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NARRATOR: Mysterious surgeries
performed by early humans.

Very well planned and it
happened well before the advent

of modern medicine.

NARRATOR: Strange beings,
with miraculous powers.

Even though the gods forbade it,

he was actually able to raise the dead.

NARRATOR: And a cover-up
destroying centuries

of scientific knowledge.

People are afraid of it.

The religious side especially afraid.

NARRATOR: Are
recent breakthroughs

in medicine really the
result of years of research?

Or does the knowledge
of healing really come

from an otherworldly source?

It would seem to be that this
is medical knowledge that's

coming from some advanced civilization

of extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, do stories of
advanced medical procedures

in the distant past provide
further proof of mankind's

extraterrestrial origins?

[theme music]

[monitor beeping]

2012, Houston, Texas.

Doctors use robotic technology
to perform complex heart

surgery through incisions
no larger than a keyhole.

Chicago, Illinois.

An amputee climbs 103 floors using

a thought-controlled bionic leg.

[clapping and cheering]

At the University of Iowa, researchers

develop technology that
fabricates custom body

parts using 3D printers.

In the last 100 years,
scientific advances

have dramatically
improved mankind's ability

to heal itself, more in
fact, than at any time

in the last five centuries.

Throughout history, medicine is

about correcting physical problems,

restoring a patient to
health, relieving suffering.

We've seen tremendous advances
over the last three decades.

But there was a remarkable
degree of sophistication

and a surprisingly high
success rate achieved

by prehistoric surgeons.

Many of the procedures of modern medicine

are derivatives of the
ancient operations.

NARRATOR: Evidence of advanced
medical procedures practiced

in the ancient world has been
found everywhere from carvings

on the walls of temples to skeletal

remains all over the world.

But just who were the practitioners

of this extraordinary science?

And where did their knowledge
of the human body come from?

Most cultures around the world thought

that if something was
physically wrong with you,

it probably also related
to something, perhaps,

spiritually wrong with you.

And so we also find that
physicians or healers very

often were not just healing
the body, in our mundane sense,

but also healing the soul.

And therefore they had to be
somewhat of a religious figure

as well.

To be a doctor in the ancient world,

you have some kind of
special relationship

with a god who has gifted
you with the power to heal.

A doctor was simultaneously
a kind of tradesman

and had kind of learned a skill, but also

a sort of cultic figure as well who

had an association with a
god and would, therefore,

use magical cures to deal with problems.

Our ancestors said that
medicine came from the gods.

Our ancestors have said that
the gods really gave manuals

as to how to be living
healthy, how to restore health

to the human individual.

They realized something
about our physical bodies

which we are only beginning
to understand once again.

NARRATOR: Could it be that
ancient healers were guided

by alien beings?

And if so, are recent
advances in modern medicine

actually a rediscovery of
methods practiced thousands

of years ago?

[suspenseful music]

Sikora, Egypt.

Here, across from this
towering step pyramid,

lies the physician's tomb, also known

as the Tomb of Ankh-ma-hor.

According to archaeologists, it
was built more than 4,000 years

ago for one of the most
important officials

of the ancient Egyptian civilization.

I'm taking you inside the
physician's tomb, where you get

a glimpse of how they performed
complex medical and surgical

operations in ancient times.

But what's amazing about this tomb

is that the physician
Ankh-ma-hor lived 4,300 years

ago, and he performed very complex

surgical and medical operations.

We can see here a circumcision
2,000 years before the Bible.

And here we see a scene of reflexology.

We can see them muscling
and flexing the muscles.

Also here an amazing operation,
a surgical operation,

on the hands It is even suggested

that they may have had brain
surgery, removing tumors.

But where did they get
the knowledge from?

Well, they say that they got it
from Thoth, the god of wisdom

and science, who brought
to them all the knowledge

from the gods.

NARRATOR: Known
for his abilities

in science, magic, and medicine, Thoth

was worshipped for centuries as
the god of wisdom and healing.

According to ancient myth,
this divine physician

healed the eye of the Egyptian
God Horus after his Uncle Set

gouged it out in an
epic battle for power.

As a result, The Eye of Horus
became an important symbol

of restoration and good health.

But was Thoth only a mythical
deity, as mainstream scholars

believe?

Or might he have been
something or someone

who actually existed?

Ancient Egyptian medicine
was anything but primitive.

There are clear examples
of energetic medicine

that are beyond our
technological capabilities.

It seems as if these
technologies were brought in

and were given to them
as a complete package

rather than something that
developed out of a society

that before then had
been extremely primitive.

And the Egyptians
themselves said that Thoth

was responsible for this.

NARRATOR: But who
or what was Thoth?

Might he have been not a divine
being but an alien visitor, one

possessing advanced scientific knowledge?

In the Egyptian pantheon of Gods,

Thoth is the one with the head of an ibis

but the body of a human being.

He was the Egyptian father of medicine,

meaning he descended from the sky,

and he gave them that knowledge.

NARRATOR: Might Thoth
have been not a divine

being, as the Egyptians believed,

but an alien visitor who possessed

advanced scientific
knowledge, one from whom

the Egyptians learned
their ability to heal?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the story of one

of the most advanced surgeons
in the history of India.

[suspenseful music]

Varanasi, India.

500 miles southeast of Delhi.

Located on the banks of the Ganges,

Varanasi is one of the
oldest cities on earth.

A city that, according to legend,

was founded by the gods.

Long known as a center of
knowledge and learning.

Varanasi was once home
to an ancient physician

by the name of Sushruta,
who many historians credit

with developing the art of surgery.

In ancient India, the early physician

was a guy named Sushruta.

And he was a surgeon and physician

who would do skin grafts,
cataract removals,

even early plastic surgery on people.

So once again, we have someone
whose medical knowledge seems

so advanced for his time.

NARRATOR: Sushruta
is also considered

to be the first practitioner of Ayurveda,

one of the oldest known systems
of medicine in the world.

According to Hindu legend, Sushruta

is said to have received this
knowledge from a god known

as Dhanvantari.

Dhanvantari was a high-level
god, as we would know them,

who provided all the information
on this complete healing

modality based on an
understanding of the physical

and subtle aspects of the body.

And it was passed through to
Indian culture in ancient times

and has been preserved
and expanded since then.

NARRATOR: Though he
is most often depicted

as having four arms and
holding medicinal herbs,

the god Dhanvantari was
also a shapeshifter.

According to legend, during
his journeys to earth,

he could take on other forms,
including that of a bird.

Is it possible that both Dhanvantari

and the half-man, half-bird
Egyptian God of healing, Thoth,

were connected in some way?

And if so, how?

WILLIAM HENRY: Whether
it's Dhanvantari or Thoth,

we learn of these
extraterrestrial divinities

very often being portrayed as
birdlike beings who delivered

the knowledge of ancient
medicine to earth.

This tells us that our
original knowledge of medicine,

human anatomy, and how to heal the body

came from extraterrestrial sources.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Sushruta, he

was very clear in stating
that he learned this knowledge

from the Gods.

Who were the Gods?

Extraterrestrials.

PHILIP COPPENS: Every
culture will tell you

that the first surgeon,
that medicine, that healing

was a gift of the Gods.

That is extraordinarily
interesting because it really

shows that the benefit of mankind

was accomplished through the
intervention and the knowledge

of the deities.

NARRATOR: How is it possible
that ancient cultures,

separated by thousands of
miles, shared similar stories

about a bird-like creature?

Could it be true, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

that this extraordinary
being was actually

a highly-skilled extraterrestrial

from another world?

And might he have traveled
across the globe in an effort

to teach early humans the art of healing?

Perhaps more clues can
be found in a collection

of mysterious skulls,
discovered in the ruins of yet

another ancient civilization.

[suspenseful music]

Northern Turkey, 2010.

While digging at an archaeological site

in the Samson province, archaeologists

unearth hundreds of skeletal
remains and ancient skulls

dating back more than 4,000 years.

Strangely, 14 of the
skulls have large holes,

providing what some
scholars believe is proof

that ancient man carried out a
remarkably sophisticated type

of brain surgery called
cranial trepanation.

NEIL MARTIN: Trepanation
is making an opening

into the skull.

We do it on a routine basis
in today's neurosurgery

to get exposure of the
brain to remove a tumor

or remove a blood clot, but
it was done in ancient times

probably to repair traumatic
brain injuries from accidents

and war injuries.

Ancient cultures did this
all over the world in Peru,

in Europe, in Asia, and Africa.

They were literally cutting
holes in people's heads,

successfully opening up their skulls,

removing skull material, and
then covering it up again.

And the patients were surviving
this and living long lives.

NARRATOR: Even with the delicate
and highly sophisticated

tools in use today, neurosurgery
is a complicated and risky

procedure.

One involving the body's most
complex organ the human brain.

Today's neurosurgery provides us

with some remarkable new digital tools.

We have what is equivalent
now of a GPS system that

allows us to navigate around
the intracranial space.

We also are able to use
preoperative imaging now

to create an individual map
of the brain and the brain

function.

Those maps are critical
to do modern neurosurgery.

NARRATOR: But how could
an ancient civilization

have learned such highly
advanced methods for operating

on a human brain hundreds of years

before such procedures
were even attempted

in other parts of the world?

Perhaps the answers can be
found by looking at a collection

of human skulls discovered a century ago

near the Peruvian Andes

[suspenseful music]

Here, at the San Diego Museum of Man,

is an extensive display of
pre-Columbian antiquities,

including one of the largest
collections of skulls

in the world.

Dr. Tori Randall, a chief
paleoanthropologist,

has spent years studying
the ancient practice

of trepanation.

These skulls are about 1,000 years old.

They're Incan skulls, and
they're special because they

have trepanations.

And you can see from the hole right here

in the head they've had skull
surgery performed on them.

It seems likely that a
lot of these trepanations

were happening based
on warfare or healing

some type of traumatic injury.

They seem to have performed the
actual trepanations in parts

of the skull where there wasn't
a lot of cranial musculature,

which would have made it more difficult.

One thing that they used were
tumies, which are usually

made out of bronze or copper.

And they are this little,
curved, linear knife.

This is definitely a very
well-planned out practice,

very successful, and it
happened well before the advent

of modern medicine.

And the fact that so
many individuals survived

meant that they were very good at it.

It's remarkable that we
see evidence of healing,

and recovery, and survival.

In so many of the
archaeological specimens,

the skulls show signs of bone healing.

They must have had a good
sense of meticulous technique,

but it had to be a rough ordeal
for the individual patient.

NARRATOR: According to
Dr. Randall's findings,

the Incan surgeons were also skilled

at avoiding parts of the brain that

would have damaged important
nerves and affected motor

skills.

What this means is that
our ancient ancestors had

extraordinary information
about the brain.

It means that they had detailed knowledge

about human anatomy way beyond
what we normally attribute

to them.

It involves an extraordinary amount

of scientific information.

All over the world we seek
skulls with curious small holes

drilled in.

In these ancient cultures,
the practice of trepanation

was often said to have been
given to them by the Gods.

So it's possible that
extraterrestrial technology

had the ability to see into the brain.

NARRATOR: Could the
ancient Incan knowledge

of brain surgery have really come

from an extraterrestrial source?

And if so, might ancient
alien visitors have passed

on any other medical knowledge?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further evidence can

be found just a few miles
from where the trepanned Incan

skulls were found.

[suspenseful music]

80 miles Northwest of
the famous Nazca Lines

lies the small city of Ica, Peru.

In 1966, a local physician
named Javier Cabrera acquired

several andesite stones
unearthed in the desert here,

stones etched with mysterious depictions

of ancient pre-Columbian people.

The Ica stones really
give a different perspective

on what the locals believed
history was all about.

And the Ica stones, what it
really spell out or indicate,

at least, is that history
is not the way we know it.

Each of these stones is
inscribed with unusual scenes.

People interacting with what seems

to be prehistoric animals.

People looking through telescopes.

Some of the Ica stones seem to
be strange maps of the world

before ours.

And one of the things that
the Ica stones depicts

is ancient surgeries.

NARRATOR: Also carved on
dozens of these stones

are images of brain surgeries,
cesarean sections, and even

tracheotomies.

But one stone is among
the most mysterious.

It is thought to depict
two surgeons with a heart

between them as they appear
to be reconnecting the blood

vessels.

Could this really be
evidence that ancient man

was capable of
transplanting a human heart?

The Ica stones are one
of the very few examples

of our ancients actually
performing surgery.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It seems
impossible that ancient people

were doing anything like this.

And therefore, it would seem
to be that this is knowledge

and medical knowledge that's coming

from some advanced civilization
of extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that extraterrestrial
beings taught mankind advanced

medical procedures, like
cranial trepanation and heart

transplants, in the distant past?

And if so, might these alien beings

have shared other, perhaps,
even more profound secrets

and techniques of healing?

Some researchers believe further evidence

can be found in the
legends and mythologies

of the ancient Irish people and
a God they knew as Dian Cecht.

[suspenseful music]

Chicago, Illinois, 2006.

Scientists pioneer a stunning
bio-mechanical advancement...

A thought-controlled robotic arm.

Outfitted with electrodes that connect

to the nerves of the
wearer, the prosthetic

works just like an actual arm and hand,

receiving signals from the
brain and giving the user

a functioning new limb.

But as scientifically
sophisticated as this is,

ancient astronaut theorists
point to a remarkably similar

account in an ancient story
from the British Isles.

Irish myth has a story about
a divine physician called Dian.

Cecht.

He has herbs to heal every
affliction of the human body

and soul.

And the people, whether
they're wounded in battle

or they're afflicted in
childbirth, or miscarriage,

or headaches, or whatever the malady is,

they will go to Dian Cecht for healing.

TOK THOMPSON: Dian Cecht
is known as the physician

of the Gods, or he was
the celebrated physician

of the Tuatha de Danann, which was

sort of a semi-divine early
group of people in Irish lore.

NARRATOR: According
to Celtic tradition,

the Tuatha de Danann were a
race of supernatural beings

that came to Ireland
riding on dark clouds.

Dian Cecht was one of
these otherworldly beings

and a physician who
sometimes used his knowledge

to treat humans.

In the most famous account
of his medical feats,

the Irish God heals a King named Nuada

who becomes injured in battle.

During a heated battle,
Nuada lost his arm.

Because of this he
could no longer be king.

Kings were supposed
to be physically pure,

according to the ideas of this time,

so he had to surrender
his kingship for a while.

And during this time period, Dian Cecht

was the one who actually fashioned

him an arm out of silver.

So he became known as
Nuada of the silver hand

or Nuada of the silver arm.

The story of Dian Cecht giving
King Nuada an arm that was made

out of silver really sounds like
a modern science fiction story.

It almost sounds like prosthetics.

NARRATOR: Is the story of Dion
Cecht a myth, as mainstream

historians believe?

Or might King Nuada's
silver arm have actually

been an advanced bionic machine, just

like the ones being developed today?

If so, is it possible that
the Celtic God Dion Cecht

was in fact an extra terrestrial being?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
According to this legend,

Dion Cecht replaced King Nuada's
arm with a silver arm that

was fully functional.

So is it possible that
what we have here is

an account of some type of
prosthetics that existed

already way back in the past?

It would seem that these
legends are talking about what

are really pretty high tech
medical devices and knowledge.

The kind of medical knowledge
that we have today and has

taken hundreds of years of
expensive research to find.

So it would seem that they had
these devices in ancient times,

too, but where would
they have gotten them?

It would seem to have been
from extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: If the stories
of Dion Cecht are true,

might similar myths from other cultures

also be based on historical fact?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and point to the stories of an
ancient Greek God who wielded

the incredible power of
bringing the dead back to life.

Epidaurus, Greece.

In a small valley, 30
miles southwest of Athens,

lie the 2,400-year-old ruins
of the most celebrated healing

center of the ancient world...

The Asclepeion, or Temple of Asclepius.

RICHARD RADER Asclepius was
the child of the God Apollo,

one of the principal divinities
associated with magic

and healing.

Now, Asclepius, because
he is the child of Apollo,

would necessarily develop
this skill as well.

He becomes almost entirely
associated with healing.

RICHARD LEVITON: Asclepius
is the Greek name

for the divine physician.

Classical Greece did have
healing temples in which people

could go and have either
daytime healing experiences

or what they would call healings
during sleeping and dreaming,

in which it was believed they would

have an audience with
Asclepius and receive

some kind of diagnosis and prescription

that they could apply in the daytime.

RICHARD RADER:
There's a very famous

and a very interesting practice
called incubation, which

is people would go sleep
in a temple of Asclepius,

and Asclepius would visit them in a dream

and tell them what the remedy
was to whatever sickness

or ailment they were suffering.

NARRATOR: According
to Greek mythology,

Asclepius carried a serpent
entwined staff, the inspiration

for the medical symbol
still in use today.

[suspenseful music]

But perhaps the most mysterious legend

associated with the Greek God of medicine

was his reported ability to
provide the ultimate cure...

The power to restore life.

RICHARD RADER: His healing arts
are so powerful that he can

wake people from the dead,
which is the line that can never

be crossed, of course.

He got into a bit of trouble.

He was using his power that
he had gotten from his father,

Apollo, to raise the dead,
which obviously poses a problem.

Zeus didn't like it because
people that he had killed,

Asclepius was raising from the dead.

PHILIP COPPENS: What
this story is telling

us is that the story of Asclepius

is the story of some
extraordinarily powerful

technology, knowledge, or
application of whatever it was,

whereby physical death
is not the end of it.

DAVID WILCOCK: Asclepius is
on record of raising people

from the dead.

This is not anything within the purview

of conventional medical technology.

We're talking about no pulse,
no respiration, and perhaps even

brain dead as well.

Asclepius may have been operating off

of an extraterrestrial
derived body of knowledge

and possibly technology that
made it possible for him

to achieve these seemingly
supernatural feats in which

a dead body is brought back to life.

NARRATOR: If Asclepius
was a flesh and blood

extraterrestrial being, as
ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, then might he have had some sort

of advanced scientific technology

that allowed him to raise the dead?

If so, what happened to
this incredible knowledge?

Why has the secret of life and
death been lost to mankind?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the story of one

of the bloodiest eras
in recorded history.

[suspenseful music]

France, in the year 1233 AD.

Pope Gregory IX establishes
the Inquisition...

A group of institutions within
the Roman Catholic Church

charged with investigating
and prosecuting heresy.

During the next 500
years, the Inquisition

spreads throughout Western Europe.

Those suspected of sorcery or witchcraft

are interrogated, tortured,
and executed, most

by being burned at the stake.

And included as targets of
this brutal and bloody purge

are scientists, healers,
and other practitioners

of the so-called black arts.

There was a time in the
Church when any type of progress

was considered to be
the work of the devil.

And so things were
done in the name of God

in order to suppress new knowledge.

Science was always something that

was held back by the Church, out
of fear of changing the status

quo.

Historically the
Catholic Church has always

been threatened by knowledge, especially

about healing and medicine.

One example is the
invention of eyeglasses.

The Catholic Church went
ballistic with the invention

of eyeglasses because with it came

an idea, the idea that the
human body is improvable.

During the inquisitions,
the Catholic Church took

a full-steam charge on squashing
out a lot of these pagan ideas

that were medical science
to them at the time,

revolutionary, but did not
jive well with the Church.

One reason the Church
launched the Inquisition

was to eliminate the
average person's connection

with this ancient indigenous
knowledge that put power

in the hands of the individual
and took the power out

of the hands of the Church.

Long before Christianity
you had healings, absolutely

supernaturally healings.

So people are afraid of it.

The religious side especially afraid.

[suspenseful music]

NARRATOR: Was the
Catholic Church's attack

on scientific knowledge
a deliberate attempt

to erase any connection between
mankind and its relationship

to otherworldly visitors,
visitors whose very existence

would undermine the Church's
strongly held teaching

that life on earth was the only life that

existed in the universe?

Did the Inquisition succeed
in destroying centuries

of advanced scientific and
medical knowledge, knowledge

we are only now starting to retrieve?

Perhaps another clue can be found

by studying a medical procedure
that actually survived

the Inquisition, one that has
been practiced for thousands

of years.

[suspenseful music]

The Italian Alps, September 19, 1991.

Here, high on a snow laden mountainside

near the Austrian border, two hikers

discover the mummified corpse of a man.

Frozen in place for an
estimated 5,000 years,

the body, later nicknamed Otzi,
is carefully examined and so

well-preserved that scientists
are able to determine

his age, how he died, and even
the contents of his final meal.

But perhaps the most
incredible discovery of all

were the markings found
along Otzi's legs and back...

50 geometric designs
that correspond to those

found in the science of acupuncture.

Acupuncture is a long and
well-tested modality that moves

energy through a kind of
subway system in the body.

They're known as meridians with
about 1,000 treatment points.

All the treatment points
have names, and many of them

have references to stars and
very interesting things that

don't seem to correlate with the body.

[chinese music]

NARRATOR: A medical therapy
that targets an energy field

that practitioners believe
flows through the human body.

Acupuncture was originally believed

to have been developed in China
approximately 3,000 years ago.

The tattoos found on the
skin of this Bronze Age

mummy suggest that
acupuncture was not only

practiced in Europe but
practiced centuries earlier

than most archeologists
and historians had believed

possible.

But how?

Perhaps the answer can
be found by examining

the ancient Chinese medical book
called "The Huangdi Neijing,"

the oldest text known to
give a detailed description

of acupuncture.

YI QIAO: First, the medical
book, as old as 2,500 years

ago, is called "Huangdi
Neijing Yellow Empress Classic.

Medicine."

In this book, this whole system is

to talk about all the channels,
meridians, and the treatment

mythology and strategies.

NARRATOR: According
to Chinese mythology,

one of the first
practitioners of acupuncture

was a physician named
Bian Que, often depicted

as a human-headed bird.

Bian Que is a legendary example

of a healer who used
supernatural means in order

to accomplish his treatments.

Bian Que apparently
could consume some herb,

and once he ingested this
substance, whatever it was,

he could apparently see through walls

and see directly into the
human body, much like a CAT

scan or an MRI.

And he was accredited with
doing a double heart transplant

on an emperor and another person,

where he switched their hearts.

So you have to wonder, now, where

did they even get this idea?

Bian Que is another of those
extraordinary beings who's

described as half human and half bird.

This puts him in the league
with such figures as Thoth

and other divine beings, who are
also half human and half bird,

and who delivered to humanity
amazing knowledge, especially

about medicine and human transformation.

NARRATOR: Could it
be mere coincidence

that the half-human, half-bird
Chinese healer known as Bian.

Que closely resembles both the
ancient Egyptian deity Thoth

and the Indian God Dhanvantari?

Or is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists claim,

that these ancient
so-called Gods were actually

extraterrestrial beings,
beings in possession of highly

advanced medical knowledge?

I think acupuncture is
one of these sciences which

came from the Gods and was
given to our ancestors.

And so even though we might
think that acupuncture

is specifically linked to a
specific culture right now,

I think in the past this was
actually information which

existed throughout mankind.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Medicine always

came from a, quote unquote,
"divine origin," meaning

that some type of a deity
descended from the sky

and gave this knowledge of healing people

to those particular cultures.

And now, why would all
cultures all around the world

speak of the exact same
thing that this knowledge was

imparted to them by people
descending from the sky?

NARRATOR: Are ancient
astronaut theorists correct?

Did extraterrestrial beings
really give early man

highly advanced medical knowledge

about how to heal the
human body, knowledge,

that with the exception of acupuncture,

has been lost through the centuries?

Perhaps proof can be found,
not in the carvings on the wall

of a tomb or in the words
of an ancient document,

but the most unlikely of places...

The cells of the human body.

In 2003, US government researchers

announced they had
completed one of the most

monumental and scientifically
significant projects

in human history.

After 13 years of work, they
had identified and mapped

the over 20,000 genes
in the human genome,

giving scientists new insight
into the genetic makeup

of the human species.

What we don't know about humans in terms

of evolutionary genetics is sort of

based on what we don't know
about genetics nowadays.

For example, we do not know the
genetic basis of the thought

process.

We don't know memory.

We cannot create any ideas of
how changes occurred to evolve

the human brain to the
functional being that it is

right now.

NARRATOR: Could this
incredible map eventually

solve the great mystery
of human evolution?

Might it help explain why
humans, unlike any other living

species, can think, reason,
and have the power of speech?

Or why they can create art, music,

and spend time contemplating the
reason for their own existence?

It's not until about 40,000 years

ago that you get a very radical
change in human behavior.

Our hunting strategies
get better, our tools

and our weapons get better.

It's as though some untapped
faculty of the human brain and

of the human imagination switched on.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the reason humans suddenly

evolved from primitive
beasts to sentient humans

is due to otherworldly intervention?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer is a profound yes.

One of the basic tenets of
the ancient astronaut theory

suggests that a long time ago our DNA

was artificially changed
by extraterrestrials.

And we can see that this
is exactly what happened

because all of a sudden we
made a giant intellectual leap

and all of a sudden we
became Homo sapien sapiens.

This was the time when the very first

extraterrestrial genetic
engineering took place.

And in some ways, this was
like phase one and the creation

of modern human beings as we know them.

NARRATOR: Did extraterrestrials
deliberately alter Homo sapien

DNA?

And if so, did they also give
humans the knowledge of how

to maintain their bodies
and heal themselves,

knowledge that we are
only now rediscovering?

There is a very widespread
prevalence worldwide

of a divine providence to medicine,

that the gods wanted to help us
to have happier, longer, more

fulfilling lives.

And that they brought out their
best technology and their best

wisdom teachings to us in order
to make that healing possible.

Is there any surgeon out
there who just woke up one

day and said, I'm going
to perform surgery?

Of course not.

Every single surgeon had to receive

sophisticated and lengthy
instruction, training.

We know that our ancestors told us

that the knowledge for medicine
was given to them by none

other than what they
referred to as the Gods.

PHILIP COPPENS: This is
knowledge and information which

exceeds the human capabilities.

And this is, once again, within
part of a larger framework,

a framework of divine healers
who allow this capability to be

used for surgery, to
be used for diagnosis,

to be used for healing purposes.

They sit between us and the gods,

and they were somehow able to
apply the divine information

when it came to medicine
to very noble purposes

here on planet Earth.

NARRATOR: Did ancient
aliens really alter our DNA

in an effort to make us
better, smarter, and perhaps

more like themselves?

And if so, did they also give
early man medical knowledge,

knowledge that was
lost over the centuries

and that modern science is only
now beginning to rediscover?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answer is yes and suggest
that incredible new discoveries

and rediscoveries lie ahead,
discoveries that may reveal

the secrets of life and
death, the key to immortality,

and the answer to the question
of who and what we really are.

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