember the last one, 362 00:19:13,090 --> 00:19:15,880 but there have been many before that. 363 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:21,360 And he said to Solon you've lost the records of these earlier 364 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:22,330 histories. 365 00:19:22,330 --> 00:19:26,700 The Egyptian priest said, we have those records 366 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:29,410 of those earlier histories. 367 00:19:29,410 --> 00:19:33,660 >> These things that are still there underground were so vast 368 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:37,350 that he was really perplexed, and he asked the Egyptian 369 00:19:37,350 --> 00:19:40,800 priest who was taking him around, who built these things? 370 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,960 And their reply to him was, they were 371 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,020 built by the Crocodile Kings. 372 00:19:46,020 --> 00:19:48,900 Now, that might be a perfect definition 373 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:51,000 of what the Anunnaki were, because we 374 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,430 do see a lot of depictions of them 375 00:19:53,430 --> 00:19:57,350 with reptilian features and things like that. 376 00:19:57,350 --> 00:20:01,440 It may be, at one point, whoever built that chamber and hid what 377 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,960 I believe might be the Hall of Records 378 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:09,930 of the Egyptian priesthood, then chose to actually bury that up. 379 00:20:09,930 --> 00:20:12,000 We might find writings from them, 380 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,650 tablets, ways of using their knowledge, 381 00:20:16,650 --> 00:20:18,510 that they knew we wouldn't be able to get to 382 00:20:18,510 --> 00:20:20,430 until a certain point in our evolution, 383 00:20:20,430 --> 00:20:22,920 where we would be able to get down to these chambers 384 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,650 and pull out what was there. 385 00:20:25,650 --> 00:20:28,170 >> If there really is a chamber guarding the secrets 386 00:20:28,170 --> 00:20:32,270 of humanity, why haven't we been allowed to have it? 387 00:20:32,270 --> 00:20:34,620 Graham Cere explains that the Sphinx 388 00:20:34,620 --> 00:20:39,070 tests the soul before it can be embodied in the great knowing. 389 00:20:39,070 --> 00:20:43,410 >> The Sphinx, to me, represents kind of the holder of esoteric 390 00:20:43,410 --> 00:20:46,370 knowledge and the mystery of existence. 391 00:20:46,370 --> 00:20:49,110 It's sort of the watcher at the gates to heaven. 392 00:20:49,110 --> 00:20:51,930 He tests the soul on their merit before they're 393 00:20:51,930 --> 00:20:54,150 able to re-enter the garden. 394 00:20:54,150 --> 00:20:57,030 Sort of like the kerubim, who, with the flaming swords, 395 00:20:57,030 --> 00:20:59,430 guard the entrance to Eden to make sure 396 00:20:59,430 --> 00:21:02,460 that the soul is pure enough to re-enter. 397 00:21:02,460 --> 00:21:04,830 So that's one aspect of the Sphinx. 398 00:21:04,830 --> 00:21:06,660 To me, it also kind of represents 399 00:21:06,660 --> 00:21:10,080 the integration of angelic natures with human natures. 400 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,590 401 00:21:12,590 --> 00:21:15,560 >> If the Sphinx does mark the gateway to secret knowledge 402 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,560 about our planet left by an ancient high civilization, 403 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,950 then could it be that, by design, 404 00:21:21,950 --> 00:21:25,820 it is intended to remain dormant until modern civilization is 405 00:21:25,820 --> 00:21:28,580 ready to see the universe differently? 406 00:21:28,580 --> 00:21:31,700 Graham Hancock suggests this question is partially 407 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:37,220 answered by understanding the symbolism in Egyptian artworks. 408 00:21:37,220 --> 00:21:40,820 >> The ancient Egyptians had a, I think, 409 00:21:40,820 --> 00:21:43,950 a beautiful way of looking at human life. 410 00:21:43,950 --> 00:21:46,740 This was a forgiving culture. 411 00:21:46,740 --> 00:21:48,650 They understood human frailty. 412 00:21:48,650 --> 00:21:50,010 We are not perfect. 413 00:21:50,010 --> 00:21:52,100 We do not enter life perfect. 414 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:55,610 We are going to make mistakes, and the question is, 415 00:21:55,610 --> 00:21:58,130 do we learn from those mistakes? 416 00:21:58,130 --> 00:22:02,630 What do we do with the lessons that duality has to teach us? 417 00:22:02,630 --> 00:22:05,840 Do we integrate those lessons into our life subsequently, 418 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:10,600 or do we just ignore them and carry on as before? 419 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,820 >> Now, these sites are very controversial, all of them are, 420 00:22:13,820 --> 00:22:19,050 because they force historians to rethink the traditional story. 421 00:22:19,050 --> 00:22:24,050 We would begin to look at a cyclic model of civilization, 422 00:22:24,050 --> 00:22:27,050 rather than the linear model that says civilization 423 00:22:27,050 --> 00:22:29,480 began 5,000 years ago. 424 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,490 It opens the door to explanations 425 00:22:31,490 --> 00:22:34,670 to many of the things that look simply mysterious to us 426 00:22:34,670 --> 00:22:38,480 and make no sense at all, such as the discovery 427 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,700 of entire cities under the surface of the ocean, 428 00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:47,390 that we find in multiple places throughout the world. 429 00:22:47,390 --> 00:22:50,180 >> If the great ancient knowledge in the chamber below 430 00:22:50,180 --> 00:22:53,420 the paw of the Sphinx is inaccessible, 431 00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:56,810 perhaps the same knowledge may exist in a different location 432 00:22:56,810 --> 00:23:00,100 or even in a different frequency. 433 00:23:00,100 --> 00:23:04,370 Healer and author, Sonia Grace, describes a mystical encounter 434 00:23:04,370 --> 00:23:09,420 meeting the ancient solar deity Sekhmet during a remote vision. 435 00:23:09,420 --> 00:23:12,390 >> When I spirit traveled to the Great Sphinx, 436 00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:14,280 it was back in time. 437 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:21,210 My guides took me, and we arrived around 15,000 BC. 438 00:23:21,210 --> 00:23:24,360 We were met by Sekhmet herself. 439 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:25,600 She was standing there. 440 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,060 She's huge. 441 00:23:27,060 --> 00:23:29,140 She's, like, 20 feet tall. 442 00:23:29,140 --> 00:23:37,050 She's enormous, and she invited us inside and took us down, 443 00:23:37,050 --> 00:23:40,590 going into the earth, a long tunnel, this deep tunnel, 444 00:23:40,590 --> 00:23:41,610 passageway. 445 00:23:41,610 --> 00:23:44,280 It went this way, it went that way, it went this way again, 446 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,340 and it opened out into a huge room. 447 00:23:47,340 --> 00:23:51,390 And she said, this was the portal for my people. 448 00:23:51,390 --> 00:23:56,490 She says my people came here long before the Egyptian gods. 449 00:23:56,490 --> 00:24:03,160 She said this Sphinx was a carving of a lion. 450 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,040 It was not the dog Anubis. 451 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,510 It was a lion. 452 00:24:06,510 --> 00:24:09,750 And she said, it's because we come from the Leo 453 00:24:09,750 --> 00:24:12,990 constellation, and it was created 454 00:24:12,990 --> 00:24:19,050 as a site for her people, meaning X marks the spot. 455 00:24:19,050 --> 00:24:20,520 This is the portal. 456 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,460 So this is where her people would literally 457 00:24:23,460 --> 00:24:29,590 transport to where they were from in the Leo constellation. 458 00:24:29,590 --> 00:24:32,740 >> If the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid are just the tip 459 00:24:32,740 --> 00:24:35,740 of the iceberg of our understanding of humanity 460 00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:39,790 on this planet, could their existence be a reminder to dig 461 00:24:39,790 --> 00:24:40,980 deeper? 462 00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:43,600 But when, if ever, will this knowledge 463 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,050 be available to all mankind? 464 00:24:47,050 --> 00:24:51,610 >> For all its technology and all its progress and all 465 00:24:51,610 --> 00:24:57,460 the amazing stuff we have, we live in a very fractured, 466 00:24:57,460 --> 00:25:02,080 very dangerous world right now, where the whole of human 467 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,750 achievement could be put at jeopardy by, for example, 468 00:25:04,750 --> 00:25:06,370 a massive nuclear war. 469 00:25:06,370 --> 00:25:10,810 We have the toys to do that, to bring humanity 470 00:25:10,810 --> 00:25:16,150 back to the Stone Age in a matter of days, 471 00:25:16,150 --> 00:25:18,240 and it's possible that we could do so. 472 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,490 But we don't really know why we're here or what we're doing. 473 00:25:21,490 --> 00:25:24,070 We have an illusion about what it is, 474 00:25:24,070 --> 00:25:26,380 and that illusion is locked deep in the past. 475 00:25:26,380 --> 00:25:28,120 That's where it began, and we need 476 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:32,370 to recover the truth about ourselves. 477 00:25:32,370 --> 00:25:35,950 >> Could the knowledge preserved be by the clan of Osiris? 478 00:25:35,950 --> 00:25:38,380 Is there a link between the Egyptian gods 479 00:25:38,380 --> 00:25:41,350 and Anki's mission to help mankind's advancement 480 00:25:41,350 --> 00:25:43,510 towards a higher culture? 481 00:25:43,510 --> 00:25:47,260 Could that specific knowledge be below the Sphinx? 482 00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:48,770 >> The Great Pyramid, in particular, 483 00:25:48,770 --> 00:25:52,339 contains mathematical, a sort of mathematical code. 484 00:25:52,339 --> 00:25:54,880 We know for sure, for example, that astronomy and mathematics 485 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:55,680 was used. 486 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:56,650 The question is why? 487 00:25:56,650 --> 00:25:59,920 It's the sort of-- well, it's the universal language. 488 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:04,810 If ever we are contacted or we contact extraterrestrials 489 00:26:04,810 --> 00:26:08,590 somewhere else in the cosmos, the only way we can communicate 490 00:26:08,590 --> 00:26:10,630 is through mathematics and astronomy. 491 00:26:10,630 --> 00:26:13,390 Astronomy would give them location, sort of a GPS, 492 00:26:13,390 --> 00:26:15,390 if you like, and mathematics would 493 00:26:15,390 --> 00:26:17,410 be the dialogue between us. 494 00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:21,840 So this monument is speaking ET, if you like. 495 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,730 It's actually speaking a universal language. 496 00:26:24,730 --> 00:26:26,680 We have to come to terms with that, 497 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,590 and we have to ask the question, is it 498 00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:37,120 something that developed purely earthbound or is it a contact? 499 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:39,730 The questions are legitimate today. 500 00:26:39,730 --> 00:26:42,460 >> Maybe once we tap into a different dimension, 501 00:26:42,460 --> 00:26:45,040 we will be able to read the code. 502 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,000 Some believe there are locations on the planet that open portals 503 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,480 to another dimension of our current reality. 504 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,070 >> What we do know is, in places like the Cairo Museum in Egypt, 505 00:26:57,070 --> 00:27:00,190 a number of artifacts have been found from sites, 506 00:27:00,190 --> 00:27:03,930 such as Sukara, for example, that scientists simply cannot 507 00:27:03,930 --> 00:27:04,730 explain. 508 00:27:04,730 --> 00:27:07,690 509 00:27:07,690 --> 00:27:11,380 >> Up next, could there have been portals on Earth where 510 00:27:11,380 --> 00:27:13,920 the code is revealed? 511 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:19,552 42409

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