Ancient Aliens

On the western side of South America

is a land of exotic jungles, vast plains,

and astounding archaeological sites.

All throughout that region of the world,

we have some of the most

incredible Architectural structures on planet Earth.

But could new discoveries... reveal

that the true history of Peru

is far more incredible than we ever imagined?

The dating of Caral has really put into question

the origins of civilization and the planet.

This excavation has put the entire region

into a new light.

Ancient Astronaut Theorist

Giorgio Tsoukalos is joined by author David Childress

and investigative mythologist William Henry

to examine evidence suggesting that Peru

was home to an advanced civilization thousands of years ago...

These discoveries are changing the face

of south American Archaeology.

And was influenced by beings from another world.

The message is consistent throughout all these discoveries

that extraterrestrials were helping to advance us.

I mean, this is about as exciting as it gets.

There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

We have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We... are not alone. *ANCIENT ALIENS*

We have never... been alone. Season 16 Episode 12 (IMDB)

Episode Title: "The Lost City Of Peru"

Aired on: August 06, 2021.

Peru is actually one of my favorite

places to visit on the planet,

and we've all been to Peru...

This is what's so great about that whole region

because it seems as if this whole area

continues to give us new pieces of information.

And we're just beginning to uncover what's actually there.

It's kind of like a wild frontier down there.

I mean, worlds meet down there, don't they?

It's really, uh, just

the most mysterious place, and it's a very large country

That goes from deserts along the coast

up into the mountains,

down into the jungles... It has literally

- Every climate in the world. - Mm-hmm.

And it's also a treasure trove

for the Ancient Astronaut Theory

- Yeah. - Because there are many megalithic sites

and especially in the legends

- and the mythologies of that place. - Yep.

You have stories of giants and of, uh, Gods,

the children of the Sun.

The country of Peru in western South America

is known for its many ancient archaeological wonders

from the massive stone walls of Cusco

to the magnificent terraces at Ollantaytambo,

to the majestic mountain citadel of Machu Picchu.

These incredible sites have long been connected

to a great civilization

that emerged in the 13th century AD

Known as the Inca.

The Inca pretty much

not just dominated the landscape,

they changed the landscape.

They had these major massive cities

from one end of the Andes to the other end of the Andes.

And in between each of these cities,

they had this incredible road network.

We have to think about the Inca

as... part of this aggressive trend

of ideas and of culture and tradition.

In 1526, Spanish Conquistadors,

led by Francisco Pizarro, arrived in Peru,

and over the course of the following four decades,

conquered the Inca empire.

While the Inca only flourished

for a little more than two centuries,

mainstream Archaeologists remain astonished

by their engineering and construction achievements.

But a mounting body of evidence suggests

many of Peru's astounding structures may, in fact,

have been built by a much earlier civilization.

The Incas were pretty recent, really, to the Spanish.

-They're not the oldest, - Right.

They had only existed

- about 200 years before - Right.

- the Spanish arrived. - Yeah.

And... allegedly, during that period,

they built all these giant megaliths around Cusco,

Sacsayhuamán, even Machu Picchu and Ollantaytambo,

and they would have just completed them

- Wait... - Like, a hundred years before the Spanish.

Wait a second, wait a second. But here's the deal.

That is mainstream archaeology's opinion.

When you ask the local,

including the local archaeologists

and tour guides, yes,

they will tell tour groups that yes, this is all Inca,

But when you have deep conversations with them,

they all agree that many of those structures

are pre-Inca.

And this is where the opinions diverge.

- Right. - Who were the pre-Inca?

In April 2019,

David Childress traveled to Peru

with author Hugh Newman to meet

with Jorge Luis Delgado,

a local expert on and a descendant of the Inca.

Jorge believes that many of

Peru's incredible ancient structures do,

in fact, predate the Inca.

All right. Here we are.

On this day, Jorge took David and Hugh

to one of Peru's most mysterious sites:

A location outside of Cusco

known only as the x-zone.

Overlooking the sprawling stone fortress of Sacsayhuamán,

the x-zone is an impressive collection of megalithic ruins,

rock-cut monuments and a maze of underground tunnels.

- It's incredible. - What kind of technology

does it take to cut these so perfectly and straight

And then fit them in where you can't fit

A piece of paper or a razor blade in here.

It seems like they're softening the stones somehow,

and they're kind of shaping it and then putting it back in.

Like some magical technology.

Naylamp was the deity

worshipped by the sican people who settled in northern Peru

around 750 AD, centuries before the Inca.

Their oral traditions

describe Naylamp as a strange being

with sharp birdlike features

who, upon his death, sprouted wings

and then ascended into the sky.

Is it possible that these traditional beliefs

are grounded in fact, as the Sican people claim?

And, if so, could Naylamp have been,

as Ancient Astronaut Theorists suspect,

An extraterrestrial being?

I think that the Incas found these places.

They identified them as very important, and they moved in.

They say so in one of the earliest books

written about that region.

Diego De Landa was the one who wrote it.

It says that the Incas themselves

said this was not built by us.

- We also have the local legends - Yeah.

That say that there were celestial visitors.

They were not Gods. They were visiting extraterrestrials.

Well, here's where now we get

fact backing up the local knowledge,

Lore, understanding in this.

1994 Archaeologist Ruth Shady

is exploring north of Lima,

and she said "that... hill over there...

- that looks artificial to me." - Mm-hmm.

So she goes and gathers some soldiers.

They do some excavating.

Lo and behold, here's this... what?

Ten-story-tall pyramid.

and that became known as the site of...

- Caral. - Right.

First discovered in 1905,

the site of Caral-Supe, often referred to as simply Caral,

was initially thought to be little more than a scattering

of insignificant and possibly modern ruins.

But while investigating the site in 1994,

Peruvian Archaeologist Ruth Shady Solís

came to the astonishing revelation

that Caral was once a vast and highly sophisticated city.

When you visit Caral, you find a huge archaeological complex.

There is a large Sunken amphitheater to the south.

There's a major pyramid to the north

And then there are more minor pyramids

that surround a central area.

There are also other buildings, residential buildings,

So it's a really huge complex.

But the most extraordinary discovery

was still to come.

While excavating the pyramid's foundation in 1999,

Ruth shady and her team unEarthed the preserved remains

of ancient mesh bags woven from a long durable grass

known as Shicra.

Up until this time, there had been no way

to scientifically determine the age of Caral

since it is not possible to perform radiocarbon dating

on inorganic material like stone ruins.

With the discovery of the grass bags,

Archaeologists now had the organic material they needed

to determine just how old Caral really was.

And what they found was nothing less than shocking.

Carbon dating of the bags

revealed that Caral predated the Inca civilization

by more than 3,000 years.

This site went back at least

to 2600 BC or earlier.