1 00:00:04,506 --> 00:00:06,758 [ Man Narrating ] Its origins are unknown. 2 00:00:06,841 --> 00:00:11,763 The degree of erosion that we see has to go back to 10,000 BC. 3 00:00:12,597 --> 00:00:16,434 [ Narrator] Its secrets have remained hidden for thousands of years. 4 00:00:17,143 --> 00:00:22,607 It was reported that they found passages into these hidden chambers. 5 00:00:23,775 --> 00:00:28,363 [ Narrator] And it may hold the truth behind our very existence. 6 00:00:28,446 --> 00:00:33,368 It reads, “I have under me the knowledge of our genesis.” 7 00:00:37,288 --> 00:00:39,123 [ Narrator] The Great Sphinx of Giza... 8 00:00:39,207 --> 00:00:41,459 is perhaps the most mysterious monument on Earth. 9 00:00:41,543 --> 00:00:42,710 [ Beeping ] 10 00:00:42,794 --> 00:00:45,380 But once its riddle is solved... 11 00:00:45,463 --> 00:00:47,423 will we find the ultimate proof... 12 00:00:47,507 --> 00:00:51,719 that our ancestors were visited by alien beings? 13 00:00:51,803 --> 00:00:57,058 [ Man ] What's staring us in the face goes back to when extraterrestrials... 14 00:00:57,141 --> 00:01:00,478 walked the earth with human beings. 15 00:01:01,437 --> 00:01:04,190 [ Narrator] Millions of people around the world believe... 16 00:01:04,274 --> 00:01:08,236 we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 17 00:01:08,903 --> 00:01:11,739 What if it were true? 18 00:01:11,823 --> 00:01:15,910 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 19 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:23,084 And if so, might the proof lie hidden with the mysteries of the Sphinx? 20 00:01:54,157 --> 00:01:56,034 [ Narrator] The Giza Plateau. 21 00:01:57,368 --> 00:02:01,289 Egypt, 1925. 22 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,292 Rising out of the desert sand... 23 00:02:04,375 --> 00:02:07,503 is a giant stone statue of a human head. 24 00:02:08,713 --> 00:02:11,716 For centuries, most visitors to the area... 25 00:02:11,799 --> 00:02:14,135 believed this was all that existed. 26 00:02:15,136 --> 00:02:17,847 But French engineer Emile Baraize... 27 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:21,267 is convinced that much more lies beneath the surface... 28 00:02:21,351 --> 00:02:23,978 than even archaeologists are aware of. 29 00:02:26,314 --> 00:02:29,150 He begins an excavation to uncover it... 30 00:02:29,233 --> 00:02:32,028 and after 11 years of extensive digging... 31 00:02:32,111 --> 00:02:36,324 Baraize unearths a massive body resembling a lion... 32 00:02:36,407 --> 00:02:38,368 and reintroduces the world... 33 00:02:38,451 --> 00:02:42,246 to the full splendor of the Great Sphinx. 34 00:02:45,833 --> 00:02:49,545 It is the largest monolithic sculpture on Earth. 35 00:02:51,422 --> 00:02:55,718 It must have been quite eerie to be there back then... 36 00:02:55,802 --> 00:02:58,846 not knowing a lot about the ancient Egyptian history... 37 00:03:00,139 --> 00:03:04,811 and having this huge structure staring down at you. 38 00:03:09,649 --> 00:03:12,694 [ Narrator] Facing east toward the rising sun... 39 00:03:12,777 --> 00:03:15,488 the Great Sphinx is located nearly half a mile... 40 00:03:15,571 --> 00:03:18,199 from Egypt's three largest pyramids. 41 00:03:19,283 --> 00:03:22,995 l! is carved from a single piece of limestone bedrock... 42 00:03:23,079 --> 00:03:28,084 and stands over 60 feet tall and 240 feet long. 43 00:03:30,336 --> 00:03:33,589 People have asked themselves for centuries... 44 00:03:33,673 --> 00:03:36,342 “What was the sphinx for? 45 00:03:36,426 --> 00:03:38,344 Why was it built? 46 00:03:38,428 --> 00:03:42,974 There is a story behind it, but what is the story?” 47 00:03:46,936 --> 00:03:48,563 [ Narrator] The Sphinx is arguably... 48 00:03:48,646 --> 00:03:51,858 one of the most studied monuments in the world... 49 00:03:53,025 --> 00:03:56,028 yet it remains one of the most mysterious. 50 00:03:58,489 --> 00:04:00,742 There are no inscriptions on the Sphinx... 51 00:04:00,825 --> 00:04:03,327 to indicate who built it or why... 52 00:04:04,245 --> 00:04:08,583 but most Egyptologists date it to 2,500 BC... 53 00:04:11,753 --> 00:04:13,880 the time of the Pharaoh Khafre... 54 00:04:13,963 --> 00:04:16,966 or Chephren, as he is known by Greek scholars. 55 00:04:17,842 --> 00:04:20,261 The dating is based on a mention of Khafre. . . 56 00:04:20,344 --> 00:04:23,514 On a tablet found between the paws of the Sphinx. 57 00:04:24,515 --> 00:04:27,435 But this tablet, known as the Dream Stela... 58 00:04:27,518 --> 00:04:32,106 also tells the story of a pharaoh who came 1,000 years later- 59 00:04:32,190 --> 00:04:34,692 King Thutmose IV. 60 00:04:36,444 --> 00:04:38,946 [ Romany] King Thutmose IV comes in a new kingdom... 61 00:04:39,030 --> 00:04:42,492 which we believe is more than a thousand years... 62 00:04:42,575 --> 00:04:45,870 after the time the Sphinx was sculpted. 63 00:04:45,953 --> 00:04:49,415 He made this stela to tell his story. 64 00:04:50,416 --> 00:04:52,835 King Thutmose IV, before becoming a king... 65 00:04:52,919 --> 00:04:56,380 was on an expedition here in Giza. 66 00:04:57,298 --> 00:04:59,884 And he slept right next to the Sphinx. 67 00:05:00,885 --> 00:05:05,056 And back then, the Sphinx was covered in sand all the way up to its head. 68 00:05:06,808 --> 00:05:09,644 And in his dream, the Sphinx came to him. 69 00:05:09,727 --> 00:05:12,021 [ Man ] The Sphinx spoke to him and said... 70 00:05:12,104 --> 00:05:15,817 that if he would uncover the Sphinx from the burial in the sand... 71 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:18,277 he would then end up as pharaoh. 72 00:05:18,361 --> 00:05:22,865 Now, he was the son of a pharaoh, but was not the heir. 73 00:05:22,949 --> 00:05:26,744 Thutmose IV ended up with that throne after this dream. 74 00:05:26,828 --> 00:05:30,748 The Sphinx itself speaks to a future pharaoh... 75 00:05:30,832 --> 00:05:35,086 and the history of ancient Egypt is altered by this fact. 76 00:05:37,171 --> 00:05:40,716 The Sphinx told King Thutmose IV in his sleep... 77 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,301 right here in that line... 78 00:05:42,385 --> 00:05:46,347 that everything that the eye of the lord illuminates... 79 00:05:47,390 --> 00:05:48,850 will be his. 80 00:05:48,933 --> 00:05:51,435 He cleared all the sand surrounding the Sphinx... 81 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:54,480 and Thutmose IV then became the king. 82 00:05:54,564 --> 00:05:56,899 So the Sphinx kept its promise. 83 00:05:58,693 --> 00:06:00,570 [ Man ] Now, the amazing thing about this... 84 00:06:00,653 --> 00:06:05,700 is that we learn of what's called “the flashing eye of the lord.” 85 00:06:05,783 --> 00:06:07,910 What is the flashing eye of the lord? 86 00:06:07,994 --> 00:06:10,121 This sounds like some kind of technology... 87 00:06:10,204 --> 00:06:15,001 that is in communication with the Sphinx or perhaps channeled by the Sphinx... 88 00:06:15,084 --> 00:06:18,045 that could ensure the prosperity of Thutmose IV. 89 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,925 [ Narrator] If the story on the Dream Stela is true... 90 00:06:23,009 --> 00:06:27,471 the Sphinx not only ensured the prosperity of Thutmose IV... 91 00:06:27,555 --> 00:06:31,017 but of perhaps the most important dynastic family... 92 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:34,353 in the history of the Egyptian empire. 93 00:06:34,437 --> 00:06:40,192 Thutmose IV was actually the grandfather of Akhenaton. 94 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,739 [ Narrator] Akhenaton was considered a heretical pharaoh. 95 00:06:44,822 --> 00:06:48,034 He changed the polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt... 96 00:06:48,117 --> 00:06:52,079 and declared there was only one god- Aton- 97 00:06:52,163 --> 00:06:55,833 a god he depicted as a disk in the sky. 98 00:06:56,334 --> 00:07:00,212 Akhenaton became enthralled with the Aton disk. 99 00:07:00,296 --> 00:07:03,966 Is it possible that the eye of the lord and the Aton disk... 100 00:07:04,050 --> 00:07:06,969 are one and the same, and that they are, in fact... 101 00:07:07,053 --> 00:07:12,433 some kind of UFO spaceship that's hovering over Egypt... 102 00:07:12,516 --> 00:07:14,393 as an eye in the sky... 103 00:07:14,477 --> 00:07:18,022 and is guiding the Egyptian civilization? 104 00:07:20,650 --> 00:07:23,736 [ Narrator] Could it be that the eye of the lord and the Aton... 105 00:07:23,819 --> 00:07:26,822 are describing the same object? 106 00:07:26,906 --> 00:07:30,284 And if so, was Egyptian civilization... 107 00:07:30,368 --> 00:07:32,745 being guided by extraterrestrials... 108 00:07:32,828 --> 00:07:35,957 that used the Sphinx as a means of communication? 109 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:40,044 Might the Dream Stela be proof... 110 00:07:40,127 --> 00:07:42,630 that this mysterious monolithic statue... 111 00:07:42,713 --> 00:07:45,549 was built long before the Pharaoh Khafre? 112 00:07:46,133 --> 00:07:49,011 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 113 00:07:49,095 --> 00:07:53,224 and point to yet another line of the Dream Stela as proof. 114 00:07:56,894 --> 00:07:58,980 [ Man ] There's something else written on the Sphinx... 115 00:07:59,063 --> 00:08:01,482 that was ignored by Egyptologists. 116 00:08:02,650 --> 00:08:08,030 The Sphinx actually says, “I have been here since the first time.” 117 00:08:10,032 --> 00:08:14,578 Now, the word in ancient Egyptian for “first time” is Zep Tepi. 118 00:08:15,579 --> 00:08:18,749 And what he meant by this is the time when Osiris... 119 00:08:18,833 --> 00:08:22,336 had come at the beginning of the civilization. 120 00:08:24,755 --> 00:08:28,467 The Egyptians talk about a golden age- 121 00:08:28,551 --> 00:08:34,974 a golden age that existed 12,500 or so years ago. 122 00:08:35,057 --> 00:08:38,936 This is something that goes back at least 8,000 years... 123 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:42,523 before the current accepted chronology of Egypt. 124 00:08:45,109 --> 00:08:51,615 At that time, the gods mingled or walked with men. 125 00:08:54,827 --> 00:08:56,829 [ Narrator] Could this extraordinary monument... 126 00:08:56,912 --> 00:08:58,956 be a remnant from a golden age... 127 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,126 when extraterrestrials coexisted with humans... 128 00:09:02,209 --> 00:09:04,962 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 129 00:09:06,505 --> 00:09:10,468 If so, does the Sphinx date back thousands of years... 130 00:09:10,551 --> 00:09:14,221 before conventional scholars believe possible? 131 00:09:15,222 --> 00:09:17,808 Perhaps further clues of its true age... 132 00:09:17,892 --> 00:09:22,021 can be found in the geological record of the Giza Plateau. 133 00:09:27,818 --> 00:09:29,653 Boston, Massachusetts. 134 00:09:30,905 --> 00:09:33,240 Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch... 135 00:09:33,324 --> 00:09:38,245 has studied the geological features of the Sphinx for over 20 years. 136 00:09:38,329 --> 00:09:41,832 I looked specifically at the weathering and erosion... 137 00:09:41,916 --> 00:09:45,377 on the body of the Sphinx, on the walls of the Sphinx enclosure. 138 00:09:45,461 --> 00:09:47,922 I saw weathering patterns that were not compatible... 139 00:09:48,005 --> 00:09:51,842 with the Sahara conditions of the last 5,000 years. 140 00:09:53,177 --> 00:09:58,099 Here we have a photograph of the Sphinx on the left side. 141 00:09:58,182 --> 00:10:02,103 This is the rump of the Sphinx. This is the wall of the Sphinx enclosure. 142 00:10:02,186 --> 00:10:05,189 When you look at this, these are the lines of rock... 143 00:10:05,272 --> 00:10:07,942 or the strata, as we say, geologically. 144 00:10:08,025 --> 00:10:12,446 You can see how they've been weathered out, sort of a rounded, rolling profile. 145 00:10:12,530 --> 00:10:16,909 This is caused by rain beating down and running over the rock. 146 00:10:16,992 --> 00:10:20,788 And this was very evident to me as a geologist. 147 00:10:25,376 --> 00:10:27,628 [ Narrator] According to archaeologists... 148 00:10:27,711 --> 00:10:30,131 significant rainfall in the Giza Plateau... 149 00:10:30,214 --> 00:10:33,801 would date back to before 3,000 BC... 150 00:10:33,884 --> 00:10:39,223 at least 500 years before the time attributed to the building of the Sphinx. 151 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:45,354 [Schoch ] The degree and level of erosion that we see on the Great Sphinx... 152 00:10:45,437 --> 00:10:48,941 has to go back to that earlier climatic period... 153 00:10:49,024 --> 00:10:50,818 and not just a few hundred years- 154 00:10:50,901 --> 00:10:53,487 thousands of years before Sahara times. 155 00:10:53,571 --> 00:10:57,491 This put us back to at least 5,000, maybe 7,000, 8,000- 156 00:10:57,575 --> 00:11:00,452 I now suspect even 10,000 BC. 157 00:11:02,079 --> 00:11:04,498 [ Tsoukalos ] if we are to subscribe to the idea... 158 00:11:04,582 --> 00:11:09,420 that the Sphinx displays markings of water erosion... 159 00:11:10,504 --> 00:11:12,339 then that means... 160 00:11:12,423 --> 00:11:14,550 that what's staring us in the face... 161 00:11:14,633 --> 00:11:17,178 is much, much older... 162 00:11:17,261 --> 00:11:20,723 than what mainstream science proposes. 163 00:11:23,726 --> 00:11:25,519 [ Narrator] Is the Sphinx really older... 164 00:11:25,603 --> 00:11:28,647 than our history books have led us to believe? 165 00:11:29,398 --> 00:11:35,112 If so, who or what was responsible for its construction? 166 00:11:35,196 --> 00:11:37,531 Perhaps further clues can be found... 167 00:11:37,615 --> 00:11:40,326 by examining the face of the Sphinx... 168 00:11:40,409 --> 00:11:44,121 and what it might have looked like before it was altered. 169 00:11:53,214 --> 00:11:54,757 [ Narrator] Cairo, Egypt. 170 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,760 January, 2011. 171 00:11:59,178 --> 00:12:03,682 Thousands of antigovernment protesters clash with riot police. 172 00:12:06,143 --> 00:12:09,647 They are demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. 173 00:12:10,773 --> 00:12:12,775 Civil unrest escalates... 174 00:12:14,068 --> 00:12:17,863 leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured... 175 00:12:17,947 --> 00:12:20,449 in the wake of the Arab Spring. 176 00:12:24,036 --> 00:12:26,413 Just eight miles away... 177 00:12:26,497 --> 00:12:30,167 the Great Sphinx bears silent witness. 178 00:12:31,043 --> 00:12:34,672 For thousands of years and through numerous conflicts... 179 00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:37,675 the monument has remained unscathed... 180 00:12:38,425 --> 00:12:41,262 except for the loss of its nose. 181 00:12:44,181 --> 00:12:46,600 [ Bauval ] The nose was broken. 182 00:12:46,684 --> 00:12:49,103 Many people accuse Napoleon of doing that... 183 00:12:51,021 --> 00:12:52,773 to take potshots with his cannons. 184 00:12:52,856 --> 00:12:55,776 But in fact, it was done long before. 185 00:12:56,860 --> 00:12:58,946 A Muslim ruler in the Middle Ages... 186 00:12:59,029 --> 00:13:03,200 decided that the Sphinx represented a guardian of the underworld... 187 00:13:04,660 --> 00:13:07,121 that he was a type of demon and that he was dangerous. 188 00:13:07,204 --> 00:13:08,998 [ Thunderclap ] 189 00:13:09,790 --> 00:13:12,918 It was believed that he might have been some kind of dark god... 190 00:13:13,002 --> 00:13:15,963 and as a result, the Sphinx was vandalized. 191 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:21,218 [ Narrator] After many years of study... 192 00:13:21,302 --> 00:13:24,430 evidence of just who the face on the Sphinx belongs to... 193 00:13:25,222 --> 00:13:27,099 remains circumstantial... 194 00:13:27,182 --> 00:13:29,351 and is debated by researchers. 195 00:13:30,644 --> 00:13:33,480 Most scholars attribute the face to Khafre... 196 00:13:33,564 --> 00:13:36,400 the pharaoh they propose built the Sphinx. 197 00:13:39,570 --> 00:13:42,072 But ancient astronaut theorists claim... 198 00:13:42,156 --> 00:13:47,411 that the Sphinx was not built by Khafre, as mainstream historians suggest. 199 00:13:48,329 --> 00:13:52,750 They say that the Sphinx predates the age of the pharaohs... 200 00:13:52,833 --> 00:13:55,711 and propose that the true head of the Sphinx... 201 00:13:55,794 --> 00:13:58,964 has not been seen for thousands of years. 202 00:14:00,257 --> 00:14:03,844 Many people have suggested, including scholars... 203 00:14:03,927 --> 00:14:07,765 that the current head that's on that massive body... 204 00:14:10,434 --> 00:14:15,856 is way too small for it to be proportional to the body... 205 00:14:16,607 --> 00:14:20,778 because it was reshaped, recarved at a later date. 206 00:14:20,861 --> 00:14:25,032 If you think about that for a moment, that's highly fascinating... 207 00:14:25,115 --> 00:14:30,329 because what did that thing look like in its original form? 208 00:14:32,081 --> 00:14:34,375 It has been suggested that perhaps, originally... 209 00:14:34,458 --> 00:14:37,169 it was the face of a lion, or the head of a lion. 210 00:14:38,253 --> 00:14:40,881 [Coppens] I think there is an argument that the head of the Sphinx... 211 00:14:40,964 --> 00:14:43,300 was a full lion's head. 212 00:14:44,176 --> 00:14:46,428 And I think that there is power to the theory... 213 00:14:46,512 --> 00:14:50,307 that the Sphinx actually represented the constellation of Leo. 214 00:14:55,145 --> 00:14:57,314 [ Narrator] Curiously, there's no reference... 215 00:14:57,398 --> 00:15:00,943 to a statue of a Great Sphinx, or even a great lion... 216 00:15:01,026 --> 00:15:03,529 in any old kingdom texts. 217 00:15:04,321 --> 00:15:07,574 But one scholar who has extensively studied the monument... 218 00:15:07,658 --> 00:15:10,327 proposes that this is due to the fact... 219 00:15:10,411 --> 00:15:13,497 that it was originally something entirely different. 220 00:15:14,581 --> 00:15:18,168 When I saw the body, I instantly thought, “That's no lion's body.” 221 00:15:20,629 --> 00:15:23,048 Now, if you study a lion... 222 00:15:23,132 --> 00:15:25,342 it has great big shoulders... 223 00:15:26,844 --> 00:15:29,430 it has a sloping back. 224 00:15:29,513 --> 00:15:32,224 And so you do not have a straight back for a lion. 225 00:15:33,142 --> 00:15:35,477 It couldn't be more obvious that this is a dog's body. 226 00:15:35,561 --> 00:15:39,231 That's exactly how they crouch when they're in a guarding position. 227 00:15:40,774 --> 00:15:44,570 And there's only one dog it could be. That has to be Anubis. 228 00:15:46,113 --> 00:15:48,282 Anubis is a dog god... 229 00:15:48,365 --> 00:15:51,368 who is the guardian of the sacred necropolis. 230 00:15:52,369 --> 00:15:54,705 Well, Giza is the sacred necropolis. 231 00:15:55,706 --> 00:16:00,002 I went through the ancient texts, and I found it mentioned everywhere. 232 00:16:00,085 --> 00:16:02,546 The Pyramid Texts and the Book of Gates... 233 00:16:02,629 --> 00:16:04,798 and the Book of Caverns and the Book of Two Ways... 234 00:16:04,882 --> 00:16:06,592 and all those ancient books... 235 00:16:06,675 --> 00:16:08,969 and they're talking about it the whole time. 236 00:16:09,636 --> 00:16:12,097 The easiest thing to do when trying to destroy the Sphinx... 237 00:16:12,181 --> 00:16:15,601 is to knock pointy ears and a pointy nose off... 238 00:16:15,684 --> 00:16:17,352 which is what Anubis had. 239 00:16:18,437 --> 00:16:20,856 So this is the remaining stump... 240 00:16:20,939 --> 00:16:23,692 from which they could fashion a human head. 241 00:16:23,775 --> 00:16:25,944 That's what they did, and it was a very clever job... 242 00:16:26,028 --> 00:16:28,822 and everybody's still in awe of it... 243 00:16:28,906 --> 00:16:33,702 even though they don't know any longer that it was meant to be Anubis at one time. 244 00:16:37,414 --> 00:16:39,249 [ Narrator] The Egyptian god Anubis... 245 00:16:39,333 --> 00:16:43,629 is one of the most prominently featured figures in all of Egyptian art. 246 00:16:44,421 --> 00:16:47,007 He was considered a protector of graves... 247 00:16:47,090 --> 00:16:49,426 the god of mummification... 248 00:16:50,135 --> 00:16:53,764 and is associated with the resurrection of the god Osiris. 249 00:16:56,225 --> 00:17:00,771 [ Bauval ] Anubis is clearly identified as a god of the dead. 250 00:17:00,854 --> 00:17:03,690 He symbolizes the afterlife. 251 00:17:03,774 --> 00:17:06,652 His importance is enormous... 252 00:17:06,735 --> 00:17:09,905 in these resurrection activities that went on. 253 00:17:14,159 --> 00:17:16,537 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the head of the Sphinx... 254 00:17:16,620 --> 00:17:20,707 was originally carved to look completely different than it does today? 255 00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:25,712 And if so, could it have had the face of Anubis... 256 00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:32,052 a god that ancient astronaut theorists propose... 257 00:17:32,135 --> 00:17:37,224 was an actual being who visited our planet in the remote past? 258 00:17:37,307 --> 00:17:40,269 The Egyptians themselves genuinely believed... 259 00:17:40,352 --> 00:17:42,896 that these were actual beings... 260 00:17:42,980 --> 00:17:46,066 who had dogs' head or jackal heads. 261 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,736 [ Man ] The god Anubis is listed... 262 00:17:49,820 --> 00:17:52,864 as one of those who came during Zep Tepi. 263 00:17:52,948 --> 00:17:54,908 Or the “first time”... 264 00:17:54,992 --> 00:17:57,244 one of the ancient, ancient ancients... 265 00:17:57,327 --> 00:18:01,915 who is openly cited in Egyptian mythology... 266 00:18:01,999 --> 00:18:04,668 as being an extraterrestrial. 267 00:18:06,670 --> 00:18:08,755 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the first pharaohs... 268 00:18:08,839 --> 00:18:11,091 didn’t build the Sphinx... 269 00:18:11,174 --> 00:18:12,843 but discovered it? 270 00:18:12,926 --> 00:18:15,804 And might they have actually recarved its face? 271 00:18:17,222 --> 00:18:19,016 Perhaps the answer can be found... 272 00:18:19,099 --> 00:18:22,436 by examining not when the Great Sphinx was built... 273 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:24,229 but why. 274 00:18:31,028 --> 00:18:32,696 [ Narrator] The Giza necropolis... 275 00:18:32,779 --> 00:18:36,658 which consists of three great pyramids guarded by the Sphinx... 276 00:18:36,742 --> 00:18:40,579 is the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 277 00:18:42,164 --> 00:18:46,543 The original purpose of the complex is still debated by historians... 278 00:18:46,627 --> 00:18:49,921 as is the connection of the three pyramids to each other... 279 00:18:50,005 --> 00:18:51,923 and to the Sphinx. 280 00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:57,179 There is no question in my mind, and in the mind of many researchers... 281 00:18:57,262 --> 00:19:00,265 that the Giza Necropolis is a planned project. 282 00:19:00,349 --> 00:19:03,644 It isn't just pharaohs who came and put their pyramids haphazardly... 283 00:19:03,727 --> 00:19:05,395 and then built the Sphinx. 284 00:19:05,479 --> 00:19:08,273 The geometry of the site makes it very unlikely... 285 00:19:08,357 --> 00:19:10,734 that it's not a designed project. 286 00:19:13,862 --> 00:19:16,990 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the Sphinx and the Pyramids... 287 00:19:17,074 --> 00:19:19,660 were designed to function together? 288 00:19:19,743 --> 00:19:22,496 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 289 00:19:22,579 --> 00:19:26,958 and suggest a recently unearthed tomb could provide proof. 290 00:19:28,085 --> 00:19:30,504 Just 200 feet from the Sphinx... 291 00:19:30,587 --> 00:19:35,050 in a causeway connecting the second pyramid to its temple complex... 292 00:19:35,133 --> 00:19:37,678 is an entrance to what is believed to be... 293 00:19:37,761 --> 00:19:41,431 the ceremonial burial chamber of the god Osiris. 294 00:19:43,558 --> 00:19:48,105 The Osiris shaft was first unearthed in 1934... 295 00:19:49,898 --> 00:19:53,443 but only fully explored in 1999. 296 00:19:57,197 --> 00:19:59,366 This place has not been visited much. 297 00:19:59,449 --> 00:20:03,787 It's probably been visited only a handful of times since 1999. 298 00:20:07,541 --> 00:20:10,043 Right here is the first level. 299 00:20:10,127 --> 00:20:12,212 The first level is not that deep. 300 00:20:13,463 --> 00:20:15,966 [ Narrator] The Osiris shaft actually consists... 301 00:20:16,049 --> 00:20:17,718 of three different shafts... 302 00:20:17,801 --> 00:20:20,429 that descend to three separate chambers. 303 00:20:20,512 --> 00:20:25,267 The final chamber is buried nearly 10 stories underground... 304 00:20:26,143 --> 00:20:30,439 and contains what some say is the sarcophagus of Osiris. 305 00:20:34,317 --> 00:20:37,738 Here we are, a hundred feet deep. 306 00:20:37,821 --> 00:20:41,116 The third and final chamber in the Osiris shaft. 307 00:20:42,117 --> 00:20:44,327 And here's the sarcophagus right in front of me. 308 00:20:45,287 --> 00:20:47,998 This is only the lid of the sarcophagus. 309 00:20:48,915 --> 00:20:52,085 The body of the sarcophagus is under the water... 310 00:20:52,169 --> 00:20:54,963 and it's at least three times the size of the lid. 311 00:20:55,964 --> 00:20:58,133 And to the four corners of the island... 312 00:20:58,216 --> 00:21:03,597 there were four pillars that are now nearly completely destroyed. 313 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,683 The four had hieroglyphic inscriptions on them... 314 00:21:06,767 --> 00:21:09,436 some of which read “God Osiris”... 315 00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:11,480 the god of the underground. 316 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,235 [ Narrator] While most' scholars believe Osiris to be a mythical being... 317 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:19,488 and his tomb merely symbolic... 318 00:21:19,571 --> 00:21:21,907 ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 319 00:21:21,990 --> 00:21:24,409 that not only was Osiris real... 320 00:21:24,493 --> 00:21:27,454 but this nine-foot sarcophagus offers evidence... 321 00:21:27,537 --> 00:21:31,374 of extraterrestrial intervention in the remote past. 322 00:21:33,627 --> 00:21:36,713 The word “sarcophagus” means “flesh eater.” 323 00:21:37,881 --> 00:21:40,550 And this is like a giant black box. 324 00:21:40,634 --> 00:21:44,304 A flesh-and-blood being goes into the box, is sealed in it. 325 00:21:45,055 --> 00:21:48,683 The box consumes them, and the body disappears. 326 00:21:52,312 --> 00:21:57,317 [Wilcock ] The idea of a sarcophagus that has no actual mummy or body in it... 327 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,863 suggests the possibility of teleportation... 328 00:22:01,947 --> 00:22:06,117 and the possibility of the transmutation of the physical body. 329 00:22:06,201 --> 00:22:09,996 It is a suggestion, perhaps... 330 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,792 that those who built that monument... 331 00:22:13,875 --> 00:22:15,669 and those underground rooms... 332 00:22:15,752 --> 00:22:19,506 could completely portal out of our reality entirely. 333 00:22:24,970 --> 00:22:28,473 [ Narrator] Could it be that what was discovered in the Osiris shaft... 334 00:22:28,557 --> 00:22:31,393 were the remnants of advanced technology? 335 00:22:31,476 --> 00:22:34,813 Technology that would allow for travel to other worlds? 336 00:22:36,940 --> 00:22:39,067 According to the Pyramid Texts... 337 00:22:39,150 --> 00:22:44,155 funerary inscriptions that were carved on the walls of the early Egyptian tombs... 338 00:22:44,239 --> 00:22:47,367 the sacred necropolis would serve as a gateway... 339 00:22:47,450 --> 00:22:49,953 to the pharaoh's resurrection and ascension... 340 00:22:50,036 --> 00:22:52,789 to join the god Osiris in the heavens. 341 00:22:52,873 --> 00:22:55,458 [ Henry] The foundational premise of ancient Egyptian myth... 342 00:22:55,542 --> 00:22:58,044 is that Osiris came from the stars... 343 00:22:58,879 --> 00:23:03,717 and that when he was resurrected, he went and dwelled in the star system Orion... 344 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,303 as a celestial being. 345 00:23:06,386 --> 00:23:10,599 The ancient Egyptians clearly describe their Great Pyramid... 346 00:23:10,682 --> 00:23:15,103 as a resurrection machine, as a teleportation device. 347 00:23:16,438 --> 00:23:19,441 The Sphinx functioned as the gateway. 348 00:23:22,152 --> 00:23:24,571 [Childress] Egyptologists have always assumed... 349 00:23:24,654 --> 00:23:28,325 that the Pyramids in Egypt were tombs for the pharaohs. 350 00:23:28,408 --> 00:23:33,580 And yet, no pharaoh or Egyptian dynastic mummy... 351 00:23:33,663 --> 00:23:37,000 was ever found in a pyramid in Egypt. 352 00:23:38,001 --> 00:23:41,546 A number of researchers have recently maintained... 353 00:23:41,630 --> 00:23:45,175 that the Great Pyramid, and some of the other pyramids in Egypt... 354 00:23:45,258 --> 00:23:49,262 are actually these very sophisticated power plants. 355 00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:53,308 You have to wonder if the Pyramids themselves... 356 00:23:53,391 --> 00:23:57,604 weren't created to generate tremendous amounts of energy. 357 00:23:57,687 --> 00:24:01,608 Energy that was needed to open the star gates. 358 00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:06,237 And this was part of the resurrection scheme. 359 00:24:10,867 --> 00:24:12,702 [ Narrator] Could the Giza complex... 360 00:24:12,786 --> 00:24:16,373 actually have functioned as some son' of technological device? 361 00:24:17,123 --> 00:24:20,794 A de vice that acted as a transport to other worlds... 362 00:24:20,877 --> 00:24:23,672 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 363 00:24:28,051 --> 00:24:30,679 Perhaps further evidence of such a connection... 364 00:24:30,762 --> 00:24:33,598 can be found by examining the precise alignments... 365 00:24:33,682 --> 00:24:36,309 found on the plateau. 366 00:24:36,393 --> 00:24:39,229 Archaeoastronomical analysis has revealed... 367 00:24:39,312 --> 00:24:41,815 that the position of the three great pyramids... 368 00:24:41,898 --> 00:24:45,610 seem to be mirroring the three belt stars of Orion. 369 00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:50,740 [ Bauval ] There's two bright stars and a third dimmer star... 370 00:24:50,824 --> 00:24:53,535 which is offset a bit to the left. 371 00:24:53,618 --> 00:24:55,870 Now, the odd thing... 372 00:24:55,954 --> 00:25:00,959 is that even though the correlation is very, very clear to see... 373 00:25:01,042 --> 00:25:05,797 the angle that the stars make in the sky... 374 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,509 is much sharper than the angles of the Pyramid. 375 00:25:09,592 --> 00:25:12,971 And there is where, after many years of studying this... 376 00:25:13,054 --> 00:25:15,598 I decided to take the leap of faith. 377 00:25:15,682 --> 00:25:18,101 Was there a time when these stars... 378 00:25:18,184 --> 00:25:21,855 would be exactly how we see them on the ground? 379 00:25:24,357 --> 00:25:27,694 [ Narrator] The Great Pyramid contains within it several shafts... 380 00:25:27,777 --> 00:25:31,865 one of which forms a 45-degree angle toward the sky. 381 00:25:33,742 --> 00:25:37,620 Bauval was able to calculate the historical movement of the stars... 382 00:25:37,704 --> 00:25:42,042 to determine the date when the shaft would point directly to the belt stars. 383 00:25:43,585 --> 00:25:46,504 Amazingly, when I did this... 384 00:25:47,630 --> 00:25:51,342 what we had was the full set of monuments... 385 00:25:51,426 --> 00:25:54,596 locking to this date of 10,500 BC. 386 00:25:58,308 --> 00:26:00,226 [ Narrator] Is it' mere coincidence... 387 00:26:00,310 --> 00:26:03,146 that the Pyramids were strategically aligned to correspond... 388 00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:08,568 to the three belt stars of Orion precisely 12,500 years ago? 389 00:26:10,487 --> 00:26:14,574 And if so, does this date hold a profound significance... 390 00:26:14,657 --> 00:26:16,367 to Earth's history? 391 00:26:17,327 --> 00:26:19,746 Perhaps the answers will be revealed... 392 00:26:19,829 --> 00:26:24,042 in the quest to uncover a secret chamber. 393 00:26:32,467 --> 00:26:34,803 [ Narrator] Virginia Beach, Virginia. 394 00:26:34,886 --> 00:26:36,888 1932. 395 00:26:38,056 --> 00:26:40,934 American psychic and healer Edgar Cayce... 396 00:26:41,017 --> 00:26:43,228 known as the sleeping prophet... 397 00:26:43,311 --> 00:26:44,938 gains worldwide attention... 398 00:26:45,021 --> 00:26:47,941 by remotely diagnosing illnesses in patients... 399 00:26:48,024 --> 00:26:50,360 located hundreds of miles away... 400 00:26:50,443 --> 00:26:52,946 with an astounding degree of accuracy. 401 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:56,699 He could diagnose people's physical problems. 402 00:26:56,783 --> 00:26:58,535 He could tell you what's in a book. 403 00:26:58,618 --> 00:27:00,703 He could find something at a great distance. 404 00:27:00,787 --> 00:27:05,375 He could even read the Akashic record, the book of life. 405 00:27:09,379 --> 00:27:11,923 [ Narrator] During one of his many psychic trances... 406 00:27:12,006 --> 00:27:15,677 Cayce makes an astonishing claim regarding the Sphinx. 407 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:21,558 [Van Auken ] Edgar Cayce could tell you about prehistory and reincarnation... 408 00:27:21,641 --> 00:27:26,437 and what your soul had been doing prior to this incarnation. 409 00:27:26,521 --> 00:27:29,732 He actually gave readings for his own soul... 410 00:27:29,816 --> 00:27:32,735 that had been a high priest in ancient Egypt... 411 00:27:32,819 --> 00:27:36,656 and was directly associated with the building of the Sphinx. 412 00:27:39,325 --> 00:27:42,328 [Wilcock] Edgar Cayce had in his readings... 413 00:27:42,412 --> 00:27:46,332 a statement that the Sphinx and the Pyramids were built... 414 00:27:46,416 --> 00:27:50,336 in approximately 10,490 BC. 415 00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:54,340 There's a strong suggestion that the Cayce readings were accurate... 416 00:27:54,424 --> 00:27:57,343 and therefore, their dating of the Sphinx and the Pyramids... 417 00:27:57,427 --> 00:28:00,096 also was accurate. 418 00:28:05,101 --> 00:28:08,313 [ Narrator] Up until his death in 1945... 419 00:28:08,396 --> 00:28:11,941 Cayce gave dozens of readings about the Sphinx. 420 00:28:12,025 --> 00:28:15,445 These readings claimed the Sphinx was directly related... 421 00:28:15,528 --> 00:28:17,530 to an ancient civilization... 422 00:28:17,614 --> 00:28:20,700 that many believe once existed here on Earth- 423 00:28:20,783 --> 00:28:23,369 the lost continent of Atlantis. 424 00:28:24,621 --> 00:28:27,373 [Wilcock] The Edgar Cayce readings specifically say... 425 00:28:27,457 --> 00:28:32,253 that Atlantis, as recorded by Plato, was not a myth. 426 00:28:33,421 --> 00:28:38,468 He leaked that information given to him by the Egyptian priesthood... 427 00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:41,804 and put it into his books, the Timaeus and the Critias. 428 00:28:43,890 --> 00:28:45,558 [ Tsoukalos ] Here's the interesting thing. 429 00:28:45,642 --> 00:28:49,270 Plato describes that Atlantis existed... 430 00:28:49,354 --> 00:28:51,814 exactly at the same time... 431 00:28:51,898 --> 00:28:57,487 that ancient Egypt experienced what they referred to as a golden age. 432 00:29:02,158 --> 00:29:06,412 [ Narrator] If the Cayce readings about the existence of Atlantis are true... 433 00:29:06,496 --> 00:29:11,334 then might the Sphinx actually be a remnant from this advanced civilization? 434 00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:16,256 Perhaps further clues to this connection... 435 00:29:16,339 --> 00:29:18,967 can be found with yet another Cayce prophecy... 436 00:29:19,050 --> 00:29:21,052 regarding the Sphinx. 437 00:29:22,053 --> 00:29:25,556 [Young ] Cayce dreamed that under the right paw of the Sphinx... 438 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,102 there was a chamber at a very specific place... 439 00:29:29,185 --> 00:29:31,521 that apparently hold the hall of records... 440 00:29:31,604 --> 00:29:34,148 from the lost civilization of Atlantis... 441 00:29:34,232 --> 00:29:36,901 which Cayce felt he was a direct part of. 442 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:40,738 [Van Auken ] When Atlantis was sinking... 443 00:29:40,822 --> 00:29:43,825 the Atlanteans were aware of the importance... 444 00:29:43,908 --> 00:29:45,785 of saving these records. 445 00:29:46,703 --> 00:29:49,956 And they also were aware of the need to hide the records... 446 00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:51,958 of prehistory. 447 00:29:52,041 --> 00:29:54,794 [Wilcock ] if we locate the original hall of records... 448 00:29:54,877 --> 00:29:57,630 we would be essentially accessing the equivalent... 449 00:29:57,714 --> 00:29:59,966 of a Google search engine... 450 00:30:00,049 --> 00:30:02,719 but it's the Atlantean Internet. 451 00:30:02,802 --> 00:30:05,430 So the Sphinx is an entry point... 452 00:30:05,513 --> 00:30:08,016 that could reveal once and for all... 453 00:30:08,099 --> 00:30:11,936 that humankind is much older on Earth than we thought. 454 00:30:17,150 --> 00:30:18,985 [ Narrator] The Giza Plateau. 455 00:30:19,068 --> 00:30:20,737 1978. 456 00:30:21,738 --> 00:30:24,407 Forty-five years after Cayce's reading... 457 00:30:24,490 --> 00:30:28,786 the Edgar Cayce Foundation initiates the Sphinx Exploration Project... 458 00:30:29,829 --> 00:30:34,250 for the sole purpose of locating secret chambers under the Sphinx... 459 00:30:34,334 --> 00:30:37,003 that may lead to the hall of records. 460 00:30:38,421 --> 00:30:42,258 They were allowed, amazingly, to drill holes under the Sphinx... 461 00:30:42,342 --> 00:30:44,761 to detect this possible chamber. 462 00:30:45,428 --> 00:30:50,350 They drilled eight holes. Unfortunately, nothing of certainty was found. 463 00:30:51,768 --> 00:30:55,188 They were stopped at the last minute- apparently they were very close, they felt- 464 00:30:55,271 --> 00:30:56,773 by the Egyptian Army. 465 00:30:56,856 --> 00:31:00,360 We did find anomalies beneath the Sphinx. 466 00:31:00,443 --> 00:31:04,947 Now, these could be chambers, not just cracks or caves. 467 00:31:05,031 --> 00:31:08,576 Edgar Cayce prophesied that in the future... 468 00:31:08,659 --> 00:31:11,954 and in the relatively near future... 469 00:31:12,038 --> 00:31:15,708 we would discover the secret chamber... 470 00:31:15,792 --> 00:31:17,585 of the hall of records. 471 00:31:19,420 --> 00:31:23,257 One of the stories of the Sphinx is that there's a hall of records... 472 00:31:23,341 --> 00:31:25,593 that's being kept there. 473 00:31:25,676 --> 00:31:29,889 Certain machines and technology and libraries... 474 00:31:29,972 --> 00:31:32,892 sealed in a special room... 475 00:31:32,975 --> 00:31:36,854 until the time is right that we're ready to discover it. 476 00:31:36,938 --> 00:31:39,857 And that time may be coming soon. 477 00:31:42,235 --> 00:31:45,196 [ Narrator] Is it possible that there are, in fact... 478 00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:47,990 secret chambers underneath the Sphinx? 479 00:31:48,074 --> 00:31:49,575 And if so... 480 00:31:49,659 --> 00:31:53,955 could they be hiding the hidden records of a lost civilization ? 481 00:31:55,623 --> 00:31:59,752 Or could it be that if a so-called hall of records exists... 482 00:31:59,836 --> 00:32:02,422 it doesn't lie in Giza... 483 00:32:02,505 --> 00:32:05,550 but millions of miles away... 484 00:32:05,633 --> 00:32:07,135 on Mars? 485 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:16,894 [ Narrator] Pasadena, California. 486 00:32:16,978 --> 00:32:19,856 July 4, 1997. 487 00:32:21,274 --> 00:32:24,610 Aerospace engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory... 488 00:32:24,694 --> 00:32:27,447 anxiously await a signal from the Pathfinder... 489 00:32:28,197 --> 00:32:32,702 indicating that it has landed intact on the surface of Mars. 490 00:32:33,536 --> 00:32:36,539 Thousands of viewers watch live news feeds... 491 00:32:37,290 --> 00:32:39,250 as the event unfolds. 492 00:32:44,380 --> 00:32:47,592 [ Man] The spacecraft has landed. Base pedal down. 493 00:32:47,675 --> 00:32:49,343 [Cheering ] 494 00:32:55,641 --> 00:32:58,102 [ Narrator] Hours after its successful landing... 495 00:32:58,186 --> 00:33:01,564 Pathfinder sends the first images from the surface of Mars... 496 00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:03,649 in over two decades. 497 00:33:04,734 --> 00:33:06,235 [ Shutter Clicks ] 498 00:33:07,528 --> 00:33:09,572 During its 12-week mission... 499 00:33:09,655 --> 00:33:14,660 Mars Pathfinder transmits 2. 3 billion bits of information... 500 00:33:14,744 --> 00:33:18,372 including more than 17,000 images. 501 00:33:20,791 --> 00:33:24,921 Among these photos is an image that some say reveals formations... 502 00:33:25,004 --> 00:33:27,381 that mirror the Giza Plateau... 503 00:33:31,886 --> 00:33:34,722 including what appears to be a sphinx. 504 00:33:38,601 --> 00:33:42,688 One of these photographs shows what looks like a sphinx... 505 00:33:42,772 --> 00:33:46,984 that is facing to the east, uh, sunrise on Mars. 506 00:33:48,069 --> 00:33:52,365 There is a huge pyramid mountain behind it. 507 00:33:53,783 --> 00:33:56,536 And you have to wonder if this Martian sphinx... 508 00:33:57,203 --> 00:33:59,997 isn't created by extraterrestrials. 509 00:34:01,207 --> 00:34:05,002 Some have proposed that there is a mirror image... 510 00:34:05,086 --> 00:34:08,047 of the Giza Plateau on Mars... 511 00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:12,051 and therefore, Mars might have been inhabited. 512 00:34:12,134 --> 00:34:15,805 And this is why we allegedly have structures on Mars... 513 00:34:15,888 --> 00:34:18,516 that are of artificial origin. 514 00:34:21,644 --> 00:34:25,481 [ Narrator] The idea of extraterrestrial life inhabiting Mars... 515 00:34:25,565 --> 00:34:28,192 has long fascinated mankind. 516 00:34:29,443 --> 00:34:33,239 In 1895, astronomer Percival Lowell... 517 00:34:33,322 --> 00:34:37,118 proposed an ancient civilization built canals on Mars... 518 00:34:37,201 --> 00:34:41,831 to bring water from the poles to keep their society alive. 519 00:34:41,914 --> 00:34:47,211 And since the first landing on the surface of Mars in 1976... 520 00:34:47,295 --> 00:34:51,048 NASA Mars missions have focused almost exclusively... 521 00:34:51,132 --> 00:34:54,927 on determining if life could exist on the red planet. 522 00:34:55,845 --> 00:34:59,599 We've found no real hard evidence of life. 523 00:34:59,682 --> 00:35:04,562 And yet there's this tantalizing possibility... 524 00:35:04,645 --> 00:35:06,439 where we haven't given up. 525 00:35:06,522 --> 00:35:10,318 We would be looking for a subterranean civilization... 526 00:35:10,401 --> 00:35:13,237 because surface conditions are just so harsh. 527 00:35:13,321 --> 00:35:17,450 Conceivably, you could have whole complex ecosystems... 528 00:35:17,533 --> 00:35:19,619 existing underground. 529 00:35:21,078 --> 00:35:23,706 [ Childress ] I think that if we were to go to Mars... 530 00:35:23,789 --> 00:35:25,791 and find civilization there... 531 00:35:25,875 --> 00:35:27,960 much of it would be underground. 532 00:35:28,044 --> 00:35:30,755 And you have to wonder if this Martian sphinx... 533 00:35:30,838 --> 00:35:35,259 isn't guarding some underground world on Mars... 534 00:35:35,343 --> 00:35:40,681 similar to the underground world at Giza that we know exists today. 535 00:35:44,894 --> 00:35:46,771 [ Narrator] Do the formations on Mars... 536 00:35:46,854 --> 00:35:50,566 provide evidence that the planet was once inhabited? 537 00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:54,153 And if so, does this sphinx on Mars... 538 00:35:54,236 --> 00:35:58,824 also serve as a marker of an entrance to an underground world... 539 00:36:00,076 --> 00:36:05,081 and perhaps the true location of a secret' hall of records ? 540 00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:09,460 According to some ancient astronaut theorists... 541 00:36:09,543 --> 00:36:13,172 if this Sphinx in Giza truly has a counterpart' on Mars... 542 00:36:14,048 --> 00:36:16,217 it would match up with what has been found... 543 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:19,220 in some of mankind's earliest writings. 544 00:36:20,846 --> 00:36:23,349 [ Man ] A famous linguist by the name of Zecharia Sitchin... 545 00:36:23,432 --> 00:36:26,435 actually translated ancient Sumerian tablets... 546 00:36:27,353 --> 00:36:31,190 that describe Mars being used as a way station... 547 00:36:31,273 --> 00:36:33,526 by their gods, the Anunnaki. 548 00:36:34,235 --> 00:36:37,279 It's very possible that these ancient Sumerian tales... 549 00:36:37,363 --> 00:36:40,700 talking about the Anunnaki traversing between Mars and Earth... 550 00:36:40,783 --> 00:36:42,702 are actual fact... 551 00:36:42,785 --> 00:36:45,830 and show a deeper connection of what we have in Giza... 552 00:36:45,913 --> 00:36:48,165 and what we also have on Mars. 553 00:36:50,668 --> 00:36:53,337 Every scientist agrees today... 554 00:36:53,421 --> 00:36:56,799 that Mars, at some point in time in the past... 555 00:36:58,342 --> 00:37:02,012 had an atmosphere not very unlike Earth's. 556 00:37:03,013 --> 00:37:05,516 And so if one were to propose the idea... 557 00:37:05,599 --> 00:37:09,854 that at some point, intelligent life inhabited Mars... 558 00:37:12,064 --> 00:37:16,277 what if one of the places that they escaped to... 559 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,154 was planet Earth? 560 00:37:20,281 --> 00:37:23,200 [ Narrator] Is it possible that there is, in fact... 561 00:37:23,284 --> 00:37:26,954 a profound connection between Earth and Mars? 562 00:37:27,705 --> 00:37:31,584 And could locating a second sphinx be the key to unlocking the secrets... 563 00:37:31,667 --> 00:37:33,669 about our ancient past? 564 00:37:34,670 --> 00:37:37,006 And if so, is it possible... 565 00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:40,593 that there is yet another sphinx that holds the key... 566 00:37:40,676 --> 00:37:43,846 one that's even closer to home? 567 00:37:52,897 --> 00:37:55,733 [ Narrator] Giza, 2014. 568 00:37:57,985 --> 00:38:01,614 Large-scale construction projects and high-rise development... 569 00:38:01,697 --> 00:38:05,659 encroach ever closer to the Sphinx and the great pyramids. 570 00:38:08,162 --> 00:38:11,957 Some believe that if the development continues unchecked... 571 00:38:12,041 --> 00:38:15,836 it will lead to the destruction of possible archaeological treasures... 572 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,422 still buried near the complex. 573 00:38:18,506 --> 00:38:21,634 But others feel that it may actually force the unearthing... 574 00:38:21,717 --> 00:38:24,720 of something more profound- 575 00:38:24,804 --> 00:38:26,806 a twin sphinx. 576 00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:32,102 Everything in ancient Egyptian art is very symmetrical. 577 00:38:32,186 --> 00:38:34,772 There's always two of everything. 578 00:38:34,855 --> 00:38:39,902 When we see huge, big statues, there's always two colossal statues. 579 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,824 There's always symmetry- two statues guarding one road. 580 00:38:45,491 --> 00:38:48,077 With the Sphinx, we've only found one. 581 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,162 Some people believe there's another one. 582 00:38:52,206 --> 00:38:56,210 There are actually many reasons to believe it may have had a mate. 583 00:38:56,293 --> 00:38:58,087 When we look at the stela... 584 00:38:58,170 --> 00:39:01,423 the new kingdom stela between the paws of the Sphinx... 585 00:39:01,507 --> 00:39:05,511 in fact, it shows not one sphinx, but two sphinxes. 586 00:39:07,263 --> 00:39:10,266 There were long periods of time... 587 00:39:10,349 --> 00:39:12,685 where the Sphinx was not seen. 588 00:39:12,768 --> 00:39:15,479 It was completely covered in sand. 589 00:39:17,231 --> 00:39:20,025 And so the idea would imply... 590 00:39:20,109 --> 00:39:23,070 that maybe there are other structures... 591 00:39:23,153 --> 00:39:26,657 that are still underneath the sand. 592 00:39:26,740 --> 00:39:31,745 Is it possible that a second sphinx exists on the Giza Plateau? 593 00:39:33,289 --> 00:39:36,375 [ Narrator] Although most researchers are open to the idea... 594 00:39:36,458 --> 00:39:39,712 of a second guardian on the Giza Plateau... 595 00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:43,632 multiple theories exist as to where this sphinx may be. 596 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,637 According to the Amduat... 597 00:39:48,721 --> 00:39:50,931 the ancient Egyptian funerary text... 598 00:39:51,015 --> 00:39:54,393 describing the hourly journey of the king in the afterlife... 599 00:39:54,476 --> 00:39:58,981 there is said to exist a second sphinx that faces to the west'. 600 00:39:59,940 --> 00:40:03,611 The fifth hour, which seems to represent the Giza necropolis, by the way... 601 00:40:04,737 --> 00:40:09,617 is protected by one sphinx in the east, which is the existing Sphinx. 602 00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,244 But they also show another sphinx in the back. 603 00:40:12,328 --> 00:40:15,998 Now, physically, was there another one? It's quite possible. 604 00:40:17,041 --> 00:40:20,461 There is certain mounds that haven't been properly excavated... 605 00:40:20,544 --> 00:40:22,087 on the west side... 606 00:40:22,171 --> 00:40:24,089 and there may be the remains of a sphinx. 607 00:40:24,173 --> 00:40:26,926 There certainly isn't a whole sphinx. We would've seen it by now. 608 00:40:27,009 --> 00:40:29,386 But there may be the foundations of a sphinx. 609 00:40:31,555 --> 00:40:34,099 [Young ] The nonexistent sphinx is almost as interesting... 610 00:40:34,183 --> 00:40:36,435 as the one we can look at. 611 00:40:36,518 --> 00:40:39,730 Does that location have any special energy to it? 612 00:40:39,813 --> 00:40:43,609 Is there some reason why life, fate, the gods... 613 00:40:43,692 --> 00:40:45,694 would have it disappear? 614 00:40:46,695 --> 00:40:48,781 [ Narrator] Could there really be a second sphinx... 615 00:40:48,864 --> 00:40:52,034 located somewhere on the Giza Plateau? 616 00:40:52,117 --> 00:40:57,164 And if so, how has it remained undiscovered for thousands of years? 617 00:41:00,709 --> 00:41:05,172 [ Henry] We know less than 30% of what's actually underneath the sand... 618 00:41:05,255 --> 00:41:07,758 especially around the Giza Plateau. 619 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,138 So this is one of the exciting things about studying... 620 00:41:13,222 --> 00:41:15,391 and researching ancient Egypt... 621 00:41:15,474 --> 00:41:21,230 is this idea that maybe you'll be able to stumble into these ultimate secrets... 622 00:41:21,313 --> 00:41:23,983 that the ancients assured us are there. 623 00:41:27,611 --> 00:41:30,531 [ Narrator] Would locating a second sphinx bring us closer... 624 00:41:30,614 --> 00:41:34,493 to actually solving the mystery of the Giza Plateau? 625 00:41:35,619 --> 00:41:38,706 And if so, what might the consequences be... 626 00:41:38,789 --> 00:41:41,500 if this information is ever uncovered? 627 00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:44,628 [ Henry] if we put all the pieces together... 628 00:41:44,712 --> 00:41:48,173 it suggests that the Sphinx is a repository for this knowledge... 629 00:41:48,257 --> 00:41:51,844 about how to actually use the Great Pyramid. 630 00:41:52,344 --> 00:41:55,639 And once we do that, we're talking about the ability... 631 00:41:55,723 --> 00:41:59,852 to resurrect ourselves as celestial beings, or star beings... 632 00:41:59,935 --> 00:42:02,021 and join the extraterrestrials... 633 00:42:02,104 --> 00:42:05,607 who had a hand in building this incredible complex. 634 00:42:07,026 --> 00:42:12,364 I very much believe that the whole thing is a kind of cipher. 635 00:42:12,448 --> 00:42:15,284 And I'll go to my grave on this one. 636 00:42:16,076 --> 00:42:18,871 I've worked for 25 years to decipher this cipher... 637 00:42:18,954 --> 00:42:22,708 using astronomy, using the texts. 638 00:42:22,791 --> 00:42:27,337 And it reads, “I have under me... 639 00:42:27,421 --> 00:42:29,631 the knowledge of our genesis.” 640 00:42:31,341 --> 00:42:33,469 [Young ] Whatever it is we figure out... 641 00:42:33,552 --> 00:42:35,971 whatever we discover when we get there... 642 00:42:36,055 --> 00:42:38,766 it's not gonna look like we thought it would look. 643 00:42:40,184 --> 00:42:42,561 [ Narrator] Is the Sphinx the ultimate proof... 644 00:42:42,644 --> 00:42:46,940 that extraterrestrials were here on Earth in the ancient past? 645 00:42:47,733 --> 00:42:52,988 And if so, might there be clues hidden within this monolithic statue... 646 00:42:53,072 --> 00:42:57,326 that not only re veal the truth about our history. - . 647 00:42:58,077 --> 00:43:00,829 But why we are here... 648 00:43:00,913 --> 00:43:03,248 and how we can finally reconnect... 649 00:43:03,332 --> 00:43:05,876 with our alien ancestors?