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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,254 --> 00:00:07,592 [ Man Narrating ] Human corpses preserved for thousands of years. 2 00:00:08,718 --> 00:00:10,404 [ Man ] The ancient Egyptians were convinced... 3 00:00:10,428 --> 00:00:13,556 that the dead could and would reawaken one day. 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,519 [ Narrator] Strange relics placed on the bodies of the dead. 5 00:00:17,602 --> 00:00:21,773 One of them had images of winged beings. 6 00:00:21,856 --> 00:00:25,944 [ Narrator] And monks buried while still alive. 7 00:00:27,195 --> 00:00:30,740 [ Man #2 ] These funerary rites would be all about humans becoming... 8 00:00:30,823 --> 00:00:34,202 not just like the gods, but gods themselves. 9 00:00:34,285 --> 00:00:38,831 [ Narrator] Mysterious burial rituals and elaborate mummification processes... 10 00:00:38,915 --> 00:00:41,876 have been found on every continent on the planet. 11 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:43,461 But Why? 12 00:00:43,545 --> 00:00:46,506 Were the ancients simply trying to cheat death? 13 00:00:46,589 --> 00:00:50,468 Or could there be another more otherworldly explanation? 14 00:00:50,552 --> 00:00:54,430 [ Man #3] it is possible the mummies were being preserved... 15 00:00:54,514 --> 00:00:57,767 so that they may be reunited with the gods... 16 00:00:58,476 --> 00:01:00,562 that actually started their culture. 17 00:01:01,396 --> 00:01:03,565 [ Narrator] Millions of people around the world... 18 00:01:03,648 --> 00:01:08,611 believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 19 00:01:08,695 --> 00:01:10,822 What if it were true? 20 00:01:11,823 --> 00:01:16,077 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,497 And if so, might the ultimate proof be hidden... 22 00:01:19,581 --> 00:01:22,125 in the secrets of the mummies? 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:30,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 24 00:01:53,406 --> 00:01:54,657 [ Narrator] Vatican City. 25 00:01:54,741 --> 00:01:57,827 April 2, 2005. 26 00:01:59,245 --> 00:02:01,497 Pope John Paul II dies... 27 00:02:03,041 --> 00:02:06,544 bringing his historic 26-year papacy to a close. 28 00:02:08,254 --> 00:02:10,757 His corpse is chemically preserved... 29 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,552 and transported to Saint Peter's Basilica for public viewing. 30 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,222 In a funeral service watched by millions... 31 00:02:19,140 --> 00:02:23,561 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger speaks of the beloved pontiffs soul... 32 00:02:23,645 --> 00:02:26,689 being guided to the eternal glory of Heaven. 33 00:02:28,191 --> 00:02:33,446 His body is then interred in a large, underground tomb beneath the church. 34 00:02:37,283 --> 00:02:43,081 We can see that a great deal of care was taken to preserve Pope John Paul's body. 35 00:02:44,916 --> 00:02:49,754 And the idea is that death, in fact, is just the beginning of this journey. 36 00:02:52,715 --> 00:02:56,511 Many modern funerals, those that take place in Europe and the Americas... 37 00:02:56,594 --> 00:03:01,599 many of the initial ideas actually have their roots in ancient Egypt. 38 00:03:04,102 --> 00:03:07,563 In ancient Egypt, bodies were mummified... 39 00:03:07,647 --> 00:03:10,900 and put into sarcophagi that resemble human beings. 40 00:03:10,983 --> 00:03:14,320 And this is still done today in many religious traditions... 41 00:03:14,404 --> 00:03:16,197 including the Roman Catholic Church. 42 00:03:21,369 --> 00:03:23,788 [ Narrator] Mummification is any process... 43 00:03:23,871 --> 00:03:26,040 used to prevent the decaying of the body... 44 00:03:26,124 --> 00:03:28,751 that naturally occurs after death. 45 00:03:29,794 --> 00:03:35,091 The preserved body of Pope John Paul II is, essentially, a mummy. 46 00:03:35,174 --> 00:03:40,179 And, in fact, modern-day mummies can be found all over the world. 47 00:03:42,807 --> 00:03:48,229 When Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died in 1924... 48 00:03:48,312 --> 00:03:52,650 Russian scientists preserved his body by removing the organs... 49 00:03:52,734 --> 00:03:58,364 and replacing them with a secret system to simulate the movement of bodily fluids. 50 00:04:00,992 --> 00:04:05,788 The process has kept him looking astonishingly lifelike to this day... 51 00:04:05,872 --> 00:04:11,169 and was also used to preserve the bodies of Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh. 52 00:04:13,087 --> 00:04:15,840 North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il... 53 00:04:15,923 --> 00:04:18,551 President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines... 54 00:04:18,634 --> 00:04:20,803 and Chinese emperor Mao Zedong... 55 00:04:20,887 --> 00:04:24,265 also remain preserved in remarkable condition. 56 00:04:24,348 --> 00:04:29,270 But it is not just world leaders who are being mummified. 57 00:04:29,353 --> 00:04:33,858 Any body that is embalmed at a funeral home is, in effect... 58 00:04:33,941 --> 00:04:36,778 undergoing a type of mummification. 59 00:04:36,861 --> 00:04:38,821 But why do so many people... 60 00:04:38,905 --> 00:04:43,242 go to such great lengths to preserve the body after death? 61 00:04:45,536 --> 00:04:48,039 [ Man ] Our ancestors believed in an afterlife... 62 00:04:48,122 --> 00:04:51,501 and that the proper ceremonial rites at time of death... 63 00:04:51,584 --> 00:04:55,379 allowed the departed to travel to the reward, to the next life... 64 00:04:56,881 --> 00:05:00,009 which was often imagined to be in the heavens, the stars... 65 00:05:00,092 --> 00:05:04,722 and that this travel allowed the person to come into their full reward. 66 00:05:05,556 --> 00:05:08,768 You have, all over the world, people continue to preserve bodies... 67 00:05:08,851 --> 00:05:12,104 And it's because there is this idea of living forever... 68 00:05:12,188 --> 00:05:16,067 that death is not the end- it's a beginning, it's a transitory state. 69 00:05:18,528 --> 00:05:23,491 For some reason, everyone has this idea that we need the body to live forever. 70 00:05:23,574 --> 00:05:27,495 If people truly believed there was a spiritual essence that infused the body... 71 00:05:27,578 --> 00:05:32,041 that left at the moment of death, they can't justify mummification. 72 00:05:35,378 --> 00:05:38,840 [ Narrator] What can explain the fact that, for thousands of years... 73 00:05:38,923 --> 00:05:41,133 in cultures throughout the world... 74 00:05:41,217 --> 00:05:42,677 people have held a belief... 75 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:48,683 that the preservation of the body is necessary to transition into the afterlife? 76 00:05:49,809 --> 00:05:53,479 Ancient astronaut theorists believe clues can be found... 77 00:05:53,563 --> 00:05:57,275 hidden beneath the desert sands of Upper Egypt. 78 00:06:03,281 --> 00:06:05,867 The Valley of the Kings. 79 00:06:05,950 --> 00:06:09,620 Located on the western bank of the Nile River... 80 00:06:09,704 --> 00:06:14,083 lies one of the most expansive burial grounds in all of Egypt. 81 00:06:14,917 --> 00:06:20,798 The tombs were constructed between 1539 and 1075 BC... 82 00:06:20,882 --> 00:06:23,384 for pharaohs and other nobility. 83 00:06:26,846 --> 00:06:31,726 To date, 63 tombs have been discovered in the Valley of the Kings. 84 00:06:33,477 --> 00:06:37,815 One of the best preserved is that of Pharaoh Ramses VI... 85 00:06:37,899 --> 00:06:43,863 who ruled from approximately 1145 to 1137 BC. 86 00:06:50,077 --> 00:06:52,246 More than 4,000 years ago... 87 00:06:52,330 --> 00:06:56,208 King Ramses would have started digging this to become his tomb. 88 00:06:56,292 --> 00:06:59,712 Or, as he called it, his “House of Eternity.” 89 00:07:02,089 --> 00:07:06,510 For ancient Egyptians, a tomb wasn't just a place where they would end up dead. 90 00:07:08,012 --> 00:07:12,183 A tomb was a place where they would start their eternal life. 91 00:07:17,605 --> 00:07:19,774 [ Narrator] The Egyptians believed that, in death... 92 00:07:19,857 --> 00:07:22,735 the soul would split into several parts... 93 00:07:22,818 --> 00:07:25,446 and begin the journey to the afterlife. 94 00:07:27,031 --> 00:07:28,574 But to make this transition... 95 00:07:28,658 --> 00:07:32,787 it was essential to reunite the soul with the physical body. 96 00:07:35,039 --> 00:07:38,793 And while the Egyptians were not the first to mummify their dead... 97 00:07:38,876 --> 00:07:44,256 no other ancient culture went to such great lengths to preserve the body... 98 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:47,510 and ensure entrance into the next life. 99 00:07:50,221 --> 00:07:54,475 Ancient Egyptians would put a body that needed to be mummified... 100 00:07:54,558 --> 00:07:56,352 in a dry room. 101 00:07:57,395 --> 00:08:00,982 They would first take out the internal organs... 102 00:08:01,065 --> 00:08:05,403 and they'd pack that body with natron salt to start the drying process. 103 00:08:07,238 --> 00:08:09,699 And then they would remove the brain. 104 00:08:11,701 --> 00:08:15,997 Then they would rinse the body with sweet-smelling oils... 105 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,458 and they cover the entire body in natron salt... 106 00:08:19,542 --> 00:08:23,587 and it would stay that way for about 35 to 70 days. 107 00:08:25,756 --> 00:08:29,176 Once the body was all dried out, they would wrap the entire body... 108 00:08:29,260 --> 00:08:34,432 putting amulets and other special jeweled objects in the linen... 109 00:08:34,515 --> 00:08:38,561 and then once it was completely wrapped and be done. 110 00:08:43,649 --> 00:08:48,195 [ Narrator ] The Egyptians understood the most important factor in mummification- 111 00:08:48,279 --> 00:08:49,780 the removal of fluids... 112 00:08:49,864 --> 00:08:55,202 which ensures that bacteria cannot survive and the body will not decay. 113 00:08:57,038 --> 00:09:02,168 Although archaeologists have discovered much about how these mummies were prepared... 114 00:09:02,251 --> 00:09:06,839 the Egyptians left behind no texts or instructions on mummification. 115 00:09:06,922 --> 00:09:13,262 Just how the Egyptians came to create this comp/ex practice remains a mystery. 116 00:09:13,345 --> 00:09:16,515 But they did leave behind extensive records... 117 00:09:16,599 --> 00:09:19,393 regarding their thoughts on the afterlife. 118 00:09:22,813 --> 00:09:25,149 This right here is a very good depiction... 119 00:09:25,232 --> 00:09:29,737 of the journey of the afterlife with King Ramses. 120 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:32,490 You see him here on a solar barge... 121 00:09:32,573 --> 00:09:36,035 being protected by all the different gods behind him- 122 00:09:36,118 --> 00:09:38,412 goddess Isis and god Osiris. 123 00:09:39,663 --> 00:09:42,374 This right here is god Anubis... 124 00:09:42,458 --> 00:09:45,795 and god Anubis is the god of the mummification. 125 00:09:47,129 --> 00:09:52,593 The most important story in Egyptian mythology is the god Osiris... 126 00:09:52,676 --> 00:09:58,641 how his brother, Seth, coveted his brother's power and killed him. 127 00:09:59,934 --> 00:10:05,106 Then his wife, Isis, in grief, got help from Anubis... 128 00:10:05,189 --> 00:10:09,110 who then helped Isis breathe life back into him... 129 00:10:09,193 --> 00:10:13,489 to survive into the next life with the help of Anubis... 130 00:10:13,572 --> 00:10:17,201 the inventor of embalming and mummification. 131 00:10:18,327 --> 00:10:24,041 The mummification process in Egypt has often been related to, uh, the star Sirius... 132 00:10:24,125 --> 00:10:26,001 which we call the Dog Star. 133 00:10:27,002 --> 00:10:31,590 And the mummification rights were overseen by the Egyptian god Anubis... 134 00:10:31,674 --> 00:10:34,176 who was a jackal-headed god. 135 00:10:34,260 --> 00:10:37,096 And so you have to wonder if Anubis... 136 00:10:37,179 --> 00:10:41,976 wasn't some real, physical, extraterrestrial god. 137 00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:49,066 The ancient Egyptian temple walls are covered with images of transformation. 138 00:10:50,317 --> 00:10:54,155 And what it reveals is that their core sacred science... 139 00:10:54,238 --> 00:10:59,160 was about human transformation or ascension into celestial beings. 140 00:11:00,911 --> 00:11:02,913 So you wonder is it possible... 141 00:11:02,997 --> 00:11:07,918 it's because those who originally taught us the concept came from the stars? 142 00:11:14,133 --> 00:11:18,220 [ Narrator] Could it be that the ancient Egyptians' beliefs about the afterlife... 143 00:11:18,304 --> 00:11:21,765 were influenced by extraterrestrial visitors? 144 00:11:22,766 --> 00:11:27,479 Was it from these visitors that they learned the process of mummification? 145 00:11:27,563 --> 00:11:31,942 And if so, what was their ultimate agenda? 146 00:11:33,152 --> 00:11:36,363 Perhaps the answers can be found in ancient mummies... 147 00:11:36,447 --> 00:11:40,409 that predate the Egyptians by thousands of years. 148 00:11:49,919 --> 00:11:53,797 [ Narrator] Arica, Chile. 1983. 149 00:11:55,299 --> 00:11:58,385 Workers digging a trench in this coastal city... 150 00:11:58,469 --> 00:12:02,848 just seven miles from the Peruvian border make a remarkable discovery. 151 00:12:05,142 --> 00:12:08,812 They unearth a cemetery containing 96 mummies... 152 00:12:08,896 --> 00:12:12,066 from the prehistoric Chinchorro culture. 153 00:12:14,735 --> 00:12:20,157 Scientists determine that some of the remains date back over 7,000 years... 154 00:12:20,241 --> 00:12:24,286 making these the oldest known mummies in the world. 155 00:12:26,497 --> 00:12:28,332 [ Jeremiah ] The Chinchorro were fishermen... 156 00:12:28,415 --> 00:12:31,835 Who lived along the ocean in Chile and Peru. 157 00:12:33,003 --> 00:12:37,258 And in fact, 4,000 years before the ancient Egyptians started doing it... 158 00:12:37,341 --> 00:12:41,303 the Chinchorro were mummifying their dead in South America. 159 00:12:43,681 --> 00:12:46,850 [ Man ] The Chinchorros would open up the cavity of the body. 160 00:12:46,934 --> 00:12:48,686 They would take out all the organs. 161 00:12:48,769 --> 00:12:54,525 They would put sand and grass and other things inside the body. 162 00:12:54,608 --> 00:12:56,694 They would carefully cover it with mud... 163 00:12:56,777 --> 00:12:59,446 and then they'd make mud masks over their face. 164 00:12:59,530 --> 00:13:04,034 It was a very elaborate system, embalming these things. 165 00:13:08,539 --> 00:13:11,458 [ Narrator] The Chinchorro method of mummification... 166 00:13:11,542 --> 00:13:17,423 is strikingly similar to the process used by the Egyptians thousands of years later. 167 00:13:18,549 --> 00:13:22,636 But why was this strange burial ritual continued... 168 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:27,641 not just in Egypt, but in civilizations across the ancient world? 169 00:13:31,562 --> 00:13:36,817 El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru. January 2013. 170 00:13:39,111 --> 00:13:43,324 Researchers announce that they've discovered an archaeological rarity- 171 00:13:43,407 --> 00:13:49,580 an untouched, 7, 300-year-old royal tomb from the Wan' Empire. 172 00:13:51,415 --> 00:13:53,459 A predecessor to the Inca... 173 00:13:53,542 --> 00:13:56,837 the Wari civilization thrived in central Peru... 174 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,840 between 600 and 1100 AD... 175 00:13:59,923 --> 00:14:02,343 before mysteriously disappearing. 176 00:14:04,678 --> 00:14:10,768 Inside the tomb was a treasure trove of gold, textiles, artifacts... 177 00:14:10,851 --> 00:14:15,814 and 63 mummified women, including three Wari queens. 178 00:14:18,108 --> 00:14:20,778 [ Barnhart] From the three royaled women... 179 00:14:20,861 --> 00:14:26,116 one of them had earrings that had images of winged beings. 180 00:14:29,119 --> 00:14:33,707 These winged, anthropomorphic birds that we see in religious art... 181 00:14:33,791 --> 00:14:38,295 happen from the very earliest art we know of in South America. 182 00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:44,218 And that's something also that you see, uh, at Tiahuanaco... 183 00:14:44,301 --> 00:14:47,471 where winged beings are running towards Viracocha... 184 00:14:47,554 --> 00:14:50,599 in the center of the famous Door of the Sun. 185 00:14:52,142 --> 00:14:58,065 So why are these winged beings, then, on jewelry with the Wari people? 186 00:14:58,148 --> 00:15:00,234 And we find that with Egyptians too. 187 00:15:02,152 --> 00:15:06,615 [ Man ] The Egyptian god Thoth is depicted in Egyptian iconography... 188 00:15:06,698 --> 00:15:09,576 as a half-bird, half-man deity. 189 00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:15,541 And it was Thoth who gave the knowledge of mummification to Isis. 190 00:15:16,708 --> 00:15:20,254 What's interesting is that there are other cultures around the world... 191 00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:25,259 that also have half-bird, half-human beings... 192 00:15:25,342 --> 00:15:27,553 that are treated as gods. 193 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:33,100 This suggests that there was some global culture... 194 00:15:33,183 --> 00:15:36,103 of extraterrestrial visitors here... 195 00:15:36,186 --> 00:15:40,190 who were teaching this mummification as a technology. 196 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:53,412 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the Wari images of winged gods... 197 00:15:53,495 --> 00:15:57,958 really represent extraterrestrials who came down from the sky? 198 00:16:00,085 --> 00:16:02,212 Did they visit not just Peru... 199 00:16:02,296 --> 00:16:05,048 but ancient cultures across the world? 200 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:09,970 And does the fact that these images are found on Wari mummies... 201 00:16:10,053 --> 00:16:15,642 suggest that this was a science brought to planet Earth by otherworldly beings? 202 00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:27,154 [ Narrator] Utcubamba Valley, Peru. 203 00:16:28,572 --> 00:16:32,659 Perched on a mountain cliff in this isolated region of the Amazon... 204 00:16:32,743 --> 00:16:35,871 stand six massive, clay sarcophagi... 205 00:16:35,954 --> 00:16:39,875 known by locals as simply the “ancient wise men.” 206 00:16:42,127 --> 00:16:45,923 Researchers estimate these eight-foot clay coffins... 207 00:16:46,006 --> 00:16:50,511 were constructed between 1100 and 1300 AD. 208 00:16:51,428 --> 00:16:54,223 They were built to house the mummified remains... 209 00:16:54,306 --> 00:16:57,476 of elite members of the Chachapoya tribe... 210 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:01,313 a pre-Columbian civilization of fierce warriors. 211 00:17:01,396 --> 00:17:03,148 [Screaming ] 212 00:17:05,108 --> 00:17:08,695 So we don't know much about the Chachapoyas people, who they were. 213 00:17:09,738 --> 00:17:13,534 They seemed to be very different from the other tribes in Peru... 214 00:17:13,617 --> 00:17:17,746 and just exactly where they had come from and where they went... 215 00:17:17,829 --> 00:17:19,581 is today a complete mystery. 216 00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:25,087 I don't know of any other culture in South America... 217 00:17:25,170 --> 00:17:28,799 that created sarcophaguses or coffins. 218 00:17:30,092 --> 00:17:31,718 These coffins were big. 219 00:17:31,802 --> 00:17:34,221 And they were made in the form of humans. 220 00:17:34,304 --> 00:17:38,267 Not unlike the sarcophaguses in Egypt. 221 00:17:40,644 --> 00:17:44,064 The Chachapoya mummies were buried in a fetal position... 222 00:17:44,147 --> 00:17:46,233 and this is interesting. 223 00:17:51,363 --> 00:17:54,700 The fetal position suggests the possibility... 224 00:17:54,783 --> 00:17:58,745 that the mummification rite was going to lead to a new birth. 225 00:18:00,330 --> 00:18:03,125 It's like the idea that there's a new incubation... 226 00:18:03,208 --> 00:18:06,920 and this may explain why we see mummification... 227 00:18:07,004 --> 00:18:10,632 not just with the Chachapoya but we also see it in Egypt... 228 00:18:10,716 --> 00:18:15,596 and this mummification technology on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean... 229 00:18:15,679 --> 00:18:20,225 does suggest that these people are after some sort of goal... 230 00:18:20,309 --> 00:18:23,186 that we don't yet understand in modern times. 231 00:18:27,190 --> 00:18:30,444 [ Narrator] Could mummification have been an attempt by the ancients... 232 00:18:30,527 --> 00:18:33,488 to not only preserve the body after death... 233 00:18:33,572 --> 00:18:36,742 but to enable the dead to be reborn- 234 00:18:37,701 --> 00:18:43,290 a technique used by extraterrestrials to achieve power over death. 235 00:18:44,916 --> 00:18:48,795 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining mummies... 236 00:18:48,879 --> 00:18:51,673 made not from the bodies of the dead... 237 00:18:51,757 --> 00:18:55,677 but from the bodies of people buried alive. 238 00:19:03,769 --> 00:19:05,771 [ Narrator] Mount Yudono, Japan. 239 00:19:06,647 --> 00:19:09,650 In the 1,200-year-old Dainichibo Temple... 240 00:19:09,733 --> 00:19:11,818 at the base of this holy mountain... 241 00:19:11,902 --> 00:19:15,489 sitting on an altar within a glass case... 242 00:19:15,572 --> 00:19:21,036 is the mummy of the revered Buddhist monk Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai-Shonin. 243 00:19:22,245 --> 00:19:28,043 Shonin is what is known in Japan as a sokushinbutsu, or a living Buddha. 244 00:19:29,086 --> 00:19:33,799 He died in 1783 at the age of 96... 245 00:19:33,882 --> 00:19:38,470 but shockingly, this is not when the mummification process was started. 246 00:19:38,553 --> 00:19:42,099 It began six years before his death. 247 00:19:47,270 --> 00:19:49,564 This ritual of self-mummification... 248 00:19:49,648 --> 00:19:53,694 was commonly practiced by monks in the Shingon sect of Buddhism... 249 00:19:53,777 --> 00:19:57,739 in northern Japan between the 11th and 19th centuries. 250 00:20:02,994 --> 00:20:08,041 They would willingly embark on a process of self-mortification... 251 00:20:08,125 --> 00:20:10,794 which was tantamount to suicide. 252 00:20:11,712 --> 00:20:14,506 The first phase would last about a thousand days... 253 00:20:14,589 --> 00:20:17,259 and they would begin the self-mummification process... 254 00:20:17,342 --> 00:20:21,179 by embarking on a very rigorous low-calorie diet. 255 00:20:21,263 --> 00:20:23,473 In the second phase of the process... 256 00:20:23,557 --> 00:20:28,061 the practitioner would be imbibing the urushi tea. 257 00:20:28,145 --> 00:20:31,523 Now, the urushi tea is highly toxic. 258 00:20:32,399 --> 00:20:35,527 However, it was believed to lacquer, basically... 259 00:20:35,610 --> 00:20:38,488 the tissues and organs from the inside out... 260 00:20:38,572 --> 00:20:41,575 in order to favor the mummification process. 261 00:20:43,243 --> 00:20:45,162 And because of its toxicity... 262 00:20:45,245 --> 00:20:50,000 the flesh was so poisonous that even maggots would not consume it. 263 00:20:51,668 --> 00:20:55,672 [ Young ] When they were nearly dead, they would go into a small chamber... 264 00:20:55,756 --> 00:20:58,842 just big enough to sit in the lotus position. 265 00:21:00,469 --> 00:21:04,639 It would be sealed up, except for a reed that allowed a little air in... 266 00:21:04,723 --> 00:21:07,434 and inside, the monk had a bell. 267 00:21:07,517 --> 00:21:08,727 [ Bell Rings ] 268 00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:11,480 One day, the bell would not ring... 269 00:21:11,563 --> 00:21:15,275 and the followers would withdraw the reed and seal up the chamber. 270 00:21:19,571 --> 00:21:23,200 After 1,000 days, they would open it to see what had happened. 271 00:21:24,701 --> 00:21:28,872 [Jeremiah ] if the bodies had mummified, they were considered living Buddhas. 272 00:21:29,539 --> 00:21:32,501 And they were redressed in sacerdotal robes... 273 00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:36,379 and displayed in special temple halls called sokubutsudo. 274 00:21:37,547 --> 00:21:39,174 If they had not mummified... 275 00:21:39,257 --> 00:21:42,385 an exorcism was performed and they were simply buried. 276 00:21:50,685 --> 00:21:54,940 [ Narrator] Although hundreds of monks tried to attain sokushinbutsu... 277 00:21:55,023 --> 00:21:58,652 only 24 are known to have succeeded. 278 00:21:58,735 --> 00:22:01,279 But why would these devout followers of Buddha... 279 00:22:01,363 --> 00:22:05,867 have endured such pain in order to mummify their own bodies? 280 00:22:07,452 --> 00:22:11,540 One of the central beliefs of Buddhism is reincarnation... 281 00:22:11,623 --> 00:22:13,750 but according to the Shingon sect... 282 00:22:14,918 --> 00:22:18,922 those who successfully complete the self-mummification process... 283 00:22:19,005 --> 00:22:20,924 become higher beings. 284 00:22:22,717 --> 00:22:25,178 The idea was they didn't think they were dying. 285 00:22:26,638 --> 00:22:29,432 They perceived this as a state of suspended animation. 286 00:22:29,516 --> 00:22:33,395 It wasn't death for them. It wasn't life. It was somewhere in between. 287 00:22:34,187 --> 00:22:38,942 They needed the body preserved to enter this other dimension of reality... 288 00:22:39,025 --> 00:22:42,779 and to continue life, although it's not life as we would interpret it. 289 00:22:45,115 --> 00:22:47,701 [ Man ] They do not have to be reborn... 290 00:22:47,784 --> 00:22:52,372 because when you become a living Buddha, you have already attained your nirvana... 291 00:22:52,455 --> 00:22:58,545 so that, you know, your body remains kind of immortal in a sense. 292 00:22:58,628 --> 00:23:00,380 [ Steavu ] They were trying to emulate... 293 00:23:00,463 --> 00:23:05,260 these high-ranking or highly-achieving, spiritually speaking, beings... 294 00:23:05,343 --> 00:23:06,845 such as Buddhas or Bodhisattvas. 295 00:23:13,935 --> 00:23:18,481 [ Narrator] Bu! What did it' mean to a Shingon monk to become a living Buddha... 296 00:23:18,565 --> 00:23:20,901 and transition to a higher realm? 297 00:23:22,819 --> 00:23:25,030 Perhaps the answer can be found... 298 00:23:25,113 --> 00:23:29,200 by examining the life of the original Buddha himself. 299 00:23:33,163 --> 00:23:35,874 The historical Buddha was known as Siddhartha Gautama... 300 00:23:37,792 --> 00:23:42,589 and he was born around the mid-sixth century BCE. 301 00:23:42,672 --> 00:23:45,508 He founded the Buddhist tradition... 302 00:23:45,592 --> 00:23:49,471 in which he expounds on the path to enlightenment. 303 00:23:55,018 --> 00:24:00,440 It's very important that the historical Buddha was understood as a human. 304 00:24:00,523 --> 00:24:02,776 That gives every human practitioner... 305 00:24:02,859 --> 00:24:06,738 access to the same level of ability and enlightenment. 306 00:24:07,697 --> 00:24:11,952 However, he also took on some magical powers... 307 00:24:12,035 --> 00:24:14,204 that, in some ways... 308 00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:18,667 brought him much closer to a divine being or semi-divine being... 309 00:24:18,750 --> 00:24:21,419 than to a normal mortal human. 310 00:24:22,003 --> 00:24:25,924 He was known to teleport across the Ganges River... 311 00:24:26,007 --> 00:24:29,678 appearing from one side of the river to the other in the blink of an eye. 312 00:24:31,638 --> 00:24:35,976 [ CHILDRESS ] When you look at the life of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha... 313 00:24:36,059 --> 00:24:40,146 he would appear to be somebody that we would maybe call a “star child”- 314 00:24:40,230 --> 00:24:43,108 part human, part extraterrestrial. 315 00:24:49,197 --> 00:24:51,783 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the first Buddha... 316 00:24:51,866 --> 00:24:54,869 had extraterrestrial origins? 317 00:24:55,745 --> 00:24:58,331 Might the Shingon monks have believed... 318 00:24:58,415 --> 00:25:01,042 that through the process of self-mummification... 319 00:25:02,085 --> 00:25:06,423 they too could be transformed into more advanced beings? 320 00:25:06,506 --> 00:25:11,177 Ancient astronaut theorists believe that further answers can be found... 321 00:25:11,261 --> 00:25:14,681 by examining the story of an Egyptian pharaoh... 322 00:25:14,764 --> 00:25:17,726 with extraterrestrial origins. 323 00:25:26,234 --> 00:25:29,612 [ Narrator] Amarna, Egypt. 1891. 324 00:25:30,780 --> 00:25:34,159 Italian archaeologist Alessandro Barsanti... 325 00:25:34,242 --> 00:25:37,620 explores the tomb constructed for the Pharaoh Akhenaten... 326 00:25:39,122 --> 00:25:41,750 but finds no evidence of his mummy. 327 00:25:46,838 --> 00:25:51,134 What's really interesting is that the Egyptologists were certain... 328 00:25:51,217 --> 00:25:56,014 that they would find Akhenaten behind that tomb... 329 00:25:56,097 --> 00:25:58,641 and they didn't. 330 00:26:02,979 --> 00:26:06,399 [ Narrator] Just what happened to this revolutionary leader after his death... 331 00:26:06,483 --> 00:26:09,486 is as mysterious as the pharaoh himself. 332 00:26:12,739 --> 00:26:17,827 Was he never actually buried in his tomb, or could he have been removed? 333 00:26:19,496 --> 00:26:23,208 Akhenaten ruled from 1353 BC... 334 00:26:23,291 --> 00:26:26,169 until his death 17 years later. 335 00:26:27,670 --> 00:26:30,715 His reign was dominated by controversy... 336 00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:33,635 when he abandoned the pantheon of old Egyptian gods... 337 00:26:33,718 --> 00:26:38,389 and instead demanded that his subjects worship the sun god Aten. 338 00:26:41,476 --> 00:26:46,147 The Aten was something that he saw in the sky between two mountains... 339 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,860 that inspired him to create the sacred city of Amarna. 340 00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:55,615 Now the typical view is the Aten must be the sun... 341 00:26:55,698 --> 00:27:00,328 but it is entirely possible that what Akhenaten was seeing... 342 00:27:00,411 --> 00:27:04,374 was, in fact, an extraterrestrial flying craft. 343 00:27:10,922 --> 00:27:14,217 [ Narrator] Did Akhenaten uproot the entire Kingdom of Egypt... 344 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:17,095 because of an extraterrestrial encounter? 345 00:27:18,888 --> 00:27:22,934 Or could there be an even more profound explanation? 346 00:27:24,394 --> 00:27:27,438 If you compare images of Akhenaten... 347 00:27:27,522 --> 00:27:30,191 to other depictions of pharaohs... 348 00:27:30,275 --> 00:27:33,444 you'll notice that Akhenaten looks very different. 349 00:27:34,863 --> 00:27:38,074 He had this very bizarre, elongated skull... 350 00:27:38,158 --> 00:27:42,412 and he had this weird potbelly and weird arms. 351 00:27:43,913 --> 00:27:48,042 So was he really a human? 352 00:27:49,502 --> 00:27:53,548 Perhaps Akhenaten was not of this earth. 353 00:27:57,218 --> 00:28:01,514 [ Narrator] While archaeologists have yet to uncover the remains of Akhenaten... 354 00:28:01,598 --> 00:28:03,683 ancient astronaut theorists believe... 355 00:28:03,766 --> 00:28:07,187 that depictions of him having an elongated skull... 356 00:28:07,270 --> 00:28:10,356 could be more than just artistic license. 357 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,403 Because there are other mummies that do, in fact, have unusual skulls. 358 00:28:20,992 --> 00:28:23,536 Some elongated skulls can be explained... 359 00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:27,749 by the fact that numerous ancient cultures practiced head binding- 360 00:28:28,416 --> 00:28:32,837 a form of body modification where the heads of infants were tightly bound... 361 00:28:32,921 --> 00:28:36,216 to force their skulls to become conical in shape. 362 00:28:37,050 --> 00:28:41,596 But several misshapen skulls appear to defy explanation. 363 00:28:45,099 --> 00:28:49,062 In Peru and Malta, elongated skulls have been discovered... 364 00:28:49,145 --> 00:28:52,899 that are mysteriously missing a sagittal suture- 365 00:28:52,982 --> 00:28:57,487 the fibrous jagged joint found in all human skulls. 366 00:28:58,238 --> 00:29:01,199 [TSOUKALOS ] When you compare some of these elongated skulls... 367 00:29:01,282 --> 00:29:05,495 some have sutures like we have as humans... 368 00:29:05,578 --> 00:29:10,375 and then there are other skulls that do not have the same sutures. 369 00:29:10,458 --> 00:29:16,506 So is it possible that some of them are of actual extraterrestrial origin? 370 00:29:18,007 --> 00:29:22,679 It would not surprise me in the least bit. In the least bit. 371 00:29:28,393 --> 00:29:31,646 [ Narrator] Could the elongated skulls found on certain mummies... 372 00:29:31,729 --> 00:29:34,774 actually be of extraterrestrial origin? 373 00:29:36,901 --> 00:29:41,197 Might they be proof that humans learned the process of mummification... 374 00:29:41,281 --> 00:29:43,283 from alien visitors? 375 00:29:45,159 --> 00:29:47,954 For years, researcher Brien Foerster... 376 00:29:48,037 --> 00:29:52,458 has been studying elongated skulls found in Paracas, Peru... 377 00:29:52,542 --> 00:29:57,046 and recent DNA tests have yielded startling results. 378 00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:01,551 Initial results, though ambiguous... 379 00:30:01,634 --> 00:30:05,847 seem to indicate that partial segments of their DNA... 380 00:30:05,930 --> 00:30:08,808 are not to be found in what is called GenBank... 381 00:30:08,891 --> 00:30:11,477 which is the record of human DNA... 382 00:30:11,561 --> 00:30:14,063 that's been decoded so far. 383 00:30:14,147 --> 00:30:18,776 Astonishingly, the geneticist who's been studying them has said... 384 00:30:18,860 --> 00:30:24,574 that their DNA, at least in some aspects, are not human. 385 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:33,333 [ Narrator] Might the DNA of the mummified Paracas skulls... 386 00:30:33,416 --> 00:30:38,087 contain the truth about ancient man's contact with extraterrestrials? 387 00:30:39,964 --> 00:30:44,135 Could it be that the mummy of Akhenaten has never been found... 388 00:30:44,218 --> 00:30:47,847 because it was deliberately hidden or destroyed... 389 00:30:47,930 --> 00:30:51,642 to keep us from discovering its alien origins? 390 00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:55,021 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 391 00:30:55,104 --> 00:30:57,940 that the most compelling evidence of a connection... 392 00:30:58,024 --> 00:31:01,194 between mummification and extraterrestrials... 393 00:31:01,277 --> 00:31:03,404 can be found with the Inca... 394 00:31:04,614 --> 00:31:09,410 who treated the dead as though they were still very much alive. 395 00:31:18,711 --> 00:31:20,129 [ Narrator] Cuzco, Peru. 396 00:31:21,631 --> 00:31:26,260 This sacred city was once the capital of the Inca Empire... 397 00:31:27,178 --> 00:31:29,263 and by the 13th century... 398 00:31:29,347 --> 00:31:32,058 was the center of one of the largest... 399 00:31:32,141 --> 00:31:36,938 and most sophisticated pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas. 400 00:31:41,150 --> 00:31:45,071 The Inca were renowned for their proficiency in architecture... 401 00:31:45,154 --> 00:31:51,244 and widely regarded as the most important of their many temple complexes... 402 00:31:51,327 --> 00:31:54,038 was the one known as Qorikancha. 403 00:31:54,914 --> 00:31:59,585 Historical accounts describe it as a magnificent palace of gold... 404 00:31:59,669 --> 00:32:03,089 that housed the most holy objects of worship for the Inca- 405 00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:06,843 the mummies of their dead kings. 406 00:32:10,513 --> 00:32:13,683 [ Barnhart ] That's where the king did his most important rituals... 407 00:32:13,766 --> 00:32:19,355 and where the mummies of the previous Sapa Incas, or kings, were kept. 408 00:32:20,773 --> 00:32:25,361 And those mummies were communicated with on a regular basis. 409 00:32:27,363 --> 00:32:30,283 [ Narrator] Even today, descendants of the Inca... 410 00:32:30,366 --> 00:32:32,785 recreate the centuries-old practice... 411 00:32:32,869 --> 00:32:35,913 of using the mummies in sacred ceremonies. 412 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:39,935 [ Foerster ] Four times a year they were brought out... 413 00:32:39,959 --> 00:32:42,712 and the living descendants would then consult with them... 414 00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:44,589 about the affairs of state... 415 00:32:44,672 --> 00:32:47,175 as well as what they should do in the future. 416 00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:52,930 It was believed that these mummies could communicate with deities... 417 00:32:53,014 --> 00:32:56,934 or otherworldly beings in this twilight realm... 418 00:32:58,394 --> 00:33:01,481 or in this state between life and death. 419 00:33:02,690 --> 00:33:07,320 They even had people specially trained to take care of the royal mummies. 420 00:33:07,403 --> 00:33:11,157 And some of the duties that these caretakers had... 421 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,160 were interpreting what the mummy wished to say... 422 00:33:14,243 --> 00:33:16,913 arranging meetings with the living and the dead... 423 00:33:16,996 --> 00:33:21,751 and strangely even taking the mummy outside so he could urinate. 424 00:33:28,174 --> 00:33:29,759 [ Narrator] But why would the Inca... 425 00:33:29,842 --> 00:33:33,679 the most advanced civilization in South America at the time... 426 00:33:33,763 --> 00:33:37,934 treat corpses as though they were living, thinking beings? 427 00:33:39,227 --> 00:33:44,815 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the Incan creation story. 428 00:33:45,733 --> 00:33:48,528 The Incan creation myth describes... 429 00:33:48,611 --> 00:33:51,614 how the world was created by the Ayar brothers. 430 00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:55,952 And the word “ayar” actually means mummy... 431 00:33:57,245 --> 00:34:00,289 so written right into the myth from the very beginning... 432 00:34:00,373 --> 00:34:04,210 is the idea that mummification is of central importance... 433 00:34:04,293 --> 00:34:08,297 to whomever and whatever these gods are. 434 00:34:08,381 --> 00:34:11,300 Is it possible that those mythical gods... 435 00:34:11,384 --> 00:34:16,806 were actually extraterrestrial flesh and blood beings of some kind? 436 00:34:20,476 --> 00:34:24,814 [ Narrator] But if the Ayar brothers really were extraterrestrials... 437 00:34:24,897 --> 00:34:29,235 why would the Inca have used the same term for these alien visitors... 438 00:34:29,318 --> 00:34:31,946 as they did for their mummified dead? 439 00:34:32,989 --> 00:34:35,449 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 440 00:34:35,533 --> 00:34:39,579 that the Inca may have witnessed these other-worldly space travelers... 441 00:34:39,662 --> 00:34:42,999 emerging from a state of suspended animation. 442 00:34:45,126 --> 00:34:50,673 What if they were trying to mimic whatever it is they saw? 443 00:34:52,508 --> 00:34:57,555 And so, if someone with no technological knowledge... 444 00:34:58,347 --> 00:35:02,226 witnesses someone who is in suspended animation... 445 00:35:03,394 --> 00:35:06,689 and then they come alive... 446 00:35:06,772 --> 00:35:09,609 they have just witnessed the resurrection of someone... 447 00:35:09,692 --> 00:35:12,278 someone coming back from the dead... 448 00:35:12,361 --> 00:35:15,781 when, in reality, that was never the case. 449 00:35:19,702 --> 00:35:21,787 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the Inca... 450 00:35:21,871 --> 00:35:25,708 witnessed alien visitors coming out of hibernation... 451 00:35:25,791 --> 00:35:29,545 and that this is why they mummified their dead? 452 00:35:30,546 --> 00:35:33,299 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 453 00:35:33,382 --> 00:35:39,096 and claim that this might also explain mummification in other cultures... 454 00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:41,432 most notably the Egyptians. 455 00:35:42,224 --> 00:35:46,604 [WILCOCK ] it's possible that the extraterrestrials who visited Egypt... 456 00:35:46,687 --> 00:35:50,316 would have needed to have some sort of hyperbaric isolation chambers... 457 00:35:50,399 --> 00:35:52,777 to get from their home world to here. 458 00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:56,447 Now, if that is true, then it's also possible... 459 00:35:56,530 --> 00:35:58,407 that the mummification ritual... 460 00:35:58,491 --> 00:36:03,621 actually originated from this long-term hyperbaric storage... 461 00:36:03,704 --> 00:36:08,751 that they were doing with their bodies inside sarcophagus-like chambers. 462 00:36:09,377 --> 00:36:14,757 One idea, certainly, is that human beings and these societies... 463 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,679 were seeing extraterrestrials who were wrapped in certain body suits... 464 00:36:19,762 --> 00:36:22,723 and then they would come back alive. 465 00:36:22,807 --> 00:36:26,185 They were put in a special suspended animation... 466 00:36:26,268 --> 00:36:29,563 that was similar to mummification. 467 00:36:29,647 --> 00:36:35,611 And perhaps, this is why the Egyptians were doing mummification. 468 00:36:38,698 --> 00:36:42,660 [ Narrator] Could mummification really have been an attempt by ancient people... 469 00:36:42,743 --> 00:36:46,330 to imitate extraterrestrial space travelers? 470 00:36:46,414 --> 00:36:47,665 Perhaps. 471 00:36:47,748 --> 00:36:50,543 But ancient astronaut theorists propose... 472 00:36:50,626 --> 00:36:54,422 that there may be an even more profound explanation- 473 00:36:55,047 --> 00:36:59,343 that early humans were not simply imitating alien visitors... 474 00:37:00,469 --> 00:37:04,432 but intended to join them in the future. 475 00:37:11,897 --> 00:37:15,234 [ Narrator ] Juérez, Mexico. 2008. 476 00:37:17,153 --> 00:37:20,865 Just eight miles southwest of El Paso, Texas... 477 00:37:20,948 --> 00:37:23,909 in this notoriously violent border town... 478 00:37:26,412 --> 00:37:29,248 Dr. Alejandro Hernéndez Cardenas... 479 00:37:29,331 --> 00:37:33,544 develops a groundbreaking new technique in forensic science. 480 00:37:33,627 --> 00:37:36,255 By using a secret chemical formula... 481 00:37:36,338 --> 00:37:40,968 he is able to rehydrate the flesh of unrecognizable homicide victims... 482 00:37:41,051 --> 00:37:43,971 including bodies that were mummified... 483 00:37:44,054 --> 00:37:47,433 after years of being dried out in the hot desert climate. 484 00:37:49,977 --> 00:37:51,937 Out of sort of compassion or concern... 485 00:37:52,021 --> 00:37:55,274 for the huge number of unidentified bodies in Juérez... 486 00:37:56,275 --> 00:38:00,988 he figured out a solution that you can place a mummified corpse in. 487 00:38:01,572 --> 00:38:06,827 The corpse becomes recognizable in terms of identifying scars or tattoos. 488 00:38:14,794 --> 00:38:17,797 [ Narrator] The naturally mummified corpses are put in a tank... 489 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,801 that Dr. Cardenas refers to as “The Jacuzzi”... 490 00:38:21,884 --> 00:38:25,387 which holds 60 gallons of his secret' formula. 491 00:38:27,306 --> 00:38:29,433 Over the course of a few days... 492 00:38:29,517 --> 00:38:34,104 the shriveled remains are rehydrated to look almost lifelike. 493 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,401 But as astounding as his formula is... 494 00:38:39,485 --> 00:38:42,196 it's not the first time science has attempted... 495 00:38:42,279 --> 00:38:45,866 to, in some way, restore a mummified body. 496 00:38:49,912 --> 00:38:51,747 In 1968... 497 00:38:51,831 --> 00:38:55,668 Robert Connolly, a researcher from the University of Liverpool... 498 00:38:55,751 --> 00:39:01,131 attempted to virtually regenerate the blood of a completely mummified body... 499 00:39:01,215 --> 00:39:05,886 only this mummy was 3,300 years old. 500 00:39:06,512 --> 00:39:09,932 It was the mummy of Egypt's most famous pharaoh- 501 00:39:10,933 --> 00:39:13,352 King Tutankhamen. 502 00:39:14,562 --> 00:39:19,692 Connolly's method was to combine antigens taken from a skin sample of King Tut... 503 00:39:19,775 --> 00:39:21,902 with his own blood cells. 504 00:39:23,487 --> 00:39:24,989 Connolly is actually type O... 505 00:39:25,072 --> 00:39:27,700 which means you don't have any antigens on your blood cells. 506 00:39:27,783 --> 00:39:31,078 He was actually able to put the antigens from King Tut... 507 00:39:31,161 --> 00:39:33,789 on his sort of clean slate of a blood cell... 508 00:39:35,958 --> 00:39:39,879 so then recreating whatever blood type the mummy had. 509 00:39:39,962 --> 00:39:42,381 You mix those red blood cells with different blood types... 510 00:39:42,464 --> 00:39:43,984 and if it's not the correct blood type... 511 00:39:44,008 --> 00:39:45,902 what you get is sort of clumping of the blood cells... 512 00:39:45,926 --> 00:39:47,806 because there's an immune response against them. 513 00:39:47,887 --> 00:39:49,388 But if it's the correct blood type... 514 00:39:49,471 --> 00:39:51,974 then you don't see any sort of immunological response. 515 00:39:52,057 --> 00:39:53,937 So, in that way, they were able to figure out... 516 00:39:53,976 --> 00:39:56,478 which blood type King Tut possessed. 517 00:39:59,815 --> 00:40:01,525 [ Narrator] Since Connolly's experiment... 518 00:40:01,609 --> 00:40:03,777 scientists have gone even further... 519 00:40:03,861 --> 00:40:08,324 and discovered what they believe is King Tut's true DNA. 520 00:40:10,409 --> 00:40:13,829 Could the next step be an actual resurrection? 521 00:40:15,497 --> 00:40:17,458 Was the preservation of the body... 522 00:40:17,541 --> 00:40:22,046 not just a ritualistic attempt to imitate alien visitors... 523 00:40:22,129 --> 00:40:26,258 but an actual form of suspended animation? 524 00:40:26,342 --> 00:40:31,597 But if so, how could they have foreseen such incredible scientific advancements... 525 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,974 thousands of years ago? 526 00:40:35,517 --> 00:40:39,772 It is possible that the ancient astronauts... 527 00:40:39,855 --> 00:40:43,275 taught the Egyptians that mummification... 528 00:40:43,359 --> 00:40:48,530 was a way of preserving their genetic information in the DNA. 529 00:40:51,367 --> 00:40:55,871 [CHILDRESS ] One of the startling discoveries in the study of mummies... 530 00:40:55,955 --> 00:40:57,790 in Egypt and elsewhere... 531 00:40:57,873 --> 00:41:02,836 is that quite a bit of DNA is actually preserved... 532 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,799 for thousands of years in the mummification process. 533 00:41:07,383 --> 00:41:12,805 This makes it possible to clone ancient mummies... 534 00:41:12,888 --> 00:41:16,058 and, in a sense, bring them back to life. 535 00:41:17,393 --> 00:41:20,938 [WILCOCK] it is possible that, at some point in the future... 536 00:41:21,021 --> 00:41:23,983 if your body had been successfully mummified... 537 00:41:24,066 --> 00:41:26,402 that these ancient extraterrestrials were well aware... 538 00:41:26,485 --> 00:41:32,157 that a clone of who you were before could then be reborn many years later. 539 00:41:32,241 --> 00:41:35,953 And is it possible that with the magnificence of the DNA... 540 00:41:36,036 --> 00:41:38,747 and with all of the information that it contains... 541 00:41:38,831 --> 00:41:41,667 that you might also come back... 542 00:41:41,750 --> 00:41:45,337 with the memories of what you lived... 543 00:41:45,421 --> 00:41:48,966 and who you were and what you knew the last time. 544 00:41:49,883 --> 00:41:51,677 And that may be the purpose... 545 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:56,390 which will actually be used in the future not yet present... 546 00:41:56,473 --> 00:42:00,060 but with a technology that we are very rapidly acquiring. 547 00:42:01,937 --> 00:42:05,357 [ Henry] When the extraterrestrials taught the art of mummification... 548 00:42:05,441 --> 00:42:07,985 did they have it in the back of their mind that... 549 00:42:08,068 --> 00:42:10,612 maybe 5,000 years into the future... 550 00:42:10,696 --> 00:42:13,073 medical science would advance to the level... 551 00:42:13,157 --> 00:42:17,369 where we would be able to extract the DNA from those mummies? 552 00:42:19,288 --> 00:42:21,683 And maybe this is part of the purpose of the mummification... 553 00:42:21,707 --> 00:42:24,001 is to create this time capsule. 554 00:42:28,589 --> 00:42:32,634 [ Narrator] Could our ancestors really have been taught the process of mummification... 555 00:42:32,718 --> 00:42:35,345 by extraterrestrial beings? 556 00:42:35,429 --> 00:42:40,017 Was it their intention that we would eventually develop the technology... 557 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:43,020 to retrieve the DNA of the ancient mummies... 558 00:42:43,103 --> 00:42:45,355 and restore them to life? 559 00:42:46,607 --> 00:42:51,195 And if we do, might we discover that these human time capsules... 560 00:42:51,278 --> 00:42:54,615 hold the secrets to our very origins? 561 00:42:55,574 --> 00:42:59,912 Perhaps one day, we will truly be able to reanimate the dead... 562 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:02,498 and from these ancient mummies... 563 00:43:02,581 --> 00:43:06,668 we will learn the truth about our alien ancestors. 563 00:43:07,305 --> 00:43:13,744 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 53705

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