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NARRATOR:
Cultural artifacts...
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obliterated.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It is absolutely barbaric!
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They're destroying
our cultural heritage.
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NARRATOR: Irreplaceable texts
reduced to smoldering ash.
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NICK POPE: It's as if the roots
of human civilization itself
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are being hidden from us.
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NARRATOR:
And sacred lands
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looted under the cover
of darkness.
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WILLIAM HENRY: Armed men
spent three days digging
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and left with something in tow.
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What exactly it was,
nobody knows.
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NARRATOR: Throughout history,
mankind's most ancient
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and sacred sites have been
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plagued by conflict and warfare.
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But could this constant turmoil
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really be part
of an otherworldly agenda?
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DAVID WILCOCK: Could an
extraterrestrial intelligence
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be deliberately thwarting
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any effort for itself
to be discovered
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from the ancient records?
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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited
its origins to gods
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and other visitors
from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help
to shape our history?
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And if so,
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might the most
compelling evidence
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lie hidden in forbidden zones?
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NARRATOR:
Northern Iraq.
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20 miles south of Mosul lies
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the ancient Assyrian
capital city of Nimrud.
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Built over 3,000 years ago
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in the 13th century B.C.,
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the site is an archaeological
treasure trove.
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Among the antiquities
found here
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are monumental statues
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of winged lions
with human-heads,
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and massive relief carvings
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depicting the ancient gods
of Mesopotamia.
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(indistinct shouting)
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But on March 6, 2015,
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militants from the Islamic State
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stormed the ancient site,
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violently destroying
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everything in their path.
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After obliterating
irreplaceable relics,
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they wired the entire site
with explosives
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and leveled it completely...
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forever wiping it
from the face of the Earth.
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This group seems
to be more destructive
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than just about anything people
can recall in history.
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It's almost as if we're being
orphaned from our past.
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We are having our parentage,
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our ancestors,
cut off from us;
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the record of them.
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It is absolutely barbaric
what is going on currently
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in the Middle East
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with some factions
going deliberately
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to ancient sites
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and just eradicating
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our cultural heritage.
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NARRATOR:
This volatile region
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is widely considered
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to have been the cradle
of civilization.
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And its archaeological
destruction
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could mean the loss
of information about mankind's
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historical past.
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Iraq, Syria...
what we call the Middle East,
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uh, or the Near East, uh,
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is called the cradle of
civilization for a reason.
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Anthropologically,
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this appears to be the place
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where the first humans arose.
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This is where people came from.
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And all of the earliest
civilizations,
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cities, governments,
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come from this region.
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NARRATOR:
In the 21st Century,
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the violence
and destruction
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have reached
an unprecedented level,
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but the Middle East
has been embroiled
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in conflict
for thousands of years.
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The Islamic state today is doing
what the Taliban did before,
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which is doing what Byzantine
Christians and Jews
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before them have all done.
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They don't want
any graven images.
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So because of
their religious beliefs,
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they are basically destroying
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our own cultural heritage
for religious purposes.
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And like human lives,
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many of these
you can't get back.
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NARRATOR:
Since 1990,
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the Middle East
has seen the destruction
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of cultural heritage
on an unprecedented scale.
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A scale not seen
since the Christian vandalism
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that began
during the Roman Empire.
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Over 700,000 archaeological,
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cultural and religious artifacts
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have been stolen or destroyed.
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And over 200
significant historical sites
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have been
completely left in ruins.
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The Middle East seems to be
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in an almost permanent
state of instability.
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Is this deliberate?
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Is someone keeping it that way?
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Maybe to prevent us
from discovering something?
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Is there something
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that would fundamentally
change our understanding
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of who we are
and where we come from?
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TSOUKALOS:
It is absolutely horrifying
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to see the erasing
of our history.
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And what's worse all of these
ancient sites
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are one giant
piece of the puzzle
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that we might have
been visited
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in the past
by extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR:
For thousands of years,
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northern Africa,
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the Middle East and India
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have been in an almost
constant state of unrest.
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But also in Southeast Asia,
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the regions
of Kashmir and Tibet
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are considered among
the most disputed territories
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in the world.
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And halfway across the globe,
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the northern triangle
of Central America...
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which includes Guatemala,
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El Salvador and Honduras...
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has been declared
the deadliest region
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on Earth
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outside of active war zones.
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Could there be a reason
that these specific areas
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experience so much chaos?
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ERICH VON DANIKEN:
It might be that on such places,
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the extraterrestrials descended
some thousands of years ago,
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on such places, they have,
uh, hidden something.
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GEORGE NOORY:
There could be
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something special
about the sites.
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These are areas
that are so important
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to the things that have happened
on this planet.
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And, I still think
that the knowledge,
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and the success
of where we go as people
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on planet Earth
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is directly related
to those areas.
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible that there is
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an otherworldly connection
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between certain areas
of global conflict
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and places of significant
archaeological importance?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest
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there could
very well be so-called
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forbidden zones
on planet Earth...
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areas that
extraterrestrial entities
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want to keep humans
from exploring?
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But if so, why?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining a conflict
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in another volatile region,
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where some of mankind's greatest
treasures are being looted
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from beneath the desert sands.
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NARRATOR:
Cairo, Egypt.
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2011.
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(shouting)
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In what has come to be known
as the Arab Spring,
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riots break out
throughout Egypt.
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Protesters demand
the resignation
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of President Hosni Mubarak.
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(shouting, chanting)
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With the media
and law enforcement
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focused on the demonstrations,
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looters gain greater freedom
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to pillage Egypt's ancient sites
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and artifacts.
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MARTIN:
For many people,
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getting rid of Mubarak
was just a license
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to profit
from the new situation.
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They would loot
archaeological sites.
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They were suddenly
free of the dictator
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and a lot of them went crazy.
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HENRY: During the Arab Spring,
insiders told me
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that trucks loaded
with deep digging equipment
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accompanied by armored vehicles
and armed men,
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spent three days digging
in the sands outside Cairo
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and left with something in tow.
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What exactly it was,
nobody knows.
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ERIN NELL: Guards were powerless
to do anything to stop it.
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This created
a huge amount of havoc,
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just because of
the lack of security
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and the intentions
of certain people
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to steal Egyptian antiquities.
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You can tell from
the satellite imagery
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the increase in different holes
in the ground,
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you know, looters' pits
that they've dug.
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This is the site of Dahshur.
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This picture was taken in 2010.
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But when you look
at this one over here,
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I think this was taken in 2013,
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the difference between
the two is pretty amazing.
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Look at all these pits
that were dug by looters.
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When it comes to Egypt,
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everyone's familiar
with the pyramids,
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but really
that's only a tiny part
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of what survives of that ancient
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and sophisticated civilization.
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NARRATOR: According
to modern archaeologists,
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less than one percent
of ancient Egypt
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has been discovered
and excavated.
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But how is it that such
a pivotal ancient culture
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disappeared unnoticed
into the desert sands?
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NELL: There were several
different cultures
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that came in with armies...
the Nubians,
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the Assyrians
were in there once,
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the Persians twice
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and then the Greeks.
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When the Romans took over,
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they just drained it of
Egyptian religion and culture.
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So when the Arabs
came in, in 641,
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most of these temples were at
least halfway covered in sand,
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so all you have are these
huge magnificent columns
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kind of coming
out of the ground.
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The Sphinx, you know, was buried
right up to his head.
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POPE: By the time
Napoleon got to Egypt,
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the hieroglyphs
were indecipherable.
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No one knew what these things
were, what they meant.
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We had to re-learn it.
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It was only with the discovery
of the Rosetta Stone
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that we got our first insight
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into what these hieroglyphs
might actually be saying.
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NARRATOR:
But is Egypt's long history
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of political unrest
merely man-made,
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or is there something
extraterrestrial at work?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that further answers
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can be found still buried
in the desert sands.
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I think if you could
blow all the sand away
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from the Middle East and Egypt,
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you would find
incredible relics.
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I also think that information
about extraterrestrials
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is probably deeply hidden away
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under the sands of that region.
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NARRATOR:
Abydos, Egypt.
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February 2011.
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300 miles south of Cairo,
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looters target what was once
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the most sacred site
to the ancient Egyptians
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during the time of the Pharaohs.
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It was here that Egypt's
first rulers were buried
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and the earliest forms
of hieroglyphs were found,
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as well as an inscription
bearing the names and chronology
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of the first kings
of Ancient Egypt.
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Abydos was considered sacred
to the god Osiris,
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Lord of the Dead
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and Egypt's first
otherworldly ruler.
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According to ancient legends,
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his dismembered head
was buried at the site.
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ANDREW COLLINS:
So who was Osiris?
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Was he simply an ancestor
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of the ancient Egyptians?
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Or was he a god
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that descended to Earth,
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you know, from the sky world?
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Obviously, we cannot say today.
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But we know he was said
to have existed in an age
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that was known as Zep Tepi,
the First Time.
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NARRATOR:
In the 13th century B.C.,
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the Pharaoh Seti I
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was building his temple
here in Abydos,
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when... according
to some accounts...
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he had an encounter
with the god Osiris.
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HENRY: When King Seti
was building his temple,
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he had a dream in which
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the Egyptian god Osiris
appeared to him.
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And he told Seti
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that if he was to dig
behind his temple location,
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that he would find something
of enormous significance.
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Seti digs 40 feet
beneath the temple
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and finds the tomb of Osiris.
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NARRATOR:
For hundreds of years,
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no such tomb was known
to exist in Abydos.
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But at the turn
of the 20th century,
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archaeologists digging
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behind the temple of Seti I
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unearthed a massive
underground structure
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consisting of granite
and sandstone blocks,
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some weighing nearly 60 tons.
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The Osirion,
as it is now known,
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was found buried
under 40 feet of silt.
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And ancient astronaut theorists
are convinced
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that further excavations
would reveal
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something much more profound
hidden within it.
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HENRY:
The interesting thing about it
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is that on the exterior wall
of the Temple of Seti
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is inscribed what is called
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the head or tower of Osiris,
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what looks like some kind of
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an ancient antennae-type
of a device.
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It's clearly technological
or mechanical-looking.
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According to legend,
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it has been buried and
is awaiting rediscovery.
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WILCOCK: Abydos is
a veritable treasure trove
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of artifacts, ancient records,
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inscriptions on temple walls
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of people who look
very different than us.
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There are repositories
of ancient technologies
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that are still hiding
under the desert sands.
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There's a lot of vested interest
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these extraterrestrials...
the gods... might have
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in keeping these things
hidden from us.
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NARRATOR: Could it be that
Abydos holds alien technology
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that was deliberately
hidden from mankind?
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Is the instability
in this region...
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like that in other
forbidden zones...
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somehow being generated
by extraterrestrials
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that want to keep humanity
from rediscovering it?
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And if so, just how
are they accomplishing this?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining the latest
scientific breakthroughs
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in using technology
to incite violence.
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NARRATOR:
Lhasa, Tibet.
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Situated nearly 12,000 feet
above sea level,
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the Tibetan capital of Lhasa,
or "Place of the Gods,"
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has long been considered
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one of the least accessible
areas of the world.
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For over three decades,
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Tibet was entirely closed off
to outsiders
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after the forcible takeover
of the region
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and exile of its spiritual
leader the Dalai Lama
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in 1959 by the Chinese Army.
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During their siege of the city,
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Chinese Red Guards
systematically destroyed
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temples, frescoes,
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and ancient religious texts.
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It's a terrible legacy... from
the Great Library at Alexandria,
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the library at Sarajevo,
more recently in Phnom Penh.
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Other stories like the Nazi
book burning... there seems
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to be this thing that happens
where some revolutionary energy
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wants to destroy the cultural
treasures of the past.
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CARGILL: When one culture
conquers another culture,
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you want to kill their ideology,
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and the way that you do that
is you burn their books.
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You banish their ideas.
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You banish their language.
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You banish
their religious practices.
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You burn the ancient records.
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(shouting)
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NARRATOR: Throughout history,
military conflict has resulted
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not only in loss of life
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but also the destruction
of cultural heritage.
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And even when setting out
to colonize the New World,
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early explorers and missionaries
systematically eradicated
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what they considered
to be pagan texts
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and mythologies
of Native American,
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Mesoamerican, and Polynesian
tribes they encountered.
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They destroy artifacts.
They bury sites.
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It's almost as if
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this is a deliberate
blotting out of the past.
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It's as if the roots
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of human civilization itself
are being hidden from us.
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CHILDRESS: With the destruction
of knowledge,
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we may well be losing
our connection to the gods,
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extraterrestrials of the past,
how they interacted
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with us,
what they wanted us to do.
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WILCOCK:
Why is it that these records
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continually seem
to get misplaced
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or they get burned
or they get destroyed
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or they're deliberately ruined?
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Is it possible
that there is, in fact,
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an ongoing
extraterrestrial presence
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that has somehow infiltrated
into our society?
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Could this extraterrestrial
intelligence
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be deliberately thwarting
any effort for itself
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to be discovered
from the ancient records?
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(horse neighs)
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NARRATOR: Could there really be
aliens among us
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inciting conflict, as some
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ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?
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And, if so,
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might we find this conflict
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concentrated
in so-called forbidden zones?
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But why?
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And perhaps
even more importantly,
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how has this violent behavior
been accomplished?
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Pasadena, California.
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Scientists at the California
Institute of Technology
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identify a set of neurons
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in the hypothalamus
of mouse brains
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that correspond to aggression.
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Through a technique
called optogenetics,
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the group uses pulses of light
to activate the neurons
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and instantaneously
incite violence in the mice.
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There are many ways in which
we can affect or manipulate
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the brain or brain function.
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And there's
a really exciting new technique
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called optogenetics.
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And although it's not being used
in humans yet,
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it's being used
in animal trials.
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And what that is is
they actually manipulate a virus
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so that it becomes
a delivery system for a gene
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that's taken
from a photosensitive algae.
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And that gene is then delivered
to specific neurons,
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and then those neurons
are triggered to fire via light.
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You can control the behavior
of the animal via remote control
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in the sense all you have to do
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is trigger the different types
of receptors to fire.
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If you actually go in
and stimulate
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the prefrontal cortex,
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you can cause animals
to act out.
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NARRATOR:
In 2010,
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scientists at Osaka University
and at the University of Texas
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publish separate findings
both indicating
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that up to eight percent of the
human genome comes from viruses
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and not from our ancestral DNA.
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Could this help explain
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how extraterrestrials
might be able
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to incite humans to violence,
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just as researchers
have used viruses
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to trigger aggression in mice?
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NOORY:
Somebody genetically altered us
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a long, long time ago,
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and they intentionally put in
this ability to become violent.
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There's no question that people
could be manipulated,
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could be used to do all kinds
of things
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and they wouldn't even know it.
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We are simply a pawn
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on an extraterrestrial
chess game that they can move
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and manipulate any time
they want,
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that they serve up, at
their whim, whenever they want.
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There's no question about that.
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NARRATOR: Could humans
be artificially stimulated
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to create acts of violence,
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as some ancient astronaut
theorists propose?
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And might this stimulation
be targeted to people
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living in certain regions
of the world?
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Perhaps the answers can be found
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buried deep
in the jungles of Guatemala.
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(birds chirping)
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NARRATOR: Deep in the jungles
of Guatemala lie the ruins
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of the ancient Mayan city
of El Mirador.
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Dating back to at least
the fifth century BC,
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the site is believed to predate
the classic Mayan civilization.
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But, curiously, it was abruptly
abandoned around 150 BC.
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Western archaeologists
rediscovered the site in 1979
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in an area currently controlled
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by one of the most feared
drug cartels in the region.
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Today, armed soldiers
stand guard
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just outside
the archaeological site
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that is larger than Manhattan
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and contains one of the tallest
pyramids in the world.
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ED BARNHART: El Mirador,
in fact, has dozens of pyramids.
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Many of them are as big
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as anything
that the classic Maya made.
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But it's also one
of their very oldest cities.
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NARRATOR: But perhaps
the most intriguing discovery
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at El Mirador is a carving
believed to be a depiction
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of the Mayan creation story
known as the Popol Vuh.
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It dates back
more than 2,000 years
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and is the oldest known version
to survive
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after Central America
was overtaken
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by Spanish conquistadors
in the 16th century.
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TSOUKALOS:
The conquistadors requested
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for all these different
Mayan codices to be destroyed.
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And so after this pillaging
and destruction happened,
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the Popol Vuh was re-created
by the ruling elite at the time.
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And, to the best
of their abilities,
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they tried to put on paper
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their histories and their
mythologies of their ancestors.
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But these stories go back
much further back in time.
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The Popol Vuh is foundational
to Maya civilization.
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As foundational
as the Bible is to Christianity.
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But now,
things like what we found
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at El Mirador are telling us
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that that story goes back
at least to 200 BC.
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And that's exciting.
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Now we have a continuity
of the Popol Vuh
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being pivotal to Maya people
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all the way back
to their origins.
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NARRATOR: Curiously,
the Popol Vuh narrative
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and the Hebrew Bible's
Book of Genesis
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contain many similarities,
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including the stories concerning
the creation of the world,
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animals, and then,
finally mankind.
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-(thunderclaps)
-They both include stories
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of a great flood.
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And in both texts,
it is suggested
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that there is information
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purposely kept
from mankind by his creator.
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But what is unique
to the Popol Vuh is an account
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of an earlier time
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when humans had access
to greater knowledge.
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YOUNG: In the great
Mayan creation narrative,
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the Popol Vuh,
the gods created humans,
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and they had terrific knowledge.
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So much so
that it worried the gods.
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And so they put a veil over
the consciousness of the people
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so that they could only see
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what was right there
in front of them.
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They limited
their ability to know.
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WILLIAM BRAMLEY: The earliest
human beings in the Popol Vuh...
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they were very smart.
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They basically
understood things.
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They could see things.
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And so, the gods of creation
said, "Oh, we can't have this.
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"So what we have to do is,
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we have to put a screen
over that vision."
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Knowledge became less
and less available
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to the overall population.
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What happened to the humans
who were smarter than us?
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Were they, in fact,
the ancient Egyptians,
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the Sumerians
and many other ancient cultures?
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These areas,
apparently, would have
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all of the records
that we would need to completely
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rebuild our history.
512
00:28:24,939 --> 00:28:28,176
These are the most
unstable areas on Earth.
513
00:28:28,209 --> 00:28:30,746
Could this be why?
514
00:28:32,512 --> 00:28:35,149
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
515
00:28:35,183 --> 00:28:38,118
that ancient humans
possessed greater knowledge
516
00:28:38,152 --> 00:28:40,288
than we currently do today,
517
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,891
as the Mayan mythology seems
to suggest?
518
00:28:43,924 --> 00:28:47,127
If so, who were these gods
519
00:28:47,161 --> 00:28:50,498
that the Mayans believed
to be their creators?
520
00:28:50,530 --> 00:28:54,001
According
to ancient astronaut theorists,
521
00:28:54,035 --> 00:28:56,538
their true identity
might be revealed
522
00:28:56,570 --> 00:28:59,174
by examining
one of the carvings contained
523
00:28:59,206 --> 00:29:01,341
within the Popol Vuh...
524
00:29:01,375 --> 00:29:05,380
the so-called "Hero Twins."
525
00:29:05,413 --> 00:29:10,351
If you look at that carving, the
guy is clearly wearing a helmet,
526
00:29:10,384 --> 00:29:12,153
and he has this backpack.
527
00:29:12,185 --> 00:29:14,155
And he's actually
floating in space,
528
00:29:14,187 --> 00:29:17,157
or he is descending
from the sky.
529
00:29:17,191 --> 00:29:22,063
You have, uh, what seem to be
like some kind of helmet.
530
00:29:22,096 --> 00:29:25,866
And even one of the figures
looks like a flying saucer.
531
00:29:28,935 --> 00:29:31,172
Could these stone carvings be
532
00:29:31,204 --> 00:29:33,174
depictions
of ancient astronauts?
533
00:29:33,206 --> 00:29:35,475
And if that is the case,
then it would indicate
534
00:29:35,509 --> 00:29:39,447
that these extraterrestrials
have actually created us.
535
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,616
And in fact,
they're still here today,
536
00:29:42,649 --> 00:29:47,054
manipulating us
and guiding us into the future.
537
00:29:47,087 --> 00:29:52,193
NARRATOR: Do the carvings at
El Mirador contain information
538
00:29:52,225 --> 00:29:56,997
about mankind's past that
we were not meant to discover?
539
00:29:58,029 --> 00:29:59,166
If so, could it be
540
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,404
that extraterrestrials have been
creating barriers and warfare
541
00:30:03,436 --> 00:30:08,342
to prevent us from learning
about our true origins?
542
00:30:08,376 --> 00:30:13,213
Or is there an even more
profound explanation?
543
00:30:13,247 --> 00:30:18,253
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the ultimate proof
544
00:30:18,286 --> 00:30:21,122
of just what they are trying
to hide can be found
545
00:30:21,155 --> 00:30:25,393
by examining one of the most
fought-over sites on Earth...
546
00:30:25,425 --> 00:30:30,898
Temple Mount.
547
00:30:33,296 --> 00:30:35,332
(gunfire, shouting and chatter)
548
00:30:35,365 --> 00:30:37,968
(loud shouting)
549
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:43,138
NARRATOR:
Jerusalem, October, 2014.
550
00:30:43,172 --> 00:30:44,975
(gunfire)
551
00:30:45,008 --> 00:30:49,278
Amidst tension and violence
after the assassination attempt
552
00:30:49,311 --> 00:30:51,280
on a Jewish activist,
553
00:30:51,314 --> 00:30:53,416
Israeli authorities shut down
554
00:30:53,449 --> 00:30:57,019
the sacred site of Temple Mount.
555
00:30:57,053 --> 00:31:00,557
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
556
00:31:00,589 --> 00:31:05,160
pronounces the closure
"a declaration of war."
557
00:31:05,193 --> 00:31:09,398
And although access to
the temple is quickly restored,
558
00:31:09,432 --> 00:31:15,038
many fear that a third intifada,
or holy war, is now inevitable.
559
00:31:18,274 --> 00:31:21,444
That was the uprising that
the Palestinians engaged in.
560
00:31:21,477 --> 00:31:23,446
This was their revolution.
561
00:31:23,479 --> 00:31:26,482
It began first in 1987,
and was waged for five years.
562
00:31:26,516 --> 00:31:29,319
Then, in 2000, it lasted
for another five years.
563
00:31:29,352 --> 00:31:31,254
There was tremendous violence
564
00:31:31,287 --> 00:31:35,023
between Palestinians
and Israelis.
565
00:31:35,024 --> 00:31:36,593
It shouldn't come
as a surprise that
566
00:31:36,625 --> 00:31:38,627
the Temple Mount
would be a flashpoint
567
00:31:38,661 --> 00:31:41,464
for all these conflicts.
568
00:31:45,535 --> 00:31:49,672
NARRATOR: The Temple Mount
is a 35-acre platform
569
00:31:49,705 --> 00:31:52,474
that has long had
great significance to Jews,
570
00:31:52,508 --> 00:31:56,078
Christians and Muslims.
571
00:31:56,112 --> 00:31:58,949
It is revered
in the Jewish tradition
572
00:31:58,981 --> 00:32:03,953
as the place where God gathered
the dust to create Adam,
573
00:32:03,987 --> 00:32:07,423
where Abraham nearly sacrificed
his son Isaac
574
00:32:07,457 --> 00:32:10,360
to prove his faith to God,
575
00:32:10,393 --> 00:32:14,096
and where King Solomon
built the First Temple
576
00:32:14,130 --> 00:32:18,068
to house
the Ark of the Covenant.
577
00:32:18,101 --> 00:32:20,103
Christians honor the site
578
00:32:20,135 --> 00:32:25,008
as the location of some of
Jesus's most sacred teachings.
579
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,711
And for Muslims, Temple Mount...
580
00:32:27,743 --> 00:32:31,013
which they refer to
as "the Noble Sanctuary,"
581
00:32:31,047 --> 00:32:32,515
or "Haram al-Sharif"...
582
00:32:32,547 --> 00:32:35,117
is believed to be the location
583
00:32:35,151 --> 00:32:37,554
where the Prophet Muhammad
ascended to Heaven
584
00:32:37,586 --> 00:32:41,257
on the back of a winged horse.
585
00:32:41,289 --> 00:32:44,259
The three monotheistic faiths...
586
00:32:44,293 --> 00:32:47,664
Judaism,
Christianity and Islam...
587
00:32:47,697 --> 00:32:52,402
all believe that God has a
special connection to this area.
588
00:32:52,434 --> 00:32:55,038
They all believe that this is
where people will ascend
589
00:32:55,070 --> 00:32:57,673
to Heaven
when the day of judgment comes.
590
00:32:57,707 --> 00:33:01,143
They all want it,
but they don't want to share it.
591
00:33:01,176 --> 00:33:03,012
(shouting)
592
00:33:03,046 --> 00:33:08,284
FANTHORPE: Temple Mount
has been a holy place
593
00:33:08,316 --> 00:33:12,154
for many, many generations.
594
00:33:12,188 --> 00:33:15,158
And there are strange
religious traditions,
595
00:33:15,191 --> 00:33:19,696
rumors, legends
of what lies underneath it.
596
00:33:19,729 --> 00:33:23,633
And the idea is,
there is something so precious
597
00:33:23,665 --> 00:33:28,704
underneath it that God himself
intervenes to protect it.
598
00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:34,477
NARRATOR: Could there really be
some powerful force
599
00:33:34,509 --> 00:33:37,547
contained within Temple Mount?
600
00:33:37,579 --> 00:33:41,050
Is that why three religions
are at such odds
601
00:33:41,084 --> 00:33:44,720
over this sacred site?
602
00:33:44,753 --> 00:33:48,590
Some researchers
and religious scholars suggest
603
00:33:48,624 --> 00:33:51,428
that Temple Mount
may not only serve
604
00:33:51,461 --> 00:33:53,730
as a place
of spiritual connection,
605
00:33:53,762 --> 00:34:00,202
but also as a gateway
to other points in the universe.
606
00:34:00,236 --> 00:34:02,504
The Temple Mount
has long been considered
607
00:34:02,537 --> 00:34:06,208
to be a portal to Heaven.
608
00:34:06,241 --> 00:34:09,745
It is said that
when the patriarch Jacob rested
609
00:34:09,779 --> 00:34:13,349
one night,
he placed stones on the ground.
610
00:34:13,381 --> 00:34:16,485
And there, he saw a ladder
ascending to Heaven,
611
00:34:16,518 --> 00:34:20,256
where the angels were going up
and coming down.
612
00:34:20,288 --> 00:34:26,229
This was always known
to have been a vortex, a portal.
613
00:34:30,265 --> 00:34:33,235
NARRATOR:
A ladder descending from Heaven?
614
00:34:33,268 --> 00:34:37,774
A visitation site
for otherworldly beings?
615
00:34:37,807 --> 00:34:42,377
Could it really be that
the significance of Temple Mount
616
00:34:42,410 --> 00:34:48,250
is not what's under it
but the location itself?
617
00:34:48,283 --> 00:34:49,618
WILCOCK:
It could very well be
618
00:34:49,651 --> 00:34:52,621
that there was a natural area
on the Earth
619
00:34:52,654 --> 00:34:56,426
that the Temple Mount
was deliberately built around
620
00:34:56,459 --> 00:35:00,430
and that natural physics
that we don't yet understand
621
00:35:00,462 --> 00:35:05,234
in conventional science allow
for there to be a slipstream
622
00:35:05,267 --> 00:35:08,570
between realities, a gateway,
a parting of the veil
623
00:35:08,604 --> 00:35:13,143
between this world
and other parallel universes.
624
00:35:13,176 --> 00:35:15,578
POPE: There have been a number
of UFO sightings
625
00:35:15,611 --> 00:35:17,379
around the Temple Mount.
626
00:35:17,412 --> 00:35:20,215
MAN:
Whoa!
627
00:35:20,249 --> 00:35:23,852
Is the site important
not just to human religions
628
00:35:23,886 --> 00:35:26,556
but does it have
some special significance
629
00:35:26,589 --> 00:35:28,424
for extraterrestrials?
630
00:35:28,457 --> 00:35:30,727
Is that why this site
is so untouchable?
631
00:35:30,759 --> 00:35:34,163
(bystanders gasping)
632
00:35:34,196 --> 00:35:39,169
NARRATOR: Do sacred sites
like Temple Mount in Jerusalem
633
00:35:39,201 --> 00:35:42,638
not only hold secrets
about mankind's origins
634
00:35:42,671 --> 00:35:45,440
but possibly even serve
as portals
635
00:35:45,473 --> 00:35:47,843
to other parts of the universe?
636
00:35:47,877 --> 00:35:53,183
And, if so, might the turmoil
in various forbidden zones
637
00:35:53,216 --> 00:35:56,185
be due in part
to extraterrestrials
638
00:35:56,218 --> 00:36:00,322
that want to keep humanity
from discovering the truth?
639
00:36:00,355 --> 00:36:03,325
Perhaps the answers can be found
640
00:36:03,359 --> 00:36:06,328
by reexamining what some claim
641
00:36:06,361 --> 00:36:10,633
is the motivation behind
the Western invasion of Iraq.
642
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:16,536
NARRATOR:
Iraq.
643
00:36:16,570 --> 00:36:20,240
March 19, 2003.
644
00:36:20,273 --> 00:36:23,077
The United States military
645
00:36:23,110 --> 00:36:25,179
begins its Shock and Awe
air campaign
646
00:36:25,212 --> 00:36:28,983
over the city of Baghdad.
647
00:36:29,016 --> 00:36:31,218
It is a preemptive strike aimed
648
00:36:31,250 --> 00:36:34,754
to overthrow Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein,
649
00:36:34,788 --> 00:36:36,757
who the government believes
650
00:36:36,790 --> 00:36:40,127
is in possession
of weapons of mass destruction.
651
00:36:44,663 --> 00:36:47,300
POPE: Saddam Hussein wanted
to make Iraq
652
00:36:47,333 --> 00:36:50,270
a regional and perhaps
a global superpower.
653
00:36:50,302 --> 00:36:54,375
He spoke about himself
as the new Nebuchadnezzar.
654
00:36:54,407 --> 00:36:57,377
NARRATOR:
Nebuchadnezzar II
655
00:36:57,411 --> 00:37:00,646
was the great Babylonian
warrior king,
656
00:37:00,679 --> 00:37:03,783
most famously known
for rebuilding and expanding
657
00:37:03,817 --> 00:37:08,322
the Babylonian Empire
in the sixth century BC.
658
00:37:08,355 --> 00:37:11,791
His armies conquered Egypt
659
00:37:11,824 --> 00:37:14,261
as well as ransacking
and destroying
660
00:37:14,293 --> 00:37:18,431
Solomon's Temple in 597 BC.
661
00:37:18,465 --> 00:37:22,136
MARTIN:
Saddam Hussein went nuts.
662
00:37:22,168 --> 00:37:26,139
He believed he was the
reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar,
663
00:37:26,172 --> 00:37:29,142
so he ordered massive
reconstruction of Babylon,
664
00:37:29,175 --> 00:37:34,315
which was done with bricks
bearing his name on them.
665
00:37:37,583 --> 00:37:40,420
Everyone would come to respect
the ancient Nebuchadnezzar
666
00:37:40,454 --> 00:37:44,025
and the new Nebuchadnezzar.
667
00:37:46,226 --> 00:37:50,431
HENRY: The missing piece to
the puzzle of why we went to war
668
00:37:50,463 --> 00:37:53,232
with Iraq is the understanding
669
00:37:53,266 --> 00:37:56,170
that Saddam Hussein sought
to outdo
670
00:37:56,203 --> 00:37:57,838
what Nebuchadnezzar
had accomplished
671
00:37:57,871 --> 00:37:59,773
in his earlier life.
672
00:37:59,806 --> 00:38:02,742
The ultimate accomplishment
of Nebuchadnezzar
673
00:38:02,775 --> 00:38:06,079
was the opening
of the fiery furnace.
674
00:38:06,112 --> 00:38:10,283
Nebuchadnezzar had gone
to Jerusalem,
675
00:38:10,317 --> 00:38:14,688
looted and leveled
the Temple of Solomon,
676
00:38:14,721 --> 00:38:17,491
and he brought the wise men
of the temple
677
00:38:17,523 --> 00:38:20,726
back to Babylon with him.
678
00:38:20,759 --> 00:38:24,564
What happened in the story
is absolutely amazing.
679
00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:31,472
These three wise men enter
this fiery furnace.
680
00:38:31,505 --> 00:38:34,875
Not only did they come back out
in perfect condition...
681
00:38:34,907 --> 00:38:37,344
they weren't alone.
682
00:38:37,377 --> 00:38:42,349
They came back with an
extraterrestrial visitor in tow.
683
00:38:42,382 --> 00:38:46,286
In today's terms,
we would obviously call this
684
00:38:46,319 --> 00:38:49,556
a stargate or a portal.
685
00:38:49,588 --> 00:38:53,793
Saddam knew this.
686
00:38:53,826 --> 00:38:56,762
Saddam Hussein's
esoteric interests
687
00:38:56,795 --> 00:38:59,265
were probably like those
of the Nazis,
688
00:38:59,299 --> 00:39:02,436
aimed at uncovering some power,
689
00:39:02,469 --> 00:39:06,240
some technology, some relic
that would enable him
690
00:39:06,273 --> 00:39:10,911
to become this world leader
that he dreamed of being.
691
00:39:10,944 --> 00:39:14,248
There's one theory
that the Iraq War
692
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,518
was actually a war
about a stargate.
693
00:39:17,550 --> 00:39:20,786
Saddam Hussein,
so the theory goes,
694
00:39:20,820 --> 00:39:22,923
got access to this stargate,
695
00:39:22,956 --> 00:39:25,425
maybe threatened to use it.
696
00:39:25,458 --> 00:39:29,396
Was that why the allied powers
went in?
697
00:39:29,429 --> 00:39:33,666
It sounds farfetched, but
this theory is widely believed.
698
00:39:36,203 --> 00:39:38,639
NARRATOR: Is it possible
the United States military
699
00:39:38,672 --> 00:39:41,708
was pursuing more than weapons
of mass destruction
700
00:39:41,741 --> 00:39:44,444
when they invaded Iraq?
701
00:39:44,476 --> 00:39:47,280
Could something
of great significance,
702
00:39:47,313 --> 00:39:49,415
perhaps a portal
to another world,
703
00:39:49,449 --> 00:39:53,353
have been found
amongst the chaos?
704
00:39:53,386 --> 00:39:55,355
And if there are truths
705
00:39:55,387 --> 00:39:58,357
about extraterrestrial
involvement with our planet
706
00:39:58,391 --> 00:40:00,561
hidden in forbidden zones,
707
00:40:00,594 --> 00:40:05,599
just what would happen when
the truth is finally revealed?
708
00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:10,204
WILCOCK: With the knowledge
that's coming into view now
709
00:40:10,237 --> 00:40:14,308
as we're reconstructing
bit by bit, piece by piece
710
00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:16,609
this tile mosaic
of ancient history,
711
00:40:16,643 --> 00:40:20,447
we're gaining the ability
to reconstruct the view
712
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:24,217
of what really happened to us
and what it means to be human
713
00:40:24,250 --> 00:40:28,288
and our relationship to the
greater cosmos that's around us.
714
00:40:30,456 --> 00:40:33,460
NOORY: If you believe in
the extraterrestrial presence,
715
00:40:33,492 --> 00:40:35,929
it was always
to kind of keep us down
716
00:40:35,962 --> 00:40:38,898
so that we wouldn't get
that much knowledge.
717
00:40:38,931 --> 00:40:43,736
They want to keep us ignorant
and fighting and greedy.
718
00:40:43,770 --> 00:40:45,905
It's very possible
that we will never know
719
00:40:45,938 --> 00:40:49,242
what happened on this planet
a long time ago.
720
00:40:49,275 --> 00:40:50,877
TSOUKALOS:
It's our own test,
721
00:40:50,909 --> 00:40:54,513
and the reason why no official
contact has taken place yet
722
00:40:54,547 --> 00:40:57,550
is because we ourselves
are on the verge
723
00:40:57,583 --> 00:41:00,886
of destroying this planet.
724
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,623
So my suggestion is
725
00:41:02,655 --> 00:41:04,625
we first have to learn
how to interact with each other
726
00:41:04,657 --> 00:41:09,697
before being allowed
to receive this knowledge.
727
00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,969
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the perpetual violence
728
00:41:17,003 --> 00:41:20,440
experienced in certain parts
of the world
729
00:41:20,473 --> 00:41:22,808
is more than just a consequence
of political
730
00:41:22,842 --> 00:41:24,610
and religious conflict?
731
00:41:24,643 --> 00:41:28,514
Could it be
that it is actually spurred on
732
00:41:28,547 --> 00:41:31,684
by extraterrestrial forces,
733
00:41:31,717 --> 00:41:36,056
forces that are trying to hide
the truth
734
00:41:36,088 --> 00:41:38,724
about mankind's origins?
735
00:41:38,757 --> 00:41:42,061
Perhaps once we have proven
736
00:41:42,094 --> 00:41:45,799
that we can conquer
our aggression and anger,
737
00:41:45,831 --> 00:41:48,801
we will be able to access
this knowledge
738
00:41:48,835 --> 00:41:53,540
and join our creators
in the stars.
739
00:41:53,572 --> 00:41:56,877
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