Strange burial rituals...
What we're talking about
is some kind of other-dimensional
travel for the soul to undertake.
Elaborate chambers
filled with mysterious objects...
The fact that these
boats existed inside
tombs leads me to think that
they tried to reach some type
of extraterrestrial realms.
And bizarre burial
mounds found across the globe.
When you start looking
at a structure inside
the celestial alignments, you
start to wonder, was there
contact between
some of these areas?
Were the tombs of our
ancient ancestors actually
gateways to the afterlife?
Or were they really meant to connect
modern man with our alien ancestors?
You have to ask yourself
if they are perhaps
maps to guide the dead
back to the star systems,
where they originally came from.
Millions of people
around the world believe
we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
And if so, might the secrets
of the ancient tombs reveal an
otherworldly plan for mankind?
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Deafdude
The Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India.
And King Pakal's Tomb,
Palenque, Mexico.
Spectacular burial sites that
date back thousands of years
are found across the world.
According to mainstream
researchers, these locations are
the final resting places
for ancient leaders.
But might they also serve
a more profound, perhaps
extraterrestrial purpose?
Why do we have the
most massive of constructions
of these tombs in the
far and distant past?
Well, according to the ancient
texts and the ancient
traditions, this knowledge was given
to our ancestors by the gods.
If the sole function of tombs
was to house the dead, then why are
virtually all of them connected
to notions of spiritual energy,
images of astronomy, and a
strong belief in the existence
of other, arguably more
spiritual, worlds?
All cultures share this
notion of somehow opening a
doorway, opening a stargate,
opening a gateway to another
dimension so the soul can return.
We know that it is meant because
the soul is gonna go on
a voyage to the afterlife.
In the ancient world,
there was a view
that this life that we have,
this physical life, is our
opportunity to prepare ourselves
for a vast destiny that lies
beyond this life.
Could ancient tombs
really have served another,
more extraterrestrial purpose,
perhaps as portals to reunite
the deceased with celestial beings?
Many ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers can be found
by taking a closer look at the
mysterious texts of ancient Egypt.
Saqqara... situated on the
west bank of the Nile River,
20 miles south of Cairo,
this archaeological site is one
of the oldest and largest
burial grounds in all of Egypt.
Egyptologists called
these monuments tombs.
But to the Egyptians, they were
not tombs, they were gateways
to the afterworld.
It is through these structures
that the king will begin a
journey into the underworld,
in order to face obstacles,
dangers, and threats.
And if he will overcome these
threats, he will be given
passage into the afterlife
kingdom of Osiris.
Overlooking the immense
necropolis lies the
Pyramid of King Teti, the first
ruler of Egypt's sixth dynasty.
Teti built his pyramid and an
adjoining mortuary temple during
his reign, more than
4,000 years ago.
I'm walking on what's
left of the ancient
causeway of King Teti I...
that's his pyramid... and here is
his very-much-ruined
mortuary temple.
Now, this pyramid is very
important, it contains the
oldest, richest writing in the
world, the Pyramid Texts.
According to archaeologists,
the Pyramid
Texts are a collection of
ancient Egyptian religious
writings that date back to 2400 BC.
They contain passages about
Osiris, the Egyptian god of the
afterlife, and descriptions of
how to prepare the pharaoh's
remains during his ascent
to the heavens after death.
The Pyramid Texts
are all about the stars.
It's all about the
king becoming a star.
It's all about the king ascending
to the sky and joining
Osiris-Orion in the sky.
But according to ancient
astronaut theorists,
the Pyramid Texts didn't only guide
the pharaoh to an afterlife,
they actually provided
instruction on how the pharaoh
could travel to other worlds.
What is important to
realize is that the ancient
Egyptians say that about 25,000 years
ago, the gods lived amongst them.
Then they disappeared again.
What the Pyramid Texts are
saying is that we... the ancient
Egyptians specifically, of course...
are able to reach the gods again.
For this we have to die, but
once we're dead, we're able to
join the gods once again.
What we're talking about is some
kind of other-dimensional travel
for the soul to undertake.
Buried in the desert
sands for centuries,
the ruins of Saqqara are home to
another ancient mystery just one
half-mile away from the
Pyramid of King Teti.
In 1850, French archaeologist
Auguste Mariette made
an astonishing discovery.
He unearthed a massive
underground bunker.
This is a most strange
and mysterious place.
It feels like being in the
bowels of the underworld.
It's hard to describe...
it's like being in another world,
the world of the dead.
The Serapeum contains
enormous sarcophagi
made from granite that was
believed to have been
transported from the city of
Aswan, nearly 600 miles away.
This is just one of the
many sarcophagus that are
here, dozens and dozens of them.
And they weigh about 70 tons apiece.
They're made from a
solid block of granite.
But the real mystery is how they
cut them so sharply...
Swiss watch precision,
mirror smooth.
When you look at the
inside of the boxes,
you see the underside of the lid
is perfectly square with the
vertical surface of the
inside of the box.
Directly opposite, you have the
same condition, which means that
those two surfaces, opposing each other,
must have been perfectly parallel.
It's really amazing.
Ancient astronaut theorists
question just how the
ancient Egtians could have moved
these gigantic stones for
miles and then wedge them into
the underground labyrinth.
And to what purpose?
So we have one big problem.
Imagine, in ancient Egypt, they
dig out of the rock kilometers
and kilometers of
subterranean tunnels.
Right and left, they make niches.
Then they go to two day's Aswan.
In Aswan, they cut out of the rock
the hardest granite which exists,
and they bring it, in a
complicated way we don't know,
into these subterranean tunnels.
Archaeologists still,
today, cannot figure out
how these giant basalt
sarcophagi were made.
They're perfectly made.
And how they would even move
them into these catacombs that
are underground.
It's like they would have had to
levitate and put these 70-ton
boxes... by some magical
means, like anti-gravity.
Most scholars believe
the Serapeum and its
massive sarcophagi were
constructed to house the
mummified remains of the Apis bulls.
The Egyptians believed
that these Apis bulls
were descended from the sky,
and they would have elaborate
ceremonies with these bulls.
But when Mariette
opened the sarcophagi,
they were empty,
apart from some bones.
Only one Apis bull mummy was
discovered at the site.
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe the sacred bul may
have been the creation of
extraterrestrials,
and that these creatures were feared, not
worshipped, by the ancient Egyptians.
The humans are afraid of
these monster, because
they were created by the gods.
They are holy animals.
So they wait until the
monsters die of a natural way.
And now the animal is dead, they smash,
crash the bones of the monster.
They put it into the sarcophagi.
In ancient Egypt, every
single living creature,
after its death, was mummified.
So the fact that we can find
boxes in which we have hacked-up
bones, you have to ask yourself, why?
So they made sure that, after
death, they would hack up the
bodies, and then put a 35-ton
lid on top of that...
so that those creatures would
never return in the future.
Could the sarcophagi
have been constructed
as a kind of prison to prevent the
return of the bulls after death?
Or could they have served a different,
even more profound, purpose?
Egyptologists are baffled,
and they don't know
what the purpose of these things were.
Also, why are some of them empty?
And you have to wonder, too,
if these boxes had some other
purpose originally.
Are these really some kind of
interdimensional stargates, and
then extraterrestrials are able to come
and go from this planet using that?
Were the Serapeum
sarcophagi actually
a teleportation system, as some
ancient astronaut theorists believe?
Could they be a series of
chambers used to convey ancient
humans, and perhaps, alien
visitors, to other planets?
Perhaps another underground tomb
complex halfway around the globe
can provide further clues.
Northern Peru.
1987.
Archaeologist Walter Alva uncovers
the lost tomb of the Lord of Sipan.
Intact and untouched by thieves,
this burial place is considered
one of the richest in the world.
The Lord of Sipan was
a Moche king,
up in the Lambayeque region
of Peru, along the coast.
They found gold and silver and
all these incredibly beautiful
artifacts and textiles and art.
Peruvian archaeologists...
they sometimes
call it the King Tut's
Tomb of South America.
And the objects that they found
in these tombs were unusual.
The burial chamber
was filled with artifacts that
included ceramic pots, gold,
copper and silver utensils,
and feather ornaments some
researchers believe were
intended to accompany and protect
the Lord of Sipan in the afterlife.
Some archaeologists suggest that
several of his servants, wives
and consorts were sacrificed,
and their bodies were placed
inside to accompany him
into the afterlife.
We see that Lord Sipan
is not buried in isolation.
We see that he is buried with
some other people, and so when
we extrapolate from this and
when we realize that other
cultures have been doing the
same kind of schematic,
what we're seeing is that these
people believed that the
afterlife was very
much a physical place.
It was believed that he would have
needed some of these helpers.
It is believed that he would
probably want to be reunited,
if not united, with his most
immediate family and some of his
most trusted advisors.
Among the incredible treasures
buried with the Lord of Sipan
were strange statues that some
researchers believe are evidence
of extraterrestrial beings.
As well as servants
and all the artifacts, they
even found these strange, kind
of weird anthropomorphized
figurines that some people say
resemble beings from other worlds.
They show bug-eyed people who do
not look like a normal human.
So you have, at Sipan, really,
a tomb that seems to show
extraterrestrial beings,
anthropomorphic beings that are
half-animal, half-human, and
people who don't look like a
normal human being...
that look like extraterrestrials.
Lord of Sipan's tomb
has some very
interesting relics that were
found within his burial.
Were these beings that were
gonna help him go into the
afterlife, possibly back into
space, or into the heavens?
The Lord of Sipan's disciples
believed that he was
not a mere mortal, but actually
half-god and half-man.
But specifically what
is of interest is that he
has a face mask, which is made
of gold, and his body largely is
dressed with copper shielding.
So, all of a sudden, we see
somebody whose dead body is
meant to resemble
clearly a shining one.
The divine being, which he was
once believed to be, but also,
which in death, he was
believed to once again become.
Was the Lord of Sipan
really half-man, half-god,
as his followers believed?
And might the figurines found in
his grave really represent the
ancient ruler's
extraterrestrial origin?
If so, is it possible that this
tomb, like the ones found in
Egypt, really served as
a portal to the stars?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe more evidence
can be found by looking at the
boat-shaped coffins and strange
burial rituals of the
ancient Torajan people.
South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Here can be found the cave tombs
of Tana Toraja, the site of a
complex funeral ritual that
dates back to 3000 BC.
The Torajan people believe death is a
gradual process toward the afterlife.
Many cultures believe
in an afterlife,
something that goes on
beyond the physical bodies.
The Toraja people in Indonesia
are very interesting and
unusual, because among the most
elaborate rituals they have are
not rituals of life, but for death.
They have incredible ceremonies
when people die, they have
huge feasts, and they have these
incredible celebrations for the dead.
The Torajan people put the
dead into these special
coffins, which are also like
a model of a spaceship.
And then they inter them
up on these cliffs.
And their beliefs, too, are
that ultimately the dead are
returning to the stars, and
that they as a people will also
return to the stars, as well.
As translated, the
name "Toraja" means
"the people from above," and Torajans
believe their ancestors
descended from the
stars in sky ships.
Their elaborate coffins are
built in the form of a boat,
and thought to resemble the sky ships
that carried their ancestors to Earth.
A wooden effigy called a
tau tau is carved in the
likeness of the dead person
and placed in the balcony to
represent the deceased and
watch over their remains.
The effigies are a
beautiful illustration with
which they wanted to show us
that, once somebody is deceased,
they can still look down upon
you, because being dead doesn't
mean that it's over.
Dead just means that you go on
to the next level of existence.
And it's an idea that has been
with us not just in our culture
but in every ancient culture
and modern culture as well.
The Torajan people, they
believe in sky gods who
descended from the sky, who left
them a body of knowledge and
then who disappeared.
And they very much believed that
by doing what our ancestors did
when these creatures were here
that they will therefore also be
able to join these divine
beings which were once here.
And specifically, that upon
death, they will be able to
join them in the home
of these deities.
That is very much on par with
what we see throughout the world.
Is it possible, as some
researchers believe,
that ancient astronauts visited
Earth thousands of years
ago, and inspired our ancestors
to build boat-shaped coffins
that emulated their space vehicles?
If so, could the presence of
boat coffins mean that our
ancestors were preparing to
make a journey to the stars?
Some believe the ultimate proof
can be found in a mysterious
burial mound in Ireland...
one with star maps that give
clues, not just to where the
ancient visitors came from,
but where the dead may have,
in fact, chosen to return.
Oldcastle, Ireland.
Amid the ruins of a Stone Age
cemetery lies a 5,000-year-old
tomb, nearly 120 feet in diameter.
It is named after the mythical
poet-king, Ollahm Fodhla.
With Ollahm Fodhla's
tomb, what we see is
this connection between
the Earth and the sky.
Some people have suggested it
might be a celestial observatory.
But I think it's much more
likely that it was sort of a
temple, a place of worship, that
connected the sky and the earth.
According to ancient
astronaut theorists,
astronomical hieroglyphs carved
on the interior of the stone
walls may have been the work
of otherworldly beings.
At Ollahm Fodhla we can
find an incredibly
accurate astronomical chart,
and one has to wonder how
those ancestors were able to do this
without any knowledge of astronomy.
In fact, the legends of that
part of the world tell us that
they had assistance, that
these topics were taught to
those people by none other than
the shining ones who descended
from the sky.
Ollahm Fodhla has inside
of it celestial charts.
So you have to ask yourself if
they are perhaps maps for these
extraterrestrial visitors to show
them the way home, back to the stars.
Could extraterrestrials,
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest, have taught our ancient
ancestors how to build a
so-calle"celestial observatory"?
And if so, might the cemetery
have served as a staging area?
A place for extraterrestrials
to observe, predict and record
stellar movements in preparation
for their return to the stars?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the ancient burial
structures of Japan.
Sakai, Japan.
Here, in this city located 250
miles southwest of Tokyo, lies
the Daisen Kofun, one of over 40 ancient
crypts within a six-mile radius.
More than twice the length of the
Great Pyramid of Giza, it is
one of the largest tombs in the world.
Constructed in the 5th century
AD, it is believed to be the
resting place of Nintoku,
the 16th emperor of Japan.
But of all the various types and
designs that make up the Kofun
structures, perhaps the most
mysterious are those in the
shape of a keyhole, one that
can only be seen from above.
The very fact that this
was made to look like a
keyhole, that this was made
only to be seen from the sky,
would, to me, indicate this
could be a clear message to the
gods to say, "Look here."
And it was some kind
of reference for the stars,
for the person in the tombs.
So is this some kind of tomb
for the extraterrestrial gods
so that they could find and return
to the stars where they had come?
Were the Kofun meant
to serve as markers for
extraterrestrials that planned
to return to Earth, as some
ancient astronaut theorists contend?
Perhaps more evidence can be
found by examining one of the
most immense archaeological finds
of the 20th century...
the vast tomb of
China's first emperor.
Shaanxi Province, China.
In 1974, farmers digging a well
outside the town of Xi'an made
an astonishing discovery...
a life-size clay soldier
intricately carved and
dressed for battle.
Further excavation revealed
thousands of these sculptures,
known as the Terra Cotta
Warriors, each with remarkably
realistic facial expressions.
Entombed in the earth for over
2,000 years, the warriors are
part of a massive underground
mausoleum built for China's
first emperor of the Qin
Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang.
The tomb of Qin Shi Huang
is quite extraordinary.
Over 8,000 terra cotta soldiers
have been found there,
along with 520 horses, 130 chariots,
most of which are still buried.
Qin Shi Huang is literally
the first emperor in China.
He established the Qin
dynasty in the year 221 BC.
And he established many things
that actually continued to
function throughout the
imperial period in China.
Qin conquered and
united China, built the Great
Wall, and standardized the
monetary and legal system.
But Qin Shi Huang was also obsessed
with finding the secret of immortality.
This is an emperor who
goes in search of the
islands of immortality.
This is an emperor who's obsessed
with rediscovering lost knowledge.
His ambition is to become,
life, like the gods.
To this end, Qin spent
over three decades
forcing more than 700,000
laborers to construct
the four-layered subterranean city
that would serve as his resting place.
At the heart of the ancient complex
is one of China's greatest mysteries.
The tomb actually
covers a very large area.
Only a few areas in the
surrounding, the border part
of the tomb complex
have been excavated.
Archaeologists believe
that underneath this
central burial mound is the chamber
containing Emperor Qin's remains.
To date, the site is still
unexcavated, due to dangerously
high levels of mercury.
What's thought to be inside
is an exact model of the
universe in miniature, with the
ceiling, uh, made to look like
the sky with all the stars
represented by pearls.
And then the rivers in China
would be on the ground, and it
is the mercury that is supposed
to look like the rivers.
A conductive
element used in gauges,
electronics, and automobiles,
mercury is a liquid metal that
was discovered by archaeologists
in an Egyptian tomb that dates
back to 1500 BC.
Some researchers believe the
presence of mercury indicates
the existence of modern
technology in the ancient world.
The presence of mercury,
also, in these tombs, is unusual.
Mercury is something which is
not really very useful to us,
except in very high-tech devices.
And it could have been used as
part of the extraterrestrials
and their technology on this planet.
Was the first emperor
of China influenced by
visitors from another world to
create his monument, as ancient
astronaut theorists propose?
And could the mercury found
at the tomb be proof of
extraterrestrial technology at work
in China thousands of years ago...
technology that was not
intended to merely help bury
the dead, but to launch otherworldly
beings back into space?
Perhaps more clues can be found
by taking a closer look at the
mysterious burial mounds
found all over our world.
Gyeongju, South Korea.
Here, near the shores of the Sea of
Japan, lie the ruins of Cheonmachong.
Excavated in 1973, researchers
believe this mound-shaped tomb
was constructed for a
fifth-century ruler from the
Silla dynasty, which spanned
nearly a thousand years.
The main feature of this
tomb is that it has
what's known as a "heavenly
horse" drawn onto it, and it's
often called the Heavenly Horse Tomb.
And this horse has eight
fiery legs that are flaming.
It's clearly not a living,
naturalistic horse.
It almost looks more like a
combination of a horse and a
dragon flying through the air.
This may represent the journey
of the spirit, the soul,
or taking the soul up
to the afterlife.
According to most
historians, this equestrian
illustration represents not only
the importance of horses in
ancient Korean culture, but also the
king's belief in the spirit world.
But ancient astronaut
theorists have another,
much more profound interpretation.
They believe the painting of
the winged horse symbolizes
how the deceased noble would actually
journey to another distant realm.
Tibetans and Mongolians
also have, uh,
similar legends of
these flying horses.
And these horses, too, would be
analogous to the vimanas, uh,
in Sanskrit, which are these
flying machines, the chariots
of the gods that Erich von
Daniken talked about.
And often they're depicted
as this horse, which was the
familiar vehicle that people could
travel in, only these horses could fly.
They were flying vehicles.
If you look at it even
more closely, it resembles
more some type of a dragon.
Because, out of its feet, there's
fire coming out, and the
feet themselves, their legs,
don't really look like legs but
they look as if they are
some type of wings.
We have to remember that our
ancestors were not familiar with
space vehicles, so whatever they
saw up in the sky could best be
described as an eight-legged
horse descending from the sky.
Could the so-called "heavenly
horse" of Cheonmachong
really be a representation of
an extraterrestrial flying
transport, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?
And if so, would this help to
prove their their theory that
many ancient tombs
were, in fact, portals
to other extraterrestrial worlds?
Perhaps more clues can be found
in the mysterious drawings
of another burial mound located
more than 5,000 miles away.
The Boyne River Valley in Ireland.
Here, 31 miles north of Dublin,
lies Newgrange, a tumulus tomb
dating back to 3200 BC, and similar
to the one found in South Korea.
Of the many ancient burial
chambers discovered in the region,
it is one of the best-preserved.
Newgrange would have
been one the largest
man-built structures on Earth at
the time of its construction.
It dates from around 5,000 years ago,
perhaps even a little bit more.
Predates the Great Pyramids.
So, this was a tremendous
undertaking, by a very
well-established culture, to
build such a massive monument.
Newgrange's inner passage
was constructed with
remarkable precision.
And its design provides an accurate
means of measuring the solar year.
It is astronomically aligned
on the winter solstice,
so that, right at the winter solstice,
and only at the winter solstice...
a sun dagger sh**t down through
the central passageway into the
tomb and illuminating the inner
chamber of the tomb.
This inner chamber is carved
with very enigmatic megalithic
symbols... which we still don't
really understand... and really
displays an amazing competence of
this culture on many, many levels.
We don't
know exactly what it meant to
those ancient peoples, but we
can imagine that they gathered
there at the time of the winter
solstice, that there were many
celebrations, and that the
priests and priestesses would go
into this inner chamber to
witness this miracle every year.
We have essentially the death
of the sun on the winter solstice.
On this day, we have the lowest
point of the sun and then we
have rebirth in new life.
So what better for a tomb and to
talk about the journey to the
afterlife than a death and a rebirth
and starting the cycle again?
Is it possible the
celestial alignment at Newgrange
was created to represent a
journey to the afterlife,
as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
"Spiral galaxies" is one of those
terms which we use all the time.
And so the question might be:
are some of the spirals somehow
linked with this galactic travel?
And based upon what we know from
the belief of the people who
built Newgrange and their
belief, specifically, about the
voyage of the dead, we know that
this was a voyage in space.
When you look at these
famous tumulus tombs that
are all over the world, they are
these circular mounds, so you
have a shape, in a sense, of
a flying saucer or a UFO.
And the whole idea of the
spiral and the vortex is often
used to symbolize time travel,
and that is the way that
extraterrestrials would
be coming to Earth.
Could the hundreds
of burial mounds found around
the globe be linked through
some otherworldly connection?
And if so, is it really possible
that extraterrestrials used
these tumuli as portals to
travel from galaxy to galaxy,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
Perhaps such far-fetched notions
aren't as hard to imagine as
they seem, especially when
considering that such things are
happening right now, in the
southwest region of North America.
Sierra County,
New Mexico, 2010
Three, two, one, fire.
Aerospace company
Celestis Incorporated launches
one of the world's first private
memorial spaceflights, providing
a unique new funeral
service for the deceased.
What this company
does is, essentially, launch the
ashes of dead people into space,
including the Star Trek creator
Gene Roddenberry,
1960s icon Timothy Leary,
even the astronaut Gordon Cooper,
who was part of the Mercury program
that NASA created.
Celestis rents
compartments on board
conventional rockets assigned
to carry satellites and other
payloads into orbit.
They only do, like, seven
grams of ashes that
they send out there in small,
tiny containers, and so, to me,
this is quite an incredible
thing because we now have the
possibility of sending cremated
remains into outer space.
We have to wonder if this
is now replicating some of
the ancient things that we've
seen by using a boat or some
type of symbology that the
pharaoh or the king in the
afterlife was being prepared
to go back into the heavens.
But why would we want to send
our dearly departed into space?
Does it, in fact, fulfill some
unconscious human desire to
return to the stars after death?
And could this, in some way,
be connected to mankind's
centuries-old belief in Heaven...
a utopian world that exists far
above and beyond our own?
I think it's interesting
that the people who
do this are the ones who have
been the visionaries, the ones
who really wanted to take mankind
into deep space and take
us on a voyage of discovery,
trying to find out whether there
are human beings there, and I
think it's interesting that in
the future we're probably going
to see more and more of this,
and that we're going to become
more and more in tune with what
our ancestors were thinking.
Maybe, at one point in the
future, we will be able to
physically send an entire body
into deep space, on a voyage to
reconnect with our ancestors.
We're all made of stars,
and the whole universe is
created out of the dust of
stars, and so it seems natural
for some people to want to have
their ashes sent back into space.
In the ancient world, we were seen
fundamentally as immortal souls
briefly incarnated in human
bodies and, and possibly
reincarnating and coming
back again and again.
It was understood that some
aspect of the individual lived
on beyond this physical life, and
the tomb was, in a sense, an
immortal home for that
aspect of the individual.
Is it possible, as some
researchers believe, that mankind
has long tried to make a connection
with our otherworldly origins?
And, if so, might ancient tombs
throughout the world have
been constructed to facilitate this
celestial journey, even after death?
It's hard to know what our
earliest ancestors were
thinking when they looked
up into the night sky.
Perhaps they felt dwarfed
by its immensity.
Perhaps they wondered what
the stars were, up in the sky.
Probably they projected their
mythology or maybe invented
mythology about goddesses and
gods and other spiritual beings,
living in a heavenly
world above them.
Maybe that's why so many of
their ancient temples were
aligned with these heavenly bodies.
Our ancestors were building
these structures so
that they could be seen by the
gods in the sky and by the souls
on their way to the gods in the sky.
What our ancestors are saying,
what our ancestors are
reinforcing, is that the soul is going
to go on a voyage into the stars.
All over the world,
we have very similar
types of ceremonies that have
to do with entombing people,
and you have to wonder a little bit
if your body is being preserved
and it's going to be used again.
And if we could do this, that's
something that extraterrestrials
would be able to do, too.
Tombs...
interconnected by design,
tradition, and a desire for
a peaceful passage from life
to death.
Is it possible ancient burial
chambers were built from
knowledge passed on to our ancient
ancestors by celestial beings?
And if so, might we one day
reunite with these beings
through an otherworldly portal?
Perhaps the answer will be
revealed in our lifetime...
or, perhaps, only after
we take our final breath.
05x06 - Secrets of the Tombs
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Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.
Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.