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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
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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.
*ANCIENT ALLIENS*
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We have never been alone.
Season 16 Episode 04
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Episode Title:
"Giants of the Mediterranean"
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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,
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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, often times,
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 Dé 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...
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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
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had 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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The Maltese Cart-Ruts:
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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00:20:29,862 --> 00:20:32,389
that scholars have uncovered
on Sardinia,
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00:20:32,475 --> 00:20:36,811
though that number could be
as high as 20,000 or more.
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00:20:37,089 --> 00:20:38,643
These nuraghe
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are made out
of huge basalt boulders.
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They're stacked up
into towers and walls
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and beehive chambers.
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Archaeologists do not know
how they were all built.
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00:20:52,958 --> 00:20:55,308
They assume that huge ramps
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were built to-to move all
of this material,
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00:20:59,191 --> 00:21:01,196
which, uh, seems unlikely,
frankly,
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00:21:01,287 --> 00:21:03,419
when you're there
and you see it.
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00:21:03,846 --> 00:21:06,556
According to
mainstream archaeologists,
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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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00:21:13,447 --> 00:21:15,754
nearly 4,000 years ago,
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emerging in 1800 BC
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and mysteriously disappearing
around 200 AD.
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Among the thousands
of ancient structures
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00:21:25,789 --> 00:21:27,315
found on Sardinia,
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perhaps the most baffling
to researchers
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00:21:29,967 --> 00:21:31,401
are megalithic tombs
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00:21:31,486 --> 00:21:34,663
said to have been built
for Giants.
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00:21:35,255 --> 00:21:38,543
There are nearly 800
so-called Tombs of the Giants
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found in Sardinia.
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And the reason why
they're called Giant.
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It is because
they're remarkably long tombs,
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usually with stone slabs
in them,
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00:21:46,897 --> 00:21:51,331
and they appear
extraordinarily large.
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There is a lot of controversy
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00:21:53,861 --> 00:21:57,440
concerning what these tombs
were built for.
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00:21:57,525 --> 00:22:00,870
More specifically,
for whom were they built?
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00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:04,909
I personally went there,
measured the tombs myself.
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00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:06,823
In the larger tomb,
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00:22:06,917 --> 00:22:09,940
you could fit
a nine-to 12-foot Giant.
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00:22:11,819 --> 00:22:14,216
A nine-to 12-foot Giant?
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00:22:14,526 --> 00:22:16,971
Could the strange tombs
in Sardinia
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00:22:17,056 --> 00:22:21,017
have once contained the corpses
of actual Giants?
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00:22:22,714 --> 00:22:26,546
But if Sardinia was home
to a race of colossal beings,
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00:22:26,664 --> 00:22:28,245
who were they?
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00:22:31,428 --> 00:22:33,534
Cagliari, Sardinia.
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00:22:33,642 --> 00:22:35,644
2014.
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The National
Archaeological Museum
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debuts its newest exhibit,
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00:22:41,865 --> 00:22:44,128
a number
of enormous stone statues
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00:22:44,213 --> 00:22:48,173
known collectively
as the Giants of Mont'e Prama.
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00:22:49,206 --> 00:22:51,167
So, the Giants
of Mont'e Prama
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are very tall stone Giants
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00:22:53,444 --> 00:22:56,862
that were found on the, uh,
western coast of Sardinia
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00:22:57,020 --> 00:22:58,804
back in 1974.
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00:22:58,889 --> 00:23:01,112
Uh, since then, there's been
numerous excavations,
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00:23:01,238 --> 00:23:03,762
and over 40
of these stone Giants,
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00:23:03,847 --> 00:23:06,415
over eight feet tall,
have now been reconstructed
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00:23:06,605 --> 00:23:08,532
from pieces
that were found there.
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00:23:08,617 --> 00:23:10,852
The Giants of Mont'e Prama are
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00:23:10,937 --> 00:23:14,654
very strange-looking
stone statues.
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00:23:14,896 --> 00:23:17,122
And what makes them so bizarre
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00:23:17,324 --> 00:23:19,224
is their faces.
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00:23:19,309 --> 00:23:21,354
For all intents and purposes,
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00:23:21,439 --> 00:23:23,618
the face looks like a replica
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00:23:23,703 --> 00:23:25,836
of C-3PO, the robot.
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00:23:26,121 --> 00:23:27,865
And the fact that archaeologists
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00:23:27,950 --> 00:23:31,615
suggest
that these are the replicas
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of the local population...
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00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:36,529
And they even call them
the Giants of Mont'e Prama...
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00:23:36,614 --> 00:23:38,029
You have to wonder,
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what did our ancestors
try to carve?
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00:23:44,131 --> 00:23:45,570
If these statues
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00:23:45,655 --> 00:23:47,950
depict Giants
that once lived on the island
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00:23:48,035 --> 00:23:50,646
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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00:23:51,283 --> 00:23:52,990
what might
their strange appearance
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00:23:53,075 --> 00:23:55,247
reveal about them?
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00:23:56,629 --> 00:23:58,661
Perhaps further clues
can be found
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00:23:58,803 --> 00:24:02,155
by examining another
of Sardinia's ancient mysteries:
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the more than 300
stone monuments
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00:24:04,817 --> 00:24:08,693
scattered across the island
known as menhirs.
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00:24:09,649 --> 00:24:12,916
A menhir is
a megalithic, uh, monument
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00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,569
comprising of a single stone
inserted in the ground,
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00:24:16,656 --> 00:24:18,397
and it goes
straight up vertically.
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00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,101
They're usually quite large
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00:24:21,186 --> 00:24:24,148
and have
a religious significance.
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We find them all over the world,
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00:24:26,121 --> 00:24:27,952
but the ones in Sardinia
are very interesting
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00:24:28,037 --> 00:24:29,740
because they often have carvings
on them
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00:24:29,825 --> 00:24:33,310
of this upside-down kind of
abstract human form on them
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00:24:33,395 --> 00:24:37,182
as though someone is diving
from the sky to the Earth.
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00:24:37,473 --> 00:24:40,099
And there's been no explanation
as to exactly what
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00:24:40,184 --> 00:24:41,740
these represent.
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00:24:42,260 --> 00:24:44,677
Some people have suggested
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00:24:44,762 --> 00:24:46,636
that they represent
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00:24:46,721 --> 00:24:51,091
people descending from the sky
and imparting knowledge.
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00:24:51,345 --> 00:24:53,990
What's incredible
is that bird people
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00:24:54,115 --> 00:24:57,935
or birdmen cults
exist worldwide.
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00:24:58,020 --> 00:25:01,185
In fact,
the further back you go in time,
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00:25:01,352 --> 00:25:04,044
you see carvings and statues
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00:25:04,129 --> 00:25:07,552
of beings that have wings.
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00:25:07,777 --> 00:25:10,345
Even earlier than angels,
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00:25:10,525 --> 00:25:14,050
you have depictions
of people up in the sky,
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00:25:14,161 --> 00:25:17,388
fixed wings,
like a modern-day airplane.
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00:25:18,065 --> 00:25:20,940
So, you have to wonder
if our ancestors
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00:25:21,024 --> 00:25:25,404
saw winged machines
up in the sky.
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00:25:26,613 --> 00:25:28,146
If the Giant statues
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00:25:28,231 --> 00:25:30,208
found on the island of Sardinia
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00:25:30,293 --> 00:25:31,950
depict extraterrestrials
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00:25:32,035 --> 00:25:34,777
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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then is it possible
513
00:25:36,719 --> 00:25:38,919
that the menhirs
are meant to reveal
514
00:25:39,004 --> 00:25:41,441
how these visitors arrived?
515
00:25:43,821 --> 00:25:45,833
For ancient astronaut theorists,
516
00:25:45,918 --> 00:25:48,704
the idea of Giants
descending from the heavens
517
00:25:48,789 --> 00:25:50,357
is reminiscent of the stories
518
00:25:50,442 --> 00:25:53,068
of another
ancient Mediterranean people:
519
00:25:53,492 --> 00:25:55,208
the Sumerians.
520
00:25:56,412 --> 00:25:58,552
This civilization, which existed
521
00:25:58,637 --> 00:26:01,146
at the same time
archaeologists believe
522
00:26:01,231 --> 00:26:03,529
the menhirs on Sardinia
were carved,
523
00:26:03,778 --> 00:26:07,434
also wrote of enormous beings
who came from the sky:
524
00:26:08,232 --> 00:26:10,052
the Anunnaki.
525
00:26:12,752 --> 00:26:16,021
The Anunnaki
are the so-called creator Gods
526
00:26:16,106 --> 00:26:18,412
of ancient Sumeria and Babylon.
527
00:26:19,866 --> 00:26:21,508
Our ancestors thought
528
00:26:21,697 --> 00:26:25,133
they were
these divine, magical beings
529
00:26:25,350 --> 00:26:28,594
described as descending
from the sky.
530
00:26:29,058 --> 00:26:32,047
There's all types
of wall reliefs
531
00:26:32,182 --> 00:26:34,157
and artifacts and inscriptions
532
00:26:34,242 --> 00:26:35,946
which depict the Anunnaki
533
00:26:36,031 --> 00:26:39,188
standing amongst
the other Sumerian human beings.
534
00:26:39,273 --> 00:26:41,383
They're always depicted
as larger beings,
535
00:26:41,485 --> 00:26:43,661
uh, of great stature.
536
00:26:44,266 --> 00:26:46,086
This is intriguing
537
00:26:46,176 --> 00:26:48,703
because on the island
of Sardinia
538
00:26:48,788 --> 00:26:52,907
is a huge, great,
truncated pyramid
539
00:26:53,138 --> 00:26:56,272
with a long ramp
running up towards it.
540
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,538
It's made of local stone,
541
00:26:58,693 --> 00:27:03,055
and it would seem
to look extremely like
542
00:27:03,183 --> 00:27:07,586
a ziggurat from ancient Sumeria.
543
00:27:08,118 --> 00:27:12,079
So, were the Anunnaki
in any way linked
544
00:27:12,338 --> 00:27:15,696
with the Giganteslegends
on the island itself?
545
00:27:17,286 --> 00:27:20,133
Is it possible
that a race of colossal beings
546
00:27:20,361 --> 00:27:22,842
known to the Sumerians
as the Annunaki
547
00:27:22,929 --> 00:27:26,805
visited the island of Sardinia
in the distant past?
548
00:27:27,679 --> 00:27:29,154
And if so,
549
00:27:29,239 --> 00:27:31,899
might Sardinia
hold evidence that Giants
550
00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:34,500
not only existed
throughout the Mediterranean
551
00:27:34,663 --> 00:27:38,101
but have
extraterrestrial origins?
552
00:27:39,774 --> 00:27:42,571
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
553
00:27:42,862 --> 00:27:45,821
and suggest further evidence
can be found
554
00:27:45,908 --> 00:27:47,758
by examining ancient walls
555
00:27:47,843 --> 00:27:50,802
that still stand
in what was once the very heart
556
00:27:51,191 --> 00:27:53,446
of the Roman Empire.
557
00:27:58,647 --> 00:28:00,602
Ferentino, Italy.
558
00:28:00,687 --> 00:28:03,149
June 2019.
559
00:28:03,535 --> 00:28:06,375
Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos
560
00:28:06,467 --> 00:28:08,730
is in the heart
of the Italian peninsula,
561
00:28:08,860 --> 00:28:11,471
about 50 miles southeast
of Rome.
562
00:28:12,149 --> 00:28:14,907
This area of Italy,
known as Latium,
563
00:28:14,992 --> 00:28:18,922
was considered the epicenter
of the Roman civilization.
564
00:28:19,468 --> 00:28:22,555
Located 300 miles east
of Sardinia
565
00:28:22,698 --> 00:28:25,188
and 600 miles north of Malta,
566
00:28:25,273 --> 00:28:27,626
Ferentino is also connected
567
00:28:27,711 --> 00:28:29,930
to stories of Giants.
568
00:28:30,524 --> 00:28:32,493
Giorgio is eager to investigate
569
00:28:32,578 --> 00:28:35,602
the ancient city's
massive megalithic walls,
570
00:28:35,687 --> 00:28:39,169
considered to be some of the
finest constructions in Italy.
571
00:28:40,282 --> 00:28:43,024
For expert insight,
he has called upon
572
00:28:43,109 --> 00:28:45,711
local historian
Danila Bracaglia.
573
00:28:45,804 --> 00:28:47,680
- Danila? Speaks Italian...
- Giorgio.
574
00:28:47,765 --> 00:28:51,204
- Welcome to Italy and to Ciociaria.
- Thank you.
575
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:53,350
This is, uh, beautiful.
576
00:28:53,435 --> 00:28:55,297
- What can you tell me about this area?
- Well,
577
00:28:55,382 --> 00:28:57,352
Ferentino, where we are today,
578
00:28:57,442 --> 00:28:59,875
is actually known
for these constructions
579
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:02,039
of, uh, the megalithic walls,
580
00:29:02,124 --> 00:29:05,719
founded, according to
the tradition, by God Saturn.
581
00:29:06,902 --> 00:29:09,141
Okay. This is fascinating to me
582
00:29:09,226 --> 00:29:11,125
because this is one
of the reasons why I'm here.
583
00:29:11,217 --> 00:29:14,829
What can you tell me
about the mythologies of Saturn
584
00:29:14,914 --> 00:29:16,071
in this area here?
585
00:29:16,159 --> 00:29:18,352
So, the Five Cities of Saturn
are all
586
00:29:18,441 --> 00:29:20,227
a few kilometers
one from another,
587
00:29:20,312 --> 00:29:23,329
and they all start
with the letter "A."
588
00:29:23,513 --> 00:29:25,602
Alatri, Arpino,
589
00:29:25,687 --> 00:29:29,102
Anagni, Atina and Ferentino.
590
00:29:29,187 --> 00:29:31,146
The original name was Atino.
591
00:29:31,254 --> 00:29:32,693
The tradition says,
592
00:29:32,778 --> 00:29:36,680
you know, the towns were founded
by Saturn and the Titans.
593
00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:39,446
In Greek mythology,
594
00:29:39,531 --> 00:29:43,016
the Titans were humanlike Gods
of enormous stature
595
00:29:43,236 --> 00:29:45,719
who were eventually overthrown
by their children,
596
00:29:45,832 --> 00:29:47,356
the Olympians.
597
00:29:47,639 --> 00:29:51,336
Saturn is the Roman name
for the Titan Cronus,
598
00:29:51,444 --> 00:29:52,812
the father of Zeus
599
00:29:52,897 --> 00:29:55,857
and one of the primary Gods
of ancient Rome,
600
00:29:55,989 --> 00:29:58,078
after whom
both the planet Saturn
601
00:29:58,163 --> 00:30:01,039
and the day Saturday are named.
602
00:30:02,135 --> 00:30:03,761
The ancient Romans wrote
603
00:30:03,846 --> 00:30:06,327
that Saturn once reigned
as an earthly king
604
00:30:06,412 --> 00:30:09,719
alongside Janus
during a golden age
605
00:30:09,896 --> 00:30:12,464
when the Gods
walked among humans.
606
00:30:12,606 --> 00:30:15,003
Could it be that Saturn
and the Titans
607
00:30:15,110 --> 00:30:17,765
are not merely the product
of mythology
608
00:30:17,883 --> 00:30:20,668
but actually existed on Earth
609
00:30:21,070 --> 00:30:23,664
and were responsible
for helping to construct
610
00:30:23,749 --> 00:30:27,623
the megalithic structures found
throughout the Mediterranean?
611
00:30:28,375 --> 00:30:30,289
So, Danila,
where are we right now?
612
00:30:30,374 --> 00:30:32,984
So, this is one of
the entrance gates to the town.
613
00:30:33,069 --> 00:30:35,527
And here
it's actually a perfect point
614
00:30:35,679 --> 00:30:38,863
where you can understand
the stratification of the time.
615
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:44,548
You see the huge blocks
from the pre-Roman time,
616
00:30:44,633 --> 00:30:48,637
then smaller, uh, blocks in...
built in the Roman time
617
00:30:48,722 --> 00:30:51,337
and finally the Middle Age
on top.
618
00:30:52,035 --> 00:30:53,605
So, basically,
you can see the...
619
00:30:53,690 --> 00:30:55,972
the megalithic structure,
then the Roman,
620
00:30:56,057 --> 00:30:57,754
- and then medieval age.
- Exactly.
621
00:30:57,839 --> 00:31:00,016
- Okay.
- And it's like reading a history book.
622
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,488
So, it's, uh, because here it's
evident that people lived here
623
00:31:03,573 --> 00:31:06,185
for thousands of years and...
624
00:31:06,270 --> 00:31:08,576
and they had different technique
of construction.
625
00:31:08,661 --> 00:31:10,464
Some of them,
like the megalithic,
626
00:31:10,787 --> 00:31:12,661
uh, constructions, are lost,
627
00:31:12,746 --> 00:31:16,441
uh, so we don't know exactly,
uh, when they were built.
628
00:31:17,119 --> 00:31:20,557
Do you know
if all these Five Cities of Saturn
629
00:31:20,645 --> 00:31:22,800
- have the cyclopean walls?
- Yes.
630
00:31:22,885 --> 00:31:24,363
They have, uh, these walls,
631
00:31:24,448 --> 00:31:26,957
megalithics or huge stones,
632
00:31:27,129 --> 00:31:29,863
and some of them are
better preserved than others.
633
00:31:29,948 --> 00:31:31,761
I mean, this is incredible.
634
00:31:31,846 --> 00:31:34,849
And this region is not the only
place that has these walls.
635
00:31:34,941 --> 00:31:37,335
For example,
we have them also in Greece.
636
00:31:38,402 --> 00:31:40,129
But what's even more fascinating
637
00:31:40,214 --> 00:31:44,044
is that we have similar walls
on the other side of the world
638
00:31:44,129 --> 00:31:45,655
in Sacsayhuamán, Peru.
639
00:31:45,740 --> 00:31:49,309
So, from completely opposite
sides of the planet,
640
00:31:49,401 --> 00:31:51,986
we have similar,
if not identical,
641
00:31:52,097 --> 00:31:53,449
construction styles.
642
00:31:53,534 --> 00:31:55,550
According to
the ancient astronaut theory,
643
00:31:55,635 --> 00:31:59,187
Saturn was one
of the founding Gods
644
00:31:59,272 --> 00:32:01,449
of civilization on Earth,
645
00:32:01,565 --> 00:32:05,699
so the idea that this
may have had something to do
646
00:32:05,784 --> 00:32:07,972
with an extraterrestrial visit,
to me,
647
00:32:08,057 --> 00:32:09,668
is-is fascinating.
648
00:32:12,704 --> 00:32:15,738
Sardinia.
Ferentino.
649
00:32:16,282 --> 00:32:19,863
If the Mediterranean
really was home to Giants,
650
00:32:19,948 --> 00:32:21,210
where did they go?
651
00:32:21,687 --> 00:32:24,175
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe
652
00:32:24,260 --> 00:32:28,019
traces of these Giants can still
be found on Earth today
653
00:32:28,364 --> 00:32:31,863
hidden within our own DNA.
654
00:32:36,273 --> 00:32:38,710
Porto Torres, Sardinia.
655
00:32:39,013 --> 00:32:41,807
October, 1953.
656
00:32:42,369 --> 00:32:45,462
Excavators performing
an archaeological dig
657
00:32:45,576 --> 00:32:48,955
in what was the Roman Empire's
first colony on the island
658
00:32:49,197 --> 00:32:52,299
reportedly make
an astonishing find.
659
00:32:53,017 --> 00:32:55,236
In a place called Porto Torres,
660
00:32:55,391 --> 00:32:57,158
in 1953, it was reported
661
00:32:57,243 --> 00:33:00,420
that two over eight-foot-tall
skeletons were discovered
662
00:33:00,505 --> 00:33:04,033
in the area with grave goods
and bronze furnishings
663
00:33:04,118 --> 00:33:07,165
and other such things actually
within the tomb itself,
664
00:33:07,250 --> 00:33:11,049
suggesting that indeed Giants
did exist in Sardinia.
665
00:33:11,971 --> 00:33:15,205
Full skeletons of Giants
666
00:33:15,290 --> 00:33:16,939
have been unearthed
667
00:33:17,024 --> 00:33:19,478
in the soils of Sardinia,
668
00:33:19,563 --> 00:33:22,799
especially among
the Nuragic ruins.
669
00:33:22,999 --> 00:33:25,111
I interviewed
two individuals
670
00:33:25,196 --> 00:33:28,252
who worked on the excavation
of the Nuragic ruins
671
00:33:28,337 --> 00:33:29,853
in the town of Sardara,
672
00:33:29,963 --> 00:33:33,010
underneath
the Church of Santa Anastasia.
673
00:33:33,095 --> 00:33:35,721
Both of these individuals
dug up,
674
00:33:35,806 --> 00:33:38,650
at different periods of time,
multiple skeletons
675
00:33:38,735 --> 00:33:41,807
of Giants
from nine to 12 feet tall.
676
00:33:43,828 --> 00:33:46,302
Multiple Giant skeletons,
677
00:33:46,387 --> 00:33:48,697
nine to 12 feet tall?
678
00:33:49,012 --> 00:33:51,744
Curiously,
this is the same length
679
00:33:51,829 --> 00:33:55,964
of many of the so-called Giants'
tombs found all over Sardinia.
680
00:33:57,166 --> 00:34:00,635
But if such massive bones
have indeed been discovered,
681
00:34:00,831 --> 00:34:02,260
what happened to them?
682
00:34:02,981 --> 00:34:04,627
Some researchers believe
683
00:34:04,712 --> 00:34:07,588
these findings have been
deliberately covered up.
684
00:34:09,426 --> 00:34:12,375
We hear these stories,
but we don't have any evidence.
685
00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:13,937
It's all been taken away.
686
00:34:14,022 --> 00:34:17,054
For example, another account
from the 1950s...
687
00:34:17,139 --> 00:34:19,837
There was a gentleman
who actually witnessed
688
00:34:19,922 --> 00:34:23,062
bones being dug up
on his farm when he was a child.
689
00:34:23,147 --> 00:34:25,759
And people
in large black cars arrived,
690
00:34:25,977 --> 00:34:27,761
official-looking people,
691
00:34:27,848 --> 00:34:30,164
and took the bones away
in the middle of the night.
692
00:34:31,370 --> 00:34:32,554
When it comes
693
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:36,539
to the alleged discovery of
Giant skeletons, does the fact
694
00:34:36,624 --> 00:34:41,256
that the bones have gone missing
suggest a cover-up or a hoax?
695
00:34:42,031 --> 00:34:43,601
While skeptics say
696
00:34:43,686 --> 00:34:46,656
that many of these stories come
from dubious sources,
697
00:34:46,810 --> 00:34:49,813
there is at least one discovery
that was documented
698
00:34:49,898 --> 00:34:52,727
by one of the oldest
universities in the world.
699
00:34:52,988 --> 00:34:54,937
In 1892,
700
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,185
it was reported that scientists
701
00:34:57,270 --> 00:35:01,168
at the University of Montpellier
in France studied bones
702
00:35:01,253 --> 00:35:04,685
that had been excavated on
France's Mediterranean coast,
703
00:35:04,821 --> 00:35:06,562
and found that they belonged
704
00:35:06,647 --> 00:35:10,216
to a human
who stood over 11 feet tall.
705
00:35:10,917 --> 00:35:13,270
So there have
been numerous reports
706
00:35:13,355 --> 00:35:15,531
of Giant bones, teeth, skulls.
707
00:35:15,618 --> 00:35:19,081
The lack of physical evidence
is quite frustrating,
708
00:35:19,167 --> 00:35:20,824
but I'm sure it will come out.
709
00:35:21,683 --> 00:35:23,027
But if reports
710
00:35:23,112 --> 00:35:25,316
of Giant skeletons are true,
711
00:35:25,401 --> 00:35:29,231
were these enormous beings human
or something else?
712
00:35:29,910 --> 00:35:32,191
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
713
00:35:32,353 --> 00:35:36,331
the answer may be hidden
within our own DNA.
714
00:35:39,185 --> 00:35:40,917
Copenhagen, Denmark.
715
00:35:41,002 --> 00:35:42,956
2020.
716
00:35:43,552 --> 00:35:46,808
A team of geneticists studying
an ancient hominin
717
00:35:46,893 --> 00:35:51,011
called Homo antecessormake
a groundbreaking discovery.
718
00:35:51,409 --> 00:35:53,949
This species was
a close relative
719
00:35:54,034 --> 00:35:58,105
of the last common ancestor to
humans and two other hominins:
720
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,683
Neanderthals and Denisovans.
721
00:36:02,691 --> 00:36:06,214
It is just the latest in a
series of incredible discoveries
722
00:36:06,328 --> 00:36:08,894
that have revealed humans
not only shared the Earth
723
00:36:08,979 --> 00:36:11,373
with at least eight other
humanlike species,
724
00:36:11,458 --> 00:36:15,261
but even mated and produced
offspring with them.
725
00:36:16,872 --> 00:36:18,410
For quite a long period
726
00:36:18,495 --> 00:36:20,933
of time, many of us,
myself included,
727
00:36:21,018 --> 00:36:23,067
thought that humans
and other hominins,
728
00:36:23,175 --> 00:36:26,120
particularly Neanderthals,
didn't interbreed.
729
00:36:26,561 --> 00:36:29,694
After 2010,
when technology allowed us
730
00:36:29,779 --> 00:36:33,848
to sequence the entire genomes
of several Neanderthals
731
00:36:33,933 --> 00:36:36,122
and other species
and modern humans,
732
00:36:36,330 --> 00:36:38,375
we began to see traces
733
00:36:38,468 --> 00:36:41,028
of a little bit
of Neanderthal mixture.
734
00:36:41,263 --> 00:36:44,231
We see traces
of Neanderthal ancestry
735
00:36:44,316 --> 00:36:46,535
in Europe,
and we see it in Asia,
736
00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:49,888
as well as in the Americas
amongst Native Americans.
737
00:36:50,504 --> 00:36:52,028
Mysteriously,
738
00:36:52,113 --> 00:36:55,162
scientists have found
one hominid is represented
739
00:36:55,247 --> 00:36:58,534
in human DNA that has not yet
been identified.
740
00:36:58,891 --> 00:37:01,379
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe
741
00:37:01,464 --> 00:37:04,337
clues as to what other ancestors
might exist
742
00:37:04,422 --> 00:37:06,895
within the human genome
can be found
743
00:37:06,980 --> 00:37:09,278
in the Bible's Book of Genesis.
744
00:37:09,413 --> 00:37:11,137
In the Book of Genesis, it says
745
00:37:11,222 --> 00:37:14,082
that the sons of God came
into the daughters of men.
746
00:37:14,167 --> 00:37:17,520
They created a hybrid offspring
who are called "the Nephilim,"
747
00:37:17,605 --> 00:37:19,301
or "the fallen ones."
748
00:37:20,645 --> 00:37:24,395
They're referred to as "the
Giants" or "the mighty ones,"
749
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,153
and some believed they were
between eight and 15 feet tall.
750
00:37:29,301 --> 00:37:32,715
This is handed
down not only in the Bible.
751
00:37:32,799 --> 00:37:36,614
This is also handed down
in Sumerian languages,
752
00:37:36,699 --> 00:37:38,934
that some of the Gods had sex
with humans,
753
00:37:39,019 --> 00:37:42,043
and the offsprings were Giants.
754
00:37:42,504 --> 00:37:45,848
Mythology is full of Giants,
755
00:37:45,976 --> 00:37:50,546
and we have to look at these
old myths with modern languages,
756
00:37:50,631 --> 00:37:53,879
change the word of "angel"
into "extraterrestrial."
757
00:37:53,971 --> 00:37:55,712
In the beginning of time,
758
00:37:55,797 --> 00:37:59,036
extraterrestrials had sex
with humans,
759
00:37:59,260 --> 00:38:03,917
and the product of
this sexual contact were Giants.
760
00:38:04,957 --> 00:38:07,903
Is it possible
that as geneticists continue
761
00:38:07,988 --> 00:38:11,078
to decode the human genome,
they will find
762
00:38:11,163 --> 00:38:15,036
that among our various hominid
ancestors is a missing link
763
00:38:15,121 --> 00:38:17,846
to enormous beings
from another world?
764
00:38:17,931 --> 00:38:19,239
Ancient DNA
765
00:38:19,324 --> 00:38:21,168
is perhaps, for me,
766
00:38:21,253 --> 00:38:25,051
the most important area of study
in all of my work,
767
00:38:25,418 --> 00:38:28,418
because there is
the potential chance here
768
00:38:28,503 --> 00:38:30,448
that we can find direct evidence
769
00:38:30,533 --> 00:38:32,492
of the ancestors
of modern humans.
770
00:38:32,577 --> 00:38:34,797
I suspect we'll find lineages
771
00:38:34,897 --> 00:38:37,029
of a race of Giants.
772
00:38:39,126 --> 00:38:40,747
Could it be
773
00:38:40,832 --> 00:38:44,903
that just like some humans have
traces of Neanderthal DNA,
774
00:38:45,046 --> 00:38:48,707
there could still be similar
traces of alien-human Giants
775
00:38:48,792 --> 00:38:51,661
that scientists have yet
to discover?
776
00:38:52,965 --> 00:38:54,895
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
777
00:38:54,980 --> 00:38:57,852
the answer is a profound yes,
778
00:38:58,208 --> 00:39:00,950
and suggest further insights
could be revealed
779
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,087
in early Judaic texts,
780
00:39:03,226 --> 00:39:07,103
which give a curious description
of the world's first man,
781
00:39:07,942 --> 00:39:10,786
otherwise known as "Adam."
782
00:39:16,954 --> 00:39:20,395
The Book of Genesis,
Chapter Six.
783
00:39:21,081 --> 00:39:23,778
Placed just after
the story of creation
784
00:39:23,931 --> 00:39:26,497
and the generations
of Adam and Eve,
785
00:39:27,744 --> 00:39:32,401
this section of the Hebrew Bible
contains a curious passage.
786
00:39:33,872 --> 00:39:36,488
There is
a very interesting teaching
787
00:39:36,692 --> 00:39:40,153
in older Kabbalistic traditions
788
00:39:40,770 --> 00:39:44,293
that dates back to temple times.
789
00:39:44,655 --> 00:39:48,597
Legend states
that Adam originally was,
790
00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:51,879
by our definition, a Giant,
791
00:39:52,661 --> 00:39:56,309
that the original Adamic race
was not
792
00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:59,310
of the same physical stature
as we human beings are today.
793
00:39:59,415 --> 00:40:02,636
Some claim that the original
Adamic race were Giants.
794
00:40:03,038 --> 00:40:05,520
Is this a legend of symbolism,
795
00:40:05,605 --> 00:40:07,957
or is there something actual
to it?
796
00:40:09,106 --> 00:40:12,470
Was the biblical Adam a Giant?
797
00:40:12,915 --> 00:40:16,095
Could it be that all of humanity
is descended
798
00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:19,431
from a race that was
of a much greater stature?
799
00:40:20,299 --> 00:40:21,953
And that there was a time
on Earth
800
00:40:22,045 --> 00:40:26,440
when Giants were prevalent,
and humans were the anomaly?
801
00:40:27,798 --> 00:40:30,454
When we look
at the modern evolutionary cycle
802
00:40:30,539 --> 00:40:32,009
for human beings,
803
00:40:32,135 --> 00:40:35,681
it's still put on the shoulders
of Darwinistic views.
804
00:40:36,165 --> 00:40:38,290
So anything that steps outside
805
00:40:38,375 --> 00:40:41,602
of those viewpoints
is usually greatly challenged.
806
00:40:42,255 --> 00:40:44,885
Mainstream science has had
a very hard time
807
00:40:44,970 --> 00:40:46,283
wrapping their head
around the idea
808
00:40:46,367 --> 00:40:48,556
that there could have been
a lost race,
809
00:40:48,734 --> 00:40:51,149
part extraterrestrial,
part human.
810
00:40:51,734 --> 00:40:55,868
In mythology, the Giants
were a fact. They did exist.
811
00:40:56,027 --> 00:40:59,414
What we are missing are
the bones of Giants.
812
00:40:59,813 --> 00:41:01,306
From time to time,
813
00:41:01,391 --> 00:41:04,431
anthropologists found
some big bones,
814
00:41:04,970 --> 00:41:08,524
but then, other anthropologists
contradicted it.
815
00:41:08,609 --> 00:41:11,751
But definitely Giants did exist
in the past,
816
00:41:11,839 --> 00:41:14,845
and they were the result
of a mixture
817
00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:17,110
between extraterrestrials
and humans.
818
00:41:18,654 --> 00:41:21,461
Do incredible
megalithic structures,
819
00:41:21,854 --> 00:41:24,001
curious religious traditions
820
00:41:24,147 --> 00:41:26,457
repeated in culture
after culture,
821
00:41:26,924 --> 00:41:29,985
and reports
of enormous human remains
822
00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:35,079
represent the remnants of
a lost civilization of Giants?
823
00:41:35,790 --> 00:41:39,165
And if so,
could these enormous beings
824
00:41:39,251 --> 00:41:43,892
have actually had a hand
in the creation of humankind?
825
00:41:45,118 --> 00:41:47,017
Perhaps one day soon
826
00:41:47,102 --> 00:41:50,579
conclusive evidence of the link
between humans and Giants
827
00:41:50,709 --> 00:41:53,251
will finally come to light.
828
00:41:54,227 --> 00:41:55,915
And we will discover
829
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,415
that within the mythological
tales of our ancestors
830
00:41:59,996 --> 00:42:03,352
lies the true history
of the human race.
831
00:42:03,486 --> 00:42:05,600
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