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NARRATOR: Guanghan City, China, 1986.
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Construction workers unearth two sacrificial pits
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that contain the relics of a long-lost civilization.
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The cache contains hundreds of bronze and gold masks, statues,
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and figurines, in addition to numerous marble and jade
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artifacts.
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Chinese historians consider the discovery one
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of the most important finds of the 20th century
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and date the site back between 3,000 and 5,000 years,
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to the very start of Chinese civilization.
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Before the Sanxingdui discovery,
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Chinese civilization was understood
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to have arisen from the Yellow River Basin,
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basically one spot in China.
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This discovery showed that there were other very advanced
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cultures on the periphery of the Yellow River Basin
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that also heavily contributed to the formation
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of Chinese civilization.
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JULIE LEE: Nobody wrote about the culture at Sanxingdui.
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There's nothing that comes up in Chinese texts,
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and the Chinese are very good at documenting their history.
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So one of the most surprising things
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is how a culture that was so sophisticated
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could slide under the radar of history.
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NARRATOR: The Sanxingdui culture left no written record.
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No human remains have been found.
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And according to their artifacts,
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they appear to have only existed for 350 years.
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JULIE LEE: For some unknown reason,
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the artifacts were broken, burned,
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and placed into two pits and covered
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up, rendering them useless.
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So it's very curious as to why that happened.
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NARRATOR: Adding to the intrigue of the vanished civilization,
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they left behind dozens of bronze heads with odd features.
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On November 1, 2007, the official press agency of China
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asked the question whether or not what we're looking at here
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are ancestors or, in fact, extraterrestrials.
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And my question is, what if what we have here is both?
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If you check out this one right here, look at the eyes.
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Now, why would any artisan carve or create something like this?
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Because our eyes don't look like this.
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The whole thing is very bizarre looking.
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It is not necessarily human.
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It is something else.
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The masks look very unusual.
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They have big ears, big eyes.
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They don't look like normal human beings of today.
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NARRATOR: Could it be that the masks found at the Sanxingdui
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site are depicting ancient astronauts who visited
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our planet in the remote past?
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And if so, could this help explain
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the abrupt disappearance of a seemingly
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advanced civilization?
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Ultimately, they vanish, and we don't
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know what happened to them.
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So were they some kind of extraterrestrial civilization
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or human hybrid civilization?
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