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TSOUKALOS: It is absolutely barbaric! 4 00:00:07,371 --> 00:00:09,687 They're destroying our cultural heritage. 5 00:00:10,401 --> 00:00:14,469 NARRATOR: Irreplaceable texts reduced to smoldering ash. 6 00:00:14,664 --> 00:00:17,919 NICK POPE: It's as if the roots of human civilization itself 7 00:00:17,944 --> 00:00:19,796 are being hidden from us. 8 00:00:20,422 --> 00:00:22,153 NARRATOR: And sacred lands 9 00:00:22,187 --> 00:00:24,834 looted under the cover of darkness. 10 00:00:25,370 --> 00:00:28,102 WILLIAM HENRY: Armed men spent three days digging 11 00:00:28,127 --> 00:00:30,985 and left with something in tow. 12 00:00:31,263 --> 00:00:33,758 What exactly it was, nobody knows. 13 00:00:34,791 --> 00:00:37,880 NARRATOR: Throughout history, mankind's most ancient 14 00:00:37,905 --> 00:00:39,960 and sacred sites have been 15 00:00:39,985 --> 00:00:42,441 plagued by conflict and warfare. 16 00:00:44,491 --> 00:00:46,735 But could this constant turmoil 17 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,921 really be part of an otherworldly agenda? 18 00:00:50,366 --> 00:00:52,781 DAVID WILCOCK: Could an extraterrestrial intelligence 19 00:00:53,006 --> 00:00:55,136 be deliberately thwarting 20 00:00:55,161 --> 00:00:58,387 any effort for itself to be discovered 21 00:00:58,412 --> 00:00:59,926 from the ancient records? 22 00:01:00,615 --> 00:01:02,993 NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization, 23 00:01:03,378 --> 00:01:06,868 mankind has credited its origins to gods 24 00:01:06,893 --> 00:01:09,364 and other visitors from the stars. 25 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:12,109 What if it were true? 26 00:01:12,557 --> 00:01:14,727 Did extraterrestrial beings 27 00:01:14,926 --> 00:01:17,475 really help to shape our history? 28 00:01:18,787 --> 00:01:20,212 And if so, 29 00:01:20,245 --> 00:01:22,414 might the most compelling evidence 30 00:01:22,448 --> 00:01:25,383 lie hidden in forbidden zones? 31 00:01:42,664 --> 00:01:47,264 Sync and corrected by minouhse www.addic7ed.com 32 00:01:58,288 --> 00:01:59,860 NARRATOR: Northern Iraq. 33 00:02:01,462 --> 00:02:04,275 20 miles south of Mosul lies 34 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:07,546 the ancient Assyrian capital city of Nimrud. 35 00:02:09,346 --> 00:02:12,177 Built over 3,000 years ago 36 00:02:12,263 --> 00:02:14,692 in the 13th century B.C., 37 00:02:14,747 --> 00:02:18,146 the site is an archaeological treasure trove. 38 00:02:21,248 --> 00:02:23,444 Among the antiquities found here 39 00:02:23,469 --> 00:02:25,272 are monumental statues 40 00:02:25,297 --> 00:02:28,002 of winged lions with human-heads, 41 00:02:29,094 --> 00:02:31,187 and massive relief carvings 42 00:02:31,242 --> 00:02:34,412 depicting the ancient gods of Mesopotamia. 43 00:02:40,507 --> 00:02:43,530 But on March 6, 2015, 44 00:02:43,757 --> 00:02:45,958 militants from the Islamic State 45 00:02:45,983 --> 00:02:47,866 stormed the ancient site, 46 00:02:47,891 --> 00:02:49,381 violently destroying 47 00:02:49,406 --> 00:02:51,230 everything in their path. 48 00:02:52,196 --> 00:02:55,079 After obliterating irreplaceable relics, 49 00:02:55,516 --> 00:02:58,346 they wired the entire site with explosives 50 00:02:58,502 --> 00:03:00,675 and leveled it completely... 51 00:03:03,172 --> 00:03:06,061 forever wiping it from the face of the Earth. 52 00:03:08,741 --> 00:03:10,764 This group seems to be more destructive 53 00:03:10,789 --> 00:03:13,094 than just about anything people can recall in history. 54 00:03:14,210 --> 00:03:17,239 It's almost as if we're being orphaned from our past. 55 00:03:17,388 --> 00:03:19,155 We are having our parentage, 56 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:21,091 our ancestors, cut off from us; 57 00:03:21,126 --> 00:03:22,406 the record of them. 58 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,060 It is absolutely barbaric what is going on currently 59 00:03:27,085 --> 00:03:31,722 in the Middle East with some factions going deliberately 60 00:03:32,011 --> 00:03:33,619 to ancient sites 61 00:03:35,159 --> 00:03:36,838 and just eradicating 62 00:03:37,267 --> 00:03:39,165 our cultural heritage. 63 00:03:43,862 --> 00:03:45,358 NARRATOR: This volatile region 64 00:03:45,428 --> 00:03:46,896 is widely considered 65 00:03:46,921 --> 00:03:49,133 to have been the cradle of civilization. 66 00:03:50,194 --> 00:03:52,443 And its archaeological destruction 67 00:03:52,576 --> 00:03:56,162 could mean the loss of information about mankind's 68 00:03:56,210 --> 00:03:57,786 historical past. 69 00:04:00,163 --> 00:04:03,034 Iraq, Syria... what we call the Middle East, 70 00:04:03,067 --> 00:04:04,896 uh, or the Near East, uh, 71 00:04:04,921 --> 00:04:07,690 is called the cradle of civilization for a reason. 72 00:04:09,594 --> 00:04:12,242 Anthropologically, this appears to be the place 73 00:04:12,267 --> 00:04:14,736 where the first humans arose. 74 00:04:15,101 --> 00:04:17,837 This is where people came from. 75 00:04:17,898 --> 00:04:21,020 And all of the earliest civilizations, 76 00:04:21,052 --> 00:04:23,150 cities, governments, 77 00:04:23,267 --> 00:04:25,123 come from this region. 78 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,193 NARRATOR: In the 21st Century, 79 00:04:29,225 --> 00:04:31,194 the violence and destruction 80 00:04:31,229 --> 00:04:33,621 have reached an unprecedented level, 81 00:04:33,646 --> 00:04:35,973 but the Middle East has been embroiled 82 00:04:35,998 --> 00:04:38,650 in conflict for thousands of years. 83 00:04:42,948 --> 00:04:46,016 The Islamic state today is doing what the Taliban did before, 84 00:04:46,041 --> 00:04:49,770 which is doing what Byzantine Christians and Jews before them have all done. 85 00:04:50,588 --> 00:04:52,398 They don't want any graven images. 86 00:04:52,423 --> 00:04:54,313 So because of their religious beliefs, 87 00:04:54,338 --> 00:04:56,586 they are basically destroying 88 00:04:56,861 --> 00:05:00,697 our own cultural heritage for religious purposes. 89 00:05:00,814 --> 00:05:02,686 And like human lives, 90 00:05:02,711 --> 00:05:05,039 many of these you can't get back. 91 00:05:08,738 --> 00:05:10,335 NARRATOR: Since 1990, 92 00:05:10,367 --> 00:05:12,638 the Middle East has seen the destruction 93 00:05:12,670 --> 00:05:16,361 of cultural heritage on an unprecedented scale. 94 00:05:18,372 --> 00:05:21,742 A scale not seen since the Christian vandalism 95 00:05:21,865 --> 00:05:24,238 that began during the Roman Empire. 96 00:05:26,986 --> 00:05:30,007 Over 700,000 archaeological, 97 00:05:30,071 --> 00:05:32,577 cultural and religious artifacts 98 00:05:32,602 --> 00:05:34,931 have been stolen or destroyed. 99 00:05:35,233 --> 00:05:38,236 And over 200 significant historical sites 100 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:41,367 have been completely left in ruins. 101 00:05:46,243 --> 00:05:47,639 The Middle East seems to be 102 00:05:47,670 --> 00:05:50,957 in an almost permanent state of instability. 103 00:05:52,811 --> 00:05:54,117 Is this deliberate? 104 00:05:54,142 --> 00:05:56,148 Is someone keeping it that way? 105 00:05:56,181 --> 00:05:59,117 Maybe to prevent us from discovering something? 106 00:06:00,355 --> 00:06:04,755 Is there something that would fundamentally change our understanding 107 00:06:05,056 --> 00:06:07,283 of who we are and where we come from? 108 00:06:08,614 --> 00:06:10,329 TSOUKALOS: It is absolutely horrifying 109 00:06:10,361 --> 00:06:13,332 to see the erasing of our history. 110 00:06:13,449 --> 00:06:15,957 And what's worse all of these ancient sites 111 00:06:16,113 --> 00:06:18,780 are one giant piece of the puzzle 112 00:06:18,844 --> 00:06:20,555 that we might have been visited 113 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:22,819 in the past by extraterrestrials. 114 00:06:25,633 --> 00:06:27,444 NARRATOR: For thousands of years, 115 00:06:27,479 --> 00:06:28,758 northern Africa, 116 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,861 the Middle East and India 117 00:06:31,215 --> 00:06:34,475 have been in an almost constant state of unrest. 118 00:06:37,205 --> 00:06:39,190 But also in Southeast Asia, 119 00:06:39,491 --> 00:06:42,382 the regions of Kashmir and Tibet 120 00:06:43,390 --> 00:06:47,333 are considered among the most disputed territories in the world. 121 00:06:50,201 --> 00:06:52,179 And halfway across the globe, 122 00:06:52,241 --> 00:06:55,109 the northern triangle of Central America... 123 00:06:55,134 --> 00:06:56,923 which includes Guatemala, 124 00:06:57,024 --> 00:06:59,265 El Salvador and Honduras... 125 00:07:00,282 --> 00:07:03,421 has been declared the deadliest region on Earth 126 00:07:03,470 --> 00:07:05,963 outside of active war zones. 127 00:07:09,487 --> 00:07:12,290 Could there be a reason that these specific areas 128 00:07:12,323 --> 00:07:14,975 experience so much chaos? 129 00:07:18,868 --> 00:07:21,390 ERICH VON DANIKEN: It might be that on such places, 130 00:07:21,415 --> 00:07:24,430 the extraterrestrials descended some thousands of years ago, 131 00:07:24,455 --> 00:07:28,326 on such places, they have, uh, hidden something. 132 00:07:29,869 --> 00:07:32,565 GEORGE NOORY: There could be something special about the sites. 133 00:07:32,589 --> 00:07:34,413 These are areas that are so important 134 00:07:34,438 --> 00:07:37,103 to the things that have happened on this planet. 135 00:07:37,165 --> 00:07:39,885 And, I still think that the knowledge, 136 00:07:39,917 --> 00:07:43,426 and the success of where we go as people 137 00:07:43,451 --> 00:07:44,778 on planet Earth 138 00:07:44,922 --> 00:07:47,752 is directly related to those areas. 139 00:07:50,748 --> 00:07:52,431 NARRATOR: Is it possible that there is 140 00:07:52,463 --> 00:07:54,230 an otherworldly connection 141 00:07:54,306 --> 00:07:57,076 between certain areas of global conflict 142 00:07:57,224 --> 00:08:00,806 and places of significant archaeological importance? 143 00:08:03,174 --> 00:08:07,390 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest 144 00:08:07,479 --> 00:08:09,448 there could very well be so-called 145 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,019 forbidden zones on planet Earth... 146 00:08:12,466 --> 00:08:15,239 areas that extraterrestrial entities 147 00:08:15,286 --> 00:08:17,846 want to keep humans from exploring? 148 00:08:20,154 --> 00:08:22,195 But if so, why? 149 00:08:23,373 --> 00:08:25,530 Perhaps further clues can be found 150 00:08:25,678 --> 00:08:27,465 by examining a conflict 151 00:08:27,497 --> 00:08:29,500 in another volatile region, 152 00:08:29,944 --> 00:08:33,637 where some of mankind's greatest treasures are being looted 153 00:08:33,890 --> 00:08:36,313 from beneath the desert sands. 154 00:08:45,756 --> 00:08:47,127 NARRATOR: Cairo, Egypt. 155 00:08:47,327 --> 00:08:48,791 2011. 156 00:08:50,788 --> 00:08:53,522 In what has come to be known as the Arab Spring, 157 00:08:53,784 --> 00:08:56,321 riots break out throughout Egypt. 158 00:08:57,121 --> 00:08:59,658 Protesters demand the resignation 159 00:08:59,683 --> 00:09:01,575 of President Hosni Mubarak. 160 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:06,714 With the media and law enforcement 161 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:08,718 focused on the demonstrations, 162 00:09:09,335 --> 00:09:11,505 looters gain greater freedom 163 00:09:11,530 --> 00:09:13,428 to pillage Egypt's ancient sites 164 00:09:13,678 --> 00:09:15,118 and artifacts. 165 00:09:19,365 --> 00:09:20,590 MARTIN: For many people, 166 00:09:20,615 --> 00:09:22,530 getting rid of Mubarak was just a license 167 00:09:22,564 --> 00:09:25,693 to profit from the new situation. 168 00:09:27,092 --> 00:09:29,310 They would loot archaeological sites. 169 00:09:29,654 --> 00:09:32,559 They were suddenly free of the dictator 170 00:09:32,584 --> 00:09:34,142 and a lot of them went crazy. 171 00:09:35,615 --> 00:09:38,641 HENRY: During the Arab Spring, insiders told me 172 00:09:38,696 --> 00:09:42,249 that trucks loaded with deep digging equipment 173 00:09:42,274 --> 00:09:46,125 accompanied by armored vehicles and armed men, 174 00:09:46,180 --> 00:09:50,263 spent three days digging in the sands outside Cairo 175 00:09:50,458 --> 00:09:53,435 and left with something in tow. 176 00:09:54,810 --> 00:09:57,779 What exactly it was, nobody knows. 177 00:10:00,166 --> 00:10:02,711 ERIN NELL: Guards were powerless to do anything to stop it. 178 00:10:02,736 --> 00:10:04,640 This created a huge amount of havoc, 179 00:10:04,673 --> 00:10:06,392 just because of the lack of security 180 00:10:06,417 --> 00:10:08,541 and the intentions of certain people 181 00:10:08,658 --> 00:10:10,471 to steal Egyptian antiquities. 182 00:10:11,664 --> 00:10:13,360 You can tell from the satellite imagery 183 00:10:13,384 --> 00:10:15,684 the increase in different holes in the ground, 184 00:10:15,717 --> 00:10:18,298 you know, looters' pits that they've dug. 185 00:10:19,054 --> 00:10:20,954 This is the site of Dahshur. 186 00:10:21,128 --> 00:10:23,210 This picture was taken in 2010. 187 00:10:23,250 --> 00:10:24,990 But when you look at this one over here, 188 00:10:25,014 --> 00:10:26,506 I think this was taken in 2013, 189 00:10:26,531 --> 00:10:29,226 the difference between the two is pretty amazing. 190 00:10:29,357 --> 00:10:31,894 Look at all these pits that were dug by looters. 191 00:10:35,860 --> 00:10:39,032 When it comes to Egypt, everyone's familiar with the pyramids, 192 00:10:39,063 --> 00:10:41,589 but really that's only a tiny part 193 00:10:41,620 --> 00:10:44,236 of what survives of that ancient 194 00:10:44,269 --> 00:10:46,774 and sophisticated civilization. 195 00:10:51,696 --> 00:10:54,102 NARRATOR: According to modern archaeologists, 196 00:10:54,423 --> 00:10:57,133 less than one percent of ancient Egypt 197 00:10:57,196 --> 00:10:59,831 has been discovered and excavated. 198 00:11:01,718 --> 00:11:05,058 But how is it that such a pivotal ancient culture 199 00:11:05,351 --> 00:11:08,819 disappeared unnoticed into the desert sands? 200 00:11:11,972 --> 00:11:13,809 NELL: There were several different cultures 201 00:11:13,843 --> 00:11:16,281 that came in with armies... the Nubians, 202 00:11:16,633 --> 00:11:18,378 the Assyrians were in there once, 203 00:11:18,558 --> 00:11:19,948 the Persians twice 204 00:11:19,982 --> 00:11:21,663 and then the Greeks. 205 00:11:22,725 --> 00:11:23,953 When the Romans took over, 206 00:11:23,986 --> 00:11:27,088 they just drained it of Egyptian religion and culture. 207 00:11:27,765 --> 00:11:30,569 So when the Arabs came in, in 641, 208 00:11:30,608 --> 00:11:33,362 most of these temples were at least halfway covered in sand, 209 00:11:33,395 --> 00:11:35,526 so all you have are these huge magnificent columns 210 00:11:35,550 --> 00:11:36,998 kind of coming out of the ground. 211 00:11:37,172 --> 00:11:40,330 The Sphinx, you know, was buried right up to his head. 212 00:11:41,321 --> 00:11:43,712 POPE: By the time Napoleon got to Egypt, 213 00:11:43,797 --> 00:11:46,226 the hieroglyphs were indecipherable. 214 00:11:46,429 --> 00:11:49,561 No one knew what these things were, what they meant. 215 00:11:49,586 --> 00:11:50,945 We had to re-learn it. 216 00:11:51,132 --> 00:11:53,722 It was only with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone 217 00:11:53,747 --> 00:11:55,349 that we got our first insight 218 00:11:55,382 --> 00:11:58,270 into what these hieroglyphs might actually be saying. 219 00:12:01,756 --> 00:12:03,799 NARRATOR: But is Egypt's long history 220 00:12:03,824 --> 00:12:06,662 of political unrest merely man-made, 221 00:12:07,139 --> 00:12:10,823 or is there something extraterrestrial at work? 222 00:12:11,434 --> 00:12:15,126 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that further answers 223 00:12:15,155 --> 00:12:18,549 can be found still buried in the desert sands. 224 00:12:21,944 --> 00:12:23,880 I think if you could blow all the sand away 225 00:12:23,911 --> 00:12:25,447 from the Middle East and Egypt, 226 00:12:25,481 --> 00:12:27,468 you would find incredible relics. 227 00:12:29,772 --> 00:12:33,794 I also think that information about extraterrestrials 228 00:12:33,819 --> 00:12:35,960 is probably deeply hidden away 229 00:12:36,114 --> 00:12:38,578 under the sands of that region. 230 00:12:43,312 --> 00:12:44,763 NARRATOR: Abydos, Egypt. 231 00:12:44,897 --> 00:12:47,301 February 2011. 232 00:12:50,006 --> 00:12:52,357 300 miles south of Cairo, 233 00:12:53,014 --> 00:12:55,041 looters target what was once 234 00:12:55,072 --> 00:12:57,932 the most sacred site to the ancient Egyptians 235 00:12:57,957 --> 00:12:59,944 during the time of the Pharaohs. 236 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:05,090 It was here that Egypt's first rulers were buried 237 00:13:05,723 --> 00:13:08,685 and the earliest forms of hieroglyphs were found, 238 00:13:09,184 --> 00:13:12,706 as well as an inscription bearing the names and chronology 239 00:13:12,731 --> 00:13:15,705 of the first kings of Ancient Egypt. 240 00:13:17,271 --> 00:13:21,369 Abydos was considered sacred to the god Osiris, 241 00:13:21,394 --> 00:13:22,757 Lord of the Dead 242 00:13:22,930 --> 00:13:25,933 and Egypt's first otherworldly ruler. 243 00:13:26,925 --> 00:13:28,744 According to ancient legends, 244 00:13:28,769 --> 00:13:31,838 his dismembered head was buried at the site. 245 00:13:33,767 --> 00:13:35,889 ANDREW COLLINS: So who was Osiris? 246 00:13:35,913 --> 00:13:39,751 Was he simply an ancestor of the ancient Egyptians? 247 00:13:40,157 --> 00:13:42,304 Or was he a god 248 00:13:42,329 --> 00:13:45,482 that descended to Earth, you know, from the sky world? 249 00:13:47,507 --> 00:13:49,719 Obviously, we cannot say today. 250 00:13:49,761 --> 00:13:53,060 But we know he was said to have existed in an age 251 00:13:53,085 --> 00:13:56,125 that was known as Zep Tepi, the First Time. 252 00:13:59,438 --> 00:14:01,680 NARRATOR: In the 13th century B.C., 253 00:14:01,828 --> 00:14:03,708 the Pharaoh Seti I 254 00:14:03,914 --> 00:14:06,896 was building his temple here in Abydos, 255 00:14:07,833 --> 00:14:09,781 when... according to some accounts... 256 00:14:09,876 --> 00:14:12,880 he had an encounter with the god Osiris. 257 00:14:17,374 --> 00:14:21,349 HENRY: When King Seti was building his temple, he had a dream in which 258 00:14:21,374 --> 00:14:24,433 the Egyptian god Osiris appeared to him. 259 00:14:25,929 --> 00:14:27,343 And he told Seti 260 00:14:27,429 --> 00:14:30,686 that if he was to dig behind his temple location, 261 00:14:30,711 --> 00:14:34,038 that he would find something of enormous significance. 262 00:14:35,898 --> 00:14:39,031 Seti digs 40 feet beneath the temple 263 00:14:39,056 --> 00:14:41,677 and finds the tomb of Osiris. 264 00:14:46,002 --> 00:14:47,485 NARRATOR: For hundreds of years, 265 00:14:47,605 --> 00:14:51,000 no such tomb was known to exist in Abydos. 266 00:14:52,963 --> 00:14:55,291 But at the turn of the 20th century, 267 00:14:55,525 --> 00:14:59,322 archaeologists digging behind the temple of Seti I 268 00:14:59,595 --> 00:15:02,789 unearthed a massive underground structure 269 00:15:02,814 --> 00:15:05,793 consisting of granite and sandstone blocks, 270 00:15:05,980 --> 00:15:08,783 some weighing nearly 60 tons. 271 00:15:12,142 --> 00:15:14,652 The Osirion, as it is now known, 272 00:15:14,777 --> 00:15:18,073 was found buried under 40 feet of silt. 273 00:15:20,303 --> 00:15:23,084 And ancient astronaut theorists are convinced 274 00:15:23,248 --> 00:15:25,654 that further excavations would reveal 275 00:15:25,717 --> 00:15:28,621 something much more profound hidden within it. 276 00:15:32,623 --> 00:15:34,189 HENRY: The interesting thing about it 277 00:15:34,213 --> 00:15:37,648 is that on the exterior wall of the Temple of Seti 278 00:15:37,730 --> 00:15:39,437 is inscribed what is called 279 00:15:39,462 --> 00:15:42,617 the head or tower of Osiris, 280 00:15:43,775 --> 00:15:45,239 what looks like some kind of 281 00:15:45,271 --> 00:15:47,602 an ancient antennae-type of a device. 282 00:15:47,773 --> 00:15:51,546 It's clearly technological or mechanical-looking. 283 00:15:53,792 --> 00:15:55,005 According to legend, 284 00:15:55,030 --> 00:15:58,391 it has been buried and is awaiting rediscovery. 285 00:16:00,512 --> 00:16:03,730 WILCOCK: Abydos is a veritable treasure trove 286 00:16:03,816 --> 00:16:06,594 of artifacts, ancient records, 287 00:16:06,931 --> 00:16:08,862 inscriptions on temple walls 288 00:16:08,894 --> 00:16:11,256 of people who look very different than us. 289 00:16:12,223 --> 00:16:15,342 There are repositories of ancient technologies 290 00:16:15,367 --> 00:16:17,879 that are still hiding under the desert sands. 291 00:16:18,848 --> 00:16:20,606 There's a lot of vested interest 292 00:16:20,639 --> 00:16:24,119 these extraterrestrials... the gods... might have 293 00:16:24,288 --> 00:16:26,926 in keeping these things hidden from us. 294 00:16:31,121 --> 00:16:34,893 NARRATOR: Could it be that Abydos holds alien technology 295 00:16:34,918 --> 00:16:37,874 that was deliberately hidden from mankind? 296 00:16:40,559 --> 00:16:45,004 Is the instability in this region... like that in other forbidden zones... 297 00:16:45,614 --> 00:16:48,986 somehow being generated by extraterrestrials 298 00:16:49,332 --> 00:16:52,648 that want to keep humanity from rediscovering it? 299 00:16:54,313 --> 00:16:58,118 And if so, just how are they accomplishing this? 300 00:16:59,703 --> 00:17:01,984 Perhaps further clues can be found 301 00:17:02,125 --> 00:17:05,210 by examining the latest scientific breakthroughs 302 00:17:05,574 --> 00:17:09,408 in using technology to incite violence. 303 00:17:16,403 --> 00:17:17,961 NARRATOR: Lhasa, Tibet. 304 00:17:19,778 --> 00:17:23,240 Situated nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, 305 00:17:23,614 --> 00:17:27,150 the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, or "Place of the Gods," 306 00:17:27,939 --> 00:17:29,501 has long been considered 307 00:17:29,541 --> 00:17:32,561 one of the least accessible areas of the world. 308 00:17:34,431 --> 00:17:36,081 For over three decades, 309 00:17:36,115 --> 00:17:39,705 Tibet was entirely closed off to outsiders 310 00:17:40,050 --> 00:17:42,521 after the forcible takeover of the region 311 00:17:42,608 --> 00:17:45,711 and exile of its spiritual leader the Dalai Lama 312 00:17:45,736 --> 00:17:48,940 in 1959 by the Chinese Army. 313 00:17:51,969 --> 00:17:54,031 During their siege of the city, 314 00:17:54,125 --> 00:17:57,250 Chinese Red Guards systematically destroyed 315 00:17:57,275 --> 00:17:58,859 temples, frescoes, 316 00:17:59,008 --> 00:18:01,201 and ancient religious texts. 317 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:07,279 It's a terrible legacy... from the Great Library at Alexandria, 318 00:18:07,312 --> 00:18:10,428 the library at Sarajevo, more recently in Phnom Penh. 319 00:18:11,015 --> 00:18:14,220 Other stories like the Nazi book burning... there seems 320 00:18:14,252 --> 00:18:18,262 to be this thing that happens where some revolutionary energy 321 00:18:18,287 --> 00:18:22,159 wants to destroy the cultural treasures of the past. 322 00:18:24,829 --> 00:18:27,500 CARGILL: When one culture conquers another culture, 323 00:18:27,525 --> 00:18:29,297 you want to kill their ideology, 324 00:18:29,322 --> 00:18:32,615 and the way that you do that is you burn their books. 325 00:18:32,837 --> 00:18:34,510 You banish their ideas. 326 00:18:34,637 --> 00:18:36,440 You banish their language. 327 00:18:36,489 --> 00:18:38,590 You banish their religious practices. 328 00:18:38,703 --> 00:18:40,808 You burn the ancient records. 329 00:18:45,717 --> 00:18:48,808 NARRATOR: Throughout history, military conflict has resulted 330 00:18:48,833 --> 00:18:50,847 not only in loss of life 331 00:18:50,926 --> 00:18:54,091 but also the destruction of cultural heritage. 332 00:18:57,467 --> 00:19:00,465 And even when setting out to colonize the New World, 333 00:19:00,950 --> 00:19:05,070 early explorers and missionaries systematically eradicated 334 00:19:05,206 --> 00:19:07,590 what they considered to be pagan texts 335 00:19:07,615 --> 00:19:09,885 and mythologies of Native American, 336 00:19:10,075 --> 00:19:13,890 Mesoamerican, and Polynesian tribes they encountered. 337 00:19:17,347 --> 00:19:20,512 They destroy artifacts. They bury sites. 338 00:19:20,825 --> 00:19:25,790 It's almost as if this is a deliberate blotting out of the past. 339 00:19:28,349 --> 00:19:30,442 It's as if the roots 340 00:19:30,467 --> 00:19:34,700 of human civilization itself are being hidden from us. 341 00:19:36,452 --> 00:19:38,366 CHILDRESS: With the destruction of knowledge, 342 00:19:38,390 --> 00:19:42,774 we may well be losing our connection to the gods, 343 00:19:42,807 --> 00:19:45,836 extraterrestrials of the past, how they interacted 344 00:19:45,861 --> 00:19:48,219 with us, what they wanted us to do. 345 00:19:50,267 --> 00:19:52,671 WILCOCK: Why is it that these records 346 00:19:52,696 --> 00:19:54,749 continually seem to get misplaced 347 00:19:54,774 --> 00:19:57,135 or they get burned or they get destroyed 348 00:19:58,790 --> 00:20:01,007 or they're deliberately ruined? 349 00:20:03,220 --> 00:20:05,819 Is it possible that there is, in fact, 350 00:20:05,844 --> 00:20:07,991 an ongoing extraterrestrial presence 351 00:20:08,016 --> 00:20:11,703 that has somehow infiltrated into our society? 352 00:20:12,827 --> 00:20:15,051 Could this extraterrestrial intelligence 353 00:20:15,076 --> 00:20:18,793 be deliberately thwarting any effort for itself 354 00:20:18,818 --> 00:20:22,089 to be discovered from the ancient records? 355 00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:29,358 NARRATOR: Could there really be aliens among us 356 00:20:29,391 --> 00:20:31,858 inciting conflict, as some 357 00:20:31,883 --> 00:20:34,165 ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 358 00:20:37,483 --> 00:20:38,764 And, if so, 359 00:20:38,789 --> 00:20:40,616 might we find this conflict 360 00:20:40,641 --> 00:20:43,777 concentrated in so-called forbidden zones? 361 00:20:44,139 --> 00:20:45,367 But why? 362 00:20:46,326 --> 00:20:48,877 And perhaps even more importantly, 363 00:20:48,910 --> 00:20:52,111 how has this violent behavior been accomplished? 364 00:20:56,475 --> 00:20:58,410 Pasadena, California. 365 00:20:59,843 --> 00:21:03,415 Scientists at the California Institute of Technology 366 00:21:03,803 --> 00:21:05,568 identify a set of neurons 367 00:21:05,593 --> 00:21:07,945 in the hypothalamus of mouse brains 368 00:21:08,264 --> 00:21:10,253 that correspond to aggression. 369 00:21:12,834 --> 00:21:15,438 Through a technique called optogenetics, 370 00:21:15,698 --> 00:21:19,303 the group uses pulses of light to activate the neurons 371 00:21:19,508 --> 00:21:22,851 and instantaneously incite violence in the mice. 372 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,018 There are many ways in which we can affect or manipulate 373 00:21:28,136 --> 00:21:29,785 the brain or brain function. 374 00:21:31,035 --> 00:21:34,256 And there's a really exciting new technique called optogenetics. 375 00:21:34,526 --> 00:21:36,726 And although it's not being used in humans yet, 376 00:21:36,758 --> 00:21:38,655 it's being used in animal trials. 377 00:21:38,794 --> 00:21:42,131 And what that is is they actually manipulate a virus 378 00:21:42,162 --> 00:21:44,588 so that it becomes a delivery system for a gene 379 00:21:44,613 --> 00:21:46,866 that's taken from a photosensitive algae. 380 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:50,323 And that gene is then delivered to specific neurons, 381 00:21:50,636 --> 00:21:54,061 and then those neurons are triggered to fire via light. 382 00:21:54,809 --> 00:21:58,431 You can control the behavior of the animal via remote control 383 00:21:58,456 --> 00:21:59,856 in the sense all you have to do 384 00:21:59,881 --> 00:22:02,435 is trigger the different types of receptors to fire. 385 00:22:02,623 --> 00:22:05,697 If you actually go in and stimulate the prefrontal cortex, 386 00:22:05,854 --> 00:22:08,670 you can cause animals to act out aggresivly. 387 00:22:12,049 --> 00:22:13,713 NARRATOR: In 2010, 388 00:22:13,838 --> 00:22:18,297 scientists at Osaka University and at the University of Texas 389 00:22:18,422 --> 00:22:21,602 publish separate findings both indicating 390 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,063 that up to eight percent of the human genome comes from viruses 391 00:22:26,117 --> 00:22:28,894 and not from our ancestral DNA. 392 00:22:31,209 --> 00:22:32,707 Could this help explain 393 00:22:32,732 --> 00:22:35,199 how extraterrestrials might be able 394 00:22:35,224 --> 00:22:37,443 to incite humans to violence, 395 00:22:37,654 --> 00:22:40,173 just as researchers have used viruses 396 00:22:40,198 --> 00:22:42,359 to trigger aggression in mice? 397 00:22:45,394 --> 00:22:48,575 NOORY: Somebody genetically altered us a long, long time ago, 398 00:22:48,871 --> 00:22:53,405 and they intentionally put in this ability to become violent. 399 00:22:54,523 --> 00:22:57,578 There's no question that people could be manipulated, 400 00:22:57,694 --> 00:23:00,792 could be used to do all kinds of things 401 00:23:00,882 --> 00:23:02,624 and they wouldn't even know it. 402 00:23:03,425 --> 00:23:05,572 We are simply a pawn 403 00:23:05,597 --> 00:23:09,134 on an extraterrestrial chess game that they can move 404 00:23:09,159 --> 00:23:11,753 and manipulate any time they want, 405 00:23:12,026 --> 00:23:16,345 that they serve up, at their whim, whenever they want. 406 00:23:16,370 --> 00:23:17,999 There's no question about that. 407 00:23:20,191 --> 00:23:22,863 NARRATOR: Could humans be artificially stimulated 408 00:23:22,888 --> 00:23:24,990 to create acts of violence, 409 00:23:25,185 --> 00:23:28,092 as some ancient astronaut theorists propose? 410 00:23:30,074 --> 00:23:33,436 And might this stimulation be targeted to people 411 00:23:33,461 --> 00:23:36,472 living in certain regions of the world? 412 00:23:39,804 --> 00:23:42,366 Perhaps the answers can be found 413 00:23:42,451 --> 00:23:45,742 buried deep in the jungles of Guatemala. 414 00:23:52,284 --> 00:23:55,748 NARRATOR: Deep in the jungles of Guatemala lie the ruins 415 00:23:55,773 --> 00:23:58,717 of the ancient Mayan city of El Mirador. 416 00:24:00,459 --> 00:24:03,479 Dating back to at least the fifth century BC, 417 00:24:03,705 --> 00:24:08,144 the site is believed to predate the classic Mayan civilization. 418 00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:13,430 But, curiously, it was abruptly abandoned around 150 BC. 419 00:24:15,127 --> 00:24:19,831 Western archaeologists rediscovered the site in 1979 420 00:24:20,211 --> 00:24:22,414 in an area currently controlled 421 00:24:22,447 --> 00:24:25,623 by one of the most feared drug cartels in the region. 422 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,969 Today, armed soldiers stand guard 423 00:24:30,995 --> 00:24:33,485 just outside the archaeological site 424 00:24:33,946 --> 00:24:35,754 that is larger than Manhattan 425 00:24:35,803 --> 00:24:39,279 and contains one of the tallest pyramids in the world. 426 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,723 ED BARNHART: El Mirador, in fact, has dozens of pyramids. 427 00:24:47,092 --> 00:24:50,654 Many of them are as big as anything that the classic Maya made. 428 00:24:50,679 --> 00:24:53,474 But it's also one of their very oldest cities. 429 00:24:56,748 --> 00:24:59,215 NARRATOR: But perhaps the most intriguing discovery 430 00:24:59,249 --> 00:25:03,195 at El Mirador is a carving believed to be a depiction 431 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:07,146 of the Mayan creation story known as the Popol Vuh. 432 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,125 It dates back more than 2,000 years 433 00:25:13,620 --> 00:25:16,354 and is the oldest known version to survive 434 00:25:17,101 --> 00:25:19,554 after Central America was overtaken 435 00:25:19,579 --> 00:25:23,147 by Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. 436 00:25:27,049 --> 00:25:29,080 TSOUKALOS: The conquistadors requested 437 00:25:29,221 --> 00:25:32,616 for all these different Mayan codices to be destroyed. 438 00:25:33,783 --> 00:25:38,323 And so after this pillaging and destruction happened, 439 00:25:38,657 --> 00:25:42,934 the Popol Vuh was re-created by the ruling elite at the time. 440 00:25:43,027 --> 00:25:45,089 And, to the best of their abilities, 441 00:25:45,114 --> 00:25:47,419 they tried to put on paper 442 00:25:47,697 --> 00:25:51,173 their histories and their mythologies of their ancestors. 443 00:25:51,538 --> 00:25:54,925 But these stories go back much further back in time. 444 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:01,619 The Popol Vuh is foundational to Maya civilization. 445 00:26:01,786 --> 00:26:05,085 As foundational as the Bible is to Christianity. 446 00:26:06,170 --> 00:26:08,728 But now, things like what we found 447 00:26:08,753 --> 00:26:10,368 at El Mirador are telling us 448 00:26:10,635 --> 00:26:14,393 that that story goes back at least to 200 BC. 449 00:26:15,024 --> 00:26:17,102 And that's exciting. Now we have 450 00:26:17,203 --> 00:26:20,446 a continuity of the Popol Vuh 451 00:26:20,697 --> 00:26:22,663 being pivotal to Maya people 452 00:26:22,688 --> 00:26:24,734 all the way back to their origins. 453 00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:32,061 NARRATOR: Curiously, the Popol Vuh narrative 454 00:26:32,086 --> 00:26:34,587 and the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis 455 00:26:34,609 --> 00:26:36,879 contain many similarities, 456 00:26:38,152 --> 00:26:41,729 including the stories concerning the creation of the world, 457 00:26:41,754 --> 00:26:45,033 animals, and then, finally mankind. 458 00:26:46,754 --> 00:26:49,405 They both include stories of a great flood. 459 00:26:51,556 --> 00:26:54,120 And in both texts, it is suggested 460 00:26:54,159 --> 00:26:55,612 that there is information 461 00:26:55,637 --> 00:26:58,877 purposely kept from mankind by his creator. 462 00:27:01,628 --> 00:27:06,112 But what is unique to the Popol Vuh is an account of an earlier time 463 00:27:06,343 --> 00:27:09,514 when humans had access to greater knowledge. 464 00:27:13,304 --> 00:27:16,466 YOUNG: In the great Mayan creation narrative, 465 00:27:16,491 --> 00:27:19,853 the Popol Vuh, the gods created humans, 466 00:27:22,038 --> 00:27:24,843 and they had terrific knowledge. 467 00:27:24,976 --> 00:27:28,462 So much so that it worried the gods. 468 00:27:28,497 --> 00:27:32,646 And so they put a veil over the consciousness of the people 469 00:27:32,671 --> 00:27:33,936 so that they could only see 470 00:27:33,968 --> 00:27:35,904 what was right there in front of them. 471 00:27:36,035 --> 00:27:39,705 They limited their ability to know. 472 00:27:42,433 --> 00:27:45,097 WILLIAM BRAMLEY: The earliest human beings in the Popol Vuh... 473 00:27:45,144 --> 00:27:46,531 they were very smart. 474 00:27:46,654 --> 00:27:48,895 They basically understood things. 475 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,218 They could see things. 476 00:27:50,388 --> 00:27:54,462 And so, the gods of creation said, "Oh, we can't have this. 477 00:27:55,631 --> 00:27:56,891 "So what we have to do is, 478 00:27:56,923 --> 00:28:00,346 we have to put a screen over that vision." 479 00:28:00,660 --> 00:28:03,287 Knowledge became less and less available 480 00:28:03,312 --> 00:28:05,389 to the overall population. 481 00:28:07,211 --> 00:28:10,347 What happened to the humans who were smarter than us? 482 00:28:10,804 --> 00:28:13,169 Were they, in fact, the ancient Egyptians, 483 00:28:13,231 --> 00:28:16,755 the Sumerians and many other ancient cultures? 484 00:28:17,222 --> 00:28:19,279 These areas, apparently, would have 485 00:28:19,573 --> 00:28:22,274 all of the records that we would need to completely 486 00:28:22,299 --> 00:28:24,651 rebuild our history. 487 00:28:25,057 --> 00:28:27,921 These are the most unstable areas on Earth. 488 00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:29,735 Could this be why? 489 00:28:33,897 --> 00:28:37,864 NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient humans possessed greater knowledge 490 00:28:37,899 --> 00:28:39,673 than we currently do today, 491 00:28:40,066 --> 00:28:43,117 as the Mayan mythology seems to suggest? 492 00:28:44,715 --> 00:28:46,872 If so, who were these gods 493 00:28:46,908 --> 00:28:50,075 that the Mayans believed to be their creators? 494 00:28:51,340 --> 00:28:53,746 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 495 00:28:53,918 --> 00:28:56,285 their true identity might be revealed 496 00:28:56,624 --> 00:28:59,294 by examining one of the carvings contained 497 00:28:59,319 --> 00:29:00,994 within the Popol Vuh... 498 00:29:01,366 --> 00:29:03,784 the so-called "Hero Twins." 499 00:29:05,257 --> 00:29:09,954 If you look at that carving, the guy is clearly wearing a helmet, 500 00:29:09,979 --> 00:29:11,702 and he has this backpack. 501 00:29:11,812 --> 00:29:13,859 And he's actually floating in space, 502 00:29:13,884 --> 00:29:15,811 or he is descending from the sky. 503 00:29:17,475 --> 00:29:21,622 You have, uh, what seem to be like some kind of helmet. 504 00:29:21,843 --> 00:29:25,308 And even one of the figures looks like a flying saucer. 505 00:29:29,278 --> 00:29:31,147 Could these stone carvings be 506 00:29:31,172 --> 00:29:32,920 depictions of ancient astronauts? 507 00:29:32,952 --> 00:29:35,618 And if that is the case, then it would indicate 508 00:29:35,821 --> 00:29:39,633 that these extraterrestrials have actually created us. 509 00:29:39,688 --> 00:29:42,151 And in fact, they're still here today, 510 00:29:42,176 --> 00:29:45,225 manipulating us and guiding us into the future. 511 00:29:47,943 --> 00:29:51,930 NARRATOR: Do the carvings at El Mirador contain information 512 00:29:51,971 --> 00:29:56,031 about mankind's past that we were not meant to discover? 513 00:29:57,455 --> 00:29:59,165 If so, could it be 514 00:29:59,190 --> 00:30:03,666 that extraterrestrials have been creating barriers and warfare 515 00:30:03,768 --> 00:30:07,369 to prevent us from learning about our true origins? 516 00:30:08,706 --> 00:30:12,658 Or is there an even more profound explanation? 517 00:30:13,790 --> 00:30:17,532 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the ultimate proof 518 00:30:17,626 --> 00:30:20,977 of just what they are trying to hide can be found 519 00:30:21,027 --> 00:30:24,864 by examining one of the most fought-over sites on Earth... 520 00:30:25,576 --> 00:30:26,887 Temple Mount. 521 00:30:38,513 --> 00:30:42,132 NARRATOR: Jerusalem, October, 2014. 522 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,025 Amidst tension and violence after the assassination attempt 523 00:30:49,057 --> 00:30:50,450 on a Jewish activist, 524 00:30:51,061 --> 00:30:53,162 Israeli authorities shut down 525 00:30:53,196 --> 00:30:55,601 the sacred site of Temple Mount. 526 00:30:57,980 --> 00:31:00,425 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas 527 00:31:00,628 --> 00:31:04,092 pronounces the closure "a declaration of war." 528 00:31:05,707 --> 00:31:09,056 And although access to the temple is quickly restored, 529 00:31:09,256 --> 00:31:14,634 many fear that a third intifada, or holy war, is now inevitable. 530 00:31:18,194 --> 00:31:21,190 That was the uprising that the Palestinians engaged in. 531 00:31:21,381 --> 00:31:23,192 This was their revolution. 532 00:31:24,187 --> 00:31:27,288 It began first in 1987, and was waged for five years. 533 00:31:27,429 --> 00:31:30,185 Then, in 2000, it lasted for another five years. 534 00:31:30,210 --> 00:31:34,126 There was tremendous violence between Palestinians and Israelis. 535 00:31:34,468 --> 00:31:36,038 It shouldn't come as a surprise that 536 00:31:36,070 --> 00:31:38,474 the Temple Mount would be a flashpoint 537 00:31:38,499 --> 00:31:39,950 for all these conflicts. 538 00:31:45,696 --> 00:31:49,196 NARRATOR: The Temple Mount is a 35-acre platform 539 00:31:49,649 --> 00:31:52,530 that has long had great significance to Jews, 540 00:31:52,555 --> 00:31:54,373 Christians and Muslims. 541 00:31:56,712 --> 00:31:59,210 It is revered in the Jewish tradition 542 00:31:59,235 --> 00:32:03,160 as the place where God gathered the dust to create Adam, 543 00:32:04,143 --> 00:32:07,369 where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac 544 00:32:07,416 --> 00:32:09,634 to prove his faith to God, 545 00:32:11,057 --> 00:32:13,852 and where King Solomon built the First Temple 546 00:32:13,877 --> 00:32:16,144 to house the Ark of the Covenant. 547 00:32:18,034 --> 00:32:19,697 Christians honor the site 548 00:32:19,775 --> 00:32:23,717 as the location of some of Jesus's most sacred teachings. 549 00:32:25,222 --> 00:32:27,806 And for Muslims, Temple Mount... 550 00:32:27,831 --> 00:32:30,565 which they refer to as "the Noble Sanctuary," 551 00:32:30,722 --> 00:32:32,331 or "Haram al-Sharif"... 552 00:32:32,612 --> 00:32:34,456 is believed to be the location 553 00:32:34,596 --> 00:32:37,347 where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven 554 00:32:37,432 --> 00:32:39,692 on the back of a winged horse. 555 00:32:41,384 --> 00:32:44,110 The three monotheistic faiths... 556 00:32:44,633 --> 00:32:47,602 Judaism, Christianity and Islam... 557 00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:51,847 all believe that God has a special connection to this area. 558 00:32:52,384 --> 00:32:54,827 They all believe that this is where people will ascend 559 00:32:54,852 --> 00:32:57,118 to Heaven when the day of judgment comes. 560 00:32:57,986 --> 00:33:01,088 They all want it, but they don't want to share it. 561 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,728 FANTHORPE: Temple Mount has been a holy place 562 00:33:08,422 --> 00:33:11,406 for many, many generations. 563 00:33:11,859 --> 00:33:15,004 And there are strange religious traditions, 564 00:33:15,029 --> 00:33:19,529 rumors, legends of what lies underneath it. 565 00:33:19,919 --> 00:33:23,123 And the idea is, there is something so precious 566 00:33:23,365 --> 00:33:28,575 underneath it that God himself intervenes to protect it. 567 00:33:31,691 --> 00:33:34,338 NARRATOR: Could there really be some powerful force 568 00:33:34,363 --> 00:33:36,747 contained within Temple Mount? 569 00:33:37,805 --> 00:33:41,201 Is that why three religions are at such odds 570 00:33:41,226 --> 00:33:42,927 over this sacred site? 571 00:33:45,086 --> 00:33:48,205 Some researchers and religious scholars suggest 572 00:33:48,393 --> 00:33:51,043 that Temple Mount may not only serve 573 00:33:51,077 --> 00:33:53,155 as a place of spiritual connection, 574 00:33:53,486 --> 00:33:57,980 but also as a gateway to other points in the universe. 575 00:33:59,852 --> 00:34:02,203 The Temple Mount has long been considered 576 00:34:02,228 --> 00:34:05,496 to be a portal to Heaven. 577 00:34:06,193 --> 00:34:09,628 It is said that when the patriarch Jacob rested 578 00:34:09,653 --> 00:34:12,965 one night, he placed stones on the ground. 579 00:34:13,255 --> 00:34:15,807 And there, he saw a ladder ascending to Heaven, 580 00:34:16,585 --> 00:34:19,649 where the angels were going up and coming down. 581 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:25,513 This was always known to have been a vortex, a portal. 582 00:34:30,211 --> 00:34:32,677 NARRATOR: A ladder descending from Heaven? 583 00:34:33,765 --> 00:34:37,225 A visitation site for otherworldly beings? 584 00:34:38,928 --> 00:34:42,225 Could it really be that the significance of Temple Mount 585 00:34:42,498 --> 00:34:46,607 is not what's under it but the location itself? 586 00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:52,804 WILCOCK: It could very well be that there was a natural area on the Earth 587 00:34:53,054 --> 00:34:55,910 that the Temple Mount was deliberately built around 588 00:34:57,718 --> 00:35:00,768 and that natural physics that we don't yet understand 589 00:35:00,793 --> 00:35:05,042 in conventional science allow for there to be a slipstream 590 00:35:05,067 --> 00:35:08,809 between realities, a gateway, a parting of the veil 591 00:35:09,106 --> 00:35:12,505 between this world and other parallel universes. 592 00:35:13,958 --> 00:35:17,194 POPE: There have been a number of UFO sightings around the Temple Mount. 593 00:35:19,864 --> 00:35:24,114 Is the site important not just to human religions 594 00:35:24,139 --> 00:35:27,951 but does it have some special significance for extraterrestrials? 595 00:35:28,303 --> 00:35:30,919 Is that why this site is so untouchable? 596 00:35:35,377 --> 00:35:38,816 NARRATOR: Do sacred sites like Temple Mount in Jerusalem 597 00:35:39,062 --> 00:35:42,664 not only hold secrets about mankind's origins 598 00:35:42,718 --> 00:35:45,475 but possibly even serve as portals 599 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:47,458 to other parts of the universe? 600 00:35:48,859 --> 00:35:52,913 And, if so, might the turmoil in various forbidden zones 601 00:35:53,288 --> 00:35:55,944 be due in part to extraterrestrials 602 00:35:56,124 --> 00:35:59,938 that want to keep humanity from discovering the truth? 603 00:36:01,221 --> 00:36:03,143 Perhaps the answers can be found 604 00:36:03,510 --> 00:36:05,943 by reexamining what some claim 605 00:36:06,041 --> 00:36:10,477 is the motivation behind the Western invasion of Iraq. 606 00:36:15,428 --> 00:36:19,281 NARRATOR: Iraq. March 19, 2003. 607 00:36:21,522 --> 00:36:23,199 The United States military 608 00:36:23,256 --> 00:36:25,645 begins its Shock and Awe air campaign 609 00:36:25,670 --> 00:36:27,315 over the city of Baghdad. 610 00:36:28,826 --> 00:36:30,536 It is a preemptive strike 611 00:36:30,866 --> 00:36:34,203 aimed to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, 612 00:36:35,279 --> 00:36:36,801 who the government believes 613 00:36:36,826 --> 00:36:39,742 is in possession of weapons of mass destruction. 614 00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:47,453 POPE: Saddam Hussein wanted to make Iraq 615 00:36:47,548 --> 00:36:50,484 a regional and perhaps a global superpower. 616 00:36:50,517 --> 00:36:54,320 He spoke about himself as the new Nebuchadnezzar. 617 00:36:56,004 --> 00:36:57,737 NARRATOR: Nebuchadnezzar II 618 00:36:57,886 --> 00:37:00,495 was the great Babylonian warrior king, 619 00:37:00,894 --> 00:37:03,997 most famously known for rebuilding and expanding 620 00:37:04,032 --> 00:37:07,989 the Babylonian Empire in the sixth century BC. 621 00:37:09,638 --> 00:37:11,635 His armies conquered Egypt 622 00:37:12,014 --> 00:37:14,262 as well as ransacking and destroying 623 00:37:14,287 --> 00:37:17,418 Solomon's Temple in 597 BC. 624 00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:22,350 MARTIN: Saddam Hussein went nuts. 625 00:37:22,383 --> 00:37:25,656 He believed he was the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, 626 00:37:26,151 --> 00:37:29,002 so he ordered massive reconstruction of Babylon, 627 00:37:29,027 --> 00:37:33,718 which was done with bricks bearing his name on them. 628 00:37:37,516 --> 00:37:40,353 Everyone would come to respect the ancient Nebuchadnezzar 629 00:37:40,669 --> 00:37:42,552 and the new Nebuchadnezzar. 630 00:37:47,136 --> 00:37:50,558 HENRY: The missing piece to the puzzle of why we went to war 631 00:37:50,583 --> 00:37:53,081 with Iraq is the understanding 632 00:37:53,106 --> 00:37:56,010 that Saddam Hussein sought to outdo 633 00:37:56,167 --> 00:37:58,211 what Nebuchadnezzar had accomplished 634 00:37:58,236 --> 00:37:59,531 in his earlier life. 635 00:38:00,401 --> 00:38:02,956 The ultimate accomplishment of Nebuchadnezzar 636 00:38:02,990 --> 00:38:05,713 was the opening of the fiery furnace. 637 00:38:07,257 --> 00:38:09,926 Nebuchadnezzar had gone to Jerusalem, 638 00:38:09,951 --> 00:38:12,328 looted and leveled the Temple of Solomon, 639 00:38:15,367 --> 00:38:17,632 and he brought the wise men of the temple 640 00:38:17,657 --> 00:38:19,540 back to Babylon with him. 641 00:38:20,974 --> 00:38:24,563 What happened in the story is absolutely amazing. 642 00:38:26,323 --> 00:38:30,344 These three wise men enter this fiery furnace. 643 00:38:31,951 --> 00:38:35,089 Not only did they come back out in perfect condition... 644 00:38:35,122 --> 00:38:36,554 they weren't alone. 645 00:38:37,927 --> 00:38:42,339 They came back with an extraterrestrial visitor in tow. 646 00:38:42,825 --> 00:38:46,176 In today's terms, we would obviously call this 647 00:38:46,201 --> 00:38:48,526 a stargate or a portal. 648 00:38:50,059 --> 00:38:51,682 Saddam knew this. 649 00:38:54,277 --> 00:38:56,977 Saddam Hussein's esoteric interests 650 00:38:57,010 --> 00:38:59,088 were probably like those of the Nazis, 651 00:38:59,801 --> 00:39:02,129 aimed at uncovering some power, 652 00:39:02,206 --> 00:39:06,125 some technology, some relic that would enable him 653 00:39:06,150 --> 00:39:09,714 to become this world leader that he dreamed of being. 654 00:39:11,915 --> 00:39:14,125 There's one theory that the Iraq War 655 00:39:14,150 --> 00:39:16,826 was actually a war about a stargate. 656 00:39:18,744 --> 00:39:20,974 Saddam Hussein, so the theory goes, 657 00:39:21,035 --> 00:39:23,046 got access to this stargate, 658 00:39:23,171 --> 00:39:24,735 maybe threatened to use it. 659 00:39:25,673 --> 00:39:28,091 Was that why the allied powers went in? 660 00:39:29,347 --> 00:39:33,126 It sounds farfetched, but this theory is widely believed. 661 00:39:36,174 --> 00:39:38,968 NARRATOR: Is it possible the United States military 662 00:39:39,187 --> 00:39:42,351 was pursuing more than weapons of mass destruction 663 00:39:42,398 --> 00:39:44,225 when they invaded Iraq? 664 00:39:45,156 --> 00:39:47,351 Could something of great significance, 665 00:39:47,528 --> 00:39:49,674 perhaps a portal to another world, 666 00:39:50,205 --> 00:39:52,648 have been found amongst the chaos? 667 00:39:53,932 --> 00:39:55,569 And if there are truths 668 00:39:55,602 --> 00:39:58,542 about extraterrestrial involvement with our planet 669 00:39:58,606 --> 00:40:00,467 hidden in forbidden zones, 670 00:40:00,706 --> 00:40:04,964 just what would happen when the truth is finally revealed? 671 00:40:08,207 --> 00:40:10,705 WILCOCK: With the knowledge that's coming into view now 672 00:40:10,730 --> 00:40:13,947 as we're reconstructing bit by bit, piece by piece 673 00:40:13,972 --> 00:40:16,526 this tile mosaic of ancient history, 674 00:40:16,858 --> 00:40:20,070 we're gaining the ability to reconstruct the view 675 00:40:20,405 --> 00:40:24,142 of what really happened to us and what it means to be human 676 00:40:24,465 --> 00:40:27,910 and our relationship to the greater cosmos that's around us. 677 00:40:30,671 --> 00:40:33,436 NOORY: If you believe in the extraterrestrial presence, 678 00:40:33,707 --> 00:40:35,880 it was always to kind of keep us down 679 00:40:36,176 --> 00:40:38,733 so that we wouldn't get that much knowledge. 680 00:40:39,761 --> 00:40:43,473 They want to keep us ignorant and fighting and greedy. 681 00:40:43,498 --> 00:40:45,837 It's very possible that we will never know 682 00:40:45,862 --> 00:40:48,488 what happened on this planet a long time ago. 683 00:40:49,704 --> 00:40:51,090 TSOUKALOS: It's our own test, 684 00:40:51,124 --> 00:40:54,469 and the reason why no official contact has taken place yet 685 00:40:54,494 --> 00:40:57,497 is because we ourselves are on the verge 686 00:40:57,798 --> 00:40:59,950 of destroying this planet. 687 00:41:00,892 --> 00:41:02,595 So my suggestion is 688 00:41:02,799 --> 00:41:05,118 we first have to learn how to interact with each other 689 00:41:05,143 --> 00:41:09,050 before being allowed to receive this knowledge. 690 00:41:14,377 --> 00:41:16,846 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the perpetual violence 691 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,348 experienced in certain parts of the world 692 00:41:20,349 --> 00:41:23,102 is more than just a consequence of political 693 00:41:23,127 --> 00:41:24,487 and religious conflict? 694 00:41:25,762 --> 00:41:28,391 Could it be that it is actually spurred on 695 00:41:28,939 --> 00:41:31,117 by extraterrestrial forces, 696 00:41:32,979 --> 00:41:35,833 forces that are trying to hide the truth 697 00:41:36,042 --> 00:41:38,479 about mankind's origins? 698 00:41:39,691 --> 00:41:41,938 Perhaps once we have proven 699 00:41:42,214 --> 00:41:45,147 that we can conquer our aggression and anger, 700 00:41:45,708 --> 00:41:48,405 we will be able to access this knowledge 701 00:41:48,908 --> 00:41:52,844 and join our creators in the stars. 702 00:41:53,333 --> 00:41:57,933 Sync and corrected by minouhse www.addic7ed.com 703 00:41:57,983 --> 00:42:02,533 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 56100

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