1 00:00:01,983 --> 00:00:03,409 Super human strength. 2 00:00:05,932 --> 00:00:07,519 Super natural powers. 3 00:00:09,099 --> 00:00:11,582 And the awesome ability to fly. 4 00:00:13,252 --> 00:00:14,636 Throughout history... 5 00:00:14,756 --> 00:00:17,323 mankind has told incredible tales 6 00:00:17,443 --> 00:00:19,782 of Gods and super heroes. 7 00:00:20,297 --> 00:00:23,580 But do we yearn to possess these extraordinary powers 8 00:00:23,799 --> 00:00:26,322 for another, more profound reason. 9 00:00:27,844 --> 00:00:30,046 Implanted within our DNA 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,101 is this desire to become godlike 11 00:00:33,221 --> 00:00:38,647 to fly in the air or swim through the ocean or especially to ascent into the stars. 12 00:00:39,601 --> 00:00:42,521 Humans were created according to the image of God 13 00:00:42,809 --> 00:00:44,362 so we are part of them. 14 00:00:44,709 --> 00:00:48,270 If the so-called Gods had incredible powers 15 00:00:48,650 --> 00:00:50,633 we have them in a stew. 16 00:00:52,110 --> 00:00:55,731 Could ancient stories of godlike kings and heroes 17 00:00:56,068 --> 00:00:58,929 really have other worldly origins. 18 00:00:59,258 --> 00:01:02,608 Many of these sacred powers, given to kings of the past 19 00:01:02,728 --> 00:01:05,370 we know today were more than likely technology 20 00:01:05,371 --> 00:01:08,012 that ancient men was given from the actual Gods 21 00:01:08,047 --> 00:01:10,722 which we know were probably extraterrestrials. 22 00:01:11,164 --> 00:01:14,597 Millions of people around the world believe 23 00:01:14,717 --> 00:01:18,801 we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 24 00:01:19,156 --> 00:01:21,122 What if it were true... 25 00:01:21,860 --> 00:01:26,067 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history. 26 00:01:26,791 --> 00:01:34,209 And does it help to explain our continuing fascination with stories of Gods and heroes. 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 = Subtitles by Aklu = 28 00:02:10,646 --> 00:02:13,119 Greece, the Island of Crete. 29 00:02:14,986 --> 00:02:20,960 On the Lassithi Plateau over half a mile above sea level lies the Dikteon Cave 30 00:02:22,706 --> 00:02:27,980 This sprawling complex of caverns, stretches nearly 1,5 square miles... 31 00:02:29,124 --> 00:02:32,576 and archaeological finds have shown a human 32 00:02:32,577 --> 00:02:36,027 presence dating as far back as 6000 years ago. 33 00:02:38,694 --> 00:02:44,095 Historians believe, the first inhabitants of the area actually lived inside the cave. 34 00:02:44,858 --> 00:02:46,278 And according to legend... 35 00:02:46,826 --> 00:02:50,869 its many chambers, were once home to an otherworldly being 36 00:02:52,337 --> 00:02:55,341 Zeus, the Greek God of thunder. 37 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,428 In Greek mythology, Zeus is the son of Cronos 38 00:03:04,132 --> 00:03:08,529 The king of the first generation of Gods, known as the Titans. 39 00:03:11,035 --> 00:03:15,552 Zeus's father Cronos is not particularly exited about giving birth to a child... 40 00:03:15,585 --> 00:03:20,171 because he has heard a prophecy, that one of his children is going to overthrow him. 41 00:03:20,191 --> 00:03:23,884 Though, as soon has his children were born he just swallows them all down. 42 00:03:26,183 --> 00:03:30,341 Now his mother, Rhea who is Cronos's wife is disturbed about this... 43 00:03:30,358 --> 00:03:33,294 so what she does she substituted a rock that she has wrapped up in 44 00:03:33,295 --> 00:03:36,230 swaddling cloth and gives it to Cronos, which he swallows down. 45 00:03:36,350 --> 00:03:41,127 And what she does is hide Zeus away in a cave, so he grows up there. 46 00:03:41,992 --> 00:03:46,130 In theogony the 8th century B.C. poet Hesiod 47 00:03:46,250 --> 00:03:51,194 describes the cave Zeus was hidden in as lying in these berry mountains 48 00:03:51,553 --> 00:03:58,244 and specifically near the city of Lyktos, the location of the Dikteon Cave. 49 00:03:59,132 --> 00:04:01,336 But the similarities between this cave 50 00:04:01,456 --> 00:04:04,388 and the cave of Zeus described in Greek mythology 51 00:04:05,045 --> 00:04:06,152 go much further. 52 00:04:07,552 --> 00:04:10,656 The ancients say, that one day they are talking about mythology 53 00:04:10,860 --> 00:04:14,057 it is about unrecorded events of their past. 54 00:04:16,579 --> 00:04:17,755 According to the Greek myths... 55 00:04:18,014 --> 00:04:23,786 child Zeus was nourished on a mixture of honey and milk at the udder of the goat. 56 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,312 Now around 1900 A.D. a chamber in the Dikteon Cave 57 00:04:28,355 --> 00:04:31,735 was identified by locals as the birth place of Zeus. 58 00:04:32,618 --> 00:04:34,304 And when archaeologists went in there... 59 00:04:34,424 --> 00:04:38,016 they discovered an altar which remains of numerous religious offerings. 60 00:04:38,336 --> 00:04:40,731 Amongst them honey and goat milk. 61 00:04:41,536 --> 00:04:43,827 These remains date back 4000 years 62 00:04:43,947 --> 00:04:47,000 the exact period in which the ancient Greek stories took place. 63 00:04:47,327 --> 00:04:50,094 The question is, is this once again a coincidence... 64 00:04:50,138 --> 00:04:52,632 that modern excavations find remains in this cave 65 00:04:52,633 --> 00:04:55,126 that match up with what's written in Greek mythology? 66 00:04:56,850 --> 00:04:59,297 Also found in the Dikteon Cave 67 00:04:59,513 --> 00:05:04,559 were numerous artefacts dating back to what would have been the time of Zeus's childhood. 68 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:06,825 According to the Greek stories... 69 00:05:07,956 --> 00:05:12,313 among them was a fragmentary inscription burying a hymn. 70 00:05:12,701 --> 00:05:16,788 A hymn dedicated specifically to Zeus. 71 00:05:18,185 --> 00:05:19,862 Could the Dikteon Cave... 72 00:05:19,982 --> 00:05:22,968 really be the cave described in theogony? 73 00:05:24,031 --> 00:05:28,847 And if actual location from Greek mythology, really do exist... 74 00:05:29,223 --> 00:05:31,920 could legendary characters and events... 75 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,695 also be based on historical fact. 76 00:05:35,499 --> 00:05:38,482 We think of mythology of something which has been invented. 77 00:05:41,183 --> 00:05:43,163 But really when we look at the ancient Greeks 78 00:05:43,526 --> 00:05:47,451 they believe that the war of the Titans physically happened. 79 00:05:47,571 --> 00:05:51,206 This was a war, which was fought in heavens by the Deities. 80 00:05:55,970 --> 00:05:57,375 In Greek mythology... 81 00:05:57,666 --> 00:06:00,511 the war of the Titans is a celestial battle... 82 00:06:00,631 --> 00:06:04,424 waged by Zeus and his siblings known as the Olympians... 83 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,744 against their father Cronos and the Titans. 84 00:06:10,147 --> 00:06:12,689 The Olympians were the victors in this battle... 85 00:06:13,113 --> 00:06:15,663 were the Gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks. 86 00:06:17,307 --> 00:06:19,814 But according to ancient astronaut theorists 87 00:06:20,137 --> 00:06:24,176 these human like beings may have been something other than divine. 88 00:06:24,521 --> 00:06:30,208 And this mythical war may have been an actual historical event. 89 00:06:33,012 --> 00:06:38,524 To support this claim, they point to the existence of similar myths and stories 90 00:06:38,644 --> 00:06:41,752 told by different cultures throughout the world. 91 00:06:42,265 --> 00:06:46,858 When it comes to warring parties of Gods, Greece is not a standalone issue. 92 00:06:46,978 --> 00:06:49,379 We have the same thing in Ragnarök. 93 00:06:49,499 --> 00:06:52,209 In Norwegian mythology, we have this idea that 94 00:06:52,210 --> 00:06:54,918 the Gods fought amongst themselves as well. 95 00:06:57,228 --> 00:07:00,910 We also have stories from Sumerian, Babylonian, Hetite accounts 96 00:07:00,940 --> 00:07:04,841 where it says that there was a fought between Gods. 97 00:07:08,659 --> 00:07:13,487 We see the same story of Titans being overthrown by a new set of Gods. 98 00:07:13,607 --> 00:07:16,226 In the Sumerian epics of the Annunaki coming 99 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:18,844 here as the original culture in ancient Iraq. 100 00:07:19,688 --> 00:07:23,432 So these similarities tell of a warring race of beings that 101 00:07:23,472 --> 00:07:27,650 squabbled amongst themselves about the rights of various areas on the Earth. 102 00:07:30,489 --> 00:07:34,542 What can explain the similarities of these ancient war stories 103 00:07:34,556 --> 00:07:36,574 that emerged from all over the world. 104 00:07:37,241 --> 00:07:41,058 Could they all be describing the same historical events. 105 00:07:41,547 --> 00:07:45,566 And if there is a historical basis for the legends and stories... 106 00:07:45,686 --> 00:07:49,864 what does that suggest about the incredible powers and weaponry... 107 00:07:49,913 --> 00:07:52,424 supposedly possessed by the Gods. 108 00:07:54,158 --> 00:07:57,603 It is very possible that the Clash of the Titans known from the Greek times 109 00:07:57,723 --> 00:08:00,220 is actually speaking of a much earlier epoch 110 00:08:00,340 --> 00:08:03,574 of extraterrestrials having a titan battle. 111 00:08:05,736 --> 00:08:08,927 The ancient Greek Gods had helmets that made them invisible. 112 00:08:09,637 --> 00:08:13,723 They had breastplates that made them impervious to their enemies weapons. 113 00:08:14,382 --> 00:08:16,915 They had tridents that shock thunderbolts. 114 00:08:18,332 --> 00:08:21,692 They had winged sandals that gave them the power of flight. 115 00:08:22,806 --> 00:08:25,593 These are all profound examples of an ancient 116 00:08:25,594 --> 00:08:28,379 alien technology that the Greek Gods possessed. 117 00:08:29,768 --> 00:08:32,998 If mythical Gods and monsters really did exist... 118 00:08:33,387 --> 00:08:36,326 were they as ancient astronaut theorists believe... 119 00:08:36,564 --> 00:08:38,544 extraterrestrial beings. 120 00:08:40,031 --> 00:08:41,821 And could this help to explain... 121 00:08:41,941 --> 00:08:44,323 the enormous and enduring popularity 122 00:08:44,371 --> 00:08:48,893 of Gods, Titans and other so-called Super Heroes 123 00:08:49,013 --> 00:08:50,770 in today's popular culture. 124 00:08:52,332 --> 00:08:55,323 There is so many different places where the characters of Super Heroes come from. 125 00:08:55,370 --> 00:08:57,580 But naturally so much of it is drawn from mythology 126 00:08:57,929 --> 00:09:01,404 and from literature, because those are such strong bodies of work 127 00:09:01,524 --> 00:09:05,083 and so familiar and they become the archetypes for all types of heroes. 128 00:09:05,989 --> 00:09:09,677 The stories exist partly because we want to dream of such powers. 129 00:09:09,797 --> 00:09:14,808 We want to imagine what might be possible if we had unlimited dominance. 130 00:09:15,872 --> 00:09:18,016 We watch endless amounts of television 131 00:09:18,136 --> 00:09:22,018 and movies, which says that amongst us are a group of people 132 00:09:22,071 --> 00:09:25,297 who are more than just human...super humans. 133 00:09:25,318 --> 00:09:27,881 And that somehow these people are born that way 134 00:09:28,001 --> 00:09:30,950 or that something happens to them, which triggers this. 135 00:09:31,649 --> 00:09:34,876 But basically the underlying subconscious message 136 00:09:34,909 --> 00:09:38,724 is that we are capable of becoming Gods. 137 00:09:39,444 --> 00:09:41,476 Implanted within our DNA 138 00:09:41,596 --> 00:09:45,051 is this desire to become godlike. 139 00:09:45,085 --> 00:09:49,252 Be it to fly in the air, or swim through the ocean, or run super fast or... 140 00:09:49,277 --> 00:09:52,174 especially to ascent into the stars. 141 00:09:53,081 --> 00:09:56,302 Why are human beings so drawn to stories 142 00:09:56,319 --> 00:10:00,043 about beings with superior abilities and technologies. 143 00:10:00,521 --> 00:10:02,443 Are they looking for something larger 144 00:10:02,563 --> 00:10:05,520 and more powerful outside of themselves... 145 00:10:05,883 --> 00:10:08,287 or perhaps within. 146 00:10:09,819 --> 00:10:13,000 In Greek mythology the titan Prometheus 147 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,966 is often credited with creating human beings 148 00:10:16,009 --> 00:10:18,533 out of basic materials found on earth. 149 00:10:19,606 --> 00:10:24,344 Prometheus was playing with mud and made little figurines out of it. 150 00:10:24,370 --> 00:10:28,131 Athena was fascinated with this and breath life into them. 151 00:10:28,623 --> 00:10:30,867 The cynical read is to say, what he wants is 152 00:10:30,868 --> 00:10:33,110 somebody to worship him like people worship Zeus. 153 00:10:33,230 --> 00:10:36,646 He created that into his image and he gave us all these skills. 154 00:10:36,766 --> 00:10:40,201 Culture and technology and medicines 155 00:10:40,321 --> 00:10:42,573 makes us what it means to be a human being. 156 00:10:43,265 --> 00:10:46,472 Zeus realized that he couldn't uncreate these human beings. 157 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,013 But what he could do is limit them in their capabilities and restrict 158 00:10:50,038 --> 00:10:53,885 them in their capacity and prevent them from becoming godlike. 159 00:10:54,876 --> 00:10:57,459 It is as if the extraterrestrials 160 00:10:57,579 --> 00:11:02,542 wanted to keep us from having all the same technology that they had. 161 00:11:03,278 --> 00:11:05,210 In another version of the story 162 00:11:05,330 --> 00:11:09,195 Prometheus is said to have stolen a spark from Zeus's lightening bolt. 163 00:11:09,546 --> 00:11:12,369 In order to give humans the gift of fire. 164 00:11:13,396 --> 00:11:16,787 When we are talking about 'A God' who gives fire to men 165 00:11:16,837 --> 00:11:21,576 We realize that this is not 'The God' as in the supreme being 'The One'. 166 00:11:21,696 --> 00:11:24,164 But clearly somebody else an ancient alien. 167 00:11:24,284 --> 00:11:26,628 We pursued throughout history... 168 00:11:26,748 --> 00:11:29,635 to master the powers of the Gods. 169 00:11:29,668 --> 00:11:33,338 But the question is...where did all those ideas originate? 170 00:11:33,383 --> 00:11:35,057 And the answer is very simple... 171 00:11:35,177 --> 00:11:38,685 due to extraterrestrial contact in our remote past. 172 00:11:42,570 --> 00:11:46,757 Could humans really be the creation of alien beings 173 00:11:46,877 --> 00:11:48,789 with extraordinary powers. 174 00:11:49,956 --> 00:11:51,999 Do we have a subconscious desire... 175 00:11:52,317 --> 00:11:55,765 to reconnect with the so-called Gods of our past. 176 00:11:56,024 --> 00:11:59,990 By becoming more like them, through advancements in technology. 177 00:12:01,264 --> 00:12:03,486 And could this explain the origins... 178 00:12:03,550 --> 00:12:06,303 of ancient tales of Gods and Heroes... 179 00:12:06,497 --> 00:12:10,297 who have thought to possess extraordinary powers. 180 00:12:11,420 --> 00:12:15,962 Perhaps the answer can be found near the Greek valley of Phocis. 181 00:12:16,082 --> 00:12:20,539 And by examining the legend of the oracle at Delphi 182 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:28,834 Lydia, 716 B.C. 183 00:12:29,861 --> 00:12:33,738 Gyges a shepard in the service of King Candaules... 184 00:12:33,858 --> 00:12:36,582 becomes the unlikely successor to the throne... 185 00:12:36,702 --> 00:12:39,581 of this ancient kingdom in modern day Turkey. 186 00:12:40,621 --> 00:12:43,309 But the story of how this modest servant 187 00:12:43,365 --> 00:12:45,534 rose from a shepard to a king... 188 00:12:45,851 --> 00:12:50,036 is so fantastic, that many scholars and historians 189 00:12:50,103 --> 00:12:52,379 have dismissed it as mere myth. 190 00:12:54,697 --> 00:12:58,263 Gyges is out in the field and there is a terrible earthquake. 191 00:13:02,558 --> 00:13:04,503 He sees a cave open... 192 00:13:04,990 --> 00:13:07,664 goes into that cave and sees a gold ring. 193 00:13:09,704 --> 00:13:13,162 He just kind of walks into this like of chamber, which is like a tomb where he sees a... 194 00:13:13,282 --> 00:13:15,769 a dead body, that's got some jewellery on it. 195 00:13:15,889 --> 00:13:18,294 Grabs this ring of it, because he is a poor man. 196 00:13:18,414 --> 00:13:22,387 He puts the ring on and discovers that it gives him the power to be invisible. 197 00:13:22,766 --> 00:13:25,819 Here he has the kind of power a God would have... 198 00:13:25,939 --> 00:13:28,155 - And does he use it well? 199 00:13:28,156 --> 00:13:30,371 - Well actually, it is a little questionable of how he uses it. 200 00:13:31,059 --> 00:13:34,801 - He comes up with a plan. - The next time he goes to visit the King... 201 00:13:35,058 --> 00:13:36,706 he brings that ring with him. 202 00:13:36,989 --> 00:13:38,529 Turns himself invisible... 203 00:13:40,096 --> 00:13:41,906 seduces the Queen... 204 00:13:43,041 --> 00:13:44,122 kills the King... 205 00:13:44,716 --> 00:13:46,296 takes over the palace. 206 00:13:47,593 --> 00:13:51,457 What we have here, is really a multi-layered legend. 207 00:13:51,835 --> 00:13:53,686 We have but only the story... 208 00:13:53,806 --> 00:13:56,052 of the fact that somebody in the past had... 209 00:13:56,082 --> 00:13:59,865 the cloak of invisibility, but actually that he did not invent this. 210 00:13:59,985 --> 00:14:02,708 But this was a legacy from a race... 211 00:14:02,735 --> 00:14:06,098 who had buried that dead and that alongside these dead 212 00:14:06,218 --> 00:14:09,048 were artefacts, which were technological. 213 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:14,892 What kind of a magical amulet or technology are we talking about here? 214 00:14:16,221 --> 00:14:20,797 Was this the ring of the Gods, that was described by the ancient Sumerians as the... 215 00:14:20,917 --> 00:14:22,904 ring of cosmic soveranty. 216 00:14:25,936 --> 00:14:27,384 According to legend... 217 00:14:27,504 --> 00:14:31,750 a bloody civil war erupted, following the death of King Candaules. 218 00:14:32,496 --> 00:14:36,959 It ended, when Gyges obtained approval for overthrowing the throne 219 00:14:37,026 --> 00:14:39,202 from the Oracle of Delphi. 220 00:14:40,067 --> 00:14:43,961 A mysterious priestess, who's eerily correct prophesies... 221 00:14:44,014 --> 00:14:47,195 were said to come directly from the Greek God Apollo. 222 00:14:47,315 --> 00:14:49,172 The oracle at Delphi... 223 00:14:49,514 --> 00:14:52,659 whether it's a prophet or a soothsayer... 224 00:14:52,689 --> 00:14:56,439 had a direct relationship to the extraterrestrial being. 225 00:14:56,701 --> 00:15:00,473 The extraterrestrial being communicated through the priest... 226 00:15:00,593 --> 00:15:04,536 who would then interpret that into a language... 227 00:15:04,656 --> 00:15:07,472 that listeners could understand. 228 00:15:11,791 --> 00:15:15,228 But was it really a God who endorsed Gyges reign. 229 00:15:15,563 --> 00:15:19,702 Or was Apollo, the son of Zeus, an extraterrestrial... 230 00:15:19,822 --> 00:15:22,448 as ancient astronaut theorists content. 231 00:15:23,645 --> 00:15:26,938 Was it...perhaps the same extraterrestrial... 232 00:15:26,971 --> 00:15:32,080 who let Gyges to find the ring, that enabled him to seize power in the first place. 233 00:15:32,503 --> 00:15:35,434 And if so, could this be an example... 234 00:15:35,554 --> 00:15:38,971 of aliens endowing a human with godlike powers. 235 00:15:39,091 --> 00:15:41,292 To carry out some earthly agenda. 236 00:15:42,539 --> 00:15:45,503 When I read stories, like Gyges of Lydia... 237 00:15:45,623 --> 00:15:50,701 who has found this ring, which gave him the capability of becoming invisible. 238 00:15:51,422 --> 00:15:53,897 Then there are 2 things that I think of. 239 00:15:53,952 --> 00:15:56,587 1. Is it just fantasy? 240 00:15:56,707 --> 00:15:59,781 Or...do we have another reference here... 241 00:15:59,901 --> 00:16:03,415 that describes misunderstood technology. 242 00:16:03,631 --> 00:16:07,867 Because today, researchers at Duke University... 243 00:16:07,987 --> 00:16:11,527 are trying to develop an invisibility cloak. 244 00:16:13,503 --> 00:16:16,842 Duke University engineering professor David R.Smith 245 00:16:17,052 --> 00:16:21,186 is the director of the centre for metamaterial and integrated plasmatics. 246 00:16:22,029 --> 00:16:23,324 For the past decade... 247 00:16:23,572 --> 00:16:27,743 Smith and his team have been working to create metamaterials 248 00:16:27,863 --> 00:16:31,277 or artificial materials that are not found in nature. 249 00:16:32,055 --> 00:16:35,574 Just of a piece of glass, can control the way light bends. 250 00:16:35,825 --> 00:16:37,623 Smith has set out to proof... 251 00:16:37,743 --> 00:16:41,249 that certain man made materials can actually be constructed 252 00:16:41,369 --> 00:16:43,679 to render objects invisible. 253 00:16:44,011 --> 00:16:46,967 This is actually an example of a metamaterial. 254 00:16:46,989 --> 00:16:50,601 This is a bunch of pieces of circuit board 255 00:16:50,721 --> 00:16:52,643 all cut out and assembled together. 256 00:16:52,652 --> 00:16:56,686 And on the circuit boards are little pieces of copper that are tied in circuits 257 00:16:56,952 --> 00:17:00,517 and each circuit has a certain response to electromagnetic radiation. 258 00:17:00,637 --> 00:17:03,632 And the combination of these patterns plus the shape 259 00:17:03,752 --> 00:17:07,455 gives us something that we can call an invisibility cloak. 260 00:17:07,575 --> 00:17:11,876 The idea behind the cloak is that it renders something inside of it invisible 261 00:17:11,996 --> 00:17:13,799 and is self invisible as well. 262 00:17:14,534 --> 00:17:18,068 At present the device only make objects disappear 263 00:17:18,116 --> 00:17:20,190 at microwave frequencies. 264 00:17:20,441 --> 00:17:22,295 But Dr. Smith believes... 265 00:17:22,336 --> 00:17:26,880 that soon this technology, will also be able to make objects invisible 266 00:17:26,917 --> 00:17:28,754 to even the human eye. 267 00:17:29,792 --> 00:17:31,521 Just in the last year or two... 268 00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:34,276 they have actually been experiments, showing certain hide of 269 00:17:34,277 --> 00:17:37,001 the cloaking ideas transitioning to the visible spectrum. 270 00:17:37,065 --> 00:17:41,487 Red, green, blue... those experiments are actually being done now. 271 00:17:41,607 --> 00:17:45,883 We will have invisibility cloaks at some point, that we can wear as humans 272 00:17:45,909 --> 00:17:48,418 I definitely think we are gonna get there, because 273 00:17:48,419 --> 00:17:50,927 science and speculative science go hand in hand. 274 00:17:51,047 --> 00:17:53,601 Science creates a base point... 275 00:17:53,631 --> 00:17:56,536 speculative science pushes it farther into the future. 276 00:17:56,552 --> 00:17:58,649 And that's how technology advances. 277 00:18:01,195 --> 00:18:03,896 An actual cloak of invisibility... 278 00:18:04,016 --> 00:18:07,748 Those still in development...researchers in Japan... 279 00:18:07,868 --> 00:18:10,558 have designed an optical camouflage system 280 00:18:10,678 --> 00:18:14,691 that makes special reflective material seemingly disappear. 281 00:18:14,811 --> 00:18:17,191 Including the person wearing it. 282 00:18:17,580 --> 00:18:22,876 Thus...bringing us closer to a achieving a fully functional invisibility cloak. 283 00:18:22,996 --> 00:18:26,825 Like the one described in the story of Gyges. 284 00:18:29,345 --> 00:18:33,776 Could this mean that other, seemingly far fetched devices of fantasy... 285 00:18:33,896 --> 00:18:35,803 like flying carpets... 286 00:18:36,430 --> 00:18:38,267 and magic wands... 287 00:18:39,197 --> 00:18:41,747 are also based on science. 288 00:18:42,042 --> 00:18:46,253 And if so, might they have been used in the ancient past. 289 00:18:46,373 --> 00:18:50,221 Perhaps in the hands of extraterrestrial visitors. 290 00:18:51,379 --> 00:18:55,962 Just because we are working on these technologies today 291 00:18:56,082 --> 00:19:00,029 does not mean that we are the first. 292 00:19:01,670 --> 00:19:05,388 Because we find multiple references... 293 00:19:05,508 --> 00:19:08,621 in ancient texts that describe 294 00:19:08,741 --> 00:19:13,837 devices with which you were able to go invisible. 295 00:19:15,534 --> 00:19:19,580 So much of the story telling, deals with the fact that what we deem 296 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:23,298 to be magic, can really be science at a different time. 297 00:19:24,561 --> 00:19:29,802 If legendary tales, like the story of King Gyges, could be proven to be real... 298 00:19:30,364 --> 00:19:35,282 what does it suggest of other fantastic stories of Gods and Titans. 299 00:19:39,265 --> 00:19:40,994 Hissarlik, Turkey 300 00:19:42,529 --> 00:19:47,089 Within this archaeological site, lie the ruins of Troy. 301 00:19:47,349 --> 00:19:52,547 A place once thought by mainstream scientists to be no more than myth. 302 00:19:52,814 --> 00:19:57,925 Until Heinrich Schliemann unearth its remains in 1871. 303 00:19:59,802 --> 00:20:02,665 Here in the 12th century B.C. 304 00:20:02,968 --> 00:20:06,578 the ancient Greek city was the centre of the trojan war. 305 00:20:06,698 --> 00:20:09,724 A Greek battle described in Homer's Iliad. 306 00:20:11,507 --> 00:20:15,030 According to the epic poem, the Goddess Athena... 307 00:20:15,150 --> 00:20:19,786 gives King Diomedes the power of divine vision during the war 308 00:20:20,002 --> 00:20:22,909 so that he could see like the gods. 309 00:20:23,029 --> 00:20:25,642 Athena comes down and she wants to help the Greeks, so she 310 00:20:25,643 --> 00:20:28,254 finds Diomedes and she says I am gonna help you out here. 311 00:20:28,374 --> 00:20:32,523 So what I am gonna do, is strip away this mist that is over your eyes. 312 00:20:32,555 --> 00:20:36,089 And you as a human being, you don't really know what is going on. You just see battle. 313 00:20:36,209 --> 00:20:39,225 But once I strip away this mist, you are gonna be able to see what is really going on. 314 00:20:39,273 --> 00:20:42,683 In addition to a battle going on, there are Gods fighting. 315 00:20:44,271 --> 00:20:49,937 King Diomedes sees that Ares, the God of War, is fighting alongside his enemy Hector. 316 00:20:50,241 --> 00:20:54,597 And he was not to use this site to attack the Gods 317 00:20:54,638 --> 00:20:57,517 but that is exactly what he uses it for. 318 00:20:58,215 --> 00:21:00,100 The side aspect of this, is this; 319 00:21:00,316 --> 00:21:03,221 Is the question...did the Gods really have this. 320 00:21:03,341 --> 00:21:06,364 Were they super human, like we want to become. 321 00:21:06,681 --> 00:21:10,799 But did they have technology which enabled them to do these kind of things. 322 00:21:12,715 --> 00:21:16,349 Diomedes and the Gods power of super eye sight 323 00:21:16,469 --> 00:21:20,423 may seem like pure fantasy, but enhanced vision 324 00:21:20,543 --> 00:21:22,767 is also becoming a reality... 325 00:21:22,887 --> 00:21:26,363 thanks to advancement in spectrometer technology. 326 00:21:27,811 --> 00:21:31,798 Spectrometers are devices used to measure properties of life 327 00:21:31,918 --> 00:21:36,991 over a wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum, that is visible with the human eye. 328 00:21:37,342 --> 00:21:41,276 And today, just as we are developing cloaking devices 329 00:21:41,396 --> 00:21:46,117 we are also developing technology to see through those devices. 330 00:21:48,037 --> 00:21:51,247 Technology is driven by societies needs... 331 00:21:51,630 --> 00:21:53,351 more than anything else. 332 00:21:53,471 --> 00:21:57,143 But myths have a way of inspiring us and... 333 00:21:57,177 --> 00:21:59,928 they represent a part of the imagination, which we need 334 00:21:59,961 --> 00:22:02,900 to even invision the next generation of technologies. 335 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:08,878 If I dream, I could go to another galaxy. 336 00:22:09,116 --> 00:22:12,682 I will sooner or later go to another galaxy. 337 00:22:12,802 --> 00:22:17,869 We are the offsprings of the Gods and all these things are in our brains. 338 00:22:17,927 --> 00:22:22,268 We think we are very powerful. In practice we are not... 339 00:22:22,388 --> 00:22:27,723 but we have technology to develop the power, because we are the sons of the Gods. 340 00:22:29,517 --> 00:22:34,127 Might technology be our way, of reconnecting with the Gods. 341 00:22:34,587 --> 00:22:39,467 Or did the so-called Gods deliberately deny us their super powers... 342 00:22:39,587 --> 00:22:44,584 as a way of motivating our imaginations and technological achievements. 343 00:22:45,878 --> 00:22:49,441 Perhaps further evidence can be found in the heavens. 344 00:22:49,561 --> 00:22:54,861 At a Mexican ceremony, that commemorates real life close encounters... 345 00:22:54,981 --> 00:22:57,462 with aliens visitors. 346 00:23:03,648 --> 00:23:05,877 Veracruz, Mexico 347 00:23:07,431 --> 00:23:12,531 Five men in ceremonial dress ascent a 100ft. pole. 348 00:23:12,868 --> 00:23:17,005 Once at the top, one of the men performs a sacred dance 349 00:23:17,070 --> 00:23:20,176 or playing a flute and drum a top of a platform. 350 00:23:20,554 --> 00:23:23,945 The other four men, launch themselves off. 351 00:23:25,666 --> 00:23:29,921 It is a ritual known La Danza de los Voladores... 352 00:23:30,283 --> 00:23:32,583 or The Dance of the Flyers. 353 00:23:33,257 --> 00:23:37,286 The ritual has the leader stand on the top of the pole on a tiny little platform 354 00:23:37,311 --> 00:23:41,736 and the four flyers wrap up cable around that pole and then... 355 00:23:41,856 --> 00:23:46,150 branched out and fly around in a pyramid shape in perfect synchronize order 356 00:23:46,206 --> 00:23:48,515 is a stunning and daring thing to do. 357 00:23:49,641 --> 00:23:51,303 And they are representing the bird... 358 00:23:51,339 --> 00:23:53,609 they are representing the four cardinal directions... 359 00:23:53,624 --> 00:23:55,104 they are representing the elements. 360 00:23:55,142 --> 00:23:58,413 Heavily symbolic and mythic is a powerful ritual. 361 00:24:03,257 --> 00:24:06,488 The Totonac people who practice this ceremony today 362 00:24:06,737 --> 00:24:10,444 claim that it is a dance that is invented 500 years ago. 363 00:24:10,564 --> 00:24:13,719 As a plea to the Gods to end a severe drought. 364 00:24:14,616 --> 00:24:16,572 But could this ancient ritual... 365 00:24:16,692 --> 00:24:20,739 have different, perhaps otherworldly origins. 366 00:24:20,819 --> 00:24:23,891 What we have here with the Voladores... 367 00:24:23,934 --> 00:24:28,436 Is 100% living mythology. 368 00:24:28,556 --> 00:24:31,081 Something that describes... 369 00:24:31,094 --> 00:24:34,539 and illustrates in front of our living eye. 370 00:24:35,048 --> 00:24:38,906 The descent of the Gods...from a log time ago. 371 00:24:43,167 --> 00:24:47,781 The motive of the Gods descending from the sky is one of the most ancient stories. 372 00:24:47,901 --> 00:24:51,974 If you go back to the old testament, you have the story of the sons of Gods 373 00:24:51,993 --> 00:24:54,502 descending from the sky and they see the daughters 374 00:24:54,503 --> 00:24:57,010 of men and they create a race of giants. 375 00:24:57,909 --> 00:25:00,736 In the book of Genesis, Jacob sees a ladder 376 00:25:00,856 --> 00:25:02,431 ascending into the heavens. 377 00:25:02,463 --> 00:25:06,371 With angels ascending and descending upon this ladder. 378 00:25:06,988 --> 00:25:10,855 Jesus and the book of John describes the heavens opening 379 00:25:10,975 --> 00:25:14,627 and being descending upon the son of men. 380 00:25:19,169 --> 00:25:21,730 According to ancient astronaut theorists... 381 00:25:21,978 --> 00:25:25,858 the boleadores ritual is a reenactment of a close encounter 382 00:25:25,915 --> 00:25:28,741 with aliens visitors in the distant past. 383 00:25:30,292 --> 00:25:32,583 They believe, extraterrestrials... 384 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,604 descended upon the flat mountain tops of the Palpa region in Peru... 385 00:25:36,724 --> 00:25:38,879 around 500 A.D. 386 00:25:39,281 --> 00:25:44,349 Dropping from their aircraft and gliding down to earth in spiralling circles. 387 00:25:45,830 --> 00:25:48,056 The Voladores ritual... 388 00:25:48,437 --> 00:25:52,176 was very technological as in... 389 00:25:52,220 --> 00:25:56,278 you know, these beings descending from the sky in a circle 390 00:25:56,331 --> 00:26:00,318 signifying a rival of the Gods. 391 00:26:01,396 --> 00:26:06,488 Where does that flying or descending Gods motive originate? 392 00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:12,964 Our ancestors saw something... 393 00:26:13,372 --> 00:26:17,140 because why would you hurl yourself 394 00:26:17,212 --> 00:26:21,983 from a 100ft. pole out of nothing...to imitate a bird? 395 00:26:22,103 --> 00:26:26,805 Birds are not that important. Something very significant happened. 396 00:26:28,236 --> 00:26:33,757 Could an alien encounter really be the inspiration for the Voladores ritual. 397 00:26:34,521 --> 00:26:37,915 And could the Totonac people, who created the ceremony 398 00:26:38,035 --> 00:26:42,197 really have been trying to mimic the ancient Gods power of flight. 399 00:26:46,579 --> 00:26:49,200 As further evidence, that early humans 400 00:26:49,245 --> 00:26:52,942 may have encountered alien visitors equipped with the power of flight. 401 00:26:54,441 --> 00:26:56,305 Ancient astronaut theorists... 402 00:26:56,362 --> 00:27:01,038 point to various artefacts and statues depicting ancient Gods. 403 00:27:01,285 --> 00:27:05,068 One of such an example is the Mayan God; Ah Muzencab... 404 00:27:05,188 --> 00:27:08,404 also known as the flying beegod. 405 00:27:09,218 --> 00:27:13,838 Another is the most prominent God of early Mesoamerican culture; 406 00:27:14,162 --> 00:27:16,459 *** Quetzalcoatl 407 00:27:19,104 --> 00:27:23,064 Mesoamericans believed in the plumed serpent or Quetzalcoatl, 408 00:27:23,375 --> 00:27:26,020 which came from the sky bringing wisdom, 409 00:27:26,140 --> 00:27:27,780 powered the wind... 410 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:32,673 and also influenced everything that happened in the daily life of the Mayans. 411 00:27:32,979 --> 00:27:36,636 In fact they looked to the sky for all their answers, from everything as simplest 412 00:27:36,756 --> 00:27:38,909 when to plant corn to when to go to war. 413 00:27:39,125 --> 00:27:41,887 They believed all answers in the universe came from the 414 00:27:41,888 --> 00:27:44,649 sky and trying to relate that to their daily lives. 415 00:27:44,959 --> 00:27:50,665 The ancient record are loaded with fantastic examples of the Gods flying around. 416 00:27:50,864 --> 00:27:52,683 These are the ancient aliens 417 00:27:52,737 --> 00:27:56,426 and humans are being shown the ultimate capability of these Gods. 418 00:27:57,910 --> 00:27:59,558 In my eyes... 419 00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:03,246 because we are the sons of the Gods, we are the offsprings of the Gods... 420 00:28:03,530 --> 00:28:06,812 whatever humans can dream... 421 00:28:07,204 --> 00:28:09,325 whatever humans think... 422 00:28:09,612 --> 00:28:12,449 was once reality in the past... 423 00:28:12,569 --> 00:28:16,069 or will be reality in the future. 424 00:28:19,243 --> 00:28:22,431 July 31st, 2003. 425 00:28:22,551 --> 00:28:24,106 The English Channel. 426 00:28:24,512 --> 00:28:25,984 Felix Baumgartner... 427 00:28:26,013 --> 00:28:31,222 becomes the 1st person to cross this 22 mile wide body of water in freefall... 428 00:28:31,492 --> 00:28:34,270 using a specially made fibre wing. 429 00:28:34,767 --> 00:28:36,496 But the Austrian daredevil... 430 00:28:36,616 --> 00:28:40,451 is just one of many who have used wingsuits to simulate fly... 431 00:28:40,571 --> 00:28:42,537 by means of a freefall. 432 00:28:47,971 --> 00:28:50,911 A wingsuit is basically a jumpsuit 433 00:28:51,031 --> 00:28:53,623 that you put on under your rig 434 00:28:53,743 --> 00:28:58,962 and it's designed to actually make you fly when you exit the plane. 435 00:28:59,082 --> 00:29:03,309 The material inflates underneath your arms, in between your legs 436 00:29:03,731 --> 00:29:07,081 and creates basically an airfoil 437 00:29:07,486 --> 00:29:09,453 that you glide on through the air. 438 00:29:09,886 --> 00:29:15,136 It is an amazing feeling, because you are actually the pilot and the plane. 439 00:29:16,038 --> 00:29:17,562 It is total freedom. 440 00:29:17,961 --> 00:29:19,723 You feel as though you're flying. 441 00:29:22,596 --> 00:29:24,109 Though you are falling... 442 00:29:24,876 --> 00:29:28,205 you are using the air to manoeuvre your body. 443 00:29:28,325 --> 00:29:32,437 And the wingsuit helps you cover a lot of ground as you're descending. 444 00:29:33,139 --> 00:29:37,062 Some people have been exceeding 2 to 1 glide ratio. 445 00:29:37,462 --> 00:29:40,315 For example 3 to 1 would mean... 446 00:29:40,435 --> 00:29:45,454 for every foot you descent, you are travelling 3 feet forward. 447 00:29:47,310 --> 00:29:51,135 We got these flying guys, that have these wings attached 448 00:29:51,255 --> 00:29:54,650 to their backs and they hurl themselves out of planes. 449 00:29:54,770 --> 00:29:58,271 And some even have rocket engines attached to them. 450 00:29:58,391 --> 00:30:02,874 And so they essentially themselves become airplanes. 451 00:30:03,908 --> 00:30:09,214 Now imagine showing that, to someone from a hundred years ago. 452 00:30:09,425 --> 00:30:13,629 That person would be in complete 'Ohh' of what they are witnessing 453 00:30:13,749 --> 00:30:18,784 not understanding that there is technology involved with this. 454 00:30:19,790 --> 00:30:22,870 Just using our own body, we can not fly. 455 00:30:22,990 --> 00:30:26,207 We have no wings, but of course we have the fantasy 456 00:30:26,327 --> 00:30:28,844 and we have the technology to develop 457 00:30:28,964 --> 00:30:30,766 wings that we can fly. 458 00:30:31,449 --> 00:30:33,663 The pursuit of flight... 459 00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:37,110 has been one of the most sought-after quests 460 00:30:37,352 --> 00:30:39,280 in all of mankind's history. 461 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,388 Why?...Because with flight 462 00:30:42,786 --> 00:30:47,870 you could reach conceivably the realm of the Gods. 463 00:30:54,017 --> 00:30:56,420 From the ancient Greek myth of Icarus. 464 00:30:56,540 --> 00:30:59,299 Fashioning wings of feathers and wax. 465 00:30:59,538 --> 00:31:02,573 To modern daredevils like Felix Baumgartner... 466 00:31:03,109 --> 00:31:05,564 human beings have been fascinated with 467 00:31:05,684 --> 00:31:09,459 and often frustrated by their desire to fly. 468 00:31:10,287 --> 00:31:14,411 But have birds really served as mankind's inspiration. 469 00:31:14,878 --> 00:31:18,769 Or something else...something extraterrestrial. 470 00:31:20,109 --> 00:31:22,789 And if ancient visitors could fly 471 00:31:23,145 --> 00:31:26,205 What other powers might they have possessed. 472 00:31:26,482 --> 00:31:31,189 And what abilities might early men have had...and lost. 473 00:31:31,622 --> 00:31:33,896 Perhaps the answer can be found. 474 00:31:34,094 --> 00:31:38,689 Not in the sky's, but deep beneath the sea. 475 00:31:42,903 --> 00:31:44,908 Cape Sounion, Greece. 476 00:31:45,910 --> 00:31:50,025 Purged on the headland surrounded on three sides by the sea. 477 00:31:50,423 --> 00:31:55,576 Lies the ruins of the temple of Poseidon, built in 440 B.C. 478 00:31:56,295 --> 00:31:59,071 The second son of the titan king Cronos... 479 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:01,816 Poseidon was worshipped throughout Greece 480 00:32:01,936 --> 00:32:05,054 almost as much as his younger brother Zeus. 481 00:32:07,094 --> 00:32:09,230 Poseidon was the God of the sea. 482 00:32:09,350 --> 00:32:12,730 He was also the God of earthquakes and strangely...horses. 483 00:32:13,188 --> 00:32:17,113 When Poseidon was in a good mood, he created new lands out of the sea. 484 00:32:17,141 --> 00:32:20,080 He gave calm waters for good voyages. 485 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,407 When he was in a bad mood, he destroyed ships and brought storms. 486 00:32:29,089 --> 00:32:32,002 Poseidon does rule over the kingdom of the sea. 487 00:32:32,122 --> 00:32:35,380 It is envisioned as a kind of a place where people live. 488 00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:38,010 When he comes out of that place... 489 00:32:38,011 --> 00:32:40,519 yes, he rides the spectacular kind of like water chariot 490 00:32:40,639 --> 00:32:44,301 that is driven by dolphins and he holds on to a really big trident. 491 00:32:44,585 --> 00:32:48,232 In Greek mythology, Cronos eats all of his children 492 00:32:48,352 --> 00:32:51,928 except for Zeus, who eventually rescues his siblings 493 00:32:51,964 --> 00:32:55,200 including Poseidon from the belly of his father. 494 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,526 A potion is prepared, that makes him heat up all the other... 495 00:32:58,646 --> 00:33:01,609 siblings, Zeus's nieces become the Gods of Olympus. 496 00:33:03,312 --> 00:33:05,560 But ancient astronaut theorists... 497 00:33:05,606 --> 00:33:10,932 believe this Greek myth is actually a metaphor for an extraterrestrial event. 498 00:33:11,701 --> 00:33:16,603 They believe the notion of Gods being vomited up from the belly of their father. 499 00:33:17,104 --> 00:33:22,240 Actually describes mutinies aliens being expelled from the mothership. 500 00:33:27,210 --> 00:33:32,302 *** swallowed up into a living creature, will not be able to survive for three days. 501 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:36,000 It will die from suffocation and will beginning to decay. 502 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,410 What we have here, is not a creature but something else. 503 00:33:40,938 --> 00:33:45,854 It could have been an object, which was clearly of a man made or extraterrestrial origin. 504 00:33:46,370 --> 00:33:48,480 And mutiny took place. 505 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,885 Some of the extraterrestrials... 506 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,268 they had sex with wonderful earthly females/women. 507 00:33:55,388 --> 00:34:00,182 They were not allowed to do this. So one of these extraterrestrials... 508 00:34:00,225 --> 00:34:05,533 who were not allowed to go back with the mothership, had the name of Poseidon. 509 00:34:06,021 --> 00:34:11,252 Poseidon felt in love, with a beautiful human girl. 510 00:34:12,512 --> 00:34:14,596 And he made her pregnant. 511 00:34:16,238 --> 00:34:19,575 Poseidon is married...right, he has got a child. 512 00:34:19,633 --> 00:34:21,710 Who has got some grandchildren...right. 513 00:34:21,830 --> 00:34:24,505 There is this whole cast of sea nymphs as well, 514 00:34:24,506 --> 00:34:27,180 all of them presumably like live in this place. 515 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,017 Poseidon has the power of the deep. 516 00:34:30,137 --> 00:34:33,352 The unseen place, if you look out of the sea, you see... 517 00:34:33,361 --> 00:34:37,127 surface and you are aware that there is a whole world below that, suggesting... 518 00:34:37,151 --> 00:34:39,794 powers beyond that, which meet the eye. 519 00:34:43,451 --> 00:34:46,702 Among the mythical creatures, associated with Poseidon... 520 00:34:46,822 --> 00:34:50,947 are the Telchines. A race of advanced fish children. 521 00:34:51,371 --> 00:34:55,927 The human like beings could live both in and out of water. 522 00:34:56,281 --> 00:34:58,814 They're are masters of technology 523 00:34:58,873 --> 00:35:03,054 and seem to match up with the fish Gods of ancient Sumeria. 524 00:35:03,109 --> 00:35:07,743 Who worked for Enki, the great God of alchemy and technology and smithcraft. 525 00:35:07,959 --> 00:35:12,627 The Telchines are also kind of in the shadowy territory of... 526 00:35:12,747 --> 00:35:14,859 God, human...monster things. 527 00:35:14,979 --> 00:35:21,031 They are just these kind of figures, who are not Gods but were like human beings. 528 00:35:21,830 --> 00:35:25,018 There is one story about the Roman version of Zeus; Jupiter. 529 00:35:25,138 --> 00:35:26,407 Trying to destroy them. 530 00:35:26,813 --> 00:35:29,570 Now, we don't know if whether they are actually all destroyed but... 531 00:35:29,631 --> 00:35:34,846 it's possibly because of their relationship to the magic. 532 00:35:38,824 --> 00:35:42,823 In Greek legend, the Telchines were also metallurgists. 533 00:35:43,698 --> 00:35:47,092 They were said to have created Poseidon's magical trident. 534 00:35:47,427 --> 00:35:51,899 And to have cast the first bronze statues of the Gods of Olympus. 535 00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:59,497 And according to some historians, the Telchines may not have been creatures of myth. 536 00:35:59,617 --> 00:36:02,556 But were beings, who actually existed. 537 00:36:07,170 --> 00:36:11,925 There were people called Telchines. We do actually have evidence of these beings. 538 00:36:12,045 --> 00:36:14,183 They were actually ancient rigs... 539 00:36:14,220 --> 00:36:16,816 who had specific tasks and traits... 540 00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:19,793 like metallurgy, like smithing and so on. 541 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,661 And so you could see how it is, that a being like Telchines... 542 00:36:23,706 --> 00:36:27,319 that these things could in fact not just be these mythological beings... 543 00:36:27,380 --> 00:36:29,441 but like actual people. 544 00:36:29,870 --> 00:36:32,090 So the way that we look at the ancient Greeks and Romans... 545 00:36:32,106 --> 00:36:33,713 would have been the way they would have looked at the 546 00:36:33,747 --> 00:36:35,866 stories that are being told about the about ***. 547 00:36:38,989 --> 00:36:41,445 We have got the stories of the Telchines. 548 00:36:41,747 --> 00:36:45,076 And they were able to survive underwater. 549 00:36:45,196 --> 00:36:48,522 For unlimited amounts of time. 550 00:36:48,729 --> 00:36:50,882 Now how is such a thing possible... 551 00:36:51,002 --> 00:36:55,001 unless you have access to some type of technology. 552 00:36:57,955 --> 00:37:01,372 An Israeli company is currently developing 553 00:37:01,449 --> 00:37:04,171 a human artificial gill system 554 00:37:04,401 --> 00:37:07,939 that allows humans to take oxygen 555 00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:13,852 from surrounding water, without the need of oxygen tanks. 556 00:37:14,402 --> 00:37:17,671 You potentially can remain underwater 557 00:37:17,791 --> 00:37:21,224 for unlimited amounts of time. 558 00:37:24,366 --> 00:37:28,108 All the technology, that we are discovering today 559 00:37:28,391 --> 00:37:33,498 is in fact old new. It has been around before. 560 00:37:33,984 --> 00:37:39,166 Could the ancient Greek myths really be based on actual events? 561 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:44,067 Were the Telchines early humans enabled with god-like abilities? 562 00:37:44,187 --> 00:37:48,725 And were these powers really misunderstood alien technology? 563 00:37:49,913 --> 00:37:52,453 Perhaps the answers can be found. 564 00:37:52,513 --> 00:37:55,377 Not in the past, but in the present. 565 00:37:56,410 --> 00:37:59,846 As modern day advances in science and technology 566 00:37:59,905 --> 00:38:02,997 give us perhaps our greatest evidence... 567 00:38:03,227 --> 00:38:05,910 that 'We' are not alone. 568 00:38:08,650 --> 00:38:10,303 The ability to fly... 569 00:38:11,264 --> 00:38:13,381 to thrive underwater... 570 00:38:14,370 --> 00:38:18,257 and to travel through space and explore the universe. 571 00:38:20,014 --> 00:38:24,226 At one time, these were all believed to be impossible notions. 572 00:38:25,274 --> 00:38:28,013 Dismissed as mere science fiction... 573 00:38:28,507 --> 00:38:29,683 or Myth. 574 00:38:30,631 --> 00:38:34,042 But man-kind's continued advances in technology 575 00:38:34,162 --> 00:38:38,003 have made the word impossible, almost obsolete. 576 00:38:38,749 --> 00:38:40,535 In our modern world... 577 00:38:40,593 --> 00:38:44,309 steroids can help generate herculean muscles. 578 00:38:44,837 --> 00:38:51,380 Titanium joints can replace and even improve upon our own natural ones. 579 00:38:52,144 --> 00:38:55,337 And even prosthetic gills are being developed. 580 00:38:55,457 --> 00:39:00,769 So human beings can breath underwater, without the use of airtanks. 581 00:39:03,703 --> 00:39:08,914 Today, government contractors like Raytheon Sarcos and Lockheed Martin 582 00:39:09,034 --> 00:39:13,095 develop exoskeleton machines for the U.S. military. 583 00:39:17,456 --> 00:39:20,732 When warned, they can allow soldiers to walk... 584 00:39:20,852 --> 00:39:24,901 run and lift hundreds of pounds, with virtually no effort. 585 00:39:27,305 --> 00:39:30,858 What makes exoskeletons so cool, is that it is an every man thing. 586 00:39:30,978 --> 00:39:34,519 Anybody can put one on. Anybody can be the hero 587 00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:37,588 You can take a person with any sort of physical weaknesses 588 00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:39,885 and make them greater than the person they're fighting. 589 00:39:41,006 --> 00:39:46,585 Exoskeletons would be a prime example of something coming out comic books... 590 00:39:46,705 --> 00:39:49,219 into mainstream reality. 591 00:39:49,268 --> 00:39:54,869 And in reality, exoskeletons are becoming very popular with the military. 592 00:39:55,742 --> 00:40:01,254 A soldier can wear the Raytheon exoskeleton for example and lift 200 pounds. 593 00:40:01,794 --> 00:40:06,549 While these modern day superman may be limited in their mobility 594 00:40:06,669 --> 00:40:09,004 the development of exoskeletons 595 00:40:09,124 --> 00:40:14,374 represents an incredible evolution in relationship between man and machine. 596 00:40:17,531 --> 00:40:21,584 But did such incredible technology exist before. 597 00:40:22,004 --> 00:40:25,359 Perhaps in man-kind's ancient past. 598 00:40:26,726 --> 00:40:31,832 Now is it possible, that some type of exoskeleton technology 599 00:40:31,952 --> 00:40:36,382 was used in the remote past, for example on the Giza Plateau. 600 00:40:37,099 --> 00:40:41,746 Imagine the operator of one of those exoskeleton machines... 601 00:40:41,866 --> 00:40:43,704 coming out of that machine. 602 00:40:43,988 --> 00:40:47,919 That person, has super powers. 603 00:40:48,789 --> 00:40:52,557 Even though, the person doesn't have any powers at all. 604 00:40:52,677 --> 00:40:57,691 The person is only operation sophisticated technology. 605 00:40:58,405 --> 00:41:01,809 One could argue, that with all the advancements 606 00:41:01,929 --> 00:41:06,875 we are making today in science and in all the other academic fields. 607 00:41:06,918 --> 00:41:09,941 We are becoming more god-like. 608 00:41:11,143 --> 00:41:13,192 We are not becoming Gods. 609 00:41:13,312 --> 00:41:16,840 We are not turning into real super heroes. 610 00:41:17,129 --> 00:41:20,717 We are only becoming 'god-like'. 611 00:41:20,837 --> 00:41:23,980 Because of our technology. 612 00:41:24,763 --> 00:41:28,924 I think, we have a need to push our bodies and our minds 613 00:41:28,962 --> 00:41:30,475 to the utmost limits. 614 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:34,190 And strive for super intelligence, super strength... 615 00:41:34,619 --> 00:41:36,726 and other super powers. 616 00:41:36,767 --> 00:41:40,447 The reason is, that people have long been fascinated with 617 00:41:40,567 --> 00:41:43,597 what could be stronger than humanity itself. 618 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,363 And if it's not human... 619 00:41:46,392 --> 00:41:51,065 then it must come from somewhere else, either a God or an extraterrestrial. 620 00:41:53,407 --> 00:41:55,983 But with all of the scientific achievements... 621 00:41:56,303 --> 00:42:01,398 is man-kind perhaps, making themselves more and more vulnerable, to what could be 622 00:42:01,460 --> 00:42:03,146 terrible consequences. 623 00:42:04,219 --> 00:42:07,005 There are many tales of ordinary mortals... 624 00:42:07,047 --> 00:42:11,037 ascending to become rulers, to become Gods... 625 00:42:11,064 --> 00:42:13,826 various positions of enormous power. 626 00:42:15,359 --> 00:42:19,022 Often these characters then become corrupt... 627 00:42:19,142 --> 00:42:23,362 and the stories tick around and are retold over a long period of time 628 00:42:23,387 --> 00:42:26,746 long after their sources have withered away. 629 00:42:26,866 --> 00:42:31,707 To teach us that power corrupts. To be careful what you wish for. 630 00:42:31,827 --> 00:42:36,837 And to be very cautious if ever holding grief power... 631 00:42:37,777 --> 00:42:40,073 because of its ability to harm. 632 00:42:41,262 --> 00:42:46,084 Almost 50% of our stories are about technology run amok on the dark side of technology. 633 00:42:47,476 --> 00:42:51,691 Because when you talk about super powers, when you talk about all this transformation... 634 00:42:51,811 --> 00:42:53,497 everything comes at a price. 635 00:42:53,828 --> 00:42:57,417 And you always have to weigh, whether that price is worthy or necessary to make... 636 00:42:57,537 --> 00:43:00,203 for the greater good and sometimes it's not. 637 00:43:00,323 --> 00:43:04,102 Sometimes the price you pay is just too great, when you lose your own self. 638 00:43:05,791 --> 00:43:08,910 Are all of man-kind's scientific achievements 639 00:43:09,030 --> 00:43:12,126 really examples of emerging technology. 640 00:43:12,729 --> 00:43:17,017 Or is the yearning for super powers and heroic feet's embedded... 641 00:43:17,137 --> 00:43:19,284 in our collective DNA. 642 00:43:20,287 --> 00:43:23,884 Are human beings finally catching up to the abilities 643 00:43:24,004 --> 00:43:27,738 of beings who have been here before. 644 00:43:28,042 --> 00:43:32,003 And were they Gods or as some believe... 645 00:43:32,123 --> 00:43:36,528 alien ancestors, living thousands of years ago 646 00:43:36,648 --> 00:43:41,805 possessing powers and abilities thousands of years more advanced. 647 00:43:42,628 --> 00:43:47,016 Perhaps only time and further advancements in technology... 648 00:43:47,063 --> 00:43:48,702 will tell... 649 00:43:48,894 --> 00:43:51,976 or perhaps it will all be revealed...