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Gobekli Tepe is the smoking gun

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of a lost civilization
because it confirms that,

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at the time of the last ice age,

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there was high culture existing
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Gobekli Tepe's an
incredibly sophisticated site.

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There's a very important message

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they were purposefully
sending to us.

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We're actually seeing

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architecture
in the Cygnus star system,

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just like what they paid homage
to at Gobekli Tepe.

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Only five percent

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of Gobekli Tepe
has been unearthed so far.

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So, what other surprises
will we find there?

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We need to know
about our origins.

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We need to know our destiny.

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And all of it lies under
the surface of Gobekli Tepe.

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Sanliurfa, Turkey.

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October 1994.

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While plowing his field,

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shepherd Savak Yildiz
spots a strangely shaped stone

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protruding from the ground.

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After brushing away the dirt,

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he realizes that it may be
part of a much larger object.

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Shortly after contacting
the local museum with his find,

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he is visited by Klaus Schmidt

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from the German
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It wasn't until German
archaeologist Klaus Schmidt

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visited the site
and began digging,

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they realized what was
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What he discovered
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After discovering
the first T-shaped pillar

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buried at the site,

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he soon found more
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During the intensive dig,

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Schmidt and his team

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begin to unearth dozens of
additional giant stone monoliths

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covered in intricate carvings,

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some weighing
as much as 20 tons.

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The site of Gobekli Tepe

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is a series
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But then, in the center
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you have two particularly big
T-shaped pillars of limestone

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sort of facing each other.

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Now, many of these pillars have
remarkable carvings on them,

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wonderful carvings
and bas-reliefs of animals,

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birds, insects,
all kinds of things.

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So, to fashion those
and carve them and set them up

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in these structures
was just absolutely amazing.

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Archaeologists estimate

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that it would have taken
a team of 50 men

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an entire week to move just one

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of the monolithic pillars
from the limestone quarry

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to the top of the hill
where they stand today

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and over 300 hours
to carve the bas-reliefs.

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At this rate, each of the five
stone circles unearthed so far

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would have required a full year
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But why such a monumental site
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remains a mystery.

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It's very difficult to know
what the purpose of something

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like Gobekli Tepe could be.

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And certainly Klaus Schmidt
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except that it's clearly not
a settlement.

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It's not a village. There is
absolutely no domestic refuse.

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Schmidt always hoped
that it was funerary

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and that there would be burials
underneath the walls

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or underneath some of
the pillars or so on.

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But so far,
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any human remains at the site.

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There are no domestic plants
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There are only
wild animal bones.

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Inevitably, in archaeology,
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what something is for,
we think a ritual.

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But, really,
it's pure speculation.

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Intrigued by evidence
that the structure might go back

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to a Neolithic period,

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Klaus Schmidt has
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radiocarbon-dated.

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The results indicated

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that the stone structures could
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more than 5,000 years older

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than mankind's first known
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More than that,

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it would place the construction
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to a time
when mainstream scholars suggest

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humans were roaming the Earth
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Well, the site of Gobekli Tepe

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really did send shockwaves
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of early prehistory,
because we'd never before known

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or imagined even
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could produce such spectacular
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Now, in archaeology,
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we've always assumed that
hunter-gatherers were capable

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of producing wonderful
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Rock art, cave art,
and things like that.

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But we never imagined
that they could come together

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in sufficient numbers,
uh, to make, uh,

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monumental constructions
like Gobekli Tepe.

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But if
the currently accepted timeline

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for mankind's advancement
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is it possible that
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could have built

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such sophisticated
megalithic structures?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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and instead suggest

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that Gobekli Tepe was built by
the survivors of a lost society,

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one that was
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by a worldwide cataclysm.

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they point to recent evidence
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which many mainstream scientists
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at the very end
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which is believed to have lasted

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from roughly 108,000 BC
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Gobekli Tepe
could be the smoking gun

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of a lost civilization,

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because it confirms that,
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there was high culture
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This is something that had been
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but there had not been
the absolute evidence.

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Now we could have it.

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These engineering skills,
this ordering of society

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is something
that must have existed

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before the end
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And arguably even earlier.

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According to
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proof of
a lost civilization exists

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some 300 miles away
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in the form of
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known as Derinkuyu.

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It extends
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and had the capacity
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Although the site has yet
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some researchers have suggested

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that it may have served
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Derinkuyu is a multileveled city

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that has existed, uh,
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It was certainly used, uh,
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But there's also evidence that
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going on at these places.

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Archaeologists found evidence
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going back
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This is at the time
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And so it's possible
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the cataclysm and the ice age
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But if Derinkuyu
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from a catastrophic event,

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how might it offer a connection
to Gobekli Tepe?

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Perhaps further clues
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by exploring
more recently discovered caves

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and the stories suggesting that
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of otherworldly beings.

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Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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300 miles from the ancient site
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December 28, 2014.

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A local crew excavating
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stumbles across a strange series
of carved rooms and tunnels

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deep underground.

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Upon further exploration,

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they find the subterranean
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and extends hundreds of feet
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much like the nearby caves
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What they discovered
was that these caves extended

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for a distance of 370 feet
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Archaeologists estimate

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that more than five million
square feet of rock,

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the volume of over 370
Olympic-size swimming pools,

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was removed to carve out
this subterranean city.

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Yet there is no evidence of the
extracted material in the area.

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This mysterious cave system
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and closed to the public.

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But in June 2017,

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author and researcher
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was granted access to the site.

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The sheer size of some of these
rooms is absolutely amazing.

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I mean, this one that we're in
now is 120 feet in length.

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And yet it's just one of
hundreds of similar rooms

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that we find inside
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These tunnels that you see
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And yet what's incredible

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is that not only were
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but there was also livestock
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And we are told that
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perhaps even as much as 60,000,

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could've lived here
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Not only is there evidence

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that these caves once housed
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but archaeologists have found
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that would have made it possible
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for years at a time.

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These were cut deeply
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sometimes for hundreds
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And at the base of them
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that provided water to these
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When it was discovered,

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historians recovered artifacts

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that suggest
the cave system was used

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by the early Christians
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So they dated the site to be
approximately 1,500 years old.

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But based on new evidence,
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I interviewed an archaeologist
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And he found within it
Paleolithic tools,

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tools that went back
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and arguably even earlier still.

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If these caves can be dated

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to at least 12,000 years ago...

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Around the same time
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the nearby site of Gobekli Tepe
was constructed...

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Just who built them?

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And what drove the builders
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest clues can be found

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not embedded in stone,

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but in the pages of
ancient Persian religious texts.

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Zoroastrianism
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oldest monotheistic religions,
founded by the prophet Zoroaster

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in ancient Iran
approximately 3,500 years ago.

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The central figure
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was a powerful god
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who is often depicted
seated inside a winged disk.

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According to the story,

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recorded in a text
known as the Vendidad,

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he sent a powerful warning
to a young priest named Yima

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about a coming cataclysm.

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Ahura Mazda told
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that there would be
a terrible disaster.

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A giant serpent would descend
from the heavens to the Earth.

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Well, that sounds like a comet

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or a large meteorite
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Then a winter would come
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Prior to the event,

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Yima is given
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to build an underground shelter

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in order to survive
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Ahura Mazda instructs Yima
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This is a huge structure,
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an underground hall of sorts

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where things can be protected
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Yima was to hide
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and an extensive seed bank,

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also a pair of each
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he takes 2,000 people in,
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They are there for 150 years,

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but when the winter is over
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it is a barren world.

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They will have to rebuild
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The Vara is
supposed to be a huge enclosure

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that not only houses
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but also animals and seeds.

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It's a storehouse
just like Noah's Ark.

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So you've got this same story,

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and it would seem
that this is a very real thing

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that ancient people
knew about and wrote about.

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Could it be
that the story of Noah's Ark

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and the Vara of Zoastrianism
are one in the same?

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And the reference to an ark

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was later misunderstood
to be a large ship?

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But if these accounts
are in fact true,

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how is it that mankind
had enough advance warning

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to build such sophisticated
places of refuge?

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The ancient texts are very clear
that the gods,

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they always warned people

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that this catastrophe would
happen so that they would save

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a select group
of that population.

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So how was that possible?

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Either they had access to
sophisticated technologies

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with which to predict
the weather,

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or what's the other option?

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And if you combine that with the
fact that Ahura Mazda was known

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to have descended from the sky
in a vehicle with fixed wings...

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It looks like some type
of flying device...

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That would suggest

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that he was in fact
an extraterrestrial.

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According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

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the Vara described
in the ancient Zoroastrian texts

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is strikingly similar
to the recently discovered

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subterranean town
in Central Anatolia.

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The underground caves in Turkey

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sound exactly like the Vara

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that was made by Yima
in Zoroastrian mythology.

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Is it possible
that this cave system

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supplies the evidence
that tells us

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that the Zoroastrian mythology
is in fact a real, true story?

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If these caves provide evidence

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that the account recorded

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in the ancient Zoroastrian texts
is factual,

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did the inhabitants
of the Vara emerge

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to find a barren wasteland

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where they were
to rebuild civilization?

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Might they be responsible

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for the construction
of Gobekli Tepe,

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located only 300 miles away?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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and suggest
that this very connection

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could help explain some of the
mysterious figures immortalized

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in the stone carvings.

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Gobekli Tepe, 2017.

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To date,
69 massive stone pillars

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have been unearthed
at the ancient site,

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after more than two decades
of excavation.

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More than one-third
of the statues

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contain elaborate carvings
of animals,

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including various mammals,

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reptiles, insects and birds.

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But also included

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are depictions of species
not indigenous to the area,

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like geese, armadillos
and wild boar.

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There are such an incredible
range of animals and birds

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and insects depicted
at Gobekli Tepe,

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the like of which
we have never seen

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at that period or anywhere else
in the world.

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And to have a whole bunch of
them together is interesting.

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You can speculate
till the cows come home

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as to what it might represent.

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We have not the faintest idea.

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In the story of Noah's Ark,

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we're told that
after the deluge,

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Noah's Ark lands at Mount Ararat
in eastern Turkey,

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not far from Gobekli Tepe,

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and we see some very strange
animals portrayed

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on the pillars at Gobekli Tepe,

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almost as if it's a record
of Noah's Ark itself.

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Perhaps Gobekli Tepe
is the place where Noah

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and his descendants disembarked

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and recreated civilization
after the flood.

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If there really is a
connection between Gobekli Tepe

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and the biblical story
of a Great Flood,

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could the carvings
found at the site

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be an inventory of the animals
that were rescued?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, but also suggest

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other carvings depict a species
not of this Earth.

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At the center of each of the
five megalithic ring structures

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that occupy
the archaeological site,

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stand two oversized
monolithic pillars.

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Weighing up to 20 tons

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and reaching heights
of over two stories,

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they visually stand apart
from the T-shaped stonework

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that surrounds them.

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These pillars are
anthropomorphic;

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they are humanlike
in appearance.

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They have low relief arms
that come round to the front

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and end in these
long, spindly fingers.

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They wear garments.

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They have belts
with strange symbols.

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There are no faces
on these stones.

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The heads are represented
by T-shaped terminations

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that look almost like
hammerheads, basically.

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They could be gods,
they could be ancestors,

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or they could be very specific
people who are being venerated.

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We really have no idea.

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The archaeologist
Schmidt himself

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referred to them
as the "celestial ones,"

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or the "celestial ancestors."

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And we have to ask
if these are depictions

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of the extraterrestrial gods
at Gobekli Tepe.

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As mysterious
as these statues are,

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strikingly similar depictions
can be found

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in other parts of the globe.

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An interesting feature about
some of these T-shaped pillars

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is the fact
that these arms culminate

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in the front
around the navel area.

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And what I find so cool
is that this type of motif

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can be found elsewhere
around the world.

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For example, in Easter Island,

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with those giant statues,
the Moai.

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There, too,
the arms go around the belly,

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and they culminate
in front of the navel.

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And then, at Tiahuanaco,
Bolivia, for example,

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there is a statue that has
the exact same hand position

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in front of the navel.

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At the city of Tiahuanaco,

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in its central complex
called the Kalasasaya,

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is a massive monolithic statue.

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The statue is said by the Inca
to be a giant.

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In the previous creation
before men,

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giants roamed the Earth.

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And they inhabited
the city of Tiahuanaco.

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And this is actually
very similar to the mythology

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of Easter Island and the stories
we hear about the Moai.

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We get very similar type
of carved pillars

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as Gobekli Tepe
in other parts of the world.

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There is a very strong
similarity in style

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which tells us

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that there is almost certainly
some kind of relationship,

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that Gobekli Tepe
is not in isolation,

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it's part of some kind
of global culture,

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the remnants
of a lost civilization

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that once existed
in the prehistoric world.

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Could the figures
found at Gobekli Tepe

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and in other parts of the globe
be a record

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carved in stone
of an ancient alien race

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that existed
prior to a catastrophic event?

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If so, might the sites

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where these extraterrestrials
are immortalized

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be the places
where human survivors emerged

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after the event known
as the Great Flood?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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00:23:47,486 --> 00:23:51,447
and suggest that more recent
discoveries at the site

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00:23:51,448 --> 00:23:56,120
provide additional proof
of this otherworldly connection.

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Sanliurfa, Turkey.

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June 2017.

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00:24:24,658 --> 00:24:27,076
Author and researcher
Andrew Collins

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00:24:27,077 --> 00:24:31,247
travels to the Sanliurfa
Archaeology and Mosaic Museum,

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00:24:31,248 --> 00:24:33,958
just ten miles
from Gobekli Tepe,

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to meet with curator
Taha Ozyavuz.

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Taha, I presume.
Nice to meet you.

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He is there
to get an up-close look

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at one of the most mysterious
stone structures

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00:24:44,177 --> 00:24:47,096
unearthed at the ancient site.

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00:24:47,097 --> 00:24:50,308
I think this is
what we've come to see here.

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Right.

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And the fact that we have

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00:25:49,826 --> 00:25:53,495
three different figures here,
each of different sizes,

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what do you think
that represents?

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00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,933
Why do you think that
it was damaged or destroyed

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00:26:13,934 --> 00:26:16,311
in this way in antiquity?

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00:26:23,401 --> 00:26:25,444
So somebody came along

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00:26:25,445 --> 00:26:27,614
and deliberately destroyed it.

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00:26:32,869 --> 00:26:36,080
If the stone column
found at Gobekli Tepe

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00:26:36,081 --> 00:26:38,791
represents a genetic lineage,

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00:26:38,792 --> 00:26:43,796
just why were two of the figures
deliberately defaced?

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00:26:43,797 --> 00:26:47,967
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that perhaps it was

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00:26:47,968 --> 00:26:50,135
an attempt to obscure the truth

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00:26:50,136 --> 00:26:53,848
about humankind's
otherworldly origins.

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00:26:56,267 --> 00:26:58,894
What's curious
about this totem pole

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00:26:58,895 --> 00:27:02,773
is that there is
essentially a larger being,

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00:27:02,774 --> 00:27:04,775
perhaps an extraterrestrial,

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00:27:04,776 --> 00:27:07,319
that has its hands
around this other being

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00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,988
that isn't exactly human

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00:27:08,989 --> 00:27:11,490
but has human-like
characteristics.

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00:27:11,491 --> 00:27:15,077
It could be a primitive human.

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00:27:15,078 --> 00:27:18,622
This figure appears
to be giving birth,

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00:27:18,623 --> 00:27:21,291
and the baby that is emerging
from this mother's womb

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00:27:21,292 --> 00:27:24,128
is clearly a human baby
with a human face.

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00:27:24,129 --> 00:27:28,590
This suggests possibly that
a breeding experiment took place

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00:27:28,591 --> 00:27:30,843
leading to the development
of modern humans

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00:27:30,844 --> 00:27:32,804
as we now know them.

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00:27:34,305 --> 00:27:36,807
The interesting thing
about this is that totem poles

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00:27:36,808 --> 00:27:39,309
are like a repository
for information.

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00:27:39,310 --> 00:27:42,312
It's an encyclopedia;
it's like a time capsule.

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00:27:42,313 --> 00:27:44,523
And so if we have
a genealogical record

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00:27:44,524 --> 00:27:46,817
in this pillar at Gobekli Tepe,

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00:27:46,818 --> 00:27:49,069
and we follow
the ultimate extension of it,

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00:27:49,070 --> 00:27:51,405
and we realize that what
they're possibly telling us

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00:27:51,406 --> 00:27:54,992
is that their ancestors
were non-human.

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00:27:54,993 --> 00:27:57,036
So you have to wonder

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00:27:57,037 --> 00:28:00,205
if the whole idea was
to preserve information

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00:28:00,206 --> 00:28:02,624
from our extraterrestrial past

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00:28:02,625 --> 00:28:06,879
so that future generations
would ultimately decode

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00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,173
the information that's there,

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00:28:09,174 --> 00:28:14,012
information possibly about
our extraterrestrial creators.

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00:28:15,764 --> 00:28:17,765
Many ancient cultures

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00:28:17,766 --> 00:28:21,226
have stories of the gods
interacting with early humans

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00:28:21,227 --> 00:28:24,563
and even breeding with them.

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00:28:24,564 --> 00:28:26,690
According to The Book of Enoch,

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an ancient text
that was stricken

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00:28:28,818 --> 00:28:32,571
from the Bible's Old Testament
in the 4th century AD,

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00:28:32,572 --> 00:28:36,200
there was a large-statured group
of heavenly beings

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00:28:36,201 --> 00:28:40,579
that descended to Earth
in the remote past.

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There were
those called the "watchers."

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00:28:44,542 --> 00:28:48,962
They were to watch humanity,
not get involved.

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00:28:48,963 --> 00:28:50,714
But they violated
that principle.

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00:28:50,715 --> 00:28:53,217
They came down to Earth.

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00:28:53,218 --> 00:28:57,721
And they introduced
science and technology.

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00:28:57,722 --> 00:29:02,184
And they mingled with,
breeded with,

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00:29:02,185 --> 00:29:08,440
married human females
and sired children.

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00:29:08,441 --> 00:29:10,234
Their children,

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00:29:10,235 --> 00:29:12,694
they were known
as the "fallen ones,"

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00:29:12,695 --> 00:29:15,030
the Nephilim.

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00:29:15,031 --> 00:29:18,450
They clearly
would have been recognized today

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00:29:18,451 --> 00:29:20,786
as human beings.

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00:29:20,787 --> 00:29:23,413
The only difference was that
they might have been considered

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physically of greater stature.

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00:29:25,792 --> 00:29:29,253
Some claim that they were
ten, 15 feet high.

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00:29:29,254 --> 00:29:31,296
And this was considered
a corruption,

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00:29:31,297 --> 00:29:34,091
according to divine law.

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00:29:34,092 --> 00:29:38,971
And it is taught that it is
because of this corruption

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00:29:38,972 --> 00:29:43,433
that God intervened
to remove them from the Earth,

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00:29:43,434 --> 00:29:45,895
and that's
what brought the flood.

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00:29:48,106 --> 00:29:49,982
In the Bible,

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00:29:49,983 --> 00:29:52,901
you read that some
of the fallen angels

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00:29:52,902 --> 00:29:55,112
came down on this planet.

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00:29:55,113 --> 00:29:58,365
These angels had, simply,
sex with humans,

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00:29:58,366 --> 00:30:01,910
definitely, because the outcome
of it were giants.

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00:30:01,911 --> 00:30:04,496
So what kind of angels
are these?

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00:30:04,497 --> 00:30:06,582
Spiritual beings?

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00:30:06,583 --> 00:30:09,127
No, it was
the extraterrestrials.

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00:30:11,671 --> 00:30:14,256
Did the builders of Gobekli Tepe

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00:30:14,257 --> 00:30:16,842
attempt to preserve
important information

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00:30:16,843 --> 00:30:21,097
about what happened here
on Earth over 12,000 years ago?

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00:30:22,974 --> 00:30:24,683
And does this include a record

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00:30:24,684 --> 00:30:29,605
of the creation of mankind
by extraterrestrial beings?

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00:30:29,606 --> 00:30:33,901
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest an even greater mystery

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00:30:33,902 --> 00:30:38,739
can be found by examining the
remaining structures at the site

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00:30:38,740 --> 00:30:41,951
that point us to the stars.

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00:31:00,946 --> 00:31:04,283
Gobekli Tepe, 2003.

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00:31:05,701 --> 00:31:08,369
While using geomagnetic surveys,

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00:31:08,370 --> 00:31:12,040
archaeologists discover
that the five stone circles

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00:31:12,041 --> 00:31:13,917
unearthed at the site

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00:31:13,918 --> 00:31:17,713
only scratch the surface
of what lies buried below.

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00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,800
Not only do the enclosures
appear to have been built

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00:31:22,801 --> 00:31:26,054
in different layers,
one on top of the other,

503
00:31:26,055 --> 00:31:29,974
but there is evidence
of 16 more identical stone rings

504
00:31:29,975 --> 00:31:33,311
buried at deeper levels
in the mound.

505
00:31:33,312 --> 00:31:34,979
One of the most
interesting things

506
00:31:34,980 --> 00:31:37,899
about Gobekli Tepe is the fact
that not only did they

507
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:40,401
construct one of the most
amazing temples on the Earth

508
00:31:40,402 --> 00:31:43,279
at a time when it shouldn't
have been possible to do it,

509
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,823
they then buried each enclosure

510
00:31:45,824 --> 00:31:49,744
after probably just
a few hundred years of use.

511
00:31:49,745 --> 00:31:53,456
20 different enclosures
were built.

512
00:31:53,457 --> 00:31:55,291
And each one,

513
00:31:55,292 --> 00:31:57,961
seemingly at the end
of its useful life,

514
00:31:57,962 --> 00:32:02,924
was completely covered over
with rubble and soil

515
00:32:02,925 --> 00:32:07,428
before the next enclosure
was built.

516
00:32:07,429 --> 00:32:10,223
They spent as much time
and energy

517
00:32:10,224 --> 00:32:12,642
covering it over in the end

518
00:32:12,643 --> 00:32:15,604
as they did
building it to begin with.

519
00:32:20,276 --> 00:32:23,945
In 2014, author Andrew Collins

520
00:32:23,946 --> 00:32:25,863
published his
groundbreaking book

521
00:32:25,864 --> 00:32:29,784
<i>Gobekli Tepe:
Genesis of the Gods.</i>

522
00:32:29,785 --> 00:32:32,662
In it, he proposes
that the reason

523
00:32:32,663 --> 00:32:35,748
for the multiple reconstructions
of the enclosures

524
00:32:35,749 --> 00:32:39,628
was to precisely track
a specific celestial location.

525
00:32:41,964 --> 00:32:44,299
The first thing
that we looked at

526
00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:48,803
was Enclosure D,
which is the oldest

527
00:32:48,804 --> 00:32:51,514
and the most impressive
of all the structures,

528
00:32:51,515 --> 00:32:54,559
to see where exactly

529
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,769
these twin pillars
may have been facing

530
00:32:56,770 --> 00:33:00,231
11,500 years ago.

531
00:33:00,232 --> 00:33:04,569
One star came up,
and this was Deneb,

532
00:33:04,570 --> 00:33:08,324
the brightest star
in the constellation of Cygnus.

533
00:33:12,328 --> 00:33:15,079
So we then looked
at the twin pillars

534
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,166
in the other enclosures
at Gobekli Tepe.

535
00:33:18,167 --> 00:33:21,461
We find that,
although they're all aligned

536
00:33:21,462 --> 00:33:26,341
roughly either north-northwest
or south-southeast,

537
00:33:26,342 --> 00:33:28,760
that there are
slight differences.

538
00:33:28,761 --> 00:33:34,599
And what they appear to be doing
is following the same star

539
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,480
as it moves very gradually
along the local horizon.

540
00:33:40,481 --> 00:33:43,691
The stone circles
are lined according to stars

541
00:33:43,692 --> 00:33:45,068
that they were looking at.

542
00:33:45,069 --> 00:33:47,278
But because of precession...

543
00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:51,240
The slow change in the stars
over time in the sky...

544
00:33:51,241 --> 00:33:55,036
They had to realign them
periodically.

545
00:33:55,037 --> 00:33:57,080
Precession occurs
due to the fact

546
00:33:57,081 --> 00:34:00,917
that the Earth's axis rotates
much like a spinning top,

547
00:34:00,918 --> 00:34:03,920
changing the point
of observation over time

548
00:34:03,921 --> 00:34:06,089
for various celestial bodies

549
00:34:06,090 --> 00:34:08,384
from any fixed point
on the planet.

550
00:34:12,388 --> 00:34:15,848
With the stone circles
at Gobekli Tepe,

551
00:34:15,849 --> 00:34:18,101
they weren't just building them
and covering them over

552
00:34:18,102 --> 00:34:20,228
for ritualistic purposes,

553
00:34:20,229 --> 00:34:22,397
but actually
they were doing this

554
00:34:22,398 --> 00:34:25,775
for what we might call
scientific purposes.

555
00:34:26,685 --> 00:34:29,478
Legends of gods
descending from the stars

556
00:34:29,479 --> 00:34:32,064
in the Cygnus constellation
can be found

557
00:34:32,065 --> 00:34:35,985
in traditions across the globe.

558
00:34:35,986 --> 00:34:39,530
In the Mandaean teachings
of ancient Persia,

559
00:34:39,531 --> 00:34:43,409
the throne room of the great god
Abathur-Muzania

560
00:34:43,410 --> 00:34:48,372
was said to be
the Cygnus constellation.

561
00:34:48,373 --> 00:34:52,209
In the Egyptian tradition,
the goddess of the night sky,

562
00:34:52,210 --> 00:34:56,171
Nuit, was said to have come
directly from Cygnus.

563
00:34:56,172 --> 00:34:58,882
And in the Mayan tradition,

564
00:34:58,883 --> 00:35:01,510
it was said that
the sun god, Kinich Ahau,

565
00:35:01,511 --> 00:35:04,013
descended from there.

566
00:35:04,014 --> 00:35:07,516
So, from traditions
as different as the Persian,

567
00:35:07,517 --> 00:35:10,269
the Egyptian and the Mayan,

568
00:35:10,270 --> 00:35:12,563
we have major deities

569
00:35:12,564 --> 00:35:15,358
coming from
the Cygnus constellation.

570
00:35:17,027 --> 00:35:19,361
If I were to be a visitor

571
00:35:19,362 --> 00:35:22,865
from another planet
and I wanted to leave behind

572
00:35:22,866 --> 00:35:27,536
a calling card
indicating where I came from,

573
00:35:27,537 --> 00:35:30,330
then I would build structures

574
00:35:30,331 --> 00:35:33,584
with the precise alignment
of a constellation

575
00:35:33,585 --> 00:35:36,378
of my home star system.

576
00:35:36,379 --> 00:35:40,215
So, perhaps the teachers
who were at Gobekli Tepe

577
00:35:40,216 --> 00:35:42,302
came from Cygnus.

578
00:35:44,262 --> 00:35:47,222
Is it possible that
the builders of Gobekli Tepe

579
00:35:47,223 --> 00:35:48,932
were pointing to the place

580
00:35:48,933 --> 00:35:51,852
where their extraterrestrial
teachers came from

581
00:35:51,853 --> 00:35:54,730
by aligning the site
to that specific location

582
00:35:54,731 --> 00:35:57,566
in the night sky?

583
00:35:57,567 --> 00:36:00,235
In 2015,

584
00:36:00,236 --> 00:36:03,572
NASA officials announced
a curious phenomenon

585
00:36:03,573 --> 00:36:06,825
picked up
by the Kepler space telescope.

586
00:36:06,826 --> 00:36:08,827
It was reported
that a mysterious

587
00:36:08,828 --> 00:36:10,871
dimming and flickering

588
00:36:10,872 --> 00:36:14,501
was coming from a star
in the Cygnus constellation.

589
00:36:17,879 --> 00:36:21,006
And some scientists claim
this might be caused

590
00:36:21,007 --> 00:36:24,260
by an alien megastructure
passing in front of it.

591
00:36:25,929 --> 00:36:28,680
NASA announced that they were
tracking what they called

592
00:36:28,681 --> 00:36:33,018
an "alien megastructure"
around the star of Cygnus.

593
00:36:33,019 --> 00:36:36,313
And the speculation was that,

594
00:36:36,314 --> 00:36:40,192
as they were viewing Cygnus
from time to time,

595
00:36:40,193 --> 00:36:44,154
the star would dim by 22%.

596
00:36:44,155 --> 00:36:47,991
And what they were
surmising was that

597
00:36:47,992 --> 00:36:51,954
some giant structure
around the star

598
00:36:51,955 --> 00:36:56,292
was occasionally blocking
our view of the star itself.

599
00:36:59,003 --> 00:37:00,796
This is
the most dramatic evidence

600
00:37:00,797 --> 00:37:02,673
of a potential extraterrestrial
civilization

601
00:37:02,674 --> 00:37:07,427
that we have ever seen,
because it's actually an object

602
00:37:07,428 --> 00:37:10,472
orbiting a star that
absolutely should not be there,

603
00:37:10,473 --> 00:37:13,267
according to NASA.

604
00:37:13,268 --> 00:37:16,478
We're actually
seeing architecture

605
00:37:16,479 --> 00:37:18,564
in the Cygnus star system.

606
00:37:18,565 --> 00:37:21,817
It could be what they paid
homage to at Gobekli Tepe,

607
00:37:21,818 --> 00:37:24,695
telling us,
"Look over here, guys.

608
00:37:24,696 --> 00:37:26,656
'X' marks the spot."

609
00:37:29,659 --> 00:37:31,869
According to NASA astronomers,

610
00:37:31,870 --> 00:37:33,495
what they are observing

611
00:37:33,496 --> 00:37:36,832
is nearly
1,400 light years away.

612
00:37:36,833 --> 00:37:39,543
This means that,
given the time it takes

613
00:37:39,544 --> 00:37:41,670
for light from Cygnus
to reach Earth,

614
00:37:41,671 --> 00:37:44,715
whatever object is causing
the mysterious dimming

615
00:37:44,716 --> 00:37:49,386
was orbiting the star
at least 1,400 years ago,

616
00:37:49,387 --> 00:37:52,222
and perhaps much earlier.

617
00:37:52,223 --> 00:37:55,934
Could this be further evidence
that Gobekli Tepe

618
00:37:55,935 --> 00:37:58,854
was indeed built
to point to the home planet

619
00:37:58,855 --> 00:38:02,524
of mankind's
extraterrestrial ancestors?

620
00:38:02,525 --> 00:38:05,861
Perhaps further clues
can be found

621
00:38:05,862 --> 00:38:09,364
by examining recent events
unfolding in the region

622
00:38:09,365 --> 00:38:11,700
and efforts
to protect the secrets

623
00:38:11,701 --> 00:38:14,537
that still lie buried
at the site.

624
00:38:20,011 --> 00:38:21,970
Kobani, Syria.

625
00:38:21,971 --> 00:38:24,806
June, 2015.

626
00:38:24,807 --> 00:38:28,810
The militant extremist group
known as the Islamic State,

627
00:38:28,811 --> 00:38:32,648
or ISIS, violently
takes control of the city.

628
00:38:35,985 --> 00:38:39,070
During their bloody rampage
through the region,

629
00:38:39,071 --> 00:38:43,366
they systematically
destroy historical relics

630
00:38:43,367 --> 00:38:47,246
and detonate bombs
at various archaeological sites.

631
00:38:52,126 --> 00:38:56,046
A mere 60 miles away,
across the border of Turkey,

632
00:38:56,047 --> 00:38:59,966
archaeologists working at
the site of Gobekli Tepe

633
00:38:59,967 --> 00:39:02,260
stand terrified
as they watch the smoke

634
00:39:02,261 --> 00:39:04,346
rise from the battlefield.

635
00:39:04,347 --> 00:39:06,681
In an effort to protect

636
00:39:06,682 --> 00:39:09,017
the 12,000-year-old
stone structures

637
00:39:09,018 --> 00:39:10,602
from the threat of attack,

638
00:39:10,603 --> 00:39:14,189
the Turkish government
stops all excavations

639
00:39:14,190 --> 00:39:16,358
and closes the site
to the public.

640
00:39:16,359 --> 00:39:18,860
They crate the stone monoliths

641
00:39:18,861 --> 00:39:21,696
and relocate
the most valuable artifacts

642
00:39:21,697 --> 00:39:23,448
to a museum nearby.

643
00:39:23,449 --> 00:39:26,368
Over the next 20 years,

644
00:39:26,369 --> 00:39:29,204
the government
will spend $15 million

645
00:39:29,205 --> 00:39:33,124
to secure Gobekli Tepe
by enclosing the area,

646
00:39:33,125 --> 00:39:35,377
covering the site
with a steel-enforced roof,

647
00:39:35,378 --> 00:39:38,797
and installing
an extensive security system.

648
00:39:38,798 --> 00:39:42,717
Considering at least
80% of Gobekli Tepe

649
00:39:42,718 --> 00:39:45,553
remains hidden
beneath the earth,

650
00:39:45,554 --> 00:39:49,641
archaeologists still have
much to learn about the site.

651
00:39:49,642 --> 00:39:52,435
But as it becomes
dangerously close

652
00:39:52,436 --> 00:39:56,564
to suffering the same fate
as other sites in the region,

653
00:39:56,565 --> 00:40:00,569
could its most profound secrets
be lost forever?

654
00:40:02,071 --> 00:40:05,240
Is it possible
that the Gobekli Tepe builders

655
00:40:05,241 --> 00:40:07,742
were actually
sending us a message?

656
00:40:07,743 --> 00:40:13,581
Yes, the stones seem to suggest
that this was the case.

657
00:40:13,582 --> 00:40:16,584
Perhaps they were giving us
some kind of warning,

658
00:40:16,585 --> 00:40:19,421
or it could be
that they are trying

659
00:40:19,422 --> 00:40:22,132
to tell us the information

660
00:40:22,133 --> 00:40:25,176
that they knew
about celestial beings,

661
00:40:25,177 --> 00:40:27,762
and perhaps even
extraterrestrials,

662
00:40:27,763 --> 00:40:30,015
from the Cygnus constellation.

663
00:40:32,476 --> 00:40:36,938
Gobekli Tepe goes back to
a earlier cycle of civilization

664
00:40:36,939 --> 00:40:39,482
that existed at the end
of the last ice age.

665
00:40:39,483 --> 00:40:42,694
They experienced
catastrophic changes.

666
00:40:42,695 --> 00:40:45,864
So, I am of the opinion

667
00:40:45,865 --> 00:40:48,116
that there's
a very important message

668
00:40:48,117 --> 00:40:51,411
that maybe they were
purposefully sending to us,

669
00:40:51,412 --> 00:40:54,747
at least they were trying
to preserve for posterity,

670
00:40:54,748 --> 00:40:56,624
for future generations.

671
00:40:56,625 --> 00:41:00,838
And we need to figure out
exactly what that message is.

672
00:41:02,298 --> 00:41:05,842
Gobekli Tepe points us
back to our origins,

673
00:41:05,843 --> 00:41:08,303
and points directly to the stars

674
00:41:08,304 --> 00:41:10,472
as the source
of where we came from.

675
00:41:10,473 --> 00:41:13,475
Once we accept this,
we will be able

676
00:41:13,476 --> 00:41:15,810
to answer the questions
of where we came from

677
00:41:15,811 --> 00:41:19,148
and ultimately
where we're going as a species.

678
00:41:21,817 --> 00:41:25,320
Does proof of
mankind's extraterrestrial past

679
00:41:25,321 --> 00:41:29,283
lie buried beneath
the earth at Gobekli Tepe?

680
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,661
Proof that
an advanced civilization

681
00:41:33,662 --> 00:41:38,833
existed on this planet
more than 10,000 years ago?

682
00:41:38,834 --> 00:41:41,669
Perhaps the answers
will be found

683
00:41:41,670 --> 00:41:44,506
not by examining
ancient stone pillars

684
00:41:44,507 --> 00:41:47,884
covered with strange carvings...

685
00:41:47,885 --> 00:41:49,886
but on a star,

686
00:41:49,887 --> 00:41:54,933
one that shines on us
from many light-years away.

687
00:41:54,934 --> 00:41:57,436
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