Strange burial rituals...
What we're talking about
is some kind of other-dimensional travel for the soul to undertake.
Elaborate chambers filled with mysterious objects...
The fact that these boats existed inside
tombs leads me to think that they tried to reach some type
of extraterrestrial realms.
And bizarre burial mounds found across the globe.
When you start looking at a structure inside
the celestial alignments, you start to wonder, was there
contact between some of these areas?
Were the tombs of our ancient ancestors actually
gateways to the afterlife?
Or were they really meant to connect modern man with our alien ancestors?
You have to ask yourself if they are perhaps
maps to guide the dead back to the star systems,
where they originally came from.
Millions of people around the world believe
we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?
And if so, might the secrets of the ancient tombs reveal an
otherworldly plan for mankind?
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The Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India.
And King Pakal's Tomb, Palenque, Mexico.
Spectacular burial sites that date back thousands of years
are found across the world.
According to mainstream researchers, these locations are
the final resting places for ancient leaders.
But might they also serve a more profound, perhaps
extraterrestrial purpose?
Why do we have the most massive of constructions
of these tombs in the far and distant past?
Well, according to the ancient texts and the ancient
traditions, this knowledge was given to our ancestors by the gods.
If the sole function of tombs was to house the dead, then why are
virtually all of them connected to notions of spiritual energy,
images of astronomy, and a strong belief in the existence
of other, arguably more spiritual, worlds?
All cultures share this notion of somehow opening a
doorway, opening a stargate, opening a gateway to another
dimension so the soul can return.
We know that it is meant because the soul is gonna go on
a voyage to the afterlife.
In the ancient world, there was a view
that this life that we have, this physical life, is our
opportunity to prepare ourselves for a vast destiny that lies
beyond this life.
Could ancient tombs really have served another,
more extraterrestrial purpose, perhaps as portals to reunite
the deceased with celestial beings?
Many ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers can be found
by taking a closer look at the mysterious texts of ancient Egypt.
Saqqara... situated on the west bank of the Nile River,
20 miles south of Cairo, this archaeological site is one
of the oldest and largest burial grounds in all of Egypt.
Egyptologists called these monuments tombs.
But to the Egyptians, they were not tombs, they were gateways
to the afterworld.
It is through these structures that the king will begin a
journey into the underworld, in order to face obstacles,
dangers, and threats.
And if he will overcome these threats, he will be given
passage into the afterlife kingdom of Osiris.
Overlooking the immense necropolis lies the
Pyramid of King Teti, the first ruler of Egypt's sixth dynasty.
Teti built his pyramid and an adjoining mortuary temple during
his reign, more than 4,000 years ago.
I'm walking on what's left of the ancient
causeway of King Teti I... that's his pyramid... and here is
his very-much-ruined mortuary temple.
Now, this pyramid is very important, it contains the
oldest, richest writing in the world, the Pyramid Texts.
According to archaeologists, the Pyramid
Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious
writings that date back to 2400 BC.
They contain passages about Osiris, the Egyptian god of the
afterlife, and descriptions of how to prepare the pharaoh's
remains during his ascent to the heavens after death.
The Pyramid Texts are all about the stars.
It's all about the king becoming a star.
It's all about the king ascending to the sky and joining
Osiris-Orion in the sky.
But according to ancient astronaut theorists,
the Pyramid Texts didn't only guide the pharaoh to an afterlife,
they actually provided instruction on how the pharaoh
could travel to other worlds.
What is important to realize is that the ancient
Egyptians say that about 25,000 years ago, the gods lived amongst them.
Then they disappeared again.
What the Pyramid Texts are saying is that we... the ancient
Egyptians specifically, of course... are able to reach the gods again.
For this we have to die, but once we're dead, we're able to
join the gods once again.
What we're talking about is some kind of other-dimensional travel
for the soul to undertake.
Buried in the desert sands for centuries,
the ruins of Saqqara are home to another ancient mystery just one
half-mile away from the Pyramid of King Teti.
In 1850, French archaeologist Auguste Mariette made
an astonishing discovery.
He unearthed a massive underground bunker.
This is a most strange and mysterious place.
It feels like being in the bowels of the underworld.
It's hard to describe... it's like being in another world,
the world of the dead.
The Serapeum contains enormous sarcophagi
made from granite that was believed to have been
transported from the city of Aswan, nearly 600 miles away.
This is just one of the many sarcophagus that are
here, dozens and dozens of them.
And they weigh about 70 tons apiece.
They're made from a solid block of granite.
But the real mystery is how they cut them so sharply...
Swiss watch precision, mirror smooth.
When you look at the inside of the boxes,
you see the underside of the lid is perfectly square with the
vertical surface of the inside of the box.
Directly opposite, you have the same condition, which means that
those two surfaces, opposing each other, must have been perfectly parallel.
It's really amazing.
Ancient astronaut theorists question just how the
ancient Egtians could have moved these gigantic stones for
miles and then wedge them into the underground labyrinth.
And to what purpose?
So we have one big problem.
Imagine, in ancient Egypt, they dig out of the rock kilometers
and kilometers of subterranean tunnels.
Right and left, they make niches.
Then they go to two day's Aswan.
In Aswan, they cut out of the rock the hardest granite which exists,
and they bring it, in a complicated way we don't know,
into these subterranean tunnels.
Archaeologists still, today, cannot figure out
how these giant basalt sarcophagi were made.
They're perfectly made.
And how they would even move them into these catacombs that
are underground.
It's like they would have had to levitate and put these 70-ton
boxes... by some magical means, like anti-gravity.
Most scholars believe the Serapeum and its
massive sarcophagi were constructed to house the
mummified remains of the Apis bulls.
The Egyptians believed that these Apis bulls
were descended from the sky,
and they would have elaborate ceremonies with these bulls.
But when Mariette opened the sarcophagi,
they were empty, apart from some bones.
Only one Apis bull mummy was discovered at the site.
Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the sacred bul may
have been the creation of extraterrestrials,
and that these creatures were feared, not worshipped, by the ancient Egyptians.
The humans are afraid of these monster, because
they were created by the gods.
They are holy animals.
So they wait until the monsters die of a natural way.
And now the animal is dead, they smash, crash the bones of the monster.
They put it into the sarcophagi.
In ancient Egypt, every single living creature,
after its death, was mummified.
So the fact that we can find boxes in which we have hacked-up
bones, you have to ask yourself, why?
So they made sure that, after death, they would hack up the
bodies, and then put a 35-ton lid on top of that...
so that those creatures would never return in the future.
Could the sarcophagi have been constructed
as a kind of prison to prevent the return of the bulls after death?
Or could they have served a different, even more profound, purpose?
Egyptologists are baffled, and they don't know
what the purpose of these things were.
Also, why are some of them empty?
And you have to wonder, too, if these boxes had some other
purpose originally.
Are these really some kind of interdimensional stargates, and
then extraterrestrials are able to come and go from this planet using that?
Were the Serapeum sarcophagi actually
a teleportation system, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?
Could they be a series of chambers used to convey ancient
humans, and perhaps, alien visitors, to other planets?
Perhaps another underground tomb complex halfway around the globe
can provide further clues.
Northern Peru.
1987.
Archaeologist Walter Alva uncovers the lost tomb of the Lord of Sipan.
Intact and untouched by thieves, this burial place is considered
one of the richest in the world.
The Lord of Sipan was a Moche king,
up in the Lambayeque region of Peru, along the coast.
They found gold and silver and all these incredibly beautiful
artifacts and textiles and art.
Peruvian archaeologists... they sometimes
call it the King Tut's Tomb of South America.
And the objects that they found in these tombs were unusual.
The burial chamber was filled with artifacts that
included ceramic pots, gold, copper and silver utensils,
and feather ornaments some researchers believe were
intended to accompany and protect the Lord of Sipan in the afterlife.
Some archaeologists suggest that several of his servants, wives
and consorts were sacrificed, and their bodies were placed
inside to accompany him into the afterlife.
We see that Lord Sipan is not buried in isolation.
We see that he is buried with some other people, and so when
we extrapolate from this and when we realize that other
cultures have been doing the same kind of schematic,
what we're seeing is that these people believed that the
afterlife was very much a physical place.
It was believed that he would have needed some of these helpers.
It is believed that he would probably want to be reunited,
if not united, with his most immediate family and some of his
most trusted advisors.
Among the incredible treasures buried with the Lord of Sipan
were strange statues that some researchers believe are evidence
of extraterrestrial beings.
As well as servants and all the artifacts, they
even found these strange, kind of weird anthropomorphized
figurines that some people say resemble beings from other worlds.
They show bug-eyed people who do not look like a normal human.
So you have, at Sipan, really, a tomb that seems to show
extraterrestrial beings, anthropomorphic beings that are
half-animal, half-human, and people who don't look like a
normal human being... that look like extraterrestrials.
Lord of Sipan's tomb has some very
interesting relics that were found within his burial.
Were these beings that were gonna help him go into the
afterlife, possibly back into space, or into the heavens?
The Lord of Sipan's disciples believed that he was
not a mere mortal, but actually half-god and half-man.
But specifically what is of interest is that he
has a face mask, which is made of gold, and his body largely is
dressed with copper shielding.
So, all of a sudden, we see somebody whose dead body is
meant to resemble clearly a shining one.
The divine being, which he was once believed to be, but also,
which in death, he was believed to once again become.
Was the Lord of Sipan really half-man, half-god,
as his followers believed?
And might the figurines found in his grave really represent the
ancient ruler's extraterrestrial origin?
If so, is it possible that this tomb, like the ones found in
Egypt, really served as a portal to the stars?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and believe more evidence
can be found by looking at the boat-shaped coffins and strange
burial rituals of the ancient Torajan people.
South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Here can be found the cave tombs of Tana Toraja, the site of a
complex funeral ritual that dates back to 3000 BC.
The Torajan people believe death is a gradual process toward the afterlife.
Many cultures believe in an afterlife,
something that goes on beyond the physical bodies.
The Toraja people in Indonesia are very interesting and
unusual, because among the most elaborate rituals they have are
not rituals of life, but for death.
They have incredible ceremonies when people die, they have
huge feasts, and they have these incredible celebrations for the dead.
The Torajan people put the dead into these special
coffins, which are also like a model of a spaceship.
And then they inter them up on these cliffs.
And their beliefs, too, are that ultimately the dead are
returning to the stars, and that they as a people will also
return to the stars, as well.
As translated, the name "Toraja" means
"the people from above," and Torajans believe their ancestors
descended from the stars in sky ships.
Their elaborate coffins are built in the form of a boat,
and thought to resemble the sky ships that carried their ancestors to Earth.
A wooden effigy called a tau tau is carved in the
likeness of the dead person and placed in the balcony to
represent the deceased and watch over their remains.
The effigies are a beautiful illustration with
which they wanted to show us that, once somebody is deceased,
they can still look down upon you, because being dead doesn't
mean that it's over.
Dead just means that you go on to the next level of existence.
And it's an idea that has been with us not just in our culture
but in every ancient culture and modern culture as well.
The Torajan people, they believe in sky gods who
descended from the sky, who left them a body of knowledge and
then who disappeared.
And they very much believed that by doing what our ancestors did
when these creatures were here that they will therefore also be
able to join these divine beings which were once here.
And specifically, that upon death, they will be able to
join them in the home of these deities.
That is very much on par with what we see throughout the world.
Is it possible, as some researchers believe,
that ancient astronauts visited Earth thousands of years
ago, and inspired our ancestors to build boat-shaped coffins
that emulated their space vehicles?
If so, could the presence of boat coffins mean that our
ancestors were preparing to make a journey to the stars?
Some believe the ultimate proof can be found in a mysterious
burial mound in Ireland... one with star maps that give
clues, not just to where the ancient visitors came from,
but where the dead may have, in fact, chosen to return.
Oldcastle, Ireland.
Amid the ruins of a Stone Age cemetery lies a 5,000-year-old
tomb, nearly 120 feet in diameter.
It is named after the mythical poet-king, Ollahm Fodhla.
With Ollahm Fodhla's tomb, what we see is
this connection between the Earth and the sky.
Some people have suggested it might be a celestial observatory.
But I think it's much more likely that it was sort of a
temple, a place of worship, that connected the sky and the earth.
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
astronomical hieroglyphs carved on the interior of the stone
walls may have been the work of otherworldly beings.
At Ollahm Fodhla we can find an incredibly
accurate astronomical chart, and one has to wonder how
those ancestors were able to do this without any knowledge of astronomy.
In fact, the legends of that part of the world tell us that
they had assistance, that these topics were taught to
those people by none other than the shining ones who descended
from the sky.
Ollahm Fodhla has inside of it celestial charts.
So you have to ask yourself if they are perhaps maps for these
extraterrestrial visitors to show them the way home, back to the stars.
Could extraterrestrials, as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest, have taught our ancient ancestors how to build a
so-calle"celestial observatory"?
And if so, might the cemetery have served as a staging area?
A place for extraterrestrials to observe, predict and record
stellar movements in preparation for their return to the stars?
Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the ancient burial
structures of Japan.
Sakai, Japan.
Here, in this city located 250 miles southwest of Tokyo, lies
the Daisen Kofun, one of over 40 ancient crypts within a six-mile radius.
More than twice the length of the Great Pyramid of Giza, it is
one of the largest tombs in the world.
Constructed in the 5th century AD, it is believed to be the
resting place of Nintoku, the 16th emperor of Japan.
But of all the various types and designs that make up the Kofun
structures, perhaps the most mysterious are those in the
shape of a keyhole, one that can only be seen from above.
The very fact that this was made to look like a
keyhole, that this was made only to be seen from the sky,
would, to me, indicate this could be a clear message to the
gods to say, "Look here."
And it was some kind of reference for the stars,
for the person in the tombs.
So is this some kind of tomb for the extraterrestrial gods
so that they could find and return to the stars where they had come?
Were the Kofun meant to serve as markers for
extraterrestrials that planned to return to Earth, as some
ancient astronaut theorists contend?
Perhaps more evidence can be found by examining one of the
most immense archaeological finds of the 20th century...
the vast tomb of China's first emperor.
Shaanxi Province, China.
In 1974, farmers digging a well outside the town of Xi'an made
an astonishing discovery... a life-size clay soldier
intricately carved and dressed for battle.
Further excavation revealed thousands of these sculptures,
known as the Terra Cotta Warriors, each with remarkably
realistic facial expressions.
Entombed in the earth for over 2,000 years, the warriors are
part of a massive underground mausoleum built for China's
first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang.
The tomb of Qin Shi Huang is quite extraordinary.
Over 8,000 terra cotta soldiers have been found there,
along with 520 horses, 130 chariots, most of which are still buried.
Qin Shi Huang is literally the first emperor in China.
He established the Qin dynasty in the year 221 BC.
And he established many things that actually continued to
function throughout the imperial period in China.
Qin conquered and united China, built the Great
Wall, and standardized the monetary and legal system.
But Qin Shi Huang was also obsessed with finding the secret of immortality.
This is an emperor who goes in search of the
islands of immortality.
This is an emperor who's obsessed with rediscovering lost knowledge.
His ambition is to become, life, like the gods.
To this end, Qin spent over three decades
forcing more than 700,000 laborers to construct
the four-layered subterranean city that would serve as his resting place.
At the heart of the ancient complex is one of China's greatest mysteries.
The tomb actually covers a very large area.
Only a few areas in the surrounding, the border part
of the tomb complex have been excavated.
Archaeologists believe that underneath this
central burial mound is the chamber containing Emperor Qin's remains.
To date, the site is still unexcavated, due to dangerously
high levels of mercury.
What's thought to be inside is an exact model of the
universe in miniature, with the ceiling, uh, made to look like
the sky with all the stars represented by pearls.
And then the rivers in China would be on the ground, and it
is the mercury that is supposed to look like the rivers.
A conductive element used in gauges,
electronics, and automobiles, mercury is a liquid metal that
was discovered by archaeologists in an Egyptian tomb that dates
back to 1500 BC.
Some researchers believe the presence of mercury indicates
the existence of modern technology in the ancient world.
The presence of mercury, also, in these tombs, is unusual.
Mercury is something which is not really very useful to us,
except in very high-tech devices.
And it could have been used as part of the extraterrestrials
and their technology on this planet.
Was the first emperor of China influenced by
visitors from another world to create his monument, as ancient
astronaut theorists propose?
And could the mercury found at the tomb be proof of
extraterrestrial technology at work in China thousands of years ago...
technology that was not intended to merely help bury
the dead, but to launch otherworldly beings back into space?
Perhaps more clues can be found by taking a closer look at the
mysterious burial mounds found all over our world.
Gyeongju, South Korea.
Here, near the shores of the Sea of Japan, lie the ruins of Cheonmachong.
Excavated in 1973, researchers believe this mound-shaped tomb
was constructed for a fifth-century ruler from the
Silla dynasty, which spanned nearly a thousand years.
The main feature of this tomb is that it has
what's known as a "heavenly horse" drawn onto it, and it's
often called the Heavenly Horse Tomb.
And this horse has eight fiery legs that are flaming.
It's clearly not a living, naturalistic horse.
It almost looks more like a combination of a horse and a
dragon flying through the air.
This may represent the journey of the spirit, the soul,
or taking the soul up to the afterlife.
According to most historians, this equestrian
illustration represents not only the importance of horses in
ancient Korean culture, but also the king's belief in the spirit world.
But ancient astronaut theorists have another,
much more profound interpretation.
They believe the painting of the winged horse symbolizes
how the deceased noble would actually journey to another distant realm.
Tibetans and Mongolians also have, uh,
similar legends of these flying horses.
And these horses, too, would be analogous to the vimanas, uh,
in Sanskrit, which are these flying machines, the chariots
of the gods that Erich von Daniken talked about.
And often they're depicted as this horse, which was the
familiar vehicle that people could travel in, only these horses could fly.
They were flying vehicles.
If you look at it even more closely, it resembles
more some type of a dragon.
Because, out of its feet, there's fire coming out, and the
feet themselves, their legs, don't really look like legs but
they look as if they are some type of wings.
We have to remember that our ancestors were not familiar with
space vehicles, so whatever they saw up in the sky could best be
described as an eight-legged horse descending from the sky.
Could the so-called "heavenly horse" of Cheonmachong
really be a representation of an extraterrestrial flying
transport, as ancient astronaut theorists contend?
And if so, would this help to prove their their theory that
many ancient tombs were, in fact, portals
to other extraterrestrial worlds?
Perhaps more clues can be found in the mysterious drawings
of another burial mound located more than 5,000 miles away.
The Boyne River Valley in Ireland.
Here, 31 miles north of Dublin, lies Newgrange, a tumulus tomb
dating back to 3200 BC, and similar to the one found in South Korea.
Of the many ancient burial chambers discovered in the region,
it is one of the best-preserved.
Newgrange would have been one the largest
man-built structures on Earth at the time of its construction.
It dates from around 5,000 years ago, perhaps even a little bit more.
Predates the Great Pyramids.
So, this was a tremendous undertaking, by a very
well-established culture, to build such a massive monument.
Newgrange's inner passage was constructed with
remarkable precision.
And its design provides an accurate means of measuring the solar year.
It is astronomically aligned on the winter solstice,
so that, right at the winter solstice, and only at the winter solstice...
a sun dagger shoots down through
the central passageway into the tomb and illuminating the inner
chamber of the tomb.
This inner chamber is carved with very enigmatic megalithic
symbols... which we still don't really understand... and really
displays an amazing competence of this culture on many, many levels.
We don't know exactly what it meant to
those ancient peoples, but we can imagine that they gathered
there at the time of the winter solstice, that there were many
celebrations, and that the priests and priestesses would go
into this inner chamber to witness this miracle every year.
We have essentially the death of the sun on the winter solstice.
On this day, we have the lowest point of the sun and then we
have rebirth in new life.
So what better for a tomb and to talk about the journey to the
afterlife than a death and a rebirth and starting the cycle again?
Is it possible the celestial alignment at Newgrange
was created to represent a journey to the afterlife,
as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?
"Spiral galaxies" is one of those terms which we use all the time.
And so the question might be:
are some of the spirals somehow linked with this galactic travel?
And based upon what we know from the belief of the people who
built Newgrange and their belief, specifically, about the
voyage of the dead, we know that this was a voyage in space.
When you look at these famous tumulus tombs that
are all over the world, they are these circular mounds, so you
have a shape, in a sense, of a flying saucer or a UFO.
And the whole idea of the spiral and the vortex is often
used to symbolize time travel, and that is the way that
extraterrestrials would be coming to Earth.
Could the hundreds of burial mounds found around
the globe be linked through some otherworldly connection?
And if so, is it really possible that extraterrestrials used
these tumuli as portals to travel from galaxy to galaxy,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
Perhaps such far-fetched notions aren't as hard to imagine as
they seem, especially when considering that such things are
happening right now, in the southwest region of North America.
Sierra County, New Mexico, 2010
Three, two, one, fire.
Aerospace company Celestis Incorporated launches
one of the world's first private memorial spaceflights, providing
a unique new funeral service for the deceased.
What this company does is, essentially, launch the
ashes of dead people into space, including the Star Trek creator
Gene Roddenberry, 1960s icon Timothy Leary,
even the astronaut Gordon Cooper, who was part of the Mercury program
that NASA created.
Celestis rents compartments on board
conventional rockets assigned to carry satellites and other
payloads into orbit.
They only do, like, seven grams of ashes that
they send out there in small, tiny containers, and so, to me,
this is quite an incredible thing because we now have the
possibility of sending cremated remains into outer space.
We have to wonder if this is now replicating some of
the ancient things that we've seen by using a boat or some
type of symbology that the pharaoh or the king in the
afterlife was being prepared to go back into the heavens.
But why would we want to send our dearly departed into space?
Does it, in fact, fulfill some unconscious human desire to
return to the stars after death?
And could this, in some way, be connected to mankind's
centuries-old belief in Heaven... a utopian world that exists far
above and beyond our own?
I think it's interesting that the people who
do this are the ones who have been the visionaries, the ones
who really wanted to take mankind into deep space and take
us on a voyage of discovery, trying to find out whether there
are human beings there, and I think it's interesting that in
the future we're probably going to see more and more of this,
and that we're going to become more and more in tune with what
our ancestors were thinking.
Maybe, at one point in the future, we will be able to
physically send an entire body into deep space, on a voyage to
reconnect with our ancestors.
We're all made of stars, and the whole universe is
created out of the dust of stars, and so it seems natural
for some people to want to have their ashes sent back into space.
In the ancient world, we were seen fundamentally as immortal souls
briefly incarnated in human bodies and, and possibly
reincarnating and coming back again and again.
It was understood that some aspect of the individual lived
on beyond this physical life, and the tomb was, in a sense, an
immortal home for that aspect of the individual.
Is it possible, as some researchers believe, that mankind
has long tried to make a connection with our otherworldly origins?
And, if so, might ancient tombs throughout the world have
been constructed to facilitate this celestial journey, even after death?
It's hard to know what our earliest ancestors were
thinking when they looked up into the night sky.
Perhaps they felt dwarfed by its immensity.
Perhaps they wondered what the stars were, up in the sky.
Probably they projected their mythology or maybe invented
mythology about goddesses and gods and other spiritual beings,
living in a heavenly world above them.
Maybe that's why so many of their ancient temples were
aligned with these heavenly bodies.
Our ancestors were building these structures so
that they could be seen by the gods in the sky and by the souls
on their way to the gods in the sky.
What our ancestors are saying, what our ancestors are
reinforcing, is that the soul is going to go on a voyage into the stars.
All over the world, we have very similar
types of ceremonies that have to do with entombing people,
and you have to wonder a little bit if your body is being preserved
and it's going to be used again.
And if we could do this, that's something that extraterrestrials
would be able to do, too.
Tombs...
interconnected by design, tradition, and a desire for
a peaceful passage from life
to death.
Is it possible ancient burial chambers were built from
knowledge passed on to our ancient ancestors by celestial beings?
And if so, might we one day reunite with these beings
through an otherworldly portal?
Perhaps the answer will be revealed in our lifetime...
or, perhaps, only after we take our final breath.
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