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Narrator:
Enormous humanoid figures
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descending from the stars.
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Rabbi ariel bar tzadok:
We have in our ancient
midrashic teachings
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that when the adamic race
descended to earth,
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they were beings
approximately 100 feet tall.
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Narrator:
Massive structures
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built with stones weighing
thousands of pounds.
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David childress:
Cyclopean architecture
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is associated with the cyclopes,
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the one-eyed giants.
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It really indicates something
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that's almost impossible
to make.
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Giorgio a. Tsoukalos:
Some of these blocks,
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I've heard,
are up to 30 tons each?
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Danila bracaglia:
Yes.
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I mean, this is incredible.
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Narrator:
Mysterious tombs
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said to contain
gigantic skeletons.
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Timothy alberino:
I personally went there,
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measured the tombs myself.
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Even in the smaller tombs,
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you could fit
a nine- to 12-foot giant.
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Narrator:
Could the ancient legends
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of giants in the mediterranean
really be true?
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The giants were a fact.
They did exist.
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Tsoukalos:
You have the stories of giants,
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you have structures
that are incredible,
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and you have to wonder,
what are their origins?
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Narrator:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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narrator:
The mediterranean.
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This majestic inland sea,
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spanning
nearly one million square miles,
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has been dubbed the "incubator
of western civilization."
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its temperate climate
and fertile soil
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enabled the rise of some of the
greatest civilizations on earth,
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including the mesopotamians,
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egyptians, persians,
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phoenicians, greeks and romans.
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Jonathan young:
Throughout the mediterranean,
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there were great civilizations.
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Their art, their philosophy,
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their scientific findings,
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the accumulative knowledge
is this strong connection
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to the ancient roots
of western civilization.
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Ric rader:
It's really earth-shattering
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how sophisticated the ancient
mediterranean cultures were
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in their understanding
of astronomy
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and astrology and mathematics,
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going all the way back
to the babylonians.
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Narrator:
Each civilization
developed innovations
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that shaped the modern world.
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Mesopotamian astronomers devised
the 12-month calendar.
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Phoenician sailors pioneered
celestial navigation.
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Greek philosophers established
the principles
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of democratic government
and trial by jury.
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Each culture had
the written word, the arts,
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and, curiously,
stories of giants.
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Young:
There are legends of giants
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that appear
throughout the mediterranean.
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The roman historian
dio cassius wrote
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that giants roamed the land
before mount vesuvius erupted.
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We call them mythology,
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but they were seen as truth
at the time.
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There are these stories
of humans interacting
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with these giants, and they're
often in conflict with them
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in the greek tales
of the gigantomachy.
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Young:
There is a story
of the gigantomachy,
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a great battle
between the olympians
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and the race of giants.
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Narrator:
Giants play a major role
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in the earliest greek stories.
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In the gigantomachy,
these strange, enormous figures,
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who are neither gods nor humans,
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are battling
for control of the heavens.
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The giants were actually
descendants of the titans.
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Um, oftentimes,
people confuse the two.
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But the giants
were said to have been born
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from gaia and uranus,
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and this is
where the name derives.
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Hercules was pivotal in the gods
overcoming the giants
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in the gigantomachia.
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Young:
Hercules' victory
over the giants
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was called the pompeii,
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and the ancient city of pompeii
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is said
to have been named for it.
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Narrator:
Stories of giants can be found
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in the traditions of ancient
cultures throughout the world.
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Native tribes
of the american southwest
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told of a race
of red-haired giants
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curiously similar
to the accounts
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of the celtic people of europe,
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who described red-haired giants
called the tuatha dé danann.
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In india, early sanskrit texts
portray buddha
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as a nine-foot-tall,
blue-skinned giant.
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And on easter island,
local traditions have it
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that the enormous stone moai
statues were erected by giants.
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But as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the incredible volume of stories
found in the mediterranean,
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and the details contained
within them,
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may indicate that this part of
the world was an arrival point
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for actual giant beings
that came to earth
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from another planet.
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We have a great concentration
of these stories
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in the mediterranean area.
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You have them in greece,
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in Italy and in ancient sumeria.
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So the idea that at some point
giants roamed the land,
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you have to wonder,
who were these giants?
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What are their origins?
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Narrator:
If actual giants
once lived alongside humans,
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as some ancient texts suggest,
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did they leave behind
any physical evidence
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of their presence on earth?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
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the answer might be found
by examining
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another race of giants
from the greek tradition.
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In the 7th century bc,
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the poet hesiod wrote
about the cyclopes,
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a group of giants
responsible for building
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incredible structures
out of stone.
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Now, the cyclopes were
one-eyed giants.
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They are builders.
They are craftsmen.
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They can make things.
They make armor.
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They make weapons.
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They're able
to build walls and gates,
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and these are
very important divine figures.
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Osequeda:
In the mediterranean,
there are structures
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thought to have been built
by giants.
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One of those is
the lion's gate in mycenae.
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This is said to have been built
by the cyclopes.
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And the reason for this is,
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one, because
of the architecture of it--
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it's called "cyclopean masonry,"
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which are usually large stones
placed upon each other.
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Narrator:
Could real-life giants
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have built structures
in the mediterranean
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that have survived
the ravages of time
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and still stand to this day?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the answer is a resounding yes.
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And not just one or two...
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But thousands.
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In the middle
of the mediterranean sea,
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just south of sicily,
lie the islands of malta.
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With three inhabited islands
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covering an area
of roughly 120 square miles,
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it is one of the smallest
countries in the world.
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But this tiny nation boasts
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no less than seven
enormous megalithic structures,
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containing some of the most
massive freestanding stones
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in the world.
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Tsoukalos:
Malta is an incredible place,
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because there we have
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some of the biggest megalithic
sites in all of europe.
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Linda eneix:
The temples on malta and gozo
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are more than
a thousand years older
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than the pyramids of egypt.
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They are the earliest monumental
architecture in the world.
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Looks very much
as if that architecture
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developed right here in malta.
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Narrator:
Mainstream historians believe
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the first inhabitants of malta
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traveled from sicily in 5200 bc.
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Today, the stone structures
erected on the maltese islands
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are considered by archeologists
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to be among the greatest
creations of ancient builders
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found anywhere on earth.
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One of the oldest
megalithic sites in europe
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is a place called ggantija
on the maltese island of gozo,
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and this was actually
the oldest free-standing temple
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in the world before gobekli tepe
was discovered.
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Eneix:
At the time that
the ggantija temples were built,
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about 3500 bc,
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there was no one else in the
world doing anything like this.
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Some of the walls
of ggantija temple
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are more than 20 feet high--
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still standing,
have never fallen.
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There's very little in the world
that could survive
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for 5,000 years
the way ggantija has.
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Narrator:
While a structure
lasting 5,000 years
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is astonishing, many believe
these megalithic buildings
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could be far older.
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But mainstream historians
are unable to explain
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how the ancient builders
were able to precisely arrange
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the massive stones--
each weighing over 20 tons--
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before metal tools,
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or even the wheel,
had been invented.
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Childress:
Modern cranes
cannot lift that today.
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It would appear
that the builders at malta had
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some special technology
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that is probably
beyond our own capabilities.
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Eneix:
"ggantija" is translated
from the maltese
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into "place of the giants,"
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or "place made by giants."
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it's always been called that.
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Young:
It was said to have been built
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by a giant goddess, sunsuna,
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who built it
while nursing an infant.
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Tsoukalos:
In malta,
the archaeologists agree
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with the local legends
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that the giants built
the ancient structures of malta.
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And who were those giants?
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Michael carter:
These are not gods.
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These are false gods.
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They're extraterrestrials,
if you will.
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Narrator:
Was the mediterranean
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home to a race of colossal
beings thousands of years ago?
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And if so, were they born
of this earth,
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or did they come
from somewhere else?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
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another mysterious
megalithic structure on malta,
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one that has a very specific
cosmic connection.
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Narrator:
Qrendi, malta
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located on the rugged
south coast of the main island,
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this historic village is home to
a mysterious megalithic temple
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called mnajdra.
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This complex consists
of stone structures
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that are laid out
in the pattern of a trefoil,
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three interconnected
circular chambers.
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There are actually three temples
at the complex of mnajdra.
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The south temple seems
to be aligned specifically
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to function as a solar calendar.
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The temple is aligned so that
the sunrise on the equinox,
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the two times each year
when daylight and darkness
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are exactly equal, the sun rises
exactly in the central corridor
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and lights up the whole temple
all the way to the back.
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On other times of the year,
there are other stones
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that reflect
the solstice daybreak.
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Narrator:
Mainstream archaeologists
estimate that the oldest temple
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at mnajdra was built
sometime around 3600 bc,
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by the same builders who
constructed the ggantija temple.
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According to local folklore,
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these ancient builders
were giants.
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Eneix:
The idea of giants comes from
the fact that it's so big.
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There's no way that regular
human people could stack
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all these stones up and
create such mammoth buildings.
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It had to be giants.
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Narrator:
In 1992,
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university of malta professor
paul micallef
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published a book
that claimed mnajdra
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is thousands of years older
than historians believe,
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and pinpoints the construction
to 10,200 bc.
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He came to this conclusion
because based on the tilt
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of the earth
at that point in time,
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on the morning
of the summer solstice,
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a beam of light would have come
through the main entrance
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of the mnajdra temple
and been cast directly
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on the center of an altar stone.
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The only way
this could be achieved
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is if mnajdra
was built specifically
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with the end effect in mind.
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Newman:
Over huge periods of time,
the rising of the sun
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on the summer solstice moves
to different parts of the sky.
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And this is called
the precession of the equinox,
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it's the earth's wobble over
a nearly 26,000-year period.
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Narrator:
If paul micallef's analysis
is correct,
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it would predate the earth's
earliest known civilizations
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by some 6,000 years.
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So, how were sophisticated
megalithic structures
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with precise
astronomical alignments,
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built on an isolated island
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thousands of years before
the emergence of civilization?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the knowledge to do this
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was given to the people of malta
by giants,
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who were not of this earth.
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William henry:
We automatically assume
that extraterrestrials
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might be what we describe today
as the grey aliens.
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But more than likely we're gonna
have-- be confronted
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with the fact that these species
are far different
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than we've previously
understood.
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(creature screaming)
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david childress:
Astrophysicists are
typically saying
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that the larger the planet, the
greater the gravitational field.
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And in theory, if some aliens
are actual giants,
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uh, even twice the size of us,
as an example,
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perhaps they're coming
from planets
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that are actually smaller
than the earth
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and has a smaller gravity
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and therefore,
they grow larger than we are.
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Narrator:
Could the megalithic temples
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on malta have been built
by a lost civilization
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that thrived 12,000 years ago,
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possibly with the aid
of giant beings
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who descended from the sky?
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Misrah ghar il-kbir.
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Located on the southwest coast
of malta,
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this region is home to some
of the most baffling formations
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found anywhere on the planet,
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a complex network of grooves
carved into the rock
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known simply as cart ruts.
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Andrews:
The cart ruts on malta
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are about, uh, four feet wide.
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They're-they're
uniformly spaced.
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Some of them run
hundreds of yards.
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Some of them run miles.
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These parallel incisions
in the bedrock
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have been identified
as cart ruts
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because that's what
they look like.
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What they really were,
what their purpose was
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we don't know.
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There's nothing written.
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There's no way, really, to tell.
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But there are a lot of them.
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In some places,
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they are so crisscrossed
and complex
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that the area has been called
clapham junction,
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after the train station
in london.
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Narrator:
Author gordon weston
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has been studying
this strange anomaly
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for more than a decade
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and, in 2010,
wrote a book called
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the maltese cart-ruts:
Unraveling an enigma,
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in which he examines
the various theories
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about how they might
have been formed.
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So, gordon,
tell me what you think.
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Well, got a-- what,
you got half a lifetime?
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-Absolutely. Yes.
-(laughs)
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basically, you couldn't drive
a cart down here.
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The cart would be wrecked.
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Early researchers
looked at vehicles
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that would scrape away the rock,
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because that's what it looks
like's happened.
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There was three devices.
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The first one was a sledge.
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Probably the oldest form
of human transport.
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But they found that the sledge
immediately got stuck.
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So two other devices
have been looked at.
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Uh, one was the travois.
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They're used
by the plains indians
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to transport their teepees
from camp to camp.
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The problem is the poles
would be wider than these ruts
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when they touch the ground.
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The next device
is called the slide car.
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It's a load platform
with two runners on it.
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It's a fanciful
and ridiculous idea.
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Practical experiments and that--
it just doesn't work.
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Science is useless
for this problem.
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There is no methodology
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which can be applied
scientifically to these ruts.
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So, in st. George's bay,
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in a city called birzebbuga,
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there are a couple of ruts
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that go straight
into the mediterranean sea.
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Weston:
They are famous.
You're-you're right.
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It is interesting to see
the ruts go into the sea.
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They also are said to have come
up on the other side of the bay.
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But it's now built over.
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So, how do you explain it?
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Andrews:
It might be that we're looking
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at a technology
we don't understand.
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The ruts go off into the sea.
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Underwater, people have dived
down and found them, miles away.
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So, apparently,
either the sea level rose
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or the land subsided
or maybe both.
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During the last ice age,
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the sea level
was 300 feet lower.
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So, it could have been
that, 10,000, 15,000 years ago,
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the islands were inhabited
by people who used
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these so-called cart ruts
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to transport, uh, stones
across the island.
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Narrator:
According to geologists,
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the last ice age ended
around 10,000 bc.
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Might the existence
of these cart ruts
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corroborate the findings
of professor paul micallef,
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who claimed the mnajdra temple
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was constructed
more than 12,000 years ago?
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Perhaps even more baffling
to researchers
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is the fact
that these mysterious grooves
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are not confined
to the maltese islands.
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Eneix:
These cart ruts
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are found also in tunisia
and in sicily.
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So, they seem to relate
to a people
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who are occupying
all of those areas.
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Narrator:
Might the so-called cart ruts
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be a remnant
of a vast transportation network
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that existed
throughout the mediterranean
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some 12,000 years ago?
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Could they be physical evidence
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to support
the stories of giants?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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on another mediterranean island,
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one that contains
ancient stone structures
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known as the tombs
of the giants.
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Narrator:
Sardinia, Italy
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located 116 miles west
of the italian peninsula,
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this picturesque island
in the mediterranean
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boasts rugged mountains,
arid grasslands,
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and white sand beaches.
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It is also home
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to many mysterious
ancient stone structures
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similar to those found on malta
just 400 miles away.
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Sardinia is probably best known
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for its abundance of structures
called nuraghe.
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And these are conical towers,
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usually truncated at the top,
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so that there's a flat base.
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There are
approximately 7,000 nuraghe
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that scholars have uncovered
on sardinia,
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though that number could be
as high as 20,000 or more.
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Childress:
These nuraghe
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are made out
of huge basalt boulders.
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They're stacked up
into towers and walls
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and beehive chambers.
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Archaeologists do not know
how they were all built.
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They assume that huge ramps
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were built to-to move all
of this material,
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which, uh, seems unlikely,
frankly,
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when you're there
and you see it.
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Narrator:
According
to mainstream archaeologists,
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these structures were built
by the nuraghe,
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a civilization that is believed
to have inhabited the island
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nearly 4,000 years ago,
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emerging in 1800 bc
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and mysteriously disappearing
around 200 ad.
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Among the thousands
of ancient structures
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found on sardinia,
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perhaps the most baffling
to researchers
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are megalithic tombs
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said to have been built
for giants.
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There are nearly 800
so-called tombs of the giants
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found in sardinia.
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And the reason why
they're called giant
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is because
they're remarkably long tombs,
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usually with stone slabs
in them,
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and they appear
extraordinarily large.
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Alberino:
There is a lot of controversy
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concerning what these tombs
were built for.
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More specifically,
for whom were they built?
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I personally went there,
measured the tombs myself.
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In the larger tomb,
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you could fit
a nine- to 12-foot giant.
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Narrator:
A nine- to 12-foot giant?
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Could the strange tombs
in sardinia
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have once contained the corpses
of actual giants?
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But if sardinia was home
to a race of colossal beings,
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who were they?
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Cagliari, sardinia.
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2014.
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The national
archaeological museum
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debuts its newest exhibit,
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a number
of enormous stone statues
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known collectively
as the giants of mont'e prama.
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So, the giants of mont'e prama
are very tall stone giants
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that were found on the, uh,
western coast of sardinia
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back in 1974.
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Uh, since then, there's been
numerous excavations,
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and over 40
of these stone giants,
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over eight feet tall,
have now been reconstructed
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from pieces
that were found there.
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Alberino:
The giants of mont'e prama are
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very strange-looking
stone statues.
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And what makes them so bizarre
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is their faces.
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Touskalos:
For all intents and purposes,
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the face looks like a replica
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of c-3po, the robot.
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And the fact that archaeologists
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suggest
that these are the replicas
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of the local population--
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and they even call them
the giants of mont'e prama--
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you have to wonder,
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what did our ancestors
try to carve?
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Narrator:
If these statues
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depict giants
that once lived on the island
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as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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what might
their strange appearance
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reveal about them?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining another
of sardinia's ancient mysteries:
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The more than 300
stone monuments
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scattered across the island
known as menhirs.
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A menhir is a megalithic,
uh, monument
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comprising of a single stone
inserted in the ground,
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and it goes
straight up vertically.
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They're usually quite large
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and have
a religious significance.
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Newman:
We find them all over the world,
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but the ones in sardinia
are very interesting
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because they often have carvings
on them
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of this upside-down kind of
abstract human form on them
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as though someone is diving
from the sky to the earth.
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And there's been no explanation
as to exactly what
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these represent.
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Tsoukalos:
Some people have suggested
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that they represent
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people descending from the sky
and imparting knowledge.
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What's incredible
is that bird people
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or birdmen cults
exist worldwide.
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In fact,
the further back you go in time,
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you see carvings and statues
500
00:25:04,045 --> 00:25:07,129
of beings that have wings.
501
00:25:07,215 --> 00:25:09,757
Even earlier than angels,
502
00:25:09,842 --> 00:25:13,344
you have depictions
of people up in the sky,
503
00:25:13,429 --> 00:25:17,181
fixed wings,
like a modern-day airplane.
504
00:25:17,225 --> 00:25:20,142
So, you have to wonder
if our ancestors
505
00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:24,688
saw winged machines
up in the sky.
506
00:25:25,775 --> 00:25:27,733
Narrator:
If the giant statues
507
00:25:27,818 --> 00:25:30,069
found on the island of sardinia
508
00:25:30,154 --> 00:25:31,529
depict extraterrestrials
509
00:25:31,614 --> 00:25:34,365
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
510
00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:36,033
then is it possible
511
00:25:36,118 --> 00:25:38,702
that the menhirs
are meant to reveal
512
00:25:38,746 --> 00:25:41,205
how these visitors arrived?
513
00:25:43,292 --> 00:25:45,209
For ancient astronaut theorists,
514
00:25:45,294 --> 00:25:48,087
the idea of giants
descending from the heavens
515
00:25:48,172 --> 00:25:50,005
is reminiscent of the stories
516
00:25:50,091 --> 00:25:52,591
of another
ancient mediterranean people:
517
00:25:52,677 --> 00:25:54,843
The sumerians.
518
00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,764
This civilization, which existed
519
00:25:58,849 --> 00:26:01,183
at the same time
archaeologists believe
520
00:26:01,269 --> 00:26:03,143
the menhirs on sardinia
were carved,
521
00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:06,897
also wrote of enormous beings
who came from the sky:
522
00:26:06,983 --> 00:26:09,567
The anunnaki.
523
00:26:12,196 --> 00:26:15,614
The anunnaki
are the so-called creator gods
524
00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,033
of ancient sumeria and babylon.
525
00:26:19,036 --> 00:26:21,078
Our ancestors thought
526
00:26:21,122 --> 00:26:24,415
they were
these divine, magical beings
527
00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:28,294
described as descending
from the sky.
528
00:26:28,379 --> 00:26:31,255
There's all types
of wall reliefs
529
00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:33,507
and artifacts and inscriptions
530
00:26:33,593 --> 00:26:35,509
which depict the anunnaki
531
00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:38,470
standing amongst
the other sumerian human beings.
532
00:26:38,556 --> 00:26:40,931
They're always depicted
as larger beings,
533
00:26:41,017 --> 00:26:43,183
uh, of great stature.
534
00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:45,436
Andrew collins:
This is intriguing
535
00:26:45,521 --> 00:26:48,105
because on the island
of sardinia
536
00:26:48,149 --> 00:26:52,401
is a huge, great,
truncated pyramid
537
00:26:52,486 --> 00:26:55,654
with a long ramp
running up towards it.
538
00:26:55,740 --> 00:26:57,948
It's made of local stone,
539
00:26:57,992 --> 00:27:02,745
and it would seem
to look extremely like
540
00:27:02,788 --> 00:27:07,791
a ziggurat from ancient sumeria.
541
00:27:07,877 --> 00:27:11,795
So, were the anunnaki
in any way linked
542
00:27:11,881 --> 00:27:15,466
with the gigantes legends
on the island itself?
543
00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:19,470
Narrator:
Is it possible
that a race of colossal beings
544
00:27:19,513 --> 00:27:22,014
known to the sumerians
as the annunaki
545
00:27:22,099 --> 00:27:26,477
visited the island of sardinia
in the distant past?
546
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,479
And if so,
547
00:27:28,564 --> 00:27:31,732
might sardinia
hold evidence that giants
548
00:27:31,817 --> 00:27:33,984
not only existed
throughout the mediterranean
549
00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:37,529
but have
extraterrestrial origins?
550
00:27:38,532 --> 00:27:41,950
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
551
00:27:42,036 --> 00:27:44,995
and suggest further evidence
can be found
552
00:27:45,081 --> 00:27:47,331
by examining ancient walls
553
00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:50,376
that still stand
in what was once the very heart
554
00:27:50,461 --> 00:27:52,836
of the roman empire.
555
00:27:58,386 --> 00:28:00,511
Narrator:
Ferentino, Italy.
556
00:28:00,596 --> 00:28:02,596
June 2019.
557
00:28:02,682 --> 00:28:05,891
Ancient astronaut theorist
giorgio tsoukalos
558
00:28:05,976 --> 00:28:08,227
is in the heart
of the italian peninsula,
559
00:28:08,312 --> 00:28:10,938
about 50 miles southeast
of rome.
560
00:28:11,023 --> 00:28:14,358
This area of Italy,
known as latium,
561
00:28:14,402 --> 00:28:18,654
was considered the epicenter
of the roman civilization.
562
00:28:18,698 --> 00:28:21,907
Located 300 miles east
of sardinia
563
00:28:21,992 --> 00:28:24,868
and 600 miles north of malta,
564
00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:26,704
ferentino is also connected
565
00:28:26,789 --> 00:28:29,832
to stories of giants.
566
00:28:29,917 --> 00:28:31,959
Giorgio is eager to investigate
567
00:28:32,044 --> 00:28:35,504
the ancient city's
massive megalithic walls,
568
00:28:35,548 --> 00:28:39,049
considered to be some of the
finest constructions in Italy.
569
00:28:39,135 --> 00:28:42,761
For expert insight,
he has called upon
570
00:28:42,847 --> 00:28:45,264
local historian
danila bracaglia.
571
00:28:45,349 --> 00:28:48,225
-Danila? (speaks italian)
-giorgio.
572
00:28:48,269 --> 00:28:50,686
-Welcome to Italy
and to ciociaria.
-Thank you.
573
00:28:50,771 --> 00:28:52,563
This is, uh, beautiful.
574
00:28:52,648 --> 00:28:54,898
-What can you tell me
about this area?
-Well,
575
00:28:54,984 --> 00:28:56,859
ferentino, where we are today,
576
00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:59,445
is actually known
for these constructions
577
00:28:59,530 --> 00:29:01,447
of, uh, the megalithic walls,
578
00:29:01,532 --> 00:29:05,033
founded, according to
the tradition, by god saturn.
579
00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,454
Tsoukalos:
Okay. This is fascinating to me
580
00:29:08,539 --> 00:29:10,706
because this is one
of the reasons why I'm here.
581
00:29:10,791 --> 00:29:14,251
What can you tell me
about the mythologies of saturn
582
00:29:14,336 --> 00:29:15,753
in this area here?
583
00:29:15,796 --> 00:29:17,880
So, the five cities of saturn
are all
584
00:29:17,965 --> 00:29:20,090
a few kilometers
one from another,
585
00:29:20,134 --> 00:29:22,760
and they all start
with the letter "a."
586
00:29:22,803 --> 00:29:25,137
alatri, arpino,
587
00:29:25,222 --> 00:29:28,599
anagni, atina and ferentino.
588
00:29:28,642 --> 00:29:30,601
The original name was atino.
589
00:29:30,686 --> 00:29:32,102
The tradition says,
590
00:29:32,146 --> 00:29:35,939
you know, the towns were founded
by saturn and the titans.
591
00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:38,817
Narrator:
In greek mythology,
592
00:29:38,903 --> 00:29:42,446
the titans were humanlike gods
of enormous stature
593
00:29:42,490 --> 00:29:45,115
who were eventually overthrown
by their children,
594
00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:46,700
the olympians.
595
00:29:46,786 --> 00:29:50,621
Saturn is the roman name
for the titan cronus,
596
00:29:50,664 --> 00:29:52,206
the father of zeus
597
00:29:52,291 --> 00:29:55,250
and one of the primary gods
of ancient rome,
598
00:29:55,336 --> 00:29:57,419
after whom
both the planet saturn
599
00:29:57,505 --> 00:30:00,130
and the day Saturday are named.
600
00:30:01,217 --> 00:30:03,175
The ancient romans wrote
601
00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:05,761
that saturn once reigned
as an earthly king
602
00:30:05,846 --> 00:30:09,139
alongside janus
during a golden age
603
00:30:09,225 --> 00:30:11,809
when the gods
walked among humans.
604
00:30:11,894 --> 00:30:14,311
Could it be that saturn
and the titans
605
00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:17,022
are not merely the product
of mythology
606
00:30:17,107 --> 00:30:19,900
but actually existed on earth
607
00:30:19,985 --> 00:30:23,320
and were responsible
for helping to construct
608
00:30:23,364 --> 00:30:27,282
the megalithic structures found
throughout the mediterranean?
609
00:30:27,368 --> 00:30:30,244
So, danila,
where are we right now?
610
00:30:30,329 --> 00:30:33,121
So, this is one of
the entrance gates to the town.
611
00:30:33,207 --> 00:30:35,165
And here
it's actually a perfect point
612
00:30:35,209 --> 00:30:38,001
where you can understand
the stratification of the time.
613
00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:44,007
You see the huge blocks
from the pre-roman time,
614
00:30:44,051 --> 00:30:48,095
then smaller, uh, blocks in...
Built in the roman time
615
00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:50,848
and finally the middle age
on top.
616
00:30:50,891 --> 00:30:53,392
So, basically,
you can see the...
617
00:30:53,477 --> 00:30:55,519
The megalithic structure,
then the roman,
618
00:30:55,563 --> 00:30:57,396
-and then medieval age.
-Exactly.
619
00:30:57,481 --> 00:30:59,648
-Tsoukalos: Okay.
-And it's like reading
a history book.
620
00:30:59,733 --> 00:31:03,318
So, it's, uh, because here it's
evident that people lived here
621
00:31:03,362 --> 00:31:05,988
for thousands of years and...
622
00:31:06,073 --> 00:31:08,365
And they had different technique
of construction.
623
00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:10,075
Some of them,
like the megalithic,
624
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,035
uh, constructions, are lost,
625
00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:16,164
uh, so we don't know exactly,
uh, when they were built.
626
00:31:16,250 --> 00:31:19,751
Tsoukalos:
Do you know if all
these five cities of saturn
627
00:31:19,837 --> 00:31:22,379
-have the cyclopean walls?
-Yes.
628
00:31:22,423 --> 00:31:24,047
They have, uh, these walls,
629
00:31:24,091 --> 00:31:26,216
megalithics or huge stones,
630
00:31:26,302 --> 00:31:29,219
and some of them are
better preserved than others.
631
00:31:29,305 --> 00:31:31,346
Tsoukalos:
I mean, this is incredible.
632
00:31:31,432 --> 00:31:34,433
And this region is not the only
place that has these walls.
633
00:31:34,518 --> 00:31:36,935
For example,
we have them also in greece.
634
00:31:37,021 --> 00:31:39,521
But what's even more fascinating
635
00:31:39,607 --> 00:31:43,442
is that we have similar walls
on the other side of the world
636
00:31:43,527 --> 00:31:45,068
in sacsayhuamán, peru.
637
00:31:45,112 --> 00:31:48,739
So, from completely opposite
sides of the planet,
638
00:31:48,824 --> 00:31:51,074
we have similar,
if not identical,
639
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,118
construction styles.
640
00:31:53,203 --> 00:31:55,037
According to
the ancient astronaut theory,
641
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,457
saturn was one
of the founding gods
642
00:31:58,542 --> 00:32:01,001
of civilization on earth,
643
00:32:01,086 --> 00:32:05,255
so the idea that this
may have had something to do
644
00:32:05,341 --> 00:32:07,341
with an extraterrestrial visit,
to me,
645
00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:09,092
is-is fascinating.
646
00:32:15,809 --> 00:32:19,603
Narrator: If the mediterranean
really was home to giants,
647
00:32:19,688 --> 00:32:20,938
where did they go?
648
00:32:21,023 --> 00:32:23,690
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe
649
00:32:23,776 --> 00:32:27,444
traces of these giants can still
be found on earth today
650
00:32:27,529 --> 00:32:31,114
hidden within our own dna.
651
00:32:36,372 --> 00:32:38,830
Narrator:
Porto torres, sardinia.
652
00:32:38,916 --> 00:32:41,625
October, 1953.
653
00:32:41,669 --> 00:32:44,795
Excavators performing
an archaeological dig
654
00:32:44,838 --> 00:32:48,090
in what was the roman empire's
first colony on the island
655
00:32:48,175 --> 00:32:51,635
reportedly make
an astonishing find.
656
00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:54,471
In a place called porto torres,
657
00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,640
in 1953, it was reported
658
00:32:56,684 --> 00:32:59,851
that two over eight-foot-tall
skeletons were discovered
659
00:32:59,937 --> 00:33:03,563
in the area with grave goods
and bronze furnishings
660
00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:06,692
and other such things actually
within the tomb itself,
661
00:33:06,777 --> 00:33:10,320
suggesting that indeed giants
did exist in sardinia.
662
00:33:10,406 --> 00:33:14,658
Timothy alberino:
Full skeletons of giants
663
00:33:14,702 --> 00:33:16,743
have been unearthed
664
00:33:16,829 --> 00:33:18,954
in the soils of sardinia,
665
00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:22,666
especially among
the nuragic ruins.
666
00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:24,710
I interviewed two individuals
667
00:33:24,795 --> 00:33:27,421
who worked on the excavation
of the nuragic ruins
668
00:33:27,506 --> 00:33:29,339
in the town of sardara,
669
00:33:29,425 --> 00:33:33,051
underneath
the church of santa anastasia.
670
00:33:33,137 --> 00:33:35,012
Both of these individuals
dug up,
671
00:33:35,055 --> 00:33:38,432
at different periods of time,
multiple skeletons
672
00:33:38,517 --> 00:33:41,309
of giants
from nine to 12 feet tall.
673
00:33:43,439 --> 00:33:45,731
Narrator:
Multiple giant skeletons,
674
00:33:45,816 --> 00:33:48,150
nine to 12 feet tall?
675
00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:51,319
Curiously,
this is the same length
676
00:33:51,405 --> 00:33:55,574
of many of the so-called giants'
tombs found all over sardinia.
677
00:33:55,659 --> 00:34:00,078
But if such massive bones
have indeed been discovered,
678
00:34:00,164 --> 00:34:02,080
what happened to them?
679
00:34:02,166 --> 00:34:04,291
Some researchers believe
680
00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:07,836
these findings have been
deliberately covered up.
681
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,798
Newman:
We hear these stories,
but we don't have any evidence.
682
00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:13,592
It's all been taken away.
683
00:34:13,677 --> 00:34:16,386
For example, another account
from the 1950s--
684
00:34:16,430 --> 00:34:19,097
there was a gentleman
who actually witnessed
685
00:34:19,183 --> 00:34:22,726
bones being dug up
on his farm when he was a child.
686
00:34:22,811 --> 00:34:25,437
And people
in large black cars arrived,
687
00:34:25,522 --> 00:34:27,272
official-looking people,
688
00:34:27,357 --> 00:34:30,067
and took the bones away
in the middle of the night.
689
00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:32,110
Narrator:
When it comes
690
00:34:32,196 --> 00:34:36,448
to the alleged discovery of
giant skeletons, does the fact
691
00:34:36,533 --> 00:34:41,078
that the bones have gone missing
suggest a cover-up or a hoax?
692
00:34:41,121 --> 00:34:43,163
While skeptics say
693
00:34:43,248 --> 00:34:46,124
that many of these stories come
from dubious sources,
694
00:34:46,210 --> 00:34:49,252
there is at least one discovery
that was documented
695
00:34:49,338 --> 00:34:52,172
by one of the oldest
universities in the world.
696
00:34:52,257 --> 00:34:54,549
In 1892,
697
00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:56,760
it was reported that scientists
698
00:34:56,804 --> 00:35:00,597
at the university of montpellier
in France studied bones
699
00:35:00,682 --> 00:35:04,267
that had been excavated on
France's mediterranean coast,
700
00:35:04,353 --> 00:35:06,103
and found that they belonged
701
00:35:06,188 --> 00:35:09,731
to a human
who stood over 11 feet tall.
702
00:35:09,817 --> 00:35:12,442
Newman:
So there have been
numerous reports
703
00:35:12,528 --> 00:35:14,694
of giant bones, teeth, skulls.
704
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:18,573
The lack of physical evidence
is quite frustrating,
705
00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:20,242
but I'm sure it will come out.
706
00:35:20,327 --> 00:35:22,327
Narrator:
But if reports
707
00:35:22,412 --> 00:35:24,996
of giant skeletons are true,
708
00:35:25,082 --> 00:35:28,917
were these enormous beings human
or something else?
709
00:35:29,002 --> 00:35:32,003
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
710
00:35:32,089 --> 00:35:35,924
the answer may be hidden
within our own dna.
711
00:35:38,554 --> 00:35:40,595
Copenhagen, denmark.
712
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:42,639
2020.
713
00:35:42,724 --> 00:35:46,184
A team of geneticists studying
an ancient hominin
714
00:35:46,270 --> 00:35:51,148
called homo antecessor make
a groundbreaking discovery.
715
00:35:51,191 --> 00:35:53,441
This species was
a close relative
716
00:35:53,527 --> 00:35:57,487
of the last common ancestor to
humans and two other hominins:
717
00:35:57,573 --> 00:36:01,324
Neanderthals and denisovans.
718
00:36:01,410 --> 00:36:06,204
It is just the latest in a
series of incredible discoveries
719
00:36:06,290 --> 00:36:08,415
that have revealed humans
not only shared the earth
720
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:10,876
with at least eight other
humanlike species,
721
00:36:10,961 --> 00:36:15,380
but even mated and produced
offspring with them.
722
00:36:15,465 --> 00:36:20,510
For quite a long period of time,
many of us, myself included,
723
00:36:20,596 --> 00:36:22,679
thought that humans
and other hominins,
724
00:36:22,723 --> 00:36:25,849
particularly neanderthals,
didn't interbreed.
725
00:36:25,893 --> 00:36:28,852
After 2010,
when technology allowed us
726
00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:33,106
to sequence the entire genomes
of several neanderthals
727
00:36:33,192 --> 00:36:35,984
and other species
and modern humans,
728
00:36:36,028 --> 00:36:38,028
we began to see traces
729
00:36:38,113 --> 00:36:40,530
of a little bit
of neanderthal mixture.
730
00:36:40,616 --> 00:36:43,658
We see traces
of neanderthal ancestry
731
00:36:43,744 --> 00:36:45,952
in europe,
and we see it in asia,
732
00:36:46,038 --> 00:36:49,372
as well as in the americas
amongst native americans.
733
00:36:49,416 --> 00:36:51,374
Narrator:
Mysteriously,
734
00:36:51,460 --> 00:36:54,544
scientists have found
one hominid is represented
735
00:36:54,588 --> 00:36:58,215
in human dna that has not yet
been identified.
736
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,634
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe
737
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,595
clues as to what other ancestors
might exist
738
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,514
within the human genome
can be found
739
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,391
in the bible's book of genesis.
740
00:37:08,477 --> 00:37:10,560
Henry:
In the book of genesis, it says
741
00:37:10,646 --> 00:37:13,730
that the sons of god came
into the daughters of men.
742
00:37:13,774 --> 00:37:16,900
They created a hybrid offspring
who are called "the nephilim,"
743
00:37:16,985 --> 00:37:18,693
or "the fallen ones."
744
00:37:18,737 --> 00:37:24,032
they're referred to as "the
giants" or "the mighty ones,"
745
00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:27,953
and some believed they were
between eight and 15 feet tall.
746
00:37:28,038 --> 00:37:31,915
Von daniken:
This is handed down
not only in the bible.
747
00:37:31,959 --> 00:37:36,044
This is also handed down
in sumerian languages,
748
00:37:36,088 --> 00:37:38,463
that some of the gods had sex
with humans,
749
00:37:38,548 --> 00:37:41,424
and the offsprings were giants.
750
00:37:41,468 --> 00:37:45,470
Mythology is full of giants,
751
00:37:45,555 --> 00:37:50,141
and we have to look at these
old myths with modern languages,
752
00:37:50,227 --> 00:37:53,395
change the word of "angel"
into "extraterrestrial."
753
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,230
in the beginning of time,
754
00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:58,316
extraterrestrials had sex
with humans,
755
00:37:58,402 --> 00:38:03,113
and the product of
this sexual contact were giants.
756
00:38:04,992 --> 00:38:07,492
Narrator:
Is it possible
that as geneticists continue
757
00:38:07,577 --> 00:38:10,620
to decode the human genome,
they will find
758
00:38:10,706 --> 00:38:14,624
that among our various hominid
ancestors is a missing link
759
00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:17,043
to enormous beings
from another world?
760
00:38:17,129 --> 00:38:18,837
Fenton:
Ancient dna
761
00:38:18,922 --> 00:38:20,839
is perhaps, for me,
762
00:38:20,924 --> 00:38:24,634
the most important area of study
in all of my work,
763
00:38:24,678 --> 00:38:28,263
because there is
the potential chance here
764
00:38:28,307 --> 00:38:29,973
that we can find direct evidence
765
00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:32,017
of the ancestors
of modern humans.
766
00:38:32,102 --> 00:38:34,352
I suspect we'll find lineages
767
00:38:34,438 --> 00:38:36,604
of a race of giants.
768
00:38:38,317 --> 00:38:40,317
Narrator:
Could it be
769
00:38:40,402 --> 00:38:44,821
that just like some humans have
traces of neanderthal dna,
770
00:38:44,906 --> 00:38:48,074
there could still be similar
traces of alien-human giants
771
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,161
that scientists have yet
to discover?
772
00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:54,372
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
773
00:38:54,458 --> 00:38:57,292
the answer is a profound yes,
774
00:38:57,377 --> 00:39:00,545
and suggest further insights
could be revealed
775
00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:02,672
in early judaic texts,
776
00:39:02,716 --> 00:39:06,676
which give a curious description
of the world's first man,
777
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:10,180
otherwise known as "adam."
778
00:39:14,394 --> 00:39:16,644
(wind whistling)
779
00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:20,190
narrator:
The book of genesis,
chapter six.
780
00:39:20,233 --> 00:39:23,443
Placed just after
the story of creation
781
00:39:23,528 --> 00:39:26,529
and the generations
of adam and eve,
782
00:39:26,615 --> 00:39:31,368
this section of the hebrew bible
contains a curious passage.
783
00:39:32,746 --> 00:39:35,663
There is
a very interesting teaching
784
00:39:35,749 --> 00:39:39,667
in older kabbalistic traditions
785
00:39:39,711 --> 00:39:43,880
that dates back to temple times.
786
00:39:43,924 --> 00:39:47,842
Legend states
that adam originally was,
787
00:39:47,928 --> 00:39:51,388
by our definition, a giant,
788
00:39:51,473 --> 00:39:55,850
that the original adamic race
was not
789
00:39:55,894 --> 00:39:58,812
of the same physical stature
as we human beings are today.
790
00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:02,148
Some claim that the original
adamic race were giants.
791
00:40:02,234 --> 00:40:05,318
Is this a legend of symbolism,
792
00:40:05,404 --> 00:40:07,570
or is there something actual
to it?
793
00:40:07,614 --> 00:40:11,991
Narrator:
Was the biblical adam a giant?
794
00:40:12,077 --> 00:40:15,703
Could it be that all of humanity
is descended
795
00:40:15,789 --> 00:40:19,749
from a race that was
of a much greater stature?
796
00:40:19,793 --> 00:40:21,418
And that there was a time
on earth
797
00:40:21,503 --> 00:40:25,922
when giants were prevalent,
and humans were the anomaly?
798
00:40:26,007 --> 00:40:29,884
When we look
at the modern evolutionary cycle
799
00:40:29,970 --> 00:40:31,719
for human beings,
800
00:40:31,805 --> 00:40:34,848
it's still put on the shoulders
of darwinistic views.
801
00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:37,767
So anything that steps outside
802
00:40:37,811 --> 00:40:41,479
of those viewpoints
is usually greatly challenged.
803
00:40:41,565 --> 00:40:43,440
Mainstream science has had
a very hard time
804
00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,775
wrapping their head
around the idea
805
00:40:45,819 --> 00:40:47,819
that there could have been
a lost race,
806
00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:51,156
part extraterrestrial,
part human.
807
00:40:51,241 --> 00:40:55,577
In mythology, the giants
were a fact. They did exist.
808
00:40:55,662 --> 00:40:58,746
What we are missing are
the bones of giants.
809
00:40:58,832 --> 00:41:00,915
From time to time,
810
00:41:01,001 --> 00:41:03,793
anthropologists found
some big bones,
811
00:41:03,837 --> 00:41:08,298
but then, other anthropologists
contradicted it.
812
00:41:08,341 --> 00:41:11,176
But definitely giants did exist
in the past,
813
00:41:11,261 --> 00:41:14,304
and they were the result
of a mixture
814
00:41:14,347 --> 00:41:16,473
between extraterrestrials
and humans.
815
00:41:18,226 --> 00:41:20,977
Narrator:
Do incredible
megalithic structures,
816
00:41:21,021 --> 00:41:23,730
curious religious traditions
817
00:41:23,815 --> 00:41:26,149
repeated in culture
after culture,
818
00:41:26,193 --> 00:41:29,986
and reports
of enormous human remains
819
00:41:30,071 --> 00:41:34,657
represent the remnants of
a lost civilization of giants?
820
00:41:34,701 --> 00:41:38,578
And if so,
could these enormous beings
821
00:41:38,663 --> 00:41:43,833
have actually had a hand
in the creation of humankind?
822
00:41:43,877 --> 00:41:46,628
Perhaps one day soon
823
00:41:46,713 --> 00:41:49,839
conclusive evidence of the link
between humans and giants
824
00:41:49,883 --> 00:41:55,303
will finally come to light,
and we will discover
825
00:41:55,347 --> 00:41:59,182
that within the mythological
tales of our ancestors
826
00:41:59,226 --> 00:42:03,728
lies the true history
of the human race.
827
00:42:03,813 --> 00:42:07,315
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