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Its origins are unknown.

The degree of erosion that we see has to go

back to 10,000 BC. Its secrets have

remained hidden for thousands of years.

It was reported that they found

passages into these hidden chambers.

And it may hold the truth behind our very existence.

It reads, "I have under me the knowledge of

our genesis." The Great Sphinx of

Giza is perhaps the most mysterious monument on Earth.

But once its riddle is solved, will we find the ultimate proof

that our ancestors were visited by alien beings?

What's staring us in the face goes back

to when extraterrestrials walked the earth with human beings.

Millions of people around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history? And if so, might the proof lie

hidden with the mysteries of the Sphinx?

The Giza Plateau.

Egypt, 1925. Rising out of the desert sand is

a giant stone statue of a human head.

For centuries, most visitors to the area believed this was all

that existed. But French engineer Emile

Baraize is convinced that much more lies beneath the surface

than even archeologists are aware of.

He begins an excavation to uncover it, and after 11 years

of extensive digging, Baraize unearths a massive body

resembling a lion and reintroduces the world to the

full splendor of the Great Sphinx.

It is the largest monolithic sculpture on Earth.

It must have been quite eerie to be there

back then, not knowing a lot about the ancient Egyptian

history, and having this huge structure staring down at you.

Facing east toward the rising sun, the Great Sphinx

is located nearly half a mile from Egypt's three largest

pyramids. It is carved from a single piece

of limestone bedrock, and stands over 60 feet tall and 240 feet

long. People have asked

themselves for centuries. What was the Sphinx for?

Why was it built? There is a story behind it, but

what is the story? The Sphinx is

arguably one of the most studied monuments in the world, yet it

remains one of the most mysterious.

There are no inscriptions on the Sphinx to indicate who built it

or why, but most Egyptologists date it to 2,500 BC--

the time of the pharaoh Khafre, or Chephren, as he is known by

Greek scholars. The dating is based on a mention

of Khafre on a tablet found between the paws of the Sphinx.

But this tablet-known as the Dream Stele-also tells the

story of a pharaoh who came 1,000 years later--

King Thutmose IV. King Thutmose IV

comes in a new kingdom, which we believe is more than 1,000 years

after the time the Sphinx was sculpted.

He made this stele to tell his story.

King Thutmose IV, before becoming a king, was on an

expedition here in Giza. And he slept right next to the

Sphinx. And back then, the Sphinx was

covered in sand all the way up to its head.

And in his dream, the sphinx came to him.

The sphinx spoke to him and said that if he

would uncover the Sphinx from the burial in the sand, he would

then end up as pharaoh. Now, he was the son of a pharaoh

but was not the heir. Thutmose IV ended up with that

throne after this dream. The sphinx itself speaks to a

future pharaoh and the history of ancient Egypt is altered by

this fact. The sphinx told King

Thutmose IV in his sleep-right here in that line-that

everything that the eye of the Lord illuminates will be his.

He cleared all the sand surrounding the Sphinx, and

Thutmose IV then became the king.

So the sphinx kept his promise. Now, the

amazing thing about this is that we learn of what's called

the "flashing eye of the Lord". What is the flashing eye of the

Lord? This sounds like some kind of

technology that is in communication with the sphinx

or perhaps channeled by the sphinx, that could ensure the

prosperity of Thutmose IV. If the story on the

Dream Stele is true, the sphinx not only ensured the prosperity

of Thutmose IV, but of perhaps the most important dynastic

family in the history of the Egyptian empire.

Thutmose IV was actually the grandfather of

Akhenaten. Akhenaten was

considered a heretical pharaoh. He changed the polytheistic

religion of ancient Egypt and declared there was only one god:

Aten. A god he depicted as a disk in

the sky. Akhenaten became

enthralled with the Aten disk. Is it possible that the eye of

the Lord and the Aten disk are one and the same and that they

are in fact, some kind of UFO spaceship that's hovering over

Egypt as an eye in the sky and is guiding the Egyptian

civilization? Could it be that

the eye of the Lord and the Aten are describing the same

object? And if so, was Egyptian

civilization being guided by extraterrestrials that used the

Sphinx as a means of communication?

Might the Dream Stele be proof that this mysterious monolithic

statue was built long before the pharaoh Khafre?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and point to yet another

line of the Dream Stele as proof.

There's something else written on the Sphinx that

was ignored by Egyptologists. The Sphinx actually says "I have

been here since the first time." Now, the word in ancient

Egyptian for "first time" is Zep Tepi.

And what he meant by this is the time when Osiris had come at the

beginning of the civilization. The Egyptians talk

about a golden age; a golden age that existed 12,500 or so years

ago. This is something that goes back

at least 8,000 years before the current accepted chronology of

Egypt. At that time the gods mingled or

walked with men. Could this

extraordinary monument be a remnant from a golden age when

extraterrestrials coexisted with humans, as ancient astronaut

theorists suggest? If so, does the Sphinx date back

thousands of years before conventional scholars believe

possible? Perhaps further clues of its

true age can be found in the geological record of the Giza

Plateau. Boston, Massachusetts.

Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch has studied the geological features

of the Sphinx for over 20 years. I looked specifically

at the weathering and erosion on the body of the Sphinx, on the

walls of the Sphinx enclosure. I saw weathering patterns that

were not compatible with the Sahara conditions of the last

5,000 years. Here we have a photograph of the

Sphinx on the left side. This is the rump of the Sphinx.

This is the wall of the Sphinx enclosure.

When you look at this, these are the lines of rock, or the

strata, as we say, geologically. You can see how they've been

weathered out, sort of a rounded, rolling profile.

This is caused by rain beating down and running over the rock.

And this was very evident to me as a geologist.

According to archaeologists, significant

rainfall in the Giza Plateau would date back to before 3,000

BC, at least 500 years before the time attributed to the

building of the Sphinx. The degree and level

of erosion that we see on the Great Sphinx has to go back to

that earlier climatic period, and not just a few hundred

years-thousands of years before Sahara times.

This put us back to at least 5,000, maybe 7,000, 8,000, I now

suspect even 10,000 BC. If we are to

subscribe to the idea that the Sphinx displays markings of

water erosion, then that means that what's staring us in the

face is much, much older than what mainstream science

proposes. Is the Sphinx

really older than our history books have led us to believe?

If so, who-or what-was responsible for its

construction? Perhaps further clues can be

found by examining the face of the Sphinx... and what it might

have looked like before it was altered.

Cairo, Egypt. January, 2011.

Thousands of antigovernment protesters clash with riot police.

They are demanding the

resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.

Civil unrest escalates... leaving hundreds dead and

thousands injured in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Just eight miles away, the Great Sphinx bears silent witness.

For thousands of years, and

through numerous conflicts, the monument has remained unscathed,

except for the loss of its nose.

The nose was broken. Many people accuse Napoleon of

doing that... to take potshots with his cannons.

But, in fact, it was done long before.

A Muslim ruler in the Middle Ages decided

that the Sphinx represented a guardian of the underworld...

that he was a type of demon and that he was dangerous.

It was believed that he might

have been some kind of dark god, and as a result, the Sphinx was

vandalized. After many years of

study, evidence of just who the face on the Sphinx belongs to

remains circumstantial and is debated by researchers.

Most scholars attribute the face to Khafre, the pharaoh they

propose built the Sphinx. But ancient astronaut theorists

claim that the Sphinx was not built by Khafre, as mainstream

historians suggest. They say that the Sphinx

predates the age of the pharaohs, and propose that the

true head of the Sphinx has not been seen for thousands of

years. Many people have

suggested, including scholars, that the current head that's on

that massive body... is way too small for it to be proportional

to the body... because it was reshaped,

re-carved at a later date. If you think about that for a

moment, that's highly fascinating, because what did

that thing look like in its original form?

It has been suggested that perhaps originally it was

the face of a lion, or the head of a lion.

McGOWAN: I think there is an argument that the head of the

Sphinx was a full lion's head. And I think that there is power

to the theory that the Sphinx actually represented the

constellation of Leo. Curiously, there's

no reference to a statue of a Great Sphinx, or even a great

lion, in any Old Kingdom texts. But one scholar who has

extensively studied the monument proposes that this is due to the

fact that it was originally something entirely different.

When I saw the body, I instantly thought,

"That's no lion's body." Now, if you study a lion, it has

great big shoulders... it has a sloping back.

And so you do not have a straight back for a lion.

It couldn't be more obvious that this is a dog's body--

that's exactly how they crouch when they're in a guarding

position. And there's only one dog it

could be-that has to be Anubis.

Anubis is a dog god, who is the guardian of the sacred

Necropolis. Well, Giza is the sacred

Necropolis. And I went through the ancient

texts, and I found it mentioned everywhere.

The Pyramid Texts and the Book of Gates and the Book of

Caverns and the Book of Two Ways and all those ancient

books, and they're talking about it the whole time.

The easiest thing to do when trying to destroy the Sphinx is

to knock the pointy ears and the pointy nose off, which is what

Anubis had. So this is the remaining stump

from which they could fashion a human head.

That's what they did, and it was a very clever job, and

everybody's still in awe of it even though they don't know any

longer that it was meant to be Anubis at one time.

The Egyptian god Anubis is one of the most

prominently featured figures in all of Egyptian art.

He was considered a protector of graves, the god of

mummification, and is associated with the resurrection of the god

Osiris. Anubis is clearly

identified as a god of the dead. He symbolizes the afterlife.

His importance is enormous in these resurrection activities

that went on. Is it possible that

the head of the Sphinx was originally carved to look

completely different than it does today?

And if so, could it have had the face of Anubis?

A god that ancient astronaut theorists propose was an actual

being who visited our planet in the remote past?

The Egyptians themselves genuinely believed

that these were actual beings who had dog's head or jackal

heads. The god Anubis

is listed as one of those who came during Zep Tepi, or the

First Time, one of the ancient, ancient ancients who is openly

cited in Egyptian mythology as being an extraterrestrial.

Is it possible that the first pharaohs didn't build

the Sphinx, but discovered it? And might they have actually

recarved its face? Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining not when the Great Sphinx was built, but why.

The Giza Necropolis, which consists of

three great pyramids, guarded by the Sphinx, is the last

remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The original purpose of the complex is still debated by

historians, as is the connection of the three pyramids to each

other, and to the Sphinx. There is no question

in my mind, and in the mind of many researchers, that the Giza

Necropolis is a planned project. It isn't just pharaohs who came

and put their pyramids haphazardly, and then built the

Sphinx. The geometry of the site makes

it very unlikely that it's not a designed project.

Is it possible that the Sphinx and the pyramids were

designed to function together? Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and suggest a recently unearthed tomb could provide

proof. Just 200 feet from the Sphinx,

in a causeway connecting the second pyramid to its temple

complex, is an entrance to what is believed to be the ceremonial

burial chamber of the god Osiris.

The Osiris shaft was first unearthed in 1934, but only

fully explored in 1999. This place has not

been visited much. It's probably been visited only

a handful of times since 1999. Right here is the first level.

The first level is not that deep.

The Osiris shaft actually consists of three

different shafts that descend to three separate chambers.

The final chamber is buried nearly ten stories underground,

and contains what some say is the sarcophagus of Osiris.

Here we are a hundred feet deep.

The third and final chamber in the Osiris shaft.

And here's the sarcophagus right in front of me.

This is only the lid of the sarcophagus.

The body of the sarcophagus is under the water, and it's at

least three times the size of the lid.

And to the four corners of the islands, there were four pillars

that are now nearly completely destroyed.

The four had hieroglyphic inscriptions on them.

Some of which read "God Osiris, the god of the underground."

While most scholars believe Osiris to be a mythical

being, and his tomb merely symbolic, ancient astronaut

theorists suggest that not only was Osiris real, but this

nine-foot sarcophagus offers evidence of extraterrestrial

intervention in the remote past. The word,

"sarcophagus," means, "flesh eater."

And this is like a giant black box.

Flesh and blood being goes into the box, is sealed in it.

The box consumes them, and the body disappears.

The idea of a sarcophagus that has no

actual mummy or body in it suggests the possibility of

teleportation and the possibility of the transmutation

of the physical body. It is a suggestion, perhaps,

that those who built that monument and those underground

rooms could completely portal out of our reality entirely.

Could it be that what was discovered in the

Osiris shaft were the remnants of advanced technology?

Technology that would allow for travel to other worlds?

According to the pyramid texts-- funerary inscriptions that were

carved on the walls of the early Egyptian tombs-the sacred

Necropolis would serve as a gateway to the pharaoh's

resurrection and ascension to join the god Osiris in the

heavens. The foundational

premise of ancient Egyptian myth is that Osiris came from the

stars, and that when he was resurrected, he went and dwelled

in the star system Orion as a celestial being.

The ancient Egyptians clearly describe their Great Pyramid as

a resurrection machine, as a teleportation device.

The Sphinx functioned as the gateway.

Egyptologists have always assumed that the pyramids

in Egypt were tombs for the pharaohs.

And yet, no pharaoh or Egyptian dynastic mummy was ever found in

a pyramid in Egypt. A number of researchers have

recently maintained that the Great Pyramid, and some of the

other pyramids in Egypt, are actually these very

sophisticated power plants. You have to wonder if the

pyramids themselves weren't created to generate tremendous

amounts of energy. Energy that was needed to open

the stargates. And this was part of the

resurrection scheme. Could the Giza

complex actually have functioned as some sort of technological

device? A device that acted as a

transport to other worlds, as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest? Perhaps further evidence of such

a connection can be found by examining the precise alignments

found on the Plateau. Archeo-astronomical analysis has

revealed that the position of the three great pyramids seem to

be mirroring the three belt stars of Orion.

There's two bright stars and a third dimmer star,

which is offset a bit to the left.

Now, the odd thing is that even though the correlation is very,

very clear to see, the angle that the stars make in the sky

is much sharper than the angles of the pyramid.

And there is where, after many years of studying this, I

decided to take the leap of faith.

Was there a time when these stars would be exactly how we

see them on the ground? The Great Pyramid

contains within it several shafts, one of which forms a

45-degree angle toward the sky. Bauval was able to calculate the

historical movement of the stars to determine the date when the

shaft would point directly to the belt stars.

Amazingly, when I did this, what we had was the full

set of monuments locking to this date of 10,500 BC.

Is it mere coincidence that the pyramids

were strategically aligned to correspond to the three belt

stars of Orion precisely 12,500 years ago?

And if so, does this date hold a profound significance to Earth's

history? Perhaps the answers will be

revealed in the quest to uncover a secret chamber.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1932.

American psychic and healer

Edgar Cayce, known as the sleeping prophet, gains

worldwide attention by remotely diagnosing illnesses in patients

located hundreds of miles away with an astounding degree of

accuracy. He could

diagnose people's physical problems.

He could tell you what's in a book.

He could find something at a great distance.

He could even read the akashic record, the book of life.

During one of his many psychic trances, Cayce

makes an astonishing claim regarding the Sphinx.

Edgar Cayce could tell you about prehistory and

reincarnation and what your soul had been doing prior to this

incarnation. He actually gave readings for

his own soul that had been a high priest in ancient Egypt and

was directly associated with the building of the Sphinx.

Edgar Cayce had in his readings a statement that

the Sphinx and the pyramids were built in approximately

10,490 BC. There's a strong suggestion that

the Cayce readings were accurate, and therefore their

dating of the Sphinx and the pyramids also was accurate.

Up until his death in 1945, Cayce gave dozens of

readings about the Sphinx. These readings claimed the

Sphinx was directly related to an ancient civilization that

many believe once existed here on Earth-the lost continent of

Atlantis. The Edgar Cayce

readings specifically say that Atlantis, as recorded by Plato,

was not a myth. He leaked that information given

to him by the Egyptian priesthood and put it into his

books the Timaeus and the Critias.

Here is the interesting thing: Plato

describes that Atlantis existed exactly at the same time that

ancient Egypt experienced what they referred to as a golden

age. If the Cayce

readings about the existence of Atlantis are true, then might

the Sphinx actually be a remnant from this advanced civilization?

Perhaps further clues to this connection can be found with yet

another Cayce prophecy regarding the Sphinx.

Cayce dreamed that under the right paw of the

Sphinx there was a chamber at a very specific place, that

apparently hold the hall of records from the lost

civilization of Atlantis, which Cayce felt he was a direct part

of. When Atlantis was

sinking, the Atlanteans were aware of the importance of

saving these records. And they also were aware of the

need to hide the records of prehistory.

If we locate the original hall of records, we

would be essentially accessing the equivalent of a Google

search engine, but it's the Atlantean Internet.

So the Sphinx is an entry point that could reveal once and for

all that humankind is much older on Earth than we thought.

The Giza Plateau. 1978.

45 years after Cayce's reading, The Edgar Cayce Foundation

initiates the Sphinx Exploration Project for the sole purpose of

locating secret chambers under the Sphinx that may lead to the

hall of records. They were allowed,

amazingly, to drill holes under the Sphinx to detect this

possible chamber. They drilled eight holes.

Unfortunately, nothing of certainty was found.

They were stopped at the last minute-apparently they were

very close, they felt-by the Egyptian army.

We did find anomalies beneath the Sphinx.

Now, these could be chambers, not just cracks or caves.

Edgar Cayce prophesied that in the future, and in the

relatively near future, we would discover the secret

chamber of the hall of records. One of the stories

of the Sphinx is that there's a hall of records that's being

kept there. Uh, certain machines and

technology and libraries sealed in a special room until the time

is right that we're ready to discover it.

And that time may be coming soon.

Is it possible that there are, in fact, secret

chambers underneath the Sphinx? And if so, could they be hiding

the hidden records of a lost civilization?

Or could it be that if a so-called hall of records

exists, it doesn't lie in Giza,

but millions of miles away... on Mars?

Pasadena, California. July 4, 1997.

Aerospace engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory anxiously

await a signal from the Pathfinder indicating that it

has landed intact on the surface of Mars.

Thousands of viewers watch live news feeds as the event unfolds.

The spacecraft has landed. Base pedal down.

Hours after its

successful landing, Pathfinder sends the first images from the

surface of Mars in over two decades.

During its 12-week mission, Mars Pathfinder transmits 2.3 billion

bits of information, including more than 17,000 images.

Among these photos is an image that some say reveals formations

that mirror the Giza Plateau... ...including what appears to be

a sphinx. One of these

photographs shows what looks like a sphinx that is facing to

the east, uh, sunrise on Mars. There is a huge pyramid mountain

behind it and you have to wonder if this Martian sphinx isn't

created by extraterrestrials. Some have proposed

that there is a mirror image of the Giza Plateau on Mars and

therefore Mars might have been inhabited.

And this is why we allegedly have structures on Mars that are

of artificial origin. The idea of

extraterrestrial life inhabiting Mars has long fascinated

mankind. In 1895, astronomer Percival

Lowell proposed an ancient civilization built canals on

Mars to bring water from the poles to keep their society

alive. And since the first landing on

the surface of Mars in 1976, NASA Mars missions have focused

almost exclusively on determining if life could exist

on the red planet. We've found no

real hard evidence of life. And yet there's this tantalizing

possibility where we haven't given up.

We would be looking for a subterranean civilization,

because surface conditions are just so harsh.

Conceivably, you could have whole complex ecosystems

existing underground. I think that if we

were to go to Mars and find civilization there, much of it

would be underground. And you have to wonder if this

Martian sphinx isn't guarding some underground world on Mars

similar to the underground world at Giza that we know exists

today. Do the formations

on Mars provide evidence that the planet was once inhabited?

And if so, does this sphinx on Mars also serve as a marker of

an entrance to an underground world and perhaps the true

location of a secret hall of records?

According to some ancient astronaut theorists, if this

sphinx in Giza truly has a counterpart on Mars, it would

match up with what has been found in some of mankind's

earliest writings. A famous

linguist by the name of Zecharia Sitchin actually translated

ancient Sumerian tablets that describe Mars being used as a

way station by their gods, the Anunnaki.

It's very possible that these ancient Sumerian tales talking

about the Anunnaki traversing between Mars and Earth are

actual fact and show a deeper connection of what we have in

Giza and what we also have on Mars.

Every scientist agrees today that Mars at some

point in time in the past had an atmosphere not very unlike

Earth's. And so if one were to propose

the idea that at some point intelligent life inhabited Mars,

what if one of the places that they escaped to was planet

Earth? Is it possible that

there is, in fact, a profound connection between Earth and

Mars? And could locating a second

sphinx be the key to unlocking the secrets about our ancient

past? And if so, is it possible that

there is yet another sphinx that holds the key, one that's even closer to home?

Giza, 2014.

Large-scale construction projects and high-rise

development encroach ever closer to the Sphinx and the Great

Pyramids. Some believe that if the

development continues unchecked, it will lead to the destruction

of possible archaeological treasures still buried near the

complex. But others feel that it may

actually force the unearthing of something more profound, a twin

sphinx. Everything in ancient

Egyptian art is very symmetrical.

There's always two of everything.

When we see huge, big statues, there's always two colossal

statues. There's always symmetry: two

statues guarding one road. With the Sphinx, we've only

found one. Some people believe there's

another one. There are actually

many reasons to believe it may have had a mate.

When we look at the stele, the New Kingdom stele between the

paws of the Sphinx, in fact it shows not one sphinx but two

sphinxes. There were long

periods of time where the Sphinx was not seen.

It was completely covered in sand.

And so the idea would imply that maybe there are other structures

that are still underneath the sand.

Is it possible that a second sphinx exists on the Giza

Plateau? Although most

researchers are open to the idea of a second guardian on the Giza

Plateau, multiple theories exist as to where this sphinx may be.

According to the Amduat, the ancient Egyptian funerary text

describing the hourly journey of the king in the afterlife, there

is said to exist a second sphinx that faces to the west.

The fifth hour-- which seems to represent the

Giza Necropolis, by the way-is protected by one sphinx in the

east, which is the existing sphinx, but they also show

another sphinx in the back. Now, physically was there

another one? It's quite possible.

There is certain mounds that haven't been properly excavated

on the west side, and there may be the remains of a sphinx.

There certainly isn't a whole sphinx-we would've seen it by

now-but there may be the foundations of a sphinx.

The nonexistent sphinx is almost as interesting as the

one we can look at. Does that location have any

special energy to it? Is there some reason why life,

fate, the gods would have it disappear?

Could there really be a second sphinx located

somewhere on the Giza Plateau? And if so, how has it remained

undiscovered for thousands of years?

We know less than 30% of what's actually underneath

the sand, especially around the Giza Plateau.

So this is one of the exciting things about studying and

researching ancient Egypt is this idea that maybe you'll be

able to stumble into these ultimate secrets that the

ancients assured us are there. Would locating a

second sphinx bring us closer to actually solving the mystery of

the Giza Plateau? And if so, what might the

consequences be if this information is ever uncovered?

If we put all the pieces together, it suggests

that the Sphinx is a repository for this knowledge about how to

actually use the Great Pyramid. And once we do that, we're

talking about the ability to resurrect ourselves as celestial

beings, or star beings, and join the extraterrestrials who had a

hand in building this incredible complex.

I very much believe that the whole thing is a kind

of cipher. And I'll-I'll go to my grave on

this one. I've worked for 25 years to

decipher this cipher using astronomy, using the texts.

And it reads, "I have under me the knowledge of our genesis."

Whatever it is we figure out, whatever we discover

when we get there, it's not gonna look like we thought it

would look. Is the Sphinx the

ultimate proof that extraterrestrials were here on

Earth in the ancient past? And if so, might there be clues

hidden within this monolithic statue that not only reveal the

truth about our history but why we are here and how we can

finally reconnect with our alien ancestors?

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