CHARIOTS GODS & BEYOND @ Ancient Aliens 远古外星人

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If aliens come from another galaxy. How long does it take them to come to earth ?. Do they have supersonic speed as shown in startrek ?. Ancient Alien programmes say one thing about how they helped us build buildings and other programmes show that the people can build with their own intelligence, no aliens came into earth. One thing for sure, I don't believe that aliens can make heavy stones float.  根据“古代外星人”理论，拥有卓越科学与工程知识的外星人曾在数千年前造访地球，向早期文明传授其专业知识，从而永远改变了人类历史的进程。然而，这一观点是如何形成的？又是否有证据支持它呢？

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00:00:08July 20th, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to land

00:00:18on the moon. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Just like aliens visiting from

00:00:30another world. It had been the stuff of science fiction. Now, everything that could be imagined

00:00:42seemed possible. If mankind could travel the skies and go to other planets, why couldn't beings from

00:00:51other planets visit the Earth? Amidst a wave of modern UFO sightings, a new theory emerged that

00:01:01aliens visited Earth in antiquity and were regarded as gods. But if that were true, wouldn't there be

00:01:10proof? Perhaps there was. All we needed to do was open our eyes and our imaginations. The proof,

00:01:21perhaps, was all around us.

00:01:57In May of 2008, a startling proclamation was issued by the Vatican. For the first time in its 2,000

00:02:05-year

00:02:06history, the Catholic Church acknowledged the possibility that intelligent people could be a

00:02:10life could exist on other planets and that a belief in extraterrestrials did not contradict a belief in God.

00:02:19Which means, of course, that we are now entering an age in which the universe is beginning to be conceived

00:02:27in

00:02:27different ways from what it was before. And if it is a reality for us, why could it not have

00:02:33been a reality for other

00:02:35beings in the universe who could have visited our Earth and perhaps guided culture in ancient times?

00:02:44But just what sparked this sudden turnaround in religious thought? Could the Church have been influenced by recent scientific discoveries?

00:02:54In 2002, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft detected enormous reservoirs of ice beneath the Martian surface.

00:03:02The presence of ice and the possibility of water suggested that life could be sustained or even generated on another

00:03:10planet.

00:03:13After decades of orbiting space shuttles and robotic rovers, the idea of sending man back into space, to Mars and

00:03:21beyond,

00:03:22ignited the imagination and brought back the notion that mankind and alien beings had crossed paths before.

00:03:35In 1968, just one year before Neil Armstrong's epic space flight, a book was published that forever changed the way

00:03:45many

00:03:45in the scientific, religious and creative communities would view their home planet.

00:03:52Written by Swiss author Eric von Daniken, Chariots of the Gods attempted to prove that alien explorers had visited the

00:04:00Earth

00:04:00thousands of thousands of thousands of years ago.

00:04:02When I was a young man, I was educated as a strict Catholic in a boarding school.

00:04:08And there, we had to make translations of part of the Bible, Greek to Latin, Latin to German.

00:04:14For example, in the first book of Moses, before the Lord descends on the holy mountain,

00:04:20Moses was ordered to construct a gate around the mountain, otherwise the Israelites would be damaged.

00:04:27I was shocked. I said, this is impossible. My God, he would never use first a gate to protect himself

00:04:34or to protect the Israelites.

00:04:36What are they talking about? And now the work started. I started to read thousands of pages of the beginning

00:04:44of religions, of every mythology.

00:04:46It's always the same story. Of course, with different names, with different heroes. Somebody descends from the sky to the

00:04:54humans.

00:04:54Our forefathers could not understand it. They believed that these are some gods.

00:05:00I was shocked. I asked the question. Were primitive humans influenced by extraterrestrials, not gods?

00:05:08And if it all was like I suggested, what is the proof? So you start trying to find at least

00:05:14indications.

00:05:15That's what I have done now for at least 45 years. You have pictorial evidence. You have artifacts in archaeology.

00:05:22And you have what's come out of the old literature. Hundreds of indications which you cannot deny anymore.

00:05:28What it means is that we need new explanations for human origins. That perhaps we're not alone in the universe.

00:05:39And that human-like beings came to this planet from some other planet elsewhere in the cosmos. I think that's

00:05:46a very good idea myself.

00:05:48And it really excited people. It was a new way of looking at the past, looking at ancient civilizations.

00:05:54And it put this very modern space-age spin to the whole thing.

00:06:03Chariots of the gods caused a sensation, fueled in no small part by the popular response to books like Frank

00:06:10Herbert's Dune, television shows like Star Trek, and feature films like 2001, A Space Odyssey.

00:06:19The time was ripe, because everybody was talking of possible space travel, of possibility of extraterrestrials. So it was all

00:06:26wonderful coming together. But it was not planned.

00:06:31After a Swiss newspaper printed excerpts of it on a weekly basis, more than 10,000 copies of the book

00:06:38were sold before ever hitting the market.

00:06:40So it was a running bestseller, starting in Switzerland first, then going over to Germany, and then the rest of

00:06:46the world. They had to print and print and print and print. It was absolutely incredible.

00:06:53In 1970, a feature-length documentary was released to theaters, followed by dozens of best-selling books, and growing legions

00:07:02of fans and supporters.

00:07:05Chariots of the Gods was tremendously influential. It somehow spoke to people who want to believe.

00:07:12When I was a boy, Chariot of the Gods was one of the books I first read. I mean, I

00:07:17ripped it apart. I digested it. I couldn't get enough of it.

00:07:20I just fell in love with that book, because it really opened up all kinds of new questions.

00:07:26And Von Donegan was able to point out many anomalies in history that the mainstream archaeologists can't answer very well.

00:07:35He had what was a revolutionary new idea, that of gods from outer space coming to the planet, helping create

00:07:44civilization.

00:07:45When I first read Chariots of the Gods, I couldn't put that book down because it answered a whole bunch

00:07:54of questions that I had.

00:07:57And it was a great combination of archaeology and adventure.

00:08:03And it's just a wonderful way to see the world and pursue these ancient mysteries.

00:08:09And it truly was, I think, the catalyst for what people like I do today.

00:08:14And that is to talk about the mysteries and the unusual and the paranormal.

00:08:19He paved the way for a lot of us to talk about these strange stories.

00:08:23And that continues to grow, and it's going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

00:08:28People want answers to questions that they can't answer themselves.

00:08:38But in spite of the book's enormous popularity, or perhaps because of it, Von Donegan's theories were scorned by scientists

00:08:46and jeered at by theologians.

00:08:49Of course, it created a storm of controversy.

00:08:53I was completely attacked, especially by the scientific newspapers.

00:08:56They said, come on, he's just telling stories, he's a liar or he's a fraud or whatever.

00:09:00There is not a single piece of evidence that Von Däniken puts forward that cannot be attributed to human ingenuity,

00:09:08technology, and development.

00:09:10Don't try to reduce the scriptures to a science book.

00:09:14Or don't try to reduce the scriptures to an explanation of our modern world today.

00:09:19I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me and say, oh, wonderful, great you did.

00:09:26We have to live with critics. This is normal.

00:09:29Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation.

00:09:31I had 238 question marks.

00:09:35Nobody read the question mark.

00:09:37They always said, Mr. Von Däniken is saying.

00:09:40I did not say. I asked the question.

00:09:43Would that be a possibility?

00:09:45In Chariots of the Gods, they make clear differences between speculations and facts.

00:09:52But as controversial as many of Von Däniken's theories are, believers point to tangible evidence.

00:09:59How, for example, could a centuries-old map chart a landmass that has only recently been discovered?

00:10:06It would tend to indicate that the map was made at a time when Antarctica was ice-free, which would

00:10:15be many millions of years ago.

00:10:18And how could a primitive civilization know how to harness electricity or even build a computer?

00:10:25This was tantamount to finding a jet airplane in the tomb of King Tut.

00:10:29And just who were these mysterious designs, only visible from high altitudes, intended for?

00:10:37The signs are made for somebody who flies. There's no way out of this.

00:10:43Could Von Däniken's theory that ancient gods were really alien visitors contain any serious scientific merit?

00:10:52The answer involves a search around the world, and even right before our eyes.

00:11:06If alien beings from other planets had visited the Earth thousands of years ago, how would our ancient ancestors have

00:11:14tried to communicate with them?

00:11:18And wouldn't there be some physical evidence of the time they spent here?

00:11:24One answer may lie in the Nazca desert of Peru.

00:11:28There, atop an arid plateau that stretches for nearly 50 miles, countless geometric patterns and figures decorate the landscape.

00:11:44You fly over this desert and you see some lines. The lines look like airstrips. They start abruptly, they end

00:11:52abruptly.

00:11:58The longest of it is 23 kilometers. Right away. Not one curve. Just incredible. And ending in one of these

00:12:07so-called airstrips.

00:12:11In the mixture of large lines and small lines, you see gigantic figures in the ground. Figures of fishes.

00:12:19Monkeys. Spiders. Apes. But of such over-dimensional size that you can see them only from the air.

00:12:33People built them, or somebody built them, hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

00:12:38Perhaps maybe even thousands of years ago. That could be signs of, hello up there. Here we are. It's something.

00:12:49Various disputed explanations suggest that the lines could have been used for irrigation ditches, giant astronomical calendars, or pathways, perhaps

00:13:00used for religious worship.

00:13:01Looking at NASCAR from the air, it looks like an airport. And it really does. Because you have all these

00:13:12bands, wide bands, that look like airstrips that are laid on top of each other.

00:13:19But you also have these gigantic, long straight lines that go for miles and miles over valleys, over mountains.

00:13:28So once again, you've got this idea of like, okay, people are creating this. But what is the reason?

00:13:34Is it to show these gods in aerial vehicles, land here kind of a thing? Because we just don't have

00:13:43a good idea of why people would do this.

00:13:48And it really does seem that they're trying to signal people who are in the air, in space, or flying

00:13:56around our planet.

00:14:00During World War II, American troops created air bases on remote Pacific islands.

00:14:08To natives who had never witnessed advanced technology, the sight of giant metal birds touching down looked to them as

00:14:16if the gods themselves had turned the Earth into a planetary pit stop.

00:14:21They would see these big planes land, and it was all technology that just out of the sky.

00:14:28They didn't know how these things worked, but they could see them land.

00:14:32And what they liked about it was they were getting free stuff. They were getting cargo.

00:14:39Suddenly, when the war was over, all these airstrips were abandoned and everyone left.

00:14:44And the islanders scratched their heads and they all said to themselves, wow, wasn't it great when all these planes

00:14:50came out of the sky and gave us free cans of corned beef and stuff?

00:14:54We really liked that cargo.

00:14:58Entire religions sprung up from this, where priests actually said, yes, you know, that was our dead ancestors sending us

00:15:06cargo.

00:15:07So what they did then was they began going to the old airstrips and they would build mock wooden airplanes

00:15:14to try and get those planes to come back from the sky and deliver the cans of corned beef to

00:15:21them again.

00:15:21And so you can see how then an analogy with modern cargo cults plays exactly into the ancient astronaut scenario

00:15:30where something like this could have easily happened in the past and entire religions built around ancient astronauts.

00:15:42But gigantic geoglyphs aren't the only mystery surrounding Nazca.

00:15:50I was flying over Nazca for days, hanging out the aircraft with the camera and shooting and shooting and shooting.

00:15:56I have more or less about 4,000 pictures of Nazca. This is really fascinating.

00:16:02You see, this is one of the pictures which prove that this mountain was made flat artificially because you compare

00:16:08it with the mountains around there.

00:16:10There, the mountain's cap comes up from both sides. Here, it was flat.

00:16:13Yeah, this is absolutely incredible. This is one of the most craziest pictures I made about Nazca.

00:16:20The crazy thing is the rubble, the remains of that summit or that mountain top, gone.

00:16:27It's nowhere. It's not in the valley down below. It's nowhere in the region. What happened to it?

00:16:35Because all the mountains around it have their summits. It's there.

00:16:41And then you have other mountains that are as flat as a table with bands on top that look like

00:16:49runways.

00:16:52Another question. Why would visiting ETs be drawn to the bone-dry deserts of Peru?

00:17:00Let's just say hypothetically that a spaceship arrives here on planet Earth and you wanted to quickly find out what

00:17:09this planet consists of.

00:17:11NASCA would be the perfect place to go and visit for some sampling and for some experimentation because

00:17:19NASCA still today is one of the most abundant areas in the world regarding raw materials.

00:17:27There you find everything. You find gold, you find uranium, what have you. It's basically the cliff notes of planet

00:17:38Earth.

00:17:38You go to NASCA and you immediately know everything about what our planet consists of because all the raw materials

00:17:47converge there at high volumes.

00:17:59Why do we have to believe that this simply could not be an expression of an artistic impulse, you know?

00:18:04Is it really that outlandish to believe that, you know, that these natives in Peru might have wanted to create

00:18:11some large-scale work of art?

00:18:13And to say that such a large-scale work of art could not have been created merely for the possibility

00:18:18of having created it rather than the NASCA lines are so inhumanly vast that they could only be admired by

00:18:25people who are capable of flight.

00:18:27Well, you know, you can say the same thing about the Great Wall of China.

00:18:30And yet the Great Wall of China has a purpose that is political, that is martial.

00:18:37Somebody might have walked the NASCA lines as a spiritual labyrinth in the shape of a spiritual totemic object and

00:18:44were in their own way supposed to get a kind of epiphany from that.

00:18:48The fact that we don't understand the purpose of a thing opens it to tremendous speculation.

00:19:00NASCA and the NASCA figures make no sign seen from the earth.

00:19:06You have to fly over it.

00:19:09The signs are made for somebody who flies.

00:19:12There's no way out of this.

00:19:14I hope archaeology sooner or later will come to a similar conclusion.

00:19:23But if visitors from other planets were thought to be gods, wouldn't there be written accounts of them?

00:19:30Perhaps the answer can be found right in front of us, in one of the most shocking places of all.

00:19:44Ironically, Erich von Daniken's firm belief that Earth has been visited in the past by beings from other planets,

00:19:51he's entirely consistent with his belief in God and the Bible.

00:19:56It is merely a question of interpretation.

00:20:02One has to understand, I was a very, very deep believer in God.

00:20:07By the way, I'm still a believer in God.

00:20:10I never lost my God.

00:20:12But for a young man, my God had to be almighty.

00:20:17My God would never need a vehicle in which to move around.

00:20:20A vehicle to go from point A to point B.

00:20:25In what Christians refer to as the Old Testament,

00:20:28there are in fact several accounts of God and his angels visiting the Earth.

00:20:36Sometimes these visitations are accompanied by tremendous noise and clouds of billowing smoke.

00:20:46In the Book of Ezekiel, for example,

00:20:49the prophet claims that he witnessed a visitation by heavenly beings

00:20:53coming down from the skies aboard a fantastic flying machine.

00:20:59As far as von Daniken is concerned, it's a highly detailed description of an alien sighting.

00:21:06This is incredible. Ezekiel not only describes what he sees, he also describes what he hears.

00:21:14He describes the whole thing as being the splendorness of God.

00:21:19The prophet also details several four-faced winged creatures who appeared in the likeness of men

00:21:26and who traveled upon a gleaming wheeled device.

00:21:30Inside the splendorness of God, there was something like a throne.

00:21:34And on this throne was a being sitting looking like a human in glittering clothes.

00:21:40And beneath it, he saw some vehicles.

00:21:44He saw some wings.

00:21:46He describes the noise of the wings.

00:21:48He describes the noise of the wings with the thundering of a waterfall.

00:21:57Ezekiel saw his wheel within a wheel.

00:21:59This sounds more high-tech than supernatural.

00:22:03And we can't suppose that people 3,000 years ago would understand the difference between the supernatural and high-tech.

00:22:12But what if there is more to Ezekiel's heavenly visions than the imaginative insights of a religious man?

00:22:21What if there was a scientific foundation for them?

00:22:25Yes, I once had the opportunity of meeting and spending time and traveling with a gentleman by the name of

00:22:32Joseph Bloombridge.

00:22:34He was a senior chief engineer at NASA, a person involved in the mariner expedition to Mars.

00:22:42He was also in charge of the landing gear for the mariner spaceship.

00:22:47And he told me himself that the idea of the design used for the mariner spaceship that landed on Mars

00:22:56and the mariner spaceship in the mariner spaceship.

00:22:56And the idea of the mariner spaceship came to him from the reading of the biblical text,

00:22:59in which there is talk about wheels within wheels.

00:23:03So, here you have another example of the person of curiosity who conceives of these ideas.

00:23:12Another biblical figure who continues to fascinate von Däniken is the character of Enoch.

00:23:19Enoch is not part of the Bible.

00:23:21In the Bible, in the Old Testament, you find maybe just one phrase about Enoch.

00:23:26That's all.

00:23:27But among the apocryphic texts, there are volumes and volumes if you know them.

00:23:33You find the book of Enoch.

00:23:35Enoch is the first person in antiquity who writes in the first person.

00:23:40I did.

00:23:41I here.

00:23:41I was there.

00:23:43In one of the ancient texts, this great-grandfather of Noah

00:23:47is said to have been taken away by God for 300 years.

00:23:52He was taken up to the sky.

00:23:55Up there, he meets the highest, the so-called highest.

00:23:59In religion, they call it God.

00:24:01He meets the highest, and the highest says to his servants,

00:24:06you teach this young man in our language, and then you teach him writing.

00:24:11So he writes books.

00:24:13Of course, he knows all these foreigners by name.

00:24:17He quotes them by name.

00:24:19He knows their profession.

00:24:21He knows which of these extraterrestrials was the astronomer.

00:24:24So Enoch is the only and first person, thousands of years ago,

00:24:28who gives some of the names of the extraterrestrials

00:24:31and gives some of their professions.

00:24:33How is this possible?

00:24:34We have an eyewitness, and nobody speaks about it.

00:24:38So I really was confused.

00:24:42That would be the argument that the followers of von Tenecken would say.

00:24:46Why is it so absurd for aliens to come when it's completely acceptable for God

00:24:50to intervene in human history?

00:24:53The difference is, von Tenecken's arguing that aliens came and gave technologies

00:24:59to people to advance those cultures.

00:25:01So basically, they gave objects.

00:25:03They gave new ideas and new technologies,

00:25:05and that those cultures advanced because of them.

00:25:07Whereas, at least in the Bible,

00:25:11it's not like God gave humankind a magic watch,

00:25:15you know, or a new missile that they could use to defeat their enemies.

00:25:20God gives instructions, at least the Bible records,

00:25:23that God gives instructions on how to live,

00:25:26but not how to build new devices that further or advance a specific culture.

00:25:32Can we liken Ezekiel's chariot to a UFO?

00:25:37The ancients used myth and metaphor and images to describe their experience of God.

00:25:45I think what we don't want to fall to is a type of fundamental literalism.

00:25:50The stories of the Old Testament emerge out of the people of that time,

00:25:54out of their own context, to make sense of their experience of God.

00:25:59We can gain insight by reading the Old Testament and reading about Ezekiel's chariot,

00:26:04but it's not to draw a strict analogy between his chariot and a UFO.

00:26:14When all of these stories were written down,

00:26:18writing was a fairly new invention.

00:26:21The very first thing they wrote down is something that actually happened to them.

00:26:27It was so important, so compelling, so significant to them, that they had to put it in writing.

00:26:35Why can't modern society come to grips that these stories might be true after all?

00:26:44banget.

00:26:46Van Däniken's research turned up evidence of other arguably extraterrestrial phenomena,

00:26:52and not only in the Bible.

00:26:55Almost every religion has similar stories about deities with spectacular powers and abilities,

00:27:01who come to Earth and directly influence the lives of men.

00:27:06suddenly one day i said to myself now come on this is similar the stories in so many old religions

00:27:11are they talking about extraterrestrials these so-called gods are here they give orders they

00:27:19force the humans to do certain things and one day they disappear but they always disappear with the

00:27:25promise to return in a far away future if as i believe people in ancient civilizations were

00:27:34familiar with space travel people in ancient civilizations were in communication with human

00:27:41like beings from other planets then i think we should expect to find evidence for this in their

00:27:48literatures which we do find throughout the ancient sanskrit epics of india there are numerous

00:27:55descriptions of vimanas or mythical flying machines one of these accounts even dates back over 5 000

00:28:03years in the bhagavat piranha which is an ancient sanskrit history there is a description of a

00:28:11spacecraft that was piloted by a king named shalva it's described that was made of metal it was

00:28:20described that it sometimes appeared to be in two places at once it was described as having emotions

00:28:27similar to that of a butterfly and these descriptions are consistent with what people who observe ufos today

00:28:34report in other sanskrit text such as the mahabharata the rigveda and the ramayana there can be found

00:28:44descriptions of vimana measuring as wide as 100 feet and often equipped with the capabilities of modern aircraft

00:28:54one vimana produced a shaft of light which when focused on a target consumed it with its power

00:29:02it's like a buck rogers or flash gordon movie from the 30s they read like the wildest science fiction

00:29:10people are flying around in airships called vamanas blasting each other and having aerial fights destroying

00:29:19entire cities and the crazy thing is that all of those stories are totally accepted in the modern

00:29:29society of india i don't think we can say that these descriptions are simply imagination because even

00:29:40though they were written thousands of years ago they match what many people today report in terms of

00:29:46observing the actions of ufos were they just mythological tales that they're making up fantasy

00:29:53or these physical real events and they're trying to describe them as the best that they could that

00:29:58seems to make more sense to me i gotta tell you this i would be out of a job in

00:30:04india because there

00:30:05if i were to talk about ancient aliens and ancient gods they would say okay so what else is new

00:30:17when backing up their claims of extraterrestrial visitation ancient alien theorists draw upon two

00:30:24kinds of examples there's the evidence you can read such as that found in ancient texts

00:30:31and then there's the evidence you can actually see

00:30:36among the earliest types of physical specimens numerous cave and rock drawings and stone sculptures

00:30:43found all over the globe you know pictures are worth a thousand words absolutely when you see

00:30:49pictures depicted for example on a cave in italy that show two astronauts with helmets on i don't know

00:30:56what the heck could it be what could it be each of these ancient illustrations or statues

00:31:02depict figures dressed in strange attire for the times and sporting unusual headgear but could

00:31:09they really be representations of alien astronauts visitors from other worlds who touched down upon

00:31:16the earth thousands of years ago all over the world we have statues and sculptures and paintings

00:31:24paintings and depictions of these extraterrestrial beings even in the united states at sego canyon utah

00:31:31we have petroglyphs of very weird looking creatures that have antennae on their heads helmets and halfway around the world

00:31:42in kimberly australia for example we have the exact same depictions of these helmeted beings

00:31:48with a halo around their heads and the question i have is what did our ancestors see that compelled them

00:31:56to put this on their cave walls

00:32:00on yet another continent in guatemala city we have a sculpture that looks eerily reminiscent of a modern day astronaut

00:32:09i mean that thing is wearing a helmet there's some type of a mouthpiece and on his chest are some

00:32:16type of controls or a breathing apparatus

00:32:19how is this possible 1500 years ago

00:32:24and in colombia there were thousands of tomb artifacts that look like modern day airplanes it has fixed wings

00:32:34it has a fuselage and it has an upright tail fin which is not intrinsic to nature but it is

00:32:45intrinsic to modern day aerodynamics

00:32:48did our ancestors see something similar flying in the air absolutely another compelling artifact that was found was at the

00:32:58istanbul museum

00:32:59where you have this headless spaceman sitting inside some type of a space vehicle

00:33:05you can see his hands and you can see tubing that go to some sort of devices

00:33:12he's wearing a suit his legs are crammed in there i mean even to the untrained eye

00:33:18this looks very aerodynamic and it looks something that you know came from outer space

00:33:25these people witnessed something they were told something and they tried to depict it

00:33:32the best way they could with the kind of technology they had at the time and that was simple tools

00:33:38and simple artwork

00:33:39many of these ancient civilizations were widely separated in space and time they weren't in communication with each other

00:33:48but still they have the same kinds of accounts i think it's because they all experienced these things

00:33:56and they all have the idea that we're part of a cosmic hierarchy of beings

00:34:02so i think we can't explain things away so easily

00:34:08but for eric von daniken and other proponents of his ancient astronaut theories

00:34:13perhaps the most significant illustration can be found in mexico

00:34:20the mayan archaeological site of palenque had been abandoned for centuries before it was stumbled upon by spanish explorers

00:34:29so to get to the top of this and suddenly here are the great pyramids of palenque

00:34:38here deep within a secret tomb under one of the age-old temples

00:34:43lies the seven-ton sarcophagus of palenque's seventh-century ruler

00:34:48pakal the great

00:34:50lord pakal apparently died here at palenque

00:34:54he was apparently this mysterious mayan leader

00:34:59he was a giant seven or eight feet tall actually

00:35:03and then they built this pyramid around his tomb

00:35:08the mayans literally worshipped him as some kind of a god

00:35:13king pakal's sarcophagus is adorned with a carving that has become a famous example of classic mayan art

00:35:21most believe the illustration shows pakal descending into the mayan underworld

00:35:27but ancient astronaut theorists interpret the carving a vastly different way

00:35:32on this lap an incredible in chiseling

00:35:36you see a man and he's sitting in a sort of capsule

00:35:40he has some sort of mask on his nose

00:35:42and you see his upper hand he's manipulating some controls

00:35:45from the lower hand he's turning something on

00:35:48the heel of his left foot is on a kind of pedal

00:35:51and outside of the capsule you see a linking flame

00:35:55this is incredible this is absolutely a proof for extraterrestrials

00:36:00three

00:36:01two

00:36:02one

00:36:03zero

00:36:04liftoff

00:36:06if we look at the similarities of what our astronauts look like when they are

00:36:09in a rocket ship or in the space shuttle and have gear attached to them

00:36:13there are similarities being shown so one just has to ask the question of

00:36:17you know is this just an artifact symbolically showing something or are they trying to depict

00:36:22with their own limited understanding of the time what was taking place

00:36:26was lord pakal just some mayan king that everyone liked

00:36:31was he some important visitor from some far off land

00:36:36or was he even possibly some extraterrestrial from another planet

00:36:44although most scientists and archaeologists discredit bondanikin's interpretation of the palenque carvings

00:36:52visitors to the site are often treated to stories and offered souvenirs that support his claim

00:36:58this is eric bondanikin's theory

00:37:00the chariots of the gods

00:37:02you know

00:37:03you see pakal supposed to be driving

00:37:05the rocket

00:37:06holding the controls

00:37:09the pedals

00:37:11the engine

00:37:13and the fire of the rocket

00:37:14this will be the cabin

00:37:17and this is the oxygen

00:37:20mainstream archaeologists claim that it's really a depiction of lord pakal

00:37:24and his journey to the underworld

00:37:26he's going under the ground rather than out into space

00:37:31both are interesting theories and either could be right in my mind

00:37:37in recent years

00:37:39pakal's tomb has been closed to tourists and casual visitors

00:37:42although the sarcophagus is off limits

00:37:45ancient astronaut theorists can still find a wealth of evidence in the carvings along the walls of palenque

00:37:51this is very similar to what's on the lid of lord pakal of his tomb

00:37:56the way he's got his left hand right here in like an odd position in his wrist

00:38:03also some kind of rocket exhaust or something is coming out of him

00:38:10but lord pakal may not have been the only alien who once walked the palenque ruins

00:38:15the mayans had such a advanced calendar and mathematical system

00:38:20why were they so obsessed with the stars

00:38:23one of the most advanced of any ancient cultures

00:38:27and yet the mayans just vanished around 500 ad

00:38:33we don't know where they went

00:38:35and one explanation is that the mayans were some kind of extraterrestrials

00:38:40and they literally left our planet

00:38:44but ancient cave drawings and stone carvings

00:38:47aren't the only types of illustrations that fascinate ancient alien theorists

00:38:52in 1929 historians discovered a map

00:38:57which had been painted onto a piece of gazelle hide

00:39:00they traced the document back to a 16th century turkish admiral named piri reis

00:39:06but in stark contrast to other maps dating back to that time

00:39:10the map depicts land masses that were still as yet unexplored

00:39:15it shows the coast of antarctica as it exists under the current ice cover

00:39:24now that's really pretty amazing

00:39:27because it would tend to indicate that the map was made at a time when antarctica was ice free

00:39:34which would be many millions of years ago

00:39:39the map also accurately charts the coasts of europe and north africa

00:39:44but it's the illustration of northern antarctica

00:39:47that truly astonishes ancient astronaut theorists

00:39:50because this region wouldn't even be discovered for another 300 years

00:39:55we have to remember that antarctica is covered by at least a mile thick ice

00:40:00we didn't have ground penetrating radar until 1958

00:40:03so for a map to exist in 1531 accurately showing the topography

00:40:08it's pretty interesting

00:40:11when cartographers superimposed the piri reis map

00:40:14over a modern map of the world

00:40:16they were amazed to discover that the ancient chart

00:40:20was fantastically accurate in the most minute of details

00:40:24but how could the creators of a centuries old map

00:40:27have known of mountains or rivers that had yet to be discovered

00:40:32in 1531 i really don't know of anyone who was flying above the surface of the earth

00:40:36high enough to map topography

00:40:38and how would they see underneath the ice

00:40:41their maps were so accurate

00:40:44i mean we know that they didn't go to antarctica and explore it

00:40:49but yet they were able to draw these maps of it

00:40:55but if ancient aliens possessed the technology to travel the universe

00:41:00would the only evidence of their journey

00:41:02be in the form of a few carvings

00:41:04or a mysterious map

00:41:05wouldn't there also be signs of a highly advanced technology

00:41:10signs that might be too large to overlook

00:41:14you mean to tell me that people of that time period

00:41:17did this by hand

00:41:19i don't think so

00:41:26when it comes to searching for evidence of ancient aliens

00:41:31eric von daniken

00:41:32literally leaves no stones unturned

00:41:35i have collected for more than forty years information

00:41:39and there are two sorts of evidences to support my hypothesis

00:41:44the one source is literature

00:41:46this might be archaeological or mythological literature

00:41:50and the other sorts are practical objects

00:41:53for example the pyramids are linked to the gods

00:41:57the gods who once descended from the sky to us earthlings

00:42:04without a little interplanetary help

00:42:06how else could early egyptians have learned to stack

00:42:10the nearly two and a half million limestone and granite blocks

00:42:14that create the great pyramid

00:42:18how could prehistoric man

00:42:20move the immense boulders at stonehenge

00:42:24and how could ancient builders at cuzco

00:42:27fit stones so closely together

00:42:29that even a razor blade can't fit between them

00:42:37there's a travel around the world

00:42:38trying to piece together this puzzle of the ancient world

00:42:43there's not that much to really get a good grasp on

00:42:47but what there is

00:42:48is giant blocks of stone

00:42:53huge articulated granite or basalt blocks in many cases

00:42:58sometimes they weigh a thousand tons

00:43:04these things are the size of railway cars

00:43:08and you find them in peru and bolivia and mexico and ancient egypt

00:43:12you have to ask yourself

00:43:15why and how could ancient people have dragged these railway car size blocks of stone

00:43:24stacked them up together into these giant buildings

00:43:29perhaps the most familiar and most mysterious megalithic structure in all the world

00:43:36is the great pyramid of giza

00:43:39the oldest and largest of egypt's three great pyramids

00:43:43this miracle of engineering is believed to have been constructed during a twenty year period

00:43:49ending around twenty five sixty bc

00:43:53but to ancient alien theorists

00:43:55those numbers just don't add up

00:44:00the great pyramid was not built in only twenty two years

00:44:05because logistically speaking

00:44:07you would have to cut transport and put into place one stone every nine seconds

00:44:18and there are modern engineers who have come forward and said

00:44:22we couldn't do this in twenty two years either

00:44:27there are all kinds of theories on how the great pyramid of giza was built

00:44:30so many theories you just sit back and shake your head

00:44:34and that includes e.t. visitations

00:44:38levitating the blocks with some kind of sound system

00:44:41anti-gravity

00:44:45thousands of workers pulling long ropes on a ramp that had to be almost two miles long

00:44:51to get it up to where it is

00:44:55all I know is that they are so finely aligned

00:44:59and that the architecture is so precise

00:45:02that even modern people today with great technology

00:45:06would have a difficult time being that good

00:45:13how for example in the inside of the pyramids in the tombs

00:45:17could they build granite and marble areas that were just so perfect

00:45:22and so clean

00:45:25you mean to tell me that people of that time period

00:45:28did this by hand

00:45:30I don't think so

00:45:34the enormous size and weight of the stones

00:45:37multiplied by the sheer number of them

00:45:40makes one thing certain

00:45:42the construction of the great pyramid

00:45:44remains one of the greatest marvels

00:45:47and mysteries of architectural engineering

00:45:52I don't want to discount human ingenuity

00:45:54because I do believe that we do have the ability to do these things

00:45:56over a longer period of time

00:45:58but the knowledge to build some of these monuments

00:46:00there had to have been some type of intervention

00:46:02or some type of knowledge given to ancient man

00:46:05to carry out those instructions

00:46:07they couldn't have just come up with it on their own

00:46:09in Egypt

00:46:11there are all traditions

00:46:12saying the great pyramid was constructed by a pharaoh with the name of Saurit

00:46:17and then they say Saurit is the same

00:46:20which the Hebrew community calls Enoch

00:46:26Enoch is a prophet in the Old Testament

00:46:29there are books of Enoch called the apocryphic texts

00:46:33you make a connection with Enoch to these extraterrestrials

00:46:37he clearly says he met these extraterrestrials

00:46:41now we have writings in the book of Enoch

00:46:44and he gave the order to construct a building

00:46:47which cannot be destroyed by the thousands of years of the future

00:46:56and the ancient Egyptian texts speak

00:47:01that the pyramids were built by human beings

00:47:05with the assistance of the guardians of the sky

00:47:11meaning the gods

00:47:14and so we have proposed

00:47:16that the pyramids were built by human hands

00:47:20but with the assistance of extraterrestrial technology

00:47:28as one of the seven wonders of the world

00:47:30the great pyramid remains

00:47:32not only an archeological mystery

00:47:34but a geographical marvel

00:47:36in 1877

00:47:39author and theologian Joseph Seiss

00:47:42demonstrated

00:47:43that the great pyramid resides

00:47:45at the intersection

00:47:46of the longest line of latitude

00:47:48and the longest line of longitude

00:47:50the exact center

00:47:52of all the land mass in the world

00:47:55also

00:47:56each of its four sides

00:47:59aligns almost precisely

00:48:00with the four points of the compass

00:48:03though such an instrument

00:48:05wasn't even designed

00:48:06until thousands of years later

00:48:11but is it just mere coincidence

00:48:13that pyramid construction

00:48:15very similar to that practiced in ancient Egypt

00:48:18was also evolving

00:48:20half way around the world

00:48:23there are pyramids on remote pacific islands

00:48:27and in India

00:48:29and in Mexico

00:48:31so this is something that's all over the world

00:48:34archeologists haven't really been able to explain

00:48:38why dissimilar cultures

00:48:40separated by huge oceans

00:48:42are building the same structures

00:48:44and in many ways

00:48:45the same way

00:48:49here in central Mexico

00:48:51stands an ancient city

00:48:52that dates back

00:48:53more than 2,000 years

00:48:56its name

00:48:57Teotihuacan

00:48:58literally means

00:49:00city of the gods

00:49:02and located at its center

00:49:04is the pyramid of the sun

00:49:07incredibly

00:49:08this pyramids perimeter

00:49:10is virtually the same

00:49:11as that of the great pyramid of Giza

00:49:15a structural coincidence

00:49:17or

00:49:18could it be

00:49:19that both were inspired by the same designers

00:49:23couple theories for that

00:49:24ok

00:49:25one

00:49:26maybe they were all taught the same thing

00:49:28by an extraterrestrial race

00:49:31two

00:49:32there were ancient travelers from within this planet

00:49:35who went from one area to another

00:49:37over the thousands of past years

00:49:39and then as some skeptics will say

00:49:42hey

00:49:42that's the greatest archeological way to make it

00:49:45so they just knew it

00:49:47I don't think that's the case

00:49:54at Teotihuacan

00:49:55here you have

00:49:56a giant pyramid of the sun

00:49:58and a giant pyramid of the moon

00:49:59according to the legends

00:50:01these things were

00:50:02built by gods

00:50:03who were giants

00:50:04at the end

00:50:06of one of the destructions of the world

00:50:11civilizations such as the aztecs

00:50:13and the mayans

00:50:14and the hopi indians

00:50:15of northern arizona

00:50:16they believe that the world has been destroyed

00:50:18four times in the past

00:50:20one time by ice

00:50:22once by fire

00:50:22once by water

00:50:27each time mankind rebuilds again

00:50:30and Teotihuacan

00:50:32supposedly was built

00:50:34just at the beginning

00:50:35of one of these four worlds

00:50:40you may ask the question

00:50:42why build these huge huge structures

00:50:45for what purpose?

00:50:47well

00:50:48in Egypt for example

00:50:50either the pharaohs

00:50:51had incredible egos

00:50:52and they wanted to outdo themselves

00:50:54right?

00:50:55so they built these huge museums

00:50:57for themselves

00:50:58or

00:51:00it's also possible

00:51:01that these ancients wanted

00:51:03to leave behind something for us

00:51:07it is written

00:51:08in ancient Egyptian texts

00:51:11the purpose why

00:51:12the pyramid was built

00:51:14was to store knowledge

00:51:17300 books

00:51:19which allegedly contained

00:51:21the knowledge

00:51:23of the universe

00:51:24dictated by the guardians

00:51:28of the sky

00:51:33of course the pyramids

00:51:34aren't the only ancient monuments

00:51:36that continue to baffle scientists

00:51:38and archaeologists

00:51:41there are literally

00:51:42hundreds of them

00:51:44and they can be found

00:51:45in every corner

00:51:47of our world

00:51:52in a remote area

00:51:54of the Pacific Ocean

00:51:55lies one of the most isolated

00:51:58yet inhabited locations

00:51:59in the world

00:52:00Easter Island

00:52:08here

00:52:08over 800 stone guardians

00:52:11called moai

00:52:12stand watch

00:52:13over the island's coastline

00:52:17but are they primitive native carvings

00:52:19or eerie portraits

00:52:21of alien visitors

00:52:22from thousands of years ago

00:52:25whatever they were for

00:52:27they're made to last for thousands of years

00:52:29they're built

00:52:30out of blocks of stone

00:52:32that weigh many, many tons

00:52:34not only are people

00:52:36building structures

00:52:37out of these

00:52:38huge

00:52:39megalithic

00:52:40blocks of stone

00:52:41but this was going on

00:52:43around the world

00:52:44and yet

00:52:45supposedly

00:52:46it's just primitive people

00:52:48doing this

00:52:48for no really good reason

00:52:50it would seem

00:52:51I think one of the things

00:52:52that comes into

00:52:53our considerations

00:52:54of what ancient cultures

00:52:55could have accomplished

00:52:56is whether they were able

00:52:58to write it down or not

00:52:59we're very tied to

00:53:00if we have evidence

00:53:01that they wrote down

00:53:02how they did it

00:53:03then we believe

00:53:04we know how they did it

00:53:05so Egypt

00:53:06we have a lot more writings

00:53:07and drawings

00:53:07that show them

00:53:09building the pyramids

00:53:10give us an idea of the technology

00:53:11if you go somewhere

00:53:12like Easter Island

00:53:13we don't have any real

00:53:14written evidence

00:53:15of what they did

00:53:16and sometimes

00:53:17that leads us to question

00:53:18their innovativeness

00:53:233,000 miles away

00:53:26in the Republic of Bolivia

00:53:27stonework exists

00:53:30which is amazingly similar

00:53:31to the statues

00:53:32of Easter Island

00:53:38Tiwanaku is

00:53:39in fact

00:53:39so ancient

00:53:40that it defies

00:53:42modern dating techniques

00:53:44it is estimated

00:53:45to be over 17,000 years old

00:53:48perhaps the oldest city

00:53:50in the world

00:53:53and somehow

00:53:54the sculptures

00:53:55at Tiwanaku

00:53:56were constructed

00:53:58in the same style

00:53:59and with the same

00:54:00enigmatic expressions

00:54:02as their distant cousins

00:54:03on Easter Island

00:54:06a lot of the stuff

00:54:08with Tiwanaku

00:54:09you can see

00:54:10in earlier civilizations

00:54:11all the way back

00:54:13you know

00:54:13before

00:54:14into the

00:54:15into the centuries BC

00:54:16in Peru

00:54:17you see

00:54:18some of these

00:54:19same patterns

00:54:20some of the same

00:54:21iconography

00:54:22imagery

00:54:23and you can see

00:54:24the ancestry

00:54:25of this

00:54:30but while tourists flock

00:54:31to the ruins

00:54:32of Tiwanaku

00:54:33perhaps the most mystifying

00:54:35of all ancient sites

00:54:36lies just a few hundred

00:54:38yards away

00:54:39of relatively little interest

00:54:41to most visitors

00:54:42Puma Punku

00:54:44is a field of stone ruins

00:54:46that both thrills

00:54:47and stimulates

00:54:48the imaginations

00:54:49of ancient

00:54:50alien theorists

00:54:59in my opinion

00:55:00in my opinion

00:55:01the most significant piece

00:55:03of evidence

00:55:04that we have

00:55:05in this entire ancient

00:55:07astronaut puzzle

00:55:08is Puma Punku

00:55:10in the highland

00:55:11of Bolivia

00:55:18while the pyramids

00:55:20at Giza

00:55:21are incredible

00:55:23feat of achievement

00:55:24compared to Puma Punku

00:55:27the pyramids

00:55:28are child play

00:55:35logic does not exist

00:55:38at Puma Punku

00:55:39because there

00:55:40we have

00:55:42megalithic structures

00:55:43which just lie

00:55:45about this entire site

00:55:47as if ripped apart

00:55:49by some sort

00:55:50of a great force

00:55:53the blocks

00:55:54of Puma Punku

00:55:56were so finely cut

00:55:57that they once

00:55:58perfectly interlocked

00:56:00like the pieces

00:56:01of an elaborate puzzle

00:56:02but with the nearest quarry

00:56:05over ten miles away

00:56:06how did these

00:56:07colossal stones

00:56:09some weighing hundreds

00:56:10of tons

00:56:11even get here

00:56:12we are talking about

00:56:13the place

00:56:14four thousand meter

00:56:15over sea level

00:56:16that means

00:56:17there are no trees

00:56:18up there

00:56:19which you could use

00:56:20for rollers

00:56:20nothing grows

00:56:21except a few grasses

00:56:23and bushes

00:56:24I have stood

00:56:25in front of many monuments

00:56:27however

00:56:28Puma Punku

00:56:30takes the crown

00:56:32because what we find

00:56:33there

00:56:33is so inexplicable

00:56:37so inachievable

00:56:38that

00:56:39the question remains

00:56:41how was it done

00:56:42and for what purposes

00:56:50mainstream archaeologists

00:56:52say

00:56:53that Puma Punku

00:56:54was built

00:56:55by the Aymara Indians

00:56:57and we would all

00:56:59have to agree

00:57:00that in order

00:57:01to build something like

00:57:02Puma Punku

00:57:03you need writing

00:57:04you need planning

00:57:05and you need

00:57:06some sort of

00:57:07a idea

00:57:08where

00:57:09which piece

00:57:10goes

00:57:11and how it ultimately

00:57:12all fits together

00:57:13but there is one thing

00:57:15that all the mainstream

00:57:16archaeologists

00:57:17agree upon

00:57:18that the Aymara

00:57:19didn't have any writing

00:57:21so how was it possible

00:57:23that they built all of this

00:57:25without plans

00:57:26what's really amazing

00:57:29and why the ancient

00:57:30astronaut theorists

00:57:31are so drawn

00:57:32to Puma Punku

00:57:33and Tiwanaku

00:57:34is that

00:57:35the quality

00:57:37of the stonework

00:57:38and the immense size

00:57:39of these blocks

00:57:40is so incredible

00:57:43and perfect

00:57:44that there's actually

00:57:46evidence of machining

00:57:47and that they were using

00:57:49machine tools

00:57:50to cut

00:57:51these blocks

00:57:56One of these platforms

00:57:57is 800 tons

00:57:59and

00:58:00they are so smoothly polished

00:58:02you have some stone

00:58:04megalithic stones

00:58:05with grooves

00:58:06which are just a few

00:58:07millimeters inside

00:58:08which definitely

00:58:09cannot be made

00:58:11with stone-aged chisels

00:58:12it doesn't work

00:58:14with stone-aged chisels

00:58:15so there is another

00:58:16technology behind it

00:58:17The lines cut into

00:58:18these rocks

00:58:19are exactly straight

00:58:20and precisely

00:58:22the same depth

00:58:23from one end

00:58:24to the other

00:58:28It's as if

00:58:29only

00:58:30master builders

00:58:32were allowed

00:58:33to work there

00:58:35because

00:58:36everything

00:58:37is so precise

00:58:39everything

00:58:39is so perfect

00:58:41you wonder

00:58:42how any of this

00:58:43was even possible

00:58:52one of the most intriguing

00:58:53things there is

00:58:54that the stones

00:58:55that were used there

00:58:56aren't sandstone

00:58:57they're granite

00:58:59and diorite

00:59:03the only stone

00:59:05that's harder

00:59:06than diorite

00:59:07is diamond

00:59:08so the only way

00:59:10that this could have

00:59:10been achieved

00:59:11is if the tools

00:59:12were tipped

00:59:14with diamonds

00:59:15American professors

00:59:16who were up there

00:59:17with their computer

00:59:18and other

00:59:18measurements

00:59:18they were really shocked

00:59:20in their literature

00:59:21they say

00:59:22it is impossible

00:59:23to reconstruct

00:59:25Pumapunku

00:59:26it's absolutely impossible

00:59:27but is it really difficult

00:59:29to believe

00:59:30that ancient peoples

00:59:31could have so precisely

00:59:32carved these stones

00:59:33or could build

00:59:35such an incredibly

00:59:35intricate structure

00:59:36from them

00:59:40if it was ancient astronauts

00:59:41teaching them

00:59:42these building techniques

00:59:43why don't we see

00:59:45just perfect

00:59:46almost skyscraper

00:59:47like vertical edifices

00:59:49everything was all

00:59:51pyramid like

00:59:52stone cutting techniques

00:59:54have been invented

00:59:55and reinvented

00:59:56and independently

00:59:57invented

00:59:57all over the world

00:59:58if you think

01:00:00of yourself

01:00:00as a god king

01:00:01and you want to have

01:00:02a structure built

01:00:03that's going to last

01:00:04thousands of years

01:00:05it's much better

01:00:07to build it out

01:00:08of perfectly fitting

01:00:09stones

01:00:10without mortar

01:00:11that degrades

01:00:12and decays

01:00:13and has to be maintained

01:00:14so we see

01:00:16mortarless structures

01:00:18megalithic structures

01:00:20all over the world

01:00:25you have an anomaly here

01:00:27where on one hand

01:00:28these people are supposed

01:00:29to be

01:00:30very primitive

01:00:31they're just one step

01:00:32out of the stone age

01:00:34yet

01:00:34what they're doing

01:00:36are things that

01:00:38we

01:00:38couldn't even do today

01:00:40apparently

01:00:41or would have

01:00:42extreme difficulty

01:00:43and that is

01:00:44building

01:00:45with these giant

01:00:46blocks of stone

01:00:47perfectly

01:00:48fitting them together

01:00:50with other blocks

01:00:51interlocking them

01:00:56the ancient people

01:00:57of our time

01:00:58on this planet

01:00:59truly saw strange things

01:01:01they witnessed

01:01:02bizarre events

01:01:05but those stories

01:01:07other than in depictions

01:01:08and some artwork

01:01:09and things like that

01:01:10they're gone

01:01:12for some reason

01:01:13they're just gone

01:01:14but left behind

01:01:15are incredible things

01:01:17that we have

01:01:18that make you wonder

01:01:19how in the heck

01:01:20were these things

01:01:21built

01:01:22those are great mysteries

01:01:24and I think

01:01:24one of the things

01:01:26that keeps people

01:01:27just continuing to push

01:01:28for the answers

01:01:29are the fact

01:01:30that these things

01:01:31are so out there

01:01:32that they can't

01:01:33figure it out

01:01:34but uncovering

01:01:36the mystery

01:01:36of just how

01:01:38these incredible

01:01:38structures were built

01:01:39would only solve

01:01:41one piece

01:01:41of the puzzle

01:01:42finding out

01:01:43why they were built

01:01:45and how

01:01:46they were used

01:01:47poses equally

01:01:48compelling questions

01:01:50questions

01:01:51that may not be

01:01:52answerable

01:01:53here on earth

01:02:00did aliens really inspire

01:02:02our ancestors

01:02:03to build ancient temples

01:02:04and pyramids

01:02:05and if they came here

01:02:08did they leave behind

01:02:09any advanced knowledge

01:02:10of physics

01:02:11astronomy

01:02:12or mathematics

01:02:14if so

01:02:15is there any evidence

01:02:17that remains

01:02:18to this day

01:02:18one example

01:02:20might be this one

01:02:22often described

01:02:23as the world's

01:02:24first mechanical computer

01:02:26it dates back

01:02:27over 2,000 years

01:02:29the Antikythera device

01:02:31was found in 1900

01:02:33by sponge divers

01:02:36diving off

01:02:37a small island

01:02:38in the Aegean

01:02:38called Antikythera

01:02:40there was a shipwreck

01:02:41there

01:02:42and in it

01:02:44was a coral

01:02:45encrusted box

01:02:47and it was made

01:02:49of metal alloys

01:02:51and it then went

01:02:52to the Athens Museum

01:02:53where a good

01:02:5450 years later

01:02:55they were able

01:02:56to x-ray

01:02:57this box

01:02:59and they were able

01:03:00to discern

01:03:01cog wheels

01:03:03that were interconnected

01:03:05and give us

01:03:07a very good depiction

01:03:08of what this thing was

01:03:10and it is a computer

01:03:11it's a really sophisticated machine

01:03:19it's a very interesting piece of technology

01:03:21because it served two purposes

01:03:23one was that it was an astronomical device

01:03:25where you could

01:03:26by using it chart your position to the stars

01:03:29and navigate your way through the seas

01:03:31it was also an astrological device

01:03:33so that someone could tell you

01:03:35if you were born on this date

01:03:37and your planet sign is this

01:03:38then certain things are going to happen to you

01:03:41when the planets are in this alignment

01:03:42so it was a very interesting piece of technology

01:03:45that literally had more complicated gears

01:03:49and inner workings

01:03:51than a modern day Swiss watch

01:03:52and it's found to be dated

01:03:54I think like 200 BC

01:03:55so it's really an anomaly as to

01:03:57who could have created that

01:03:59and what it was being used for

01:04:04when archaeologists

01:04:05first started to examine this thing

01:04:08in the 1950s

01:04:09they said that they never could conceive

01:04:11of the ancient Greeks

01:04:13having such complicated machinery

01:04:15and in fact they said

01:04:17this was tantamount to finding

01:04:18a jet airplane

01:04:20in the tomb of King Tut

01:04:32even older than the Antikythera mechanism

01:04:35are these carvings on a wall

01:04:37at the Dendera temple complex in Egypt

01:04:41to some

01:04:42the strange designs look eerily similar

01:04:45to objects very much in use today

01:04:48in Egypt

01:04:49there is this underground crypt

01:04:52at Dendera

01:04:53that was always secret

01:04:55and only the high priests

01:04:57had access to that crypt

01:05:00and it's very hot in there

01:05:02very narrow

01:05:03low ceiling

01:05:03and on the walls

01:05:05you have these reliefs

01:05:07of what looks like

01:05:09ancient light bulbs

01:05:12because we have to

01:05:14question one thing

01:05:16how did the ancient Egyptians

01:05:18light the inside of their tombs

01:05:24according to most mainstream archaeologists

01:05:27torches were used by the ancient Egyptians

01:05:29and the ancient Egyptians

01:05:30to light the pitch black chambers

01:05:32of tombs and temples

01:05:34yet nowhere on the ceilings

01:05:36is there even the slightest evidence

01:05:37of soot or smoke residue

01:05:41but if torches weren't used

01:05:43how else could these ancient rooms

01:05:45and hallways have been illuminated

01:05:52another theory that was proposed

01:05:54is that the light was directed from outside

01:05:57by copper mirrors

01:05:59and then there was light

01:06:03hey that is a neat trick

01:06:06and they've actually tried to recreate that theory

01:06:08but unfortunately they failed

01:06:10because only after a few corners

01:06:13the sunlight dissipated because the copper mirrors were too weak

01:06:22also there isn't enough oxygen inside those tombs with which to support or feed a flame of a torch

01:06:32I was once inside the king's chamber

01:06:36inside the pyramid of Giza

01:06:38and somebody turned off the lights

01:06:40and immediately we were in pitch darkness

01:06:43and I said no problem

01:06:45I'll just take out my lighter from my satchel

01:06:47and I turned on the lighter

01:06:49and it didn't work

01:06:51so how were the insides of their temples lit?

01:06:55I mean the only remaining solution is by some sort of an artificial light source

01:07:01and that is for example a light bulb

01:07:06so at an underground crypt at Dandera

01:07:10we find reliefs of such light bulbs

01:07:17Egyptologists' explanation of this

01:07:19and they have to have some explanation

01:07:21there's got to be one

01:07:22it has to be pretty mundane

01:07:24it can't be that it's an electrical device

01:07:26their explanation is that

01:07:28it is a lotus flower

01:07:31and what appears to be

01:07:34a bulb around is the aroma

01:07:37of the lotus flower

01:07:39and so it's just a very odd depiction of a flower

01:07:43but another explanation of course would be

01:07:45they actually had electrical lights

01:07:49but if the ancient Egyptians

01:07:51had used some kind of electric light

01:07:53to illuminate their passageways

01:07:55why does the visual evidence exist

01:07:57only in the temple at Dandera?

01:08:00in Egypt you had different areas of specialty

01:08:04and Dandera was the area where the knowledge of the light giving source was kept

01:08:14and this secret knowledge was kept by the high priests

01:08:19and they're the only ones who were privy to this type of information

01:08:24because Dandera was the special place where this specific knowledge was guarded and kept

01:08:35the scientific community is not saying

01:08:37oh there aren't extraterrestrials or they never did it

01:08:40they are judging whether or not this is a valid scientific theory

01:08:43and what do I mean by that?

01:08:44for something to be a scientific theory

01:08:46it really needs to be something you can test with the obvious experiment

01:08:50but how could the ancient Egyptians have used anything resembling a modern day light bulb

01:08:55without access to electricity?

01:08:58after all electricity wouldn't be discovered for thousands of years

01:09:02that is of course with the exception of what scientists call the Baghdad battery

01:09:08the Baghdad battery was discovered in ancient Iraq

01:09:11scholars today say there's no way that ancient man was using electricity or light bulbs

01:09:17so they look at this Baghdad battery and there's about a dozen of them that have been found in Iraq

01:09:22and the only mainstream theory is that they were using it for electroplating jewelry

01:09:26two major proponents of ancient alien theory

01:09:30Jason Martell and Giorgio Tsoukalos

01:09:34demonstrate just how the Baghdad battery could generate electricity

01:09:38using a modern mock-up of the device

01:09:40well basically this is made out of a clay pot

01:09:43clay just found naturally in that region in southern Iraq

01:09:46and then they would use a small copper lining

01:09:49and something along the lines of an asphalt stopper

01:09:52wrapped around an iron rod

01:09:54and these all applied together

01:09:56and the combination of some weak acidic acid

01:09:59vinegar, grape juice, orange juice in this case, wine

01:10:02would be able to generate a charge by combining these elements with the iron rod and the copper

01:10:07and the combination of that creates an abundance of electricity

01:10:10so what we're going to do is basically just fill the clay pot with some orange juice here

01:10:16I'll try not to spill it too much

01:10:17okay

01:10:18and then we'll go ahead and put the copper rod back in there

01:10:21copper and iron rod

01:10:22we'll give it a moment to kind of fill that copper area there

01:10:25and then by turning on the voltmeter

01:10:27and applying this to each side

01:10:30we should be able to generate a charge

01:10:34and there it goes into the positive

01:10:39and if we give it some time to get the electrolytes really buzzing in there

01:10:43you'll see that this volt will actually continue to rise

01:10:46but while some see the Baghdad battery as evidence that man was sparked on by extraterrestrial wisdom

01:10:53others look at it and simply say, so what?

01:10:57you could take some ancient technology like the Baghdad battery

01:11:01which probably was used for something like metal plating

01:11:04in which you just mix chemicals and it has certain chemical reactions to it

01:11:08that they're using for this reason

01:11:10and we can take and put a voltmeter on it and go, oh look, we're able to get a reading

01:11:14out of it

01:11:14well, so what?

01:11:17that's just a chemical reaction

01:11:18if they were using it, say, this battery to operate other machines

01:11:23where are the other machines?

01:11:24if they were sending the electricity down wires

01:11:28where are all the wires that would have been all over the culture?

01:11:31in other words, it's not likely a one-off invention like that

01:11:34is going to survive without all the other inventions that would have been there at the same time

01:11:40it is a battery, everybody agrees with that

01:11:43but nobody knows why they made it and how they made it

01:11:46what mind would think of that?

01:11:49you know, electrical current backed several thousand years ago

01:11:53it's very strange, but it's clearly a battery

01:11:55the whole idea that ancient civilizations actually had knowledge of electricity

01:12:01and used electricity is an accepted archaeological fact today

01:12:05just like in our own civilization

01:12:08where about two hundred years ago

01:12:10Benjamin Franklin and other scientists began experimenting with simple electrical devices

01:12:16we now have evidence that over three thousand years ago

01:12:21people were also experimenting with electrical devices

01:12:24where might it have led them?

01:12:27what other electrical devices would they have been able to create?

01:12:32I believe they probably created all kinds of electrical devices

01:12:38tombs, temples, ancient light bulbs, even electricity

01:12:43here on earth exists evidence of architectural and technological wonders

01:12:49centuries before we ever believe them possible

01:12:52but if evidence of ancient astronauts exists here on earth

01:12:56what about elsewhere?

01:12:59might we find what we are looking for

01:13:01by looking in the sky?

01:13:10here at the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico

01:13:14evidence suggests that ancient cultures possessed an incredibly accurate knowledge of our neighboring planets

01:13:22some scholars have even interpreted the number and orientation of its pyramids

01:13:28to perfectly reflect a model of our own solar system

01:13:34along the Avenida de los Muertos

01:13:36the Avenue of the Dead

01:13:38the pyramids there align in perfect distance

01:13:43of each of the orbits of our planets in our solar system

01:13:55perhaps significant is the fact that the large pyramid of the sun is positioned at the center of the other

01:14:01structures

01:14:02reflecting the fact that the sun is at the center of our solar system

01:14:07and that the planets revolve around it

01:14:11there was a known fact back then already

01:14:13there was a known fact back then already

01:14:14that the sun was at the center of our solar system

01:14:17which western science didn't find out until much, much later

01:14:26but just how could Teotihuacan's designers have known so early on

01:14:31that the planets in our solar system revolved around the sun?

01:14:37didn't that take many more centuries of scientific progress and investigation to figure out?

01:14:45interestingly enough

01:14:46debunkers will say

01:14:48oh this is just coincidence

01:14:50that these pyramids are aligned with the planets of our solar system

01:14:57but if we go on the other side of the planet

01:15:00to Stonehenge

01:15:02we have another ancient site

01:15:04which is way older by the way than Teotihuacan

01:15:08where if you look at Stonehenge from a bird's eye view

01:15:13you see that these are all concentric circles

01:15:17and each of these circles corresponds exactly with the orbit of all of our planets in our solar system

01:15:28so we have two places on Earth

01:15:31where we have the same thing

01:15:37in recent years

01:15:38Stonehenge has also been interpreted by some archaeologists

01:15:42to be a kind of astronomical calendar

01:15:45one which could be used to calculate events such as solar eclipses

01:15:50but if that were true

01:15:52whoever aligned these massive stones on the barren English landscape

01:15:56would have to have had precise astronomical knowledge of the path of the sun

01:16:10built between the 7th and 9th centuries

01:16:13the stone temples of Tikal

01:16:15tower more than 200 feet above the Guatemalan rainforest

01:16:21Tikal is home to one of the largest excavation sites in the world

01:16:26one where thousands of structures still remain buried beneath the jungle

01:16:30according to most scientists

01:16:32Tikal's pyramids played an essential part in helping the Mayans devise their calendar

01:16:40by aligning the sight lines between the highest points of the structures

01:16:44ancient astronomers could pinpoint the most important dates of the year

01:16:48such as an upcoming equinox or solstice

01:16:54but what also excites ancient astronaut theorists

01:16:58is how perfectly the layout of Tikal's pyramids correlate to the star map

01:17:04of the Pleiades Orion region of the sky

01:17:06an overhead view of the structures

01:17:09almost exactly mirrors the alignment of the constellation

01:17:14this same outline has been spotted in an area far from Tikal

01:17:20much, much farther

01:17:22recently discovered on Mars

01:17:25is a cluster of landforms

01:17:27that offers a near perfect replication of the pyramid pattern of Tikal

01:17:32three distinct locations

01:17:35one unique pattern

01:17:37coincidence

01:17:39or design

01:17:44at Tikal

01:17:45the legends

01:17:46and the mythologies

01:17:47that we have

01:17:49all speak

01:17:50of a time

01:17:51when the gods

01:17:53intermingled

01:17:55and interconnected

01:17:56with our ancestors

01:17:58so Tikal also was built

01:18:02as a message

01:18:04for future generations

01:18:05to see

01:18:06that a long, long time ago

01:18:08we were visited

01:18:10by extraterrestrials

01:18:12someone who had seen this

01:18:14had to have actually relayed the information to them

01:18:16because they couldn't have just guessed

01:18:18so

01:18:18it really starts to raise the question of saying

01:18:20this ancient astronaut theory

01:18:22really needs to have more light shed on the topic

01:18:29it's certainly possible that the ancient people not only measured

01:18:33all of these

01:18:34astronomy events

01:18:36but were able to come up with a mathematical theory

01:18:38to put them together

01:18:40and then to predict new things

01:18:42we shouldn't think that the ancient people were dummies

01:18:46early man people in ancient times

01:18:49didn't have dashboard mounted GPS units

01:18:53they had the path of the sun through the sky

01:18:57the path of the moon through the sky

01:18:59they could see the stars at night

01:19:02these were permanent fixtures that they could navigate from

01:19:06so it's not surprising at all

01:19:08that almost every culture

01:19:11recorded astronomical phenomenon

01:19:14we never look up at the sky and enjoy the beauty of it

01:19:17ancient people

01:19:19the skies would be so dark

01:19:21and the stars would be so bright

01:19:23not only that

01:19:24but they relied on the sky

01:19:25for directions

01:19:26for seasons in which to plant

01:19:30and for a variety of things

01:19:32today

01:19:33with our GPS units

01:19:35and navigation systems

01:19:37and computers

01:19:38we don't need to look at the sky

01:19:41I want to be very clear about one thing

01:19:44that our ancestors were as smart as we are today

01:19:49however

01:19:50I don't believe that ancient astronauts visited the earth in the remote past

01:19:54I am convinced of it

01:19:56because of all the countless indications and pieces of evidence

01:20:02that we can find from all around the world

01:20:04in different ancient cultures

01:20:06in different mythologies and legends

01:20:09I know it happened

01:20:11because if you look at all the pieces

01:20:15it's the only conclusion that you can draw

01:20:20but just why were ancient people so focused on the sky and the stars in the first place

01:20:27were they waiting for something to happen

01:20:30or perhaps

01:20:31for something

01:20:32or someone

01:20:34to return

01:20:44four decades may have passed

01:20:46but the ideas put forth

01:20:48by Erich von Daniken

01:20:50are still captivating his followers

01:20:52and frustrating his skeptics

01:20:54to this day

01:20:55like an Old Testament prophet

01:20:58or an ancient shaman

01:20:59the author is still out there

01:21:01spreading his firmly held message

01:21:03that we are not alone

01:21:05The Steinzeit Heinichs

01:21:07have not taken over thousands of kilometers

01:21:09a straight line

01:21:10a straight line

01:21:10a part of the river

01:21:11and our Steinzeit friends

01:21:13have not taken over thousands of stones

01:21:16in geometrical shapes

01:21:17here

01:21:18the regime is carried out

01:21:19but while the proof

01:21:21of von Daniken's theories may be debatable

01:21:24their influence on movies

01:21:27TV series

01:21:30and even radio programs

01:21:32is undeniable

01:21:34it's a tremendous lightning rod

01:21:36for fiction

01:21:37and for fictional storytelling

01:21:39the classic Battlestar Galactica series

01:21:41started with a narration

01:21:42that said

01:21:43there are those who believe

01:21:44that life here

01:21:45began out there

01:21:46with tribes of humans

01:21:47far across the universe

01:21:48that may have been the forefathers

01:21:49of the Egyptians

01:21:50and the Toltecs

01:21:51and the Mayans

01:21:51you know that's straight out of von Daniken

01:21:53as in that kind of belief

01:21:54you know

01:21:55it puts us in contact

01:21:56with an idea of a mythological intelligence

01:21:58and that is one of the things

01:22:00that we as human beings

01:22:01crave desperately

01:22:02is to know that we are not alone

01:22:04in the world

01:22:04and that somebody else out there

01:22:05is either looking after us

01:22:07or coming to fight for us

01:22:08and that will unite us

01:22:09against the common enemy

01:22:15I was reading a lot of books

01:22:17from Erich von Daniken

01:22:19and I can imagine

01:22:21that's the truth

01:22:22what he wrote

01:22:24and his books

01:22:24and so I can imagine this

01:22:26that we had

01:22:28help from aliens

01:22:29but

01:22:30I don't know

01:22:31I'm not sure

01:22:33we only know

01:22:34so much in this world

01:22:36and what we do know

01:22:37is so limited

01:22:37and every day

01:22:38we're finding more

01:22:39that require us

01:22:40to ask more questions

01:22:41and bigger questions

01:22:42and think bigger

01:22:43it's possible

01:22:44that something

01:22:45from another planet

01:22:46came

01:22:47some other life form

01:22:48intelligent life form

01:22:49came and did this

01:22:53I mean who knows

01:22:54it could be

01:22:55because the origins of many things

01:22:57are lost in antiquity

01:22:59all we have are remnants

01:23:00and shreds of evidence

01:23:02to suggest

01:23:02what might have happened

01:23:05someone told me

01:23:06that it was proven

01:23:06that aliens

01:23:08had a part in this

01:23:09I wouldn't be that surprised

01:23:11why not?

01:23:13to be honest

01:23:15ancient astronaut theory

01:23:16has never cropped up

01:23:19in a discussion

01:23:19with my colleagues

01:23:21I don't care how many pints

01:23:23into it we've been

01:23:24we have never discussed

01:23:26ancient astronaut theory

01:23:28in any credible way

01:23:29whatsoever

01:23:30one of the good things about

01:23:32ancient astronaut theory

01:23:34is that it makes us think

01:23:36it brings out

01:23:38what about this

01:23:40what about that

01:23:41we need explanations

01:23:42for all these things

01:23:43and I think

01:23:44that one of the main reasons

01:23:45why mainstream archaeologists

01:23:48get a real knee-jerk reaction

01:23:50to the ancient astronaut theory

01:23:52is that it's very disturbing

01:23:54to them because

01:23:55they don't have all the answers

01:23:57now some of them may believe

01:23:59that life could exist in the universe

01:24:01but their bottom line is

01:24:03show me the proof

01:24:05show it to me for real

01:24:07I want to see the spaceship

01:24:09I want to see something concrete

01:24:11not just a few pictures

01:24:12that everybody can interpret

01:24:14as being this or that

01:24:20far-fetched

01:24:22ridiculous

01:24:23insane

01:24:25ancient aliens visiting Earth centuries ago

01:24:28building monuments

01:24:31influencing scripture

01:24:33but what if it all turned out

01:24:35to be true

01:24:37what would happen

01:24:39if just one piece of evidence

01:24:41turned up

01:24:41one stone

01:24:43one key

01:24:44that proved that Von Daniken

01:24:46had been right

01:24:46all along

01:24:49and if he is right

01:24:50what does that suggest

01:24:51about our future

01:24:53if alien visitors

01:24:55had come here before

01:24:57would they come

01:24:58again

01:25:03even I think the idea

01:25:05of aliens

01:25:06and them visiting us

01:25:07is very exciting

01:25:08and interesting

01:25:08and it would be really cool

01:25:10if that happened

01:25:10so it gets people excited

01:25:12about the question

01:25:13maybe they start thinking

01:25:14about it

01:25:15and like many things

01:25:16they might ultimately come

01:25:17to thinking about the physics

01:25:18or the archaeology

01:25:19and get involved in the

01:25:20scientific process

01:25:21so that can be a positive

01:25:22side effect

01:25:23of these theories

01:25:24and their popularization

01:25:25if it turns out

01:25:27that the ancient astronaut theory

01:25:30is wrong

01:25:30I will be the first one

01:25:32to say

01:25:33okay

01:25:34no problem

01:25:36but so far

01:25:38certain pieces of evidence

01:25:40have not been debunked

01:25:51if the ancient alien astronaut theory

01:25:53is somehow proven to be true

01:25:55this would be a huge boon

01:25:58to my work

01:25:59and to the search for other planets like earth

01:26:01with life on them

01:26:02because if alien astronauts have visited earth

01:26:05in the distant past

01:26:06it means they're pretty nearby

01:26:08and it means that we don't have to look very far

01:26:10to find planets like earth

01:26:12with signs of life on them

01:26:14but evidence has to be treated

01:26:17with a great deal of caution

01:26:18because it has different meanings

01:26:22I'm not sure what the reaction

01:26:24of the population would be

01:26:28it will strengthen

01:26:29the general concept

01:26:31that our history of religions

01:26:34in the world

01:26:34needs to be looked at again

01:26:36with more respect

01:26:37and also with more wonder

01:26:38meaning

01:26:39what are we supposed to make of this now

01:26:41and what are we supposed to be doing with this now

01:26:43if science detects life on mars

01:26:47if science detects a ufo

01:26:50then we need to take what science is saying to us

01:26:54and begin to rethink about ourselves

01:26:56on earth

01:26:57in light of the possibility of new life

01:27:00does that change our understanding of god

01:27:03it should if anything broaden it

01:27:06if we do find alien life

01:27:08if we do find alien life

01:27:09we should rejoice

01:27:12and honestly the way things are going on this planet right now

01:27:15I would welcome a visitation

01:27:17every once in a while

01:27:18a little help

01:27:21there is no doubt

01:27:22there is no doubt

01:27:23that my hypothesis

01:27:23will be accepted

01:27:25by the mainstream

01:27:26it may be a question of just

01:27:28five or ten years

01:27:32sooner or later

01:27:33we will have contact

01:27:34with someone out there

01:27:35and then

01:27:36the thinking

01:27:37they will return

01:27:39and if you don't listen to eric von deniken

01:27:41you will have

01:27:42the shock

01:27:43of the gods

01:27:44we must

01:27:44at least

01:27:44the gods

01:27:45and the gods

01:27:46the gods

01:27:46and the gods

01:27:47and the gods

01:27:48and the gods

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