Ancient Aliens

Welcome to Egypt, Giorgio.

It's an Ancient Aliens event.

This is insane.

As ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

joins Egyptologist Ramy Romany,

for the journey of a lifetime.

Now let's go where no people are allowed,

inside the Great Pyramid.

This is incredible.

It's a special two-hour search

inside forbidden chambers...

Here it is.

I have goose bumps.

...and a closer than ever exploration

of the places behind mankind's greatest unsolved mysteries.

There are things in Egypt

that we cannot really explain.

For thousands of years,

Egypt has been known as a place of colossal structures,

strange rituals,

and technologies so advanced that they continue to astonish.

It's all here, in this sanctuary--

the whole story of humanity's beginning,

its place in the stars.

But what if the real history of Egypt

cannot be found written on the walls

of its tombs and temples,

but on an alien planet, far, far away?

Ancient Egypt was the center

for extraterrestrial activity on planet Earth.

Welcome to Egypt, Giorgio.

It has been 18 years since my last visit,

and in those 18 years, I have researched so much.

It is such an exciting time

and I can't wait to...

to see everything with new eyes.

In April 2018,

ancient astronaut theorist and explorer,

Giorgio Tsoukalos, traveled to Cairo

in the company of Egyptologist and Cairo native, Ramy Romany.

Joining them is Dr. Giulio Magli,

a professor of archaeoastronomy

from the Polytechnic University in Milan, Italy.

Giorgio is eager to see firsthand

whether or not the recent scientific discoveries

concerning the Great Pyramid

could provide further evidence of the theory

that extraterrestrials visited Egypt

thousands of years ago.

I am personally very excited to take you inside the pyramid,

because the Great Pyramid of Giza is not only

one of the seven ancient wonders of the world,

it's the most ancient one of them all.

-And the only one standing, Giorgio. -Yeah.

And that's what we're gonna see today.

You know, I-I find very exciting

to be able to share and exchange information.

Because what's happened recently, in my opinion,

has turned Egyptology upside down.

Absolutely. - I completely agree.

And so, I think that for both of us it will be great as well,

because every time you go there, it-it's like, uh, first time.

- Absolutely. - Yes.

In November 2017,

media outlets around the world announced the discovery

of what could be an enormous chamber

within the Great Pyramid of Giza.

If it can be verified,

it would be the first major find inside the pyramid

since the 19th century,

and a possible game-changer in understanding both the pyramid

and the people who built it.

The discovery of that void is sensational,

because it opens up the whole discussion

to more questions and to new answers.

The process, known as muography,

detected a chamber that appears to be so large

it could fit the entire Statue of Liberty

from head to toe.

This is it, guys, the pyramids.

Wow.

Okay.

- Wonderful. Incredible. - This is incredible.

Look at the size of this thing.

Every single block is bigger than this car.

Yeah, it is insane, it really is.

Are you ready for some climbing?

I have goose bumps on my calves right now.

Oftentimes, we throw around

the words "awesome" or "monumental,"

and we don't really think about these words,

but when you stand in front of the Great Pyramid,

the word "awesome" is, in fact, true.

Built from more than two million limestone blocks,

each weighing thousands of pounds,

the pyramid is aligned perfectly

to the cardinal points of the compass,

north, south, east and west,

suggesting that its builders possessed

extraordinary geographical knowledge.

According to mainstream Egyptologists,

the Great Pyramid was built by the pharaoh Khufu,

who reigned from 2589 to 2566 BC,

during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.

But this notion is hotly contested,

as it is based entirely on a single

and very controversial discovery.

In 1837,

British explorer Richard Howard-Vyse claimed

to have found the name of Khufu graffiti-ed onto

a stone roof of a chamber inside the pyramid.

However, it was later discovered

that Vyse had written in his private journal

that he found nothing in the chamber

that looked like hieroglyphics.

Some modern researchers suspect it may have been a forgery

by Vyse's team to ensure that his expensive expedition

was considered a rousing success.

One of the problems with Egyptology

is that it's something that started in the late 1800s,

and a lot of it is sort of solidified

within the university system.

But Egyptologists and archeologists and geologists

are discovering new things about Egypt all of the time

that completely shakes the foundations

of what they thought they knew about ancient Egypt.

We're even finding there are structures in Egypt

much older than what the mainstream Egyptians would say.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists

and a number of prominent archaeologists are concerned,

the Great Pyramid was likely built long before

the reign of Khufu.

There are some who believe the colossal structure

could even be more than 10,000 years old,

and date back to a period pre-dating that

of the Great Flood.

The main reason this pyramid

is the most magnificent of all of them

is not because what you're seeing here.

It's what you're about to see, it's what's inside.

Let's go.

Is it possible that whatever lies within

the newly discovered void in the Great Pyramid

will reveal not only incredible truths about ancient Egypt,

but about the history of humankind?

Could there be clues that reveal that Egypt was once home

to an extraterrestrial civilization?

During his first visit to Egypt in nearly two decades,

ancient astronaut theorist, Giorgio Tsoukalos,

is eager to find out about a recent discovery concerning

a possible hidden chamber located deep inside the walls

of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

This way. With him,

are Egyptologist, Ramy Romany,

and archaeoastronomer, Dr. Giulio Magli.

They are making their way

to what is called The Grand Gallery,

which can only be reached after walking up

a 200-foot-long passageway.

Directly above their heads is the area where

an international team of scientists believe

they may have located an enormous hidden chamber

more than 100 feet long.

So this is it, The Grand Gallery.

You look at this, and you think they made this

more than 4,000 years ago.

They actually built this.

This is incredible.

From here to the ceiling is about ten meters high,

and it goes about 50 meters in, which is 150 feet deep.

I mean, that just gives you an idea

of how huge this place is.

And it's perfect.

The blocks, they fit together,

and no mortar was used.

And you can't even put a money bill in between the fittings.

And this is what type of stone that we're looking at in here?

Unlike the rest of the pyramid,

- this is red granite. Red granite, right.

Red granite doesn't come from a local quarry

- like the limestone does. It comes from Aswan.

-Aswan. -So that's a thousand kilometers away.

A thousand kilometers away.

600 miles.

So you think the void is right on top of our heads here?

And how big is it

in relation to where we're standing?

- Okay, wow. The news

of a possible fourth chamber within the Great Pyramid

has become a source of great controversy inside

the archaeological community.

They have long held the belief

that pyramids were essentially built as burial vaults,

each possessing no more than three chambers.

Archaeologists and Egyptologists claim

that they were tombs for the pharaohs,

and yet no Egyptian pharaoh was ever found

in a pyramid in Egypt.

We have found the mummies of many Egyptian pharaohs,

but they're found in vaults deep underground