All language subtitles for HISTORY CHANNEL - Ancient Aliens (2014) - (S09E02 - Mysteries of the Sphinx) BD 1080p

[ Man Narrating ]
Its origins are unknown.

The degree of erosion that we see
has to go back to 10,000 BC.

[ Narrator] Its secrets have remained
hidden for thousands of years.

It was reported that they found passages
into these hidden chambers.

[ Narrator] And it may hold the truth
behind our very existence.

It reads, “I have under me
the knowledge of our genesis.”

[ Narrator]
The Great Sphinx of Giza...

is perhaps the most mysterious
monument on Earth.

[ Beeping ]

But once its riddle is solved...

will we find the ultimate proof...

that our ancestors were visited
by alien beings?

[ Man ] What's staring us in the face
goes back to when extraterrestrials...

walked the earth with human beings.

[ Narrator] Millions of people
around the world believe...

we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?

And if so, might the proof lie hidden
with the mysteries of the Sphinx?

[ Narrator] The Giza Plateau.

Egypt, 1925.

Rising out of the desert sand...

is a giant stone statue
of a human head.

For centuries, most visitors to the area...

believed this was all that existed.

But French engineer Emile Baraize...

is convinced that much more
lies beneath the surface...

than even archaeologists are aware of.

He begins an excavation
to uncover it...

and after 11 years of extensive digging...

Baraize unearths a massive body
resembling a lion...

and reintroduces the world...

to the full splendor
of the Great Sphinx.

It is the largest monolithic sculpture
on Earth.

It must have been quite eerie
to be there back then...

not knowing a lot about
the ancient Egyptian history...

and having this huge structure
staring down at you.

[ Narrator]
Facing east toward the rising sun...

the Great Sphinx
is located nearly half a mile...

from Egypt's three largest pyramids.

It is carved from a single piece
of limestone bedrock...

and stands over 60 feet tall
and 240 feet long.

People have asked themselves
for centuries...

“What was the sphinx for?

Why was it built?

There is a story behind it,
but what is the story?”

[ Narrator]
The Sphinx is arguably...

one of the most studied monuments
in the world...

yet it remains
one of the most mysterious.

There are no inscriptions
on the Sphinx...

to indicate who built it or why...

but most Egyptologists
date it to 2,500 BC...

the time of the Pharaoh Khafre...

or Chephren,
as he is known by Greek scholars.

The dating is based
on a mention of Khafre. ..

On a tablet found
between the paws of the Sphinx.

But this tablet,
known as the Dream Stela...

also tells the story of a pharaoh
who came 1,000 years later-

King Thutmose IV.

[ Romany] King Thutmose IV
comes in a new kingdom...

which we believe is more
than a thousand years...

after the time the Sphinx was sculpted.

He made this stela to tell his story.

King Thutmose IV,
before becoming a king...

was on an expedition here in Giza.

And he slept right next to the Sphinx.

And back then, the Sphinx was covered
in sand all the way up to its head.

And in his dream,
the Sphinx came to him.

[ Man ]
The Sphinx spoke to him and said...

that if he would uncover the Sphinx
from the burial in the sand...

he would then end up as pharaoh.

Now, he was the son of a pharaoh,
but was not the heir.

Thutmose IV ended up
with that throne after this dream.

The Sphinx itself speaks
to a future pharaoh...

and the history of ancient Egypt
is altered by this fact.

The Sphinx told King Thutmose IV
in his sleep...

right here in that line...

that everything that
the eye of the lord illuminates...

will be his.

He cleared all the sand
surrounding the Sphinx...

and Thutmose IV then became the king.

So the Sphinx kept its promise.

[ Man ]
Now, the amazing thing about this...

is that we learn of what's called
“the flashing eye of the lord.”

What is the flashing eye of the lord?

This sounds like
some kind of technology...

that is in communication with the Sphinx
or perhaps channeled by the Sphinx...

that could ensure the prosperity
of Thutmose IV.

[ Narrator]
If the story on the Dream Stela is true...

the Sphinx not only ensured
the prosperity of Thutmose IV...

but of perhaps
the most important dynastic family...

in the history of the Egyptian empire.

Thutmose IV was actually
the grandfather of Akhenaton.

[ Narrator] Akhenaton
was considered a heretical pharaoh.

He changed the polytheistic religion
of ancient Egypt...

and declared there was only one god-
Aton,

a god he depicted as a disk in the sky.

Akhenaton became enthralled
with the Aton disk.

Is it possible that the eye of the lord
and the Aton disk...

are one and the same,
and that they are, in fact...

some kind of UFO spaceship
that's hovering over Egypt...

as an eye in the sky...

and is guiding the Egyptian civilization?

[ Narrator] Could it be
that the eye of the lord and the Aton...

are describing the same object?

And if so, was Egyptian civilization...

being guided by extraterrestrials...

that used the Sphinx
as a means of communication?

Might the Dream Stela be proof...

that this mysterious monolithic statue...

was built long before
the Pharaoh Khafre?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and point to yet another line
of the Dream Stela as proof.

[ Man ] There's something else
written on the Sphinx...

that was ignored by Egyptologists.

The Sphinx actually says,
“I have been here since the first time.”

Now, the word in ancient Egyptian
for “first time” is Zep Tepi.

And what he meant by this
is the time when Osiris...

had come at the beginning
of the civilization.

The Egyptians talk about a golden age-

a golden age that existed
12,500 or so years ago.

This is something that goes back
at least 8,000 years...

before the current
accepted chronology of Egypt.

At that time,
the gods mingled or walked with men.

[ Narrator]
Could this extraordinary monument...

be a remnant from a golden age...

when extraterrestrials
coexisted with humans...

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

If so, does the Sphinx
date back thousands of years...

before conventional scholars
believe possible?

Perhaps further clues of its true age...

can be found in the geological record
of the Giza Plateau.

Boston, Massachusetts.

Geologist Dr. Robert SCHOCH...

has studied the geological features
of the Sphinx for over 20 years.

I looked specifically
at the weathering and erosion...

on the body of the Sphinx,
on the walls of the Sphinx enclosure.

I saw weathering patterns
that were not compatible...

with the Sahara conditions
of the last 5,000 years.

Here we have a photograph
of the Sphinx on the left side.

This is the rump of the Sphinx.
This is the wall of the Sphinx enclosure.

When you look at this,
these are the lines of rock...

or the strata, as we say, geologically.

You can see how they've been weathered out,
sort of a rounded, rolling profile.

This is caused by rain beating down
and running over the rock.

And this was very evident to me
as a geologist.

[ Narrator]
According to archaeologists...

significant rainfall in the Giza Plateau...

would date back to before 3,000 BC...

at least 500 years before the time
attributed to the building of the Sphinx.

[SCHOCH ] The degree and level of erosion
that we see on the Great Sphinx...

has to go back
to that earlier climatic period...

and not just a few hundred years-

thousands of years before Sahara times.

This put us back to at least 5,000,
maybe 7,000, 8,000-

I now suspect even 10,000 BC.

[ TSOUKALOS ]
if we are to subscribe to the idea...

that the Sphinx displays markings
of water erosion...

then that means...

that what's staring us in the face...

is much, much older...

than what mainstream science proposes.

[ Narrator]
Is the Sphinx really older...

than our history books
have led us to believe?

If so, who or what was responsible
for its construction?

Perhaps further clues can be found...

by examining the face of the Sphinx...

and what it might have looked like
before it was altered.

[ Narrator] Cairo, Egypt.

January, 2011.

Thousands of anti-government protesters
clash with riot police.

They are demanding the resignation
of President Hosni Mubarak.

Civil unrest escalates...

leaving hundreds dead
and thousands injured...

in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Just eight miles away...

the Great Sphinx bears silent witness.

For thousands of years
and through numerous conflicts...

the monument has remained unscathed...

except for the loss of its nose.

[ BAUVAL ] The nose was broken.

Many people accuse Napoleon
of doing that...

to take potshots with his cannons.

But in fact, it was done long before.

A Muslim ruler in the Middle Ages...

decided that the Sphinx represented
a guardian of the underworld...

that he was a type of demon
and that he was dangerous.

[ Thunderclap ]

It was believed that he might
have been some kind of dark god...

and as a result,
the Sphinx was vandalized.

[ Narrator]
After many years of study...

evidence of just who the face
on the Sphinx belongs to...

remains circumstantial...

and is debated by researchers.

Most scholars attribute the face
to Khafre...

the pharaoh they propose
built the Sphinx.

But ancient astronaut theorists claim...

that the Sphinx was not built by Khafre,
as mainstream historians suggest.

They say that the Sphinx predates
the age of the pharaohs...

and propose that the true head
of the Sphinx...

has not been seen
for thousands of years.

Many people have suggested,
including scholars...

that the current head
that's on that massive body...

is way too small
for it to be proportional to the body...

because it was reshaped,
recarved at a later date.

If you think about that for a moment,
that's highly fascinating...

because what did that thing look like
in its original form?

It has been suggested
that perhaps, originally...

it was the face of a lion,
or the head of a lion.

[COPPENS] I think there is an argument
that the head of the Sphinx...

was a full lion's head.

And I think that there is power
to the theory...

that the Sphinx actually represented
the constellation of Leo.

[ Narrator]
Curiously, there's no reference...

to a statue of a Great Sphinx,
or even a great lion...

in any old kingdom texts.

But one scholar who has
extensively studied the monument...

proposes that this is due to the fact...

that it was originally
something entirely different.

When I saw the body, I instantly
thought, “That's no lion's body.”

Now, if you study a lion...

it has great big shoulders...

it has a sloping back.

And so you do not have
a straight back for a lion.

It couldn't be more obvious
that this is a dog's body.

That's exactly how they crouch
when they're in a guarding position.

And there's only one dog it could be.
That has to be Anubis.

Anubis is a dog god...

who is the guardian
of the sacred necropolis.

Well, Giza is the sacred necropolis.

I went through the ancient texts,
and I found it mentioned everywhere.

The Pyramid Texts
and the Book of Gates...

and the Book of Caverns
and the Book of Two Ways...

and all those ancient books...

and they're talking about it
the whole time.

The easiest thing to do
when trying to destroy the Sphinx...

is to knock pointy ears
and a pointy nose off...

which is what Anubis had.

So this is the remaining stump...

from which they could fashion
a human head.

That's what they did,
and it was a very clever job...

and everybody's still in awe of it...

even though they don't know any longer
that it was meant to be Anubis at one time.

[ Narrator]
The Egyptian god Anubis...

is one of the most prominently featured
figures in all of Egyptian art.

He was considered
a protector of graves...

the god of mummification...

and is associated with
the resurrection of the god Osiris.

[ BAUVAL ] Anubis is clearly identified
as a god of the dead.

He symbolizes the afterlife.

His importance is enormous...

in these resurrection activities
that went on.

[ Narrator] Is it possible
that the head of the Sphinx...

was originally carved to look
completely different than it does today?

And if so, could it have
had the face of Anubis...

a god that ancient astronaut theorists
propose...

was an actual being
who visited our planet in the remote past?

The Egyptians themselves
genuinely believed...

that these were actual beings...

who had dogs' head or jackal heads.

[ Man ]
The god Anubis is listed...

as one of those
who came during Zep Tepi.

Or the “first time”...

one of the ancient, ancient ancients...

who is openly cited
in Egyptian mythology...

as being an extraterrestrial.

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that the first pharaohs...

didn't build the Sphinx...

but discovered it?

And might they have actually
recarved its face?

Perhaps the answer can be found...

by examining not when
the Great Sphinx was built...

but why.

[ Narrator]
The Giza necropolis...

which consists of three great pyramids
guarded by the Sphinx...

is the last remaining
of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The original purpose of the complex
is still debated by historians...

as is the connection
of the three pyramids to each other...

and to the Sphinx.

There is no question in my mind,
and in the mind of many researchers...

that the Giza Necropolis
is a planned project.

It isn't just pharaohs who came
and put their pyramids haphazardly...

and then built the Sphinx.

The geometry of the site
makes it very unlikely...

that it's not a designed project.

[ Narrator] Is it possible
that the Sphinx and the Pyramids...

were designed to function together?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest a recently unearthed tomb
could provide proof.

Just 200 feet from the Sphinx...

in a causeway connecting
the second pyramid to its temple complex...

is an entrance
to what is believed to be...

the ceremonial burial chamber
of the god Osiris.

The Osiris shaft
was first unearthed in 1934...

but only fully explored in 1999.

This place has not been visited much.

It's probably been visited
only a handful of times since 1999.

Right here is the first level.

The first level is not that deep.

[ Narrator]
The Osiris shaft actually consists...

of three different shafts...

that descend
to three separate chambers.

The final chamber is buried
nearly 10 stories underground...

and contains what some say
is the sarcophagus of Osiris.

Here we are, a hundred feet deep.

The third and final chamber
in the Osiris shaft.

And here's the sarcophagus
right in front of me.

This is only the lid
of the sarcophagus.

The body of the sarcophagus
is under the water...

and it's at least three times
the size of the lid.

And to the four corners of the island...

there were four pillars
that are now nearly completely destroyed.

The four had hieroglyphic inscriptions
on them...

some of which read “God Osiris”...

the god of the underground.

[ Narrator] While most' scholars
believe Osiris to be a mythical being...

and his tomb merely symbolic...

ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that not only was Osiris real...

but this nine-foot sarcophagus
offers evidence...

of extraterrestrial intervention
in the remote past.

The word “sarcophagus”
means “flesh eater.”

And this is like a giant black box.

A flesh-and-blood being
goes into the box, is sealed in it.

The box consumes them,
and the body disappears.

[WILCOCK ] The idea of a sarcophagus
that has no actual mummy or body in it...

suggests the possibility
of teleportation...

and the possibility
of the transmutation of the physical body.

It is a suggestion, perhaps...

that those who built that monument...

and those underground rooms...

could completely portal out
of our reality entirely.

[ Narrator] Could it be that what
was discovered in the Osiris shaft...

were the remnants
of advanced technology?

Technology that would allow
for travel to other worlds?

According to the Pyramid Texts...

funerary inscriptions that were carved
on the walls of the early Egyptian tombs...

the sacred necropolis
would serve as a gateway...

to the pharaoh's resurrection
and ascension...

to join the god Osiris in the heavens.

[ Henry] The foundational premise
of ancient Egyptian myth...

is that Osiris came from the stars...

and that when he was resurrected, he went
and dwelled in the star system Orion...

as a celestial being.

The ancient Egyptians
clearly describe their Great Pyramid...

as a resurrection machine,
as a teleportation device.

The Sphinx functioned as the gateway.

[CHILDRESS]
Egyptologists have always assumed...

that the Pyramids in Egypt
were tombs for the pharaohs.

And yet, no pharaoh
or Egyptian dynastic mummy...

was ever found in a pyramid in Egypt.

A number of researchers
have recently maintained...

that the Great Pyramid,
and some of the other pyramids in Egypt...

are actually these very sophisticated
power plants.

You have to wonder
if the Pyramids themselves...

weren't created to generate
tremendous amounts of energy.

Energy that was needed
to open the star gates.

And this was part
of the resurrection scheme.

[ Narrator]
Could the Giza complex...

actually have functioned
as some son' of technological device?

A device that acted
as a transport to other worlds...

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Perhaps further evidence
of such a connection...

can be found by examining
the precise alignments...

found on the plateau.

Archaeoastronomical analysis
has revealed...

that the position
of the three great pyramids...

seem to be mirroring
the three belt stars of Orion.

[ BAUVAL ] There's two bright stars
and a third dimmer star...

which is offset a bit to the left.

Now, the odd thing...

is that even though the correlation
is very, very clear to see...

the angle that the stars
make in the sky...

is much sharper
than the angles of the Pyramid.

And there is where,
after many years of studying this...

I decided to take the leap of faith.

Was there a time when these stars...

would be exactly
how we see them on the ground?

[ Narrator] The Great Pyramid
contains within it several shafts...

one of which forms a 45-degree angle
toward the sky.

BAUVAL was able to calculate
the historical movement of the stars...

to determine the date when the shaft
would point directly to the belt stars.

Amazingly, when I did this...

what we had was the full set
of monuments...

locking to this date of 10,500 BC.

[ Narrator]
Is it' mere coincidence...

that the Pyramids were
strategically aligned to correspond...

to the three belt stars of Orion
precisely 12,500 years ago?

And if so, does this date hold
a profound significance...

to Earth's history?

Perhaps the answers will be revealed...

in the quest to uncover a secret chamber.

[ Narrator]
Virginia Beach, Virginia.

1932.

American psychic and healer
Edgar Cayce...

known as the sleeping prophet...

gains worldwide attention...

by remotely diagnosing
illnesses in patients...

located hundreds of miles away...

with an astounding degree of accuracy.

He could diagnose
people's physical problems.

He could tell you what's in a book.

He could find something
at a great distance.

He could even read the Akashic record,
the book of life.

[ Narrator]
During one of his many psychic trances...

Cayce makes an astonishing claim
regarding the Sphinx.

[Van Auken ] Edgar Cayce could tell you
about prehistory and reincarnation...

and what your soul had been doing
prior to this incarnation.

He actually gave readings
for his own soul...

that had been a high priest
in ancient Egypt...

and was directly associated
with the building of the Sphinx.

[WILCOCK]
Edgar Cayce had in his readings...

a statement that the Sphinx
and the Pyramids were built...

in approximately 10,490 BC.

There's a strong suggestion
that the Cayce readings were accurate...

and therefore, their dating
of the Sphinx and the Pyramids...

also was accurate.

[ Narrator]
Up until his death in 1945...

Cayce gave dozens of readings
about the Sphinx.

These readings claimed
the Sphinx was directly related...

to an ancient civilization...

that many believe
once existed here on Earth-

the lost continent of Atlantis.

[WILCOCK] The Edgar Cayce
readings specifically say...

that Atlantis, as recorded by Plato,
was not a myth.

He leaked that information given to him
by the Egyptian priesthood...

and put it into his books,
the Timaeus and the Critias.

[ TSOUKALOS ]
Here's the interesting thing.

Plato describes that Atlantis existed...

exactly at the same time...

that ancient Egypt experienced
what they referred to as a golden age.

[ Narrator] If the Cayce readings
about the existence of Atlantis are true...

then might the Sphinx actually be
a remnant from this advanced civilization?

Perhaps further clues
to this connection...

can be found
with yet another Cayce prophecy...

regarding the Sphinx.

[Young ] Cayce dreamed
that under the right paw of the Sphinx...

there was a chamber
at a very specific place...

that apparently hold
the hall of records...

from the lost civilization of Atlantis...

which Cayce felt
he was a direct part of.

[Van Auken ]
When Atlantis was sinking...

the Atlanteans were aware
of the importance...

of saving these records.

And they also were aware
of the need to hide the records...

of prehistory.

[WILCOCK ] if we locate the
original hall of records...

we would be essentially
accessing the equivalent...

of a Google search engine...

but it's the Atlantean Internet.

So the Sphinx is an entry point...

that could reveal once and for all...

that humankind is much older on Earth
than we thought.

[ Narrator] The Giza Plateau.

1978.

Forty-five years
after Cayce's reading...

the Edgar Cayce Foundation initiates
the Sphinx Exploration Project...

for the sole purpose of locating
secret chambers under the Sphinx...

that may lead to the hall of records.

They were allowed, amazingly,
to drill holes under the Sphinx...

to detect this possible chamber.

They drilled eight holes. Unfortunately,
nothing of certainty was found.

They were stopped at the last minute-
apparently they were very close, they felt-

by the Egyptian Army.

We did find anomalies
beneath the Sphinx.

Now, these could be chambers,
not just cracks or caves.

Edgar Cayce prophesied
that in the future...

and in the relatively near future...

we would discover the secret chamber...

of the hall of records.

One of the stories of the Sphinx
is that there's a hall of records...

that's being kept there.

Certain machines
and technology and libraries...

sealed in a special room...

until the time is right
that we're ready to discover it.

And that time may be coming soon.

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that there are, in fact...

secret chambers
underneath the Sphinx?

And if so...

could they be hiding the hidden records
of a lost civilization?

Or could it be that
if a so-called hall of records exists...

it doesn't lie in Giza...

but millions of miles away...

on Mars?

[ Narrator]
Pasadena, California.

July 4, 1997.

Aerospace engineers
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

anxiously await a signal
from the Pathfinder...

indicating that it has landed intact
on the surface of Mars.

Thousands of viewers
watch live news feeds...

as the event unfolds.

[ Man] The spacecraft has landed.
Base pedal down.

[Cheering ]

[ Narrator]
Hours after its successful landing...

Pathfinder sends the first images
from the surface of Mars...

in over two decades.

[ Shutter Clicks ]

During its 12-week mission...

Mars Pathfinder transmits
2. 3 billion bits of information...

including more than 17,000 images.

Among these photos is an image
that some say reveals formations...

that mirror the Giza Plateau...

including what appears to be a sphinx.

One of these photographs shows
what looks like a sphinx...

that is facing to the east,
uh, sunrise on Mars.

There is a huge pyramid mountain
behind it.

And you have to wonder
if this Martian sphinx...

isn't created by extraterrestrials.

Some have proposed
that there is a mirror image...

of the Giza Plateau on Mars...

and therefore,
Mars might have been inhabited.

And this is why we allegedly
have structures on Mars...

that are of artificial origin.

[ Narrator] The idea
of extraterrestrial life inhabiting Mars...

has long fascinated mankind.

In 1895, astronomer Percival Lowell...

proposed an ancient civilization
built canals on Mars...

to bring water from the poles
to keep their society alive.

And since the first landing
on the surface of Mars in 1976...

NASA Mars missions
have focused almost exclusively...

on determining if life
could exist on the red planet.

We've found no real hard evidence of life.

And yet there's
this tantalizing possibility...

where we haven't given up.

We would be looking for
a subterranean civilization...

because surface conditions
are just so harsh.

Conceivably, you could have
whole complex ecosystems...

existing underground.

[ CHILDRESS ]
I think that if we were to go to Mars...

and find civilization there...

much of it would be underground.

And you have to wonder
if this Martian sphinx...

isn't guarding
some underground world on Mars...

similar to the underground world at Giza
that we know exists today.

[ Narrator]
Do the formations on Mars...

provide evidence that the planet
was once inhabited?

And if so, does this sphinx on Mars...

also serve as a marker of an entrance
to an underground world...

and perhaps the true location
of a secret' hall of records?

According to some
ancient astronaut theorists...

if this Sphinx in Giza
truly has a counterpart' on Mars...

it would match up
with what has been found...

in some of mankind's earliest writings.

[ Man ] A famous linguist
by the name of Zecharia Sitchin...

actually translated
ancient Sumerian tablets...

that describe Mars
being used as a way station...

by their gods, the Anunnaki.

It's very possible
that these ancient Sumerian tales...

talking about the Anunnaki
traversing between Mars and Earth...

are actual fact...

and show a deeper connection
of what we have in Giza...

and what we also have on Mars.

Every scientist agrees today...

that Mars,
at some point in time in the past...

had an atmosphere
not very unlike Earth's.

And so if one were
to propose the idea...

that at some point,
intelligent life inhabited Mars...

what if one of the places
that they escaped to...

was planet Earth?

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that there is, in fact...

a profound connection
between Earth and Mars?

And could locating a second sphinx
be the key to unlocking the secrets...

about our ancient past?

And if so, is it possible...

that there is yet another sphinx
that holds the key...

one that's even closer to home?

[ Narrator] Giza, 2014.

Large-scale construction projects
and high-rise development...

encroach ever closer to the Sphinx
and the great pyramids.

Some believe that if the development
continues unchecked...

it will lead to the destruction
of possible archaeological treasures...

still buried near the complex.

But others feel that it may actually
force the unearthing...

of something more profound-

a twin sphinx.

Everything in ancient Egyptian art
is very symmetrical.

There's always two of everything.

When we see huge, big statues,
there's always two colossal statues.

There's always symmetry-
two statues guarding one road.

With the Sphinx, we've only found one.

Some people believe
there's another one.

There are actually many reasons
to believe it may have had a mate.

When we look at the stela...

the new kingdom stela
between the paws of the Sphinx...

in fact, it shows not one sphinx,
but two sphinxes.

There were long periods of time...

where the Sphinx was not seen.

It was completely covered in sand.

And so the idea would imply...

that maybe there are other structures...

that are still underneath the sand.

Is it possible that a second sphinx
exists on the Giza Plateau?

[ Narrator] Although most researchers
are open to the idea...

of a second guardian
on the Giza Plateau...

multiple theories exist
as to where this sphinx may be.

According to the Amduat...

the ancient Egyptian funerary text...

describing the hourly journey
of the king in the afterlife...

there is said to exist a second sphinx
that faces to the west'.

The fifth hour, which seems to represent
the Giza necropolis, by the way...

is protected by one sphinx in the east,
which is the existing Sphinx.

But they also show another sphinx
in the back.

Now, physically, was there another one?
It's quite possible.

There is certain mounds
that haven't been properly excavated...

on the west side...

and there may be
the remains of a sphinx.

There certainly isn't a whole sphinx.
We would've seen it by now.

But there may be
the foundations of a sphinx.

[Young ] The nonexistent sphinx
is almost as interesting...

as the one we can look at.

Does that location
have any special energy to it?

Is there some reason
why life, fate, the gods...

would have it disappear?

[ Narrator]
Could there really be a second sphinx...

located somewhere
on the Giza Plateau?

And if so, how has it remained undiscovered
for thousands of years?

[ Henry] We know less than 30%
of what's actually underneath the sand...

especially around the Giza Plateau.

So this is one of the exciting things
about studying...

and researching ancient Egypt...

is this idea that maybe you'll be able
to stumble into these ultimate secrets...

that the ancients assured us are there.

[ Narrator] Would locating
a second sphinx bring us closer...

to actually solving
the mystery of the Giza Plateau?

And if so,
what might the consequences be...

if this information is ever uncovered?

[ Henry]
if we put all the pieces together...

it suggests that the Sphinx
is a repository for this knowledge...

about how to actually use
the Great Pyramid.

And once we do that,
we're talking about the ability...

to resurrect ourselves
as celestial beings, or star beings...

and join the extraterrestrials...

who had a hand in building
this incredible complex.

I very much believe that
the whole thing is a kind of cipher.

And I'll go to my grave on this one.

I've worked for 25 years
to decipher this cipher...

using astronomy, using the texts.

And it reads, “I have under me...

the knowledge of our genesis.”

[Young ]
Whatever it is we figure out...

whatever we discover
when we get there...

it's not gonna look like
we thought it would look.

[ Narrator]
Is the Sphinx the ultimate proof...

that extraterrestrials were here on Earth
in the ancient past?

And if so, might there be clues hidden
within this monolithic statue...

that not only re veal the truth
about our history. -.

But why we are here...

and how we can finally reconnect...

with our alien ancestors?