NARRATOR: Lasers...
with the power to cut through
solid stone.
Acoustic chambers...
that enable interplanetary
communication.
And architecture...
designed to harness cosmic
energy.
Are these dramatic examples of
our own modern-day technology?
Or are they examples of
astounding achievements used
in the ancient past?
BRIEN FOERSTER: The only way
that these huge cubes of stone
were removed from the mountain
is by some kind of laser-like
instrument able to liquefy rock.
MICHAEL BORDEN: These temples
were used to communicate with
the gods and resonate with
cosmic energies.
BILL BIRNES: People see this
as an example of help given to
an earthly civilization by...
ancient aliens.
NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have
been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
And could the proof be found by
examining the construction
methods of our planet's ancient
engineers?
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(wind whistling softly)
NARRATOR: Peru,
South America.
The Andes Mountains.
9,000 feet above sea level, in
an area the Inca people once
called the Sacred Valley, lie
the ruins of the ancient city of
Ollantaytambo.
Once serving as both a temple
and a fortress, mainstream
historians claim Ollantaytambo
was built around 1440 AD by the
Inca Emperor Pachacuti.
But some scholars believe
Ollantaytambo was built upon the
ruins of a far older city... one
whose origins remain unknown.
FOERSTER: The gate
behind me is called the Gateway
of the Gods, and it was built
several thousand years before
the Inca arrived here.
It was built by a culture we
call the Urin Pacha.
We give them that name because
we have no idea who they were,
where they came from or where
they went.
It's clearly evident that the
earliest parts of Ollantaytambo
dates to at least 12,000 years
old, if not older.
JESUS GAMARRA (translated):
From the research I have been
able to determine, this was
built by the Arak civilization.
The Arak people are as ancient
as what would be the equivalent
to Adam or the first humans.
NARRATOR: But how could the
earliest humans on earth have
produced such astonishing
stonework, with massive
interlocking blocks precisely
fitted together?
Or have constructed aqueducts
and irrigation systems that
still function today?
Or have moved and set colossal
stones of granite, each weighing
more than 50 tons?
ANDREW COLLINS: Ollantaytambo
is a mountain fortress.
It's renowned specifically for
the incredible-sized blocks that
were used in its construction,
most particularly those that are
found on its highest level and
the highest point on this
mountain.
There are six of these
positioned in a line, and they
were transported from another
mountain where, the source says,
across a plain, across a river
and then up the mountain.
And, of course, the biggest
mystery is, how the hell were
they not only able to cut these
things but to move them up
this mountain?
STEPHEN VANDER HART: In
modern day, if we were gonna
move a 50-ton boulder, we would
have to assemble a special
transportation unit
consisting of steel girders,
several axles, hydraulic jacks.
Moving it up the hill, we'd
probably have to change the face
of the hill...
build a road, maybe anchor it,
using some kind of cable-and-
pulley system... several
different options, none of which
would be available to the
people who lived way back then.
FOERSTER: These six giant
slabs of red granite have stood
here for thousands of years
because of the beautiful
engineering of the ancients.
If there's a major earthquake,
these shims can ride up and
down, absorbing the shock of the
earthquake, and that keeps the
giant slabs in place.
The ability to fit perfectly-
fitting stones of several tons
in weight together so that a
single human hair can't fit in
between them is not a question
of sweat or man-hours,
it's a question of technology.
NARRATOR: Mainstream
archaeologists claim the dense,
hard granite was cut and shaped
by means of stone or bronze
tools.
But evidence of such tools has
never been found at the site.
And stranger still is the means
by which the mammoth rocks are
bonded into place, as if fused
together by an unknown form of
energy.
JASON MARTELL: it's almost as
if two stones were leaned
together and they infused it
with some type of high-radiation
beam or a laser that would then
fuse the rocks together.
They could then stack a third
rock and create another fused
area.
There is no explanation for how
they had the ability to create
such a high heat source and
fuse these rocks in such an
intricate fashion.
NARRATOR: Further evidence of
the mysterious methods used by
ancient craftsmen can be found
nearby... at the Temple of
the Condor.
Here, enormous slabs of andesite
stone were quarried from what is
known as "The Wall of Living
Rock."
FOERSTER: The Temple of the
Condor is curious because we
find huge cube-like sections of
stone... andesite, which is very
hard... have been removed from
the mountain with such accuracy
that we can't find a scratch in
the surface.
The corners also are not sharp.
They're perfectly rounded, and
no one can explain how this
could have been achieved.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The rock
surface looks rough, but when
you touch it, it feels as smooth
as a bathroom mirror, which
means some type of a
vitrification process was used.
And at the bottom of where this
alcove was cut out, we can see a
crisscross pattern.
And in my opinion,
they are actually saw marks.
To me, this pattern is
irrefutable proof for ancient
machining.
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Prehistoric tools would never
work.
You see, Ollantaytambo is mostly
made out of andesite.
To cut andesite, you need
something which is harder
than andesite.
You could use a diamond, but
there was no tool in Stone Age
time to cut these rocks, so
it must have been an
extraterrestrial tool.
NARRATOR: Might the ancient
engineers of Ollantaytambo
really have used tools acquired
from otherworldly sources, as
ancient astronaut theorists
contend?
Perhaps clues can be found by
examining the earliest creation
myths of the Andes Mountains.
In them, the ancient ancestors,
or founders, were described as
a brother and sister... referred
to as "Children of the Sun."
Sent by the "Sun God," these
mysterious beings arrived on
Earth with something described
as a golden wedge.
DAVID CHILDRESS: Was this
golden wedge some sort of
handheld device that could cut
stone, and even possibly,
levitate the giant blocks into
place?
If the golden wedge used by the
Children of the Sun was really
some kind of high-tech device
for cutting stone or levitating
stone, it would probably have
been given to them by
extraterrestrials.
TSOUKALOS: The fact that
Ollantaytambo specifically has
this story about this golden
wedge leads me to think that
some type of extraterrestrial
activity took place there
thousands and thousands of years
ago.
And that some type of
sophisticated extraterrestrial
technology was used in order to
achieve some of those amazing
feats of engineering that we can
see at Ollantaytambo today.
BIRNES: What you can't
explain is the moving of 50-ton
stones up the sheer face of a
cliff to create the walls of the
fortress.
That, in and of itself, required
more than cranes, more than
lifts, more than scaffolds.
It required something like an
anti-gravitational device, or a
tractor beam to lift that much
stone that high.
That's why people see this as an
example of help given to an
earthly civilization by ancient
aliens.
NARRATOR: Do the incredible
accomplishments of the early
people of the Andes Mountains
really provide proof that early
man was in contact with
otherworldly beings?
If so, wouldn't there be even
more incredible evidence?
There are those who believe such
evidence does exist, hidden
within the ruins of a
Mesoamerican metropolis.
NARRATOR: Central Mexico.
35 miles northeast of Mexico
City.
Here in a highlands plateau,
lies the enormous archeological
site of the ancient city of
Teotihuacán.
Established around 100 B.C., and
lasting until its fall between
the seventh and eighth
centuries, Teotihuacán was one
of the largest cities in the
ancient world, with over 150,000
inhabitants at its peak.
DAVID CHEETHAM, PH.D: When
you enter this city, you're
immediately struck by sort of
that modern layout of the city.
You have a Street of the Dead
that goes for miles, along which
you have all of the major
ceremonial architecture,
including some of the largest
buildings ever erected in the
New World.
NARRATOR: According to
scholars, the advanced design of
Teotihuacán suggests that
ancient builders had knowledge,
not only of architecture, but of
complex mathematical and
astronomical sciences.
From the air, the city's layout
strangely resembles a computer
circuit board with two large
processor chips... the Sun
Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid.
Researchers have also found
numerous and remarkable
similarities to the Great
Pyramids of Egypt.
PHILIP COPPENS: When we look
at these buildings, we find the
same mathematics incorporated
into them than what we find in
the Great Pyramid and the
surrounding pyramids of the
Giza Plateau.
ARLAN ANDREWS, PH.D.: The
Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza
and the Sun Pyramid at
Teotihuacán apparently have
about the same base, almost 750
feet square.
TSOUKALOS: The base perimeter
of the Pyramid of the Sun is
four Pi times its height.
In Giza, it's two pi times its
height.
Essentially, the Pyramid of the
Sun is exactly half as tall as
the Pyramid of Giza.
COPPENS: Teotihuacán is
created according to a specific
layout.
The Temple of the Sun, the
Temple of the Moon, and the
Temple of Quetzalcoatl are in
the same layout as Orion's Belt,
which is basically the
formation, which the three
pyramids of the Giza Plateau
have been laid out into, as
well.
NARRATOR: Might the design
and layout of Teotihuacán be
comparable to that of Giza
because of similar influence
by extraterrestrial visitors, as
ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
CHILDRESS: When you have
similar pyramid complexes like
the ones at Teotihuacán, and the
ones at Giza, you have to kind
of think that, yeah, the same
builders, the same designers are
behind these giant complexes.
NARRATOR: But perhaps the
most intriguing aspect of
Teotihuacán is the finding by
archeologists of the extensive
use of mica embedded in numerous
structures... a mineral only
found 3,000 miles away in
Brazil.
JOEL PALKA, PH.D.: it's found
in all buildings, you know,
housing complexes, temples, and
you know, along the roads.
It's found everywhere.
COLLINS: These mica sheets
were probably transported from
thousands of miles away from
Brazil.
That's the nearest source.
Now, why would you want to do
that?
'Cause they were obviously not
there for decoration, because
you couldn't see them.
RICHARD BERGGREEN: Mica has
some electrical properties that
make it very good for being an
insulator.
It resists the transmission of
electricity.
It's also very good at being
able to be stable at high
temperatures so that it can be
used in furnace windows and oven
windows.
It is clear so you can see
through it, and at the same
time, it stands up to the
temperature and electrical, uh,
discharges.
COPPENS: So we know that they
must have had a very specific
and good reason to incorporate
it.
And the only possible reasons
really why they would be doing
this is because somehow it was
part of some technology.
NARRATOR: Recently,
archeologists have also
discovered large quantities
of mica crystals in a
subterranean chamber, as well as
in several shafts that run
beneath the Avenue of the Dead.
TSOUKALOS: There is an
underground shaft that goes from
the mica chamber in direction
of the Pyramid of the Sun.
So is it possible that this mica
chamber contained some type of
an energy-producing device, a
power plant that fed some of the
other pyramids?
It is possible.
CHILDRESS: There's many
similarities between the
pyramids at Teotihuacán and the
pyramids at Giza.
Both have inner chambers.
It's thought by some that the
Great Pyramid itself was a
massive microwave generator,
literally sending a beam up to a
satellite, or powering some
other kind of spacecraft or
installation.
We could have had the same thing
happening here at Teotihuacán.
NARRATOR: if the Pyramid of
the Sun were really designed to
generate power, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
could its mica-lined chambers
and shafts have served as an
interconnecting power grid for
the entire city?
Or could the use of mica have
served another, perhaps more
protective purpose?
MARTELL: NASA uses mica to
deflect the heat on many of
their craft, such as the space
shuttle.
On reentry, the bottom part of
the space shuttle is all lined
with mica and is a perfect
deflector of large amounts of
heat.
CHILDRESS: Could the mica
at Teotihuacán also have been
used to shield and protect the
ancient people perhaps from the
blast of an extraterrestrial
rocket taking off?
Or even the radiation maybe
from some kind of spacecraft?
NARRATOR: But if the ancient
builders of Teotihuacán used
mica for the purposes of power
generation and radiation
protection, then where did their
advanced engineering and
construction knowledge come
from?
TSOUKALOS: The earliest
descriptions of Teotihuacán
talk about gods descending
from the sky in ships or
winged serpents, and that
something extraordinary happened
there.
WILLIAM HENRY: Teotihuacán,
like the ancient Egyptian
pyramids, is believed to have
been built by the gods.
And the gods ascended into the
heavens in craft that we today
think could be rocket ships.
The builders certainly must
have learned the secrets from
the gods themselves.
MARTELL: An interesting
similarity with many of these
ancient sites were reports of
the gods ascending and
descending from the heavens.
It's very possible that these
were actually being used as
landing sites.
So it's very possible that the
knowledge to build Teotihuacán
was given to us by
extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Do the ancient
legends of flying alien beings
and other strange creatures
provide proof that ancient
aliens did, in fact, influence
the incredible architectural
achievements of Teotihuacán?
Perhaps more clues can be found
on the other side of the planet
and carved into the walls of
sacred Indian temples.
NARRATOR: The Republic of
India.
Situated on the subcontinent of
South Asia, in the southern
portion of the country, are the
ruins of a vast temple complex
known as Vijayanagara.
Translated as "the city of
victory," this site once was the
prosperous capital of the
largest and most powerful Hindu
kingdom in all of India.
CHILDRESS: Vijayanagara is
said to have been built in the
14th century A.D.
However, there's a lot of
evidence to show that it's a
much older city.
And, in fact, uh, Hindu legends
say that the ancient king Rama
met with his monkey god friend
Hanuman there at a cave at
Vijayanagara.
And this would put this city
back many thousands of years.
JOHN FRITZ: This general
region of southern India had
human occupation perhaps
hundreds of thousands of years.
While the city of Vijayanagara
is certainly the largest
settlement that ever existed,
there were civilizations that
existed there much earlier.
NARRATOR: According to
scholars, the temples of
Vijayanagara were built using
ancient geometric and
mathematical formulas found
only in Vastu Shastra, a
traditional Hindu system of
design based on aligning art and
architecture with the elemental
properties of earth, water, air,
fire and space.
BORDEN: Vastu architecture
is unique because it creates
structures that are supposed to
resonate with earth and cosmic
energies.
When you create a structure, you
want the building to be in
harmony with the earth.
If you think of the earth as
embedded in a space nervous
system, and that the solar
system is embedded in a space
universe, it's all one nervous
system.
Well, the earth itself is tied
to the rest of the universe by
this, and receives and emanates
energy by using this nervous
system.
And these temples illustrate
that perfectly.
It could be that these spaces
were used as a technology to go
deep within human consciousness
and communicate with the gods.
NARRATOR: The origins of
Vastu architecture can be traced
in ancient India Sangam
literature to a mythic hero
called Mamuni Mayan, who lived
some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
But who, or what, was this
mysterious ancient figure?
According to Hindu beliefs,
Mamuni Mayan is revered as the
Visvakarman... the lord of
creation... and the deity who
designed and fabricated the
divine architecture of the
universe.
But might this god really have
been an extraterrestrial entity,
as ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
Researchers point to clues
carved in stone throughout the
ancient Vastu temples of
Vijayanagara.
CHILDRESS: Vijayanagara was
thought to be a city that
connected people to the gods.
The gods themselves were said to
have lived in this city...
Shiva and... and Rama.
Many of the strange statues
there are of certain aspects of
Vishnu.
And he looks like some kind of
strange extraterrestrial god.
These are statues that still
exist today at Vijayanagara.
B. VIRUPAKSHI: According to
the myths and legends, this is
a very holy place.
Why? Because of Rama, one of
the incarnation of Vishnu.
Rama is a god.
He had been to this place.
That's how this place has become
very sacred.
NARRATOR: Further evidence
of the actual nature of the
Hindu gods can be found in
ancient Hindu scriptures.
Epic poems like the Mahabharata
and the Ramayana, and sacred
texts called Vedic literature,
contain multiple references to
flying objects of various shapes
and sizes.
PATRICK FLANAGAN: In ancient
Vedic literature, they say that
they had Vimanas, which are
anti-gravity aircraft, and
that they flew around on them.
And the Vimana's construction is
detailed in the Mahabharata and
some of the other ancient books
that have come to us from
that time.
CHILDRESS: At Vijayanagara,
you have the traditional Hindu
Vastu architecture.
You have, therefore, the stone
temples that are, uh, conical in
shape.
So the architecture itself was
sort of a copy of the airships
or rockets or spaceships that
they called Vimanas.
BORDEN: At Vijayanagara,
they were using Vastu
technology.
And Vastu technology has been
used to make flying vehicles.
The technology is there to
create weapons, to probably
create an energy that could
power a spaceship.
VON DANIKEN: The Vimanas we
would call today space shuttle,
flying machines.
Now we have different sort of
space shuttle.
A Russian space shuttle doesn't
look like an American space
shuttle and so on.
So in ancient India, we have
different descriptions of
Vimanas with wings, with all
kinds of lights and so on, and
out of these Vimanas so-called
gods came.
NARRATOR: Might the early
people of South India really
have been taught advanced
building techniques to harness
powerful cosmic energy?
And if so, might this have been
done so that early man could
connect with other distant
worlds, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
CHILDRESS: Vijayanagara would
have been one of many cities
around the planet built by the
extraterrestrial gods.
It was part of a network of
ancient cities around the planet
that included megalithic cites
in South America, on Pacific
islands, in India and Egypt and
Africa and other areas of the
Middle East.
It was one of their special
cities that they had built
thousands of years ago.
NARRATOR: Did ancient man
really incorporate the wisdom
and expertise of cosmic
travelers into the architecture
of their monumental buildings?
If so, wouldn't additional
evidence of such contact exist
elsewhere in the world?
What if there were recent
findings of the use of machine
technology discovered in ancient
Egypt?
NARRATOR: Luxor, Egypt.
Here, along the east bank of the
Nile River, lie the
archaeological remains of the
vast Karnak temple complex,
dating to the 32nd century B.C.
With its numerous structures,
including great halls, obelisks,
and an avenue of sphinxes,
Karnak represents the combined
achievement of many generations
of Egypt's ancient builders.
MARTELL: When one travels to
Luxor and gazes upon the Karnak
Temple, we see large pillars,
oversized obelisks, and what's
very amazing about this area is
that it's one of the few places
where over 30 pharaohs
contributed to its sheer size
and wealth of knowledge over a
vast period of time.
NARRATOR: For centuries,
archaeologists and scholars have
considered Karnak to be one of
the most dramatic examples of
the remarkable technological
ability of early man.
But do the construction
techniques used in building
these incredible monuments
reveal evidence of something
more... something not of this
earth?
COPPENS: When we start
looking at hieroglyphs, we are
amazed as to how beautiful and
how carefully they have been
carved.
The technology which we see is
clearly of a perfection which is
beautiful and almost makes our
heart cry whenever you come face
to face with it.
NARRATOR: Experts believe the
most impressive evidence of
advanced machining can be found
on Karnak's tall four-sided
tapering monuments, called
obelisks.
CHILDRESS: The obelisk is
carved with the same
inscriptions on four sides, and
they're all exactly the same and
they are beautifully cut and
articulated hieroglyphs into
this red granite stone.
ANDREWS: We would look at it
today and say it had to be some
sort of machine that carved
these things out.
For example, there were slots.
They were only.14 inches wide,
half-inch deep.
When you look inside, you can
see the bottom of 'em were made
by a rotating tool, so this was
a tool that punched in, came
out, stepped down, punched in,
came out.
The human hand, no matter how
good you are, could never do
that.
The tool marks themselves, the
precision, the depth, the
rotating impressions that were
made were not done by hand.
Some of those were so precisely
engraved as to require machine
tools to do it.
The tool kit that we see, that
the ancient Egyptians were
supposed to use... there is no
way that any of those tools
could produce the results that
we saw.
NARRATOR: To many scholars,
the apparent precision used in
the construction of the obelisks
at Karnak suggests a 21st-
century level of expertise.
CHRISTOPHER DUNN: Precision
is what our civilization is
built on.
To craft something to within
2/10,000 of an inch or 1/1,000
of an inch is quite common today
because that tolerance or that
precision is necessary and it
has a purpose.
NARRATOR: But how can we
explain such precision in
ancient construction?
TSOUKALOS: if you look at the
Ramses statue, it is so perfect
that you wonder how this was
even done with allegedly
primitive tools because today we
could only do this with
machines.
DUNN: So the way we check the
symmetry of the Ramses statue is
to take two images of the same
photographs, make
transparencies, and compare the
left to the right.
We flip it over and bring it
over the original, and as we can
see, we have a perfect match.
The ancient Egyptians were very
skilled at working granite.
I cannot see how they could have
created what they created with
the tools that are commonly
accepted to have been in the
ancient Egyptians' toolbox, such
as copper chisels or stone
chisels, wooden mallets, stone
balls.
NARRATOR: But if, as many
historians and archaeologists
contend, the ancient builders
did not possess the equivalent
of modern tools, how were these
monuments built with such
mathematical precision?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by comparing an example of
ancient sculpture with one made
by more modern methods.
DUNN: We can compare the
aluminum model, the face
machine, the striations coming
down the face with the
striations coming down the face
of the statue at Karnak in
Egypt, and also the tool marks,
so where we see above the
eyebrow, the dig in right there,
where the... kind of shows us
what kind of tools or the shape
of the tools that they used.
So the elements that bring this
machining to ancient statue are
not just the symmetry but also
the geometry, the precision, and
the tool marks, and we have all
three elements in modern
machining and ancient statuary.
It's an enormously difficult
thing to do by hand without
introducing some mechanical
systems.
Seems to me to be impossible.
NARRATOR: But if the tool
marks seen on the Ramses statue
appear identical to those made
by modern methods, wouldn't it
prove that the ancient builders
had access to machines and
perhaps even electricity?
CHILDRESS: They allegedly
did not have electricity,
power tools.
Supposedly, they didn't have
diamond saws.
But yet, they're doing things
that would require precision
work, precision tools.
So where did they get those
things?
How could they have had these
advanced machining tools that
we've only just acquired
ourselves today in our
civilization?
So one answer would have to be
they'd gotten it from ancient
aliens.
NARRATOR: Might the early
Egyptian builders have had
access to extraterrestrial
knowledge and technology?
Or might the ancient builders
have been aliens themselves?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer is yes.
And for proof, they point to a
tiny island in the middle of the
Mediterranean Sea.
NARRATOR: Malta...
a small island nation in the
center of the Mediterranean Sea,
just south of Italy.
Scholars believe the first
inhabitants migrated here from
the nearby island of Sicily in
5200 B.C.
Today, stone structures on the
Maltese island of Gozo are
considered by archeologists to
be among the greatest
achievements by ancient builders
anywhere in the world.
LINDA ENEIX: The temples on
Malta and Gozo are more than a
thousand years older than the
pyramids of Egypt.
They are the earliest monumental
architecture in the world.
There are engineering features
in these temples that are just
astonishing.
We're talking about walls
enclosing space...
paved walkways...
they were ceilinged at one time.
Definitely much more complex
than anything else that was
appearing on earth for a very
long time.
NARRATOR: Built before metal
tools or the wheel had been
invented, experts are baffled by
the sheer scale of the
construction and the use of
vertically arranged monolithic
stones, each weighing over 20
tons.
FLANAGAN: it's only been in
recent years that we've
developed instruments that are
accurate enough to appreciate
that some of these ancient
societies were able to shape
stones to optical accuracy...
optical accuracy greater than
what we're able to do today.
And so they must have had some
kind of advanced technology
enabling them to do that.
NARRATOR: But if the ancient
builders of Malta had used
advanced technology, where did
it come from?
Researchers believe answers may
be found among Malta's numerous
mysteries... including the
so-called cart ruts, which can
be found all over Malta.
ENEIX: These parallel
incisions in the bedrock have
been identified as cart ruts
because that's what
they look like.
What they really were,
what their purpose was,
we don't know.
There's nothing written.
ANDREWS: The cart ruts on
Malta are about four feet wide.
They're uniformly spaced.
Some of them run hundreds of
yards.
Some of them run miles.
According to the studies of
them, they probably were there
up to 10,000 years ago, because
some of the ancient temples are
built right on top of the ruts.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists believe the cart ruts
may in fact be evidence that
Malta was one of Earth's
earliest industrial work sites.
CHILDRESS: it seems like what
these cart ruts really were was
some kind of ancient, uh,
railway.
And this railway was then to
move heavy machinery, much as we
would use today in a mining
operation, even the way rockets
are rolled out onto
a launch pad.
NARRATOR: Further evidence of
the use of advanced technology
on Malta can be found
underground.
In 1902, construction workers,
while building the foundation
for several houses, accidentally
discovered a mysterious
underground sanctuary dating to
2500 B.C.
Called the Hypogeum, the
subterranean structure was
revealed to be three levels
deep... all hewn from solid
stone.
ENEIX: it's been estimated
that they removed more than
2,000 tons of stone from these
subterranean chambers to create
a space that beautifully
replicates the temples above
ground.
NARRATOR: Perhaps one of the
greatest mysteries concerning
the Hypogeum involve the
acoustical properties in what is
called the "Oracle Room."
COLLINS: The acoustical
properties within this are
absolutely extraordinary,
because what happens is the...
if a person is within the
Oracle Room, the way that their
voice is carried is heard
within the whole of the complex.
HENRY: The ancients were
using this profound sound
technology in order to put
themselves into a deep state of
trance in order to access
higher human consciousness.
They wanted to go deep within in
order to connect themselves with
star energy.
NARRATOR: Might the Oracle
Room have been used to
communicate with ancient gods?
Or, perhaps, celestial
ancestors?
Or do its advanced acoustics
suggest that early Maltese
people had mastered the science
of sonic manipulation, the
ability to manipulate solid
matter through audio
frequencies?
FLANAGAN: One of the main
things that I've realized is
that they're using something
called fractal nonlinear
resonance.
And we're now discovering in the
field of material science that
nonlinear resonances of sound
waves, microwaves, magnetic
waves, that we are able to
actually change matter in ways
that we never dreamed possible.
NARRATOR: if the Oracle Room
was used to harness the power of
audio waves, as many ancient
astronaut theorists believe, is
it possible the prehistoric
builders used sonic technology
to help build Malta's mammoth
temples?
CHILDRESS: The builders had
this advanced knowledge of
sonic technology.
And, in fact, sound technology
can be used for all kinds of
applications, including
levitation or antigravity.
COLLINS: All around the
world, there are myths and
legends relating to how large
structures came into being.
They talk about the movement of
stones through the use of sound,
about the use of instruments or
the banging, the ringing...
that will elevate stones enough
so that they can be pushed as if
they've become completely
weightless.
CHILDRESS: it would appear
that the builders at Malta had
very advanced knowledge of
things we're just now
discovering.
And you would think that they
got this knowledge from
extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Enormous blocks of
stone...
mysterious carving techniques...
and mathematical precision that
rivals anything possible in the
modern age.
Might the tools and technology
that went into building the
world's most magnificent ancient
structures have come from
distant galaxies?
Or were the ancient engineers
really extraterrestrial beings?
Perhaps the answer can be found,
not out in space but in plain
sight all over the world...
an answer which suggests that
the ancient builders may have
served to be the architects, not
of the past, but of our future.
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