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NARRATOR:
Cultural artifacts...
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obliterated.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It is absolutely barbaric!
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They're destroying our cultural heritage.
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NARRATOR: Irreplaceable texts
reduced to smoldering ash.
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NICK POPE: It's as if the roots
of human civilization itself
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are being hidden from us.
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NARRATOR:
And sacred lands
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looted under the cover of darkness.
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WILLIAM HENRY: Armed men
spent three days digging
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and left with something in tow.
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What exactly it was, nobody knows.
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NARRATOR: Throughout history,
mankind's most ancient
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and sacred sites have been
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plagued by conflict and warfare.
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But could this constant turmoil
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really be part of an otherworldly agenda?
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DAVID WILCOCK: Could an
extraterrestrial intelligence
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be deliberately thwarting
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any effort for itself to be discovered
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from the ancient records?
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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited its origins to gods
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and other visitors from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help to shape our history?
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And if so,
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might the most compelling evidence
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lie hidden in forbidden zones?
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Sync and corrected by minouhse
www.addic7ed.com
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NARRATOR:
Northern Iraq.
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20 miles south of Mosul lies
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the ancient Assyrian capital city of Nimrud.
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Built over 3,000 years ago
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in the 13th century B.C.,
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the site is an archaeological
treasure trove.
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Among the antiquities found here
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are monumental statues
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of winged lions
with human-heads,
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and massive relief carvings
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depicting the ancient gods of Mesopotamia.
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But on March 6, 2015,
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militants from the Islamic State
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stormed the ancient site,
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violently destroying
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everything in their path.
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After obliterating irreplaceable relics,
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they wired the entire site with explosives
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and leveled it completely...
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forever wiping it
from the face of the Earth.
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This group seems to be more destructive
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than just about anything people
can recall in history.
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It's almost as if we're being
orphaned from our past.
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We are having our parentage,
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our ancestors, cut off from us;
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the record of them.
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It is absolutely barbaric
what is going on currently
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in the Middle East with some
factions going deliberately
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to ancient sites
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and just eradicating
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our cultural heritage.
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NARRATOR:
This volatile region
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is widely considered
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to have been the cradle of civilization.
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And its archaeological destruction
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could mean the loss
of information about mankind's
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historical past.
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Iraq, Syria...
what we call the Middle East,
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uh, or the Near East, uh,
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is called the cradle of
civilization for a reason.
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Anthropologically,
this appears to be the place
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where the first humans arose.
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This is where people came from.
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And all of the earliest civilizations,
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cities, governments,
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come from this region.
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NARRATOR:
In the 21st Century,
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the violence and destruction
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have reached an unprecedented level,
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but the Middle East has been embroiled
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in conflict for thousands of years.
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The Islamic state today is doing
what the Taliban did before,
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which is doing what Byzantine Christians
and Jews before them have all done.
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They don't want any graven images.
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So because of their religious beliefs,
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they are basically destroying
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our own cultural heritage
for religious purposes.
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And like human lives,
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many of these you can't get back.
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NARRATOR:
Since 1990,
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the Middle East has seen the destruction
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of cultural heritage
on an unprecedented scale.
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A scale not seen
since the Christian vandalism
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that began during the Roman Empire.
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Over 700,000 archaeological,
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cultural and religious artifacts
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have been stolen or destroyed.
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And over 200 significant historical sites
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have been completely left in ruins.
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The Middle East seems to be
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in an almost permanent state of instability.
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Is this deliberate?
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Is someone keeping it that way?
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Maybe to prevent us
from discovering something?
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Is there something that would
fundamentally change our understanding
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of who we are and where we come from?
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TSOUKALOS:
It is absolutely horrifying
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to see the erasing of our history.
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And what's worse all of these ancient sites
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are one giant piece of the puzzle
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that we might have been visited
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in the past by extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR:
For thousands of years,
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northern Africa,
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the Middle East and India
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have been in an almost
constant state of unrest.
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But also in Southeast Asia,
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the regions of Kashmir and Tibet
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are considered among the most
disputed territories in the world.
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And halfway across the globe,
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the northern triangle of Central America...
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which includes Guatemala,
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El Salvador and Honduras...
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has been declared the
deadliest region on Earth
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outside of active war zones.
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Could there be a reason
that these specific areas
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experience so much chaos?
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ERICH VON DANIKEN:
It might be that on such places,
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the extraterrestrials descended
some thousands of years ago,
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on such places, they have,
uh, hidden something.
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GEORGE NOORY: There could be
something special about the sites.
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These are areas that are so important
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to the things that have happened
on this planet.
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And, I still think that the knowledge,
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and the success of where we go as people
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on planet Earth
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is directly related to those areas.
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible that there is
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an otherworldly connection
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between certain areas of global conflict
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and places of significant
archaeological importance?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest
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there could
very well be so-called
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forbidden zones on planet Earth...
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areas that extraterrestrial entities
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want to keep humans from exploring?
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But if so, why?
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Perhaps further clues can be found
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by examining a conflict
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in another volatile region,
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where some of mankind's greatest
treasures are being looted
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from beneath the desert sands.
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NARRATOR:
Cairo, Egypt.
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2011.
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In what has come to be known
as the Arab Spring,
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riots break out throughout Egypt.
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Protesters demand the resignation
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of President Hosni Mubarak.
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With the media and law enforcement
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focused on the demonstrations,
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looters gain greater freedom
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to pillage Egypt's ancient sites
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and artifacts.
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MARTIN:
For many people,
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getting rid of Mubarak was just a license
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to profit from the new situation.
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They would loot archaeological sites.
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They were suddenly free of the dictator
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and a lot of them went crazy.
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HENRY: During the Arab Spring,
insiders told me
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that trucks loaded
with deep digging equipment
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accompanied by armored vehicles
and armed men,
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spent three days digging
in the sands outside Cairo
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and left with something in tow.
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What exactly it was, nobody knows.
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ERIN NELL: Guards were powerless
to do anything to stop it.
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This created a huge amount of havoc,
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just because of the lack of security
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and the intentions of certain people
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to steal Egyptian antiquities.
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You can tell from the satellite imagery
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the increase in different holes
in the ground,
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you know, looters' pits that they've dug.
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This is the site of Dahshur.
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This picture was taken in 2010.
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But when you look at this one over here,
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I think this was taken in 2013,
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the difference between
the two is pretty amazing.
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Look at all these pits
that were dug by looters.
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When it comes to Egypt, everyone's
familiar with the pyramids,
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but really that's only a tiny part
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of what survives of that ancient
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and sophisticated civilization.
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NARRATOR: According
to modern archaeologists,
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less than one percent of ancient Egypt
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has been discovered and excavated.
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But how is it that such
a pivotal ancient culture
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disappeared unnoticed into the desert sands?
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NELL: There were several
different cultures
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that came in with armies...
the Nubians,
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the Assyrians were in there once,
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the Persians twice
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and then the Greeks.
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When the Romans took over,
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they just drained it of
Egyptian religion and culture.
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So when the Arabs came in, in 641,
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most of these temples were at
least halfway covered in sand,
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so all you have are these
huge magnificent columns
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kind of coming out of the ground.
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The Sphinx, you know, was buried
right up to his head.
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POPE: By the time
Napoleon got to Egypt,
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the hieroglyphs were indecipherable.
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No one knew what these things
were, what they meant.
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We had to re-learn it.
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It was only with the discovery
of the Rosetta Stone
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that we got our first insight
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into what these hieroglyphs
might actually be saying.
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NARRATOR:
But is Egypt's long history
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of political unrest
merely man-made,
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or is there something
extraterrestrial at work?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that further answers
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can be found still buried
in the desert sands.
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I think if you could blow all the sand away
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from the Middle East and Egypt,
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you would find incredible relics.
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I also think that information
about extraterrestrials
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is probably deeply hidden away
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under the sands of that region.
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NARRATOR:
Abydos, Egypt.
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February 2011.
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300 miles south of Cairo,
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looters target what was once
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the most sacred site
to the ancient Egyptians
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during the time of the Pharaohs.
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It was here that Egypt's
first rulers were buried
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and the earliest forms
of hieroglyphs were found,
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as well as an inscription
bearing the names and chronology
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of the first kings of Ancient Egypt.
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Abydos was considered sacred
to the god Osiris,
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Lord of the Dead
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and Egypt's first otherworldly ruler.
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According to ancient legends,
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his dismembered head was buried at the site.
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ANDREW COLLINS:
So who was Osiris?
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Was he simply an ancestor
of the ancient Egyptians?
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Or was he a god
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that descended to Earth,
you know, from the sky world?
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Obviously, we cannot say today.
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But we know he was said
to have existed in an age
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that was known as Zep Tepi, the First Time.
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NARRATOR:
In the 13th century B.C.,
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the Pharaoh Seti I
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was building his temple here in Abydos,
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when... according
to some accounts...
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he had an encounter with the god Osiris.
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HENRY: When King Seti was building
his temple, he had a dream in which
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the Egyptian god Osiris appeared to him.
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And he told Seti
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that if he was to dig
behind his temple location,
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that he would find something
of enormous significance.
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Seti digs 40 feet beneath the temple
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and finds the tomb of Osiris.
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For hundreds of years,
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no such tomb was known to exist in Abydos.
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But at the turn of the 20th century,
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archaeologists digging
behind the temple of Seti I
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unearthed a massive underground structure
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consisting of granite and sandstone blocks,
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some weighing nearly 60 tons.
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The Osirion, as it is now known,
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was found buried under 40 feet of silt.
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And ancient astronaut theorists
are convinced
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that further excavations would reveal
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something much more profound
hidden within it.
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HENRY:
The interesting thing about it
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is that on the exterior wall
of the Temple of Seti
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is inscribed what is called
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the head or tower of Osiris,
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what looks like some kind of
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an ancient antennae-type
of a device.
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It's clearly technological
or mechanical-looking.
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According to legend,
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it has been buried and
is awaiting rediscovery.
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WILCOCK: Abydos is
a veritable treasure trove
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of artifacts, ancient records,
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inscriptions on temple walls
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of people who look very different than us.
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There are repositories
of ancient technologies
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that are still hiding
under the desert sands.
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There's a lot of vested interest
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these extraterrestrials...
the gods... might have
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in keeping these things hidden from us.
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NARRATOR: Could it be that
Abydos holds alien technology
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that was deliberately hidden from mankind?
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Is the instability in this region...
like that in other forbidden zones...
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somehow being generated by extraterrestrials
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that want to keep humanity
from rediscovering it?
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And if so, just how
are they accomplishing this?
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Perhaps further clues can be found
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by examining the latest
scientific breakthroughs
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in using technology to incite violence.
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NARRATOR:
Lhasa, Tibet.
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Situated nearly 12,000 feet above sea level,
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the Tibetan capital of Lhasa,
or "Place of the Gods,"
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has long been considered
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one of the least accessible
areas of the world.
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For over three decades,
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Tibet was entirely closed off to outsiders
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after the forcible takeover of the region
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and exile of its spiritual
leader the Dalai Lama
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in 1959 by the Chinese Army.
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During their siege of the city,
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Chinese Red Guards systematically destroyed
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temples, frescoes,
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and ancient religious texts.
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It's a terrible legacy... from
the Great Library at Alexandria,
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the library at Sarajevo,
more recently in Phnom Penh.
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Other stories like the Nazi
book burning... there seems
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to be this thing that happens
where some revolutionary energy
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wants to destroy the cultural
treasures of the past.
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CARGILL: When one culture
conquers another culture,
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you want to kill their ideology,
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and the way that you do that
is you burn their books.
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You banish their ideas.
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You banish their language.
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You banish their religious practices.
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You burn the ancient records.
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NARRATOR: Throughout history,
military conflict has resulted
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not only in loss of life
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but also the destruction
of cultural heritage.
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And even when setting out
to colonize the New World,
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early explorers and missionaries
systematically eradicated
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what they considered to be pagan texts
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and mythologies of Native American,
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Mesoamerican, and Polynesian
tribes they encountered.
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They destroy artifacts.
They bury sites.
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It's almost as if this is a
deliberate blotting out of the past.
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It's as if the roots
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of human civilization itself
are being hidden from us.
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CHILDRESS: With the destruction
of knowledge,
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we may well be losing
our connection to the gods,
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extraterrestrials of the past,
how they interacted
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with us, what they wanted us to do.
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WILCOCK:
Why is it that these records
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continually seem to get misplaced
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or they get burned or they get destroyed
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or they're deliberately ruined?
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Is it possible that there is, in fact,
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an ongoing extraterrestrial presence
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that has somehow infiltrated
into our society?
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Could this extraterrestrial intelligence
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be deliberately thwarting
any effort for itself
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to be discovered from the ancient records?
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NARRATOR: Could there really be
aliens among us
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inciting conflict, as some
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ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
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And, if so,
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might we find this conflict
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concentrated
in so-called forbidden zones?
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But why?
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And perhaps even more importantly,
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how has this violent behavior
been accomplished?
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Pasadena, California.
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Scientists at the California
Institute of Technology
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identify a set of neurons
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in the hypothalamus of mouse brains
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that correspond to aggression.
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Through a technique called optogenetics,
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the group uses pulses of light
to activate the neurons
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and instantaneously
incite violence in the mice.
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There are many ways in which
we can affect or manipulate
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the brain or brain function.
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And there's a really exciting new
technique called optogenetics.
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And although it's not being used
in humans yet,
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it's being used in animal trials.
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And what that is is
they actually manipulate a virus
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so that it becomes
a delivery system for a gene
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that's taken from a photosensitive algae.
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And that gene is then delivered
to specific neurons,
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and then those neurons
are triggered to fire via light.
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You can control the behavior
of the animal via remote control
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in the sense all you have to do
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is trigger the different types
of receptors to fire.
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If you actually go in and
stimulate the prefrontal cortex,
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you can cause animals to act out aggresivly.
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NARRATOR:
In 2010,
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scientists at Osaka University
and at the University of Texas
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publish separate findings both indicating
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that up to eight percent of the
human genome comes from viruses
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and not from our ancestral DNA.
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Could this help explain
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how extraterrestrials might be able
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to incite humans to violence,
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just as researchers have used viruses
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to trigger aggression in mice?
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NOORY: Somebody genetically
altered us a long, long time ago,
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and they intentionally put in
this ability to become violent.
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There's no question that people
could be manipulated,
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could be used to do all kinds of things
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and they wouldn't even know it.
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We are simply a pawn
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on an extraterrestrial
chess game that they can move
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and manipulate any time they want,
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that they serve up, at
their whim, whenever they want.
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There's no question about that.
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NARRATOR: Could humans
be artificially stimulated
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to create acts of violence,
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as some ancient astronaut theorists propose?
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And might this stimulation
be targeted to people
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living in certain regions of the world?
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Perhaps the answers can be found
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buried deep in the jungles of Guatemala.
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NARRATOR: Deep in the jungles
of Guatemala lie the ruins
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of the ancient Mayan city of El Mirador.
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Dating back to at least
the fifth century BC,
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the site is believed to predate
the classic Mayan civilization.
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But, curiously, it was abruptly
abandoned around 150 BC.
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Western archaeologists
rediscovered the site in 1979
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in an area currently controlled
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by one of the most feared
drug cartels in the region.
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Today, armed soldiers stand guard
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just outside the archaeological site
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that is larger than Manhattan
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and contains one of the tallest
pyramids in the world.
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ED BARNHART: El Mirador,
in fact, has dozens of pyramids.
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Many of them are as big as anything
that the classic Maya made.
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But it's also one
of their very oldest cities.
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NARRATOR: But perhaps
the most intriguing discovery
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at El Mirador is a carving
believed to be a depiction
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of the Mayan creation story
known as the Popol Vuh.
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It dates back more than 2,000 years
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and is the oldest known version to survive
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after Central America was overtaken
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by Spanish conquistadors
in the 16th century.
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TSOUKALOS:
The conquistadors requested
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for all these different
Mayan codices to be destroyed.
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And so after this pillaging
and destruction happened,
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the Popol Vuh was re-created
by the ruling elite at the time.
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And, to the best of their abilities,
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they tried to put on paper
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their histories and their
mythologies of their ancestors.
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But these stories go back
much further back in time.
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The Popol Vuh is foundational
to Maya civilization.
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As foundational
as the Bible is to Christianity.
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But now, things like what we found
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at El Mirador are telling us
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that that story goes back
at least to 200 BC.
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And that's exciting.
Now we have
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a continuity of the Popol Vuh
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being pivotal to Maya people
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all the way back to their origins.
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NARRATOR: Curiously,
the Popol Vuh narrative
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and the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis
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contain many similarities,
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including the stories concerning
the creation of the world,
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animals, and then, finally mankind.
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They both include stories of a great flood.
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And in both texts, it is suggested
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that there is information
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purposely kept from mankind by his creator.
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But what is unique to the Popol Vuh
is an account of an earlier time
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when humans had access to greater knowledge.
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YOUNG: In the great
Mayan creation narrative,
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the Popol Vuh, the gods created humans,
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and they had terrific knowledge.
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So much so that it worried the gods.
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And so they put a veil over
the consciousness of the people
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so that they could only see
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what was right there in front of them.
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They limited their ability to know.
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WILLIAM BRAMLEY: The earliest
human beings in the Popol Vuh...
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they were very smart.
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They basically understood things.
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They could see things.
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And so, the gods of creation
said, "Oh, we can't have this.
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"So what we have to do is,
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we have to put a screen
over that vision."
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Knowledge became less and less available
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to the overall population.
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What happened to the humans
who were smarter than us?
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Were they, in fact, the ancient Egyptians,
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the Sumerians
and many other ancient cultures?
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These areas, apparently, would have
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all of the records
that we would need to completely
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rebuild our history.
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These are the most unstable areas on Earth.
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Could this be why?
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient
humans possessed greater knowledge
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than we currently do today,
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as the Mayan mythology seems to suggest?
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If so, who were these gods
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that the Mayans believed
to be their creators?
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According to ancient astronaut theorists,
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their true identity might be revealed
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by examining one of the carvings contained
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within the Popol Vuh...
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the so-called "Hero Twins."
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If you look at that carving, the
guy is clearly wearing a helmet,
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and he has this backpack.
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And he's actually floating in space,
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or he is descending from the sky.
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You have, uh, what seem to be
like some kind of helmet.
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And even one of the figures
looks like a flying saucer.
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Could these stone carvings be
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depictions of ancient astronauts?
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And if that is the case,
then it would indicate
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that these extraterrestrials
have actually created us.
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And in fact, they're still here today,
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manipulating us
and guiding us into the future.
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NARRATOR: Do the carvings at
El Mirador contain information
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about mankind's past that
we were not meant to discover?
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If so, could it be
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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
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