1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:03,800 A 2000-year-old computer. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,840 It had more complicated inner workings than a modern-day Swiss watch. 3 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:11,600 Giant power plants. 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,760 It's very strange, but it's clearly a battery. 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,520 And weapons more powerful than anything that exists today. 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,240 It roared, and then flashes of fire came out of it. 7 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:26,320 Throughout the world, 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,430 there are artifacts and stories... 9 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,960 ...that point to advanced technology in the distant past. 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,480 Could these be products of our ancestors' imaginations? 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,480 Or might there be a more profound explanation? 12 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,360 It sounds fantastic to us... 13 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:46,560 ...that they could have had some kind of alien technology. 14 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,320 It's clearly what they're describing. 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,320 Millions of people around the world... 16 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,720 ...believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,080 What if it were true? 18 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,800 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 19 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:10,600 And, if so, might we find proof by examining mysterious devices? 20 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:47,360 The Giza Necropolis, Egypt. 1993. 21 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,400 A team of engineers uses a remotely-operated camera... 22 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,320 ...in an attempt to discover the true function... 23 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,640 ...of what is believed to be an air shaft... 24 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,600 ...leading from the supposed Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. 25 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,320 First discovered in 1872, 26 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,080 archaeologists long considered these narrow tunnels... 27 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:11,960 ...to be ventilation ducts. 28 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,230 This robot traveled up this small shaft, 29 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,520 which was too small for a human or any type of device to go through, 30 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,840 and all of a sudden, it finds a closed door... 31 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,400 ...hinged by two little metal clamps. 32 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,760 According to mainstream archaeologists, 33 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,120 the door and metal handles were intentionally built... 34 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,800 ...as a symbolic passageway that the queen would travel through... 35 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:38,000 ...to the afterlife. 36 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,360 But some researchers have questioned... 37 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,360 ...why this passageway would have been designed... 38 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:48,240 ...with a deliberate blockage, 39 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,400 and why on a plateau filled with monumental pyramids, 40 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:56,800 believed to serve as royal tombs, 41 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,600 ...is the Great Pyramid the only one with such a door? 42 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,270 Egyptologists are very much fond of saying... 43 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:05,790 ...that pyramids are tombs, 44 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,240 and that they have been robbed at some point in the past. 45 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,710 But the fact is that we have found, in the 20th century, 46 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,960 a number of pyramids whose central king's chamber, so to speak, 47 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:18,240 is intact. 48 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,350 And when they opened the sarcophagus, 49 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,440 they found that sarcophagus to be empty, as well. 50 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:28,120 If the Great Pyramid was not a tomb, 51 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,160 what may have been its true purpose? 52 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,040 In May 2011, 53 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,560 another team of researchers set out to further explore the blocked air shaft... 54 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:41,960 ...in the Queen's Chamber. 55 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:47,040 This time, the crew used a robot equipped with a micro-snake camera... 56 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,000 to slip through a hole and reveal what was beyond the door. 57 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,150 When they actually penetrated this small door, 58 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,160 they found a hidden room within the pyramid. 59 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,880 What they found was copper fittings, 60 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,600 or the metal fittings. 61 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,720 Another feature of the back of these metal fittings... 62 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,920 ...was that on one side, 63 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,520 ...the loop looked like it was corroded. 64 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,720 The camera also looked down and scanned the floor, 65 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,280 and what we saw was red markings. 66 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,520 My interpretation of those were, 67 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,480 they were electrical symbols. 68 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,080 But why were they there? 69 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,840 Could these artifacts be actual evidence... 70 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,880 ...that electricity once coursed through the structure? 71 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,920 And if so, could the Great Pyramid of Giza... 72 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,960 ...have been built to serve as not a royal tomb 73 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,600 ...but a power plant, as some researchers contend? 74 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,670 If we dismiss the tomb theory, 75 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,520 and we look at the pyramid itself, 76 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:59,240 we see something that modern engineers can really tune into and understand. 77 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,280 What we have is a very, very precise building... 78 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,320 that has the precision of a fraction of an inch, 79 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,880 is something that is very noteworthy 80 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,000 and not indicative of a simple, agrarian culture. 81 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,200 So, what we have is something that is almost like a machine. 82 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,760 If the Great Pyramid was a sophisticated machine, 83 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,360 potentially capable of creating energy, 84 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:28,200 how could it have worked? 85 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,600 Some researchers believe clues can be found... 86 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,200 ...by exploring underneath the structure. 87 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,120 In 2000, maritime engineer, John Cadman, 88 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,960 proposed a theory that the Egyptians pumped water... 89 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,560 ...from the nearby Nile River 90 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,600 into a small chamber underneath the Great Pyramid. 91 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,920 The pump could then create intense hydraulic pressure... 92 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,960 ...that would cause the entire pyramid to vibrate. 93 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:04,430 In the subterranean chamber, 94 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,360 there is some evidence that shows that there had been water present in it... 95 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,360 ...and that there's water erosion on the floor... 96 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,120 ...and then up in the thin area. 97 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,920 And then, also, because it was a hydraulic pulse generator. 98 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,270 See how the rarefaction wave, 99 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:24,960 this extremely low-pressure wave, 100 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,720 which would have struck the ceiling, and the ceiling is actually chipped. 101 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,480 And that would have been from the acts... 102 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,760 ...of compression waves hitting the ceiling. 103 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:34,840 That's very evident. 104 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,120 If Cadman's theory proves true, 105 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,400 what would have been the purpose of the hydraulic pulse? 106 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,760 Engineer Chris Dunn believes the answer can be found... 107 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:52,600 by further examination of the shafts in what some call "The Queen's Chamber," 108 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,110 where traces of zinc and hydrochloric acid... 109 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,160 ...have been discovered. 110 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,480 I believe the chemical coming in through the northern shaft... 111 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,480 was hydrated zinc, 112 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,520 and the other chemical coming through the southern shaft and into the chamber... 113 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,480 ...was dilute hydrochloric acid. 114 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,280 These are actually seen on the chamber walls. 115 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,520 Dunn suggests that the two chemicals were poured down... 116 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:22,600 ...through the shafts... 117 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,600 ...and then mixed together inside the Queen's Chamber, 118 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,520 triggering combustion. 119 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,440 This vessel represents the Queen's Chamber. 120 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,400 Into the tubes, we're going to pour hydrated zinc... 121 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,960 ...and then hydrochloric acid. 122 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,510 When you bring these two liquids together, 123 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,560 and a chemical reaction occurs, 124 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,880 and a product of that chemical reaction is hydrogen. 125 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,520 And you can see the vapor, the hydrogen, 126 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,800 escaping through the chimney. 127 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,240 And there you have the reaction. 128 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,560 Dunn speculates that the hydrogen gas... 129 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,800 ...traveled from the Queen's Chamber into the King's Chamber. 130 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,360 Then the vibrations from the subterranean pool... 131 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,560 ...energized the hydrogen atoms into a microwave energy beam. 132 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,640 The evidence that indicates the use of hydrogen... 133 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,640 ...can be found in the King's Chamber. 134 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,440 There's a shaft in the King's Chamber, 135 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,200 has dimensions of 8.4 by 4.8, 136 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,710 which would be suitable for a wave guide for a maser, 137 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,680 or a microwave amplification through stimulated emission radiation. 138 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,870 And from there, we can actually propose... 139 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,160 ...many different ideas of what they did with it. 140 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,680 The ancient Egyptians demonstrated an exceptional level of skill... 141 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,280 ...in everything that they created during the Old Kingdom, 142 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:01,960 but the question remains: 143 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,200 Did they do it on their own? 144 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,150 Or did they have some access to information... 145 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,800 ...or technology that was not of this earth? 146 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,120 If Giza was, in fact, a power plant, 147 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,360 could the energy have been used for some otherworldly purpose, 148 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,280 as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 149 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,840 Perhaps further evidence that advanced technology... 150 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,400 ...really did exist on Earth thousands of years ago... 151 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,920 ...can be found by examining yet another mysterious device, 152 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,360 the Ark of the Covenant. 153 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,720 Approximately 17 miles northeast of Jerusalem... 154 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,120 ...lies the ancient ruins of the city of Jericho. 155 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,360 Here, archaeologists have uncovered evidence... 156 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:02,680 ...of settlements dating back to 9000 BC. 157 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:05,440 According to the Hebrew Bible, 158 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,360 Jericho is believed to be where God spoke to Joshua, 159 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,120 the successor to Moses, 160 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,800 and instructed him to march around the walled city... 161 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,800 ...once every six days with seven priests... 162 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,200 ...carrying rams' horns, 163 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,840 and followed by the Ark of the Covenant, 164 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,480 the golden chest containing the Ten Commandments. 165 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,080 Then, on the seventh day, 166 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,800 under orders by God, 167 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:32,880 Joshua and the Israelites... 168 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,320 ...marched around the perimeter of the city one last time... 169 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,000 ...but this time, they blew the rams' horns. 170 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,680 The walls of Jericho fell, 171 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,200 and the city was sacked. 172 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,720 In the Old Testament, you see very clear descriptions... 173 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,720 ...in Joshua 6 about the shofar, 174 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,640 which is described as a trumpet that was used in the battle of Jericho... 175 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,920 ...to actually bring the walls down. 176 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,720 To religious scholars, 177 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,560 the collapse of Jericho's walls was a miracle. 178 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,000 To most modern-day scientists and historians, 179 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,680 the destruction was most probably caused by an earthquake. 180 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,240 But could it have been something else? 181 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:29,680 Could the Israelites have possessed advanced sound wave technology? 182 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,720 If so, where did it come from? 183 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,630 In the scriptures, we have a fascinating story... 184 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,800 ...about the fall of the walls of Jericho. 185 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,110 Armies were told to circle the wall repeatedly... 186 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,120 ...and then finally blow their horns, and down came the walls. 187 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:46,760 And we know there was a powerful presence. 188 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,630 The Ark of the Covenant, this mysterious, sacred item, 189 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,910 was with them at all times, 190 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,430 which, of course, was part of the event... 191 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,600 ...and part of the fall of the walls of Jericho. 192 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,120 The idea that some kind of sonic weapon... 193 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,910 ...was used to destroy these huge, thick, ancient walls... 194 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,480 ...to allow the Israelites to, basically, take over that city, is a fascinating one. 195 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,960 So what kind of technology were they using? 196 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,950 It sounds utterly fantastic to us... 197 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,950 ...that they could have had some kind of advanced alien technology. 198 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,480 It's clearly what they're describing. 199 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,870 There is little doubt that the Ark of the Covenant was a weapon. 200 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,230 It was described as a weapon, 201 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,480 famously, when the Israelites crossed over into Canaan, 202 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,040 and they had to pass by Jericho. 203 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,040 And it could be that there was some technology. 204 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,960 According to many ancient astronaut theorists, 205 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,790 Moses and the Israelites acquired... 206 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,880 ...a supernatural source of energy at Mount Sinai. 207 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,910 This powerful energy source was later contained... 208 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,280 ...in the Ark of the Covenant... 209 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,400 ...and would have provided the kind of power necessary... 210 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:08,480 ...to amplify Joshua's horns, 211 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,520 and make them into a powerful sonic weapons. 212 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,720 The Ark of the Covenant appears to be some sort of advanced technology. 213 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,320 What's interesting about the Battle of Jericho... 214 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,760 ...is that this particular use of the shofar... 215 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,070 ...clearly seems to be the same thing... 216 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,000 ...that we're seeing with particle beam technology, 217 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,560 death ray technology, thunderbolt technology. 218 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,950 It very clearly seems that, once again, 219 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:35,880 we have an extraterrestrial technology... 220 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,320 that the ancient people had at the ready... 221 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:42,040 ...that they could use, when needed, for military campaigns. 222 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,590 But even if the Israelites possessed some sort of advanced, 223 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:50,560 extraterrestrial technology, 224 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,720 could the amplified sound of rams' horns 225 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,320 really bring down stone walls? 226 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,720 According to scientist and former astronaut, Prof Taylor Wang, 227 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,520 recent research into the field of physical acoustics... 228 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,960 ...suggests it is a distinct possibility. 229 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,800 Jericho, wall breaking apart. 230 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,080 If you said it has happened, caused by acoustic, caused by sound... 231 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:23,320 Well, the possibility has to be, somehow a resonance is built in that wall. 232 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,750 Ah, may not be the whole wall, may be some of the structure material, 233 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,880 when that resonance happens, amplitude gets large enough. 234 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,630 Yes, it could destroy almost anything. 235 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,590 Because what the resonance does is store enormous amount of energy. 236 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,400 So you keep on, keep on feeding it. Eventually, it shatters everything. 237 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,030 When you want to know how powerful sound is, 238 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,030 you have to realize that the basic thing that sound is, 239 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,110 is a pressure wave. 240 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,150 And it will come down to the amount of energy you put into your sound wave, 241 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:53,800 and whether or not... 242 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,600 ...that particular pressure wave you generate... 243 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,720 ...will couple or impact the thing you're trying to destroy. 244 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:04,430 You can make it quite powerful, 245 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:05,830 because you can make a very high amplitude, 246 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:07,840 very large pressures in the sound. 247 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,030 It might be at a frequency or amplitude where we no longer hear it as sound, 248 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,150 but from a physics point of view, it is still sound, 249 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,840 because it's a pressure wave in the air. 250 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,640 So, it can get quite destructive if you put enough energy into it. 251 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,430 You could also think of it as a particle weapon, 252 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:24,830 because you're moving air around, 253 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,110 and you would just need something to focus the sound, 254 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,190 which we know how to do. 255 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,680 And so that would give you a directed energy beam with sound. 256 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,320 Did advanced extraterrestrial technology... 257 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,440 ...really help the Israelites survive their exodus in the desert, 258 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,680 as the Hebrew Bible contends? 259 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:45,160 And, if so, might early humans have possessed other, 260 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,280 equally astounding technological devices? 261 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,440 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 262 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:53,960 ...and believe further clues can be found... 263 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,640 ...by examining an object... 264 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,720 ...that dates back to the second century BC, 265 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,840 one that functioned as a computer. 266 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,830 Did aliens really inspire our ancestors... 267 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,280 ...to build ancient temples and pyramids? 268 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:16,560 And if they came here, 269 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,720 did they leave behind any advanced knowledge of physics, 270 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,760 astronomy or mathematics? 271 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,640 If so, is there any evidence that remains to this day? 272 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,720 One example might be this one. 273 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,240 Often described as the world's first mechanical computer, 274 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,320 it dates back over 2000 years. 275 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:42,920 The Antikythera device was found in 1900 by sponge divers... 276 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,080 ...diving off a small island in the Aegean called Antikythera. 277 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,160 There was a shipwreck there, 278 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:54,040 and in it was a coral-encrusted box, 279 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,200 and it was made of metal alloys. 280 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,760 And it then went to the Athens Museum 281 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,840 where, a good 50 years later, 282 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,360 they were able to x-ray this box... 283 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,720 ...and they were able to discern... 284 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,040 ...cogged wheels that were interconnected... 285 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,830 ...and give us a very good depiction of what this thing was. 286 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:17,640 And it is a computer. 287 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,680 It's a really sophisticated machine. 288 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:26,870 It's a very interesting piece of technology, 289 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,440 because it served two purposes. 290 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,190 One was that it was an astronomical device... 291 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,350 ...where you could, by using it, chart your position to the stars... 292 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,080 ...and navigate your way through the seas. 293 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,960 It was also an astrological device, so that someone could tell you, 294 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:41,880 "Ah, if you were born on this date," 295 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:43,560 "and your planet sign is this," 296 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:45,630 "then certain things were going to happen to you" 297 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:47,360 "when the planets are in this alignment." 298 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,150 So, it was a very interesting piece of technology that, literally, 299 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,950 had more complicated gears and inner workings... 300 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,560 ...than a modern-day Swiss watch. 301 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,640 And it's found to be dated, I think, like 200 BC. 302 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,110 So, it's really an anomaly as to who could've created that... 303 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,600 ...and what it was being used for. 304 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:12,520 When archeologists first started to examine this thing in the 1950s, 305 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,640 they said that they never could conceive of the ancient Greeks... 306 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,040 ...having such complicated machinery. 307 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,110 And, in fact, they said, this was tantamount... 308 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,200 ...to finding a jet airplane in the tomb of King Tut. 309 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:37,760 Even older than the Antikythera mechanism... 310 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:39,990 ...are these carvings on a wall... 311 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,400 ...at the Dendera Temple complex in Egypt. 312 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,240 To some, the strange designs look eerily similar... 313 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,680 ...to objects very much in use today. 314 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,840 In Egypt, there is this underground crypt... 315 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,030 ...at Dendera that was always secret, 316 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:01,160 and only the high priests had access to that crypt. 317 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,080 It's very hot in there, very narrow, low ceiling. 318 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,280 And on the walls, you have these reliefs... 319 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:13,040 ...of what looks like ancient light bulbs. 320 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,880 Because we have to question one thing. 321 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,720 How did the ancient Egyptians light the inside of their tombs? 322 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:27,640 According to most mainstream archeologists, 323 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:30,280 torches were used by the ancient Egyptians... 324 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,480 ...to light the pitch-black chambers of tombs and temples. 325 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,870 Yet, nowhere on the ceilings 326 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,240 is there even the slightest evidence of soot or smoke residue. 327 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,990 There isn't enough oxygen inside those tombs... 328 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,280 ...with which to support or feed a flame of a torch. 329 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,670 The only remaining solution is, 330 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,800 by some sort of an artificial light source. 331 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,360 And that is, for example, a light bulb. 332 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,000 So, at the underground crypt at Dendera, 333 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,520 we find reliefs of such light bulbs. 334 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,320 But how could the ancient Egyptians 335 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,400 have used anything resembling a modern-day light bulb... 336 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,280 ...without access to electricity? 337 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,590 After all, electricity wouldn't be discovered... 338 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,040 ...for thousands of years. 339 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,670 That is, of course, with the exception... 340 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,480 ...of what scientists call the Baghdad Battery. 341 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:29,800 The Baghdad Battery was discovered in ancient Iraq. 342 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,670 Scholars today say there's no way that ancient man... 343 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:34,800 ...was using electricity or light bulbs. 344 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,670 So, they look at this Baghdad Battery... 345 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,440 ...and there's about a dozen of them that have been found in Iraq... 346 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,030 ...and the only mainstream theory... 347 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:43,360 ...is that they were using it for electroplating jewelry. 348 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,320 Two major proponents of ancient alien theory, 349 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,480 Jason Martell and Giorgio Tsoukalos, 350 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,360 demonstrate just how the Baghdad Battery... 351 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:54,960 ...could generate electricity, 352 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,680 using a modern mock-up of the device. 353 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,360 Well, basically, this is made out of a clay pot, 354 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,840 clay just found naturally in that region in Southern Iraq. 355 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,720 And then they would use a small copper lining... 356 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,030 ...and something along the lines of an asphalt stopper... 357 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:10,400 ...wrapped around an iron rod. 358 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,440 And these all applied together... 359 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,880 ...and the combination of some weak acidic acid... vinegar, 360 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,920 grape juice, orange juice in this case, wine... 361 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,080 would be able to generate a charge by combining these elements... 362 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,000 ...with the rod, the iron rod and the copper. 363 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,360 And the combination of that creates an abundance of electricity. 364 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,080 So what we're gonna do is, uh, 365 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,190 basically, just fill the clay pot with some orange juice here. 366 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,000 -I'll try not to spill it too much. -Okay. 367 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,030 And then we'll go ahead and put the copper rod back in there. 368 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:37,040 Copper and iron rod. 369 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,080 We'll give it a moment to kind of fill that copper area there. 370 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,000 And then by turning on the volt meter... 371 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,920 ...and applying this to each side, 372 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,120 we should be able to generate a charge. 373 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,320 And there it goes, into the positive. 374 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,600 And if we give it some time to get the electrolytes... 375 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,070 ...really buzzing in there, 376 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,400 you'll see that this volt will actually continue to rise. 377 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,960 It is a battery. Everybody agrees with that. 378 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,360 But nobody knows why they made it and how they made it. 379 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,080 What mind would think of that? 380 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,480 You know, electrical current back several thousand years ago? 381 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,080 It's very strange, but it's clearly a battery. 382 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,430 The whole idea that ancient civilizations... 383 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,550 ...actually had knowledge of electricity... 384 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,880 ...and used electricity is an accepted archeological fact today. 385 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,950 Just like in our own civilization, 386 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,520 where about 200 years ago, 387 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,950 Benjamin Franklin and other scientists began experimenting... 388 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,200 ...with simple electrical devices, 389 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,600 we now have evidence that over 3000 years ago, 390 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,960 people were also experimenting with electrical devices. 391 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,640 Where might it have led them? 392 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,920 What other electrical devices would they have been able to create? 393 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,280 I believe they probably created all kinds of electrical devices. 394 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:01,520 Are the Antikythera device and the Baghdad Battery... 395 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,160 ...evidence that our ancestors really were in possession... 396 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:06,920 ...of advanced technology? 397 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,760 And if so, might this technology have had extraterrestrial origins? 398 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,800 Ancient astronaut theorists believe further clues may be found... 399 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,560 ...in the story of a top secret Nazi project... 400 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:23,280 ...simply known as The Bell. 401 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,760 In a remote valley just outside Ludwikowice, Poland... 402 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,560 ...stands a strange circular structure... 403 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,520 ...known as the Henge, 404 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,000 or Fly Trap. 405 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,750 We are in the middle of a valley, 406 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,880 which was taken over by the SS... 407 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,200 ...and transformed into a secret research, development and industrial facility. 408 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:58,840 It was closely guarded. 409 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:04,040 Inside of this valley, we have three security rings, 410 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,160 closing specific areas from each other. 411 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,080 Inside of the innermost circle 412 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,440 this structure stands, and it's quite mysterious. 413 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,030 Mainstream scholars believe... 414 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,720 ...the structure served as the concrete support base... 415 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,680 ...to a cooling tower used by a coalmine. 416 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,040 But according to Witkowski and others, 417 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,920 the German high command... 418 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,240 ...would not have devoted so many military resources here... 419 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,080 ...if the valley contained only an energy plant. 420 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,040 They say the Henge was used to test a new highly advanced machine... 421 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,240 known as "Die Glocke," or "The Bell." 422 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,750 The Bell, Die Glocke, 423 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,720 was probably one the top secret projects of the Third Reich. 424 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,880 It was so secret that it's even unclear on how much Hitler was told. 425 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,720 There's a great deal of evidence that suggests that, uh, 426 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,550 the scientists, including Hermann Oberth... 427 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,720 ...and Wernher Von Braun and others, 428 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,840 were working on a bell shaped craft... 429 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,840 ...that was electromagnetic in its propulsion system. 430 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,160 Surviving sketches depict The Bell as having a ceramic covering... 431 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,480 ...and dimensions measuring 10 feet high and five feet in diameter. 432 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,520 Its design appears contrary to modern aerodynamic principles. 433 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,841 If you're starting to think about a bell shape for flight, 434 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,320 the... the challenge you're facing, I think, is... 435 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,760 ...making it aerodynamic when you move around side to side... 436 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:45,910 ...and forward and backward. 437 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,920 Because you're presenting a very large cross-sectional area to the air. 438 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,880 And you're gonna generate a lot of drag. 439 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,430 So you might be very good... 440 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,840 if you want just, like, a hovercraft that went up and down. 441 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,120 But once you start moving, I think you're gonna run into trouble. 442 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:02,760 But if The Bell was not a new type of aircraft, 443 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,240 then what was it? 444 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,840 According to some ancient astronaut theorists, 445 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,640 The Bell may have been a time machine. 446 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,830 There is a kind of vortices named solitons, 447 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,230 which are vortices isolated electromagnetically... 448 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,480 ...from the outside world. 449 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,680 Recent research and experiments show... 450 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:27,030 ...that the link between gravity and electromagnetic physics... 451 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:30,520 ...is much stronger than the scientists thought for some time. 452 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,110 The laws of the universe being universal, 453 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,080 if you take the right electromagnetic field... 454 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,680 ...and very high voltage pulse it or phase it in a certain way, 455 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,030 you can get some very strange phenomenon. 456 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,360 You can make things disappear and reappear. 457 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,590 Therefore, it follows to reason that this would be studied... 458 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:55,760 ...and that the Nazi Bell was probably an attempt by that regime... 459 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,560 ...to develop some type of flying machine... 460 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,160 ...that would use these sort of advanced electromagnetic concepts. 461 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,200 But was time travel even a possibility? 462 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,840 According to German-born physicist, Albert Einstein, 463 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,680 humans were theoretically capable of it. 464 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,790 His theory of special relativity actually showed, for the first time, 465 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,040 ...that time can slow down when you go very fast. 466 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,800 And so that has an impact on going into the future. 467 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,880 It allows you to travel really fast somewhere, 468 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,080 and your time goes slower than somebody else 469 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,400 and you end up in the future, 470 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,280 relative to what you thought you were doing. 471 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,470 The harder one to think about is general relativity, 472 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,160 where Einstein talks about gravity and how to describe gravity. 473 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,520 And there, you can start thinking about space-time... 474 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,590 ...and bending it, and, actually, by warping space... 475 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:46,830 ...and time in the right way, 476 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,680 you end up going backwards in time. 477 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,440 While no records exist indicating The Bell was ever used during the war, 478 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,920 as the Allied military forces pushed into Germany, 479 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,720 the entire project and its commander, 480 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,680 SS General Hans Kammler, suddenly disappeared. 481 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:13,630 SS General Hans Kammler, 482 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,680 who was going to defect in exchange for immunity. 483 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,920 But then, by the end of the war, he disappeared. 484 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,640 So where did Hans Kammler go and what did he take? 485 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,400 I think he took The Bell. 486 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,960 Did he create a wormhole? Did he create a Stargate? 487 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,480 And this is what the Nazis were working on. 488 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,800 Did Kammler and the other Nazis... 489 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,320 ...really use The Bell to escape justice by disappearing across time? 490 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,000 Or possibly to another planet? 491 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,120 In the spring of 1945, Germany's war effort collapsed. 492 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,560 And as the Allied armies advanced towards Berlin, 493 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,800 German scientists and engineers abandoned their laboratories. 494 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,280 Hitler's search for a wonder weapon failed. 495 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,550 Instead, it was the Americans who scored... 496 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,680 ...the decisive technological edge... 497 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,200 ...with their development of the atomic bomb. 498 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,120 But according ancient astronaut theorists, 499 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,920 a similar and perhaps even more devastating weapon... 500 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,800 ...had already existed. 501 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,680 Unleashed in an area that is now part of India... 502 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,520 ...more than 3000 years ago. 503 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,080 An unmanned aerial vehicle hurtles across the sky. 504 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,320 It travels at supersonic speeds, 505 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,880 spitting fire, 506 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,160 launching deadly missiles, 507 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,920 programmed to seek and destroy. 508 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,760 The effect is devastating. 509 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,440 High-tech warfare at its most lethal. 510 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,560 But what could be a page stolen from a US military black project... 511 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,480 ...is actually a description written down over 2500 years ago... 512 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,760 ...in the sacred Hindu text known as the Mahabharata. 513 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,840 When it comes to the ancient Indian accounts, 514 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,560 they're really eyewitness testimony of the gods fighting. 515 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:33,080 When you read the ancient Hindu epics, they talk about horrific weapons. 516 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,080 Missiles... 517 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,480 ...and atomic weapons, 518 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,960 ...massive laser weapons that are melting and devastating entire cities. 519 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,270 I refuse to think that our ancestors came up... 520 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,320 ...with these stories out of thin air. 521 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,360 When writing was first invented, they wrote down their history. 522 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,360 The first things that were ever written down... 523 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,640 ...were actual events. 524 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,040 How is it that some of the earliest written accounts of warfare... 525 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,600 ...describe sophisticated weaponry... 526 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,280 ...that humans wouldn't develop for thousands of years? 527 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,720 For the answer, ancient astronaut theorists... 528 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,550 ...point to numerous descriptions of deadly weapons... 529 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,480 ...found throughout the Mahabharata. 530 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,800 Many strikingly similar to those used by the military today. 531 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,320 One example are the incendiary weapons... 532 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,720 ...wielded by Vishnu, 533 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,840 which are specially equipped to find their targets. 534 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,000 Vishnu has a flying, guided missile, the Narayanastra. 535 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:52,000 And once it is launched, it will destroy everything that is moving. 536 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,600 So, you know, according to the description, 537 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,640 it is a motion detecting weapon, 538 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,840 which is pretty much like our modern weaponry. 539 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,720 There is also a weapon that is heat-seeking. 540 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,040 Heat-seeking is a very effective way of finding something. 541 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,470 You would fire a missile from behind one aircraft... 542 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,080 ...at an aircraft in front of you, 543 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,480 specifically targeted against the hot engine. 544 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,400 And then you were able to move off from behind the airplane, 545 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,880 and the heat-seeker would still be able to find the target. 546 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,880 I am aware that there are forces of nature. 547 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,400 You've got thunder, lightning, earthquakes. 548 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,360 But how would you go from witnessing that... 549 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,760 ...to a description of heat-seeking missiles? 550 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,160 In addition to guided missiles, 551 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,200 the Mahabharata is filled with accounts... 552 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,560 ...of other sophisticated weapons wielded by the gods. 553 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,400 In the Mahabharata, 554 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,200 forty six different kind of weapons are described. 555 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,480 And each one has a specific function. 556 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,040 The Pashupatastra is a weapon... 557 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,800 ...that actually multiplies into seven different arrows. 558 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,920 So then it hits seven different targets at the same time. 559 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,120 Salva is an anti-god. 560 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,440 He can make his vehicle disappear. 561 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,200 So we're talking about a flying object that is stealth. 562 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,520 He also can put people into sleep. 563 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,240 So we're perhaps talking about nerve gas. 564 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,120 They talk about weapons that are so high-tech, 565 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,600 that it's... Could only be from extraterrestrials. 566 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,400 But of all the weapons described in the Mahabharata, 567 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,520 perhaps the most deadly was a device called the Brahmastra. 568 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,160 A weapon that the texts warned was never to be used. 569 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,400 Brahmastra is described as the ultimate weapon. 570 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,480 Once it is launched, it will simply burn everything. 571 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,200 So it will incinerate the entire universe. 572 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,910 We're talking about a nuclear blast... 573 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,830 ...a hundredfold magnitude of the bomb that we have seen... 574 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,600 ...or experienced in our own times. 575 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,440 Should never be used. 576 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,360 And... and yet, someone was going to make use of that Brahmastra. 577 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,520 So that's the dilemma... 578 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,680 ...that the books talks about in the Mahabharata. 579 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,760 India now has a rocket program, 580 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,720 and one of their rockets is called Shakti. 581 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,480 Shakti means goddess energy. 582 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,440 This is also another divine weapon. 583 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,640 Indians are now sort of going back to their text or rather mythology... 584 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,760 ...and they're reliving it by their modern technology. 585 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,350 Is it possible that alien beings visiting the earth... 586 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:54,880 ...thousands of years ago... 587 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,160 ...dealt with the same issues of nuclear annihilation... 588 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,640 ...that humans are dealing with today? 589 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,360 And might the deadly weapons currently being deployed by the world's military... 590 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,440 ...really be recreations of weapons first used on earth... 591 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,320 ...by extraterrestrials in the ancient past? 592 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:15,880 Perhaps. 593 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:21,120 But then it should also be possible to predict mankind's military future... 594 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,640 ...by searching through still more ancient texts. 595 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,640 May, 2010. 596 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,600 Off the coast of California. 597 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,720 A powerful new weapon shoots down unmanned aerial drones... 598 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,880 ...during secret testing carried out by the US Navy. 599 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,240 Firing from a warship at a distance of nearly two miles, 600 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,040 a ray of intense laser energy... 601 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,960 ...burns through targets traveling at speeds of more than 300 miles per hour. 602 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,000 But is it possible that such so-called death rays 603 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,760 could have been used before? 604 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,800 Perhaps in ancient times? 605 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,640 I'm quite convinced that there have been, in... in the past, 606 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,830 ...advanced civilizations on Earth that did have such things... 607 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,400 ...as the so-called death ray. 608 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,550 Whether it was used as a weapon... 609 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,830 ...or whether it was just observed being used... 610 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,000 ...is a very, very open question. 611 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,080 In 214 BC, 612 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,600 Greeks living in the Sicilian city of Syracuse... 613 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,280 ...prepared for an attack by a fleet of Roman warships. 614 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,000 Though outnumbered by a superior military force, 615 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,360 ancient texts suggest that Syracuse... 616 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,160 ...was well-defended by a mysterious and powerful new weapon. 617 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,360 Probably the most famous ancient death ray... 618 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:54,680 ...was the one that was built by the Greek inventor Archimedes. 619 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,160 He was able to create this giant mirror... 620 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:04,240 ...and parabolic disc and focus the sun's rays on the fleet... 621 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,400 ...and set these ships on fire. 622 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,680 So here we have what would be a primitive kind of death ray that really worked. 623 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,000 But how could Archimedes have conceived... 624 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,640 ...such a formidable weapon? 625 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,120 One far in advance of any known at the time? 626 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:30,160 Researchers suggest the inventor may have drawn inspiration... 627 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,800 ...from Greek myths written nearly 600 years before the battle of Syracuse. 628 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,480 Myths that told the stories of gods... 629 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,520 ...that brandished cosmic weapons of incredible destructive force. 630 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,030 If you look in the Greek tradition, 631 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,280 they have a very clear description of Zeus' thunderbolt, 632 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,670 which he was able to point at people... 633 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,560 or at other things that he wanted to explode, 634 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,550 hit the button, and what they described as lightning would come out... 635 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,560 ...and create a fierce and terrible explosion. 636 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,120 But if death ray type weapons had been used in ancient times, 637 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,960 might there be some sort of tangible proof? 638 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,360 Perhaps there is. 639 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,680 Here, scattered throughout the Scottish countryside, 640 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,240 can be found numerous ancient ruins. 641 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,000 Many appear to have been forts or other enclosures, 642 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,160 dating back thousands of years. 643 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,560 Remarkably, they also appear to have been subjected to fire and heat... 644 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,480 ...so intense it practically turned the stone structures into glass. 645 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,040 It's a process more scientifically known as vitrification. 646 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:50,440 Here you have these stone buildings in which an analysis of the outside... 647 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:54,230 ...comes to the conclusion that they were heated... 648 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,280 ...to over 1000 degrees Celsius in temperature. 649 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,320 Conventional fire could not have reached this heat. 650 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:03,910 You needed a sustained burn at 1000 degrees Celsius... 651 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,200 ...for a long period of time. 652 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,360 According to Celtic legend, 653 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,640 there once was a god named Lugh, 654 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:15,960 also known as the Shining One, 655 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,960 the Sun God, and the God of War. 656 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,480 Like the Greek god, Zeus, 657 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,400 Lugh was said to wield a mighty magic spear... 658 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,680 ...not unlike the thunderbolts of his Greek counterpart. 659 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,480 When battle was near, 660 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,160 Lugh would draw out his spear, 661 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:40,560 and it roared and then flashes of fire came out of it 662 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,400 and it tore through the ranks of the enemy, 663 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,800 never tired of killing and slaying. 664 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,080 It was one amazing weapon. 665 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:59,160 I mean, how else can we explain all those numerous vitrified forts... 666 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:04,120 ...where the surface of the stone is as smooth as glass? 667 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,600 And these spots can only be found... 668 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,240 ...in very concentrated areas through Northern Scotland. 669 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,280 All these descriptions of sophisticated weaponry... 670 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,560 ...sounds almost like science fiction. 671 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:20,920 But is it really? 672 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,360 Because we have those weapons today. 673 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,240 And I think that all the stuff that we have today... 674 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:31,680 ...has been around before... 675 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:36,200 ...and that our past is not science fiction but science fact. 676 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,600 Deadly laser beams. 677 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,520 Acoustic weapons. 678 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,600 Time machines. 679 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,520 Were these mysterious devices... 680 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,080 ...really in the possession of our ancestors... 681 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:53,880 ...thousands of years ago? 682 00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:00,400 And if so, could they have been built with the help of extraterrestrial beings? 683 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,000 Perhaps as our own technology continues to advance, 684 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,680 we will come closer, not only to our future, 685 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,640 but to a rediscovery of our past... 686 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,840 ...and a reconnection with our alien ancestors.