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Enormous humanoid figures
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descending from the stars.
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We have in our ancient
midrashic teachings
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that when the adamic race
descended to earth,
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they were beings
approximately 100 feet tall.
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Massive structures
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built with stones weighing
thousands of pounds.
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Cyclopean architecture
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is associated with the cyclopes,
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the one-eyed giants.
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It really indicates something
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that's almost impossible
to make.
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Some of these blocks,
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I've heard,
are up to 30 tons each?
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Yes.
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I mean, this is incredible.
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Mysterious tombs
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said to contain
gigantic skeletons.
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I personally went there,
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measured the tombs myself.
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Even in the smaller tombs,
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you could fit
a nine-to 12-foot giant.
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Could the ancient legends
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of giants in the mediterranean
really be true?
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The giants were a fact.
They did exist.
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You have the stories of giants,
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you have structures
that are incredible,
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and you have to wonder,
what are their origins?
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There is a doorway
in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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The mediterranean.
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This majestic inland sea,
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spanning
nearly one million square miles,
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has been dubbed the "incubator
of western civilization."
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its temperate climate
and fertile soil
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enabled the rise of some of the
greatest civilizations on earth,
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including the mesopotamians,
egyptians, persians,
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phoenicians, greeks and romans.
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Throughout the mediterranean,
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there were great civilizations.
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Their art, their philosophy,
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their scientific findings,
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the accumulative knowledge
is this strong connection
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to the ancient roots
of western civilization.
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It's really earth-shattering
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how sophisticated the ancient
mediterranean cultures were
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in their understanding
of astronomy
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and astrology and mathematics,
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going all the way back
to the babylonians.
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Each civilization
developed innovations
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that shaped the modern world.
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Mesopotamian astronomers devised
the 12-month calendar.
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Phoenician sailors pioneered
celestial navigation.
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Greek philosophers established
the principles
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of democratic government
and trial by jury.
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Each culture had
the written word, the arts,
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and, curiously,
stories of giants.
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There are legends of giants
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that appear
throughout the mediterranean.
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The roman historian
dio cassius wrote
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that giants roamed the land
before mount vesuvius erupted.
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We call them mythology,
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but they were seen as truth
at the time.
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There are these stories
of humans interacting
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with these giants, and they're
often in conflict with them
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in the greek tales
of the gigantomachy.
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There is a story
of the gigantomachy,
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a great battle
between the olympians
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and the race of giants.
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Giants play a major role
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in the earliest greek stories.
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In the gigantomachy,
these strange, enormous figures,
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who are neither gods nor humans,
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are battling
for control of the heavens.
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The giants were actually
descendants of the titans.
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Um, oftentimes,
people confuse the two.
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But the giants
were said to have been born
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from gaia and uranus,
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and this is
where the name derives.
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Hercules was pivotal in the gods
overcoming the giants
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in the gigantomachia.
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Hercules' victory
over the giants
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was called the pompeii,
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and the ancient city of pompeii
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is said
to have been named for it.
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Stories of giants can be found
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in the traditions of ancient
cultures throughout the world.
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Native tribes
of the american southwest
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told of a race
of red-haired giants
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curiously similar
to the accounts
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of the celtic people of europe,
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who described red-haired giants
called the tuatha d� danann.
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In india, early sanskrit texts
portray buddha
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as a nine-foot-tall,
blue-skinned giant.
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And on easter island,
local traditions have it
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that the enormous stone moai
statues were erected by giants.
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But as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the incredible volume of stories
found in the mediterranean,
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and the details contained
within them,
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may indicate that this part of
the world was an arrival point
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for actual giant beings
that came to earth
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from another planet.
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We have a great concentration
of these stories
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in the mediterranean area.
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You have them in greece,
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in Italy and in ancient sumeria.
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So the idea that at some point
giants roamed the land,
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you have to wonder,
who were these giants?
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What are their origins?
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If actual giants
once lived alongside humans,
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as some ancient texts suggest,
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did they leave behind
any physical evidence
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of their presence on earth?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
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the answer might be found
by examining
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another race of giants
from the greek tradition.
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In the 7th century bc,
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the poet hesiod wrote
about the cyclopes,
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a group of giants
responsible for building
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incredible structures
out of stone.
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Now, the cyclopes were
one-eyed giants.
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They are builders.
They are craftsmen.
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They can make things.
They make armor.
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They make weapons.
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They're able
to build walls and gates,
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and these are
very important divine figures.
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In the mediterranean,
there are structures
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thought to have been built
by giants.
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One of those is
the lion's gate in mycenae.
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This is said to have been built
by the cyclopes.
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And the reason for this is,
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one, because
of the architecture of it...
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It's called "cyclopean masonry,"
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which are usually large stones
placed upon each other.
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Could real-life giants
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have built structures
in the mediterranean
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that have survived
the ravages of time
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and still stand to this day?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the answer is a resounding yes.
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And not just one or
two... But thousands.
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In the middle
of the mediterranean sea,
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just south of sicily,
lie the islands of malta.
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With three inhabited islands
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covering an area
of roughly 120 square miles,
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it is one of the smallest
countries in the world.
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But this tiny nation boasts
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no less than seven
enormous megalithic structures,
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containing some of the most
massive freestanding stones
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in the world.
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Malta is an incredible place,
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because there we have
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some of the biggest megalithic
sites in all of europe.
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The temples on malta and gozo
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are more than
a thousand years older
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than the pyramids of egypt.
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They are the earliest monumental
architecture in the world.
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Looks very much
as if that architecture
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developed right here in malta.
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Mainstream historians believe
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the first inhabitants of malta
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traveled from sicily in 5200 bc.
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Today, the stone structures
erected on the maltese islands
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are considered by archeologists
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to be among the greatest
creations of ancient builders
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found anywhere on earth.
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One of the oldest
megalithic sites in europe
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is a place called ggantija
on the maltese island of gozo,
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and this was actually
the oldest free-standing temple
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in the world before gobekli tepe
was discovered.
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At the time that
the ggantija temples were built,
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about 3500 bc,
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there was no one else in the
world doing anything like this.
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Some of the walls
of ggantija temple
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are more than 20 feet high...
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Still standing,
have never fallen.
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There's very little in the world
that could survive
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for 5,000 years
the way ggantija has.
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While a structure
lasting 5,000 years
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is astonishing, many believe
these megalithic buildings
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could be far older.
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But mainstream historians
are unable to explain
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how the ancient builders
were able to precisely arrange
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the massive stones...
Each weighing over 20 tons...
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Before metal tools,
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or even the wheel,
had been invented.
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Modern cranes
cannot lift that today.
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It would appear
that the builders at malta had
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some special technology
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that is probably
beyond our own capabilities.
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"ggantija" is translated
from the maltese
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into "place of the giants,"
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or "place made by giants."
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it's always been called that.
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It was said to have been built
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by a giant goddess, sunsuna,
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who built it
while nursing an infant.
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In malta,
the archaeologists agree
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with the local legends
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that the giants built
the ancient structures of malta.
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And who were those giants?
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These are not gods.
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These are false gods.
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They're extraterrestrials,
if you will.
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Was the mediterranean
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home to a race of colossal
beings thousands of years ago?
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And if so, were they born
of this earth,
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or did they come
from somewhere else?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
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another mysterious
megalithic structure on malta,
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one that has a very specific
cosmic connection.
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Qrendi, malta
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located on the rugged
south coast of the main island,
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this historic village is home to
a mysterious megalithic temple
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called mnajdra.
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This complex consists
of stone structures
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that are laid out
in the pattern of a trefoil,
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three interconnected
circular chambers.
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There are actually three temples
at the complex of mnajdra.
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The south temple seems
to be aligned specifically
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to function as a solar calendar.
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The temple is aligned so that
the sunrise on the equinox,
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the two times each year
when daylight and darkness
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are exactly equal, the sun rises
exactly in the central corridor
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and lights up the whole temple
all the way to the back.
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On other times of the year,
there are other stones
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that reflect
the solstice daybreak.
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Mainstream archaeologists
estimate that the oldest temple
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at mnajdra was built
sometime around 3600 bc,
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by the same builders who
constructed the ggantija temple.
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According to local folklore,
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these ancient builders
were giants.
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The idea of giants comes from
the fact that it's so big.
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There's no way that regular
human people could stack
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all these stones up and
create such mammoth buildings.
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It had to be giants.
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In 1992,
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university of malta professor
paul micallef
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published a book
that claimed mnajdra
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is thousands of years older
than historians believe,
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and pinpoints the construction
to 10,200 bc.
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He came to this conclusion
because based on the tilt
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of the earth
at that point in time,
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on the morning
of the summer solstice,
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a beam of light would have come
through the main entrance
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of the mnajdra temple
and been cast directly
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on the center of an altar stone.
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The only way
this could be achieved
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is if mnajdra
was built specifically
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with the end effect in mind.
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Over huge periods of time,
the rising of the sun
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on the summer solstice moves
to different parts of the sky.
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And this is called
the precession of the equinox,
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it's the earth's wobble over
a nearly 26,000-year period.
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If paul micallef's analysis
is correct,
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it would predate the earth's
earliest known civilizations
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by some 6,000 years.
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So, how were sophisticated
megalithic structures
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with precise
astronomical alignments,
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built on an isolated island
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thousands of years before
the emergence of civilization?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the knowledge to do this
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was given to the people of malta
by giants,
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who were not of this earth.
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We automatically assume
that extraterrestrials
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might be what we describe today
as the grey aliens.
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But more than likely we're gonna
have... be confronted
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with the fact that these species
are far different
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than we've previously
understood.
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Astrophysicists are
typically saying
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that the larger the planet, the
greater the gravitational field.
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And in theory, if some aliens
are actual giants,
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uh, even twice the size of us,
as an example,
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perhaps they're coming
from planets
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that are actually smaller
than the earth
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and has a smaller gravity
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and therefore,
they grow larger than we are.
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Could the megalithic temples
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on malta have been built
by a lost civilization
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that thrived 12,000 years ago,
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possibly with the aid
of giant beings
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who descended from the sky?
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Misrah ghar il-kbir.
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Located on the southwest coast
of malta,
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this region is home to some
of the most baffling formations
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found anywhere on the planet,
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a complex network of grooves
carved into the rock
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known simply as cart ruts.
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The cart ruts on malta
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are about, uh, four feet wide.
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They're-they're
uniformly spaced.
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Some of them run
hundreds of yards.
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Some of them run miles.
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These parallel incisions
in the bedrock
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have been identified
as cart ruts
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because that's what
they look like.
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What they really were,
what their purpose was
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we don't know.
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There's nothing written.
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There's no way, really, to tell.
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But there are a lot of them.
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In some places,
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they are so crisscrossed
and complex
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that the area has been called
clapham junction,
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after the train station
in london.
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Author gordon weston
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has been studying
this strange anomaly
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for more than a decade
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and, in 2010,
wrote a book called
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Unraveling an enigma,
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in which he examines
the various theories
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about how they might
have been formed.
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So, gordon,
tell me what you think.
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Well, got a... what,
you got half a lifetime?
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Absolutely. Yes.
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Basically, you couldn't drive
a cart down here.
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The cart would be wrecked.
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Early researchers
looked at vehicles
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that would scrape away the rock,
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because that's what it looks
like's happened.
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There was three devices.
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The first one was a sledge.
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Probably the oldest form
of human transport.
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But they found that the sledge
immediately got stuck.
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So two other devices
have been looked at.
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Uh, one was the travois.
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They're used
by the plains indians
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to transport their teepees
from camp to camp.
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The problem is the poles
would be wider than these ruts
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when they touch the ground.
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The next device
is called the slide car.
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It's a load platform
with two runners on it.
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It's a fanciful
and ridiculous idea.
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Practical experiments and that...
It just doesn't work.
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Science is useless
for this problem.
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There is no methodology
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which can be applied
scientifically to these ruts.
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So, in st. George's bay,
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in a city called birzebbuga,
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there are a couple of ruts
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that go straight
into the mediterranean sea.
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- They are famous.
- You're-you're right.
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It is interesting to see
the ruts go into the sea.
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They also are said to have come
up on the other side of the bay.
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But it's now built over.
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So, how do you explain it?
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It might be that we're looking
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at a technology
we don't understand.
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The ruts go off into the sea.
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Underwater, people have dived
down and found them, miles away.
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So, apparently,
either the sea level rose
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or the land subsided
or maybe both.
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During the last ice age,
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the sea level
was 300 feet lower.
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So, it could have been
that, 10,000, 15,000 years ago,
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the islands were inhabited
by people who used
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these so-called cart ruts
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to transport, uh, stones
across the island.
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According to geologists,
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the last ice age ended
around 10,000 bc.
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Might the existence
of these cart ruts
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corroborate the findings
of professor paul micallef,
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who claimed the mnajdra temple
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was constructed
more than 12,000 years ago?
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Perhaps even more baffling
to researchers
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is the fact
that these mysterious grooves
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are not confined
to the maltese islands.
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These cart ruts
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are found also in tunisia
and in sicily.
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So, they seem to relate
to a people
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who are occupying
all of those areas.
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Might the so-called cart ruts
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be a remnant
of a vast transportation network
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that existed
throughout the mediterranean
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some 12,000 years ago?
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Could they be physical evidence
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to support
the stories of giants?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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on another mediterranean island,
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one that contains
ancient stone structures
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known as the tombs
of the giants.
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Sardinia, Italy
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located 116 miles west
of the italian peninsula,
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this picturesque island
in the mediterranean
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boasts rugged mountains,
arid grasslands,
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and white sand beaches.
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It is also home
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to many mysterious
ancient stone structures
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similar to those found on malta
just 400 miles away.
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Sardinia is probably best known
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for its abundance of structures
called nuraghe.
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And these are conical towers,
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usually truncated at the top,
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so that there's a flat base.
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There are
approximately 7,000 nuraghe
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that scholars have uncovered
on sardinia,
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00:20:31,605 --> 00:20:36,233
though that number could be
as high as 20,000 or more.
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00:20:36,277 --> 00:20:37,984
These nuraghe
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00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:42,448
are made out
of huge basalt boulders.
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00:20:42,532 --> 00:20:45,576
They're stacked up
into towers and walls
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00:20:45,662 --> 00:20:48,287
and beehive chambers.
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Archaeologists do not know
how they were all built.
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00:20:52,376 --> 00:20:54,710
They assume that huge ramps
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were built to-to move all
of this material,
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which, uh, seems unlikely,
frankly,
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00:21:00,468 --> 00:21:02,593
when you're there
and you see it.
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According
to mainstream archaeologists,
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00:21:05,807 --> 00:21:08,723
these structures were built
by the nuraghe,
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a civilization that is believed
to have inhabited the island
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nearly 4,000 years
ago, emerging in 1800 bc
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00:21:17,986 --> 00:21:22,153
and mysteriously disappearing
around 200 ad.
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00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,949
Among the thousands
of ancient structures
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00:21:24,992 --> 00:21:26,951
found on sardinia,
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00:21:27,036 --> 00:21:29,119
perhaps the most baffling
to researchers
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are megalithic tombs
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said to have been built
for giants.
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There are nearly 800
so-called tombs of the giants
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00:21:37,797 --> 00:21:39,130
found in sardinia.
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And the reason why
they're called giant
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is because
they're remarkably long tombs,
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00:21:44,095 --> 00:21:46,015
usually with stone slabs
in them,
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00:21:46,055 --> 00:21:50,807
and they appear
extraordinarily large.
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00:21:50,852 --> 00:21:52,977
There is a lot of controversy
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00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:56,771
concerning what these tombs
were built for.
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00:21:56,816 --> 00:22:00,651
More specifically,
for whom were they built?
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00:22:00,694 --> 00:22:04,654
I personally went there,
measured the tombs myself.
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00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:05,990
In the larger tomb,
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00:22:06,075 --> 00:22:09,617
you could fit
a nine-to 12-foot giant.
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00:22:11,204 --> 00:22:13,663
A nine-to 12-foot giant?
436
00:22:13,708 --> 00:22:16,334
Could the strange tombs
in sardinia
437
00:22:16,376 --> 00:22:20,378
have once contained the corpses
of actual giants?
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00:22:21,548 --> 00:22:25,759
But if sardinia was home
to a race of colossal beings,
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00:22:25,845 --> 00:22:27,845
who were they?
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Cagliari, sardinia.
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2014.
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00:22:36,105 --> 00:22:38,355
The national
archaeological museum
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00:22:38,398 --> 00:22:40,941
debuts its newest exhibit,
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00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:43,361
a number
of enormous stone statues
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00:22:43,445 --> 00:22:47,490
known collectively
as the giants of mont'e prama.
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00:22:48,785 --> 00:22:52,536
So, the giants of mont'e prama
are very tall stone giants
447
00:22:52,579 --> 00:22:56,289
that were found on the, uh,
western coast of sardinia
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00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:58,125
back in 1974.
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00:22:58,211 --> 00:23:00,502
Uh, since then, there's been
numerous excavations,
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00:23:00,546 --> 00:23:03,047
and over 40
of these stone giants,
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00:23:03,132 --> 00:23:05,715
over eight feet tall,
have now been reconstructed
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00:23:05,801 --> 00:23:07,843
from pieces
that were found there.
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00:23:07,929 --> 00:23:10,471
The giants of mont'e prama are
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00:23:10,556 --> 00:23:13,891
very strange-looking
stone statues.
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00:23:13,976 --> 00:23:18,770
And what makes them
so bizarre is their faces.
456
00:23:18,855 --> 00:23:20,897
For all intents and purposes,
457
00:23:20,982 --> 00:23:25,403
the face looks like a
replica of c-3po, the robot.
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00:23:25,488 --> 00:23:27,238
And the fact that archaeologists
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00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,200
suggest
that these are the replicas
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of the local population...
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00:23:32,953 --> 00:23:36,413
And they even call them
the giants of mont'e prama...
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You have to wonder,
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00:23:37,708 --> 00:23:40,917
what did our ancestors
try to carve?
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00:23:43,798 --> 00:23:45,256
If these statues
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00:23:45,298 --> 00:23:47,459
depict giants
that once lived on the island
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00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:50,427
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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00:23:50,471 --> 00:23:52,431
what might
their strange appearance
468
00:23:52,472 --> 00:23:54,890
reveal about them?
469
00:23:55,893 --> 00:23:58,102
Perhaps further clues
can be found
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00:23:58,186 --> 00:24:01,564
by examining another
of sardinia's ancient mysteries:
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The more than 300
stone monuments
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00:24:04,317 --> 00:24:08,737
scattered across the island
known as menhirs.
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00:24:08,823 --> 00:24:12,115
A menhir is a megalithic,
uh, monument
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00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,743
comprising of a single stone
inserted in the ground,
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00:24:15,829 --> 00:24:17,829
and it goes
straight up vertically.
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00:24:18,665 --> 00:24:20,415
They're usually quite large
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00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,461
and have
a religious significance.
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We find them all over the world,
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00:24:25,631 --> 00:24:27,483
but the ones in sardinia
are very interesting
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00:24:27,508 --> 00:24:29,799
because they often have carvings
on them
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00:24:29,885 --> 00:24:32,802
of this upside-down kind of
abstract human form on them
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00:24:32,846 --> 00:24:36,640
as though someone is diving
from the sky to the earth.
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00:24:36,726 --> 00:24:40,059
And there's been no explanation
as to exactly what
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00:24:40,145 --> 00:24:41,769
these represent.
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00:24:41,855 --> 00:24:45,816
Some people have
suggested that they represent
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00:24:45,859 --> 00:24:50,488
people descending from the sky
and imparting knowledge.
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00:24:50,530 --> 00:24:53,031
What's incredible
is that bird people
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00:24:53,116 --> 00:24:57,536
or birdmen cults
exist worldwide.
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00:24:57,622 --> 00:25:00,498
In fact,
the further back you go in time,
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00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:04,000
you see carvings and statues
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00:25:04,045 --> 00:25:07,128
of beings that have wings.
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00:25:07,214 --> 00:25:09,757
Even earlier than angels,
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00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:13,344
you have depictions
of people up in the sky,
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00:25:13,429 --> 00:25:17,181
fixed wings,
like a modern-day airplane.
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00:25:17,224 --> 00:25:20,142
So, you have to wonder
if our ancestors
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00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:24,688
saw winged machines
up in the sky.
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00:25:25,775 --> 00:25:27,732
If the giant statues
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00:25:27,817 --> 00:25:30,068
found on the island of sardinia
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00:25:30,153 --> 00:25:31,528
depict extraterrestrials
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00:25:31,614 --> 00:25:34,365
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:36,032
then is it possible
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00:25:36,117 --> 00:25:38,701
that the menhirs
are meant to reveal
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00:25:38,746 --> 00:25:41,204
how these visitors arrived?
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00:25:43,291 --> 00:25:45,209
For ancient astronaut theorists,
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00:25:45,294 --> 00:25:48,086
the idea of giants
descending from the heavens
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00:25:48,172 --> 00:25:50,005
is reminiscent of the stories
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00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:52,590
of another
ancient mediterranean people:
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The sumerians.
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00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,763
This civilization, which existed
510
00:25:58,848 --> 00:26:01,182
at the same time
archaeologists believe
511
00:26:01,269 --> 00:26:03,204
the menhirs on sardinia
were carved,
512
00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:06,896
also wrote of enormous beings
who came from the sky:
513
00:26:06,982 --> 00:26:09,567
The anunnaki.
514
00:26:12,195 --> 00:26:15,614
The anunnaki
are the so-called creator gods
515
00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,032
of ancient sumeria and babylon.
516
00:26:19,036 --> 00:26:21,077
Our ancestors thought
517
00:26:21,122 --> 00:26:24,414
they were
these divine, magical beings
518
00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:28,294
described as descending
from the sky.
519
00:26:28,378 --> 00:26:31,255
There's all types
of wall reliefs
520
00:26:31,339 --> 00:26:33,507
and artifacts and inscriptions
521
00:26:33,593 --> 00:26:35,509
which depict the anunnaki
522
00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:38,470
standing amongst
the other sumerian human beings.
523
00:26:38,556 --> 00:26:40,931
They're always depicted
as larger beings,
524
00:26:41,017 --> 00:26:43,182
uh, of great stature.
525
00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:45,435
This is intriguing
526
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,105
because on the island
of sardinia
527
00:26:48,148 --> 00:26:52,401
is a huge, great,
truncated pyramid
528
00:26:52,486 --> 00:26:55,653
with a long ramp
running up towards it.
529
00:26:55,740 --> 00:26:57,948
It's made of local stone,
530
00:26:57,991 --> 00:27:02,744
and it would seem
to look extremely like
531
00:27:02,788 --> 00:27:07,790
a ziggurat from ancient sumeria.
532
00:27:07,876 --> 00:27:11,795
So, were the anunnaki
in any way linked
533
00:27:11,881 --> 00:27:15,465
with the gigantes legends
on the island itself?
534
00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:19,470
Is it possible
that a race of colossal beings
535
00:27:19,512 --> 00:27:22,013
known to the sumerians
as the annunaki
536
00:27:22,098 --> 00:27:26,477
visited the island of sardinia
in the distant past?
537
00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:28,479
And if so,
538
00:27:28,564 --> 00:27:31,731
might sardinia
hold evidence that giants
539
00:27:31,817 --> 00:27:33,983
not only existed
throughout the mediterranean
540
00:27:34,069 --> 00:27:37,528
but have
extraterrestrial origins?
541
00:27:38,531 --> 00:27:41,950
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
542
00:27:42,036 --> 00:27:44,994
and suggest further evidence
can be found
543
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,330
by examining ancient walls
544
00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:50,375
that still stand
in what was once the very heart
545
00:27:50,461 --> 00:27:52,836
of the roman empire.
546
00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:00,510
Ferentino, Italy.
547
00:28:00,596 --> 00:28:02,596
June 2019.
548
00:28:02,682 --> 00:28:05,891
Ancient astronaut theorist
giorgio tsoukalos
549
00:28:05,976 --> 00:28:08,227
is in the heart
of the italian peninsula,
550
00:28:08,311 --> 00:28:10,938
about 50 miles southeast
of rome.
551
00:28:11,022 --> 00:28:14,357
This area of Italy,
known as latium,
552
00:28:14,402 --> 00:28:18,653
was considered the epicenter
of the roman civilization.
553
00:28:18,698 --> 00:28:21,906
Located 300 miles east
of sardinia
554
00:28:21,991 --> 00:28:24,867
and 600 miles north of malta,
555
00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:29,832
ferentino is also connected
to stories of giants.
556
00:28:29,916 --> 00:28:31,959
Giorgio is eager to investigate
557
00:28:32,044 --> 00:28:35,503
the ancient city's
massive megalithic walls,
558
00:28:35,548 --> 00:28:39,048
considered to be some of the
finest constructions in Italy.
559
00:28:39,134 --> 00:28:42,760
For expert insight,
he has called upon
560
00:28:42,846 --> 00:28:45,263
local historian
danila bracaglia.
561
00:28:45,348 --> 00:28:48,224
- Danila?
- Giorgio.
562
00:28:48,269 --> 00:28:50,747
- Welcome to Italy
and to ciociaria.
- Thank you.
563
00:28:50,770 --> 00:28:52,563
This is, uh, beautiful.
564
00:28:52,647 --> 00:28:54,960
- What can you tell me
about this area?
- Well,
565
00:28:54,983 --> 00:28:56,858
ferentino, where we are today,
566
00:28:56,943 --> 00:28:59,444
is actually known
for these constructions
567
00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,446
of, uh, the megalithic walls,
568
00:29:01,531 --> 00:29:05,032
founded, according to
the tradition, by god saturn.
569
00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:08,453
Okay. This is fascinating to me
570
00:29:08,538 --> 00:29:10,767
because this is one
of the reasons why I'm here.
571
00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:14,250
What can you tell me
about the mythologies of saturn
572
00:29:14,336 --> 00:29:15,752
in this area here?
573
00:29:15,796 --> 00:29:17,880
So, the five cities of saturn
are all
574
00:29:17,964 --> 00:29:20,089
a few kilometers
one from another,
575
00:29:20,134 --> 00:29:22,759
and they all start
with the letter "a."
576
00:29:22,803 --> 00:29:28,598
alatri, arpino, anagni,
atina and ferentino.
577
00:29:28,642 --> 00:29:30,601
The original name was atino.
578
00:29:30,685 --> 00:29:32,102
The tradition says,
579
00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:35,939
you know, the towns were founded
by saturn and the titans.
580
00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:38,817
In greek mythology,
581
00:29:38,903 --> 00:29:42,445
the titans were humanlike gods
of enormous stature
582
00:29:42,490 --> 00:29:45,115
who were eventually overthrown
by their children,
583
00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:46,700
the olympians.
584
00:29:46,786 --> 00:29:50,621
Saturn is the roman name
for the titan cronus,
585
00:29:50,663 --> 00:29:52,205
the father of zeus
586
00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:55,250
and one of the primary gods
of ancient rome,
587
00:29:55,336 --> 00:29:57,419
after whom
both the planet saturn
588
00:29:57,505 --> 00:30:00,130
and the day Saturday are named.
589
00:30:01,217 --> 00:30:03,174
The ancient romans wrote
590
00:30:03,259 --> 00:30:05,760
that saturn once reigned
as an earthly king
591
00:30:05,846 --> 00:30:09,138
alongside janus
during a golden age
592
00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:11,808
when the gods
walked among humans.
593
00:30:11,894 --> 00:30:14,310
Could it be that saturn
and the titans
594
00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:17,021
are not merely the product
of mythology
595
00:30:17,106 --> 00:30:19,900
but actually existed on earth
596
00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:23,319
and were responsible
for helping to construct
597
00:30:23,364 --> 00:30:27,281
the megalithic structures found
throughout the mediterranean?
598
00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:30,243
So, danila,
where are we right now?
599
00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:33,121
So, this is one of
the entrance gates to the town.
600
00:30:33,207 --> 00:30:35,184
And here
it's actually a perfect point
601
00:30:35,209 --> 00:30:38,000
where you can understand
the stratification of the time.
602
00:30:39,712 --> 00:30:44,007
You see the huge blocks
from the pre-roman time,
603
00:30:44,050 --> 00:30:48,095
then smaller, uh, blocks in...
Built in the roman time
604
00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:50,847
and finally the middle age
on top.
605
00:30:50,891 --> 00:30:53,392
So, basically,
you can see the...
606
00:30:53,477 --> 00:30:55,538
The megalithic structure,
then the roman,
607
00:30:55,563 --> 00:30:57,457
- and then medieval age.
- Exactly.
608
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,647
- Okay.
- And it's like reading
a history book.
609
00:30:59,732 --> 00:31:03,317
So, it's, uh, because here it's
evident that people lived here
610
00:31:03,362 --> 00:31:05,988
for thousands of years and...
611
00:31:06,073 --> 00:31:08,365
And they had different technique
of construction.
612
00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:10,135
Some of them,
like the megalithic,
613
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,035
uh, constructions, are lost,
614
00:31:12,078 --> 00:31:16,163
uh, so we don't know exactly,
uh, when they were built.
615
00:31:16,250 --> 00:31:19,750
Do you know if all
these five cities of saturn
616
00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:22,378
- have the cyclopean walls?
- Yes.
617
00:31:22,423 --> 00:31:24,047
They have, uh, these walls,
618
00:31:24,090 --> 00:31:26,215
megalithics or huge stones,
619
00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:29,219
and some of them are
better preserved than others.
620
00:31:29,305 --> 00:31:31,346
I mean, this is incredible.
621
00:31:31,432 --> 00:31:34,432
And this region is not the only
place that has these walls.
622
00:31:34,518 --> 00:31:36,934
For example,
we have them also in greece.
623
00:31:37,020 --> 00:31:39,520
But what's even more fascinating
624
00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:43,442
is that we have similar walls
on the other side of the world
625
00:31:43,527 --> 00:31:45,067
in sacsayhuam�n, peru.
626
00:31:45,112 --> 00:31:48,739
So, from completely opposite
sides of the planet,
627
00:31:48,824 --> 00:31:51,074
we have similar,
if not identical,
628
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,117
construction styles.
629
00:31:53,202 --> 00:31:55,056
According to
the ancient astronaut theory,
630
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:58,457
saturn was one
of the founding gods
631
00:31:58,541 --> 00:32:01,000
of civilization on earth,
632
00:32:01,086 --> 00:32:05,255
so the idea that this
may have had something to do
633
00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:07,381
with an extraterrestrial visit,
to me,
634
00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:09,092
is-is fascinating.
635
00:32:15,808 --> 00:32:19,603
If the mediterranean
really was home to giants,
636
00:32:19,688 --> 00:32:20,938
where did they go?
637
00:32:21,022 --> 00:32:23,690
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe
638
00:32:23,776 --> 00:32:27,443
traces of these giants can still
be found on earth today
639
00:32:27,528 --> 00:32:31,114
hidden within our own dna.
640
00:32:36,372 --> 00:32:38,829
Porto torres, sardinia.
641
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:41,625
October, 1953.
642
00:32:41,669 --> 00:32:44,795
Excavators performing
an archaeological dig
643
00:32:44,837 --> 00:32:48,089
in what was the roman empire's
first colony on the island
644
00:32:48,174 --> 00:32:51,634
reportedly make
an astonishing find.
645
00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:54,471
In a place called porto torres,
646
00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,640
in 1953, it was reported
647
00:32:56,683 --> 00:32:59,851
that two over eight-foot-tall
skeletons were discovered
648
00:32:59,936 --> 00:33:03,563
in the area with grave goods
and bronze furnishings
649
00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:06,692
and other such things actually
within the tomb itself,
650
00:33:06,777 --> 00:33:10,319
suggesting that indeed giants
did exist in sardinia.
651
00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:16,742
Full skeletons of giants
have been unearthed
652
00:33:16,828 --> 00:33:18,953
in the soils of sardinia,
653
00:33:19,038 --> 00:33:22,665
especially among
the nuragic ruins.
654
00:33:22,750 --> 00:33:24,710
I interviewed two individuals
655
00:33:24,795 --> 00:33:27,421
who worked on the excavation
of the nuragic ruins
656
00:33:27,506 --> 00:33:29,338
in the town of sardara,
657
00:33:29,424 --> 00:33:33,050
underneath
the church of santa anastasia.
658
00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:35,030
Both of these individuals
dug up,
659
00:33:35,055 --> 00:33:38,432
at different periods of time,
multiple skeletons
660
00:33:38,517 --> 00:33:41,308
of giants
from nine to 12 feet tall.
661
00:33:43,439 --> 00:33:48,150
Multiple giant skeletons,
nine to 12 feet tall?
662
00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:51,318
Curiously,
this is the same length
663
00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:55,574
of many of the so-called giants'
tombs found all over sardinia.
664
00:33:55,659 --> 00:34:00,077
But if such massive bones
have indeed been discovered,
665
00:34:00,163 --> 00:34:02,079
what happened to them?
666
00:34:02,165 --> 00:34:04,290
Some researchers believe
667
00:34:04,375 --> 00:34:07,836
these findings have been
deliberately covered up.
668
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,797
We hear these stories,
but we don't have any evidence.
669
00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:13,592
It's all been taken away.
670
00:34:13,677 --> 00:34:16,385
For example, another account
from the 1950s...
671
00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:19,097
There was a gentleman
who actually witnessed
672
00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:22,726
bones being dug up
on his farm when he was a child.
673
00:34:22,811 --> 00:34:25,436
And people
in large black cars arrived,
674
00:34:25,521 --> 00:34:27,271
official-looking people,
675
00:34:27,356 --> 00:34:30,067
and took the bones away
in the middle of the night.
676
00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:32,110
When it comes
677
00:34:32,195 --> 00:34:36,447
to the alleged discovery of
giant skeletons, does the fact
678
00:34:36,532 --> 00:34:41,077
that the bones have gone missing
suggest a cover-up or a hoax?
679
00:34:41,121 --> 00:34:43,163
While skeptics say
680
00:34:43,248 --> 00:34:46,123
that many of these stories come
from dubious sources,
681
00:34:46,210 --> 00:34:49,251
there is at least one discovery
that was documented
682
00:34:49,338 --> 00:34:52,172
by one of the oldest
universities in the world.
683
00:34:52,257 --> 00:34:56,760
In 1892, it was
reported that scientists
684
00:34:56,804 --> 00:35:00,597
at the university of montpellier
in France studied bones
685
00:35:00,681 --> 00:35:04,266
that had been excavated on
France's mediterranean coast,
686
00:35:04,353 --> 00:35:06,103
and found that they belonged
687
00:35:06,188 --> 00:35:09,731
to a human
who stood over 11 feet tall.
688
00:35:09,817 --> 00:35:12,442
So there have been
numerous reports
689
00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:14,693
of giant bones, teeth, skulls.
690
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:18,572
The lack of physical evidence
is quite frustrating,
691
00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:20,242
but I'm sure it will come out.
692
00:35:20,327 --> 00:35:24,996
But if reports of giant
skeletons are true,
693
00:35:25,081 --> 00:35:28,916
were these enormous beings human
or something else?
694
00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:32,003
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
695
00:35:32,088 --> 00:35:35,923
the answer may be hidden
within our own dna.
696
00:35:38,554 --> 00:35:40,594
Copenhagen, denmark.
697
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:42,639
2020.
698
00:35:42,724 --> 00:35:46,184
A team of geneticists studying
an ancient hominin
699
00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:51,148
called homo antecessor make
a groundbreaking discovery.
700
00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:53,440
This species was
a close relative
701
00:35:53,527 --> 00:35:57,487
of the last common ancestor to
humans and two other hominins:
702
00:35:57,572 --> 00:36:01,324
Neanderthals and denisovans.
703
00:36:01,409 --> 00:36:06,204
It is just the latest in a
series of incredible discoveries
704
00:36:06,289 --> 00:36:08,476
that have revealed humans
not only shared the earth
705
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:10,876
with at least eight other
humanlike species,
706
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:15,380
but even mated and produced
offspring with them.
707
00:36:15,465 --> 00:36:20,510
For quite a long period of time,
many of us, myself included,
708
00:36:20,596 --> 00:36:22,679
thought that humans
and other hominins,
709
00:36:22,722 --> 00:36:25,849
particularly neanderthals,
didn't interbreed.
710
00:36:25,893 --> 00:36:28,851
After 2010,
when technology allowed us
711
00:36:28,936 --> 00:36:33,106
to sequence the entire genomes
of several neanderthals
712
00:36:33,192 --> 00:36:35,983
and other species
and modern humans,
713
00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:38,027
we began to see traces
714
00:36:38,112 --> 00:36:40,530
of a little bit
of neanderthal mixture.
715
00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:43,657
We see traces
of neanderthal ancestry
716
00:36:43,744 --> 00:36:45,952
in europe,
and we see it in asia,
717
00:36:46,038 --> 00:36:49,371
as well as in the americas
amongst native americans.
718
00:36:49,416 --> 00:36:51,373
Mysteriously,
719
00:36:51,460 --> 00:36:54,543
scientists have found
one hominid is represented
720
00:36:54,588 --> 00:36:58,215
in human dna that has not yet
been identified.
721
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,634
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe
722
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,594
clues as to what other ancestors
might exist
723
00:37:03,679 --> 00:37:06,514
within the human genome
can be found
724
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:08,391
in the bible's book of genesis.
725
00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:10,559
In the book of genesis, it says
726
00:37:10,646 --> 00:37:13,730
that the sons of god came
into the daughters of men.
727
00:37:13,773 --> 00:37:16,900
They created a hybrid offspring
who are called "the nephilim,"
728
00:37:16,985 --> 00:37:18,693
or "the fallen ones."
729
00:37:18,737 --> 00:37:24,032
they're referred to as "the
giants" or "the mighty ones,"
730
00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:27,952
and some believed they were
between eight and 15 feet tall.
731
00:37:28,038 --> 00:37:31,914
This is handed down
not only in the bible.
732
00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:36,043
This is also handed down
in sumerian languages,
733
00:37:36,088 --> 00:37:38,463
that some of the gods had sex
with humans,
734
00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:41,423
and the offsprings were giants.
735
00:37:41,467 --> 00:37:45,469
Mythology is full of giants,
736
00:37:45,554 --> 00:37:50,141
and we have to look at these
old myths with modern languages,
737
00:37:50,226 --> 00:37:53,394
change the word of "angel"
into "extraterrestrial."
738
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,230
in the beginning of time,
739
00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:58,315
extraterrestrials had sex
with humans,
740
00:37:58,402 --> 00:38:03,112
and the product of
this sexual contact were giants.
741
00:38:04,992 --> 00:38:07,492
Is it possible
that as geneticists continue
742
00:38:07,577 --> 00:38:10,619
to decode the human genome,
they will find
743
00:38:10,706 --> 00:38:14,623
that among our various hominid
ancestors is a missing link
744
00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:17,043
to enormous beings
from another world?
745
00:38:17,128 --> 00:38:20,838
Ancient dna is perhaps, for me,
746
00:38:20,923 --> 00:38:24,634
the most important area of study
in all of my work,
747
00:38:24,677 --> 00:38:28,262
because there is
the potential chance here
748
00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:29,972
that we can find direct evidence
749
00:38:30,057 --> 00:38:32,018
of the ancestors
of modern humans.
750
00:38:32,101 --> 00:38:36,603
I suspect we'll find
lineages of a race of giants.
751
00:38:38,317 --> 00:38:40,317
Could it be
752
00:38:40,402 --> 00:38:44,820
that just like some humans have
traces of neanderthal dna,
753
00:38:44,905 --> 00:38:48,074
there could still be similar
traces of alien-human giants
754
00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:51,161
that scientists have yet
to discover?
755
00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:54,371
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
756
00:38:54,458 --> 00:38:57,291
the answer is a profound yes,
757
00:38:57,376 --> 00:39:00,545
and suggest further insights
could be revealed
758
00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:02,672
in early judaic texts,
759
00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:06,675
which give a curious description
of the world's first man,
760
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,179
otherwise known as "adam."
761
00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:20,190
The book of genesis,
chapter six.
762
00:39:20,233 --> 00:39:23,443
Placed just after
the story of creation
763
00:39:23,527 --> 00:39:26,528
and the generations
of adam and eve,
764
00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:31,367
this section of the hebrew bible
contains a curious passage.
765
00:39:32,746 --> 00:39:35,663
There is
a very interesting teaching
766
00:39:35,748 --> 00:39:39,666
in older kabbalistic traditions
767
00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:43,880
that dates back to temple times.
768
00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:47,842
Legend states
that adam originally was,
769
00:39:47,927 --> 00:39:51,387
by our definition, a giant,
770
00:39:51,472 --> 00:39:55,849
that the original adamic race
was not
771
00:39:55,893 --> 00:39:58,811
of the same physical stature
as we human beings are today.
772
00:39:58,896 --> 00:40:02,148
Some claim that the original
adamic race were giants.
773
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:05,318
Is this a legend of symbolism,
774
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:07,570
or is there something actual
to it?
775
00:40:07,614 --> 00:40:11,990
Was the biblical adam a giant?
776
00:40:12,077 --> 00:40:15,702
Could it be that all of humanity
is descended
777
00:40:15,789 --> 00:40:19,748
from a race that was
of a much greater stature?
778
00:40:19,793 --> 00:40:21,478
And that there was a time
on earth
779
00:40:21,503 --> 00:40:25,922
when giants were prevalent,
and humans were the anomaly?
780
00:40:26,007 --> 00:40:29,884
When we look
at the modern evolutionary cycle
781
00:40:29,969 --> 00:40:31,719
for human beings,
782
00:40:31,804 --> 00:40:34,847
it's still put on the shoulders
of darwinistic views.
783
00:40:34,932 --> 00:40:37,766
So anything that steps outside
784
00:40:37,811 --> 00:40:41,478
of those viewpoints
is usually greatly challenged.
785
00:40:41,565 --> 00:40:43,458
Mainstream science has had
a very hard time
786
00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,775
wrapping their head
around the idea
787
00:40:45,818 --> 00:40:47,858
that there could have been
a lost race,
788
00:40:47,903 --> 00:40:51,155
part extraterrestrial,
part human.
789
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:55,577
In mythology, the giants
were a fact. They did exist.
790
00:40:55,661 --> 00:40:58,746
What we are missing are
the bones of giants.
791
00:40:58,831 --> 00:41:00,914
From time to time,
792
00:41:01,001 --> 00:41:03,793
anthropologists found
some big bones,
793
00:41:03,836 --> 00:41:08,297
but then, other anthropologists
contradicted it.
794
00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:11,175
But definitely giants did exist
in the past,
795
00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:14,304
and they were the result
of a mixture
796
00:41:14,347 --> 00:41:16,472
between extraterrestrials
and humans.
797
00:41:18,226 --> 00:41:20,976
Do incredible
megalithic structures,
798
00:41:21,021 --> 00:41:23,730
curious religious traditions
799
00:41:23,815 --> 00:41:26,148
repeated in culture
after culture,
800
00:41:26,193 --> 00:41:29,985
and reports
of enormous human remains
801
00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:34,657
represent the remnants of
a lost civilization of giants?
802
00:41:34,701 --> 00:41:38,577
And if so,
could these enormous beings
803
00:41:38,663 --> 00:41:43,833
have actually had a hand
in the creation of humankind?
804
00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:46,628
Perhaps one day soon
805
00:41:46,713 --> 00:41:49,838
conclusive evidence of the link
between humans and giants
806
00:41:49,882 --> 00:41:55,302
will finally come to light,
and we will discover
807
00:41:55,347 --> 00:41:59,181
that within the mythological
tales of our ancestors
808
00:41:59,226 --> 00:42:03,728
lies the true history
of the human race.
809
00:42:03,813 --> 00:42:07,315
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