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NARRATOR: Lasers...

with the power to cut through

solid stone.

Acoustic chambers...

that enable interplanetary

communication.

And architecture...

designed to harness cosmic

energy.

Are these dramatic examples of

our own modern-day technology?

Or are they examples of

astounding achievements used

in the ancient past?

BRIEN FOERSTER: The only way

that these huge cubes of stone

were removed from the mountain

is by some kind of laser-like

instrument able to liquefy rock.

MICHAEL BORDEN: These temples

were used to communicate with

the gods and resonate with

cosmic energies.

BILL BIRNES: People see this

as an example of help given to

an earthly civilization by...

ancient aliens.

NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by

extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history?

And could the proof be found by

examining the construction

methods of our planet's ancient

engineers?

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NARRATOR: Peru,

South America.

The Andes Mountains.

9,000 feet above sea level, in

an area the Inca people once

called the Sacred Valley, lie

the ruins of the ancient city of

Ollantaytambo.

Once serving as both a temple

and a fortress, mainstream

historians claim Ollantaytambo

was built around 1440 AD by the

Inca Emperor Pachacuti.

But some scholars believe

Ollantaytambo was built upon the

ruins of a far older city... one

whose origins remain unknown.

FOERSTER: The gate

behind me is called the Gateway

of the Gods, and it was built

several thousand years before

the Inca arrived here.

It was built by a culture we

call the Urin Pacha.

We give them that name because

we have no idea who they were,

where they came from or where

they went.

It's clearly evident that the

earliest parts of Ollantaytambo

dates to at least 12,000 years

old, if not older.

JESUS GAMARRA (translated):

From the research I have been

able to determine, this was

built by the Arak civilization.

The Arak people are as ancient

as what would be the equivalent

to Adam or the first humans.

NARRATOR: But how could the

earliest humans on earth have

produced such astonishing

stonework, with massive

interlocking blocks precisely

fitted together?

Or have constructed aqueducts

and irrigation systems that

still function today?

Or have moved and set colossal

stones of granite, each weighing

more than 50 tons?

ANDREW COLLINS: Ollantaytambo

is a mountain fortress.

It's renowned specifically for

the incredible-sized blocks that

were used in its construction,

most particularly those that are

found on its highest level and

the highest point on this

mountain.

There are six of these

positioned in a line, and they

were transported from another

mountain where, the source says,

across a plain, across a river

and then up the mountain.

And, of course, the biggest

mystery is, how the hell were

they not only able to cut these

things but to move them up

this mountain?

STEPHEN VANDER HART: In

modern day, if we were gonna

move a 50-ton boulder, we would

have to assemble a special

transportation unit

consisting of steel girders,

several axles, hydraulic jacks.

Moving it up the hill, we'd

probably have to change the face

of the hill...

build a road, maybe anchor it,

using some kind of cable-and-

pulley system... several

different options, none of which

would be available to the

people who lived way back then.

FOERSTER: These six giant

slabs of red granite have stood

here for thousands of years

because of the beautiful

engineering of the ancients.

If there's a major earthquake,

these shims can ride up and

down, absorbing the shock of the

earthquake, and that keeps the

giant slabs in place.

The ability to fit perfectly-

fitting stones of several tons

in weight together so that a

single human hair can't fit in

between them is not a question

of sweat or man-hours,

it's a question of technology.

NARRATOR: Mainstream

archaeologists claim the dense,

hard granite was cut and shaped

by means of stone or bronze

tools.

But evidence of such tools has

never been found at the site.

And stranger still is the means

by which the mammoth rocks are

bonded into place, as if fused

together by an unknown form of

energy.

JASON MARTELL: it's almost as

if two stones were leaned

together and they infused it

with some type of high-radiation

beam or a laser that would then

fuse the rocks together.

They could then stack a third

rock and create another fused

area.

There is no explanation for how

they had the ability to create

such a high heat source and

fuse these rocks in such an

intricate fashion.

NARRATOR: Further evidence of

the mysterious methods used by

ancient craftsmen can be found

nearby... at the Temple of

the Condor.

Here, enormous slabs of andesite

stone were quarried from what is

known as "The Wall of Living

Rock."

FOERSTER: The Temple of the

Condor is curious because we

find huge cube-like sections of

stone... andesite, which is very

hard... have been removed from

the mountain with such accuracy

that we can't find a scratch in

the surface.

The corners also are not sharp.

They're perfectly rounded, and

no one can explain how this

could have been achieved.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The rock

surface looks rough, but when

you touch it, it feels as smooth

as a bathroom mirror, which

means some type of a

vitrification process was used.

And at the bottom of where this

alcove was cut out, we can see a

crisscross pattern.

And in my opinion,

they are actually saw marks.

To me, this pattern is

irrefutable proof for ancient

machining.

ERICH VON DANIKEN:

Prehistoric tools would never

work.

You see, Ollantaytambo is mostly

made out of andesite.

To cut andesite, you need

something which is harder

than andesite.

You could use a diamond, but

there was no tool in Stone Age

time to cut these rocks, so

it must have been an

extraterrestrial tool.

NARRATOR: Might the ancient

engineers of Ollantaytambo

really have used tools acquired

from otherworldly sources, as

ancient astronaut theorists

contend?

Perhaps clues can be found by

examining the earliest creation

myths of the Andes Mountains.

In them, the ancient ancestors,

or founders, were described as

a brother and sister... referred

to as "Children of the Sun."

Sent by the "Sun God," these

mysterious beings arrived on

Earth with something described

as a golden wedge.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Was this

golden wedge some sort of

handheld device that could cut

stone, and even possibly,

levitate the giant blocks into

place?

If the golden wedge used by the

Children of the Sun was really

some kind of high-tech device

for cutting stone or levitating

stone, it would probably have

been given to them by

extraterrestrials.

TSOUKALOS: The fact that

Ollantaytambo specifically has

this story about this golden

wedge leads me to think that

some type of extraterrestrial

activity took place there

thousands and thousands of years

ago.

And that some type of

sophisticated extraterrestrial

technology was used in order to

achieve some of those amazing

feats of engineering that we can

see at Ollantaytambo today.

BIRNES: What you can't

explain is the moving of 50-ton

stones up the sheer face of a

cliff to create the walls of the

fortress.

That, in and of itself, required

more than cranes, more than

lifts, more than scaffolds.

It required something like an

anti-gravitational device, or a

tractor beam to lift that much

stone that high.

That's why people see this as an

example of help given to an

earthly civilization by ancient

aliens.

NARRATOR: Do the incredible

accomplishments of the early

people of the Andes Mountains

really provide proof that early

man was in contact with

otherworldly beings?

If so, wouldn't there be even

more incredible evidence?

There are those who believe such

evidence does exist, hidden

within the ruins of a

Mesoamerican metropolis.

NARRATOR: Central Mexico.

35 miles northeast of Mexico

City.

Here in a highlands plateau,

lies the enormous archeological

site of the ancient city of

Teotihuacán.

Established around 100 B.C., and

lasting until its fall between

the seventh and eighth

centuries, Teotihuacán was one

of the largest cities in the

ancient world, with over 150,000

inhabitants at its peak.

DAVID CHEETHAM, PH.D: When

you enter this city, you're

immediately struck by sort of

that modern layout of the city.

You have a Street of the Dead

that goes for miles, along which

you have all of the major

ceremonial architecture,

including some of the largest

buildings ever erected in the

New World.

NARRATOR: According to

scholars, the advanced design of

Teotihuacán suggests that

ancient builders had knowledge,

not only of architecture, but of

complex mathematical and

astronomical sciences.

From the air, the city's layout

strangely resembles a computer

circuit board with two large

processor chips... the Sun

Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid.

Researchers have also found

numerous and remarkable

similarities to the Great

Pyramids of Egypt.

PHILIP COPPENS: When we look

at these buildings, we find the

same mathematics incorporated

into them than what we find in

the Great Pyramid and the

surrounding pyramids of the

Giza Plateau.

ARLAN ANDREWS, PH.D.: The

Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza

and the Sun Pyramid at

Teotihuacán apparently have

about the same base, almost 750

feet square.

TSOUKALOS: The base perimeter

of the Pyramid of the Sun is

four Pi times its height.

In Giza, it's two pi times its

height.

Essentially, the Pyramid of the

Sun is exactly half as tall as

the Pyramid of Giza.

COPPENS: Teotihuacán is

created according to a specific

layout.

The Temple of the Sun, the

Temple of the Moon, and the

Temple of Quetzalcoatl are in

the same layout as Orion's Belt,

which is basically the

formation, which the three

pyramids of the Giza Plateau

have been laid out into, as

well.

NARRATOR: Might the design

and layout of Teotihuacán be

comparable to that of Giza

because of similar influence

by extraterrestrial visitors, as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

CHILDRESS: When you have

similar pyramid complexes like

the ones at Teotihuacán, and the

ones at Giza, you have to kind

of think that, yeah, the same

builders, the same designers are

behind these giant complexes.

NARRATOR: But perhaps the

most intriguing aspect of

Teotihuacán is the finding by

archeologists of the extensive

use of mica embedded in numerous

structures... a mineral only

found 3,000 miles away in

Brazil.

JOEL PALKA, PH.D.: it's found

in all buildings, you know,

housing complexes, temples, and

you know, along the roads.

It's found everywhere.

COLLINS: These mica sheets

were probably transported from

thousands of miles away from

Brazil.

That's the nearest source.

Now, why would you want to do

that?

'Cause they were obviously not

there for decoration, because

you couldn't see them.

RICHARD BERGGREEN: Mica has

some electrical properties that

make it very good for being an

insulator.

It resists the transmission of

electricity.

It's also very good at being

able to be stable at high

temperatures so that it can be

used in furnace windows and oven

windows.

It is clear so you can see

through it, and at the same

time, it stands up to the

temperature and electrical, uh,

discharges.

COPPENS: So we know that they

must have had a very specific

and good reason to incorporate

it.

And the only possible reasons

really why they would be doing

this is because somehow it was

part of some technology.

NARRATOR: Recently,

archeologists have also

discovered large quantities

of mica crystals in a

subterranean chamber, as well as

in several shafts that run

beneath the Avenue of the Dead.

TSOUKALOS: There is an

underground shaft that goes from

the mica chamber in direction

of the Pyramid of the Sun.

So is it possible that this mica

chamber contained some type of

an energy-producing device, a

power plant that fed some of the

other pyramids?

It is possible.

CHILDRESS: There's many

similarities between the

pyramids at Teotihuacán and the

pyramids at Giza.

Both have inner chambers.

It's thought by some that the

Great Pyramid itself was a

massive microwave generator,

literally sending a beam up to a

satellite, or powering some

other kind of spacecraft or

installation.

We could have had the same thing

happening here at Teotihuacán.

NARRATOR: if the Pyramid of

the Sun were really designed to

generate power, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe,

could its mica-lined chambers

and shafts have served as an

interconnecting power grid for

the entire city?

Or could the use of mica have

served another, perhaps more

protective purpose?

MARTELL: NASA uses mica to

deflect the heat on many of

their craft, such as the space

shuttle.

On reentry, the bottom part of

the space shuttle is all lined

with mica and is a perfect

deflector of large amounts of

heat.

CHILDRESS: Could the mica

at Teotihuacán also have been

used to shield and protect the

ancient people perhaps from the

blast of an extraterrestrial

rocket taking off?

Or even the radiation maybe

from some kind of spacecraft?

NARRATOR: But if the ancient

builders of Teotihuacán used

mica for the purposes of power

generation and radiation

protection, then where did their

advanced engineering and

construction knowledge come

from?

TSOUKALOS: The earliest

descriptions of Teotihuacán

talk about gods descending

from the sky in ships or

winged serpents, and that

something extraordinary happened

there.

WILLIAM HENRY: Teotihuacán,

like the ancient Egyptian

pyramids, is believed to have

been built by the gods.

And the gods ascended into the

heavens in craft that we today

think could be rocket ships.

The builders certainly must

have learned the secrets from

the gods themselves.

MARTELL: An interesting

similarity with many of these

ancient sites were reports of

the gods ascending and

descending from the heavens.

It's very possible that these

were actually being used as

landing sites.

So it's very possible that the

knowledge to build Teotihuacán

was given to us by

extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Do the ancient

legends of flying alien beings

and other strange creatures

provide proof that ancient

aliens did, in fact, influence

the incredible architectural

achievements of Teotihuacán?

Perhaps more clues can be found

on the other side of the planet

and carved into the walls of

sacred Indian temples.

NARRATOR: The Republic of

India.

Situated on the subcontinent of

South Asia, in the southern

portion of the country, are the

ruins of a vast temple complex

known as Vijayanagara.

Translated as "the city of

victory," this site once was the

prosperous capital of the

largest and most powerful Hindu

kingdom in all of India.

CHILDRESS: Vijayanagara is

said to have been built in the

14th century A.D.

However, there's a lot of

evidence to show that it's a

much older city.

And, in fact, uh, Hindu legends

say that the ancient king Rama

met with his monkey god friend

Hanuman there at a cave at

Vijayanagara.

And this would put this city

back many thousands of years.

JOHN FRITZ: This general

region of southern India had

human occupation perhaps

hundreds of thousands of years.

While the city of Vijayanagara

is certainly the largest

settlement that ever existed,

there were civilizations that

existed there much earlier.

NARRATOR: According to

scholars, the temples of

Vijayanagara were built using

ancient geometric and

mathematical formulas found

only in Vastu Shastra, a

traditional Hindu system of

design based on aligning art and

architecture with the elemental

properties of earth, water, air,

fire and space.

BORDEN: Vastu architecture

is unique because it creates

structures that are supposed to

resonate with earth and cosmic

energies.

When you create a structure, you

want the building to be in

harmony with the earth.

If you think of the earth as

embedded in a space nervous

system, and that the solar

system is embedded in a space

universe, it's all one nervous

system.

Well, the earth itself is tied

to the rest of the universe by

this, and receives and emanates

energy by using this nervous

system.

And these temples illustrate

that perfectly.

It could be that these spaces

were used as a technology to go

deep within human consciousness

and communicate with the gods.

NARRATOR: The origins of

Vastu architecture can be traced

in ancient India Sangam

literature to a mythic hero

called Mamuni Mayan, who lived

some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

But who, or what, was this

mysterious ancient figure?

According to Hindu beliefs,

Mamuni Mayan is revered as the

Visvakarman... the lord of

creation... and the deity who

designed and fabricated the

divine architecture of the

universe.

But might this god really have

been an extraterrestrial entity,

as ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

Researchers point to clues

carved in stone throughout the

ancient Vastu temples of

Vijayanagara.

CHILDRESS: Vijayanagara was

thought to be a city that

connected people to the gods.

The gods themselves were said to

have lived in this city...

Shiva and... and Rama.

Many of the strange statues

there are of certain aspects of

Vishnu.

And he looks like some kind of

strange extraterrestrial god.

These are statues that still

exist today at Vijayanagara.

B. VIRUPAKSHI: According to

the myths and legends, this is

a very holy place.

Why? Because of Rama, one of

the incarnation of Vishnu.

Rama is a god.

He had been to this place.

That's how this place has become

very sacred.

NARRATOR: Further evidence

of the actual nature of the

Hindu gods can be found in

ancient Hindu scriptures.

Epic poems like the Mahabharata

and the Ramayana, and sacred

texts called Vedic literature,

contain multiple references to

flying objects of various shapes

and sizes.

PATRICK FLANAGAN: In ancient

Vedic literature, they say that

they had Vimanas, which are

anti-gravity aircraft, and

that they flew around on them.

And the Vimana's construction is

detailed in the Mahabharata and

some of the other ancient books

that have come to us from

that time.

CHILDRESS: At Vijayanagara,

you have the traditional Hindu

Vastu architecture.

You have, therefore, the stone

temples that are, uh, conical in

shape.

So the architecture itself was

sort of a copy of the airships

or rockets or spaceships that

they called Vimanas.

BORDEN: At Vijayanagara,

they were using Vastu

technology.

And Vastu technology has been

used to make flying vehicles.

The technology is there to

create weapons, to probably

create an energy that could

power a spaceship.

VON DANIKEN: The Vimanas we

would call today space shuttle,

flying machines.

Now we have different sort of

space shuttle.

A Russian space shuttle doesn't

look like an American space

shuttle and so on.

So in ancient India, we have

different descriptions of

Vimanas with wings, with all

kinds of lights and so on, and

out of these Vimanas so-called

gods came.

NARRATOR: Might the early

people of South India really

have been taught advanced

building techniques to harness

powerful cosmic energy?

And if so, might this have been

done so that early man could

connect with other distant

worlds, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

CHILDRESS: Vijayanagara would

have been one of many cities

around the planet built by the

extraterrestrial gods.

It was part of a network of

ancient cities around the planet

that included megalithic cites

in South America, on Pacific

islands, in India and Egypt and

Africa and other areas of the

Middle East.

It was one of their special

cities that they had built

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Did ancient man

really incorporate the wisdom

and expertise of cosmic

travelers into the architecture

of their monumental buildings?

If so, wouldn't additional

evidence of such contact exist

elsewhere in the world?

What if there were recent

findings of the use of machine

technology discovered in ancient

Egypt?

NARRATOR: Luxor, Egypt.

Here, along the east bank of the

Nile River, lie the

archaeological remains of the

vast Karnak temple complex,

dating to the 32nd century B.C.

With its numerous structures,

including great halls, obelisks,

and an avenue of sphinxes,

Karnak represents the combined

achievement of many generations

of Egypt's ancient builders.

MARTELL: When one travels to

Luxor and gazes upon the Karnak

Temple, we see large pillars,

oversized obelisks, and what's

very amazing about this area is

that it's one of the few places

where over 30 pharaohs

contributed to its sheer size

and wealth of knowledge over a

vast period of time.

NARRATOR: For centuries,

archaeologists and scholars have

considered Karnak to be one of

the most dramatic examples of

the remarkable technological

ability of early man.

But do the construction

techniques used in building

these incredible monuments

reveal evidence of something

more... something not of this

earth?

COPPENS: When we start

looking at hieroglyphs, we are

amazed as to how beautiful and

how carefully they have been

carved.

The technology which we see is

clearly of a perfection which is

beautiful and almost makes our

heart cry whenever you come face

to face with it.

NARRATOR: Experts believe the

most impressive evidence of

advanced machining can be found

on Karnak's tall four-sided

tapering monuments, called

obelisks.

CHILDRESS: The obelisk is

carved with the same

inscriptions on four sides, and

they're all exactly the same and

they are beautifully cut and

articulated hieroglyphs into

this red granite stone.

ANDREWS: We would look at it

today and say it had to be some

sort of machine that carved

these things out.

For example, there were slots.

They were only.14 inches wide,

half-inch deep.

When you look inside, you can

see the bottom of 'em were made

by a rotating tool, so this was

a tool that punched in, came

out, stepped down, punched in,

came out.

The human hand, no matter how

good you are, could never do

that.

The tool marks themselves, the

precision, the depth, the

rotating impressions that were

made were not done by hand.

Some of those were so precisely

engraved as to require machine

tools to do it.

The tool kit that we see, that

the ancient Egyptians were

supposed to use... there is no

way that any of those tools

could produce the results that

we saw.

NARRATOR: To many scholars,

the apparent precision used in

the construction of the obelisks

at Karnak suggests a 21st-

century level of expertise.

CHRISTOPHER DUNN: Precision

is what our civilization is

built on.

To craft something to within

2/10,000 of an inch or 1/1,000

of an inch is quite common today

because that tolerance or that

precision is necessary and it

has a purpose.

NARRATOR: But how can we

explain such precision in

ancient construction?

TSOUKALOS: if you look at the

Ramses statue, it is so perfect

that you wonder how this was

even done with allegedly

primitive tools because today we

could only do this with

machines.

DUNN: So the way we check the

symmetry of the Ramses statue is

to take two images of the same

photographs, make

transparencies, and compare the

left to the right.

We flip it over and bring it

over the original, and as we can

see, we have a perfect match.

The ancient Egyptians were very

skilled at working granite.

I cannot see how they could have

created what they created with

the tools that are commonly

accepted to have been in the

ancient Egyptians' toolbox, such

as copper chisels or stone

chisels, wooden mallets, stone

balls.

NARRATOR: But if, as many

historians and archaeologists

contend, the ancient builders

did not possess the equivalent

of modern tools, how were these

monuments built with such

mathematical precision?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by comparing an example of

ancient sculpture with one made

by more modern methods.

DUNN: We can compare the

aluminum model, the face

machine, the striations coming

down the face with the

striations coming down the face

of the statue at Karnak in

Egypt, and also the tool marks,

so where we see above the

eyebrow, the dig in right there,

where the... kind of shows us

what kind of tools or the shape

of the tools that they used.

So the elements that bring this

machining to ancient statue are

not just the symmetry but also

the geometry, the precision, and

the tool marks, and we have all

three elements in modern

machining and ancient statuary.

It's an enormously difficult

thing to do by hand without

introducing some mechanical

systems.

Seems to me to be impossible.

NARRATOR: But if the tool

marks seen on the Ramses statue

appear identical to those made

by modern methods, wouldn't it

prove that the ancient builders

had access to machines and

perhaps even electricity?

CHILDRESS: They allegedly

did not have electricity,

power tools.

Supposedly, they didn't have

diamond saws.

But yet, they're doing things

that would require precision

work, precision tools.

So where did they get those

things?

How could they have had these

advanced machining tools that

we've only just acquired

ourselves today in our

civilization?

So one answer would have to be

they'd gotten it from ancient

aliens.

NARRATOR: Might the early

Egyptian builders have had

access to extraterrestrial

knowledge and technology?

Or might the ancient builders

have been aliens themselves?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, the answer is yes.

And for proof, they point to a

tiny island in the middle of the

Mediterranean Sea.

NARRATOR: Malta...

a small island nation in the

center of the Mediterranean Sea,

just south of Italy.

Scholars believe the first

inhabitants migrated here from

the nearby island of Sicily in

5200 B.C.

Today, stone structures on the

Maltese island of Gozo are

considered by archeologists to

be among the greatest

achievements by ancient builders

anywhere in the world.

LINDA ENEIX: The temples on

Malta and Gozo are more than a

thousand years older than the

pyramids of Egypt.

They are the earliest monumental

architecture in the world.

There are engineering features

in these temples that are just

astonishing.

We're talking about walls

enclosing space...

paved walkways...

they were ceilinged at one time.

Definitely much more complex

than anything else that was

appearing on earth for a very

long time.

NARRATOR: Built before metal

tools or the wheel had been

invented, experts are baffled by

the sheer scale of the

construction and the use of

vertically arranged monolithic

stones, each weighing over 20

tons.

FLANAGAN: it's only been in

recent years that we've

developed instruments that are

accurate enough to appreciate

that some of these ancient

societies were able to shape

stones to optical accuracy...

optical accuracy greater than

what we're able to do today.

And so they must have had some

kind of advanced technology

enabling them to do that.

NARRATOR: But if the ancient

builders of Malta had used

advanced technology, where did

it come from?

Researchers believe answers may

be found among Malta's numerous

mysteries... including the

so-called cart ruts, which can

be found all over Malta.

ENEIX: These parallel

incisions in the bedrock have

been identified as cart ruts

because that's what

they look like.

What they really were,

what their purpose was,

we don't know.

There's nothing written.

ANDREWS: The cart ruts on

Malta are about four feet wide.

They're uniformly spaced.

Some of them run hundreds of

yards.

Some of them run miles.

According to the studies of

them, they probably were there

up to 10,000 years ago, because

some of the ancient temples are

built right on top of the ruts.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut

theorists believe the cart ruts

may in fact be evidence that

Malta was one of Earth's

earliest industrial work sites.

CHILDRESS: it seems like what

these cart ruts really were was

some kind of ancient, uh,

railway.

And this railway was then to

move heavy machinery, much as we

would use today in a mining

operation, even the way rockets

are rolled out onto

a launch pad.

NARRATOR: Further evidence of

the use of advanced technology

on Malta can be found

underground.

In 1902, construction workers,

while building the foundation

for several houses, accidentally

discovered a mysterious

underground sanctuary dating to

2500 B.C.

Called the Hypogeum, the

subterranean structure was

revealed to be three levels

deep... all hewn from solid

stone.

ENEIX: it's been estimated

that they removed more than

2,000 tons of stone from these

subterranean chambers to create

a space that beautifully

replicates the temples above

ground.

NARRATOR: Perhaps one of the

greatest mysteries concerning

the Hypogeum involve the

acoustical properties in what is

called the "Oracle Room."

COLLINS: The acoustical

properties within this are

absolutely extraordinary,

because what happens is the...

if a person is within the

Oracle Room, the way that their

voice is carried is heard

within the whole of the complex.

HENRY: The ancients were

using this profound sound

technology in order to put

themselves into a deep state of

trance in order to access

higher human consciousness.

They wanted to go deep within in

order to connect themselves with

star energy.

NARRATOR: Might the Oracle

Room have been used to

communicate with ancient gods?

Or, perhaps, celestial

ancestors?

Or do its advanced acoustics

suggest that early Maltese

people had mastered the science

of sonic manipulation, the

ability to manipulate solid

matter through audio

frequencies?

FLANAGAN: One of the main

things that I've realized is

that they're using something

called fractal nonlinear

resonance.

And we're now discovering in the

field of material science that

nonlinear resonances of sound

waves, microwaves, magnetic

waves, that we are able to

actually change matter in ways

that we never dreamed possible.

NARRATOR: if the Oracle Room

was used to harness the power of

audio waves, as many ancient

astronaut theorists believe, is

it possible the prehistoric

builders used sonic technology

to help build Malta's mammoth

temples?

CHILDRESS: The builders had

this advanced knowledge of

sonic technology.

And, in fact, sound technology

can be used for all kinds of

applications, including

levitation or antigravity.

COLLINS: All around the

world, there are myths and

legends relating to how large

structures came into being.

They talk about the movement of

stones through the use of sound,

about the use of instruments or

the banging, the ringing...

that will elevate stones enough

so that they can be pushed as if

they've become completely

weightless.

CHILDRESS: it would appear

that the builders at Malta had

very advanced knowledge of

things we're just now

discovering.

And you would think that they

got this knowledge from

extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Enormous blocks of

stone...

mysterious carving techniques...

and mathematical precision that

rivals anything possible in the

modern age.

Might the tools and technology

that went into building the

world's most magnificent ancient

structures have come from

distant galaxies?

Or were the ancient engineers

really extraterrestrial beings?

Perhaps the answer can be found,

not out in space but in plain

sight all over the world...

an answer which suggests that

the ancient builders may have

served to be the architects, not

of the past, but of our future.

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