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NARRATOR: Ancient ruins that
defy conventional timelines.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
G �bekli Tepe's dating

has changed the history
of archaeology.

NARRATOR:
Sophisticated structures

discovered
deep beneath the sea.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
This city is so deep in the ocean

that archeologists
are saying that it must be

50,000 years old.

NARRATOR:
And architectural ruins with untraceable origins.

There were extraordinary
civilizations

that have been lost to the story
of the world until now.

NARRATOR:
In ancient texts and folklore,

there are accounts of
pre-historic civilizations

that were catastrophically
erased from the planet.

Could it be that humans are not

the first intelligent beings
to inhabit Earth?

WILLIAM HENRY:
We have to be open to the possibility

that whoever built
these structures

were not, in fact, human beings.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it
is the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future
is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

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NARRATOR:
Six thousand years ago,

this ancient mound
was the site of Eridu--

the oldest city
of the Sumerian empire.

According to mainstream
archaeologists,

this is the cradle
of civilization.

FELICIA BEARDSLEY:
Many archeologists will say civilization began

in Mesopotamia
some 6,000 years ago.

It is built on small bands
of hunter-gatherers

who then become
settled in that area

as kind of
semi-sedentary communities.

They adopt agriculture,

the population starts to grow,

and we begin to recognize

we need to organize
our communities.

You start seeing
these step-sided pyramids,

where the religious practitioner

might conduct his rites
or rituals and so on.

And we have an urban
planning environment

that also means we've got
a lot of engineering going on,

we have a lot of science,
a lot of mathematics.

It has all of those elements
we would call a civilization.

NARRATOR:
Many researchers around the world believe

there is evidence to suggest
civilization existed on Earth

long before the Sumerians.

And one key source

is the writing
of the Sumerians themselves.

Ancient cuneiform tablets

list kings who ruled
tens of thousands of years ago,

and they tell of an earlier age

when humans lived
among powerful beings

that came down from the sky
called the Anunnaki.

ANDREW COLLINS:
The Anunnaki were the builder gods

behind the creation

of the civilizations
of Sumer and Babylon.

They provided humanity with
the rudiments of civilization.

They gave humanity
animal husbandry,

but also agriculture
for the first time.

NARRATOR:
The Sumerians also wrote

that the Anunnaki
were responsible

for bringing
a devastating cataclysm

upon the Earth...

...eerily similar to the story
that would later appear

in the Hebrew Bible
as the Great Flood.

This was only
just discovered in 2009,

when Dr. Irving Finkel--

one of the world's foremost
experts on cuneiform writing--

translated a 3,700-year-old
Sumerian tablet.

IRVING FINKEL:
In the Bible, God decided,

because human race
was so sinful and wicked,

to destroy everything.

And at last minute,
relented enough to inform Noah

that he has
to build a boat really fast

and put all the animals in it
and shut the doors.

Then afterwards,

life could continue
when the waters went down.

Everybody in the world is
interested in Noah's flood

and where it might've come from,

so when this tablet
came across the desk to me

and I realized,

clearly, how important it was,

it was one of those
heart-stopping moments.

When I picked it up
for the first time

to look at it properly
and started to read it,

one of the first things you read

is when a human being
finds out from the gods

up in heaven that there's going
to be a dreadful flood

and the world and all its life
is going to be destroyed,

and a boat has to be built.

So I thought to myself,
"This is very exciting."

The tablet is at least
a thousand years older

than the story in the Bible.

So, of course, this means

that the question
of where the story came from

has a whole
different explanation.

NARRATOR:
Could the translation of this ancient cuneiform tablet

be evidence
that a Great Flood did, in fact,

occur in the distant past?

While nearly identical
stories of a great deluge

can be found
in the ancient texts

of many religions and cultures,

mainstream archaeologists
had argued that there was

no evidence
of any civilization existing

more than 6,000 years ago

to support the idea that such
a cataclysm actually took place.

But in the early 1990s,

Klaus Schmidt of the German
Archaeological Institute

began excavations
at the ancient site

of G �bekli Tepe
in southeast Turkey,

and what he unearthed
changed everything.

PAUL BAHN:
Once Klaus Schmidt

started excavating G �bekli Tepe

it just blew everybody away

because we'd never before
known or imagined, even,

that people 12,000 years ago

could produce such spectacular,
monumental structures

as he found at G �bekli Tepe.

TSOUKALOS:
It is the first archeological site in the world

that proves its age
dating as far back

as 12,000 years,
around 10,000 BC.

The discovery
and the official acceptance

of G �bekli Tepe's dating

has changed the history
of archaeology.

ROBERT SCHOCH:
This is indications of a major civilization

at that remote time.

A time when the standard
historians all along have said,

"Well, no, civilization
didn't occur at that time.

"They were just simple
hunter and gatherers.

They were primitive people."

But we now have evidence
to the contrary.

BAHN:
It really did send shockwaves through the whole world

of early pre-history,

because we have never,
ever seen anything like this

from anywhere in the world
at that time, 12,000 years ago.

NARRATOR:
G �bekli Tepe's nearly two dozen enormous T-shaped pillars--

some weighing
more than 20 tons--

feature numerous carvings

that include
depictions of animals,

human hands,

and intricately
designed symbols.

Archaeologists estimate
that it would have taken

a team of fifty 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.

ROY FISHER:
The structures seem to reflect

coordinated effort among
significant numbers of people,

which is not
how we typically imagine

hunter-gatherer societies,

which are usually
smaller in size.

NARRATOR:
For years, mainstream scholars maintained

that G �bekli Tepe was
a completely unique site,

and while highly impressive,

it was not large enough
to constitute

what would be considered
a civilization.

But then, in 2004,

author Andrew Collins was shown
photographs of a location

that looked remarkably similar
to parts of G �bekli Tepe.

ANDREW COLLINS:
I was visiting G �bekli Tepe,

and some children came up to me

and showed me a picture of this
T-shaped standing stone

with this snake along the side.

And I thought,
"I've never seen this before.

Where is this?"

And it became clear

that it was
some unexcavated site

in the Tek Tek Mountains,
which is about 25 miles

away from G �bekli Tepe,

and so I set out to find it.

And, eventually, I came
to this bare limestone hill,

and as I walked up towards it,
I could then see,

sticking out of the ground,

these heads of these
T-shaped pillars,

again, exactly as you see
at G �bekli Tepe.

And I realized

that somewhere beneath this soil

was something as grand
and spectacular as G �bekli Tepe.

NARRATOR:
For 15 years, only a small group of researchers

were aware of the pillars
protruding from the earth

at the site known
as Karahan Tepe.

When it was finally excavated,

archaeologists were shocked
once again.

In 2019, digging begins.

And beneath the surface layers,
the archaeologists start

uncovering dozens
of these T-shaped pillars.

CHILDRESS:
You have about 200 of these T-shaped megaliths.

They're typically 13 feet high,
weigh about 11 tons.

You have other phallic stones,

you have certain
depictions of animals

and some human faces as well.

So we have really a,
a pretty extensive site.

NARRATOR:
The discovery of the vast megalithic complex

made headlines around the world,

as it was estimated by experts
to have been inhabited

somewhere between
11,000 and 12,000 years ago,

Just like G �bekli Tepe.

TSOUKALOS: Both Karahan Tepe
and G �bekli Tepe

are striking in beauty,

striking in how massive
and incredible

those megaliths are.

And in my opinion,
they are related.

So it's also possible

that at some point
a long time ago,

that entire region
was one gigantic city.

NARRATOR:
Could these sites confirm the written accounts found both

in the Bible
and on Sumerian tablets

of a sophisticated civilization

that existed on Earth
in the remote past?

One in which humans
lived alongside

powerful visitors from the sky,

but ultimately fell victim
to a devastating cataclysm?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and claim there is evidence

that these vast,
megalithic complexes

were built with the help
of otherworldly visitors.

NARRATOR:
Nevsehir Province, central Turkey.

Here, 300 miles northwest

of the 12,000-year-old
megalithic sites

of G �bekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe,

there is an ancient subterranean
city called Derinkuyu

that archaeologists believe

once housed
more than 20,000 people.

First discovered in 1963,

the maze of carved tunnels
and rooms lies

200 feet below ground.

Who built it and when
remain unknown.

Derinkuyu is
a multi-leveled city

that has existed
since time immemorial.

It was certainly used
during Christian times.

But there's also evidence

that there's
prehistoric activity

going on at these places

as early as 11, perhaps even
12,000 years ago,

right after the end
of the last ice age.

NARRATOR:
Much like G �bekli Tepe,

Derinkuyu was thought
to be an anomaly.

But in 2014,
just six miles to the north,

a local construction crew

excavating for
an urban renovation project

stumbled across a strange
series of carved rooms

and tunnels deep underground.

Upon further exploration,

they found
a subterranean network

known as Kaymakli,
which spans several miles

and extends hundreds of feet
below the surface of the Earth,

much like the nearby
underground city of Derinkuyu.

I was many times

in the underground cities
in Turkey.

And this is
a fantastic experience.

They are linked together.

Between Derinkuyu and Kaymakli,
there are seven-kilometers-long

underground tunnels
connecting the two cities.

NARRATOR:
Evidence that these cities once housed thousands of people

has been further supported
by the discovery of air vents

and water wells
that would have made it possible

for people to live underground
for years at a time.

COLLINS:
These are huge, vast cities

that have been cut out
of the living rock themself.

Who, exactly, built them?

The fact
that G �bekli Tepe was built

right at the end
of the last Ice Age

tells us that
there is a possibility

that there is a connection

between these underground cities

and the building
of G �bekli Tepe and Karahan.

It could have been
the same people.

NARRATOR:
Is there a connection between Turkey's mysterious

underground dwellings
and the extremely ancient sites

of G �bekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe?

Could both have been built
by a pre-flood civilization?

But if so,
who would have had the ability

to manufacture such
sophisticated structures?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer may lie

within sacred texts
that describe interactions

between early humans
and otherworldly beings.

Uruk, Southern Iraq.

In the early 19th century,

archaeologists excavating
this ancient city

unearthed clay tablets covered
in a form of symbolic writing

known as cuneiform.

It remains the world's
first known writing system.

When the tablets were
deciphered in the 1820s,

they revealed a record
of Sumerian daily life,

names of important
figures and rulers,

and accounts of sky gods
called the Anunnaki.

These clay tablets are

5,000 years old and more,

and they tell of the arrival

of the Anunnaki,
the pantheon of gods.

The chief was Anu.

This is the sky god who came
along and created everything.

So the origin of civilization
on the planet came from the sky.

The high god
of the Anunnaki, Anu,

presided over
the divine council.

There were a multitude of beings
that came to this council.

They deliberated with Anu,

they made decisions
for humanity,

they intervened
in human affairs.

Karahan Tepe and G �bekli Tepe

are in an area that is
well-known for its mythology.

Which suggests that
the Anunnaki were responsible

for giving humanity
the rudiments of civilization.

It was said that they gave
humanity animal husbandry,

but also agriculture
for the first time,

both of which we know

occurred in the area

of G �bekli Tepe
and Karahan Tepe.

At G �bekli Tepe,

there's a carving
of these three handbags

that appear above
this bird-like creature.

And what's
fascinating about this

is that you can find
carvings of similar handbags

about 400 miles to the south

where the ancient
Sumerians lived.

And there, the handbags are held
by these winged figures

with bird-like heads
called Anunnaki.

And the bags are said to hold

all the knowledge
of the universe.

Professor Klaus Schmidt,

the rediscoverer
of G �bekli Tepe in 1994,

actually wrote that he believed

that the founders of
G �bekli Tepe were the Anunnaki.

NARRATOR:
Similarly, the Bible also tells of early humans

having help from beings
who came down from the sky

called the Watchers.

HENRY:
The Watchers are the fallen angels

who came to Earth
and intermingled with humans.

We are told that
they are here to observe

and they're not
going to interfere

in human development,
although some of them did.

They're also seeding
humanity with knowledge

that will help us to progress.

COLLINS:
Both the Watchers

and the Anunnaki, who almost
certainly were the same,

have been associated

with this culture
at G �bekli Tepe and Karahan.

And is it possible, therefore,

that they are behind
the creation of these sites?

And if we consider
the possibility

that there was a huge cataclysm,

the chances are the underground
cities of Cappadocia--

they would have been
used as places of refuge.

NARRATOR:
As mainstream scholars struggle to explain

how people living
12,000 years ago

were able to carve out

millions of square feet
of rock from the earth

and build sprawling
megalithic sites,

could the answer be found
in the ancient writings

that describe
our earliest ancestors

receiving assistance
from extraterrestrials?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by more closely examining
the T-shaped pillars

at the ancient sites

and the curious features
carved into them.

Karahan Tepe is really
something quite spectacular.

Absolutely.

NARRATOR:
Authors Andrew Collins

and Hugh Newman
have spent decades

investigating ancient sites
around the world,

and have made multiple trips

to Karahan Tepe
in southeast Turkey.

NEWMAN:
In the last couple of years,

they've uncovered
only a small amount,

but enough to provide
some remarkable insights

into what was going on
here in southeast Turkey.

Absolutely.

I mean, it's like
this is pieces of a jigsaw

that's just waiting
to be put together.

NARRATOR: In September 2022,

Andrew and Hugh traveled
to the site together

in search of further clues

as to just who built it and why.

Upon their arrival
at Karahan Tepe,

Andrew and Hugh were joined

by local researcher
Taha Ozyavuz.

Taha.

Nice to meet you.
This is Hugh.

Thank you, and good to meet you.

I'm absolutely astounded
by this site,

how vast it is, how,
like, immaculate it is

and how it is just

literally one of the most
astonishing places

I've ever visited.

Well, this is just,
you know, just enormous,

everything that's here.

We can see T-pillars going
in every direction.

And just think what is below
our feet right now.

And if you do compare it
to G �bekli Tepe,

it is, it's got the T-pillars,

it's got the enclosures,

it's got the remarkable
3D-relief carving,

the statues, the serpents
and everything else.

There are incredible
images of different animals

and creatures
of the natural world.

What do they mean?

NARRATOR:
Most mainstream scholars identify the sites

of G �bekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe
as temples of worship.

Others have suggested

that the round enclosures
may have been used

as corrals for animals

and that the T-shaped pillars
once supported roofs.

However, Klaus Schmidt,

the archaeologist
behind the excavation

of G �bekli Tepe in the 1990s,
was certain

that the T-shaped pillars
represent human forms,

but with some curious features.

COLLINS:
I think what we see when we look at these

T-shaped pillars is

abstract human beings,
basically.

The heads are the actual
T-shaped terminations.

The stems of the stones
are the bodies.

Sometimes we see belts
around them.

But what's so weird
about these

is that the arms here
almost seem

like an abstract animal,
as well.

Perhaps a bird, perhaps a snake.

NEWMAN:
That is intriguing.

And this is a tradition
we find linked

with giants
all around the world.

And even in the Bible,
we have the giant of Gath

that had extra fingers.

We have stories of Goliath and
his family having extra fingers.

We have stories

of great Irish, giant gods
having extra digits, as well.

And the fact that the Watchers,
the Nephilim and the Anunnaki

would seem to be associated

with the mythology
of this region suggests to us

that they could be one
of the builders of Karahan Tepe.

NARRATOR:
According to the Bible's Book of Genesis,

prior to the Great Flood,
angels known as the Watchers

defied God's will and came down
to Earth to live among humans.

These otherworldly beings mated
with their human subjects,

producing a race
of hybrid human giants

that were known as the Nephilim.

ROY FISHER:
One of the most

tantalizing, small tidbits
in the Hebrew Bible

is found in the opening verses
of Genesis, chapter six,

where we hear the story
of the Nephilim,

who are described

as basically being
the hybrid offspring of humans

and divine beings,

who are called the Sons of God.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
Who were these sons of God?

Legend expands and tells us

that they were
rebellious angels.

But yet,
we must understand angels

to not be spiritual beings,

but very tangibly physical.

Or else how could
they take human wives

and bear children?

Now, the children of these
sons of God and human women

became known as the hybrids
called the Fallen Ones,

in Hebrew, "the Nephilim."

They existed
in the days before Noah.

REVEREND MICHAEL CARTER:
Aside from the Bible, religious texts

that talk about these demigods,
these hybrids,

are the Hindu Upanishads.

And if we look at Sumer,

again, gods coming down
from the Earth,

fraternizing with the natives,
which are us,

and creating a new race
of people--

half-human and
half-extraterrestrial gods.

Yes, we can speculate,

were those who were to become
known as the sons of God

originally inhabitants
of a place like Karahan?

NARRATOR:
Does the eight-fingered figure

found at Karahan Tepe
provide evidence

to support the biblical accounts
of giants existing on Earth

before the Great Flood?

And if so, might they have
been involved in the creation

of Turkey's mysterious sites,
both above ground and below?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and claim
that these hybrid beings

not only built
megalithic sites in Turkey

but all over the world.

NARRATOR: In the center
of the Mediterranean Sea,

between Italy and Africa,

lies a three-island archipelago

that makes up
the Republic of Malta.

PICKNETT:
Malta is this really small island nation

just south of Sicily.
And it's so small

it's only 122 square miles
in its entirety.

But because its dead center
of the Mediterranean Sea,

Malta really packs a punch,
historically.

NARRATOR:
Malta has been a strategic outpost

for many of the most powerful
cultures in the world,

from the Phoenicians
to the Romans

and even the British Empire.

But what makes Malta one of the
most unique locations on Earth

are its massive stone ruins,

whose origins could date back

thousands of years
before any known civilization

ever set foot on her shores.

JASON OSEQUEDA:
It was assumed

that Malta was
a long-lost Greek colony

from the Mycenaean Period.

And this goes from,

you know, maybe 800 BC
to sometime before 1,200 BC

However,
because of radiocarbon dating

in the mid-20th century,
we discovered

that Malta is actually one
of the oldest megalithic sites

in the world.

NARRATOR:
Mainstream archaeologists now know

that Malta's
oldest megalithic structures

were built
at least 5,600 years ago,

but little is known about
who these ancient builders were

and how long
their culture existed.

PICKNETT:
One of the most pressing questions

about
the megalithic builders is,

what happened to these amazing,
super smart guys

who built all this stuff?

Because the last known evidence
of them being there

is about 3,000 years ago.

They were there one minute,

archeologically-speaking,
and gone the next.

NARRATOR:
While the world's first known human civilization,

the Sumerians,
is said to have emerged

in Mesopotamia
around 4,000 BC,

some researchers believe

the ancient inhabitants
of Malta lived

on the Mediterranean islands
thousands of years earlier.

As evidence, they point

to mysterious carvings
found throughout the area

called "cart ruts."

SCHOCH:
Something that Malta

is very well known for,
archaeologically,

besides the megalithic temples,

are the cart ruts.

These are ruts literally
in the limestone rock.

The traditional view

is that they were eroded
into the rock

literally by carts
being pulled over the soft rock.

TSOUKALOS:
We have cart ruts

that go
into the Mediterranean Sea.

And then, they also come out
on the other side.

How is this possible?

NARRATOR:
Some of the cart ruts that extend

from dry land down into the sea
have reportedly been found

at depths
of as much as 140 feet.

This presents a critical clue
as to just how long ago

they must have been created.

SCHOCH:
I suspect that some of these cart ruts

are really ancient,
and when I say "really ancient,"

that is, going back

to before the end
of the last Ice Age.

Approximately 12,000 years ago,

the Ice Age ended, we know,
by incredible warming,

incredible rises in sea level.

So some of these cart ruts go
back to an early enough period,

what looks like
it's going into the water,

that would've been dry land
when sea levels were much lower.

If you propose the idea

that 12,000 years ago,
which is a fact,

the worldwide water levels
were lower,

then, all of a sudden,
these cart ruts

that go into the
Mediterranean Sea make sense.

The last time
that area was free of water,

and when also Malta was
connected to Sicily and to Italy

with a land bridge--
that was 12,000 years ago.

So the fact
that these cart ruts exist,

to me, illustrates
that an advanced civilization

must have existed at that time.

NARRATOR:
Could the cart ruts provide evidence

that civilization existed
on the islands of Malta

as much as 12,000 years ago?

Until recently,
mainstream scholars

would have
considered such a notion

to be impossible.

But then, in 1994,

archaeologists discovered
the ruins of G �bekli Tepe

in southeast Turkey.

TSOUKALOS:
It is the first archaeological site in the world

that proves
its age dating as far back

as 12,000 years,

around 10,000 BC

The discovery
and the official acceptance

of G �bekli Tepe's dating

has changed the history
of archaeology.

NEWMAN:
G �bekli Tepe is a series

of kind of oval-shaped
stone circles

that have T-shaped pillars
as the stones,

with two central pillars
in the center.

The thing is, many of these
stones are over 20 feet tall.

They're huge.
They're serious monoliths.

And this was the era
of hunter-gatherers.

So who could have done it?
We really don't know.

SCHOCH:
I studied G �bekli Tepe in great detail.

The Malta temples,
by conventional dating,

go back maybe 6,000 years ago,
but I wonder--

and this is based
on my own work and analysis--

if the origins
of the Malta temples may go back

to a much earlier period, also.

HENRY:
We have to be open to the possibility

that whoever built
the structures on Malta

were not, in fact, human beings,

but were perhaps
a separate race.

And their existence
and even their origins,

is completely
shrouded in mystery.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that the incredible

megalithic structures on Malta

are as much as 12,000 years old?

If so, who created them?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by closely examining the
islands' mysterious temples

and local traditions
about a giant being

who came from the stars.

NARRATOR:
The Republic of Malta.

Situated across the island
nation's 122 square miles

sit the remains
of seven megalithic sites.

These include the two temples
of Ggantija,

Hagar Qim,

Mnajdra,

Tarxien,

Ta'Hagrat

and Skorba.

These marvels of ancient
construction were all built

with the same type
of Maltese limestone

which was extracted
from local quarries.

SCHOCH:
The fact that they were moving around

these multi-ton blocks,
building these temples

and actually,
when you look at them,

moving the blocks within
very, very narrow confines...

Okay, it's one thing
to move a block out

in the open that's multi-ton,

but to then place it
systematically

and very carefully
next to another one,

next to another one,
next to another one,

to form these beautiful
temple structures--

that's a real engineering feat.

NARRATOR:
While there are some researchers

who believe
that Malta's megalithic temples

could be as much
as 12,000 years old,

mainstream scholars believe
they were created

no earlier than 3,600 B.C,

during what is known
as the Neolithic Age.

And they also theorize

that the massive structures
were built by a human culture

that used only
primitive stone tools.

TSOUKALOS:
Archaeology suggests, at the time,

we barely invented the wheel,

we barely had tools,

there was no known language,

and we had no writing.

Well, let's step back for
a moment and think about this.

From an evolutionary
and technology perspective,

that makes no sense, because

you begin with simple,
you continue bigger,

bigger and then biggest,
but you start small.

What we have in the case
of the Maltese structures

is that the biggest
are the oldest.

So, that makes zero sense

from a logical perspective

because there was no evolution
in technology.

The archaeologists--
they agree with this.

OSEQUEDA:
To construct similar temple after similar temple,

with the same material,
without evidence of writing,

shows a high degree
of communication.

And we find terracotta models,

in fact, of temples,

and archaeologists
have suggested perhaps

that this is
an early architect's rendering.

This is more evidence
of the high level of thought

and ability that went into the
construction of these temples.

NARRATOR:
No written records have ever been discovered

to explain who built
the megalithic temples in Malta.

However, local traditions

of the Maltese people have
offered a stunning possibility.

They claim that the
massive structures were built

by a race of giant beings
who came to Earth

from the stars.

YOUNG:
There is a story

that a meteorite came down
from the heavens

and turned into a goddess,
a giant

named Sansuna.

And the locals, of course,
were terrified of this giant,

but at a place called Ggantija,
she started building a temple

and moved stones much larger
than any human could ever move

and assembled this structure
that was so massive

it remains, to this day,

still a place of mystery,
still a giant's construction.

HENRY:
When you see the cyclopean stones,

some of them weighing
as much as 50 tons,

you can appreciate

why we have the story
of this giantess, Sansuna.

NARRATOR:
The local legends of Sansuna

may sound incredible to some.

However, in the 17th century,

a Maltese nobleman
named Gian Francesco Abela

claimed to have found
forensic evidence

that these legends may
have been based in fact.

In the early 1600s,
Gian Francesco Abela was living

on the island of Malta,
and he actually wrote about

the fact
that giants were involved

in the construction
of these sites.

One of the reasons
he wrote this is because

he said he found bones,
skulls, and even giant teeth

all across the island.

And there were other reports
of them

coming forth at this time.

NARRATOR:
In order to investigate the local legends

connecting giant
extraterrestrial beings

to the massive structures
on Malta,

in 2022,

ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos traveled

to Malta's oldest
megalithic structures--

the temples of Ggantija--
on the island of Gozo.

There, he met
with Frans van Avendonk...

I'm Giorgio.
Pleasure to meet you.

NARRATOR: ...an expert
in Maltese history,

who has lived on the island

since 1991.

Look at this. I mean...

- Gigantic.
- It is gigantic.

"Ggantija" means
"the giant goddess,"

and it makes sense why,

because right now,

I feel like an ant.

We are so small, and especially
when you're right next to it.

VAN AVENDONK:
It's very impressive.

TSOUKALOS:
And, in my opinion,

still a massive question mark.

VAN AVENDONK:
There are still questions, yeah, definitely.

What can you tell us
about the dating?

Well, when it was excavated--

because we don't talk
about discovery--

- it was always visible.
- Mm-hmm.

People thought
it was a Phoenician temple.

- Okay.
- Much later, they realized,

it must've been prehistoric,
so it was put

in the 2000s before Christ.

Then it moves back to the 3000s.

Now we're saying 3600 at least.

Technology has improved,

different ways
of looking at things,

so, therefore,
they're getting older.

They were built much earlier
than we thought before.

NARRATOR:
When viewed from above,

the two adjacent temples
of Ggantija are designed

with large apses,
resembling a cloverleaf.

Each housed an altar,

and artifacts suggest a wooden
roof covered the entire temple.

Many of the stone blocks
stand 20 feet tall,

and some weigh in excess
of 50 tons.

Is it possible that we've lost
some type of masonry knowledge?

Because you could create it
using smaller stones.

Clearly, this required planning.

- It required logistics.
- VAN AVENDONK: Yes.

TSOUKALOS:
In my opinion,

master builders
were at work here,

and mainstream archeologists
are suggesting

that whoever built this
did not have any writing.

Well, not only
would it require writing,

but you have
to have calculations.

- And leadership.
- Exactly.

With the evidence
of how old or when it was built,

- who built it,
and how it was built. - Mm-hmm.

Might be there,
but we haven't found it yet.

I can imagine that
people saw this and thought,

- "This must have been
the work of a giant." - Right.

OSEQUEDA:
Throughout the Mediterranean,

you see an association
with giants

constructing megaliths.

For instance,
in Mycenaean Greece,

there's a structure
called The Lion's Gate.

Aristotle mentioned

that this construction style
was called cyclopean masonry

because of the large stones.

The ancient Greeks figured

that only a giant called Cyclops

could have had the strength
to move these.

The same sort of
cyclopean masonry is present

in the Maltese temples
as well.

TSOUKALOS:
These stories

of giants have been
an integral part

of our entire human history

since the beginning of time.

Now, this is not something

that the ancient astronaut
theory came up with.

So, is it possible

that the reason why
we have these stories

of these giants is because,

at one point,
they actually existed?

And the answer to that is yes.

NARRATOR:
Could it be possible

that the temples
at Ggantija were built

by gigantic, otherworldly beings

who inhabited the islands
of Malta thousands of years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

given the sophistication

of these mysterious,
prehistoric structures.

And they suggest

that further evidence

of advanced construction

by unknown civilizations
can be found

beneath some of the world's
most sacred temples.

NARRATOR:
Cusco, Peru.

Nestled in a high river
valley of the Andes Mountains,

among peaks
towering over 20,000 feet,

this once great city
served as the capital

of the Inca Empire from
the 13th to 16th centuries A.D.

In 1533,

Spanish Conquistadors
arrived in Cusco

and were astonished
by the incredible stonework

found at a site just north

of the city called Sacsayhuam�n.

FOERSTER:
Above the city of Cusco,

we find the megalithic site
and huge ceremonial Inca complex

called Sacsayhuam�n.

Its most prominent feature

is a zigzag wall
of three levels.

Some of the stones there
weigh as much as 125 tons

and were moved from the quarry
at least three miles away.

Sacsayhuam�n is one
of the most beautiful

ancient structures you will
ever see in your life.

There are massive,
gigantic megalithic blocks.

And you find the most amazing
of masonry style

where you can't even
fit a dollar bill

in between the fittings
of any of the blocks.

NARRATOR:
Sacsayhuam�n served both as a fortress

and a ceremonial center.

A circular structure
that lies within

the megalithic walls,
called Muyuq Marka,

was the base
of a tower where the Inca

worshipped the Sun God Inti.

However, many experts suggest

that while the Inca
certainly utilized

this megalithic structure,

they were not
the ones to build it.

Standard belief is that
the Inca constructed

Sacsayhuam�n less than
a thousand years ago.

But some of the earliest
Spanish chronicles

it is said that the Spanish
were completely astounded

by seeing this site
and they asked the local Inca,

"Did you build it?"

And the Inca replied, "No.

This was here when
we arrived 500 years ago."

NARRATOR:
Many experts believe Sacsayhuam�n

predates the Inca
by thousands of years,

and that the Inca built
on top of what came before.

The Inca were a Bronze Age
civilization

and the stones at Sacsayhuam�n

are metamorphosed limestone,

which is much harder than bronze

and could not be cut or shaped
using bronze tools.

The Inca built on top

because you can tell
a major difference

between megalithic construction

where the stones fit
perfectly together,

and the Inca, which is stones
piled on top of stones

with mortar as filler.

But if Sacsayhuam�n
really does pre-date the Inca--

as the Inca themselves claimed--

how could an even
earlier civilization

have possessed
far superior technology?

TSOUKALOS:
The ancient Inca talk about

celestial beings who descended
from the sky

a long time ago and imparted

the first knowledge of anything

toward people of Earth.

The ancient astronaut theory
suggests

it was human beings
who built Sacsayhuam�n,

but under the tutelage

of the extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the astonishing

megalithic stonework
at Sacsayhuam�n

was achieved with
the help of alien technology,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

And if so,

might the Inca
have built on top of it

and established it
as a place of worship

because they were
somehow aware of this?

Sacsayhuam�n is only one
of many places

where ancient civilizations
have felt compelled

to repeatedly build
their most sacred sites.

In fact, there are locations
all around the world

where successive cultures have
rebuilt over and over again.

This has been going on since
the end of the last Ice Age

with places like G �bekli Tepe
in Southeast Turkey,

where the oldest and most
sophisticated monuments

were built first on the bedrock

and then eventually
they would be covered over

and a new structure, a new
enclosure built on top of them.

Some of the most iconic
temple sites around the world

from Baalbek in Lebanon

to the Temple of Horus
at Edfu in Egypt,

are built on
the exact same location

as former temples
that were reputed to be there.

And the question is, why?

NARRATOR:
It is not uncommon for people

to repurpose an old structure

or rebuild on its foundation
for practical purposes.

But what ancient astronaut
theorists find intriguing

is how the most sacred sites

tend to remain sacred
over thousands of years.

And of all the places
in the world

where this phenomenon is found,

perhaps there is none
more universally revered

than the 35-acre platform
in Jerusalem

known as Temple Mount.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
The Temple Mount is arguably

the most important spiritual
site in the world.

All three of the primary
monotheistic religions

have a connection to

the events of history
that occurred

on top of the Temple Mount.

It's believed
that is this the stone

from which the world originates?

It's a crucial element
in the Jewish tradition.

When Isaac is offered up
for sacrifice by Abraham,

this happens on the exposed
surface of Mount Moriah.

That's the Temple Mount.

For Muslims, this is where

the prophet Muhammad
ascends up to heaven.

That stone is now covered over

by the Dome of the Rock, this
very important Islamic monument.

NARRATOR:
The Dome of the Rock has stood at Temple Mount

for more than 1,300 years,

but the very first temple
to occupy this sacred space

was the legendary
Solomon's Temple,

constructed upon order
of the Israelite king

in the tenth century BC

According to the Hebrew Bible,

King Solomon received
a message from the heavens

to build his temple
on this spot.

Its primary purpose was to
house the Ark of the Covenant,

the golden box which carried
the two stone tablets

inscribed
with the Ten Commandments,

and which was said
to be God's earthly throne.

Solomon has a communication

with the angel Michael

who comes and helps
Solomon to build this.

And so, not only

is this the presence of God
on this spot,

it's God who's helping
in the building of this.

And so that's part of what
makes that place so special.

So literally divine.

NARRATOR:
Solomon's Temple was destroyed

by the Babylonians in 586 BC

But 70 years later,

Jewish exiles
returning to Jerusalem

built a new temple
on the exact same location.

That's what we call
the second temple.

And that temple survives
until the year 70 A.D.,

when it's destroyed
by the Romans.

Then in the seventh century,

Muslims conquered Jerusalem.

They build the Dome
of the Rock there.

And so there's been
a long history

of different people coming in,

taking control, building,

rebuilding, places there.

McGOWAN:
Solomon was instructed to build the temple

on this incredibly important
space.

So why is this space important?

Is it an energetic space?
Is it a portal?

What we see over and over again,

with these profound religious
sites all over the world

is we see this reverence
for power places

endures from the earliest
human history to today,

we're constantly building
on top of these places.

NARRATOR:
If a higher power instructed King Solomon

to build on Temple Mount,

could there be something special

about this particular
location on Earth?

And could the same be true

for other places
around the world

where successive cultures
built again and again?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

one of the most astonishing
megalithic sites in the world

and stories about its connection
to the stars.

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NARRATOR:
Baalbek, Lebanon.

Here, in the fertile
Beqaa Valley,

stands what many consider

to be the greatest ruin
of Roman antiquity...

...the colossal Temple
of Jupiter.

But the imposing remains
that tower over the site today

are only the latest

in a long line of structures
erected on this spot.

Archaeologists say the area
has been continually inhabited

for at least 10,000 years,

and no one knows who built
the first place of worship here.

But according to legend,

both Egyptian
and Assyrian conquerors

erected sanctuaries on the site,

followed by the Canaanites
and Phoenicians

who built a great temple here to
their god Baal around 2500 BC.

Baalbek is one of those places

where you have different people
over millennia

building their shrines,
their temples

to their particular, you know,
gods or goddesses.

You've got this temple
that's built by the Phoenicians

for one of their deities, Baal.

Then Alexander the Great
conquers this area

and-- surprise, surprise--

builds a temple
to the Greek gods.

NARRATOR:
In the first century BC,

roughly 300 years
after Alexander the Great,

the Romans conquer Lebanon and
decide to erect a temple here

to their chief god Jupiter.

The main Roman temple
once boasted 54 columns,

each a staggering 65 feet
in height.

But while visitors to the ruins

may first notice
the towering Roman columns,

the most impressive feature
at Baalbek

is its massive foundation.

TSOUKALOS:
To this day,

Baalbek, Lebanon, has remained

one of the most enduring
mysteries on planet Earth.

Because the masonry that
we find there is unparalleled

compared to the rest
of the world.

In fact, there are three stone
blocks called the Trilithons,

each weighing
approximately 800 metric tons,

which is 1.6 million pounds.

COLLINS:
Each of these blocks is approximately 62 feet in length

by about 14 feet in depth

and 12 feet in breadth.

And they're not even
on the ground.

So whoever placed them there
in ancient times

would have had
to have raised them

up to a height of about 20 feet.

HENRY:
Each of the stones were quarried two miles away

and put perfectly into place

with such precision that you
can't even put a credit card

or a needle in between
those massive blocks.

NARRATOR:
How ancient people carved and moved such massive stones

is a question that baffles
archaeologists to this day.

And equally as mysterious
is who placed them there.

The giant blocks
in the foundation

are clearly of
a different building style

than the temples that sit above.

And in my opinion, that platform
is not just ancient,

it is prehistoric.

NARRATOR:
But if the platform at Baalbek

was constructed
thousands of years

before the Romans arrived
in the Beqaa Valley,

why did they choose this
as the site

to build
their most magnificent temple?

One pioneering Russian scholar
has proposed

that humans may have been drawn
to this location

because it was the site

of one of Earth's earliest
extraterrestrial events.

Scientist and mathematician
Dr. Matest Agrest

sends shockwaves
through the world of academia

with an article in which
he poses a new theory

called "paleo contact,"

a precursor
to what is known today

as the ancient astronaut theory,

suggesting
that certain biblical texts

could be interpreted
as evidence of alien visitation.

And, according to Agrest,

one place where such visitations
occurred was Baalbek.

HENRY:
Dr. Matest Agrest

went into the ancient record,

the Book of Enoch
and other Hebrew texts,

and noticed that there were
beings coming from the sky

or the stars that came to Earth,

and he came up with a theory
that they were

extraterrestrial beings
who came to Earth

to assist humanity in developing
advanced technology

to build stone constructions,

such as what we see
at Baalbek in Lebanon.

NARRATOR:
Agrest wrote about the Watchers,

a group of fallen angels who,

according
to the biblical account,

descended to Earth
at Mount Hermon,

very near the site of Baalbek.

Agrest suggested
that the Watchers were, in fact,

visitors from another planet

who built the megalithic
platform at Baalbek

as a launchpad.

CHILDRESS:
He thought it was

a giant stone platform

that spaceships could land on
and take off from.

And this makes a lot of sense,

because it's
so incredibly solid,

with these huge stone blocks
in it,

that even huge vehicles,
such as rockets,

could land and take off
from this huge platform.

NARRATOR:
Two decades after the publication

of Agrest's
controversial article,

author and researcher
Zecharia Sitchin

came to the same conclusion
about Baalbek

based on a 5,000-year-old
Sumerian text.

The Epic of Gilgamesh tells
of a hero of superhuman strength

who embarks
on an impossible quest.

In the course of his journeys,

Gilgamesh arrives at a site

where he encounters
otherworldly gods,

a site that sounds
suspiciously like Baalbek.

In the Sumerian
Epic of Gilgamesh,

which is one of the great
and important legends,

um, of human history,

we have the hero
arriving in a place

known as the Landing Place.

A space which allows
the ascent and the descent

of beings from the heavens
to the Earth.

HENRY:
Zachariah Sitchin in the 1970s proposed,

based on his reading
of the Epic of Gilgamesh,

that Gilgamesh himself had seen

some sort of a spacecraft
take off from a landing site

and pinpointed that site
as Baalbek.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Baalbek was a landing pad

for alien visitors

and that it remained so
for thousands of years?

Could that be why
so many ancient peoples,

such as the Egyptians,
Assyrians,

Canaanites, Phoenicians,

Greeks and Romans

all chose to build and rebuild

some of their greatest temples
on this spot?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining new discoveries

made at a mysterious
ancient site

on the other side of the world.

NARRATOR:
While searching for the southern capital of the Inca Empire,

Spanish conquistador
Pedro Cieza de Le�n

comes upon something
far stranger--

a vast abandoned city
near the shore of Lake Titicaca

that the locals call Tiwanaku.

The ruined city
contains temples,

huge megalithic structures

and vast ceremonial buildings.

ED BARNHART:
Tiwanaku was huge.

It spanned for miles and miles

and had a population of...

perhaps as many
as 20,000 people.

NARRATOR:
Among Tiwanaku's most impressive ruins

is a carved monolith
called the Gateway to the Sun

and a terrace mound
called Puma Punku,

containing stone blocks cut
with extraordinary precision.

According to archaeologists,

the Tiwanaku complex once served

as the capital
of a sprawling empire

that rose and fell
centuries before the Inca.

TSOUKALOS:
This is why we have the term called "the pre-Inca."

But who were the pre-Inca?

And this is
where it gets interesting,

because pre-Inca construction
is more sophisticated

than Inca construction.

NARRATOR:
While some mainstream historians say

the site dates back
only to the Bronze Age,

others maintain it is far older.

TSOUKALOS:
Arthur Posnansky spent an exorbitant amount of time

at Tiwanaku,

and he calculated an actual
origin date of Tiwanaku,

which he based
to be around 12,500 BC,

which is an incredible time,

because, at that time,

according
to mainstream archaeology,

we were munching on bananas.

HENRY:
So, it opens up the possibility

that this site
is vastly more ancient

than we're led to believe.

And we're only just now
beginning to discover

the complete history
of that site.

NARRATOR:
Some experts believe that the builders of Tiwanaku

were the ancestors
of the local Aymara people

who still live in the area
today.

But many of the Aymara
themselves disagree.

TSOUKALOS:
The local population, the ancient Aymara culture, say,

"It was not us who built this.

"It was the gods,

los dioses."

NARRATOR:
Recently, the mystery of who built Tiwanaku

only deepened
with a staggering discovery--

not within the city

but beneath it.

2017.

Researchers from UNESCO,

working with local
archaeologists at Tiwanaku,

announce findings
that send shockwaves

through the world of archeology.

While analyzing
satellite imagery

and ground-penetrating radar
of the Tiwanaku site,

they find dozens
of previously unknown structures

buried virtually
everywhere they look.

What this aerial technology
has found

is 34 acres

of terraced mounds,

underground platforms and
elements of a pyramid complex.

Undated constructions
reveal that temples

may have taken the form

of industrial strength
platforms,

and this begs the question,
why are the bases,

these platforms,
so industrial strength?

It's as though they were built
to support extreme weight.

So, originally, there could've
been one large mega platform,

similar to what we find
at Baalbek.

This could have belonged
to a much earlier civilization.

NARRATOR:
If Tiwanaku is yet another sacred site

where successive cultures
built temples atop the ruins

of far earlier structures,

is it possible
that there is a connection

to extraterrestrial visitation?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

Tiwanaku's most mysterious
ruins, at Puma Punku,

provide the best evidence

that the site
was not only significant

to the native people,

but also to
otherworldly visitors.

Puma Punku is, to me, the most
important place on Earth

as far as an extraterrestrial
visitation would be concerned.

The construction style
at Puma Punku does not exist

anywhere else on Earth.

HENRY:
These stones, some of them weighing a hundred tons,

are made of andesite

and other hard materials
that, today,

we would use a diamond-tip drill

in order to shape
or mold such stones.

How did they do it
with hammers and chisels?

NARRATOR:
Like the foundation stones beneath Baalbek

and the megalithic blocks
of Sacsayhuam�n,

the buried platforms
beneath Puma Punku

raise a provocative question:

why were the largest, heaviest,

and most sophisticated parts
of these sites

those that date back
farthest in time?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

more than 12,000 years ago,

human civilizations
existed on Earth

that possessed
incredible technology

given to them
by extraterrestrial beings.

The ancient Egyptians
referred to

a-a time called
"the first time,"

when the gods,
extraterrestrial beings,

walked among men.

Pre-10,000 BC.

CHILDRESS:
We have authentic legends about

these lost lands
and lost worlds and

that extraterrestrials
were here at the same time.

We have these
all over the world,

we have the stories
of Atlantis and Lemuria.

Many cultures around the world
have also these

same legends and lores
and myths of cataclysms.

The Scandinavians have this.

Also, we have the flood of Noah.

We have the Greeks,
also have tales of a flood.

COLLINS:
What we now know from incredible amount of evidence

coming from every part
of the world

is around 10,800 BC,

the Earth suffered
a terrible catastrophe

in the form
of a comet impact known as

the Younger Dryas event.

And this devastated
every continent

of the world
with fires and floods.

So, now, it looks like
we're looking at

a secret history
of planet Earth.

One where there's
extraterrestrial intervention.

And there were
civilizations and activities

going on then,
and they were destroyed

in a cataclysmic flood.

HENRY:
From Baalbek in Lebanon

to the Temple Mount
to Puma Punku,

some of these sites are thought
to be the locations where

pre-flood temples once existed.

So, after the cataclysm,
people are regaining

civilization and they go back
to the exact same location

as previous temples and-and
rebuild the temple there.

NARRATOR:
But if, as ancient astronaut theorists insist,

the Earth played host
to an advanced civilization

long before our own,
what happened to it?

And why is there no hard
evidence to prove it existed?

For many, the answer can
be found hiding in plain sight,

and the hard evidence exists
in the form of objects made

using the only substance
that can stand the test of time:

stone.

NARRATOR:
Aerospace engineer and satellite imagining expert,

Dr. Mark Carlotto
has spent the past three years

investigating some
of the world's most impressive

archeological sites.

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,

Dr. Carlotto's investigation
had a breakthrough

after he noticed
that Teotihuacan,

the ancient complex
north of Mexico City,

didn't properly line up.

An extraordinary possibility
then occurred to him:

perhaps the structure was built

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.

And this causes huge
cataclysmic changes.

Hapgood's analysis
was based on climate data.

Looking at patterns
of climate change,

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 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.

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 where north is up.

So, for example,
here we have Teotihuacan,

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--
north, south, east and west.

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

to find out if other
ancient structures

shared Teotihuacan'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 Teotihuacan

is aligned
to other sites nearby,

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

And this shows a number of other
sites 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 Teotihuacan

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

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
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,

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 time frame for archeology

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 are all correlated.

They all tell the same story.

CHILDRESS:
The idea that cataclysmic pole shifts 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.

It's a fascinating thought.

NARRATOR:
Could it be, as Mark Carlotto's research suggests,

that these structures

belong to not just one
previous society of builders,

but various ages of man?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and, as evidence, point to
recently revealed ruins found

on the ocean floor.

NARRATOR:
2001.

Canadian explorer
Paulina Zelitsky and her team

are conducting an oceanic survey
off the coast when they detect

curious formations more than
2,000 feet underwater.

NEWMAN:
They found, when they were taking images,

some kind of pyramidical
structure and other structures.

There were circular areas,
there was what appeared to be

some kind of city
built down there.

It was about two
square kilometers in size.

And so, this is something
quite astonishing

if this is, you know, a reality.

CHILDRESS: This pyramid city--
it is so deep in the ocean

that geologists and
archeologists are saying

that it must be 50,000 years old

for sea levels to be that low.

NARRATOR: 50,000 years old?

Remarkably,
these underwater ruins

are among many that have been
uncovered in recent years.

We've got ruins all over
the world that are underwater.

Ruins have been found underwater
in Lake Titicaca.

The formation of Yonaguni,

off the southern Japanese
island of Yonaguni.

We have underwater cities
around India,

such as Dwarka,

which is the famous home
of Krishna,

and Indian archeologists
for years

thought it was just
a mythical city

until they started finding these
underwater ruins off of Gujarat.

There's over 200 known sunken
cities in the Mediterranean.

So, much of the evidence
for early civilizations

on planet Earth
would be underwater today.

So, they were obviously
built at a time

when the ocean levels
and the seas and the continents

were quite different
than they are today.

HUGHES:
All of this evidence tells us that

there were extraordinary
civilizations and cultures

that have been lost to the story
of the world until now.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that the latest archaeological finds

are collectively pointing
to the existence

of a lost prehistoric
civilization?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and they suggest
further clues can be found

in Earth's geological record.

1940.

Dutch archaeologist
Cornelis Hijszeler

is excavating a sandpit when
he notices something strange:

a thin layer of ash buried
50 feet deep in the soil.

NEWMAN:
It's like a layer of black ash.

This suggests there was a great
conflagration that took place,

and it dates to between
11,000 and 13,000 years ago.

NARRATOR:
Over the next few years, the ash layer--

dubbed Usselo Horizon--
is found all over the world.

CHILDRESS: The Usselo Horizon
is found, actually,

in ten countries
on four continents.

In Australia, in South Africa

and other parts
of Europe and India.

And this deposit of ash
around the world

is evidence
of a worldwide cataclysm.

NARRATOR:
Could this layer of ash really be evidence

of a devastating global event,

like the one known as
the great flood, for instance?

Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch
believes the cataclysmic event

and the resulting
layer of ash was created

by a devastating solar flare,

a sudden flash of increased
brightness on the sun.

SCHOCH:
Based on my analysis of the evidence,

there was a major,
major solar outburst.

This caused, in a flash,
the glaciers to melt

virtually instantaneously.

It caused evaporation of water.

We have physical evidence of
this in the geological record.

NARRATOR:
To many, the Usselo Horizon

is the strongest evidence
yet discovered

that supports stories
of the great flood.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

proof of a global flood
could offer

some of the most
compelling evidence

that extraterrestrial
intervention occurred on Earth

in the distant past.

In the Babylonian poem
the Epic of Gilgamesh,

the hero Utnapishtim is told of
a coming flood by the god Enki.

In Vedic texts, King Manu
is alerted by Lord Vishnu,

who appeared
in the form of a fish.

And in the biblical tale,
Noah is warned by God.

The common denominator
in the flood myths

around the world
is that there was

an otherworldly being,
an extraterrestrial being

who is providing knowledge
to certain humans

of what is to come.

This tells us that
there was definitely

an extraterrestrial connection.

NARRATOR:
If advanced civilizations existed on Earth

that were lost to history,

could the story of the flood
explain what happened?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

and suggest that further
evidence can be found

within the Dead Sea Scrolls,

discovered in a cave
in Jerusalem in 1947.

COLLINS:
Some Bedouin shepherds

came across these jars

and inside these
were ancient texts.

Very quickly,
archaeologists and linguists

started to realize
that these contained

Jewish religious literature
that were

of incredible importance,

not just to the Jewish people,
but to the world as a whole.

NARRATOR:
Among the texts is a story that describes the birth of Noah

that doesn't appear
in the Old Testament.

Noah is described of having skin
that is whiter than snow,

of having hair that is whiter
than the whitest of wool.

And Noah's eyes
were brighter than the sun.

Now, when Noah was born,
the father,

Lamech, went to his father,
Methuselah,

and says, "This is not my son.
What happened here?"

And Methuselah then says,

"He may have come
from a different place

where man has met the angels."

Now, we need to first figure out
what is the kernel of truth.

And, in my opinion,
it certainly was not

a giant ship made out of wood.

And you combine that with Noah,

who looks very otherworldly,
well, there's your answer.

NARRATOR:
Could a catastrophic flood explain the disappearance

of an advanced civilization
that preceded our own?

And if so,
might ancient structures

hidden beneath our feet
one day reveal the truth

behind the legends of a time

when the so-called gods
inhabited our world?

Perhaps, as we learn more
about our buried past,

we will discover
that we grossly underestimated

the timeline of civilization
on our planet,

and that humans
are not the first species

to make Earth their home.

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