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Ever since Plato wrote
about it in the 4th
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century BC, Atlantis has
captured the imagination of
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adventurers and academics alike,
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obsessed with finding
out its location.
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But what if this classic story
is nothing like anyone expects?
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What if the accounts of Atlantis
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having incredible, advanced
technology and then mysteriously
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disappearing is actually a
description of an
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extraterrestrial culture that
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existed here on Earth
thousands of years ago?
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I've come to the Mediterranean
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to investigate one of mankind's
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most enduring and baffling
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mysteries and to examine some
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startling new evidence
and potential leads.
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I'm in search of Atlantis.
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My name is Giorgio Tsoukalos.
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I explore the world that exists
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between reality and speculation,
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the known and the unknown.
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What we've been taught by
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mainstream scholars is not the
whole picture.
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But I'm convinced that every
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day we are one step
closer to the truth.
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The lost continent of Atlantis
has sparked the imaginations of
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scholars and explorers for over
2,000 years.
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The Greek philosopher Plato
wrote about Atlantis in two of
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his dialogues, Timaeus and
Critias, around 360 BC.
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In his account, Atlantis'
capital city was a marvel of
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architecture and engineering and
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its people possessed highly
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advanced military capabilities.
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And then one day, Atlantis
mysteriously vanished in, as
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Plato describes it, "One
unbearable day and night."
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So the big question is, if
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Atlantis really did exist,
where was it located?
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And what really happened to it?
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Like many others before me,
I've always been fascinated with
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Atlantis and my love affair with
her began as a little kid when
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I dared to dream that one day
I might even find this lost city.
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Because Plato's descriptions are
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so vivid and detailed, I've
always thought that they must
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have been describing a real
geographical place.
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So I'm starting my investigation
here in Athens where the story
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was written, back in the
homeland of my Greek ancestors.
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Where I've arranged to meet
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Plato expert Dr. Sandy
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MacGillivray, a professor
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of classics and archaeology.
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Professor MacGillivray?
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Yeah.
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I'm Giorgio.
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Pleasure to meet you.
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Hi. Good to meet you.
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How's it going?
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Very, very well.
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All these tourists,
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I barely found you, but this was
a great place where to meet.
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Welcome to Athens.
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Yes.
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So tell me about Atlantis.
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How did Plato describe it and
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what do you think are some of
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the clues that we
should look at?
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He's describing the one city
that was founded by Poseidon.
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In Greek mythology, Poseidon
was the god of the seas.
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While most people today consider
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the Greek gods to be
mythological figures, the
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ancient Greeks
themselves did not.
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They thought that
they were real.
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When Poseidon comes
down and he mates with an Earth
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woman and he has five sets of
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twin sons, which to me sound a
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lot like genetic engineering.
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So, you actually have ten
kingdoms for Atlantis.
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The one central kingdom is the
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one where the firstborn Atlas
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sets up his kingdom.
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What you get a description of is
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the city that's built
around a mountain.
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There's a huge temple of
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Poseidon built up there.
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You've got a first ring and then
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you've got fields beyond that,
then you've got a second ring,
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fields beyond that, and then
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you've got a third ring.
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So, basically it's moats.
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Think of like a medieval
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castle where you got a moat
around the castle.
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Later on, they start cutting
channels through wide enough
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to bring, Plato says, a trireme,
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the great huge three level war
ships that the Greeks were
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sailing all the way through into
the central core.
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If Atlantis is a mere myth, then why are
Plato's descriptions of it so incredibly
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detailed right down to
the exact measurements?
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But if it existed,
then where was it?
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People have surmised that
Atlantis might've perhaps been
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some type of an empire that
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stretched a large, vast
geographical location.
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So, are there any other places
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that you would recommend
I should go check out?
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You have to start
where Plato sends you, and
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that's beyond the
pillars of Hercules.
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The pillars of Hercules
in Greek mythology
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represented the gateway
to the unknown.
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But modern scholars now believe
that the pillars were a
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reference to the large land
masses on both sides of the
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Strait of Gibraltar, the gateway
to the Atlantic Ocean, and beyond.
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Sandy, thank you very much.
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I appreciate that.
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Happy travels.
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Until next time.
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Thank you.
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Okay, man.
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Wow.
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I can't believe this.
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Dr. MacGillivray,
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an accomplished archaeologist,
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actually suggested that the
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story of Poseidon fathering
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five sets of male twins
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suggests evidence of
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genetic engineering
in the ancient past.
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This is very much the basis for
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the ancient astronaut theory and
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it's surprising to hear that
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this is coming from a
mainstream scholar.
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Ever since Plato wrote about
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Atlantis, many locations around
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the world have been identified
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with the lost city.
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Theories range from Ireland to
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the Bahamas, the Americas and
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even Antarctica.
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But all Plato says is, "beyond
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the pillars of Hercules."
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I'm in Silves, in the Algarve
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region of southern Portugal,
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where I'm about to meet with
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Peter Daughtrey, a former
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advertising executive
from London.
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For the past 20 years, he
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has investigated what some say
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are 100 clues that Plato left
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about Atlantis.
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And he's convinced that Silves
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is the center of Atlantis.
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I've got a few questions
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I'd like to ask you.
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How did you get started
in your research?
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I was doing some
research for an article
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in a local magazine on an event
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here that happened in 1755.
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It's called the Great Lisbon
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Earthquake, and it was about
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nine on the Richter scale.
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They had tsunamis here on this
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coast up to 100 feet high.
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Lisbon was virtually destroyed.
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And that event sent
me first thinking.
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Plato said that Atlantis was
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destroyed by earthquakes
and floods.
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I'd often wondered why this
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area didn't have an
old civilization.
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And then suddenly it was obvious
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that if there was one, it
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would've been destroyed.
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Geologists had done research on
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the seabed, back in the bay, and
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found that there was one
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particular big event at about
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11,600 years ago, which ties in
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exactly with Plato's dates that
he gave us.
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Mm hmm.
And that would coincide with the whole
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idea where Plato said that the
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story of Atlantis might've
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happened around 9,000 years
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before the Greeks.
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Pretty well the same.
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I then went back to reading
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Plato again and extracted about
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100 clues that I thought would
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help us identify where he was
talking about.
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This area matches to
60 of Plato's clues.
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Peter is absolutely
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convinced that Atlantis was
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once located right where we are
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in Southern Portugal.
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And Silves, he believes,
was the capitol.
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But if that's true, then where
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is the evidence of what Plato
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described as the three
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concentric rings of moats and
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the Temple of Poseidon?
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In your opinion what do you
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think are some of the most
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compelling clues?
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Well, there's one that
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is, that's certainly
interesting.
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I can't say it is necessarily
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from Atlantis, but I think the
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indications are
that it could be.
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When I first came here I met an
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elderly couple who collected
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antiques and interested in
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history, and he told me about,
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um, this huge stone egg that
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he'd seen laying on the side of
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the road not far from Silves in
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fact, and this was...
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Did you say a giant egg?
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Yes, it's about six foot long.
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The World Egg, or
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Cosmic Egg, is a mythological
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motif found in ancient creation
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stories from all
around the world.
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It is used to explain the
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beginnings of life on Earth,
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because many of the ancients
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believed that the gods
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themselves sent the Cosmic Egg
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and mankind hatched from it.
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That to me is very fascinating,
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so the fact that there's one
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here, I would like to see it.
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This egg has got
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something on it that also ties
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up with creation
that is fascinating.
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Let's do it, perfect.
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I'm in Southern
Portugal with author
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Peter Daughtrey.
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He firmly believes the town
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of Silves matches more than
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half of the clues given by
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Plato about Atlantis and its
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mysterious location.
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I brought you here
because this is one of
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Plato's most specific clues on
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top of all the rest,
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probably the most important one.
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You see the black,
white and red rock?
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Mm hmm.
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Plato said it was
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quarried from this one small
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hill, and they built the town
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from it, and you
can do this here.
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So we're actually
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standing on a clue right now.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, there are not many places
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in the world where you can
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do that, particularly
in one small hill.
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That's pretty amazing.
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I haven't yet forgotten
about that egg.
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I bet you haven't.
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So how far is the
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egg and can we go check it out?
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Come on, I'll take you there.
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Yeah, just down
here on the right.
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All right.
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Even though it is now
in the Lagos Museum,
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the stone egg once stood near
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the area where Peter believes
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Atlantis existed.
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I mean, this is
like a labyrinth!
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Where is this thing?
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Yes, it's a... it's a
great little museum.
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There it is.
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Wow.
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This is it.
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Man, this is great.
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And what a payoff to come here
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and see this.
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How does this museum
classify this stone?
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They classified it
with with all the other
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standing stones as a "menhir,"
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which are, you will know I'm
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sure, all the way up the west
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coast of Portugal, Spain,
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into the west coast of France,
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Brittany, and all the
Celtic countries.
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A menhir refers to one
of more than 50,000
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monoliths or standing stones
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deliberately placed
by ancient humans.
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Many of them feature carvings
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or strange symbols,
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but this stone egg doesn't look
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like any menhir
I've seen before,
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and what most intrigues me is
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the carving on it.
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Many so called "cosmic eggs" or
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"creation eggs" are shown with a
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snake or serpent
wrapped around it.
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In Greek mythology this is
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called the "orphic egg," but
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similar eggs can be found in
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China, Egypt and throughout the
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ancient world.
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It was a perfect egg
shape originally.
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It was, in actual
fact, a sculpture.
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I mean, this is not
a standing stone.
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You can see that the
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symbol is actually
raised or it's a relief.
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It's not a carving.
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It's not impressed.
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It actually is this... almost
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like a bevel, which would
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indicate that in order to
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achieve this, the entire egg had
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to be whittled down...
Shaped, yeah.
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...in order to achieve
that raised symbol.
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An enormous amount
of extra work.
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And interestingly is, they
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must've had tools to do it.
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And bronze wouldn't do it.
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It would bend.
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They must've had some other form
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of metallurgy knowledge, I
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think, pre this in
order to do it.
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How old do you
presume this one is?
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You can see that it
has worn, you know,
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before weathered.
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If it's been standing somewhere,
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and it was obviously buried,
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because it was four or five
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meters deep, in a great, some
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great big conflagration,
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possibly like Noah's flood.
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We're talking of something
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that's incredibly old.
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And this thing up the middle
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here... they resemble the rod,
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which throughout history has
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been a symbol of power
and of creation.
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Moses had a rod.
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And in Mesopotamia, the rod was
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regarded as the symbol of the
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power of the gods.
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And it reminds me of
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what might be a
double helix symbol.
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The strange symbol on the egg
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doesn't only look like the
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caduceus staff the classic
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winged staff entwined by two
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serpents that is associated with
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the Greek god Hermes
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but it also looks
like a double helix.
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The shape of DNA, the building
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00:14:21,481 --> 00:14:24,949
blocks of life.
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But the double helix model
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wasn't realized until 1953, so
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how could such a symbol exist on
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a stone egg that some say was
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00:14:35,862 --> 00:14:40,131
carved approximately
7,000 years ago?
355
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How would you tie this into your
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00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:47,005
Atlantean theory?
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Poseidon created a race of
people.
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That the race of people were
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partly his seed and partly the
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people who were living there.
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Yeah, which is very
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00:14:56,015 --> 00:14:57,515
interesting because that's
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basically what the ancient
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00:15:00,019 --> 00:15:01,486
astronaut theory suggests that
365
00:15:01,487 --> 00:15:03,954
a long time ago, advanced
366
00:15:03,955 --> 00:15:06,158
extraterrestrials saw that there
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was potential for intelligent
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life, and with a target mutation
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of our genes and theirs,
370
00:15:12,231 --> 00:15:16,867
essentially we became
who we are today.
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According to writer and ancient
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00:15:19,304 --> 00:15:21,372
astronaut theorist Zecharia
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Sitchin, extraterrestrials
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called the Anunnaki arrived on
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Earth thousands of years ago.
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He believed the Anunnaki created
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00:15:30,415 --> 00:15:33,318
humans by crossing their own DNA
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with Homo erectus, an early
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hominid, and used
them as slaves.
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But when the Anunnaki left, they
381
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tried to wipe out their human
382
00:15:44,597 --> 00:15:46,466
creation with a flood.
383
00:15:50,035 --> 00:15:53,538
But some survived.
384
00:15:53,539 --> 00:15:56,540
Now, some scholars suggest that
385
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Atlantis was wiped out by a
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00:15:58,544 --> 00:16:01,011
flood, which leads me to wonder,
387
00:16:01,012 --> 00:16:03,014
could these stories be related?
388
00:16:03,015 --> 00:16:04,216
And is this evidence of
389
00:16:04,217 --> 00:16:05,951
extraterrestrial activity here
390
00:16:05,952 --> 00:16:10,588
on Planet Earth
thousands of years ago?
391
00:16:10,589 --> 00:16:13,225
I've seen many, many eggs all
392
00:16:13,226 --> 00:16:14,491
around the world and stories
393
00:16:14,492 --> 00:16:16,560
about creation in reference to
394
00:16:16,561 --> 00:16:19,630
cosmic eggs, and to see this...
395
00:16:19,631 --> 00:16:20,631
I had no idea that there's one
396
00:16:20,632 --> 00:16:21,632
here in Portugal.
397
00:16:21,633 --> 00:16:22,634
So thank you very much.
398
00:16:22,635 --> 00:16:23,635
Pleasure.
399
00:16:23,636 --> 00:16:24,635
And I can't wait
400
00:16:24,636 --> 00:16:26,237
what else you're gonna show me.
401
00:16:26,238 --> 00:16:28,073
This cosmic egg has got me
402
00:16:28,074 --> 00:16:29,374
thinking that the story of
403
00:16:29,375 --> 00:16:31,242
Atlantis could be more
404
00:16:31,243 --> 00:16:34,246
significant than
previously thought.
405
00:16:34,247 --> 00:16:36,615
Is Silves the center of the lost
406
00:16:36,616 --> 00:16:39,083
empire of Atlantis, and does its
407
00:16:39,084 --> 00:16:41,119
cosmic egg really show ancient
408
00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,022
knowledge of DNA?
409
00:16:48,460 --> 00:16:50,528
Peter has chartered a boat to
410
00:16:50,529 --> 00:16:52,264
take us up the Arade River from
411
00:16:52,265 --> 00:16:55,634
the Atlantic Ocean to
modern day Silves.
412
00:16:55,635 --> 00:16:57,468
This is the route ancient
413
00:16:57,469 --> 00:16:59,004
visitors would have taken to
414
00:16:59,005 --> 00:17:00,472
reach Atlantis thousands of
415
00:17:00,473 --> 00:17:03,674
years ago if Atlantis was here.
416
00:17:03,675 --> 00:17:05,476
So is this the view the
417
00:17:05,477 --> 00:17:07,145
ancients would have had when
418
00:17:07,146 --> 00:17:08,279
entering Atlantis?
419
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,148
'Cause this here is a beautiful
420
00:17:10,149 --> 00:17:12,284
view of the town.
421
00:17:12,285 --> 00:17:13,418
Yeah, this is exactly
422
00:17:13,419 --> 00:17:14,419
what they would have seen.
423
00:17:14,420 --> 00:17:15,553
They would have, in fact, been
424
00:17:15,554 --> 00:17:17,021
forced to go in here, 'cause
425
00:17:17,022 --> 00:17:18,022
this is where the old harbor
426
00:17:18,023 --> 00:17:19,124
was, on our left.
427
00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:20,959
The entrance to it.
428
00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,160
And from here, where we are now,
429
00:17:22,161 --> 00:17:24,296
back to the mouth of the river,
430
00:17:24,297 --> 00:17:25,696
the sea, is exactly nine and a
431
00:17:25,697 --> 00:17:26,697
quarter kilometers.
432
00:17:26,698 --> 00:17:28,133
And Plato said it was nine and a
433
00:17:28,134 --> 00:17:30,135
quarter kilometers
from the harbor.
434
00:17:30,136 --> 00:17:32,136
What about its wealth?
435
00:17:32,137 --> 00:17:34,571
Because in order to correspond
436
00:17:34,572 --> 00:17:36,174
the story, wasn't Atlantis also
437
00:17:36,175 --> 00:17:38,309
incredibly wealthy?
438
00:17:38,310 --> 00:17:40,444
Nobody will ever have
that wealth again.
439
00:17:40,445 --> 00:17:42,646
Yeah, precious metals.
440
00:17:42,647 --> 00:17:44,182
It was the biggest producer of
441
00:17:44,183 --> 00:17:47,652
precious metals in the
then known world.
442
00:17:47,653 --> 00:17:49,119
Peter has brought a
443
00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:51,155
bathymetric chart showing the
444
00:17:51,156 --> 00:17:53,157
areas around Silves that sank
445
00:17:53,158 --> 00:17:55,727
over the last few
thousand years.
446
00:17:55,728 --> 00:17:58,730
It could be the best clue yet.
447
00:17:58,731 --> 00:18:00,331
These rocky areas are
448
00:18:00,332 --> 00:18:02,133
scattered all around, and I'm
449
00:18:02,134 --> 00:18:04,035
pretty certain they are ruins,
450
00:18:04,036 --> 00:18:06,437
because Plato said the empire
451
00:18:06,438 --> 00:18:07,539
was divided up between the
452
00:18:07,540 --> 00:18:09,406
different sons to rule.
453
00:18:09,407 --> 00:18:11,408
So what we really want is to try
454
00:18:11,409 --> 00:18:12,711
and get somebody who's got a
455
00:18:12,712 --> 00:18:14,745
nice boat with lots of side
456
00:18:14,746 --> 00:18:16,181
scanners and equipment and...
457
00:18:16,182 --> 00:18:18,183
Sonar and all that stuff.
458
00:18:18,184 --> 00:18:19,350
Possibly submersibles
459
00:18:19,351 --> 00:18:20,352
to go down and have a look,
460
00:18:20,353 --> 00:18:21,452
because I'm pretty certain that
461
00:18:21,453 --> 00:18:23,087
some of these rocky areas will
462
00:18:23,088 --> 00:18:25,456
be ruins and that's the only way
463
00:18:25,457 --> 00:18:26,491
we're gonna be able to prove
464
00:18:26,492 --> 00:18:30,229
whether Plato was
speaking the truth.
465
00:18:47,468 --> 00:18:48,668
I'm exploring the
466
00:18:48,669 --> 00:18:50,670
medieval city of Silves in
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00:18:50,671 --> 00:18:52,072
Southern Portugal with British
468
00:18:52,073 --> 00:18:55,775
author Peter Daughtrey.
469
00:18:55,776 --> 00:18:56,810
Peter believes that he has
470
00:18:56,811 --> 00:18:58,812
matched 60 of Plato's 100 clues
471
00:18:58,813 --> 00:19:00,679
that identify the legendary city
472
00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,681
of Atlantis and he wants to
473
00:19:02,682 --> 00:19:05,785
show me some of them.
474
00:19:05,786 --> 00:19:06,952
You can see here now,
475
00:19:06,953 --> 00:19:10,189
that... this town is on a small
476
00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:12,159
hill, on a big, flat plane.
477
00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,428
And the river you can see in the
478
00:19:14,429 --> 00:19:16,062
distance there, is about nine
479
00:19:16,063 --> 00:19:17,096
and a quarter kilometers from
480
00:19:17,097 --> 00:19:19,565
where you can see it to the sea.
481
00:19:19,566 --> 00:19:20,801
Which is the exact distance that
482
00:19:20,802 --> 00:19:22,701
Plato said the town was
483
00:19:22,702 --> 00:19:24,036
connected by a waterway.
484
00:19:24,037 --> 00:19:25,705
So, this is the
485
00:19:25,706 --> 00:19:27,574
place that, in your opinion, has
486
00:19:27,575 --> 00:19:28,542
a whole bunch of clues...
487
00:19:28,543 --> 00:19:30,843
I think it was...
...that match what
488
00:19:30,844 --> 00:19:31,812
Plato was writing?
489
00:19:31,813 --> 00:19:32,845
I think it was the
490
00:19:32,846 --> 00:19:33,846
cap... I think it was the
491
00:19:33,847 --> 00:19:36,716
capitol city he was
talking about.
492
00:19:36,717 --> 00:19:38,083
Atlantis had to be connected by
493
00:19:38,084 --> 00:19:40,187
a tidal river, because he said
494
00:19:40,188 --> 00:19:41,955
they built embankments and
495
00:19:41,956 --> 00:19:45,458
canals around the
town circling it.
496
00:19:45,459 --> 00:19:46,726
They filled them with seawater,
497
00:19:46,727 --> 00:19:48,829
so it had to be a tidal river.
498
00:19:48,830 --> 00:19:49,862
Mm hmm.
499
00:19:49,863 --> 00:19:50,997
The river runs past
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00:19:50,998 --> 00:19:53,733
the town; that's freshwater.
501
00:19:53,734 --> 00:19:55,000
But that is seawater,
502
00:19:55,001 --> 00:19:57,571
uh, it comes right up
tidal to the town.
503
00:19:57,572 --> 00:19:58,839
Twice a day, you see the river
504
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,240
will go... up and down.
505
00:20:01,241 --> 00:20:03,142
The local geologist has done a,
506
00:20:03,143 --> 00:20:05,111
uh, survey for the town and
507
00:20:05,112 --> 00:20:07,080
proven that all around the town,
508
00:20:07,081 --> 00:20:10,150
there was water at,
um, at some stage.
509
00:20:10,151 --> 00:20:12,752
How did Plato give
his measurements?
510
00:20:12,753 --> 00:20:15,020
Now, I heard it was
something about stadia.
511
00:20:15,021 --> 00:20:16,156
It's a Greek
512
00:20:16,157 --> 00:20:17,556
measurement and it, and it comes
513
00:20:17,557 --> 00:20:18,557
from, um, I think, "stadium."
514
00:20:18,558 --> 00:20:19,558
The Greek stadium where they had
515
00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:22,895
games and things, was
a standard size.
516
00:20:22,896 --> 00:20:25,765
It was equivalent to 185 meters.
517
00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:26,866
But he gives specific
518
00:20:26,867 --> 00:20:29,169
measurements for the
size of this hill.
519
00:20:29,170 --> 00:20:30,170
He says, it's less than a
520
00:20:30,171 --> 00:20:31,971
kilometer wide, which this is.
521
00:20:31,972 --> 00:20:33,773
Specific measurements from the
522
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:35,007
first canal, which butted up to
523
00:20:35,008 --> 00:20:37,142
the walls of this town he said
524
00:20:37,143 --> 00:20:39,012
that was one stadia wide.
525
00:20:39,013 --> 00:20:40,779
Then, there was a larger earth
526
00:20:40,780 --> 00:20:42,782
embankment that was two stadia
527
00:20:42,783 --> 00:20:44,918
wide, then another canal that
528
00:20:44,919 --> 00:20:46,785
was two stadia wide, then an
529
00:20:46,786 --> 00:20:48,654
embankment that was three
530
00:20:48,655 --> 00:20:50,524
stadia, and finally the harbor
531
00:20:50,525 --> 00:20:52,794
area, which was three stadia.
532
00:20:54,128 --> 00:20:55,895
The local archaeologist said,
533
00:20:55,896 --> 00:20:57,063
yes, that's where they think the
534
00:20:57,064 --> 00:20:58,265
harbor was.
535
00:20:58,266 --> 00:21:00,933
It's very interesting.
536
00:21:00,934 --> 00:21:03,202
In your opinion, how do you
537
00:21:03,203 --> 00:21:05,804
think Atlantis was built?
538
00:21:05,805 --> 00:21:09,808
Well, according to
Plato, it was Poseidon.
539
00:21:09,809 --> 00:21:10,910
So then, are there
540
00:21:10,911 --> 00:21:12,946
any references around here that
541
00:21:12,947 --> 00:21:14,080
speak of Poseidon?
542
00:21:14,081 --> 00:21:15,814
There is a famous
543
00:21:15,815 --> 00:21:17,816
Roman villa, where there's a big
544
00:21:17,817 --> 00:21:19,084
mosaic, which is now in a
545
00:21:19,085 --> 00:21:20,820
museum one of the best in
546
00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:23,556
Europe of Poseidon.
547
00:21:23,557 --> 00:21:24,690
According to the
548
00:21:24,691 --> 00:21:26,692
ancient astronaut theory, these
549
00:21:26,693 --> 00:21:28,562
so called "gods" were not gods
550
00:21:28,563 --> 00:21:31,230
at all, but flesh and blood
551
00:21:31,231 --> 00:21:34,700
extraterrestrials.
552
00:21:34,701 --> 00:21:36,902
And if that's true, then
553
00:21:36,903 --> 00:21:39,839
Atlantis may not have been a
554
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:45,077
continent, but some
kind of an alien base.
555
00:21:45,078 --> 00:21:46,712
Shall we go to the next spot?
556
00:21:46,713 --> 00:21:47,913
Yup, let's move on.
557
00:21:47,914 --> 00:21:51,485
Let's do it.
558
00:21:59,860 --> 00:22:02,262
So, what does the word "God"
559
00:22:02,263 --> 00:22:04,997
mean to you?
560
00:22:04,998 --> 00:22:07,266
Well, Plato made it
561
00:22:07,267 --> 00:22:09,602
clear, these gods were not some
562
00:22:09,603 --> 00:22:12,339
superhuman, ethereal being.
563
00:22:12,340 --> 00:22:13,974
They were flesh and blood.
564
00:22:13,975 --> 00:22:16,241
They were just a little more,
565
00:22:16,242 --> 00:22:17,877
um, advanced, intelligent.
566
00:22:17,878 --> 00:22:19,012
Exactly.
567
00:22:19,013 --> 00:22:20,747
And one of the reasons
568
00:22:20,748 --> 00:22:23,382
for creating the race was,
569
00:22:23,383 --> 00:22:25,352
these people would serve them.
570
00:22:25,353 --> 00:22:27,887
I think it was built into us in
571
00:22:27,888 --> 00:22:29,221
the DNA or gene.
572
00:22:29,222 --> 00:22:31,157
It was added at the time we were
573
00:22:31,158 --> 00:22:32,726
created to insure that the
574
00:22:32,727 --> 00:22:34,893
people actually worshipped and
575
00:22:34,894 --> 00:22:37,764
served these "gods."
576
00:22:37,765 --> 00:22:39,099
So how do you think
577
00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:41,634
this egg that we just saw plays
578
00:22:41,635 --> 00:22:44,004
into that whole story?
579
00:22:44,005 --> 00:22:45,705
I think the egg is
580
00:22:45,706 --> 00:22:46,972
probably just commemorating that
581
00:22:46,973 --> 00:22:48,374
and reminding people where they
582
00:22:48,375 --> 00:22:50,009
came from, and this is where it
583
00:22:50,010 --> 00:22:51,410
all started, here, at least
584
00:22:51,411 --> 00:22:52,778
where Atlantis started.
585
00:22:52,779 --> 00:22:55,047
Peter, thank you very much...
586
00:22:55,048 --> 00:22:56,248
It's a pleasure.
587
00:22:56,249 --> 00:22:59,052
...for sharing all this
knowledge with me.
588
00:22:59,053 --> 00:23:00,253
I mean, this was truly amazing,
589
00:23:00,254 --> 00:23:01,420
so thank you very much.
590
00:23:01,421 --> 00:23:02,656
Okay. Okay.
591
00:23:02,657 --> 00:23:03,789
I appreciate that.
592
00:23:03,790 --> 00:23:04,923
Let's head out.
593
00:23:04,924 --> 00:23:07,161
Okay.
594
00:23:09,196 --> 00:23:11,064
Wow, the clues Peter
595
00:23:11,065 --> 00:23:12,731
has identified here have given
596
00:23:12,732 --> 00:23:15,000
me a lot to think about.
597
00:23:15,001 --> 00:23:17,937
Atlantis, to me, is highly
598
00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:19,773
fascinating, because, in those
599
00:23:19,774 --> 00:23:21,807
stories, you can read how
600
00:23:21,808 --> 00:23:24,943
Poseidon sired an entire race
601
00:23:24,944 --> 00:23:27,080
with mortal women.
602
00:23:27,081 --> 00:23:28,314
That is what the ancient
603
00:23:28,315 --> 00:23:30,816
astronaut theory suggests that
604
00:23:30,817 --> 00:23:33,753
a long time ago, we became who
605
00:23:33,754 --> 00:23:35,822
we are today due to a targeted
606
00:23:35,823 --> 00:23:39,092
artificial mutation
of our genes.
607
00:23:39,093 --> 00:23:41,827
And that mutation was done and
608
00:23:41,828 --> 00:23:44,464
performed by extraterrestrials.
609
00:24:08,742 --> 00:24:09,875
I'm in the mountains
610
00:24:09,876 --> 00:24:11,878
of Switzerland near Interlaken,
611
00:24:11,879 --> 00:24:13,279
where I'm about to meet the one
612
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,247
and only Erich von Daniken, who
613
00:24:15,248 --> 00:24:16,717
wrote Chariots of the Gods and
614
00:24:16,718 --> 00:24:20,219
34 additional books challenging
615
00:24:20,220 --> 00:24:23,989
human history and
conventional archaeology.
616
00:24:23,990 --> 00:24:26,159
Erich has invited me to Mystery
617
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,095
Park, an educational exhibition
618
00:24:29,096 --> 00:24:32,364
dedicated to the ancient
astronaut theory.
619
00:24:32,365 --> 00:24:34,034
I've collaborated with Erich for
620
00:24:34,035 --> 00:24:37,370
over 20 years, and whenever I
621
00:24:37,371 --> 00:24:40,306
have a new theory, I always try
622
00:24:40,307 --> 00:24:42,308
to run it by him to hear what
623
00:24:42,309 --> 00:24:43,310
he has to say.
624
00:24:43,311 --> 00:24:45,411
And this time, I'm here to talk
625
00:24:45,412 --> 00:24:49,048
to him about Atlantis.
626
00:24:49,049 --> 00:24:51,118
In your opinion, where do you
627
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,920
think the story for
Atlantis came from?
628
00:24:54,921 --> 00:24:56,156
The whole story which
629
00:24:56,157 --> 00:24:58,792
we know from Atlantis
comes from Plato.
630
00:24:58,793 --> 00:25:01,795
Plato's two books,
Timaeus and Critias.
631
00:25:01,796 --> 00:25:04,397
And there, he quotes an older
632
00:25:04,398 --> 00:25:06,801
man with the name Solon.
633
00:25:08,068 --> 00:25:09,201
Even though the
634
00:25:09,202 --> 00:25:11,036
Greek philosopher Plato wrote
635
00:25:11,037 --> 00:25:12,471
the first account of Atlantis
636
00:25:12,472 --> 00:25:14,807
that we know of, his account
637
00:25:14,808 --> 00:25:17,009
actually revolves around Solon,
638
00:25:17,010 --> 00:25:19,079
a great Greek legislator and
639
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,547
poet who journeyed to Egypt some
640
00:25:21,548 --> 00:25:25,951
150 years earlier.
641
00:25:25,952 --> 00:25:28,188
Plato writes that Solon was in
642
00:25:28,189 --> 00:25:31,224
the Egyptian city of Sais in 590
643
00:25:31,225 --> 00:25:33,226
BC, and while in a temple
644
00:25:33,227 --> 00:25:35,829
dedicated to the goddess Neith,
645
00:25:35,830 --> 00:25:37,429
he was told about a story
646
00:25:37,430 --> 00:25:39,498
written on a temple column of
647
00:25:39,499 --> 00:25:41,200
the Atlanteans and their
648
00:25:41,201 --> 00:25:42,835
military campaign against
649
00:25:42,836 --> 00:25:45,337
ancient Egypt and Greece.
650
00:25:45,338 --> 00:25:48,975
Unfortunately, remains of this
651
00:25:48,976 --> 00:25:53,846
temple have yet to be found.
652
00:25:53,847 --> 00:25:55,081
We have some Sumerian
653
00:25:55,082 --> 00:25:56,248
cuneiforms and Egyptian
654
00:25:56,249 --> 00:25:58,584
hieroglyphs, but they don't date
655
00:25:58,585 --> 00:26:01,188
back more than 2400 BC.
656
00:26:01,189 --> 00:26:04,123
So, all what was before 2000 BC
657
00:26:04,124 --> 00:26:06,860
is destroyed, disappeared,
658
00:26:06,861 --> 00:26:09,395
probably because of
the great flood.
659
00:26:09,396 --> 00:26:12,865
And Plato, by the
way, he says this.
660
00:26:12,866 --> 00:26:13,999
He says that there were
661
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,602
destructions of the whole
662
00:26:15,603 --> 00:26:19,238
planet, and everything
disappeared.
663
00:26:19,239 --> 00:26:21,341
In London, we have this stone
664
00:26:21,342 --> 00:26:24,343
block called WB444; it's the
665
00:26:24,344 --> 00:26:27,013
so called Sumerian Kings List.
666
00:26:27,014 --> 00:26:29,850
The first ten kings before the
667
00:26:29,851 --> 00:26:31,618
great flood they ruled
668
00:26:31,619 --> 00:26:35,855
together over 400,000 years.
669
00:26:35,856 --> 00:26:37,524
So, the story is definitely
670
00:26:37,525 --> 00:26:42,027
older than the old
Egypt Atlantis story.
671
00:26:42,028 --> 00:26:43,429
In 1900, Hermann
672
00:26:43,430 --> 00:26:45,497
Hilprecht excavated a temple
673
00:26:45,498 --> 00:26:48,034
library in the ancient holy city
674
00:26:48,035 --> 00:26:50,035
of Nippur, Iraq.
675
00:26:50,036 --> 00:26:52,538
Within it, a 4,000 year old
676
00:26:52,539 --> 00:26:54,574
cuneiform tablet was discovered
677
00:26:54,575 --> 00:26:57,110
listing all the Sumerian kings
678
00:26:57,111 --> 00:26:59,179
since the dawn of time.
679
00:26:59,180 --> 00:27:02,314
Since then, at least 18 other
680
00:27:02,315 --> 00:27:04,183
versions have been found.
681
00:27:04,184 --> 00:27:05,517
Though none are identical, they
682
00:27:05,518 --> 00:27:10,055
all seem to derive
from one ideal source.
683
00:27:10,056 --> 00:27:11,458
According to the Sumerian Kings
684
00:27:11,459 --> 00:27:14,060
List, the early kings "descended
685
00:27:14,061 --> 00:27:16,462
from the skies" and each ruled
686
00:27:16,463 --> 00:27:18,664
for thousands of years.
687
00:27:18,665 --> 00:27:21,066
Then, just as in the Book of
688
00:27:21,067 --> 00:27:23,303
Genesis, and what some propose
689
00:27:23,304 --> 00:27:26,339
was the fate of Atlantis, cities
690
00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:28,941
were swallowed up, and the kings
691
00:27:28,942 --> 00:27:30,576
who followed were mortals who
692
00:27:30,577 --> 00:27:33,179
ruled for dozens, but no longer
693
00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:35,582
for thousands of years.
694
00:27:35,583 --> 00:27:37,918
While mainstream scholars
695
00:27:37,919 --> 00:27:40,085
maintain that the Sumerian Kings
696
00:27:40,086 --> 00:27:41,353
List is a mix of fact and
697
00:27:41,354 --> 00:27:44,090
mythology, I tend to wonder,
698
00:27:44,091 --> 00:27:46,092
what if it is real?
699
00:27:46,093 --> 00:27:47,593
It could be evidence that the
700
00:27:47,594 --> 00:27:49,962
so called gods or kings were, in
701
00:27:49,963 --> 00:27:54,601
fact, extraterrestrials.
702
00:27:54,602 --> 00:27:56,102
When I was in Portugal, I met
703
00:27:56,103 --> 00:27:58,103
with author Peter Daughtrey, and
704
00:27:58,104 --> 00:27:59,639
in his book, he proposed the
705
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,108
idea that maybe Atlantis was in
706
00:28:02,109 --> 00:28:05,512
this place called Silves.
707
00:28:05,513 --> 00:28:07,112
And one of the things that he
708
00:28:07,113 --> 00:28:09,516
showed me was this
megalithic egg.
709
00:28:09,517 --> 00:28:11,951
And on it, it had almost what
710
00:28:11,952 --> 00:28:15,322
could be interpreted
as a DNA helix.
711
00:28:15,323 --> 00:28:18,658
How do you propose that ancient
712
00:28:18,659 --> 00:28:21,193
man knew about this DNA?
713
00:28:21,194 --> 00:28:22,962
In old Sumerian times,
714
00:28:22,963 --> 00:28:25,230
in old Egyptian times, they knew
715
00:28:25,231 --> 00:28:27,534
nothing about genetic.
716
00:28:27,535 --> 00:28:29,669
They knew nothing about DNA.
717
00:28:29,670 --> 00:28:31,737
So, who were the teachers again?
718
00:28:31,738 --> 00:28:32,738
Who told them?
719
00:28:32,739 --> 00:28:34,140
It's always the same question.
720
00:28:34,141 --> 00:28:35,475
We have Sumerian so called
721
00:28:35,476 --> 00:28:37,343
"cylinder seals," and there you
722
00:28:37,344 --> 00:28:41,147
see flying beings,
humans with wings.
723
00:28:41,148 --> 00:28:42,148
They, by the way, have always
724
00:28:42,149 --> 00:28:44,016
watches on their arms.
725
00:28:44,017 --> 00:28:48,988
And, you see, DNA has
always four bases.
726
00:28:48,989 --> 00:28:50,256
And if you see closer in the
727
00:28:50,257 --> 00:28:51,391
so called Tree of Life, and the
728
00:28:51,392 --> 00:28:54,160
two winged gods are changing out
729
00:28:54,161 --> 00:28:56,161
some of these bases to create
730
00:28:56,162 --> 00:28:58,364
something new.
731
00:28:58,365 --> 00:29:01,167
They take one example of our
732
00:29:01,168 --> 00:29:03,570
forefathers, they just take one
733
00:29:03,571 --> 00:29:06,038
cell out of it, they change the
734
00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:08,541
base in the one cell in the DNA
735
00:29:08,542 --> 00:29:11,177
code, they plant the result into
736
00:29:11,178 --> 00:29:14,514
the womb of a female
of the same species.
737
00:29:14,515 --> 00:29:16,449
After nine months this female
738
00:29:16,450 --> 00:29:18,584
will give birth to a child.
739
00:29:18,585 --> 00:29:19,785
The child has, of course, the
740
00:29:19,786 --> 00:29:22,654
skeleton, the bone, the body of
741
00:29:22,655 --> 00:29:24,324
the family tree.
742
00:29:24,325 --> 00:29:26,292
But because of this artificial
743
00:29:26,293 --> 00:29:28,594
mutation, something was changed
744
00:29:28,595 --> 00:29:30,462
in the course of evolution.
745
00:29:30,463 --> 00:29:32,198
And you can prove this even in
746
00:29:32,199 --> 00:29:34,034
old writings.
747
00:29:34,035 --> 00:29:35,200
My conversation with
748
00:29:35,201 --> 00:29:37,737
Erich definitely blows my mind.
749
00:29:37,738 --> 00:29:41,041
Because what he suggests is that
750
00:29:41,042 --> 00:29:42,675
the story of Atlantis may date
751
00:29:42,676 --> 00:29:45,210
back thousands of years before
752
00:29:45,211 --> 00:29:47,212
Plato, and that the people who
753
00:29:47,213 --> 00:29:49,481
lived there even had advanced
754
00:29:49,482 --> 00:29:52,485
knowledge of genetics.
755
00:29:52,486 --> 00:29:54,353
So as I'm looking at all these
756
00:29:54,354 --> 00:29:56,456
different ideas for Atlantis, do
757
00:29:56,457 --> 00:29:59,225
you think that Atlantis might've
758
00:29:59,226 --> 00:30:01,227
been this culture that was not
759
00:30:01,228 --> 00:30:02,629
just in one place, but that
760
00:30:02,630 --> 00:30:04,330
maybe it was some type of an
761
00:30:04,331 --> 00:30:06,298
empire, or a network of
762
00:30:06,299 --> 00:30:09,602
Atlanteans that, uh, were in
763
00:30:09,603 --> 00:30:11,071
different places?
764
00:30:11,072 --> 00:30:12,505
Plato says it was an
765
00:30:12,506 --> 00:30:15,441
island, and partly the island
766
00:30:15,442 --> 00:30:16,442
was artificial.
767
00:30:16,443 --> 00:30:18,111
But of course the people from
768
00:30:18,112 --> 00:30:19,778
Atlantis, they had scientists,
769
00:30:19,779 --> 00:30:22,649
they traveled, they
leave their island.
770
00:30:22,650 --> 00:30:24,249
So their knowledge has become
771
00:30:24,250 --> 00:30:26,252
part of other societies.
772
00:30:26,253 --> 00:30:28,587
Where do you
recommend I go next?
773
00:30:28,588 --> 00:30:30,256
Go to Santorini.
774
00:30:30,257 --> 00:30:31,791
Make these pictures, hear,
775
00:30:31,792 --> 00:30:33,093
listen around what they tell
776
00:30:33,094 --> 00:30:35,094
about Atlantis and
what they show you.
777
00:30:35,095 --> 00:30:37,096
Perfect, I shall do that.
778
00:30:37,097 --> 00:30:40,400
Thank you very much.
779
00:30:40,401 --> 00:30:41,767
Now that I've spoken
780
00:30:41,768 --> 00:30:43,670
with Erich, I am more convinced
781
00:30:43,671 --> 00:30:46,738
than ever that I'm
on the right path.
782
00:30:46,739 --> 00:30:49,476
But if Atlantis was indeed an
783
00:30:49,477 --> 00:30:51,143
advanced civilization that
784
00:30:51,144 --> 00:30:53,112
passed on its technology and
785
00:30:53,113 --> 00:30:54,747
knowledge to the local
786
00:30:54,748 --> 00:30:57,417
population, what happened to it?
787
00:30:57,418 --> 00:30:59,552
Was it destroyed by some natural
788
00:30:59,553 --> 00:31:03,288
disaster like an
earthquake or a volcano?
789
00:31:03,289 --> 00:31:05,658
Or was it something else?
790
00:31:05,659 --> 00:31:09,295
Something... out of this world?
791
00:31:21,334 --> 00:31:23,334
For my last stop,
792
00:31:23,335 --> 00:31:24,335
I've traveled to the Greek
793
00:31:24,336 --> 00:31:27,205
island of Santorini, an island
794
00:31:27,206 --> 00:31:28,539
in the Mediterranean.
795
00:31:28,540 --> 00:31:30,475
It is all that remains of a much
796
00:31:30,476 --> 00:31:32,343
larger landmass that was
797
00:31:32,344 --> 00:31:34,478
destroyed by a huge volcanic
798
00:31:34,479 --> 00:31:37,748
eruption thousands of years ago.
799
00:31:37,749 --> 00:31:39,583
And there are many who believe
800
00:31:39,584 --> 00:31:41,352
it to be the actual location of
801
00:31:41,353 --> 00:31:44,589
the lost island of Atlantis.
802
00:31:44,590 --> 00:31:48,226
At this point, I'm beginning to
803
00:31:48,227 --> 00:31:49,628
think that there may be
804
00:31:49,629 --> 00:31:51,362
something much more to the story
805
00:31:51,363 --> 00:31:54,498
of Atlantis than
anyone can imagine.
806
00:31:54,499 --> 00:31:56,500
Something so incredible that I
807
00:31:56,501 --> 00:31:59,371
myself can hardly believe it.
808
00:31:59,372 --> 00:32:01,739
So, to help me explore my
809
00:32:01,740 --> 00:32:03,608
theory, I'm meeting with Greek
810
00:32:03,609 --> 00:32:05,209
writer and Atlantis
811
00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:08,380
investigator Jonathan Bright.
812
00:32:08,381 --> 00:32:11,882
I mean, perfect place to meet.
813
00:32:11,883 --> 00:32:14,652
The most magical
island in the world.
814
00:32:14,653 --> 00:32:16,720
And I can't wait to find out
815
00:32:16,721 --> 00:32:18,390
what you have to tell me.
816
00:32:18,391 --> 00:32:19,658
So, what do you think happened
817
00:32:19,659 --> 00:32:22,393
here to Santorini and when?
818
00:32:22,394 --> 00:32:24,929
During the eruption,
which happened around
819
00:32:24,930 --> 00:32:30,602
1600 BC, this whole
part went down.
820
00:32:30,603 --> 00:32:32,603
What has convinced
821
00:32:32,604 --> 00:32:34,805
many researchers that Santorini
822
00:32:34,806 --> 00:32:36,874
was once the actual location of
823
00:32:36,875 --> 00:32:41,212
Atlantis is its unique,
semicircular shape.
824
00:32:41,213 --> 00:32:42,881
But although it certainly bears
825
00:32:42,882 --> 00:32:44,949
a similarity to Plato's
826
00:32:44,950 --> 00:32:46,418
description of a circular
827
00:32:46,419 --> 00:32:48,285
island, much of it appears to
828
00:32:48,286 --> 00:32:50,287
have been destroyed by a volcano
829
00:32:50,288 --> 00:32:53,557
thousands of years ago.
830
00:32:53,558 --> 00:32:55,427
Our first stop on Santorini is
831
00:32:55,428 --> 00:32:57,429
the ruins of the once wealthy
832
00:32:57,430 --> 00:33:00,931
Minoan seaport of Akrotiri.
833
00:33:00,932 --> 00:33:04,635
When the volcano here erupted
834
00:33:04,636 --> 00:33:07,839
approximately 3,600 years ago,
835
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,975
Akrotiri was covered in ash and
836
00:33:09,976 --> 00:33:12,776
preserved in time just like
837
00:33:12,777 --> 00:33:16,715
Pompeii in Italy.
838
00:33:16,716 --> 00:33:19,450
This is truly amazing.
839
00:33:19,451 --> 00:33:21,652
Akrotiri was occupied as far
840
00:33:21,653 --> 00:33:24,256
back as 4000 BC and the
841
00:33:24,257 --> 00:33:25,923
ancient buildings here suggest
842
00:33:25,924 --> 00:33:27,993
a highly advanced society
843
00:33:27,994 --> 00:33:29,861
equipped with surprisingly
844
00:33:29,862 --> 00:33:32,796
sophisticated technology
for the time.
845
00:33:32,797 --> 00:33:34,699
Three story high buildings
846
00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:36,868
featuring hot and cold water,
847
00:33:36,869 --> 00:33:38,469
and there's even evidence of
848
00:33:38,470 --> 00:33:42,673
four different
languages spoken here.
849
00:33:42,674 --> 00:33:45,477
But could this
really be Atlantis?
850
00:33:45,478 --> 00:33:47,612
The mythical city that suddenly
851
00:33:47,613 --> 00:33:51,682
vanished in a single
day and night?
852
00:33:51,683 --> 00:33:53,584
Do you know if any bodies were
853
00:33:53,585 --> 00:33:54,585
found here, like for example, at
854
00:33:54,586 --> 00:33:55,586
Pompeii, after the eruption of
855
00:33:55,587 --> 00:33:56,587
the Vesuvius?
856
00:33:56,588 --> 00:33:57,589
Yeah.
857
00:33:57,590 --> 00:33:58,590
Has something
858
00:33:58,591 --> 00:34:00,592
similar been found
here in the ash?
859
00:34:00,593 --> 00:34:02,826
There are no bodies
that have been dug up
860
00:34:02,827 --> 00:34:03,827
from this place.
861
00:34:03,828 --> 00:34:04,829
Really?
862
00:34:04,830 --> 00:34:05,830
No bodies have been dug up?
863
00:34:05,831 --> 00:34:10,000
Yes. No, it's kind
of a mystery here.
864
00:34:10,001 --> 00:34:12,336
I mean, that's very strange.
865
00:34:12,337 --> 00:34:13,505
It's as if they had
866
00:34:13,506 --> 00:34:15,840
foresight that this
eruption might happen.
867
00:34:15,841 --> 00:34:17,641
Mm hmm.
868
00:34:17,642 --> 00:34:20,911
The ruins of Akrotiri
clearly show evidence
869
00:34:20,912 --> 00:34:22,881
of advanced architecture,
870
00:34:22,882 --> 00:34:24,916
concepts of an organized society
871
00:34:24,917 --> 00:34:27,052
and perhaps even the knowledge
872
00:34:27,053 --> 00:34:29,653
of a pending disaster that might
873
00:34:29,654 --> 00:34:32,356
destroy the island.
874
00:34:32,357 --> 00:34:33,525
What do you think are some of
875
00:34:33,526 --> 00:34:35,392
the most interesting finds that
876
00:34:35,393 --> 00:34:37,528
have been discovered here?
877
00:34:37,529 --> 00:34:38,529
There are many
878
00:34:38,530 --> 00:34:41,533
important frescos that have been
879
00:34:41,534 --> 00:34:42,900
found in the walls.
880
00:34:42,901 --> 00:34:44,535
I have some things to say about
881
00:34:44,536 --> 00:34:46,036
this, but I would better show
882
00:34:46,037 --> 00:34:48,038
you the proper
place to say that.
883
00:34:48,039 --> 00:34:49,774
Let's go.
884
00:34:49,775 --> 00:34:52,410
As Jonathan and I are headed
885
00:34:52,411 --> 00:34:53,744
over to see the Akrotiri
886
00:34:53,745 --> 00:34:56,414
frescos, I was reminded of the
887
00:34:56,415 --> 00:34:58,383
ancient legends about an
888
00:34:58,384 --> 00:35:00,784
advanced race of supposedly
889
00:35:00,785 --> 00:35:03,954
mythical beings
called the Telchines.
890
00:35:03,955 --> 00:35:06,423
According to Greek mythology,
891
00:35:06,424 --> 00:35:08,360
the Telchines were sea creatures
892
00:35:08,361 --> 00:35:09,894
with flippers for hands and
893
00:35:09,895 --> 00:35:12,796
heads that looked like dogs.
894
00:35:12,797 --> 00:35:14,666
They were eventually destroyed
895
00:35:14,667 --> 00:35:16,434
because the so called gods
896
00:35:16,435 --> 00:35:19,970
feared they were
becoming too powerful.
897
00:35:19,971 --> 00:35:21,706
But what makes the Telchines
898
00:35:21,707 --> 00:35:23,108
particularly interesting is
899
00:35:23,109 --> 00:35:25,409
that, according to legend, it
900
00:35:25,410 --> 00:35:28,113
was they who raised Poseidon
901
00:35:28,114 --> 00:35:30,581
from childhood and also used
902
00:35:30,582 --> 00:35:32,584
their advanced metallurgy skills
903
00:35:32,585 --> 00:35:36,121
to make his powerful trident.
904
00:35:36,122 --> 00:35:38,423
Is it possible that these
905
00:35:38,424 --> 00:35:40,592
hybrid beings have been the real
906
00:35:40,593 --> 00:35:43,994
architects of Atlantis?
907
00:35:43,995 --> 00:35:47,932
Really, really great.
908
00:35:47,933 --> 00:35:49,601
The elaborate frescos at
909
00:35:49,602 --> 00:35:51,468
Akrotiri are believed to date
910
00:35:51,469 --> 00:35:53,871
from before 1600 BC.
911
00:35:53,872 --> 00:35:56,608
Truly, something else.
912
00:35:56,609 --> 00:35:58,943
Many depict city scenes
913
00:35:58,944 --> 00:36:01,613
a goddess with a winged griffin
914
00:36:01,614 --> 00:36:05,483
and even blue monkeys
making offerings.
915
00:36:05,484 --> 00:36:07,017
Very interesting.
916
00:36:07,018 --> 00:36:08,820
But what really caught my eye
917
00:36:08,821 --> 00:36:11,021
was one that featured a number
918
00:36:11,022 --> 00:36:13,458
of mysterious men dressed in
919
00:36:13,459 --> 00:36:16,693
feathers, almost
like feather cloaks.
920
00:36:16,694 --> 00:36:18,095
But were they priests?
921
00:36:18,096 --> 00:36:19,130
Kings?
922
00:36:19,131 --> 00:36:20,999
Or could they have been
923
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,001
depictions of angels or other
924
00:36:24,002 --> 00:36:25,637
winged beings, like, for
925
00:36:25,638 --> 00:36:27,573
example, the Anunnaki?
926
00:36:29,442 --> 00:36:34,179
Had I found Atlantis after all?
927
00:36:34,180 --> 00:36:36,481
Or something that may have been
928
00:36:36,482 --> 00:36:39,651
directly inspired by it?
929
00:36:39,652 --> 00:36:41,052
Nevertheless, one thing is
930
00:36:41,053 --> 00:36:43,988
certain something powerful
931
00:36:43,989 --> 00:36:48,193
definitely happened at Akrotiri.
932
00:36:48,194 --> 00:36:49,927
The more pieces of the puzzle I
933
00:36:49,928 --> 00:36:52,130
gather, the more I get to see
934
00:36:52,131 --> 00:36:53,898
the full picture.
935
00:36:53,899 --> 00:36:55,733
And I find it interesting that
936
00:36:55,734 --> 00:36:58,035
once again, here in Santorini,
937
00:36:58,036 --> 00:36:59,871
some things fit Plato's clues
938
00:36:59,872 --> 00:37:03,976
about Atlantis...
but some don't.
939
00:37:06,166 --> 00:37:09,382
The final destination
on my hunt for
940
00:37:09,383 --> 00:37:11,085
Atlantis is the very top of the
941
00:37:11,086 --> 00:37:14,121
island of Santorini.
942
00:37:14,122 --> 00:37:16,089
It's a real hike, but the views
943
00:37:16,090 --> 00:37:18,926
are definitely worth it...
944
00:37:18,927 --> 00:37:20,393
and so are the mysterious
945
00:37:20,394 --> 00:37:22,962
megaliths found there.
946
00:37:22,963 --> 00:37:24,397
What would compel an ancient
947
00:37:24,398 --> 00:37:26,467
people to build such a large
948
00:37:26,468 --> 00:37:28,870
complex on top of a mountain?
949
00:37:31,106 --> 00:37:33,873
Check out this wall right here.
950
00:37:33,874 --> 00:37:35,842
We're on Santorini at the
951
00:37:35,843 --> 00:37:38,813
highest peak in an ancient site
952
00:37:38,814 --> 00:37:42,750
called Ancient Thera... and this
953
00:37:42,751 --> 00:37:45,418
wall right here is, as you can
954
00:37:45,419 --> 00:37:49,422
tell, massive.
955
00:37:49,423 --> 00:37:51,759
Walls like this not only exist
956
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:57,897
in Greece... but in Italy...
in Spain...
957
00:37:57,898 --> 00:38:02,770
in Egypt... and halfway
across the world in
958
00:38:02,771 --> 00:38:06,172
Central and South America.
959
00:38:06,173 --> 00:38:08,308
So the fact that this wall
960
00:38:08,309 --> 00:38:11,444
exists here at one of the most
961
00:38:11,445 --> 00:38:14,915
inaccessible places seems like
962
00:38:14,916 --> 00:38:17,451
it is insane.
963
00:38:17,452 --> 00:38:19,319
There had to have been a reason
964
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,455
why this is here.
965
00:38:21,456 --> 00:38:23,924
And that is: what if those
966
00:38:23,925 --> 00:38:27,293
stories of the Greek gods...
967
00:38:27,294 --> 00:38:29,196
...descending from the skies
968
00:38:29,197 --> 00:38:33,467
really, at some
point, were true?
969
00:38:33,468 --> 00:38:35,335
Further down the mountain, I met
970
00:38:35,336 --> 00:38:37,071
once again with writer Jonathan
971
00:38:37,072 --> 00:38:39,072
Bright and discovered that he
972
00:38:39,073 --> 00:38:40,808
has an interesting take on how
973
00:38:40,809 --> 00:38:42,942
Santorini might be linked to the
974
00:38:42,943 --> 00:38:45,813
legend of Atlantis.
975
00:38:45,814 --> 00:38:47,348
This place reminds
976
00:38:47,349 --> 00:38:51,051
me of the Enochian story where...
Mm hmm.
977
00:38:51,052 --> 00:38:54,554
...in the beginning,
we see that a group
978
00:38:54,555 --> 00:38:56,190
of angels descends on the
979
00:38:56,191 --> 00:38:58,058
summit of a mountain Mount
980
00:38:58,059 --> 00:39:00,493
Hermon, the mythical mount
981
00:39:00,494 --> 00:39:02,362
and, like Poseidon, we see in
982
00:39:02,363 --> 00:39:05,098
Plato's story that did, and they
983
00:39:05,099 --> 00:39:07,101
make children with them, they
984
00:39:07,102 --> 00:39:09,969
begat children by them.
985
00:39:09,970 --> 00:39:11,371
Mount Hermon is in
986
00:39:11,372 --> 00:39:12,940
the Golan Heights, between
987
00:39:12,941 --> 00:39:15,976
Israel and Lebanon.
988
00:39:15,977 --> 00:39:17,844
According to the Book of Enoch,
989
00:39:17,845 --> 00:39:19,946
a group of so called "watchers"
990
00:39:19,947 --> 00:39:24,984
descended here and mated
with local women.
991
00:39:24,985 --> 00:39:26,853
And this is exactly the same
992
00:39:26,854 --> 00:39:28,255
story Plato writes about
993
00:39:28,256 --> 00:39:30,223
concerning Atlantis, where
994
00:39:30,224 --> 00:39:33,359
Poseidon sired an entire race.
995
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:34,527
It happens also
996
00:39:34,528 --> 00:39:36,362
that in the place that they call
997
00:39:36,363 --> 00:39:38,199
the "Wheel of Giants" there is
998
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,234
a huge monument from 5,000 years
999
00:39:41,235 --> 00:39:43,971
old now... Mm hmm.
1000
00:39:43,972 --> 00:39:45,406
...with concentric
1001
00:39:45,407 --> 00:39:47,141
circles and the high walls of
1002
00:39:47,142 --> 00:39:49,009
stones, and... the same
1003
00:39:49,010 --> 00:39:51,545
traditions that we see
related to Atlantis.
1004
00:39:51,546 --> 00:39:54,013
That's very interesting,
and, you know, and
1005
00:39:54,014 --> 00:39:56,116
of course, the legends that are
1006
00:39:56,117 --> 00:39:57,551
corresponding with this place up
1007
00:39:57,552 --> 00:39:59,386
here are very interesting, that
1008
00:39:59,387 --> 00:40:02,223
something significant, something
1009
00:40:02,224 --> 00:40:04,558
"sacred" happened up here a very
1010
00:40:04,559 --> 00:40:06,159
long time ago.
1011
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,127
And they weren't angels in the
1012
00:40:08,128 --> 00:40:12,565
sense as we think
of angels today.
1013
00:40:12,566 --> 00:40:14,567
Meeting with Jonathan and coming
1014
00:40:14,568 --> 00:40:16,302
to Santorini has helped me to
1015
00:40:16,303 --> 00:40:20,641
see Atlantis from a
whole new perspective.
1016
00:40:20,642 --> 00:40:22,442
I'm starting to think that, what
1017
00:40:22,443 --> 00:40:24,277
if Plato's stories about
1018
00:40:24,278 --> 00:40:26,446
Atlantis are directly linked to
1019
00:40:26,447 --> 00:40:28,581
similar stories about the
1020
00:40:28,582 --> 00:40:30,984
arrival of the gods that appear
1021
00:40:30,985 --> 00:40:33,286
to have occurred on mountaintops
1022
00:40:33,287 --> 00:40:34,888
such as Mount Hermon and
1023
00:40:34,889 --> 00:40:39,058
other mountains all
around the world?
1024
00:40:39,059 --> 00:40:41,194
I'm also reminded of the Greek
1025
00:40:41,195 --> 00:40:43,663
legend of Asteria, the Titan
1026
00:40:43,664 --> 00:40:47,268
goddess of falling stars.
1027
00:40:47,269 --> 00:40:49,002
In order to escape the advances
1028
00:40:49,003 --> 00:40:51,938
of Zeus, she turned into a quail
1029
00:40:51,939 --> 00:40:53,674
and then flung herself into the
1030
00:40:53,675 --> 00:40:56,176
sea, where she transformed into
1031
00:40:56,177 --> 00:41:01,915
a magical island.
1032
00:41:01,916 --> 00:41:02,917
Okay.
1033
00:41:02,918 --> 00:41:04,018
And if you learn
1034
00:41:04,019 --> 00:41:05,618
anything new in the hunt for
1035
00:41:05,619 --> 00:41:07,353
Atlantis, let me know.
1036
00:41:07,354 --> 00:41:09,355
And thank you very much...
I will.
1037
00:41:09,356 --> 00:41:10,357
...for showing me
1038
00:41:10,358 --> 00:41:11,357
all these different places.
1039
00:41:11,358 --> 00:41:12,226
It's been a true honor.
1040
00:41:12,227 --> 00:41:13,226
Nice meeting you.
1041
00:41:13,227 --> 00:41:14,228
Thank you very much.
1042
00:41:14,229 --> 00:41:15,496
Okay.
1043
00:41:15,497 --> 00:41:17,964
What an amazing journey.
1044
00:41:17,965 --> 00:41:19,333
The hunt for Atlantis has taken
1045
00:41:19,334 --> 00:41:21,034
me to Athens, Portugal,
1046
00:41:21,035 --> 00:41:22,969
Switzerland and Santorini, an
1047
00:41:22,970 --> 00:41:24,371
island in the Mediterranean.
1048
00:41:24,372 --> 00:41:25,940
And I've had the chance to meet
1049
00:41:25,941 --> 00:41:28,641
with some really
cool researchers.
1050
00:41:28,642 --> 00:41:30,377
But this last stop has me
1051
00:41:30,378 --> 00:41:32,246
convinced that the lost city
1052
00:41:32,247 --> 00:41:34,248
of Atlantis was probably not an
1053
00:41:34,249 --> 00:41:36,183
island at all, but maybe some
1054
00:41:36,184 --> 00:41:38,652
sort of a flying craft.
1055
00:41:38,653 --> 00:41:40,654
Perhaps this is why Atlantis has
1056
00:41:40,655 --> 00:41:43,056
been reported to have existed at
1057
00:41:43,057 --> 00:41:46,659
various locations
around the globe...
1058
00:41:46,660 --> 00:41:48,661
why it seemingly disappeared in
1059
00:41:48,662 --> 00:41:51,531
one day and one night...
1060
00:41:51,532 --> 00:41:53,366
and why no evidence of it has
1061
00:41:53,367 --> 00:41:57,237
ever been found.
1062
00:41:57,238 --> 00:41:59,373
Could it be that the powerful
1063
00:41:59,374 --> 00:42:01,275
influence of the Atlantean
1064
00:42:01,276 --> 00:42:03,476
perhaps extraterrestrial
1065
00:42:03,477 --> 00:42:05,478
culture and highly advanced
1066
00:42:05,479 --> 00:42:08,147
technology inspired early humans
1067
00:42:08,148 --> 00:42:13,120
to copy them... to build
cities on the same
1068
00:42:13,121 --> 00:42:17,424
spots where their
craft once landed...
1069
00:42:17,425 --> 00:42:21,161
and even worship them as gods?
1070
00:42:21,162 --> 00:42:23,563
Of course, my theory will still
1071
00:42:23,564 --> 00:42:25,399
require more investigation and,
1072
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,101
hopefully, proof.
1073
00:42:28,102 --> 00:42:29,235
The planet we live on is
1074
00:42:29,236 --> 00:42:31,005
billions of years old, but we
1075
00:42:31,006 --> 00:42:35,042
humans walk the earth
for only an instant.
1076
00:42:35,043 --> 00:42:36,576
Shouldn't we spend our brief
1077
00:42:36,577 --> 00:42:39,545
time here asking questions?
1078
00:42:39,546 --> 00:42:41,181
What if we could discover
1079
00:42:41,182 --> 00:42:43,449
amazing things if only we would
1080
00:42:43,450 --> 00:42:46,052
just open our eyes, challenge
1081
00:42:46,053 --> 00:42:48,589
our minds, and pursue the truth?
1082
00:42:48,590 --> 00:42:50,723
In search of aliens.
1083
00:42:50,724 --> 00:42:53,726
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