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A mighty empire ruled by
the descendants of gods.
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A remote island where stone
giants walked the Earth.
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And a fertile garden where
modern man was born.
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Are the legends behind these ancient
locations really based on fact?
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If so, why did they exist?
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And why have the answers
been lost to history?
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How in the heck did they make these?
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How did they move them?
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Nobody has the answer.
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It may well be that the Garden
of Eden today is underwater.
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These cultures were connected by
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flying machines operated by
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extraterrestrials.
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Millions of people
around the world believe
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we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And might we find proof by
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searching for our planet's
mysterious lost worlds?
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Central America
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In a fertile valley between
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the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean
Sea, in what is now Honduras,
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lie the monumental ruins of Copan.
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This archaeological site is
believed to have been the
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cultural and political center of
the once mighty Maya civilization
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that thrived between
2000 BC and 800 AD.
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People have called Copan the
paradise of Mesoamerica
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because it was such a place
for the arts and humanities
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The sculpture is beautiful.
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Architecture is just magnificent.
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It is believed that,
at one time, Copan was
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inhabited by as many
as 20,000 people
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and covered an area
of ten square miles.
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But in the ninth century,
this incredible Mayan city
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was abandoned, and
its people vanished.
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When Spanish conquistadors
arrived in the 16th century,
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they found only a
few farming hamlets.
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But why?
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They decimated their environment.
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Warfare became endemic.
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And it ended.
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And people left.
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They walked away.
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To some extend, the idea that the
Mayans became a lost culture
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is a yes and a no.
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We know that they stopped building.
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But at the very heart of the Mayan,
it's a belief, it's a religion.
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which continues to
beaten to this very day.
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saying, please pay attention to us because
we have this vast body of knowledge
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"want to share with the world."
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At Copan, the Mayan had
built a complex of
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monuments, temples and plazas,
as well as sculptured
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stone pillars depicting ancient kings.
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The Maya were also one of the
earliest ancient civilizations
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to create a written language.
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In the last 20, 30 years,
it's been a huge advance in
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the decoding of their hieroglyphs.
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This is obvious happened in our
generation is still ongoing.
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Might a closer look at
the Mayan stone carvings
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and their hieroglyphs provide
proof of contact with
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extraterrestrials at Copan?
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer is yes.
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Some of the large stautes at Copan
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are infantly fascinating to me
the gear they are wearing
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is very reminiscent of
something technological.
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One of the figures has a
box with tubes coming out
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and buttons and just very weird things.
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These statues look like
some type of a being
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wearing an astronaut suit.
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And, in my opinion, that means
that we were visited by some
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type of extraterrestrials who
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were very similar in appearance
to us, because according to the
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ancient texts, we were
created in their image.
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Researchers working in Copan
have also found stone sculptures
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called stelae, which have
provoked controversy since
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the site was discovered in 1576.
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And various interpretations of
the carvings suggest the Maya
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may have had knowledge of a world
far beyond their own continent.
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This is one of the curious
dragon sculptures here at Copan,
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of which there are many.
In fact, this very oriental statues
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would look right at place in China
or some other Oriental country.
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Some archeologists believe that
they are elephants on either side
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of this Copan ruler.
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So why would there be, here at
Copan, such Asian motifs as
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elephants and dragons in a place
in Central America that is so
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far away from China
and Southeast Asia?
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Is there some kind of
extraterrestrial connection
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between the Mayans and the Chinese,
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and an origin for both
that comes from the stars?
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How could the early
Maya of Central America
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have had knowledge possessed
by people living in Asia--
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on the other side of
the Pacific Ocean?
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One of the basic
premises of the ancient
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astronaut theory suggests that
there was contact between
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ancient cultures way before
we give them credit.
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These ancient cultures were, in
fact, connected by flying machines,
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and those flying machines
were usually operated
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by extraterrestrials.
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And especially in the Mayan
carvings, we find many
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references of the gods
descending from the sky
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in flying serpents.
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Now, do flying serpents
actually exist?
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Of course not.
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But it is a beautiful and very
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poetic description of something
that is rooted in technology.
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Due to the many strange
carvings found at Copan really
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provide proof of contact between
the Maya and otherworldly beings?
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And if so, might that contact
have produced offspring
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that could also be traced to
an extraterrestrial source?
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On the west side of the main
temple at Copan stands a 63-step
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structure known as the
Hieroglyphic Stairway.
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It contains more than 1,200
stones carved with symbols that
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record the history of
the kings of Copan.
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This Hieroglyphic Stairway
is the longest Mayan
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inscription in the world.
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It emphasizes the divine right
of the 16 rulers of the Copan
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dynasty to rule their subjects--
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a power given to them by the gods.
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The Hieroglyphic Stairway mentions
the various rulers of Copan.
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And talks about them
in a semi divine sense.
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So, they are human, they're mortal,
but they are much more than that.
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They are royal.
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They have a spirit in their blood,
and Maya called it Xuit Lel.
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A Xuit Lel is in the blood and
is the most powerful thing to
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get access to the supernatural.
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So a king's Xuit Lel,
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when shed in a bloodletting ceremony
and burned with copal incense,
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goes up into the heavens and
takes a message to the deities,
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and they did things for the Maya.
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Could the Maya rulers really
have been the descendants
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of extraterrestrials, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
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Perhaps conclusive evidence can
be found in what is widely believed
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to be the most advanced celestial
calendar system of ancient times.
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The Mayas had most the
most precise calendar
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of all the people in antiquity,
even the Babylonian, the Sumerian
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They did not only observed
our planetary system
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They observed Orion,
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they observed Sirius
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and all the far away systems.
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One of the things
that says about the Maya part
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it was the their ability to monitor
the passage of astronomical
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events and to track the
movement of constellations,
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to predict eclipses
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They really developed some
of this knowledge and skills
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to a pretty high degree.
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It's remarkable.
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No telescopes, no metal,
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yet the ability to predict
time and advance in time
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in a way that it was really
unprecedented in the world.
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But why did the Maya create
such precise maps of the Cosmos?
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According to ancient astronauts theorists,
the Maya's knowledge of the stars,
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in fact, came to them, from the stars,
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brought by extraterrestrial beings.
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When it comes to the ancient
Maya that creation mythology
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evokes these legends, which
say somewhere, just south
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of Orion's belt is this place
where life originated from
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and they came to planet
Earth on 1,200 BC
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when the ancient Mayans said
the gods came to Earth.
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Their teachers were the gods,
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and the gods were
the extraterrestrials.
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If beings from another
star system really came
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to Earth in the ancient past,
did they create the foundations
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of Mayan civilization and
breed with its rulers?
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Might they have also visited
other areas of our planet?
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Perhaps further evidence can be
found at a desolate mountain
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kingdom visited by ancient priests
from the East as the Magi.
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Southeastern Turkey.
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7,000 feet high, atop a barren
mountain called Nemrud Dagi,
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lie the ruins of the lost
Kingdom of Commagene.
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Here, in 62 BC, a mysterious
royal sanctuary was built by
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King Antiochus I.
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Colossal statues were created of
lions and eagles, and Persian
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and Greek gods, as well as two
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massive sculptures
of the king himself.
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Now, what Antiochus was
trying to do was to produce
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a synthesis, a new version
of the old religions.
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And what he basically did was to
take the Persian gods and put
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them into Greek dress.
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So you've got a synthesis
happening of the Persian gods
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with their Greek equivalents.
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The reason he build a
colossal statue of himself
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among the gods was, I guess,
a presumption on his part
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that he would indeed ascend to
heaven and eventually be among them.
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The conical peak was the
highest point in the
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kingdom of King Antiochus.
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Measuring 150 feet high and 500
feet wide, it is man-made with
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countless small limestone rocks,
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and was said to be the location
of the king's royal tomb.
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Researchers believe the memorial
was originally built as two large plazas.
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The one on the east side was
used to celebrate the birthday
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of King Antiochus.
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The one on the west side was
used to commemorate the day in
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62 BC when Antiochus became the
leader of a secret society.
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I think it's meant to
symbolize Mount Olympus,
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the home of the gods.
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Because you've got the God
seated round it and then you've
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got a peak above them.
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I think this is all very symbolic.
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It's a stage for carrying out
certain rituals and performances.
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And he also shows himself
in the relief stelae
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shaking hands to all the gods,
as if the gods recognize him as
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one of their own and are
welcoming him into Heaven.
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Mysteriously, both the
site and the kingdom were
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abandoned in the first century AD.
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And, so far, the king's legendary
burial chamber has never been found.
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But another question
still just why did King
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Antiochus build this mysterious
and massive monumental sanctuary?
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According to researchers,
evidence found at Nemrud Dagi
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suggests the king had a profound
interest in, and understanding
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of star sciences.
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One example of the
advanced knowledge
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of astronomy that they
had is actually the
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lion horoscope, which gives
us a very precise date.
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We know that the position of
the stars on the lion's body
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fits with the positions of
stars of Leo given in a book
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of Eratosthenes,
who was a Greek
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astronomer from Alexandria who
wrote a book about the stars.
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The arrangement of stars
on the lion horoscope
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represented the constellation of
Leo as seen in the sky in July 62 BC,
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a configuration that wouldn't
be visible again for 25,000 years.
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Further evidence of the
exceptional knowledge of the
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stars was found in a nearby shaft
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that Antiochus built
into the mountain.
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The shaft runs into
the mountainside there,
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at an angle of 35 degrees
to the horizontal,
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and it's about 150 meters long,
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and there's nothing at the bottom.
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Computer analysis reveals
that on two days of the
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year, the sun's rays would
illuminate the bottom of the
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shaft-- once when in line with
the constellation of Leo and
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once when in line with Orion.
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Now, that is a very
interesting point in the sky,
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because it's the path where the sun
crosses over the Milky Way, our galaxy.
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And that, to the ancient world,
was known as the Gate of Heaven.
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And there were two of these--
one where they cross in the
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north and the other where
they cross in the south.
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There were two Gates to Heaven.
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So we can understand that that
gateway would be where the soul
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of the king is going back to
heaven through Heaven's Gate.
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Given the fact that neither
Antiochus's tomb or
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remains have been found, is it
possible that the king actually
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journeyed to the stars through
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a heavenly gate, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?
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During his life, researchers
believe Antiochus studied with
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a priestly sect of Eastern
astrologers called the Magi,
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who were thought to be able to
predict and even manipulate
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events based on their
knowledge of the stars.
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The Magi were renown priests
from the far near east.
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who had advanced
astronomical knowledge
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and it's well known that most of
the astronomers from the near east
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specifically ancient Irak, Sumer,
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recorded series of events
happening in the heavens
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over hundreds of thousands of years.
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This information was kept
on stone tablets, held very
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sacredly and only passed
down to the high priests.
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According to the Gospel of Matthew
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in the New Testament, it was
three of these magi who followed
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celestial signs and stars
to the birthplace of Jesus
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in Bethlehem.
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A coincidence?
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What's interesting
about this story is that the
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Star of Bethlehem wasn't
used as a navigation point.
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It is clearly stated as it guided the
wise men to the place of Christ.
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A star cannot guide someone.
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It can only be used as
a navigation point.
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So this brings up the idea that
the star was possibly a UFO.
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Today we think that the
Magi were magicians
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and that is actually why we
have the word magic today.
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But when I hear about magical
powers, that raises a flag
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because magic as such does not exist.
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So were these Magi, in fact, in
possession of some type of an
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extraterrestrial technology?
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Because, according to the
ancient texts, it was the
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initiates of each culture who were
in touch with extraterrestrials.
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And it was the initiates who
later became priests or magi.
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Is it possible that Antiochus
was, in fact, a magi,
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one who learned celestial knowledge
from extraterrestrial sources?
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If so, might the monumental
sanctuary at Nemrud Dagi have
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been built as a place to
contact star travelers?
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The answer may have been found
among the ruins of Nemrud Dagi.
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The head of Antiochus is placed on the
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statue which is appropriate for
Mercury, and that's because
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Mercury is the planet of
initiation for priests.
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And he's one himself, so
he models it on himself.
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And people think this is him being
boastful-- sitting among the gods.
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It's not.
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It's actually a code to say
that he's one with the priests.
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Eventually annexed
by the Romans in the first
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century AD, King Antiochus and
his court became scattered
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throughout the region.
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Or were they?
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, they may have instead
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used a heavenly gate to depart
through--- to a distant realm.
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An audacious idea?
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Perhaps.
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And there are those who believe
further evidence can be found in
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one of the driest areas of the
world-- in South America.
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Peru, South America.
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250 miles south of the capital
of Lima lies one of the driest
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places on Earth-- a wasteland
that once was home to an ancient
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civilization called Nazca.
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Thriving between the 15th
century BC and 500 AD,
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the Nazca were a deeply religious
and spiritual people who built
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their ceremonial center in
the temple city of Cahuachi.
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Cahuachi is the largest adobe
ceremonial center in the world
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Therefore, we find groups
of temples and pyramids
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of immense size. Spirituality was the
most important thing in Cahuachi
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The people of Nazca used the sacred
spaces to elevate themselves
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in order to communicate
with the deities.
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The Nazca were predominantly
were farming people
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So Cahuachi was built at the prime
when they had all the food they needed
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and they had enough resources
to be able to develop
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a highly evolved religious system.
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But the Nazca people and their culture
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mysteriously vanished some
1,200 years ago, though not
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before etching a series of
enormous geoglyphs--
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or ground drawings-- into
the nearby desert floor.
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The Nazca Lines were an important
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element of their religious
worship and their ceremonies.
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They would walk through these
lines during their ceremonies,
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breaking ceramics and offering
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important elements to the
deities from their own culture.
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The great geoglyphs are
composed of dozens of
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spirals, triangles and trapezoids, as
well as miles of zigzagging lines.
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This whole flat area,
which covers several
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square miles, is covered in
stones made of iron oxide,
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either red or black, and that's
what gives it the darkish,
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brownish red appearance.
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But right underneath the surface
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is clay, which is white, and all
I have to do---
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is that.
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The contrast between the clay
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and the iron oxide gives a Nazca Line.
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Acre size drawings depict
a hummingbird, a spider,
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a killer whale and a human
figure with owl-like eyes.
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They would have had to have
had observation from the
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sky in order to guide the
workforce the ground
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as to how to draw complicated
figures such as the spider and
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the hummingbird.
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Preserved for centuries
by the lack of wind
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and rain, the lines are best
seen from the air, and were
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first spotted by
aviators in the 1930s.
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But why did the Nazca create
patterns that could only
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be properly seen from a great height?
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The obvious answer is because
you can see only from the sky.
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Many of our ancestors would
talk about the star people.
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All these sacred sites we consider
it is for whom? For the star people
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At Nazca and other areas in Peru
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there are legends of sky people and
gods coming down from the sky.
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But might the so-called
star people referred
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to in the Nazca legends really
have been extraterrestrial
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beings, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
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In the beginning there
was just one line
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made by some robot or some
extraterrestrial spaceship
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or space shuttle because they were
looking for raw material for energy.
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After a while the local population would
see all those tracks on the ground.
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And they would say, that these
tracks were just left behind
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by these divine beings, by the gods.
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And then they would wonder and "what
can we do for those gods to return?"
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According to ancient astronaut theory,
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the earliest of the Nazca Lines
were made in imitation of the
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trails left by the
first space visitors.
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Later generations added more
elaborate lines, and then
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shapes and figures, all in an
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attempt to signal the
star gods to return.
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But they never did.
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And this caused the population
to doubt the deities, because it
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was mainly a psychological
problem they had with their
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deities that brought about the
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abandonment and collapse
of the Nazca culture.
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But could there be other
evidence of alien contact
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with the ancient people of Peru
that is even more astounding
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than the Nazca Lines?
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Some of the skulls that we
find today, because it's
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a very dry desert and they're
well preserved, are some of the
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most astonishing, elongated
skulls that you'll ever see.
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And they look like extraterrestrials.
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According to Nazca
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legends, the gods had
elongated heads,
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much like the distended
skulls of the controversial
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Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamen
and his sister Meretaten.
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I honestly believe
that the largest of the
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elongated skulls represent
hybrid human beings dating
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back thousands of years, who
lived here very peacefully
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and could very well be the
ancestors of the lnca.
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And that could be the reason why
the Inca suddenly were these
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people of incredible
sophistication who came from
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seemingly nowhere.
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It's possible that they're
descendants from star beings.
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Were they trying
to imitate people they had
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already seen, gods
from outer space?
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Is it possible the ancient
Nazca altered their
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bodies and their lands in order
to communicate with or emulate
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something their ancestors may
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have witnessed, something
out of this world?
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Perhaps further clues to
mankind's extraterrestrial
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connection can be found in the
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most remote place on planet
in the South Pacific.
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The South Pacific Ocean.
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2,300 miles west of South
America, in one of the most
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remote places on Earth, giant
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stone figures stand with
their backs to the sea.
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Called moai by the native
inhabitants, they are the silent
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sentinels of Easter Island.
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The moais are scattered
throughout the island,
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and they're positioned on top of
platforms, for the most part.
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A moai is a stone sculpture
of a deceased ancestor
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They were once living individuals
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who ruled the society
or led the society.
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They were chiefs.
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And then, upon their death,
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we believe that they've
become represented in stone.
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Nearly 900 moai were carved between
the 12th and 18th centuries.
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Hewn with stone tools from
volcanic rock, the tallest
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stands a towering 33 feet high
and weighs a staggering 75 tons.
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They were even more
unique-looking in the past.
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They may have been painted.
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And they also had large white
coral eyes with obsidian pupils.
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So it's a very effective way
of kind of telling people, not
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verbally but symbolically, that
someone's watching you and you
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should toe the line.
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You should do what
you're supposed to do.
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The people who created the moai called
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themselves the Rapa Nui,
and mainstream historians
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believe their Polynesian
ancestors came to the island in
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canoes from across the vast
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Pacific Ocean between 700 and 1100 AD.
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But over several centuries, for
reasons that are still unclear,
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what was once an island paradise
withered into a treeless desert,
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stalked by famine, violence
and some say cannibalism.
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When the first europeans arrived
in 1722, the Rapa Nui culture
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had already been nearly wiped out...
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and few could imagine how such
primitive people could have
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00:31:08,855 --> 00:31:10,856
created the moai.
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How in the heck did they make these?
Where did they come from?
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And how did they move them?
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Nobody has the answer.
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Modern scientists have tried,
and so far have failed
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to duplicate the feats
of the ancient Rapa Nui.
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00:31:31,845 --> 00:31:37,682
In 1987, anthropologist Charles
Love used rollers to move a
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nine-ton moai replica at Western
Wyoming Community College.
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Ready?
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00:31:42,722 --> 00:31:44,455
On three.
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One, two, three.
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00:31:47,594 --> 00:31:48,259
Come on, Rick.
448
00:31:48,261 --> 00:31:49,761
- Come on.
- Get it
449
00:31:49,763 --> 00:31:51,662
Good.
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Thank you.
451
00:31:52,399 --> 00:31:53,731
Whoa.
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Only able to budge it
about half an inch.
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00:31:56,669 --> 00:32:01,137
Other researchers have
tried pulling moai with sleds.
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But there is a unique problem
with the idea of moving moai
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with sleds or rollers.
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When you go to Easter
Island, you don't get the
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impression they had enough
wood to have rollers.
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And in fact, in the 1700s, the
first four expeditions to Easter
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Island never really saw a tree.
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00:32:23,296 --> 00:32:26,029
And so that's the real
mystery of Easter Island
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00:32:26,102 --> 00:32:31,336
how can you move a multi-ton statue
if you have no trees for rollers?
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00:32:32,238 --> 00:32:38,576
According to the oral
history of the Rapa Nui,
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the moai were moved in
a very unusual way.
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They all reply basically
the same thing.
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The moai walked to the ahu, and that's
the only explanation that they give.
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But who or what had the
power to make multi-ton moai
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appear to walk to their
ahu, or stone platforms?
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00:33:04,037 --> 00:33:09,807
In 1919, British archaeologist
Katherine Routledge, who lived
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on Easter Island for a year,
recorded the legends and
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testimony of an old woman who
said the moai were moved with
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a mystical energy called mana.
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00:33:21,888 --> 00:33:25,591
And according to the oral
histories of the Rapa Nui,
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mana came from the gods.
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Mana was a direct gift of the gods
given to the Easter islanders
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Was this mana really a
type of magical force?
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Of course not.
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00:33:43,977 --> 00:33:47,212
It was some type of
misunderstood technology,
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some type of a device, an
extraterrestrial tool with which
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you could move those massive
Easter Island heads rather easily.
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Did early inhabitants of Easter Island
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00:34:03,796 --> 00:34:07,733
really know how to unlock the
secrets of gravity using mana?
482
00:34:08,435 --> 00:34:14,871
And if so, where might such power over
the physical world have come from?
483
00:34:14,975 --> 00:34:19,644
Researchers believe there are
clues hidden within mysterious
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00:34:19,646 --> 00:34:24,649
written texts called rongorongo,
inscribed on pieces
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00:34:24,651 --> 00:34:28,854
of wood, discovered on the
island in the 19th century.
486
00:34:29,656 --> 00:34:34,759
This is a rongorongo board.
And it's a replica of ones of old.
487
00:34:34,761 --> 00:34:36,894
About 25 of them are known.
488
00:34:36,896 --> 00:34:39,830
We have had about six or
eight different attempts at
489
00:34:39,832 --> 00:34:43,935
translating these things, with
six or eight different results.
490
00:34:43,937 --> 00:34:48,411
You have to ask yourself,
how could the Easter islanders
491
00:34:48,412 --> 00:34:55,412
have invented their own writing
without some other cultural
492
00:34:55,712 --> 00:34:58,012
influence coming there.
493
00:34:58,013 --> 00:35:01,685
Would it have been ancient
seafarers coming to Easter Island
494
00:35:01,687 --> 00:35:04,621
or perhaps even space visitors?
495
00:35:08,623 --> 00:35:12,796
Further evidence of early
contact with otherworldly beings
496
00:35:12,798 --> 00:35:16,901
can be found in numerous
strange stone carvings--
497
00:35:17,003 --> 00:35:19,103
called petroglyphs.
498
00:35:19,905 --> 00:35:23,407
What we see in the petroglyph
art of the island are
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00:35:23,409 --> 00:35:27,211
these figures of bird men, these
tangata manus, carved in bas
500
00:35:27,213 --> 00:35:32,783
relief on the rocks on the
very edge of the precipice.
501
00:35:32,785 --> 00:35:35,920
In the myths of Easter
Island's Rapa Nui,
502
00:35:35,922 --> 00:35:42,524
the bird man represents Makemake,
the chief god and creator of humanity.
503
00:35:42,695 --> 00:35:45,027
Did at some point in the
past a creature come,
504
00:35:45,029 --> 00:35:47,929
which was Bird man who
flew in from somewhere?
505
00:35:47,930 --> 00:35:50,501
Did he arrive on this
island and did he indeed
506
00:35:50,503 --> 00:35:52,670
live very much like a pariah?
507
00:35:52,672 --> 00:35:56,407
Did he die or did he take off
again, and is this what the
508
00:35:56,409 --> 00:36:00,244
locals keep this legend of this
creature who came to them alive
509
00:36:00,246 --> 00:36:03,546
through myth, legend and ritual.
510
00:36:07,684 --> 00:36:09,523
Walking stone giants,
511
00:36:10,925 --> 00:36:13,592
petroglyphs of flying beings---
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00:36:14,394 --> 00:36:17,862
might the ancient inhabitants
of Easter Island have been
513
00:36:17,864 --> 00:36:22,333
familiar with antigravity
levitation and spaceflight?
514
00:36:22,335 --> 00:36:27,505
If so, might these astounding
abilities-- forever lost to
515
00:36:27,507 --> 00:36:33,411
time, have been made possible
by extraterrestrial visitors?
516
00:36:33,413 --> 00:36:36,580
Perhaps more evidence can be
found in the most famous and
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00:36:36,582 --> 00:36:42,918
alluring of all lost worlds--
the Garden of Eden.
518
00:36:46,609 --> 00:36:48,092
The Middle East
519
00:36:48,293 --> 00:36:51,693
For centuries, archaeologists,
520
00:36:51,694 --> 00:36:56,530
theologians and scholars have
debated the location-- and even
521
00:36:56,532 --> 00:37:02,136
the existence of the ultimate
of all lost worlds--
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00:37:02,138 --> 00:37:04,706
the biblical "Garden of Eden."
523
00:37:05,908 --> 00:37:10,844
It was here, according to the
Hebrew Book of Genesis, that
524
00:37:10,846 --> 00:37:13,080
a paradise once existed--
525
00:37:13,582 --> 00:37:18,285
a paradise where the first human
beings, Adam and Eve, were
526
00:37:18,287 --> 00:37:20,688
actually created by God.
527
00:37:21,190 --> 00:37:26,627
But could such a paradise, now
shrouded in myth and legend,
528
00:37:26,629 --> 00:37:29,397
have actually been a real place?
529
00:37:30,399 --> 00:37:32,332
When we're looking
at the Garden of Eden
530
00:37:32,386 --> 00:37:38,786
we know there is actually a physical
description as to where it was.
531
00:37:38,787 --> 00:37:43,487
It is set at four very specific rivers,
came from it, over near it
532
00:37:43,488 --> 00:37:45,888
So we can actually go
in search of this.
533
00:37:46,689 --> 00:37:49,789
Two of these rivers, the Tigris
and the Euphrates rivers,
534
00:37:49,790 --> 00:37:53,490
are well known and actually
run through what is Irak today.
535
00:37:53,686 --> 00:37:58,826
The other two rivers that are
described are not very clear.
536
00:37:59,628 --> 00:38:03,931
Researchers now believe
the third river, known
537
00:38:03,933 --> 00:38:08,635
as the Karun River, runs through
Iran and joins the Euphrates
538
00:38:08,637 --> 00:38:10,972
just north of the Persian Gulf.
539
00:38:12,374 --> 00:38:18,645
Then, in 2010, satellite imagery
revealed a fossil river, or dry
540
00:38:18,647 --> 00:38:23,150
riverbed, called the Wadi Baton,
that once flowed through
541
00:38:23,152 --> 00:38:26,422
northern Arabia and also
joined with the Euphrates.
542
00:38:28,124 --> 00:38:33,127
Could these two rivers have
been the location of the Pishon
543
00:38:33,129 --> 00:38:36,196
and Gihon rivers-- the lost
rivers mentioned in the Bible--
544
00:38:36,198 --> 00:38:40,734
that point to the actual
location of the Garden of Eden?
545
00:38:41,036 --> 00:38:43,969
When you read the
account in the Genesis
546
00:38:44,089 --> 00:38:47,889
it says that the four
rivers form one river
547
00:38:47,890 --> 00:38:50,490
So very careful reading
indicates that the two rivers
548
00:38:50,491 --> 00:38:54,691
which are today in Irak, Tigris and
Euphrates, and the one which
549
00:38:54,692 --> 00:38:59,192
is in Iran, the Karun and a false river,
in Arabia, and then when you join them up
550
00:38:59,193 --> 00:39:03,593
to form one river that is the approximate
location of northern Persian Gulf.
551
00:39:03,690 --> 00:39:07,294
And according to the Bible,
that one river flowed
552
00:39:07,296 --> 00:39:09,329
through the Garden of Eden.
553
00:39:09,331 --> 00:39:11,532
And so, based upon Landsat
images and a close
554
00:39:11,534 --> 00:39:15,302
reading of the Hebrew text,
I think that the location of the
555
00:39:15,304 --> 00:39:16,770
Garden of Eden is under the
556
00:39:16,772 --> 00:39:18,938
waters of the Persian Gulf
and not on land.
557
00:39:22,809 --> 00:39:26,380
Scientists believe that
during the last ice age,
558
00:39:26,382 --> 00:39:30,050
the polar ice caps were two miles
high and ocean levels were
559
00:39:30,052 --> 00:39:33,786
170 feet lower than they are today.
560
00:39:34,690 --> 00:39:38,692
Recent studies suggest the area
of the Persian Gulf would have
561
00:39:38,694 --> 00:39:42,963
been a dry, fertile plain the
size of Great Britain, providing
562
00:39:42,965 --> 00:39:47,434
an ideal refuge to some of the
earliest humans outside Africa
563
00:39:47,436 --> 00:39:51,705
nearly 75,000 years ago.
564
00:39:51,707 --> 00:39:56,710
But as the ice caps melted over
the course of thousands of
565
00:39:56,712 --> 00:40:00,881
years, the waters of what is now
the Indian Ocean flooded the
566
00:40:00,883 --> 00:40:04,183
land and formed the Persian Gulf.
567
00:40:04,954 --> 00:40:07,153
During that long period,
there were at least
568
00:40:07,154 --> 00:40:10,234
three episodes of very
very major flooding.
569
00:40:10,333 --> 00:40:13,933
When you would be looking at
30 or 40 ft rises in sea level
570
00:40:13,934 --> 00:40:16,134
virtually over night.
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00:40:17,935 --> 00:40:20,801
Might a great flood-- perhaps the one
572
00:40:20,803 --> 00:40:25,405
described in the biblical story
of Noah's Ark, really be
573
00:40:25,407 --> 00:40:29,808
responsible for the disappearance
of the so-called "Garden of Eden"?
574
00:40:30,879 --> 00:40:35,082
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe it is not only possible,
575
00:40:35,084 --> 00:40:39,719
but that the proof can be found by
studying ancient Sumerian texts.
576
00:40:42,657 --> 00:40:48,462
The earliest known civilization
of Sumer dates to 5,000 BC,
577
00:40:48,464 --> 00:40:53,399
and their first settlement in southern
Mesopotamia was called Eridu.
578
00:40:54,203 --> 00:40:56,570
The ancient Sumerians
have a wonderful story.
579
00:40:57,172 --> 00:41:00,374
They believe that they had lived
in an area that was probably to
580
00:41:00,376 --> 00:41:03,509
the south of what is today Sumer.
581
00:41:04,380 --> 00:41:07,246
And the reason we know that is because
they said they came out of the sea.
582
00:41:08,350 --> 00:41:11,785
Ancient cuneiform writings
that have survived on
583
00:41:11,787 --> 00:41:15,422
clay tablets suggest the
Sumerians had been brought to
584
00:41:15,424 --> 00:41:17,959
Eridu by their god Enki.
585
00:41:19,061 --> 00:41:24,364
The cuneiform texts also
describe an alien race named
586
00:41:24,366 --> 00:41:30,302
the Anunnaki who came to Earth and
created the first modern human beings.
587
00:41:34,340 --> 00:41:38,278
Adam in sumerian
or a very early form of
588
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,613
Sumerian, means "a small
rural settlement."
589
00:41:41,984 --> 00:41:45,886
"Eve," however, isn't Sumerian.
"Eve" in Arabic and the Semitic
590
00:41:45,888 --> 00:41:48,654
languages means
"one who gives birth."
591
00:41:49,158 --> 00:41:53,092
The word "Eden" is a pre-Sumerian
word and it means "plain."
592
00:41:53,595 --> 00:41:56,630
But, according to ancient
astronaut theory, the
593
00:41:56,632 --> 00:42:01,468
Sumerian accounts may actually
refer to a more ancient time,
594
00:42:01,470 --> 00:42:07,873
and to a distant fertile plain now lost
under the waters of the Persian Gulf.
595
00:42:10,278 --> 00:42:12,413
Now the question is this,
was the Garden of Eden
596
00:42:12,415 --> 00:42:14,982
really some kind of laboratory
where certain things were
597
00:42:14,984 --> 00:42:18,620
created by the ancient
scientists of their day?
598
00:42:19,822 --> 00:42:24,524
Well, if mankind was created in
a Garden of Eden, then clearly
599
00:42:24,526 --> 00:42:27,361
whoever was creating this
wasn't a human being,
600
00:42:27,363 --> 00:42:28,530
it was somebody else.
601
00:42:30,032 --> 00:42:33,499
So is it possible that
the Garden of Eden
602
00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:36,367
was located here on planet Earth?
603
00:42:36,368 --> 00:42:41,841
Yes, but was it a specific
geographic location?
604
00:42:41,943 --> 00:42:43,377
I'm not sure.
605
00:42:43,479 --> 00:42:47,948
Personally, I'm leaning more
towards the idea that the Garden
606
00:42:47,950 --> 00:42:52,986
of Eden was some type of a
closed environment somewhere
607
00:42:52,988 --> 00:42:56,390
in nature, but it definitely was
608
00:42:56,392 --> 00:43:02,625
some type of a laboratory from
where modern man originated.
609
00:43:06,498 --> 00:43:09,302
Is it really possible
that the first humans
610
00:43:09,304 --> 00:43:13,006
were created by extraterrestrial
beings in what is referred to
611
00:43:13,008 --> 00:43:16,210
in the Bible as a "Garden of Eden"?
612
00:43:16,912 --> 00:43:22,649
If so, has the evidence existed
all along, on the cuneiform
613
00:43:22,651 --> 00:43:25,086
tablets of the ancient Sumerians?
614
00:43:26,188 --> 00:43:29,456
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer is a
615
00:43:29,458 --> 00:43:32,093
definite yes.
616
00:43:32,895 --> 00:43:36,530
And there are those who believe
that such an incredible notion
617
00:43:36,532 --> 00:43:40,867
is not only possible, but that
the proof lies in the further
618
00:43:40,869 --> 00:43:45,371
investigation of lost civilizations
and ancient worlds--
619
00:43:45,973 --> 00:43:50,140
an investigation that will not
only uncover our past,
620
00:43:50,142 --> 00:43:53,543
but reveal our future.
621
00:43:54,045 --> 00:43:57,112
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