Ancient Aliens

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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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