Ancient Aliens

Gobekli Tepe is the smoking gun

of a lost civilization because it confirms that,

at the time of the last ice age,

there was high culture existing in the world.

Gobekli Tepe's an incredibly sophisticated site.

There's a very important message

they were purposefully sending to us.

We're actually seeing

architecture in the Cygnus star system,

just like what they paid homage to at Gobekli Tepe.

Only five percent

of Gobekli Tepe has been unearthed so far.

So, what other surprises will we find there?

We need to know about our origins.

We need to know our destiny.

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

Sanliurfa, Turkey.

October 1994.

While plowing his field,

shepherd Savak Yildiz spots a strangely shaped stone

protruding from the ground.

After brushing away the dirt,

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

Shortly after contacting the local museum with his find,

he is visited by Klaus Schmidt

from the German Archaeological Institute.

It wasn't until German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt

visited the site and began digging,

they realized what was really at this site.

What he discovered was mind-blowing.

After discovering the first T-shaped pillar

buried at the site,

he soon found more of these massive structures.

During the intensive dig,

Schmidt and his team

begin to unearth dozens of additional giant stone monoliths

covered in intricate carvings,

some weighing as much as 20 tons.

The site of Gobekli Tepe

is a series of circular enclosures.

But then, in the center of each enclosure,

you have two particularly big T-shaped pillars of limestone

sort of facing each other.

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

wonderful carvings and bas-reliefs of animals,

birds, insects, all kinds of things.

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

in these structures was just absolutely amazing.

Archaeologists estimate

that it would have taken a team of 50 men

an entire week to move just one

of the monolithic pillars from the limestone quarry

to the top of the hill where they stand today

and over 300 hours to carve the bas-reliefs.

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

would have required a full year to be completed.

But why such a monumental site was built in the first place

remains a mystery.

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

like Gobekli Tepe could be.

And certainly Klaus Schmidt had not reached any conclusions,

except that it's clearly not a settlement.

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

Schmidt always hoped that it was funerary

and that there would be burials underneath the walls

or underneath some of the pillars or so on.

But so far, they have not yet found

any human remains at the site.

There are no domestic plants in the site.

There are only wild animal bones.

Inevitably, in archaeology, if we don't know

what something is for, we think a ritual.

But, really, it's pure speculation.

Intrigued by evidence that the structure might go back

to a Neolithic period,

Klaus Schmidt has the sediment layers of the site

radiocarbon-dated.

The results indicated

that the stone structures could be as much as 12,000 years old,

more than 5,000 years older

than mankind's first known civilization in Mesopotamia.

More than that,

it would place the construction of Gobekli Tepe

to a time when mainstream scholars suggest

humans were roaming the Earth as hunter-gatherers.

Well, the site of Gobekli Tepe

really did send shockwaves through the whole world

of early prehistory, because we'd never before known

or imagined even that simple hunter-gatherers

could produce such spectacular monumental structures.

Now, in archaeology, really since it began,

we've always assumed that hunter-gatherers were capable

of producing wonderful works of art...

Rock art, cave art, and things like that.

But we never imagined that they could come together

in sufficient numbers, uh, to make, uh,

monumental constructions like Gobekli Tepe.

But if the currently accepted timeline

for mankind's advancement is correct,

is it possible that primitive hunter-gatherers

could have built

such sophisticated megalithic structures?

Ancient astronaut theorists say no,

and instead suggest

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

one that was almost entirely wiped out

by a worldwide cataclysm.

And to support their claim,

they point to recent evidence of a catastrophic event

which many mainstream scientists believe occurred

at the very end of the last ice age,

which is believed to have lasted

from roughly 108,000 BC until nearly 10,000 BC.

Gobekli Tepe could be the smoking gun

of a lost civilization,

because it confirms that, at the time of the last ice age,

there was high culture existing in the world.

This is something that had been speculated for many years,

but there had not been the absolute evidence.

Now we could have it.

These engineering skills, this ordering of society

is something that must have existed

before the end of the last ice age.

And arguably even earlier.

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

proof of a lost civilization exists

some 300 miles away from Gobekli Tepe,

in the form of a vast underground city

known as Derinkuyu.

It extends some 13 stories underground

and had the capacity to support 20,000 people.

Although the site has yet to be scientifically dated,

some researchers have suggested

that it may have served as a prehistoric refuge.

Derinkuyu is a multileveled city

that has existed, uh, since time immemorial.

It was certainly used, uh, during Christian times.

But there's also evidence that there's prehistoric activity

going on at these places.

Archaeologists found evidence of Stone Age tools

going back to the Paleolithic era.

This is at the time of the last ice age.

And so it's possible that our ancestors escaped

the cataclysm and the ice age deep down inside them.

But if Derinkuyu really did serve as refuge

from a catastrophic event,

how might it offer a connection to Gobekli Tepe?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by exploring more recently discovered caves

and the stories suggesting that they were built upon the orders

of otherworldly beings.

Central Anatolia, Turkey.

300 miles from the ancient site of Gobekli Tepe.

December 28, 2014.

A local crew excavating for an urban renovation project

stumbles across a strange series of carved rooms and tunnels

deep underground.

Upon further exploration,

they find the subterranean network spans several miles

and extends hundreds of feet below the surface of the Earth,

much like the nearby caves of Derinkuyu.

What they discovered was that these caves extended

for a distance of 370 feet down into the rock.

Archaeologists estimate

that more than five million square feet of rock,

the volume of over 370 Olympic-size swimming pools,

was removed to carve out this subterranean city.

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

This mysterious cave system is still under excavation

and closed to the public.

But in June 2017,

author and researcher Andrew Collins

was granted access to the site.

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

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

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

that we find inside this great hill.

These tunnels that you see seem to go on and on.

And yet what's incredible

is that not only were they full of people,

but there was also livestock down here.

And we are told that as many as 20,000 people,

perhaps even as much as 60,000,

could've lived here at any one time.

Not only is there evidence

that these caves once housed thousands of people,

but archaeologists have found air vents and water wells

that would have made it possible to live underground

for years at a time.

These were cut deeply into the rock,

sometimes for hundreds of yards in depth.

And at the base of them were wells

that provided water to these underground populations.

When it was discovered,

historians recovered artifacts

that suggest the cave system was used

by the early Christians to escape persecution.

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

But based on new evidence, the caves might be much older.

A few years ago,