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[Narrator] In the 21st century, a powerful

technology is transforming

our understanding of the ancient world.

[Travis Taylor] Artificial intelligence is

one of the most fascinating technologies

in human history. We're getting knowledge

that we didn't have.

[Narrator] Artificial intelligence is finding

entire civilizations that were completely unknown.

[Giorgio A. Tsoukalos] They identified

60,000 ancient Mayan ruins

that had been lost for centuries.

[Narrator] And it is extracting incredible new information

from the world's earliest writings.

[Jason Martell] It's very possible that

AI will help unlock

new understandings about the gods.

[Narrator] As AI reveals new details about our past,

will it uncover proof that Earth was visited

by extraterrestrials?

[David Childress] Through AI, we're able

to analyze clues and ultimately find out

who we are and where we came from.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

At Dartmouth College, some of the brightest minds

in the emerging field of computer science

hold the first ever workshop

on a new concept called artificial intelligence.

Their goal is to figure out how to create machines

that can think and learn like humans.

[Taylor] The computer scientists at Dartmouth were way ahead

of their time, especially when it comes to

computers replicating human-like thinking.

And if you fast forward just 40 years later,

you see the IBM Deep Blue system

defeating Garry Kasparov, a world chess champion.

After that, you have AI mimicking human behavior,

driving cars, and pretty much in every aspect of our daily lives.

[Michio Kaku] Artificial intelligence is the ability

to use electronics

to begin to simulate the workings of the brain itself.

Some people look at movies like The Terminator and say,

"Oh, my god, we're talking about doomsday.

Other people say we're talking about a golden age

where machines increase our power and our ability

to create prosperity and peace.

[Tsoukalos] AI certainly can be

an incredible tool. However,

at the same time, we need to be very, very careful,

because I cannot tell you how many examples

there are out there right now

where it's been proven AI has made mistakes.

[Narrator] While there is much debate over the benefits

and dangers of artificial intelligence,

the technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace,

and is quickly becoming a powerful tool

for historians and archaeologists.

[Tsoukalos] The potential of AI

to help us in archaeology and in anthropology is limitless.

One way how AI can be used, for example, is

a lot of the ancient sites today

are quite literally in ruins,

but AI can help us with reassembling them on a screen.

[Nick Pope] AI can take

a lot of seemingly random data points,

but it can join the dots

in a way that human researchers can't.

It can look at images of archaeological sites

and essentially say, "Well, what are we missing?"

And it may find something which is part

of the original construction.

AI can model unimaginable

number of scenarios in an instant.

AI is having a dramatic impact

in the rediscovery of lost civilizations.

An AI can be used to accelerate our reconstruction

of ancient technologies.

This is tremendously exciting.

[Narrator] As artificial intelligence

uncovers long-hidden secrets in the archaeological record,

ancient astronaut theorists are confident

it will also provide new evidence

of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth.

And they believe one of the best ways

in which this technology is being applied

is in the translation of ancient cuneiform texts.

The oldest were written more than 5,000 years ago

by the Sumerians, who are

the world's first known civilization.

[Amir Hussain] One of the great things that the Sumerians did

was precisely writing with a stylus in clay,

and then firing the clay so it becomes a brick.

And over the centuries

that brick becomes, essentially, stone.

And so, archeologists found literally thousands of these.

[Narrator] Attempts to decipher Sumerian cuneiform

began in 1849,

and it took nearly 90 years to fully crack it.

When they did, researchers discovered

detailed business ledgers,

official government correspondence

and medical texts.

But it is the stories found in the cuneiform tablets

of powerful beings called the Anunnaki

that is of particular interest to ancient astronaut theorists.

[Hugh Newman] The Anunnaki are the founder gods

of the Sumerian civilization.

And they were masters

of the arts and sciences bringing civilizing qualities

to this part of the world.

[Childress] According to the Sumerian texts, the Anunnaki

would come in rockets to Earth.

And they helped create Sumerian culture.

These texts are describing

what would only seem to be extraterrestrials.

[Narrator] To date, only ten percent

of the over half a million cuneiform tablets found

have been translated,

leading ancient astronaut theorists to speculate

that more information about the Anunnaki

is yet to be discovered.

[Collins] There are only about

100 people who can

translate cuneiform anywhere in the world.

So, who knows

what these untranslated tablets might contain?

[Narrator] Now, thanks to artificial intelligence,

translation of these texts is being greatly accelerated.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

At Ariel University, Professor of Assyriology

and Digital Humanities Dr. Shai Gordin

has created a new AI-powered translation software

to study Sumerian cuneiform.

[Shai Gordin] With the advent

of the recording of cuneiform artifacts digitally,

that brought about a revolution

in our accessibility to these artifacts.

An AI can be trained to identify

the shapes of certain signs or certain letters.

And with

the accumulation of these digitization of tablets,

it became relatively easy to do.

[Narrator] The AI program has not only learned

how to read and translate cuneiform,

it can also reassemble texts from broken tablets.

[Gordin] Now that everything is digitized,

artificial intelligence completed lines

of ancient literature that hasn't been read

for thousands of years.

Which is, uh, incredible.

[Henry] Using AI to read and translate cuneiform texts

is still in its infancy,

but already, it has discovered 20 new lines

in The Epic of Gilgamesh,

which is the oldest story ever written.

[Narrator] Researchers at the University of Chicago

are also using artificial intelligence

to interpret the college's collection of cuneiform tablets.

The AI program known as DeepScribe is being trained

to decode yet-to-be translated texts

embedded in thousands of ancient government records.

The technology will also have the capability

of finding missing details in tablets

that have already been deciphered.

[Henry] AI is able to look at intricate markings

on the tablets and determine

lost words or lost phrases

that are embedded within these tablets that were

previously invisible to humans.

[Collins] The idea that we now have

an AI model-- in fact, several--

that can now translate cuneiform

is gonna make full translations

of these texts an awful lot easier.

And who knows what these tablets might contain?

They could contain creation myths,

cosmological ideas, perhaps even a memory

of the ancient sites like Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.

It's very possible that AI will help unlock

a whole new lexicon of knowledge,

possibly new data sets,

new understandings about the gods

that are just waiting to be discovered.

There are literally thousands of tablets

that we still have not translated,

and there's probably a wealth of information

that we can tap into utilizing this type of medium.

[Narrator] As artificial intelligence

becomes an essential tool for investigating the ancient world,

could it reveal new details

that fundamentally change

our understanding of human history?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence can be found

by examining how AI is helping

to uncover civilizations that had been lost

for centuries.

[Narrator] Dotting the jungles of Central America

stand the ruins of the Maya,

considered by many to be one of the greatest civilizations

in the history of the Americas.

These skilled craftsmen

created sophisticated cities and temples,

including Tikal,

Palenque,

Chichen Itza,

Uxmal,

and Copán.

The Maya really stand out among

ancient civilizations, in terms of their achievements.

They created

the only writing system we know in all of the Americas.

And they became masters of mathematics and astronomy.

[Narrator] Archeologists have determined

that the most well-known Mayan ruins

were created between 250 and 900 AD.

Scholars have long considered this era,

known as the Classic Period,

to be the height of Maya civilization.

[Barnhart] For decades,

there was a understanding or thinking

that the Classic Period was really

where they started building cities.

And that, before that, they had

more humble, village style living.

But very recently, we have

AI finding earlier than we knew structures,

and it's given us a better understanding

of the Maya world.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

For over two decades, archaeologists have been

performing surveys of the vast Mirador Basin,

examining more than 1.6 million acres

of dense jungle using lidar technology.

[Michio Kaku] Lidar

is the use of lasers

in order to penetrate through the jungle

to see what is lurking beneath all of that.

And that has opened up a whole new gateway.

Instead of going into the jungle,

you can now do it with airplanes

and use laser technology to peer beneath the jungle

to see what happened hundreds of years ago.

[Narrator] The lidar scans have produced thousands of images

and more data than archeologists

could ever hope to sift through on their own.

So, to process the material,

many have turned to artificial intelligence.

AI models can take large data sets of lidar,

and through pattern recognition and seeking

straight lines and circles,

it's revealed undetected structures

that were previously invisible to humans.

With the use of artificial intelligence

analyzing lidar images,

archaeologists have identified

60,000 ancient Mayan ruins

hidden beneath a jungle canopy

that had been lost for centuries.

[Barnhart] I've been a mapper in the Maya area

for decades now, and lidar,

combined with the processing speed of AI,

has changed things.

I've mapped about 4,000 buildings,

but what I've done for a whole lifetime

was quadrupled by AI and lidar in a single year,

and that was just in one area.

[Narrator] Not only were archeologists amazed

by the number of settlements the AI program identified,

they were astonished by their apparent age.

It's thought that the newly discovered Mayan structures

were created in the tenth century BC--

predating other Mayan structures

by more than 1,000 years.

[Newman] A huge population

must have once existed there, and this was never known

before this technology was used to uncover this information.

[Childress] Archeologists realized that this area

was at one time densely populated,

and they built huge pyramid cities.

There were hundreds of thousands,

if not even millions of people living there.

[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,

these 3,000-year-old ruins

are particularly intriguing because the Maya

wrote about an earlier age

that predated the Classic Maya structures

archaeologists were familiar with.

[Collins] The Maya themselves say that

the founders of the Mayan civilization

were, in fact, star beings

that had come down in the distant past

that had given the Maya

the knowledge and wisdom

to create the foundations

of their civilization.

[Narrator] Could it be that

what artificial intelligence has uncovered

in Guatemala's Mirador Basin

are ruins from a time when the Maya

were visited by otherworldly beings?

Curiously, many of these ruins are even more sophisticated

than later Mayan structures,

including roads that were on par

with those built by the Romans.

[Collins] The lidar surveys

have revealed literally hundreds

of what are being referred to by the archeologists

as superhighways linking together

the different Mayan cities.

And these are raised causeways

that come up several feet beyond

the actual level of the jungle themself.

[Narrator] Similar elevated causeways

were built by the Maya throughout the Classical era,

some of which were as wide as a four-lane highway.

Archeologists believe that while these roads

were used for transportation,

they served a more profound purpose.

[Cheetham] You don't need an elevated highway or causeway

to simply walk from A to B.

Why would the Maya build these highways,

especially in the absence of any beasts of burden

or evidence of the use of wheels for carts

or anything of that nature?

And the answer to that question is that

the thing at the end of the causeway

would often house the rulers or very high nobles

and/or buildings that warranted procession.

These are ritual causeways that would be used

in a pilgrimage sense.

[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,

it's highly intriguing that the Maya

built vast roadways for ritual purposes

because their mythology prominently features a road

that leads to the stars.

There are stories of the Maya that say that

the road of the stars descended from the sky

and 13 gods descended from the heavens to earth

and walked with our ancestors.

[Narrator] If the Mayan roads have an otherworldly connection,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

is it possible that further evidence

is hidden in the jungle, just waiting to be discovered?

For ancient astronaut theory, AI is an incredible

tool, because we've been saying all along,

there's got to be more evidence out there.

And it seems that AI

is confirming much of what

ancient astronaut theory is suggesting.

[Narrator] Might the use of AI in Guatemala

reveal that ancient stories of humans

living alongside gods are not fantasy

but instead are accounts of real history?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they suggest further clues can be found in Turkey

at one of the oldest archeological sites

ever discovered.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

Spread across the arid Nazca Plateau

are the famous geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines.

They are a collection of more than 400 giant patterns

carved into the earth.

[Barnhart] Some of them are simple lines,

as the name implies. Some of them are much more complex.

They're animal forms, human forms.

They were originally discovered

by a few archaeologists in the 1920s.

But it was really in the 1930s, when commercial flights started,

that people noticed just how many lines there were.

They're of great interest to ancient astronaut theory

because they can only be seen from the sky.

The Nazca lines are thought of as beacons to the gods.

It's a signaling systems that humans are using

to communicate with the gods.

[Narrator] While archeologists believe these geoglyphs

were created between 200 to 700 AD,

the dating is uncertain, and no written records

exist to explain when or why the Nazca Lines were made.

But in 2024, new clues emerged

when a team of Japanese archeologists

announced the discovery of more than 300

previously unknown Nazca lines.

[Barnhart] A Japanese researcher

named Masato Sakai used

lidar imagery in combination with AI

to really accelerate the process of discovery.

In just a year's time, he found 303 figures,

which almost doubled what we had found

in the first century before that.

[Tsoukalos] With the help

of AI, these new lines and figurines

were discovered that, before, essentially,

were invisible to the naked eye.

[Henry] Some of the glyphs

are quite intricate and very surprising, including

a 72-foot-long orca

that is portrayed in profile

holding some kind of a weapon in its hand.

[Narrator] The Japanese research team

believes the newly discovered geoglyphs

were created around 200 BC,

which would push back the dating

for when the first Nazca Lines were made

by at least 400 years.

Who knows what more is waiting to be discovered

as AI is increasingly brought to bear.

Maybe there's knowledge encoded

in some of these new patterns and lines

that was not apparent from

our looking at what we previously knew.

[Narrator] While researchers have just begun examining

the newly-discovered geoglyphs in hopes of finding clues

as to the purpose of the Nazca Lines,

at another iconic site,

AI may have already discovered a coded message.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

Here stands one of the most important

archaeological sites in the world: Göbekli Tepe.

When excavations began in 1995,

archaeologists were amazed to unearth

dozens of giant stone monoliths,

some weighing as much as 20 tons

and many displaying intricate stone carvings.

Intrigued by the sophistication of the carvings,

archeologists had sediment layers of the site

radiocarbon dated, and the results were astonishing.

They indicated that Göbekli Tepe was created

around 9,500 BC,

predating the earliest known civilizations

by more than 5,000 years.

As the different enclosures gradually were revealed,

some extraordinary pillars were uncovered.

And the most enigmatic of these was Pillar 43,

otherwise known as the Vulture Stone.

Because one of its central features

is this open-winged vulture.

Beneath that is a scorpion.

And it's quite clear

that it's cosmological in nature.

[Narrator] Remarkably, a recent study of the site

has pushed its origins even deeper into antiquity.

In 2024, Dr. Martin Sweatman,

a professor at the University of Edinburgh,

led an unprecedented investigation of Pillar 43.

[Newman] Martin Sweatman and his colleagues

used statistical analysis, AI-type technology

to see if there were any constellations

encoded within this particular pillar.

And they eventually found several matches

that kind of made sense.

They also then tried to put a date stamp on it--

of when these particular constellations,

along with this circle, which would be the sun--

when that would have happened.

[Henry] They discovered

that the positioning of those symbols--

of the vulture, the scorpion and

the bird-headed figure--

matched three constellations.

It matched Scorpius, Sagittarius and Ophiuchus

at a specific time--

10,500 BC, approximately.

More than a thousand years

older than previously thought.

[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,

the possibility that Göbekli Tepe

could date to 10,500 BC is tremendously exciting,

because it lines up with an era

described in Egyptian mythology as Zep Tepi.

[Tsoukalos] Ancient Egyptian texts

have documented there was a time called Zep Tepi,

which was about 10,500 BC.

And that was a time when the so-called gods--

lowercase G-- walked amongst human beings.

[Henry] We're told that these star beings

brought knowledge with them--

astronomy, agriculture, civilization--

and then they leave.

AI potentially has the ability to reveal

a connection among whoever created Pillar 43

at Göbekli Tepe in ancient Egypt.

[Narrator] Could artificial intelligence finally provide

evidence to support what ancient astronaut theorists

have been saying all along--

that ruins around the globe hold proof

of extraterrestrial contact thousands of years ago?

Perhaps even more compelling clues came to light

when AI analyzed some of the most important

documents ever discovered:

the Dead Sea Scrolls.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

At the University of Groningen,

Professor Mladen Popovic has developed an AI program

for a highly specialized purpose.

As an expert in ancient Judaism,

he wants to incorporate artificial intelligence

in his study of the Dead Sea Scrolls

and the technology is already beginning to extract

incredible new information from what many consider

the world's most important ancient religious documents.

[Popovic] The Dead Sea Scrolls are so famous

because they are the most

ancient manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible,

of the Old Testament.

And many manuscripts,

we had no idea that they existed.

[Hussain] They were found in the caves in Qumran,

which is near the Dead Sea. That's where

the Dead Sea Scrolls get their name.

From 1946 to 1956, they find

between, like, eight, 900 of these scrolls.

Some of them are books that didn't

make it into the Bible, like the Book of Enoch.

[Narrator] More than 11 copies of the Book of Enoch

were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

And the text inspired Dr. Popovic

to name his new program after the biblical patriarch.

[Popovic] Enoch is such a fascinating figure

in the Old Testament and the Book of Enoch.

There was this archangel, Uriel,

and he showed Enoch how the cosmos works.

This Enoch figure is a sort of an ancient Jewish science hero,

and I thought it was very fitting to call it Enoch.

[Narrator] The Book of Enoch is a text often cited

as evidence for the ancient astronaut theory,

because it contains incredible tales of flying chariots,

a race of giants,

and even otherworldly beings coming to Earth.

[Henry] The Book of Enoch tells of

the arrival of the Watchers, how they descend

down Mount Hermon, how they create this hybrid

hybrid offspring, the Nephilim,

and how the watcher angels then begin to teach humanity

the use of astrology, weapons, metallurgy.

In ancient astronaut theory, we understand that

Enoch is describing something that actually happened.

[Collins] When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered,

the texts looked like

they came from the time of Christ, suggesting

that they were written down at that time.

However, the more the scholars looked into them,

the more they realized that they were more ancient.

[Popovic] It's a fascinating question--

who wrote these manuscripts,

these scrolls, and who put them in the caves?

And the traditional interpretation is that

it was this ancient group called the Essenes.

But their name does not appear in the Dead Sea Scrolls itself.

It might have been the Essenes,

but we're not sure about that.

[Henry] Traditional scholarship says,

"Oh, you know, these texts, these are kind of fantasy.

"These are later interpolations or embellishments

on what the original writer meant."

But now AI might actually reveal

that those texts are much older than previously thought,

and what they're describing are not things

that they later made up,

but eyewitness accounts.

[Popovic] We were lucky to receive samples

of the Dead Sea Scrolls,

physical samples, that we could radiocarbon date

and that you can then use to train an algorithm

to associate a certain way of writing

with a certain time period.

And once the algorithm is trained to recognize that,

you can feed it images of other manuscripts

that have no date and it can compare them.

We learned that many of these manuscripts

are older than we previously thought,

from the second century BC or even from the third century BC.

We now have evidence that the Dead Sea Scrolls

is from the time of an actual Biblical author,

which is truly mind-blowing, because it brings us

to the time of these ancient Biblical writers themselves.

[Tsoulaklos] For the ancient astronaut theory,

this is significant, because many of those items

like the flying chariots

were thought to have been added later

when in fact, it happened during the time

when these things were written down,

which would lend to the idea that our ancestors

actually witnessed something

and commemorated this when it was happening.

[Narrator] Could it be that the Dead Sea Scrolls

contain the original writings of Enoch

and his first-hand accounts of extraterrestrial contact?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and they suggest

artificial intelligence isn't only finding new evidence

of alien intervention in the distant past

but also revealing that these otherworldly visitors...

...never left.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection airplane

is patrolling above a U.S. airbase when its thermal camera

captures a large metallic object flying at high speed.

A mystery object is seen circling the airport,

and then it moves off across the ocean.

And at one point it descends into the ocean,

and then a few moments later emerges.

We don't have that kind of technology.

[Narrator] Aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor,

a member of the U.S. government's UAP task force,

was asked to analyze the remarkable footage.

As part of his investigation

into the strange object,

Dr. Taylor turned to AI software.

[Taylor] When I was on the UAP

UAP Task Force, we analyzed all sorts of different,

UAP videos

like the one in Puerto Rico,

and the AI analysis is really fascinating.

The AI does say that the object

is going about 72 to 74 miles per hour.

When it goes into the water, there is no splash.

And it even debunks one of the debunking videos

out there that says "Well, it was just a artifact

of the sensors why you didn't see the wake."

So, AI is being very useful.

[Narrator] As far as ufologists are concerned,

the AI revolution is happening at the perfect time

because more sensational UAP events

are being caught on video than ever before...

...and human observers

simply aren't equipped to analyze them

in the same way that artificial intelligence can.

[Henry] We have all of this footage

from the past decades UFO or UAP sightings.

Some of it's shaky, some of it's blurry.

The AI can look at that and straighten up those images,

can clean them up for us so we can

see exactly what we're looking at.

But more than that, it can look at whatever's

portrayed in that video, frame by frame,

and say, "Oh, well, here's the size of it,

"here's what it's made of, here's its velocity

and here's where it was going."

[Taylor] AI gets better with the more things it sees.

So, we need to grab every UFO video,

every UAP video, every odd video out there

that we could get our hands on

and start training up a UAP base

of data for the AI systems.

And it'll help us start getting to the bottom

of what really is going on with this phenomenon.

[Narrator] Dr. Travis Taylor is among many scientists

who are using this tool to study

unidentified anomalous phenomena,

and he believes that our own technological evolution

will rely heavily on artificial intelligence.

[Taylor] AI is a fantastic technology.

It will give you a leg up on any topic known to man,

and maybe some topics that we haven't discovered yet.

I use it every day,

and I use it to solve complex general relativity

and quantum physics problems.

I have used it to solve problems and discover new concepts

and ideas that we haven't thought of yet.

I've used it for Defense Department concepts.

Used it for space science things.

And I have used it in the ancient astronaut theory

avenue as well. Because there are telltale signs

that we miss, as humans.

But the AI is very meticulous and finds them. I took

an AI system and analyzed Teotihuacan

and wanted to determine

why these buildings are in the arrangements they are.

And it turns out that the ratios of the building sizes

and the distances between the buildings

match the golden ratio exactly.

So, somebody knew and understood the golden ratio

when Teotihuacan was built.

And why, I haven't figured out yet.

But AI has already discovered something about Teotihuacan

that we didn't know before. And I think that's something

that that we can apply

to sites around the world,

to concepts around the world.

So, we're going to start seeing answers

and start getting knowledge

that we have lost or didn't have.

[Narrator] Scientists are also theorizing

that our search for extraterrestrial intelligence

out in the cosmos may involve AI envoys.

And some researchers,

like theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku,

suggest that if the UAPs seen in our skies

are of extraterrestrial origin,

they could very well be a type of AI technology themselves.

[Kaku] We have been brainwashed.

Brainwashed by Hollywood into thinking

that when the aliens land on the White House lawn

that they look sort of like us.

Realize that, in reality,

that is the most inefficient way

to explore the universe.

There are so many worlds to visit,

but to visit each one

with a humanoid being

is a waste of time, it's a waste of effort.

It's much better to use artificial intelligence

to explore the universe.

Artificial intelligence can cut through the painstaking work

of astronauts visiting one planet at a time

and give us a readout

of a thousand worlds all at once.

[Narrator] Could artificial intelligence

lead to profound new revelations

about not only the unexplained phenomena in our skies

but also the mysteries of our distant past?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

AI may already have uncovered

an incredible secret of the ancient world

buried deep beneath the Pyramids of Egypt.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

Engineer and geospatial analyst Dr. Filippo Biondi

has spent months working with a team of Italian researchers

to investigate what lies beneath the iconic structures

that stand on the Giza Plateau.

A technology called synthetic aperture radar

has allowed them to peer deep underground,

and what they claim to have found is extraordinary.

[Newman] Under the Giza Plateau, they found

huge underground chambers and shafts

and structures under the Sphinx,

under the other pyramids, and everything else.

So what they discovered is quite remarkable.

[Narrator] What was detected with synthetic aperture radar

was astonishing.

And when artificial intelligence was employed

to analyze the SAR scans,

the resulting models were even more incredible.

[Newman] Using AI, they've recreated

what it would have looked like. It looks like

these eight tubes going down with what looked like

cylindrical kind of cavities going deep under the ground.

The evidence is now emerging that there's

something much more profound going on there.

[Narrator] If the mysterious chambers under the Giza Plateau

do in fact exist,

it would upend our understanding of human history.

And as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

it is only a matter of time

before artificial intelligence

provides incontrovertible evidence

of ET intervention on Earth.

If I myself had access to an AI model,

that could essentially tell me anything,

what I would do is I'd feed into it

all knowledge of ancient cosmologies

from around the world,

and allow it to tell us where exactly

this knowledge came from and just when it was created.

And my own heart tells me that it's gonna go back

at least to 40 to 50,000 years ago

and to have come from an enlightened human population

that existed at this time,

who we can truly refer to as the lost civilization.

[Childress] In ancient astronaut theory, the idea is that these

extraterrestrials are leaving clues around the world.

Clues of buildings and of texts,

other things that, you know, are difficult to figure out.

And AI is helping us find those things.

And AI is helping us, you know,

ultimately find out who we are and where we came from.

[Narrator] Could it be that the rise of artificial intelligence

will not only have profound implications

for the future of humanity

but also provide incredible revelations about our past?

Will AI uncover evidence for the ancient astronaut theory

hidden in undeciphered texts,

encoded in megalithic structures

and buried with long-lost civilizations?

Perhaps, as this powerful technology continues to advance,

it will reveal that the history of humankind

has been written by extraterrestrials.

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