All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens SP s01e04 Aliens and Lost Civilizations.eng

NARRATOR: Early cultures
possessing capabilities

beyond our wildest expectations.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
They had knowledge

DAVID CHILDRESS:
They had knowledge of all of the sciences and arts.

of all of the sciences and arts.

of all of the sciences and arts.
They knew everything.

They knew everything.

NARRATOR:
Unimaginable discoveries

of cities lost to time.

ANDREW COLLINS:
This site, in many ways,

ANDREW COLLINS:
This site, in many ways, changes everything because

changes everything because

here we have
the smoking gun

of a lost civilization.

NARRATOR: And evidence
challenging everything

we thought we knew
about our past.

GEORGE NOORY: Mankind possessed
incredible technology,

and then something happened

and they had to literally
start all over again.

NARRATOR: Could the history
of civilization on Earth

go far beyond
what we've been taught?

And if so, might our planet
have even been populated

by beings from other worlds?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
Extraterrestrials colonized

planet Earth hundreds
of thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

The future is
right before our eyes. We are not alone.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

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Northern Iraq.

20 miles south of Mosul

lies the ancient Assyrian
capital city of Nimrud.

Built over 3,000 years ago
in the 13th century BC,

the site is an archaeological
treasure trove.

Among the antiquities
found here

are monumental statues of
winged lions with human heads...

...and massive relief carvings

depicting the ancient gods
of Mesopotamia.

(indistinct yelling)

But on March 6, 2015,

But on March 6, 2015,
militants from the Islamic State

militants from
the Islamic State

stormed the ancient site,

violently destroying
everything in their path.

After obliterating
irreplaceable relics,

they wired the entire
site with explosives

and leveled it completely...

...forever wiping it
from the face of the Earth.

This group seems
to be more destructive

than just about anything
people can recall in history.

It's almost as if we're being
orphaned from our past.

We are having our parentage,

our ancestors,
cut off from us...

the record of them.

It is absolutely barbaric

what is going on currently
in the Middle East

with some factions going
deliberately to ancient sites...

with some factions going
deliberately to ancient sites... (explosion booming)

(explosion booming)

...and just eradicating
our cultural heritage.

NARRATOR:
This volatile region

is widely considered to have
been the cradle of civilization,

and its archaeological
destruction

could mean
the loss of information

about mankind's historical past.

(whirring)

According to archaeologists,
many of the lost Iraqi artifacts

dated back to the time
of the Sumerians,

an ancient civilization
that most researchers believe

is the oldest
in all of Mesopotamia.

ROBERT MULLINS:
"Mesopotamia" means

"between rivers" in Greek,

referring to the Tigris
and Euphrates rivers

in what is today known as Iraq.

There were four main
kingdoms in Mesopotamia.

Sumer was the oldest one,

followed by the kingdom of
Akkad, begun by Sargon I.

After that, you have
Babylonia and Assyria.

After that, you have Babylonia and Assyria.
And even though languages changed

And even though
languages changed

And even though languages changed
and people changed to some degree,

and people changed
to some degree,

the culture that was
established by the Sumerians

really continued throughout
the lifetime of Mesopotamia.

Ancient Sumeria
in southern Mesopotamia

is often cited as
the most ancient civilization,

is often cited as
the most ancient civilization, even the first civilization.

even the first civilization.

It goes back to, approximately,
3000 to 4000 BC.

And here we see writing

in the form of cuneiform tablets
on clay and on stone.

MULLINS: The Sumerians were
the ones who invented

MULLINS: The Sumerians were
the ones who invented the cuneiform writing system.

the cuneiform writing system.

The word cuneiform
means "wedge-shaped."

It refers
to a system of writing

whereby scribes would
take a wedge-shaped stylus

and impress signs
on wet clay tablets.

Those tablets could later
be fired and hardened

and preserve what
was ever written on them.

NARRATOR: Deciphering
these cuneiform tablets

was next to impossible

until a key discovery
of thousands of tablets

at an Assyrian palace
in March of 1843.

This new abundance of
cuneiform inscriptions

provided some of
the first tangible evidence

provided some of
the first tangible evidence of an ancient kingdom

of an ancient kingdom

that had been believed
to exist thousands of years ago.

DAVID WILCOCK: A French
scientist named Paul-�mile Botta

found this gigantic
underground area

in Northern Iraq,
in Khorsabad,

opened up this incredible room

opened up this incredible room
filled with statues of gods and kings,

filled with statues
of gods and kings,

all kinds
of wonderful treasures,

and many written inscriptions
all over the walls

and many written inscriptions all over the walls
in the ancient Sumerian cuneiform.

in the ancient
Sumerian cuneiform.

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NARRATOR:
Within ten years,

archaeologists had also
discovered the ruins

of the legendary
Sumerian capital city of Ur,

home of the biblical
figure Abraham.

At the site,
scientists unearthed

the great Ziggurat of Ur,

the great Ziggurat of Ur,
a step pyramid-shaped structure

a step pyramid-shaped structure

that was the administrative
center of the city,

that was the administrative
center of the city, as well as cuneiform tablets

as well as cuneiform tablets

and tombs adorned in gold.

CHILDRESS:
So here they had found

this legendary capital
of the Sumerians

with its gold-clad tombs

and cuneiform tablets.

Something that they thought
was simply a myth

until the actual
discovery of it,

proving that it was
indeed historical fact.

JASON MARTELL:
When we look at the ancient

Sumerian civilization,

we attribute them
with over one hundred

of the firsts
for a modern society.

Things like agriculture,
science,

medicine,
mathematics, kingship,

laws, courts, judges, schools...

Literally all of this

shows up in Sumerian times,

6,000 years ago,
right out of the Stone Age.

(horse neighing)

NARRATOR: According
to mainstream researchers,

Ur was sacked by
their warring neighbors,

Ur was sacked by their warring neighbors,
the Elamites, nearly 2000 years BC.

the Elamites,
nearly 2000 years BC.

But some researchers believe
the cuneiform texts

But some researchers believe
the cuneiform texts reveal something much more

reveal something much more

than evidence
of an ancient race.

They point
to descriptions of a group

of divine beings called
the "Anunnaki,"

the so-called
"princely offspring of God,"

who, according to the Sumerians,

who, according to the Sumerians,
descended from the sky.

descended from the sky.

MULLINS: The religious
system of Mesopotamia

was polytheism,

which means that they worshipped
hundreds of different gods,

both male and female,

often depicted in human form...

...having personalities
very much like people do;

...having personalities very much like people do;
and, um, these gods were arranged

and, um,
these gods were arranged

in a kind of
political hierarchy

that, in many ways,
mimic the political systems

that, in many ways,
mimic the political systems of Mesopotamia itself.

of Mesopotamia itself.

And what this means
is that you had the high gods,

the heavenly gods.

And you also had lesser gods

who inhabited Earth
and the underworld.

Now, according
to the Sumerian text,

the heavenly gods,
the Anunnaki,

were the supreme deities,
the higher deities.

WILLIAM HENRY: The Anunnaki are
among the most mysterious

and powerful beings of myth
and sacred tradition.

The Sumerians described them
as humanoid

but nonphysical spirit beings

who had the capability

of morphing or phasing
into human form.

They came to Earth
on a special mission

to bring wisdom and also

to mine certain materials

to mine certain materials
from the Earth plane itself.

from the Earth plane itself.

CHILDRESS:
In cuneiform texts,

the Anunnaki are described
in great detail,

including how they lived
for hundreds of years.

They had tremendous
knowledge and power

over the entire world.

They knew everything.

They had knowledge of all
of the sciences and arts.

Where they got this knowledge

and where they came from

is a complete mystery
to archeologists.

And you have to ask yourself,

were they, in fact,
extraterrestrials?

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NARRATOR:
Could the strange gods

described in the cuneiform texts

really have existed?

And if so, might they have been
extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer

is a profound "yes."

And for proof, they point
to another ancient civilization

whose rulers claimed
a direct lineage

from these otherworldly beings.

(bells tolling)

On display
at the Egyptian Museum

is the Turin King List,
or Royal Canon,

which dates back
to the 13th century BC.

The papyrus includes
a list detailing

The papyrus includes
a list detailing the Ancient Egyptian rulers

the Ancient Egyptian rulers

extending back to the very start
of Egyptian civilization.

We see all the time lines

and all the kings were there,

but the first two groups
of names on that list

but the first two groups
of names on that list were gods, the gods of Egypt,

were gods, the gods of Egypt,

who they believed ruled
before the kings.

NARRATOR:
Although scholars fully accept

the chronology from
the rule of King Menes onward,

they discount the time before
his reign around 3000 BC...

a time when these alleged "gods"
ruled over Egypt.

One of the first names
to be found on the list

is the god Osiris.

WILLIAM BRAMLEY: Osiris was
depicted as a humanlike god.

WILLIAM BRAMLEY: Osiris was
depicted as a humanlike god. He had human features.

He had human features.

But one of the most curious
things about Osiris

is that he was shown
with green skin.

HENRY: Osiris is thought
to have come from

the star system Orion,
originally.

And was part of a group
of extraterrestrials

that came to Earth.

What's interesting about
the ancient Egyptian gods

is they could also die.

is they could also die.
They weren't necessarily immortal.

They weren't
necessarily immortal.

And when the god Osiris died,

centuries ago, according
to Egyptian mythology,

he was reborn
as his own son, Horus.

And Horus became a physical
incarnation on Earth.

And it is believed
by the ancient Egyptians

that all the pharaohs
became gods incarnate.

NARRATOR: Under this system
of divine kingship,

the ancient Egyptian
civilization flourished

and endured for
a remarkable 3,000 years.

This sophisticated society

attributed their advanced
knowledge of engineering,

science, medicine, and writing

science, medicine, and writing
to a pantheon of gods

to a pantheon of gods

who came to Earth
from the sky.

They left hieroglyphic
accounts of these beings

meticulously engraved on
the walls of temples and tombs

and built impressive feats
of architecture to honor them.

Could it really be
that these deities

were in fact flesh-and-blood
extraterrestrials,

as Ancient Astronaut
theorists propose?

To find the answer,
Egyptologist Ramy Romany

has invited
ancient astronaut theorist

and researcher Andrew Collins

to join him on a visit
to one of the most impressive

and best-preserved shrines
in Egypt:

and best-preserved shrines
in Egypt: the temple of Edfu,

the temple of Edfu,

located on the west bank
of the Nile,

located on the west bank
of the Nile, 465 miles south of Cairo.

465 miles south of Cairo.

ROMANY:
Look at this temple.

This is, like,
my most favorite fa�ade

in all of the temples
of ancient Egypt.

NARRATOR: According
to mainstream archaeologists,

Edfu is believed
to have been built

Edfu is believed
to have been built sometime between 237 and 57 BC.

sometime between 237 and 57 BC.

It is dedicated to
the falcon-headed god Horus,

the son of Osiris and Isis.

ROMANY: This temple was
one of the last temples

that was ever built
in ancient Egypt,

during the Roman times.

When they built that temple,
they were like,

"We want to preserve
the stories,

"so let's gather
all the mythology

of ancient Egypt and
try to put it in one temple."

It took 150 years
to make this happen.

And then, finally,
we have the book

And then, finally,
we have the book of ancient Egyptian mythology.

of ancient Egyptian mythology.

It's right in front of us
on all these walls.

It's right in front of us on all these walls.
Every wall is absolutely covered

Every wall
is absolutely covered

in hieroglyphs and images,

not only of the foundation

of ancient Egypt
and the first temple,

but also how
the world came into being.

How Egypt came into being,

How Egypt came into being,
how the universe was essentially

how the universe was essentially

founded in the first place.

I mean,
there's just so much here.

NARRATOR:
The most sacred part of Edfu,

the holy of holies,

is its inner sanctum, featuring
a 12-foot-tall granite stone.

ROMANY:
This is it, right here.

This is how it all began.

Every symbol, every text,
every little drawing in here

represents the most sacred
thing for ancient Egyptians.

The question that humans now
still ask themselves:

How did it all began?

What created us?

About every religion
talks about it.

About every religion
talks about it. Scientists tries to figure out.

Scientists tries to figure out.

Ancient Egyptians had an answer

and it was right there.

Right on top of this
is the pyramidion,

and that pyramidion
is the primeval mound

that appeared
in the middle of the marshes

where all the gods came and
landed on for the first time

to start creating humanity.

to start creating humanity.
This is the beginning of humanity.

This is the beginning
of humanity.

What we have here is a focus
of all of these chapels

finishing with--
with this incredible structure

finishing with--
with this incredible structure pointing towards the north.

pointing towards the north.

It's actually pointing
towards the origins

It's actually pointing
towards the origins of the gods themselves.

of the gods themselves.

It's a way
of projecting the soul

back to its place of origin
amongst the stars.

There's another
piece of evidence here

that you might like.

that you might like.
This is the boat,

This is the boat,

or a symbol of the boat

that they believed
the gods came on

to the first primeval stone.

So, it's all here,
in this sanctuary.

The whole story of
humanity's beginning,

you know,
its place in the stars,

and how it arrived here
in the first place.

This, to me, strongly suggests

that they were aware
that our origins

are found amongst the stars.

NARRATOR: Are the ancient
hieroglyphs carefully inscribed

on the granite stone
at the temple of Edfu

merely the fanciful notions
of ancient Egyptian priests

or could they be based
on actual historical events?

Perhaps further evidence
can be found

by exploring what remains
of the accumulated knowledge

by exploring what remains
of the accumulated knowledge of a once grand civilization

of a once grand civilization

located on the other side
of the globe.

NARRATOR:
The Yucat�n Peninsula.

1549.

A fleet of Spanish galleons

arrive on the coast
of the New World.

And with them is a small army
of Roman Catholic priests

who, during what is
the height of the Inquisition,

are determined
to rescue the pagan souls

of the natives for Almighty God.

And leading them,
direct from the Vatican,

is the fanatical
Franciscan friar Diego de Landa.

During the Spanish
colonial period

in what we call
Mexico Yucat�n,

in what we call Mexico Yucat�n,
the cradle of Mayan civilization,

the cradle
of Mayan civilization,

it was the priests
who had a lot of power,

because the Vatican was one of
the most powerful nations

on the Earth.

MARTELL: Diego de Landa came
over wanting to teach

Christian understandings
and principles to the Mayans,

but was probably intimidated
by the vast wealth of knowledge

that he actually saw
that they had tapped into.

NARRATOR:
The Mayan civilization

that Friar Diego de Landa
came upon

had thrived in the rain-drenched
jungles and fertile plains

of Central America
for more than 2,000 years.

ERICH VON D�NIKEN: The Spanish
conquerors found pyramids.

ERICH VON D�NIKEN: The Spanish
conquerors found pyramids. They found temples.

They found temples.

They found paved roads,

They found paved roads,
and they found thousands and thousands

and they found
thousands and thousands

of Maya handwritings,
thousands of it.

MARTELL: We have a lot of
very interesting information

that comes out of this
culture we call the Maya.

They've been revered for many
things in their knowledge base,

especially around time and
concepts of math and science,

and the movements
of the solar system.

NARRATOR: But while the Maya
were in many ways

NARRATOR: But while the Maya
were in many ways culturally advanced,

culturally advanced,

their religious beliefs
were notoriously bloodthirsty.

They believed
in human sacrifice,

and, as far as Friar Diego
de Landa was concerned,

did so at the expense
of their eternal souls.

It was a clash of cultures

that would not end well
for the Maya people.

Diego de Landa, later,
when he was back in Spain again,

he wrote down,

"We found thousands
of handwritings of the Indios,

but they all contained
just Devil's things."

JONATHAN YOUNG:
A new teaching, a new religion

comes into a place where there's

very strong adherence
to a body of ideas.

We have a competitive situation.

We have a competitive situation.
One maneuver is to destroy

One maneuver is to destroy

as much evidence
of the old way as you can

and that will help
reduce its grip.

It's not sacred anymore,
this is just stuff,

so we can burn it with impunity.

NARRATOR:
On July 12, 1562,

the Catholic priests,

with the armed assistance
of the Spanish military,

executed what was known
during the Inquisition

as an "auto-da-f�"
or "act of faith"...

...whereby the Maya population
was forced to declare

their religious conversion
to Christianity

their religious conversion
to Christianity or be put to death.

or be put to death.

It was also a day that
reportedly saw the destruction

of all of
the Maya sacred scrolls

and more than
5,000 priceless images.

An entire historical record.

YOUNG:
There were thousands of books

called "codices"--
probably scrolls-- burned.

All their art, their philosophy,

their scientific findings,

the accumulative knowledge
of this great civilization.

the accumulative knowledge
of this great civilization. They burned the whole thing.

They burned the whole thing.

NARRATOR: But by burning
the vast knowledge

NARRATOR: But by burning
the vast knowledge accumulated by the Maya,

accumulated by the Maya,

accumulated by the Maya,
did Friar Diego de Landa

did Friar Diego de Landa

also destroy something of
even greater historical value?

Might he have erased all traces

of the Maya's
extraterrestrial ancestors?

There's a very
interesting information

told to us by the Mayan elders

told to us by the Mayan elders
that still exist today.

that still exist today.

They speak of a time that
they were led to this land

by the sky people.

Could they be referencing
some type of lost race,

even possibly
extraterrestrial in nature?

They seemed to have knowledge
of math and science

which we can't explain
how they got this information.

When you ask them
how did they gain

When you ask them
how did they gain all of this amazing information,

all of this amazing information,

they always reference,

"We learned it
from the sky people."

HUGH NEWMAN: There were
traditions in ancient Mexico

of a great teacher arriving
on the Gulf Coast.

of a great teacher arriving on the Gulf Coast.
And when he arrived, he brought with him

And when he arrived,
he brought with him

the arts of civilization.

We know the tradition

may have originated
with a great civilization

may have originated with a great civilization
who were around long before the Maya.

who were around
long before the Maya.

But no one knows
who they really were,

or where they really came from.

NARRATOR:
Tres Zapotes, Mexico.

1938.

Archeologist Matthew Stirling,

chief of the Smithsonian's
Bureau of American Ethnology,

follows up on a report

that had gone unexamined
for more than 70 years:

that had gone unexamined
for more than 70 years: the discovery by a local farmer

the discovery by a local farmer

of an ancient
megalithic sculpture.

Stirling's investigation
results in a remarkable find,

a giant stone head
buried in the ground.

It was the first
in what, to date,

has become a total
of 17 such heads,

each weighing
a staggering eight tons

and all estimated to be
some 3,000 years old.

It is a date which suggests

It is a date which suggests
that the heads were carved

that the heads were carved

not by the Maya,

but by an even older
civilization: the Olmecs.

STEPHEN JETT: The Olmecs, uh,
they're often called

"the mother culture
of Mesoamerica."

They are the first
complex culture of any size

and significance
in that part of the world.

COLLINS: The Olmec people
come into existence

probably about 1400 BC

in the Tabasco region
of what is today Mexico.

Then, very suddenly,
you have the rise

of a full-blown society
and civilization.

And the question becomes
where did the Olmec come from?

The controversy is that many

of the beautifully carved
statues and stelae

of the beautifully carved
statues and stelae seemed to show African men.

seemed to show African men.

JETT: They appear to be
not native to the New World,

but are native
to sub-Saharan Africa.

This is not scientific
physical anthropology,

but just the appearance of these
things is pretty suggestive.

NEWMAN:
And they also show Chinese,

Vietnamese,
possibly Polynesian

and even Caucasian people

carved into solid rock.

So, there's a big mystery
about the Olmecs.

CHILDRESS: Where are
all these people coming from?

Early archaeologists were
dumbfounded by all of these

different racial characteristics

that we're seeing in
the Olmec figurines and statues.

Literally, people were coming
from all over the world

Literally, people were coming
from all over the world to Mexico at this time.

to Mexico at this time.

to Mexico at this time.
And how did they do that?

And how did they do that?

NARRATOR: Do the Olmec heads
and artifacts present evidence

that this ancient civilization

had its genetic origins

not in South America,

as many mainstream
archaeologists believe,

as many mainstream
archaeologists believe, but thousands of miles away

but thousands of miles away

and on the other side
of the Earth?

But how?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

the answer may be found

the answer may be found
after a careful examination of a number

after a careful examination
of a number

of extraordinary Olmec artifacts
found in La Venta, Mexico.

In La Venta, we have carvings

that show the Olmecs
in very bizarre scenes.

One of them
is this plumed serpent,

this snake that appears
to be floating in the sky,

and, then down below,
you actually see a person

sitting inside
this flying snake.

And so you have to wonder

And so you have to wonder
if somehow the Olmecs had access

if somehow
the Olmecs had access

to aviation technology,

and I personally think
they did, because,

at the Museum of Natural History
in New York City,

there is a Olmec figurine.

He is clearly wearing
some type of a pressurized suit.

He has some type of controls
with tubes on his chest...

On the side, you have
six wings coming out of him.

In my opinion,
it is the smoking gun

of our ancestors having access
to aviation technology

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that ancient civilizations

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that ancient civilizations had access to advanced,

had access to advanced,

perhaps even
extraterrestrial, technology

in the remote past?

As incredible
as the notion may seem,

scientists have found
evidence indicating

a once-thriving
ancient civilization

on the Indian subcontinent

may have been in possession
of weapons of mass destruction.

NARRATOR:
Sindh Provence, Pakistan.

1922.

An officer of the
Archaeological Survey of India

An officer of the
Archaeological Survey of India is led by a Buddhist monk

is led by a Buddhist monk

to an area believed to have
been a religious monument.

But under the mounds of dirt,

archaeologists find instead

an ancient Indus Valley city
dating back to 2000 BC.

It is called Mohenjo-daro,

It is called Mohenjo-daro,
or "Mound of the Dead,"

or "Mound of the Dead,"

and it is one of
the oldest civilizations

discovered in the world.

BRAMLEY: Mohenjo-daro was
very advanced for that time.

They had sanitation,

they had all kinds
of good things going,

and they had a lot of trade
going with Mesopotamia.

NARRATOR:
The city of Mohenjo-daro

rivaled
the ancient civilizations

in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Archaeologists believe
that over 35,000 people

Archaeologists believe
that over 35,000 people once occupied the city.

once occupied the city.

However, only 43 skeletons

have been discovered
at the site.

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There are many theories

There are many theories
surrounding the mysterious disappearance

surrounding
the mysterious disappearance

of the Indus people
from Mohenjo-daro.

In 1977, British researcher
David Davenport

discovered that part
of the archaeological site

showed evidence
of having been destroyed

by an extremely
powerful explosion.

(explosion booming)

...epicenter of something

that he believed
was an explosion

NARRATOR: Scholars claim that
several calcified skeletons

found at the site

suggest they suffered
an instantaneous death.

HENRY: At Mohenjo-daro,
they found bodies, arm in arm--

HENRY: At Mohenjo-daro,
they found bodies, arm in arm-- skeletons, arm in arm--

skeletons, arm in arm--

that had been vitrified,
virtually vitrified.

NARRATOR: For years,
restricted access to the site

has prevented scientists from
analyzing the vitrified ruins.

But in 2014,

mineralogist Dr. Sam Iyengar

was able to obtain
a piece of fused pottery

from Mohenjo-daro and put it
through a series of tests.

SAMPATH IYENGAR: When I did
the elemental analysis

it showed me that
the Mohenjo-daro rock

contained mostly silicon,

aluminum, with
some calcium and potassium.

So my thought was maybe
it could be some type of a clay,

till I did
the X-ray diffraction.

NARRATOR: X-ray diffraction
is able to determine

exactly how
a material was formed.

IYENGAR: When I did
the X-ray powder diffraction,

this is the pattern I got.

And you can see
some crystalline peaks here,

And you can see
some crystalline peaks here, along with an amorphous hump,

along with an amorphous hump,

which usually results
from a glassy phase in the rock.

The composition is
very similar to volcanic rock.

The only way
the clay can be converted

into something which we saw,

is subjecting the clay to
a very, very high temperature.

I am talking 4,000
to 5,000 degree Fahrenheit.

That is not something
a early civilization

can do intentionally.

It has to be
something supernatural.

NARRATOR:
Could this pottery sample,

which shows
irrefutable evidence

of having been subjected
to extreme heat...

(fire whooshing)

...be definitive evidence

that Mohenjo-daro
really was the site

of some type of powerful
explosion in the ancient past?

David Davenport
and other researchers

of India's ancient Vedic texts

have suggested
that this is the case,

and that Mohenjo-daro may in
fact be the kingdom of Lanka...

...a city whose destruction
is detailed

in the Indian epic known
as the Ramayana.

In the Ramayana, it is
described that the god Vishnu

decides the leader of Lanka,

a mortal named Ravana,

a mortal named Ravana,
has grown too powerful.

has grown too powerful.

Vishnu takes
the human form of Rama

and does battle with Ravana,

who has become
like the gods himself.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: Ravana was
a very formidable enemy.

In fact, most of his power,

it was acquired from,
from God, Shiva himself,

because he was
a great devotee of Shiva

and Shiva gave him
lethal weapons.

It was described as
the sun turning into

50 even more brighter suns,

with this incredible blast.

So some people have suggested

that perhaps at Mohenjo-daro

some type of
nuclear blast occurred.

Not only do we have
a textual reference

Not only do we have
a textual reference to a possible nuclear blast,

to a possible nuclear blast,

but we also find
physical evidence

that show
vitrification of stone.

And the only way
that stone can be vitrified

is if it's exposed
to extreme heat.

This is not mythology.
This is not superstition.

This is documented
historical events

of people that are warring
with each other

using advanced technology.

I happen to believe
that mankind possessed

incredible technology,
incredible knowledge,

and that they did things

that we're doing right now

and then something happened...

(explosion booming)

...and they had to literally
start all over again.

NARRATOR: If Mohenjo-daro was
the mythical city of Lanka

detailed in the Vedic texts,

might we discover other places

that have been dismissed
as fiction truly existed?

Could these
long-lost ancient cultures

provide essential pieces
of the puzzle

for reconstructing
our planet's history?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and point to another
forgotten civilization,

whose very unearthing

required a retooling
of the history books.

NARRATOR:
Guanghan City, China.

1986.

Construction workers
unearth two sacrificial pits

that contain the relics
of a long-lost civilization.

The cache contains hundreds
of bronze and gold masks,

The cache contains hundreds
of bronze and gold masks, statues and figurines

statues and figurines

in addition to numerous
marble and jade artifacts.

Chinese historians
consider the discovery

one of the most important finds
of the 20th century,

and date the site back
between 3,000 and 5,000 years,

to the very start
of Chinese civilization.

Before the Sanxingdui discovery,

Chinese civilization
was understood

to have arisen
from the Yellow River Basin.

Basically, one spot in China.

This discovery
showed that there were

other very advanced cultures
on the periphery

of the Yellow River Basin
that also heavily contributed

to the formation
of Chinese civilization.

LEE: Nobody wrote about
the culture at Sanxingdui.

There's nothing that
comes up in Chinese texts

and the Chinese are very good
at documenting their history.

So one of the most
surprising things

is how a culture
that was so sophisticated

could slide under
the radar of history.

NARRATOR: The Sanxingdui culture
left no written record,

no human remains
have been found,

and according
to their artifacts,

they appear to have
only existed for 350 years.

LEE:
For some unknown reason,

the artifacts were broken,

the artifacts were broken,
burned and placed into two pits,

burned and placed into two pits,

and covered up,
rendering them useless.

So it's very curious
as to why that happened.

NARRATOR: Adding to the intrigue
of the vanished civilization,

they left behind
dozens of bronze heads

with odd features.

On November 1, 2007,

On November 1, 2007,
the official press agency of China

the official press
agency of China

asked the question whether or
not what we're looking at here

are ancestors
or in fact extraterrestrials.

And my question is,

"What if what we have here
is both?"

If you check out
this one right here,

If you check out
this one right here, look at the eyes.

look at the eyes.

Now, why would any artisan carve

or create something like this?

Because our eyes
don't look like this.

The whole thing is
very bizarre-looking.

The whole thing is
very bizarre-looking. It is not necessarily human.

It is not necessarily human.

It is something else.

The masks look very unusual.

They have big ears, big eyes.

They don't look like
normal human beings of today.

NARRATOR: Could it be
that the masks found

NARRATOR: Could it be
that the masks found at the Sanxingdui site

at the Sanxingdui site

are depicting
ancient astronauts

who visited our planet
in the remote past?

And if so,
could this help explain

And if so,
could this help explain the abrupt disappearance

the abrupt disappearance

of a seemingly advanced
civilization?

Ultimately, they vanish

and we don't know
what happened to them.

So were they some kind
of extraterrestrial civilization

or human hybrid civilization?

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

the unearthing of the mysterious
Sanxingdui civilization

and their curious artifacts

provides valuable support
to the idea

that extraterrestrials
shared the planet with mankind

that extraterrestrials
shared the planet with mankind in the remote past.

in the remote past.

And they suggest that
even more compelling evidence

has been found

with the remnants
of a sophisticated society

with the remnants
of a sophisticated society that predates the Ice Age.

that predates the Ice Age.

West Java, Indonesia.

Located in Karyamukti village

is a mysterious site
called Gunung Padang,

or "Mountain of Enlightenment."

For thousands of years,

the local population revered
Gunung Padang as a sacred site,

and many came here to meditate
among the giant stone blocks.

But in 1914,
Dutch explorers discovered

that the basalt columns
scattered across the hilltop

are not natural
features at all.

They are, in fact, fragments
of an ancient megalithic site.

A century later, in 2013,

A century later, in 2013,
the Indonesian government

the Indonesian government

sponsored an excavation

to see if anything was hidden

beneath the layers
of dirt and rubble.

What they found
was evidence that suggests

Gunung Padang is
the world's oldest step pyramid.

COLLINS: Gunung Padang is
probably the most remarkable

megalithic structure
in the whole of Southeast Asia.

And what it consists of
is a hillside

on the top of which
are a series of terraces

on which are structures
made from basaltic pillars;

and other types of structure.

SCHOCH:
But what is really important

is the age of it.

It has been analyzed
by Indonesian geologist,

and he seemed to have
very good data

from boreholes,
from radiocarbon analysis,

from seismic sections--

as I've done around
the Great Sphinx--

that this site goes
back an incredible

20,000 or so years;

maybe slightly more than that.

NARRATOR:
According to geologists,

20,000 years ago,

Java, where Gunung Padang
is located,

was not an isolated island,

but the southernmost part

of a sub-continent
known as Sundaland.

This has led
some researchers to speculate

that Gunung Padang,
with its high elevation,

could have been at
the pinnacle of a civilization

that disappeared
sometime around 10,000 BC,

when melting ice caps
flooded the region

and turned it into the series
of islands it is today.

The compelling suggestion
is that there was

The compelling suggestion
is that there was some sort of civilization here

some sort of civilization here

some sort of civilization here
before this flood took place,

before this flood took place,

that they built this
with advanced technology.

Archeologists are not
finding the evidence

that we would
normally expect to see

that we would
normally expect to see showing a geometric progression

showing a geometric progression

of technology leading up
to the ability to build

a gigantic pyramid
well over 12,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: Might the remnants
of Gunung Padang,

and of the Sanxingdui
civilization,

paint a picture
of Earth's occupation

that is vastly different than
conventional scholars contend?

One where
extraterrestrial beings

dwelled on
the planet with humans,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

Perhaps evidence
to such a history

Perhaps evidence
to such a history can be found in the pages

can be found in the pages

of our most sacred texts.

NARRATOR:
Throughout the world,

there are incredible
manmade structures

that have been found to date
back thousands of years earlier

that have been found to date back thousands of years earlier
than archaeologists initially thought.

than archaeologists
initially thought.

Is it possible that
an advanced civilization

really existed on Earth
in mankind's prehistory?

A close examination of the
so-called Old Testament

A close examination of the
so-called Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian Bible

of the Judeo-Christian Bible

suggests that,
although Adam and Eve

are presumably the first
humans created by God,

their son Cain later went on
to marry and join

a thriving community.

FANTHORPE: There are a number
of biblical stories

which make us suspect
that perhaps homo sapiens

were not the only species
on Earth or even the first ones.

Although Adam and Eve are
recorded in the Garden of Eden

as the first human parents

that when Cain went on his way

after murdering
his brother, Abel...

he comes to another city
with other beings living in it.

Now, who are they?
What are they?

NARRATOR: According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,
several ancient texts can be found

several ancient texts
can be found

that describe beings
that dwelled upon the Earth

before the time of Adam and Eve.

These are often referred to
as the "pre-Adamites."

There is a long
and ancient history

of what today
are called pre-Adamites.

Now who are they, what are they?

This is a subject,
of course, of many legends.

Those legends tell us
tremendous amount of things.

People's lives extended
for thousands of years.

They allegedly reached
high levels of technology,

even traveling to the stars,

and yet, somehow, something went
wrong in their civilization.

The pre-Adamic
civilization fell,

but some went to the stars

and they were told,
ordered by God,

to watch and to observe.

Let's assume for a moment

that we had
this incredible planet

and all of a sudden
extraterrestrials,

and all of a sudden
extraterrestrials, other beings, came here

other beings, came here

and they had their
own facilities,

their own monuments,

their own communities

their own communities
for at least some time.

for at least some time.

And then, somewhere
along the line, they took off.

NARRATOR: Stories of a time
when otherworldly beings

NARRATOR: Stories of a time
when otherworldly beings occupied the planet

occupied the planet

can be found in
nearly all world mythologies.

For the ancient Egyptians,
the dawn of life on Earth

For the ancient Egyptians,
the dawn of life on Earth is referred to as "Zep Tepi,"

is referred to as "Zep Tepi,"

"the first time,"

when the god Osiris served
as an earthly ruler.

The ancient Greeks called this
period the "Golden Age,"

when the Titans and
the Olympians dwelled on Earth.

And the ancient
Sumerian accounts

detail a time
before the creation of man

when the gods were the sole
occupants of the planet.

The basic suggestion
is that extraterrestrials

colonized planet Earth

thousands of years ago.

And we're talking not
10,000 or 15,000 years ago,

but hundreds
of thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR:
But if an advanced,

possibly extraterrestrial,
civilization

really did exist here on Earth,

why is there no record of it?

No apparent archaeological
or architectural evidence?

PAUL BAHN: For most of the
cultures studied by archaeology,

PAUL BAHN: For most of the
cultures studied by archaeology, we are bereft of, probably,

we are bereft of, probably,

the vast majority
of what they produced.

This is particularly true

the further back in time you go,

simply because anything organic
will-will not survive.

TSOUKALOS:
The reason why most

of the ancient monuments

were built by using stone

is because stone lasts forever.

That's it.

That's it.
And the reason why we have

And the reason why we have

these monuments today

is because
they were calling cards.

They were calling cards
of a pre-civilization.

NARRATOR: Mechanical engineers,
like Nikhil Kar,

study the deterioration,
corrosion,

study the deterioration, corrosion,
and decomposition of various materials

and decomposition of
various materials

to determine
the approximate rate of decay

to determine
the approximate rate of decay and structural failure.

and structural failure.

By applying these principles
to a cityscape,

scientists are able to determine

roughly how long it would take

the hallmarks of a sophisticated
civilization to disappear.

NIKHIL KAR:
If civilization was abandoned,

after 50 years,
you would start to see

material degradation
processes take over

for a skyscraper, for example.

You would see parts
of the external fa�ade

You would see parts
of the external fa�ade crumbling to the ground.

crumbling to the ground.

For steel material,

you're gonna start to see
little pits form

in that steel structure.

After 1,000 years,
the soil may begin

to absorb the material
and erode the material itself.

Eventually, you're gonna get
to a point where only

stone materials, natural stones

are gonna be around,
such as Mount Rushmore.

NARRATOR:
Quito, Ecuador.

Here in the grasslands
of South America

are the remnants
of the Great Incan Road.

The sophisticated network
of pathways and trails

covers over 25,000 miles
though Ecuador, Peru,

Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.

Presumably, the Inca built
this vast roadway

Presumably, the Inca built
this vast roadway without the use of the wheel,

without the use of the wheel,

draft animals, metal tools,

draft animals, metal tools,
or even a written language.

or even a written language.

Yet modern engineers have
noted that the roadway

incorporates advanced
engineering principles.

EDWIN BARNHART:
The Inca road system

was really one
of the most magnificent

ancient architectural
feats ever made.

One of the things that made
the Inca road so incredible

is that they traversed
the Andes,

these incredibly tall,
steep mountains.

They had to bore tunnels
through mountains.

They cut narrow paths
along sheer cliff faces.

BRIEN FOERSTER: One of
the most intriguing things

about the Inca road system

is that there
is a major artery

that goes from the northwest
to the southeast.

And along that,
we find almost every major

megalithic construction

megalithic construction
including Tiahuanaco,

including Tiahuanaco,

Puma Punku,

Cuzco,

Machu Picchu,
Ollantaytambo

and Sacsayhuam�n.

Many are starting to believe

that these
megalithic structures

are thousands of years
older than the Inca

and therefore parts of the Inca
road system are, as well,

thousands of years older
than that civilization.

The Incas, so many
of their great structures,

The Incas, so many
of their great structures, Cuzco and their royal highway,

Cuzco and their royal highway,

you ask them who built these,
"How did you build these?"

And they'll say,
"We didn't build these."

Well, who did build it?

CHILDRESS:
The Incas had elaborate legends

of coming through
tunnel systems in the earth,

appearing on an island
in Lake Titicaca,

and then coming to Cuzco

and finding, already,
a system of tunnels

and ancient mines
and structures.

and ancient mines
and structures. It was the home of the gods,

It was the home of the gods,

It was the home of the gods,
where they lived before they left.

where they lived
before they left.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that the foundations
of the Inca superhighway

that the foundations of the Inca superhighway
and the megalithic sites along it

and the megalithic sites
along it

are remnants of an
extraterrestrial civilization

that once colonized Earth?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

According to ancient
astronaut theorists, the answer is a profound yes.

the answer is a profound yes.

And to prove it, they point
to a series of stone carvings

said to depict mankind's
"ancient ancestors."

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NARRATOR: Sanliurfa, Turkey.
October 1994.

While plowing his field,
shepherd Savak Yildiz

spots a strangely-shaped stone

protruding from the ground.

After brushing away the dirt,

he realizes that it may be
part of a much larger object.

Shortly after contacting
the local museum with his find,

he is visited by Klaus Schmidt

from the German
Archaeological Institute.

It wasn't until German
archaeologist Klaus Schmidt

visited the site
and began digging

they realized what
was really at this site.

What he discovered
was mind-blowing.

After discovering
the first T-shaped pillar

buried at the site,

he soon found more of
these massive structures.

NARRATOR:
During the intensive dig,

Schmidt and his team
begin to unearth

dozens of additional
giant stone monoliths

covered in intricate carvings,

some weighing
as much as 20 tons.

some weighing as much as 20 tons.
BAHN: The site of G�bekli Tepe

BAHN:
The site of G�bekli Tepe

is a series
of circular enclosures.

But then, in the center
of each enclosure,

you have two particularly big
T-shaped pillars of limestone

sort of facing each other.

Now, many of these pillars have
remarkable carvings on them,

wonderful carvings
and bas-reliefs of animals,

birds, insects,
all kinds of things.

So to fashion those
and carve them

and set them up
in these structures

and set them up
in these structures was just absolutely amazing.

was just absolutely amazing.

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists estimate

that it would have taken
a team of 50 men

an entire week to move just

one of the monolithic pillars
from the limestone quarry

to the top of the hill
where they stand today,

and over 300 hours
to carve the bas-reliefs.

At this rate, each of the five
stone circles unearthed so far

would have required
a full year to be completed.

But why such a monumental site

was built in the first place
remains a mystery.

It's very difficult to know
what the purpose

of something like
G�bekli Tepe could be.

And certainly Klaus Schmidt
had not reached any conclusions,

except that it's clearly
not a settlement,

except that it's clearly
not a settlement, it's not a village.

it's not a village.

There is absolutely
no domestic refuse.

Schmidt always hoped
that it was funerary

and that there would be
burials underneath the walls

or underneath some
of the pillars and so on.

But so far
they have not yet found

But so far
they have not yet found any human remains at the site.

any human remains at the site.

There are no domestic plants
in the site.

There are no domestic plants
in the site. They are only wild animal bones.

They are only wild animal bones.

Inevitably, in archeology,

if we don't know what something
is for we think of "ritual."

if we don't know what something is for we think of "ritual."
But, really, it's pure speculation.

But, really,
it's pure speculation.

NARRATOR: Intrigued by
evidence that the structure

NARRATOR: Intrigued by evidence that the structure
might go back to a Neolithic period,

might go back
to a Neolithic period,

Klaus Schmidt
has the sediment layers

of the site radiocarbon dated.

The results indicated

The results indicated
that the stone structures

that the stone structures

could be as much as
12,000 years old--

more than 5,000 years older

than mankind's first known
civilization in Mesopotamia.

More than that,

it would place the construction
of G�bekli Tepe

to a time when
mainstream scholars suggest

humans were roaming the Earth
as hunter-gatherers.

BAHN:
Well, the site of G�bekli Tepe

really did send shockwaves
through the whole world

of early pre-history,
because we'd never before

known or imagined, even,

that simple hunter-gatherers

could produce such spectacular
monumental structures.

Now, in archeology,
really, since it began,

we've always assumed
that hunter-gatherers

were capable of producing
wonderful works of art;

rock art, cave art
and things like that.

rock art, cave art
and things like that. But we never imagined

But we never imagined

that they could come together
in sufficient numbers

to make monumental constructions
like G�bekli Tepe.

G�bekli Tepe is really
one of the greatest

archeological discoveries
of all time.

The very first temples in
the world are at G�bekli Tepe.

And this, in many ways,
changes everything,

because here
we have the smoking gun

of a lost civilization.

It confirms to us absolutely

that at the end of
the last Ice Age

there was high culture
existing in the world.

there was high culture
existing in the world. There's no doubt in my mind

There's no doubt in my mind

that there are question marks
all around the ancient world

and G�bekli Tepe offers such
a giant question mark

because, according
to mainstream science,

we were sitting in caves
munching on bananas

and clearly,
that isn't the case.

NARRATOR:
While archaeologists have only excavated

a fraction of this 22-acre site,

what they have found
is astounding.

The remains of
a complex of buildings,

massive walls,
and T-shaped stone formations,

some nine to ten feet tall

and weighing up to 50 tons.

Many of the stone pillars are
covered with relief carvings

of animals,
reptiles and insects.

Archeologists have also found
figures at the site

that appear to represent humans

with strangely
stylized clothing.

BAHN: We have no idea
what these humans represent.

We suspect that
these are not just simple

statues commemorating people.

The-They could be gods,
they could be spirits,

they could be ancestors,
something of that kind.

NARRATOR:
But perhaps most intriguing

NARRATOR:
But perhaps most intriguing is a life-size statue

is a life-size statue

is a life-size statue
found just six miles away

found just six miles away

that has been dated
to the same period:

the Urfa Man.

WILCOCK:
This looks like a person

who has come from
an advanced civilization,

who's wearing something

who's wearing something
that has much more of a defined collar,

that has much more
of a defined collar,

possibly even some sort
of advanced space suit.

What the heck is he doing there?

What the heck is he doing there?
His face looks strange, he's bald,

His face looks strange,
he's bald,

his head--
his eyes look weird...

There's something unusual
about this guy

and that could be a clue
that leads us into the mystery

of an antediluvian or
pre-flood civilization.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the strange humanoid figure

found near G�bekli Tepe actually
represents an extraterrestrial?

A being from a lost civilization
that existed on Earth

sometime before
the last Ice Age?

If so, does it give credence
to other ancient stories

describing
otherworldly civilizations

describing otherworldly civilizations
that once existed here on Earth?

that once existed
here on Earth?

There is this recessed
courtyard in Tiahuanaco

that has all these
different faces.

These stones were found
underneath the soil,

meaning that, at some point,

some type of event happened

some type of event happened
that buried these particular stones.

that buried these
particular stones.

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Some have actually surmised

that they represent some type
of a pre-flood civilization.

That what we have here

is, in fact, a remnant
that depicts that society.

All over the world
we have giant statues

and carvings
of people's faces and heads.

Some of them
are giant colossal heads

like the Olmec colossal heads.

Others are
the Easter Island-type statues,

which are huge
and depict people who have

elongated heads--
they're Coneheads, essentially.

They were giants of yore
with god-like powers.

In my mind, we could call them
extraterrestrials.

In all of these places,

the locals are saying,

"Yes, these are our ancestors.

These are the people
who came before us."

NARRATOR: Might our planet
really have been inhabited

NARRATOR: Might our planet
really have been inhabited by alien visitors

by alien visitors

tens of thousands
of years ago?

And might they have brought
with them advanced knowledge,

And might they have brought with them advanced knowledge,
incredible architecture and technology

incredible architecture
and technology

that virtually vanished
without a trace,

save for a few stone carvings
and monuments?

But why?

What catastrophic event
might have happened on Earth

What catastrophic event might have happened on Earth
that would have wiped out everything

that would have
wiped out everything

that wasn't made of stone?

Perhaps further evidence
can be found

by examining a number
of massive man-made caves

by examining a number
of massive man-made caves recently discovered in China.

recently discovered in China.

NARRATOR:
Zhejiang Province, China.

June 1992.

A local villager pumping water

out of a pond in Phoenix Hill

uncovers a man-made cavern

uncovers a man-made cavern
with stairs, hallways,

with stairs, hallways,

and massive,
ten-story-tall pillars.

The grotto is one in a series
of 24 separate caverns,

each with similar proportions

and intricately carved walls,
floors and ceilings.

BAHN: Nobody really knows
what on earth these things are.

There's no trace
of them having been occupied

or being used for storage;

or being used for storage;
uh, certainly not for burials,

uh, certainly not for burials,

there's no trace
of anything like that.

TSOUKALOS:
There's a Swiss author

TSOUKALOS:
There's a Swiss author by the name of Luc B�rgin

by the name of Luc B�rgin

who was first to take
this story outside of China

in his book China's Mysterious
Cave Labyrinth.

And what he showed me
convinced me

that some kind of advanced
technology was used here.

It's one of the most amazing
things I've ever seen,

where you enter
this subterranean world

that clearly has been hewn
out of the bedrock

with artificial means.

It's almost as if
there was some sort

of artificial mechanism
that was grinding and drilling

of artificial mechanism
that was grinding and drilling all of the stone out.

all of the stone out.

all of the stone out.
And this suggests the possibility

And this suggests
the possibility

that they may have had
some sort of technology.

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists estimate

that the material
excavated from the site

would amount to nearly
one million cubic meters,

approximately the volume
of 400 Olympic-sized pools.

Yet there is no evidence

of where this material
would have gone

and Chinese officials
have calculated

that an endeavor
of this magnitude

would take a minimum
of 1,000 men

working day and night
for at least five years.

There is no historical record

of these caverns
having been excavated.

of these caverns having been excavated.
So there's no document explaining

So there's no document
explaining

what they were used for,
who excavated them

and this remains a very,
very frustrating detail

for historians.

COLLINS: We know that in China
there are written records

that go back
at least 3,000 years.

They make absolutely
no mention of these caves.

So we must look much
further back in time

for their origin.

for their origin.
But exactly how old are they?

But exactly how old are they?

Are they 4,000 years,
5,000 years?

Are they even 10,000 years?

We just don't know
at this time.

TSOUKALOS:
Some have suggested

that they're up
to 15,000 years old.

that they're up
to 15,000 years old. In fact, Chinese scholars

In fact, Chinese scholars

In fact, Chinese scholars
are the ones who have proposed

are the ones who have proposed

that this cave system

dates back to one of China's
first emperors, Huangdi.

And Huangdi, as we all know,

descended from the sky

in nothing else
but a fiery dragon.

WILCOCK: Somebody went to
an extreme amount of trouble

to build
an underground civilization.

to build
an underground civilization. Why would they do that?

Why would they do that?

Is it possible that
something was happening

on the surface of the Earth?

When we go back
to the Icelandic legends,

we see this cataclysm

that is described
as a cataclysm of fire

called the Ragnar�k,

in which you have
flames in the air

and rocks and gravel
raining down from the sky.

NARRATOR: In the Icelandic
Ragnar�k legend,

the world is turned upside down.

A great fire is followed

by a submersion
of the world in water,

resulting in the death
of the Nordic gods

resulting in the death
of the Nordic gods and their offspring.

and their offspring.

Only two humans are left
to repopulate the Earth.

It is a tale much like
that of the Great Flood

found in
the Judeo-Christian Bible.

And similar stories
of a great deluge,

one that marks the end
of an old world

one that marks the end
of an old world and the start of a new one,

and the start of a new one,

can be found in
the histories of virtually

every ancient civilization
on our planet.

SCHOCH: Virtually every culture,
every ancient culture

talks about floods,
and ancient floods.

Some people dismiss this as,
you know,

myth, without explanation.

But what we find geologically

is, in fact,
we would expect flood legends.

NARRATOR: In 2007,
a consortium of geologists

publishes
its collective findings

indicating evidence
of a major meteor event.

What they discover
is a carbon-rich layer

in the geological record at
various sites across the globe

dating back
to around 10,900 BC.

A separate study
conducted by scientists

A separate study
conducted by scientists studying Arctic ice core samples

studying Arctic ice core samples

finds evidence suggesting
a rapid glacial melt

at nearly the same time period.

SCHOCH: The Ice Age ends
very, very dramatically,

almost literally overnight.

almost literally overnight.
You see this in the ice cores.

You see this in the ice cores.

All of a sudden,
there are dramatic changes,

temperatures rising,
torrential rains, flooding.

NARRATOR: Could
the geological record suggest

that the stories of
a global cataclysm are true?

(thunder crashing)

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

According to ancient
astronaut theorists, not only is this the case,

not only is this the case,

but further evidence can be
found in recent discoveries

of long-lost sunken cities.

Fuxian Lake.
Yunnan Province, China.

1992.

Expert diver Geng Wei

Expert diver Geng Wei
descends into this remote lake

descends into this remote lake

and discovers
a surprising phenomenon:

The bottom is littered
with hand-carved flagstones

and other stone relics.

The mysterious stones
lie scattered on the bottom

of China's second-deepest
freshwater lake,

which covers an area
of 100 square miles

with a depth of 509 feet.

What he saw
was quite extraordinary.

What he saw
was quite extraordinary. Hand-dressed flagstones,

Hand-dressed flagstones,

roads, buildings...

...and it's as if he discovered
an underwater city...

...that clearly has evidence
of dwellings

at the bottom of a lake.

It was built
when there wasn't a lake,

and that would mean
that we're talking about

a time before the last Ice Age,

which would bring
the story of Fuxian Lake

which would bring
the story of Fuxian Lake way more into the remote past

way more into the remote past

way more into the remote past
than what we're being told.

than what we're being told.

CHILDRESS: Geng Wei made
over 35 dives in Fuxian Lake.

And they even took a submarine
down into this lake...

...to find stairs
and more of these flagstones

and walls beneath this lake.

So you have to wonder,

did some kind of
advanced civilization

exist at one time
beneath Fuxian Lake?

NARRATOR:
In 2001,

archaeologists from
the Yunnan Provincial Museum

used advanced sonar scanners
and cameras

to conduct the monumental task
of surveying Fuxian Lake.

The evidence collected
convinced Chinese archaeologists

they had discovered structures
of an advanced civilization,

including an arena-type
building and pyramids.

This mysterious sunken city

covers more than
one square mile,

but the questions remain...

who built it and why?

The pyramid itself
is very unusual

and it's-- it is said
that the pyramid

is as old as
the Egyptian pyramids are

and maybe even higher
than some of them.

and maybe even higher
than some of them. It's an incredible discovery.

It's an incredible discovery.

NARRATOR: With the discovery
of more and more ancient sites

that date back to an earlier
epoch of civilization,

are we on the verge of
discovering irrefutable proof

of a vastly different history
than we've been taught?

And perhaps,
even more astoundingly,

that for thousands of years,

Earth has been inhabited
by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Aerospace engineer

and satellite imagining expert
Dr. Mark Carlotto

has spent the past
three years investigating

some of the world's most
impressive archaeological sites.

some of the world's most
impressive archaeological sites. After closely examining

After closely examining

each site's precise
geographical orientation,

he has come to
the incredible conclusion

that many ancient structures
provide evidence

of being far older
than has been suggested

by mainstream archaeology

and were likely built
tens of thousands of years ago.

If you look
at many monuments today,

they're often built with respect
to the cardinal directions.

So knowledge of the Earth,
of astronomy,

of the heavens, was very
important in alignments.

NARRATOR: Because most of the
world's megalithic structures

were built so that they would
be in precise alignment

with the Earth's
cardinal directions

of north, south, east and west,

of north, south, east and west,
Dr. Carlotto's investigation

Dr. Carlotto's investigation

had a breakthrough after
he noticed that Teotihuac�n,

the ancient complex
north of Mexico City,

didn't properly line up.

An extraordinary possibility
then occurred to him:

perhaps the structure was built

perhaps the structure was built
tens of thousands of years earlier,

tens of thousands
of years earlier,

when the Earth's poles were
not in their current locations.

It was an idea that was not
as far-fetched as it seems.

In the 1950s,

Harvard educated scientist
Charles Hapgood

proposed a theory known as
"crustal displacement,"

whereby, at certain
moments in history,

the Earth's crust suddenly
and rapidly shifts positions,

and, in the process,
changes the positions

of the North and South Poles.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Plate tectonics
have plates moving slowly

as individual separate plates.

Um, Charles had a theory

that, basically, instead
of a slow, steady movement,

he was really interested
in sudden,

quick movements
of the crust as a whole.

CHILDRESS:
What Hapgood was saying

was that the thin crust
of the Earth

can slip forward on the mantle.

And therefore, the North Pole
and South Pole

can shift somewhat.

(thunder crashing)

And this causes
huge cataclysmic changes.

Hapgood's analysis was based
on climate data.

Looking at patterns
of climate change,

uh, changes in glacial
patterns, ice ages,

and then correlating
those patterns

with what he believed
was the cause,

which was a shift of the poles.

Hapgood believed that over

Hapgood believed that over
the last hundred thousand years or so,

the last hundred thousand
years or so,

that there were three previous
locations of the North Pole.

And when I looked at the imagery
of these Meso-American sites

and realized that
these pyramids and temples

were not aligned to north,
I thought,

perhaps they were aligned
to former north poles

that Hapgood had discovered.

Hapgood actually
sent this theory

to Albert Einstein,
who endorsed it.

to Albert Einstein,
who endorsed it. And when Einstein died,

And when Einstein died,

he actually had Hapgood's book
open on his desk.

NARRATOR: Dr. Carlotto believes
that some of the world's

most impressive
ancient structures

not only confirm
Hapgood's theory

but radically alter
our understanding

of intelligent life
on planet Earth.

So my process
for analyzing these images

starts with a geographically
registered image

starts with a geographically
registered image where north is up.

where north is up.

So, for example,
here we have Teotihuac�n,

and this is where
my search began.

And let me just highlight
the four sides so

we can define a direction
towards the north.

As you can see in this image,

the pyramid is not oriented
to their cardinal directions,

the pyramid is not oriented
to their cardinal directions, north, south, east, and west.

north, south, east, and west.

NARRATOR:
To test his theory,

NARRATOR: To test his theory,
Dr. Carlotto was curious to find out

Dr. Carlotto was curious
to find out

Dr. Carlotto was curious
to find out if other ancient structures

if other ancient structures

shared Teotihuac�n's
same geographic anomaly.

What I ended up doing
was developing an algorithm

as the basis for analyzing
their alignment.

So now, as we'll see

when we zoom out,
we'll find that Teotihuac�n

is aligned
to other sites nearby

and I'll show you that
by zooming out here.

And this shows
a number of other sites

And this shows
a number of other sites in the valley of Mexico

in the valley of Mexico

that are aligned in
the same general direction.

All of these lines
are meridians that lead

to a point east of Hudson Bay.

NARRATOR: Incredibly, these
sites align with a location

that Hapgood proposed
was once the North Pole.

CARLOTTO: Hapgood believed
the Hudson Bay Pole

existed 12,000 to
18,000 years ago.

So these sites,
by virtue of their alignment

to this particular pole,
could be that old.

NARRATOR: If Dr. Carlotto's
analysis is correct,

it would date
the construction of Teotihuac�n

it would date
the construction of Teotihuac�n to at least 10,000 BC,

to at least 10,000 BC,

which is 10,000 years older

than mainstream
archaeologists propose.

And he contends
that other ancient sites

were built even earlier.

CARLOTTO: One of
the most enigmatic sites

CARLOTTO: One of
the most enigmatic sites on Earth is Baalbek,

on Earth is Baalbek,

the Temple of Jupiter,
in Lebanon.

As you can see,
this site is oriented

to a point in Northern Greenland

that Hapgood believed

was a former location
of the North Pole.

NARRATOR:
Based on Hapgood's theory,

Baalbek's alignment
to Northern Greenland

would date it to a staggering
50,000 years ago.

Another site nearby,
the Western Wall

Another site nearby,
the Western Wall in the city of Jerusalem,

in the city of Jerusalem,

is aligned in the direction
of the Greenland Pole.

And let's take a look
at a third site,

the Parthenon in Athens.

We believe that the original
structures at these sites--

in other words,
the original sites themselves--

were established
as long ago as 50,000 years.

NARRATOR:
According to Dr. Carlotto,

these are still not the oldest
structures that exist on Earth.

Based on Hapgood's theory,

the North Pole was located
in the Bering Sea

more than 100,000 years ago.

So this is the Temple
of the Six Monoliths

at Ollantaytambo

and it's the Sun Temple.

Normally,
sun temples are aligned

to the cardinal directions.

They have
an eastern side that faces

the rising sun on the equinox.

Here, the sun temple is tilted
approximately 45 degrees.

An alignment to the current pole
doesn't make any sense,

An alignment to the current pole doesn't make any sense,
but if we now change our reference

but if we now change
our reference

and look at an earlier pole,

this pole thought to have
existed in the Bering Sea,

then the orientation of the sun
temple makes perfect sense.

So what's significant
about this analysis

is that it actually extends
the timeframe for archaeology

from 10,000 years
to tens of thousands of years

to perhaps a hundred
thousand years or more.

So, it's my contention that
the five ages of the Aztecs,

the five ages of the Greeks

and the previous and
current locations of the pole

and the previous and
current locations of the pole are all correlated.

are all correlated.

They all tell the same story.

CHILDRESS: The idea that
cataclysmic pole shifts

CHILDRESS: The idea that
cataclysmic pole shifts actually occurred is startling.

actually occurred is startling.

These structures
can be much older

than archaeologists admit.

And, ultimately, hundreds,
thousands of years later,

people found them again and--
and started reusing them.

people found them again and--
and started reusing them. It's a fascinating thought.

It's a fascinating thought.

NARRATOR: Are the remnants
of long-lost civilizations

NARRATOR: Are the remnants
of long-lost civilizations still standing today?

still standing today?

Civilizations
that existed on Earth

as much as 100,000 years ago,

but that were
misinterpreted by scholars

but that were
misinterpreted by scholars as being much more recent?

as being much more recent?

Perhaps the greatest
evidence of this

can be found by examining
a mysterious discovery

that was made deep beneath
the ice in Antarctica.

NARRATOR: Antarctica
is a land of extremes.

Nearly 98% of the ground

is covered by an ice sheet
up to three miles thick.

A mountain as towering
as Japan's Mt. Fuji,

at 12,400 feet, would not
even break the surface.

Temperatures regularly fall
below -50 degrees Fahrenheit

Temperatures regularly fall below -50 degrees Fahrenheit
with winds of up to 200 miles an hour.

with winds of up to
200 miles an hour.

During its peak season,

During its peak season,
it is home to only 4,000 scientists

it is home
to only 4,000 scientists

and military personnel.

Antarctica is the last frontier.

Antarctica is the last frontier.
It holds our imagination.

It holds our imagination.

Old maps that said,
"Here be monsters..."

The last remaining territory
on the planet

that could have such
a designation is Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
Although it was discovered

nearly 250 years ago,

scientists have more
questions than answers

when it comes
to this frozen continent.

Due to the sheer depth of
the ice covering its landmass,

the surface of Antarctica

is unable to be seen
with the naked eye.

is unable to be seen with the naked eye.
And ancient astronaut theorists propose

And ancient astronaut
theorists propose

that it is not just the geology
that is hidden from us.

They suggest there is
far more human--

and perhaps non-human--
activity happening

in Antarctica
than we've been told.

Something seems to be going on

on this mysterious continent
at the South Pole.

And it has been theorized
by a number of people

that Antarctica is
some kind of alien base.

NARRATOR: Rumors of
extraterrestrial activity

in Antarctica
have circulated for years.

If these accounts are true,
and there is, in fact,

an extraterrestrial presence
in Antarctica today,

an extraterrestrial presence in Antarctica today,
could it have been there for hundreds

could it have been there
for hundreds

could it have been there
for hundreds or even thousands of years?

or even thousands of years?

In July 2018,

Linda Moulton Howe
interviewed a whistleblower

who offered to provide her
with classified information

regarding Antarctica

on the condition that
she not reveal his identity.

Her source,
a retired Navy SEAL

who she identifies
as "Spartan 1,"

provided her with details
of an ancient structure

he claims to have visited during
his time at the South Pole.

At that time, my rank
was First Lieutenant Commander,

At that time, my rank
was First Lieutenant Commander, Naval Special Operations.

Naval Special Operations.

We were inbound the southeast
coast of Antarctica.

We were dispatched for...
unofficially,

it was a
research/reconnaissance mission.

Officially, it was to find
a certain individual,

obtain any information,
and bring it back.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
What was the date?

SPARTAN 1:
August 2003.

SPARTAN 1: August 2003.
NARRATOR: According to Spartan 1,

NARRATOR:
According to Spartan 1,

when he and his team
reached their destination,

they encountered
a large octagonal structure

they encountered
a large octagonal structure protruding from the ice.

protruding from the ice.

Cautiously,
they proceeded to enter it.

SPARTAN 1: The very top of
the first structure we entered,

there was almost 18 feet
poking from the ice.

The rest of it was
hidden under the ice.

The rest of it was
hidden under the ice. Each door was the same.

Each door was the same.

Uh, anywhere
from 18 feet thick

to around 30 feet thick.

And even though these doors were
that thick and that heavy,

you could take one finger and
push them and they would open.

There was no resistance
whatsoever.

The outside temperature was
at least 40 degrees below zero.

Once you stepped
inside these structures,

the temperature was
an ambient 68 to 72 degrees.

SPARTAN 1: It was lighted
from the inside,

but we could not find
the source of light.

It was a lime green in color.

The walls were lined
with what I call hieroglyphics.

But nothing of hieroglyphics
that I've ever seen in my life.

NARRATOR: Could there really
be mysterious structures

buried at the South Pole?

Structures built by
an advanced extraterrestrial

civilization in our remote past?

Buried underneath the ice
in Antarctica

could well be
stone temple constructions.

There could be
biological material,

remains of beings
that lived there

remains of beings
that lived there and could still be there.

and could still be there.

It could be the greatest reveal
in all of human history.

NARRATOR: Could it be
that long before the time

of humankind's earliest
recorded history,

Earth was home
to highly advanced

and perhaps even
extraterrestrial civilizations?

As archaeologists continue
to uncover remnants

As archaeologists continue
to uncover remnants of long-lost cities,

of long-lost cities,

will they find evidence
of sophisticated societies

that thrived tens
of thousands of years ago?

Perhaps the deeper we dig
into our planet's past,

the closer we will come

to learning the truth
about our own origins

and our connection to ancestors

who arrived from the stars.

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