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narrator: they are some of the
greatest wonders in the world --

pyramids, and they're found
across the globe.

are they simply tombs
or much more?

were they built
by ancient civilizations

or by something
more mysterious?

gough: nobody knows for certain
why the pyramids were built,

for whom, when and why.

those remain the questions,

and if someone tells you
they have the answer,

they're either delusional
or lying.

we just don't know.

mcmahon: are they tombs?
are they space stations?

are they power stations?

are they spacecraft?
i mean, you name it.

every theory imaginable has been
brought up about pyramids.

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narrator: there are pyramid
structures across the world,

the iconic ones of egypt
but also those in mexico,

cambodia, sudan, greece,
peru and italy.

but how much do
we really know about them,

and did many different
civilizations

independently create
the same type of building,

or were they given
the blueprints

by a mysterious
common ancestor?

janulis: we love pyramids
in popular culture

because they hearken back
to this time

that we can only imagine

for some of us, it relates to
the biblical stories we heard.

for others, it's just imagining
these massive societies,

and the only thing left
is these huge monuments,

so every pyramid represents
a fantastic mystery.

picknett: for something
as huge and impressive

as the ancient pyramids,

there are relatively
few answers.

it's totally surprising
how little is actually known

for certain about them.

there is evidence
for a teacher culture

with the pyramids that have
sprung up all over the world.

they all are aligned
to the cardinal points.

they all have a causeway.
they all have a mortuary temple.

none of them have tombs,
so whoever came up with

this blueprint passed it
on all across the globe.

how did they do that?

mcmahon: all the fringe theories
about the pyramids,

that they were actually built
in 10,500 bc,

that they were built by aliens,

that they were built
by atlanteans,

that all the pyramids around
the world are somehow united

or even speaking
to each other,

all of this comes under
a kind of a pseudoscience,

which is described
as pyramidology.

narrator: the great pyramid
of giza in egypt --

a huge statement that has
survived from time long ago.

but who built it and why?

bellinger: the ancient egyptians
built pyramids as tombs

for their pharaohs
during the old kingdom period,

and these were expressions
of power and prestige as much as

they were intended to be a final
resting place for the pharaoh

and a storage place
for everything that the pharaoh

was thought to need as he
ascended into the afterlife

and took on his kingly role
again there.

bianchi: the chronology of
ancient egypt is in debate

because they are all relative
dates, not absolute dates.

we are fairly sure
the pyramids were built

in the 3rd millennium bc,
and it's a question of,

where in the 3rd millennium
do you want to fix them?

narrator: when it was erected
by at least 2500 bc,

outside of today's cairo,

the great pyramid was
a spectacular structure.

it was said to be covered in
sheets of smooth white limestone

and possibly topped
by a golden triangle.

it would have been a truly
breathtaking sight.

meredith brand is
an egyptologist

from the american university
in cairo

and very familiar
with these ancient monuments.

brand: we're here in front of
the great pyramid of khufu.

this massive structure is 93.5
million cubic feet of stone.

it's 481 feet tall, and its
sides are 71 feet in length.

right now, we're inside a tunnel

leading into the burial chamber
of the great pyramid,

and up here we're going to

climb into
the great ascension passage.

this remarkable feat of
architectural engineering

has 26-foot-tall ceilings
and is 150 feet long.

there's some exciting research

that's been done recently
with muon particles.

these are cosmic rays
that have been measured

by a bunch of scientists,

and they have found
the potential

for a void right here
above the grand gallery.

maybe it could be
a hidden chamber.

maybe it could be some kind
of architectural anomaly,

but it points to potentially
some very exciting features

of pyramids
that we don't know about yet.

bellinger: the great pyramid
at giza is in many ways

exquisitely precise
and incredibly well-built.

it is situated in terms of
a couple of degrees of precision

on a north-south-east-west axis.

it really is
an engineering marvel.

♪

we're here in the burial chamber
of khufu's pyramid.

as you can see,
this remarkable structure

is made fully of red granite,

and you have a matching
red granite sarcophagus.

we haven't found any mummies
or bones

or any other material
from his grave.

all that remains
is this sarcophagus.

these air shafts here were
for the soul of the king

to rise up out
of his sarcophagus

and pass through
to the outside of the pyramid

because you have to remember,

we're inside 93.5 million cubic
feet of stone in the center,

and the king's spirit
had to get out somehow,

so they devised these air shafts
for him to leave.

khufu didn't actually carve
any hieroglyphs in this chamber

or anywhere else
in this pyramid,

and this is unlike
what you would have seen

at the pyramids of djoser
or the later pyramids in saqqara

with the pyramid text.

the builders of the pyramid
did make some graffiti.

above us, there's five
relieving chambers,

and at the very top chamber,

there's graffiti
written in red ochre

with the name
of the king, khufu,

and the word friends of khufu,

and this is one
of the work gangs,

a group of guys
that built the pyramids

that made their mark on eternity
by writing their name.

gough:
so how do we know the great
pyramid is khufu's pyramid?

we really don't.

we know that he venerated it
and created a boat

and put it into the ground
next to the pyramid.

we know that his name appears
to have been inscribed

some graffiti
inside the relieving chamber,

but there is no other evidence.

in fact, there's only one image
of the pharaoh khufu,

and it's a tiny little sculpture
in the cairo museum.

is that all that you'd expect
for the great pharaoh khufu,

the builder
of the great pyramid?

bianchi: the great pyramid
of giza is, in fact,

the burial place of khufu.

we know that because there
are some inscriptions

inside the pyramid,

and we have
the papyrus documentation

that has just recently
been found

naming an administrator
involved in its construction

whose name is now known
as merer.

and so if you want to argue
that the pyramids were not built

by the ancient egyptians,
you have to contradict

and prove that the papyri
just found are bogus.

narrator:
the lack of clarity around the
date of the pyramid's building,

its use, plus the near absence
of naming identification

and traditional
ceremonial goods

has sparked questions
about its true purpose.

it is likely that it was
something more,

some kind of initiation chamber.

we simply don't know.

bianchi:
the most recent explanation
about the lack of inscriptions

and relief decoration
within the great pyramid

rests on that khufu
was a god on earth,

so if khufu is of divine status,

egyptian tradition
prohibits one god

from being obeisant
to another god.

narrator: but some speculate
the egyptians didn't actually

build the great pyramids
themselves

and that a mysterious
ancient civilization

may have been behind
these magnificent structures.

♪

narrator: the great pyramid
of giza in cairo

is one of the great wonders
of the ancient world.

egyptologists agree it was
constructed around 2500 bc

as a burial chamber
of the pharaoh khufu,

but there are
some who disagree.

skeptics say the monument
is missing several key things,

traditional hieroglyphs
on the walls,

proper identification
tying it to khufu

and ceremonial burial items.

gough: it's really difficult
to date the pyramids,

especially the ones at giza.

some have attempted to date them

from how the entrance chamber is
orientated towards the polestar.

others have looked for
organic material such as axes

and ropes that were found
in boat pits and nearby,

but that leads to the question,
was this organic material,

is it from people who were
restoring the pyramid

or building it?

that's what we don't know.

narrator: yet the egyptologists
are confident

they have the facts right.

dr. meredith brand believes
that the great pyramid

is a wonder
of the ancient world,

that it's origins
are entirely human

and can be dated
to around 2500 bc.

brand: we know khufu reigned
in the mid-26th century bce,

but the actual
date itself

has been a bit harder
to pin down.

now, obviously, you can't do
any sort of radiocarbon

dating on the stone,
but the core of the structure,

the stones were built
in a more haphazard manner

with mortar in between,

and some of this mortar
has organic material.

so several scientists have
collected samples

for radiocarbon dating.

now, the results of these
samples are a bit complicated.

some of them hit
at the right date of khufu,

and some of them are 100
to 300 years older,

so this requires
more re-evaluation

and testing to pin down
the actual date,

but we are pretty confident
with the radiocarbon dating

that it is somewhere
around this time.

♪

narrator: hugh newman is a
british megalith enthusiast

with some
controversial theories.

he believes the great pyramid

is much older
than academics proclaim.

few people agree with him,

but he's on a mission
to prove his case.

newman: well, there's
some ideas about

who could have built
the pyramids.

we're talking about semidivine
god-kings of ancient egypt

called the followers
of disciples of horus.

they had the technology,

somehow,
to construct the pyramid,

and the research that i've been
doing connects them with giants

from the bible lands
and were involved

in the construction
of the great pyramid,

the pyramids of dahshur, the red
and bent pyramid, also dendera.

start looking at the dating,
and you look at the sphinx

and when the whole giza plateau
could have been laid out,

it seems like it was designed
all as one,

and it was a very great mind
or minds

behind the construction,
the geometry, the mathematics

and the whole surveying
of these particular areas.

bianchi: i think we are
imperfectly informed

about why the particular
plateau of giza was chosen,

but one can suggest
that it was on a slight rise

from which the spirit
of the dead pharaohs

could overlook their domain.

the nile river, in antiquity
at the time

the pyramids were built,
came a lot closer to the site,

so the transport of material
would be facilitated,

and there were probably
no other preburials in the area,

and all of those, i think,
are contributing factors

that led to the decision
that this is the spot

on which we're going
to build these structures.

newman: the great pyramid
and the giza plateau

appears to have been laid out
in a grand plan.

the lining of the great pyramid
perfectly north,

south, east and west,

so there were
astronomical alignments

associated with
the pyramids as well.

the three pyramids we see
behind us appear

to mirror orion
in the night sky.

now, what's really interesting
to me

is the fact
that teotihuacan in mexico

seems to be almost the same.

it has three main pyramids,
and they almost align

precisely to
the mirrored version of orion,

so if this is the case,
you know,

is there a mother culture
that shared this knowledge,

or did the egyptians
even travel to central america?

the evidence seems to point
that this is indeed the case.

bianchi: there is no question
that the pyramids

at the giza plateau
are aligned.

the suggestion that they
are aligned

with celestial constellations
or stars is worth considering

because, after all,
before we had gps

and other sophisticated
surveying tools,

ancient mariners
set their course

by the stars
which were constants.

narrator: teotihuacan is a huge
pyramid complex in mexico city.

according to some, it is aligned
with the great pyramid.

sergio gomez is one
of the top

archaeologists at teotihuacan.

[ speaking spanish ]

interpreter:
the origins of teotihuacan

date back to the year 400 bc.

the entire city
is perfectly aligned

according to a master plan
that continues to surprise us.

all the buildings
of the entire city

have the same orientation
of 15 degrees,

17 minutes deviated
to the east of the north,

and there is no other
construction in teotihuacan

that does not keep
the same orientation.

that's why it's amazing.

they built the city according
to this orientation

so that they whole city
would operate

as a great astronomic clock,
a solar clock.

it also tells us that
we have signs

that teotihuacan was perfectly
planned in all its aspects,

not only in terms of orientation

but also in terms of
the impressive drainage system

that continues to operate
just as it did

when it was built
more than 1,800 years ago.

another intriguing element
of the pyramid

complexes around the globe,

in particular giza
and teotihuacan,

is the presence of what appears
to be orion's belt.

is it coincidence,

or is it somehow
the encoding of information

about a constellation that was
really important to the ancients

and perhaps associated with
the pyramid builders themselves?

narrator: can believers prove
that the pyramids at teotihuacan

are connected to those at giza,
and what is their true purpose?

♪

narrator: we still have much
to learn about the pyramids

at teotihuacan.

who built them, for what purpose
and are they mysteriously

connected
to the great pyramid at giza?

gough: all pyramids have
the same characteristics.

one, they're orientated towards
the cardinal points,

north, south, east, west.

two, they have a causeway,

a ceremonial path
leading to the pyramid.

three, they have
a mortuary chamber,

a little temple in front of the
pyramid where you would worship.

all pyramids have those.

picknett: so it seems that the
deeply mysterious pyramids

had other functions,
ritual functions

that we can only really
just make stabs at

because we don't have
the ancient egyptian mind-set.

their entire life was just
standing in line

for the afterlife.

it was cueing up
for their next life,

and everything they did
as human beings was about that

and especially about
enabling the pharaoh

to go off into
the afterlife and become god.

narrator: the pyramid of the
feathered serpent at teotihuacan

is believed to have been
at the center

of this mesoamerican metropolis,

but mysteries around
its origin remain.

bellinger:
heavy rains recently uncovered
an extraordinary long tunnel

underneath the pyramid
of teotihuacan,

and archaeologists went down,

and they were puzzled
to find bits of pyrite and mica

clearly embedded
in the wall purposefully.

they weren't sure what it was.

they happened to extinguish
the artificial light,

and it lit up
as if they were outside

under the night sky
surrounded by stars.

♪

[ speaking spanish ]

interpreter: the tunnel
was built 2,000 years ago

by the teotihuacanos

and remained hidden
from the view of any person

for about 1,800 years.

in this part, the teotihuacanos
darkened the rock

by painting it black

and then impregnating the entire
upper part with pyrite.

in some parts, small remains
of the bright mineral

are preserved,
and at the bottom,

they carved the ground to
recreate a miniature landscape.

a mountainous and miniature
landscape then small mountains

and some holes that represent
the lakes and valleys

of this mythical landscape.

the mercury that was placed
there

is to represent
the water of the underworld.

this mercury was not local.

i think it was imported
from central america

probably near copan,
a mayan city in honduras.

it is a mystery
that will last a lifetime.

however, i believe that this is
such an important

and sacred place.

we don't know who built
the pyramids at teotihuacan.

we know that the site
was established in around 400 bc

and reached a peak
1,000 years later,

so this was a major,
very sophisticated civilization.

their city covers
8 square miles.

it's carefully gridded.

there's at least 2,000
private residences.

there are plazas and temples,
and everything is linked

beautifully in a perfectly
solar-aligned avenue

called the avenue of the dead.

i mean, we don't know who
did it, though,

and that's because
they left some glyphs,

but it's a language
we have not cracked yet.

we may never know who built
teotihuacan,

but we do know that it's name
means birthplace of the gods,

and were those gods
extraterrestrial?

narrator: is it possible that
pyramids around the world

are all connected?

and is there truth
behind the theory

that they served
a more cryptic purpose?

♪

narrator: is there a connection
between the pyramids of egypt

and those discovered in mexico
and other parts of the world?

mcmahon: for some reason,
pyramids seem to hold

a real grip
on the human imagination.

are these pyramids tombs?

are they a means
of communicating with aliens,

passing ufos?

are they a way of aligning
with the stars?

are they a way of
launching a king,

a pharaoh's spirit
into outer space?

all these theories have
been posited about the pyramids.

narrator:
about an hour's drive from the
great pyramid is saqqara.

there lies what is believed to
be the oldest pyramid in egypt,

the pyramid of djoser,
also known as the step pyramid

because of its design.

bellinger:
the so-called step pyramid
built for djoser at saqqara

is kind of like a missing link
for archaeologists.

its importance actually can't
be overstated,

and that's because it's proof
that the egyptians developed

the technology
to build pyramids,

and they did it over
a period of time,

and the idea that they did
not have the technology

or the knowledge

or the means to build pyramids
is utterly absurd.

narrator:
marianne tames-demauras
is an egyptologist

who specializes
in djoser's pyramid at saqqara.

tames-demauras:
we are at the funerary complex
of the step pyramid

of the king djoser, who actually
built this around 2600 bce,

so that's over 4,600 years ago.

this pyramid measures at the
base 397 feet times 358 feet.

it has a height of 197 feet
and has a whooping volume

of 12 million cubic feet of clay
and stone,

and we believe it would have
taken around 19 years to build.

gough: when you look at the size
of the pyramids, of any of them,

they're all huge.

the skill, the effort required
to construct them,

could a pharaoh really construct
their own tomb

during their lifetime,
and were they tombs?

i think the step pyramid complex
of djoser

is one of the great,
great wonders of the world.

they are cutting stone to
approximate the size of a brick.

you have to imagine
how labor-intensive that is.

we admire the huge blocks
of the khufu pyramid,

but now you've got these guys
making little tiny bricks

out of stone.

so the step pyramid
is just a delight in that sense.

tames-demauras:
pyramids around the world,

there's some aspects of them

which are quite similar,
and that's why a lot of people

think there are these connects
between egypt

and the mesoamerican pyramids
and so forth,

but i don't believe
that's the case.

i believe that it would be --

it's more like
an archetypal form,

the shape that basically
connects earth to the sky,

and it would have been an easy
access to travel to the sky,

to travel to the gods,
so i believe it's a shape

that would have been employed
because of those reasons.

janulis: we find pyramids
all over the world

usually associated with emerging
agricultural economies

that are becoming big

because they are the simplest to
build in terms of engineering.

it is the most elemental
of building structures

and the most stable and sturdy.

hoffman: all of these people
are building high in order

to get essentially closer to god

and in addition have god
recognize you, or the gods,

because the gods had to have
their attention called to you.

otherwise, you were just this
tiny little ant

crawling all over the earth,

so you can imagine
the pyramids were a great,

big sign saying,
"hey. here we are."

what was so special
about the step pyramid

is that it was
an intermediary

between what was called
mastaba slabs

that were just flat pieces
of stones set on the sand

that people were buried
underneath in the early stages

of the old kingdom
and the full-fledged pyramid

because if you can imagine
just like a child

would build something
with blocks,

successively smaller
mastabas were stacked,

and then they decided
maybe it would be nice

if it was smooth
on the outside,

and it sort of got to the point
of the pyramid

that we recognize today.

♪

♪

tames-demauras:
we're actually in the most
sacred part of the pyramid.

we are in the burial chamber
of king djoser.

we are literally underneath
the step pyramid.

this burial chamber
would have been built

when mastaba one
was constructed,

so and then, obviously, the rest
of the pyramid then followed,

so we are literally
underneath the pyramid.

this whole shaft measures
23 feet square

and 92 feet deep,
which is mind-blowing,

and here in the middle, you find
this fantastic burial vault

made out of granite.

the step pyramid at saqqara,
archaeologists found

an intact sarcophagus
that was sealed

and had been sealed
for thousands of years,

and they opened it,
and inside was nothing,

so where were
the human remains?

obviously, they hadn't been
looted and carted off anywhere.

the thing was sealed,
so it does add another layer

to the ongoing mysteries
surrounding the pyramids.

bianchi: we know from the warren
of tunnels and passages

underneath the step pyramid
that the tomb was rifled,

perhaps repeatedly, by tomb
robbers in search of treasure,

and the body of djoser

was probably a casualty
of those depredations.

tames-demauras:
so here, we're looking at
the very famous panel.

we can see king djoser here.

right in front like a sort
of caption for this panel,

it's his name,
and it's not written djoser.

here, he is named
by his horus name.

horus name is netjerikhet,
and you can even see remnants,

part of the god horus
sitting on the serif,

this rectangular object here
protecting his identity,

protecting his name,
his essence for eternity.

gough: so we find a sarcophagus
in the step pyramid.

we find one in
the great pyramid,

but there has never been
a body of a pharaoh

discovered in those sarcophagus,
and more importantly,

no hieroglyphics.

go south to luxor

in the valley
of the kings

in proper burial chambers
of kings and royalty,

and you have corridor
after corridor of hieroglyphics

telling the fabulous story
of this person's life

and all their incredible
boisterous deeds.

there's none of that
in the pyramids of egypt,

leading us to conclude
that they were not tombs,

so what were they?

narrator: and in teotihuacan,

evidence grows that pyramids
may have been used

for purposes more mysterious
than mere burial chambers.

♪

narrator: academics and
egyptologists agree

that the pyramids were built
by ancient civilizations

as tombs for their leaders.

they dismiss theories
of pyramidology

connecting similar structures
found across the world,

but there is
a growing group of people

who believe the pyramids
are much older

than science dates them,
and are much more mysterious.

another interesting theory
is that the pyramids themselves

are an energy conduit.

another common denominator
amongst them

was a body of water nearby
leading some to speculate

that they were electricity
generators of some kind

using a technology
that we've long forgotten.

narrator:
hugh newman firmly believes that
the great pyramid in giza

is misunderstood by the majority
of academics and egyptologists.

newman:
the great pyramid, i believe,
was a multifunctional system.

fundamentally, i think
it's built

as a kind of
technological machine

to produce energy
and vibration

and also a harmonic fertilizing
energy across the land here,

utilizing underground water,
hydrogen, different chemicals

that have been found
to exist within it

and create something
quite remarkable

which could have
been electricity.

it could have been
thermal energy.

it could have been
other types of energy

they used to light up places
or for power tools.

who knows?

picknett:
there are tiny things

that the ancient
egyptians produced

that actually show that they
were wizards at engineering.

for example,
in the cairo museum,

there's tiny little vases,

and they've got holes
drilled in them.

how?

they were supposed only
to have copper tools.

you could not do that
with copper tools,

and they're made of the hardest
possible stone,

they're granite,
some of them.

it's like the ancient
egyptians were showing off.

newman:
so back in october 2017, i was
filming on the giza plateau,

and it was towards the end
of the day around sunset,

and i managed
just accidentally --

i didn't see it
with my own eyes,

but i saw that when i moved
the camera around,

i caught this orb of light going
up the side of khafra's pyramid.

it's believed that it could be
some kind of energetic sphere

like a ball of light,

or it could have been
something completely strange,

even like a small ufo.

whatever it was, it appeared
to be glowing

and moving in a very precise way
across the face of the pyramid,

so i believe it was
almost like a by-product

of what these pyramids
were all about which was energy.

narrator: although egyptologists
trust their scientific testing,

even at the pyramid
of the feathered serpent

in teotihuacan,

there is still evidence
that baffles archaeologists.

gomez: [ speaking spanish ]

interpreter: we have evidence
that during the time

when this magnificent
building was functioning,

they performed some kind
of ritual with a lot of fire.

it is very likely that in some
parts, they made great fires.

we have precisely in this part
some evidence

that the fire was so intense

that it transformed
the surface into a brick.

we know that the aztecs
considered this place

as a sacred place,
a mythical place.

in teotihuacan,
the pyramids are part

of the urban
planned environment,

and we know that they were used
for ritual purposes

perhaps as temples.

one of the most
fascinating things

about the pyramids
at teotihuacan

is that they're built so close
to an enormous mountain.

the pyramids in egypt are built
as this symbolic mountain

in their own right,

but here in
a different tradition

far removed from that space,

you have people building,
almost, like, in response

to that existing natural
mountain, their own mountain.

narrator: meanwhile in bosnia,

a massive pyramid shape
was discovered

by sam osmanagich in 2005.

while critics believe
it's just a mountain

coincidentally shaped
like a pyramid,

sam has partially excavated
the site

and says he has evidence that
it is a man-made structure.

in the spring of 2005,

i first came to little
bosnian town of visoko

in central bosnia
to visit the local museum,

and then i saw this, the largest
pyramid complex on the planet.

here, we have four sides
with triangular faces,

perfect orientation, concrete.

we have underground tunnels.

geometrically speaking,
this is a pyramid.

the great pyramid of egypt,
147 meters.

now, look at the bosnian pyramid
of the sun, the northern face.

from this point out which
is clearly triangular,

it's 220 meters.

however, when we applied
advanced technology

called the lidar
or lidar technology

which basically removes
the greenery from the picture,

this is what you are getting.

we clearly see the corner
is going all the way

to the bottom of the valley,

the eastern slope all the way to
the bottom, even the northern.

just here, we have the layers
of soil which came here

probably during the last end
of the ice age.

sam osmanagich claims to have
found five pyramids in bosnia

which he thinks were built
anything up to 30,000 years ago.

that would basically put them

before or even
during the ice age.

now, many skeptics say
that these are just

natural hilly formations,

but he's adamant
that they are man-made.

osmanagich: we are
at the northern face

of the bosnian pyramid
of the sun.

back in 2006,
we started removing the soil.

who would expect that 1 meter
below the soil

there are rectangular blocks
like this one here?

it is about 4-1/2-meter long,
1 1/2 wide,

45 centimeters thick.

it is 7 tons in mass,
and not only that.

below the first one,
there is a second row of rocks

and third row of rocks,
and below is the fourth one.

one, two, three, four.

this is a structure.

it's not made by mother nature
but by intelligent hands.

we have sent samples
to seven institutional material.

everybody told us it was
an artificially made concrete.

bellinger:
osmanagich argues that the
creators of this pyramid field

were an incredibly sophisticated
race from the deep past,

perhaps from atlantis
or from outer space

and that the possessed
technologies way ahead

of where humanity
was at that point.

for example, whereas geologists
say that this is just

bog-standard
layers of sediment,

he says it's reinforced
concrete created

by this technologically
advanced race.

narrator:
is the pyramid in bosnia
actually a man-made structure,

and can they prove
that the tunnels found within it

are connected to
a powerful energy force?

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narrator:
in 2005, sam osmanagich
discovered what he claims

is a huge pyramid hidden
within the hills of bosnia.

if it proves to be
a man-made structure,

it would become
the biggest pyramid ever built,

yet the academic community
isn't convinced.

bianchi:
when geologists have examined
the formations, they found

that they are constructed of
conglomerate sandstone and clay.

there's absolutely nothing
to suggest

that they are
man-made materials.

these are geological formations.

gough: the debate rages on as
to whether or not

there are pyramids in bosnia.

they are so ancient they could
easily be mistaken

for hills and mountains,

and yet they're orientated
towards the cardinal points,

so is the pyramid a construct
that's been used

time and time again
on planet earth,

and are some of them
looking so dilapidated

because they are truly
that ancient?

narrator: sam osmanagich
believes his research

proves the authenticity
of the pyramid,

specifically the tunnels
he's found.

this potential purpose
of the pyramid energy

to protect what is
the most precious to us,

and that is our health.

we measure different energy
properties on daily basis.

one instrument measure the
concentration of negative ions.

negative ions are extremely
important for this project

because they have
healing capabilities.

more negative ions,

they remove viruses and
bacterias from our body.

the concentration of negative
ions here is right.

it's normal.

we have 28,000,
27,000, 26,000.

the regular levels, for example,
in the cities,

are about a few hundred, in
nature like natural surroundings

like this one here,
about 1,000, 1,500, 800,

but in the tunnels, the values
reach 10,000, 15,000, 20,000,

making it the ideal condition
for our body

to start the self-regeneration
process,

self-healing process.

gough: the pyramids around
the globe that we see today

from around 3000 bc
to maybe 1500 bc,

they all have the same
characteristics,

leading me to conclude

that there was some
sort of teacher or culture

that imparted knowledge
about how to construct them

and why to construct them
that has been lost from history.

in the last 10 years,
we have received hundreds

if not thousands
of testimonials of people

noticing the health benefits
and improvements.

for example, people with the
higher blood pressure

after visiting
the tunnels, they come back,

blood pressure gets normalized.

even people with
very serious diseases

show significant signs
of improvements.

more tunnels we open,
energy flow is getting stronger.

energy values
are getting higher.

ancients knew that the pyramid
energy is so beneficial,

and it would make really sense

instead of building
such a huge structure

for one dead body,
king or pharaoh,

you build structure
that will serve generations

and generations
of living communities

that will last almost forever.

narrator: have we misunderstood
the true purpose of pyramids

all this time?

could they be far older
than we imagined?

experts say no,
yet there are people

who believe these magnificent
structures were made to be more

than mere burial chambers.

the debate rages on.

gough: if you look at the
bosnian pyramids,

even though it's a lot older
and run-down

compared to the other
ancient pyramids

such as giza and teotihuacan,
it has the same characteristics,

so i would say we still need
to keep looking,

but there's no reason to believe

that it couldn't have been
a pyramid complex.

to cut same osmanagich
some slack,

i've been to the balkans myself,
and you do find,

and this is a replica,
you do find these statues,

these neolithic gods
in the region,

and it has to be said,
they do look like aliens.

they are the most extraordinary
sculptures,

so it may be that the pyramids
in bosnia are real,

and it may even be that little
aliens like this built them.

the bosnian pyramid theory
is fantastic

for the bosnian economy.

not so great for its standing

within the worldwide
academic community

and the constantly updated
understanding

of our sort of shared
human chronology on the planet.

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