NARRATOR: The
greatest civilizations of antiquity running
on electrical power. JASON MARTELL: Electricity
is one of those things that ancient cultures seemed to
be harnessing in ways that we still can't wrap
our brain around. NARRATOR: Energy generating
microwaves, produced at the Great Pyramid of Giza. GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The question
is not if they use power, the question is, where did they
get the knowledge with which they created the power? NARRATOR: And a wireless energy
grid that crossed the globe. WILLIAM HENRY: It
was a transmitter of this cosmic power that
fed these celestial beings. NARRATOR: Could our
ancient ancestors have mastered the ability
to harness and create power? If so, where might this advanced
knowledge have come from? DAVID CHILDRESS: This evidence
of some nuclear reaction, what we may be seeing is the residue
of one of the ancient power plants used by
extraterrestrials. NARRATOR: 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 what secrets of
ancient energy sources may be unlocked at these
alien power plants? [music playing] The Western Stone, Jerusalem,
Israel, 1.2 million pounds. The Ramesseum Statue, Thebes,
Egypt, 2 million pounds. The Trilithon at the temple
of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon, 4.8 million pounds. All over the world,
ancient sites reveal engineering feats that
mainstream archaeologists believe were achieved with
slave labor and simple tools. The reason why I'm convinced
that sophisticated technology was implemented in
these ancient rocks is because, if we
go to a stone quarry today and look at the
scope of machinery required to accomplish similar things,
well, those machines are huge. They're power machines,
powerful tools. And if the mainstream
archaeology explanation is given that all of this stuff
was accomplished with obsidian or with chicken bones, I'm
sorry, it doesn't hold up. ROBERT BAUVAL: There are temples
that are built but using blocks that range from 50 to 200 tons. They're just far
too big for people who didn't have the wheel, who
have the pulley, who didn't have any facilities
to move these blocks. So to me, there
is a mystery there that needs to be explained,
either a technology that we don't
understand or, if one wants to go very speculative,
an external influence. NARRATOR: Could
the strength of men alone have been enough to
manage such colossal efforts? Or did these marvels
of engineering require something more? Stone Valley Materials Quarry,
Riverside, California, February 2012, a massive 680,000
pound granite monolith is prepped to travel
over 100 miles to become part of an exhibit
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Workers from 100 utility
crews, a 1.4 million pound crane, and a
44-axle tractor trailer rig with over 2,400 horsepower
are needed to move the rock. STEPHEN VANDER HART: And it's
going to require hydraulically jacking the boulder up off the
ground, which is incredibly difficult in itself, building
steel girders underneath it, placing 208 tires underneath
those steel girders, having one power unit pulling
it and one pushing it, and still, after all
that, only achieving about five miles an hour. NARRATOR: The boulder
called Levitated Mass is a gigantic payload by
modern construction standards. But it is small when compared
to many of the solid blocks moved by ancient builders. STEPHEN VANDER HART:
From my perspective, it is almost impossible
to take the 340 ton rock and move it without
modern day technology. It baffles my mind. I have-- I have no idea. It's crazy to think about. NARRATOR: How did our ancestors
move monoliths, some over 5 times the size of
Levitated Mass, without the aid of
high-powered machines? Researchers believe the
ancients not only used power to move solid stone
but to cut it as well. And the evidence can be found
on a remote cliff face buried in the Andes Mountains. Ollantaytambo, Peru, the
walls of this ancient mountain stronghold tell the story
of what some experts believe to have been
thousands of craftsmen shaping and cutting solid
stone with a precision that today could only be matched
with high-powered machine tools. BRIEN FOERSTER: We find huge
cube-like sections of stone, andesite, which is very
hard, have been removed from the mountain
with such accuracy that we can't find a
scratch in the surface. The corners also are not sharp. They're perfectly rounded. And no one can explain how
this could have been achieved. The ability to fit perfectly
fitting stones of several tons in weight together, so that a
single human hair can't fit in between them, is not a
question of sweat or man hours. It's a question of technology. It's really done to perfection
and not just perfection with small blocks of stone
but with blocks of stone weighing many, many tons. I believe that Ollantaytambo
is evidence of really advanced human civilization on Earth that
was also worldwde and had power tools. NARRATOR: But if our ancestors
really used sophisticated tools that ran on some sort
of power, might there have been other applications
of this technology beyond moving and cutting stone? BILL BIRNES: All
over the world, we have extraordinarily
advanced civilizations with urban systems. Things we have today in
delivery systems for water, for handling waste, pumps,
very sophisticated farming and agricultural techniques
that they should not have had given the level of
technology they worked with. GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The only
thing that we have left over is the original stone that
all these ancient structures were built in. Everything else that was
built on top of it that had to do potentially with
electrical components, that has disappeared. Because only stone
withstands the test of time. NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the most dominant civilizations of antiquity were able to
achieve such status because of energy driven technologies? And if so, what was the
source of that power? Perhaps clues may be found among
ancient Mesopotamian artifacts. The National Museum of Iraq,
in 1938, the museum director discovers terracotta
pots and copper cylinders in the archives that may have
been used as galvanic cells. The nearly 2000-year-old devices
called Baghdad Batteries are believed to predate the
invention of the cell battery by more than 1,000 years. Archaeologists
speculate they may have been used to
electroplate gold onto silver for decorative jewelry. JASON MARTELL: The Baghdad
Battery that we've currently found in Iraq, about
a dozen of them, it can generate around 4 volts. Now a current modern
day flashlight could be run by
a 9-volt battery. So if we think of
a Baghdad Battery around this size
generating 4 volts, what if we increase the
size to around six feet? That might generate
20, 30, 50 volts and have the sufficient power
to actually utilize energy in a way that we do today. NARRATOR: Mainstream scientists
agree that the Baghdad Battery is evidence ancient man had
the means to create power and the understanding
of how to apply it. But is there proof of even
more complex devices that may have run on electricity? 370 miles south of
the Giza Plateau stands the Hathor Temple. Approximately 4,000 years
old, the halls of this monument are lined
with curious images. But one relief depicts what
many ancient astronaut theorists believed to be proof that
the ancients used power. They call it the Dendera bulb. Here is a replica of the ball
that's shown in the Dendera reliefs in Egypt. What's interesting
about this bulb is the fact that,
on the wall relief, we see the bulb is actually
plugged into what appears to be a power source. DAVID CHILDRESS: The whole idea
that the ancient Egyptians had some kind of
electrical lighting, and this was something that
happened in probably temples around the world,
baffles Egyptologists, how people deep
underground would be able to paint these ceilings
without fires and lights. Their explanation right now is
that they used a complex system of mirrors to move light at just
a few minutes during the day down deep inside these tombs. But another
explanation, of course, would be they actually
had electrical lights. NARRATOR: Did our ancestors
have an understanding of how to generate power thousands
of years before modern man? Or is it possible that
they received the knowledge from some otherworldly source,
as some ancient astronaut theorists contend? JASON MARTELL: Electricity
is one of those things that ancient cultures seem to
be harnessing in ways that we still can't wrap
our brain around. So it's very
possible that when we look at things like
electricity, where would they get this information? We have all sorts of stories,
mythologies and legends, that could be interpreted as
gods who, in reality, were misinterpreted extraterrestrials
gifting man with technology in the form of power. For example, when God
said, let there be light in the Old Testament, or
when Prometheus gave fire to man, the burning bush
and the eternal flame at the Temple of
Apollo, all of that conceivably could
have been technology. The question is not
if they use power, the question is, where did they
get the knowledge with which they created the power? NARRATOR: Is there
really evidence among the ruins of
ancient civilizations that man had access to
sophisticated technologies that ran on power? If so, where are the
mysterious power plants that generated the energy? Perhaps they're still here,
hiding in plain sight. The Giza Necropolis, Egypt,
1993, a team of engineers uses a remotely operated
camera in an attempt to discover the true function
of what is believed to be an air shaft leading from
the supposed queen's chamber of the Great Pyramid. First discovered in
1872, archaeologists long considered these narrow tunnels
to be ventilation ducts. JASON MARTELL: This robot
traveled up this small shaft, which was too small for a
human or any type of device to go through. And all of a sudden, it
finds a closed door, hinged by two little metal clamps. NARRATOR: According to
mainstream archaeologists, the door and metal
handles were intentionally built as a symbolic passageway
that the queen would travel through to the afterlife. But some researchers have
questioned why this passageway would have been designed
with a deliberate blockage. And why, on a plateau filled
with monumental pyramids believed to serve
as royal tombs, is the Great Pyramid the
only one with such a door? Egyptologists
are very much fond of saying that
pyramids are tombs and that they have been robbed
at some point in the past. But the fact is that we have
found, in the 20th century, a number of pyramids whose
central king's chamber, so to speak, is intact. And when they open
the sarcophagus, they found that sarcophagus
to be empty as well. NARRATOR: If the Great
Pyramid was not a tomb, what may have been
its true purpose? In May 2011, another
team of researchers set out to further
explore the blocked air shaft in the queen's chamber. This time, the crew
used a robot equipped with a micro-snake camera
to slip through a hole and reveal what was
beyond the door. When they actually
penetrated this small door, they found a hidden
room within the pyramid. CHRISTOPHER DUNN: What they
found was copper fittings, or the metal fittings. Another feature of the back
of these metal fittings was that on one side the loop
looked like it was corroded. The camera also looked
down and scanned the floor. What we saw was red markings. My interpretation of those were
they were electrical symbols. But why were they there? NARRATOR: Could these
artifacts be actual evidence that electricity once coursed
through the structure? And if so, could the
Great Pyramid of Giza have been built to serve as not
a royal tomb but a power plant, as some researchers contend? CHRISTOPHER DUNN: If we
dismiss the tomb theory and we look at the
pyramid itself, we see something that
modern engineers can really tune into and understand. What we have is a very,
very precise building that has the precision of
a fraction of an inch is something that is very
noteworthy and not indicative of a simple agrarian culture. So what we have is something
that is almost like a machine. NARRATOR: If the Great Pyramid
was a sophisticated machine potentially capable
of creating energy, how could it have worked? Some researchers believe clues
can be found by exploring underneath the structure. In 2000, maritime engineer
John Cadman proposed a theory that the Egyptians pumped water
from the nearby Nile River into a small chamber
underneath the Great Pyramid. The pump could then create
intense hydraulic pressure that would cause the entire
pyramid to vibrate. JOHN CADMAN: In the
subterranean chamber, there is some evidence that
shows that there had been water present in it and that there's
water erosion on the floor and then up in the fin area. And then also, because it was
a hydraulic pulse generator, so they have a rarefaction wave. It's a extremely low
pressure wave which would have struck the ceiling. And the ceiling is
actually chipped. And that would have been
from the actual compression waves hitting the ceiling. That's very evident. NARRATOR: If Cadman's
theory proves true, what would have been the
purpose of the hydraulic pulse? Engineer Chris Dunn
believes the answer can be found by further
examination of the shafts in what some call the queen's
chamber where traces of zinc and hydrochloric acid
have been discovered. CHRISTOPHER DUNN: I believe
the chemical coming in through the northern
shaft was hydrated zinc. And the other chemical coming
through the southern shaft and into the chamber was
dilute hydrochloric acid. These are actually seen
on the chamber walls. NARRATOR: Dunn suggests that the
two chemicals were poured down through the shafts and
then mixed together inside the queen's chamber,
triggering combustion. CHRISTOPHER DUNN:
Well, this vessel represents the queen's chamber. Into the tubes, we're going
to pour hydrated zinc and then hydrochloric acid. When you bring these
two liquids together, then a chemical reaction occurs. And a product of that
chemical reaction is hydrogen. And you can see the
vapor, the hydrogen, escaping through the chimney. And there you have the reaction. NARRATOR: Dunn speculates
that the hydrogen gas traveled from the queen's chamber
into the king's chamber. Then the vibrations from
the subterranean pool energized the hydrogen atoms
into a microwave energy beam. The evidence that
indicates the use of hydrogen can be found in
the king's chamber. There is a shaft in
the king's train, has dimensions of
8.4 by 4.8, which would be suitable for
a waveguide for a mesa or a microwave amplification
through stimulated emission radiation. And from there, we can actually
propose many different ideas of what they did with it. NARRATOR: Might the
Great Pyramid of Giza actually have created
power in the remote past? And is it possible that
energy ran the advanced tools of early builders and devices
like the Dendera bulb? CHRISTOPHER DUNN: We
can use our imaginations and come up with all
kinds of devices to power with that kind of energy. From simple domestic appliances
to highly advanced spacecraft, I mean, both things
are possible. The ancient
Egyptians demonstrated an exceptional level
of skill in everything that they created
during the old kingdom. But the question remains,
did they do it on their own? Or did they have some access
to information or technology that was not of this Earth? NARRATOR: If Giza was,
in fact, a power plant, could the energy have been used
for some otherworldly purpose, as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest? And if the power coming
from Giza was that strong, could it have
traveled beyond Egypt? Answers may be found in a
material that connects Giza to a special kind of monolith,
one that exists on continents all over the world. The Sun Temple at Abu
Gorab, Memphis, Egypt. In 1898, an excavation
team with the Berlin Museum discovered the base of a massive
obelisk, estimated to have once stood at over 160 feet tall. According to the
ancient Egyptian building texts from Edfu, Abu Gorab was
known as the place of the gods. Egyptologists know it as a place
where the ancients connected with divine energies. It is said that this is the
very place where pharaohs and priests experienced
heightened awareness through the use of
vibrations transmitted through the obelisk. JASON MARTELL: This
ancient obelisk was used as a geodesic
marker, pinpointing the source of some
type of ancient energy, maybe not spiritual energy
but actual physical energy that they were able to harness. NARRATOR: While scholars believe
Abu Gorab was home to one of the largest obelisks
ever constructed, similar shaped
monoliths have been found in hundreds of
variations all over the world. Unsuitable for shelter, storage,
or a higher vantage point, could obelisks have served
another more powerful purpose? DAVID CHILDRESS:
There's evidence that obelisks are tapping in
to this natural energy that's part of the Earth. The whole concept is to
take these natural energies of the Earth and
manipulate them. It's a subtle energy. But for those who have
the device and technology to see and measure
this energy, it's something that can be used. I believe obelisks are kind
of like acupuncture needles for the Earth, focusing and
possibly healing Earth energy meridians that are not balanced
and that the ancient cultures knew how to do that. NARRATOR: A vast
number of obelisks are constructed from
granite, a stone containing high concentrations of energy
responsive quartz crystal. Because of its
crystalline structure, quartz has the ability
to convert the Earth's natural electrical
vibrations into usable energy by a property known
as piezo electricity. The piezo is for the
vibrating or oscillating. And the electric
is for electric. What this means is that you can
use electricity to make them vibrate mechanically. And when they
vibrate mechanically, they can generate electricity. DOC BARHAM: Crystals have been
used throughout all of history for various inventions,
various technologies, and for getting things done. Your watch that you
wear on your wrist could be a technology
that uses crystals. Crystals are literally a
tool and a technology that's essentially for
transducing energy. And that is taking
energy in one state and essentially converting
it to another state. NARRATOR: Is it possible the
ancient cultures that erected obelisks had some
understanding of the high tech properties of quartz? And if so, could they have used
obelisks to transmit energy over vast distances? Ancient astronaut
theorists believe the answer is yes
and that evidence can be found by studying
the work of Nikola Tesla. In July 1899, the
famed scientist claimed to have invented a
way to transmit electricity through the air wirelessly
all over the world. By harnessing the Earth's
natural conductivity, or what Tesla called
standing waves, giant transmitters could send
and receive limitless amounts of electricity flowing
like invisible water. And one of the key components in
his system was quartz crystal. MICHAEL DENNIN: Typically
when we deal with the energy of electromagnetic
waves, it's in what we call a propagating form. It's like the flashlight. You turn it on. And it moves. It propagates through space and
goes from one place to another. A standing wave is kind
of a different phenomena. Because the wave just oscillates
in one place up and down. And the energy goes in
between two different regions, back and forth. DAVID CHILDRESS: Tesla was
proposing and tried to build this system of wireless power. He built the Wardenclyffe Tower
on Long Island in New York. Tesla was going to then hook
this tower up to a power plant. And he was going to
broadcast electricity. According to him,
anti-gravity airships would draw power
from these towers. Ships, cars, and
other power plants could also draw from
this broadcast power. NARRATOR: Was Tesla's
technological breakthrough a modern scientific innovation? Or could it have been a
rediscovery of a lost alien technology? Some researchers believe that,
like Tesla, ancient builders discovered the
ability to harness and broadcast Earth's power. And the ancient equivalent
to Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower may have been the Great Pyramid. The walls of this
massive monument contain a high concentration
of quartz crystal. And some believe the Great
Pyramid, in conjunction with the obelisks, made up what
may have been a global wireless energy network. CHRISTOPHER DUNN: The
pyramids were actually geomechanical devices. In other words, they were
attached to the Earth. They were tuned to vibrate with
the frequencies of the Earth. And they converted the
energies of the Earth into to electromagnetic energy. DAVID CHILDRESS: Obelisks
themselves, particularly the ones we find in Egypt,
are, in fact, giant crystal antennas. And they can broadcast
power in the way that Nikola Tesla, the
great American inventor, wanted to broadcast power. NARRATOR: Could obelisks
have been constructed as ancient energy conductors? And was this expertise really
the product of man alone, or might it have been the
result of an other worldly intelligence as ancient
astronaut theorists contend? PHILIP COPPENS: We do know
that obelisks symbolize this power of the gods. The top of the obelisk
is a small pyramid. It is a Benben stone. And it is the Benben
stone which is said to have been
a communication device with the deities. ERICH VON DANIKEN: It's possible
that inside of some pyramids there might be some sort
of energy, let's say, some sort of equipment
which creates waves. So I could imagine that
some of the real gods, the extraterrestrials,
some thousands of years ago, they left some little
technology inside the pyramid. And this technology was very
super modern and powerful. NARRATOR: Could the numerous
obelisks found at various sites all around the world actually be
remnants of a power system far more sophisticated than
anything available today? And is it possible our ancestors
may have pioneered other types of power plants
thousands of years ago, which would be considered
cutting edge by 21st century standards? Some believe the answer can be
found in the remote mountains of the Himalayas. The Indus Valley,
Pakistan, 1922. The Indian Archaeological
Survey discovers the remnants of what is the largest ancient
city of the Indus Valley civilizations, Mohenjo-daro. The artifacts and architecture
cataloged at the site indicate a metropolis prospered
here nearly 4,600 years ago. But the skeletal remains
found among the ruins tell a puzzling story. I understand that they found
a lot of radioactive ash there. And they found
radioactive people there. And so the assumption
is that there must have been some radiation event. And so it is possible
that there was some kind of nuclear explosion
there a long time ago. The problem is that in order
to do that, in order for that to be the case, you would have
to have some very advanced technology. DAVID CHILDRESS:
These people are just lying dead in the street. There's radioactive skeletons. There are ceramics
that have been melted. It's as if some kind of
atomic, nuclear detonation went off in this area, totally
destroying these cities and killing everyone. What we may be seeing
is the residue of one of the ancient power plants
used by extraterrestrials. NARRATOR: But if, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe, Mohenjo-daro was wiped
out in a nuclear meltdown, where is the power plant
that might have caused such mass devastation? Mount Kailash, Western Tibet,
at an elevation of nearly 22,000 feet, this mountain is one
of the most distinctive peaks in the world. PHILIP COPPENS: This is
a very interesting shape for a mountain. It is cone-shaped from one
side and pyramid-shaped from another. And this is precisely the
shape we see elsewhere in ancient Sumeria,
ancient Egypt, various other ancient
civilizations whereby this pyramid-shaped
object really is said to have some form of
power, some kind of connection with the deity. NARRATOR: In the Eastern
world, Mount Kailash is regarded as the spiritual
center of the universe and the birthplace of four
of the world's religions, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Jainism, and Daoism. For thousands of years,
religious pilgrims have trekked here to perform
the holy ritual of walking a 32 mile circular path carved
along the mountain's base. PHILIP COPPENS: Everybody at
one point in their lifetime had to go to this place
to connect with the gods. And this is really the
interesting aspect. Because what is it about this
mountain which sets it apart from other mountains? There are several possibilities. One of them is that the gods
really took residence here. NARRATOR: Is it possible,
as some ancient astronaut theorists speculate, that Mount
Kailash was once inhabited or perhaps operated by the gods? They say the true
significance of this mountain can be found detailed in
an ancient Chinese drawing. The Magao Caves, Western China,
between 500 BC and 1,500 AD, Buddhist monks stored thousands
of scrolls and manuscripts inside a series of painted
temples and shrines dug into a hillside
approximately 600 miles north of Mount Kailash. Here, in 1907, Hungarian born
British Explorer, Aurel Stein, discovered a sealed
off room containing nearly 50,000 manuscripts
in various languages. WILLIAM HENRY: Aurel Stein finds
this incredible place called the Cave of the
Thousand Buddhas, which is sort of like a
Buddhist hall of records. It's a cache of thousands upon
thousands of ancient Buddhist text. Included within this
is the Diamond Sutra, which is the oldest
printed manuscript known to human history. NARRATOR: The collection
of ancient texts and relics also included a second
century AD Buddhist diagram of a cosmic mountain called
Mount Meru, a sacred site believed to be a stairway
connecting heaven and Earth. For nearly 100 years,
the ancient illustration drew little notice. But recently the diagram caught
the attention of a scientist from Northrop Grumman who
specializes in the development of advanced weapons
for the military. WILLIAM HENRY: He said, I
design particle beam weapons for a living, for
the government. Do you realize that that's
a blueprint for a particle accelerator? I went and compared the
diagram of Mount Meru with an illustration of what's
called a cyclotron, an atom smasher which was used in
the development of the A-bomb for the Manhattan Project. They're a perfect
match for one another. DAVID CHILDRESS: Aural Stein's
diagram of Mount Meru that he found seemed to show Mount Meru
as some kind of particle beam accelerator or some device
that was stacked up, had different lenses. It would have made it into some
device that focused energy. The kind of energy needed
would have required some tremendous power
plant, something putting out enormous amounts of energy. NARRATOR: Might the nearly
2000-year-old Buddhist diagram of Mount Meru actually
depict a device that today would run
on nuclear power? Mongolian myth says that the
celestial beings dwelled around Meru because of the energy
that was emitted from it. It was a transmitter of
this cosmic power that fed these celestial
beings or kept them alive. Whatever the purpose
of this device was, it would have required some
extremely powerful energy source, some type
of nuclear power. And I think that power might
have come from Mount Kailash. This wasn't a
place that actually put out spiritual energy. But what we're talking
about is a place that produced raw energy,
technological energy potentially. We're talking about
a power plant. NARRATOR: Could the ruins at
Mohenjo-daro really be evidence that a nuclear power plant
existed in the Himalayas thousands of years ago? Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes and speculate that remnants of a worldwide power grid may
be found among the sacred ruins of ancient civilizations
all over the world. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl,
Fukushima Daiichi, these sites are now gestures of what were
once thriving power plants of the 20th century. JASON MARTELL: Nuclear
power is widely used in today's infrastructure. And it serves a very high need. But we also know that nuclear
power can possibly become unstable and cause a meltdown. GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Just
like the power plants we've seen melting
down in modern times, the ancients saw their
own power plants fail. And did that, in turn,
cause some of the greatest civilizations to fall? If we assume that all
of these power plants were somehow connected and
one power plant went offline, is it possible
that, as a result, the other power plants
went offline as well? NARRATOR: Some
researchers believe just as modern engineers employ
strategic placement of power plants today, so
did the ancients, and that some sacred
sites were not revered for spiritual
or ritualistic reasons, as mainstream scholars
believe, but actually valued for their capacity
to produce energy. Certain monuments are
placed in certain locations. And we might think
this is haphazard. But we're slowly beginning
to realize that it is not the case. And the reason why is because,
whether it's the Great Pyramid, whether it's Stonehenge, whether
it's Teotihuacan, whether it is another important power
site of our ancestors, we're beginning to realize
that those sites have an energy which we
don't register at first. There's definitely
some knowledge by ancient man of
this world grid and these energetic points. And they are marked
by these monuments. There's a lot of evidence
that the ancients were far more connected to
this higher energy source than we are today. NARRATOR: But if ancient
engineers pulled energy from a power grid, as
some researchers believe, why after thousands, if not
tens of thousands of years, did the power stop flowing? CHRISTOPHER DUNN:
The ancient Egyptians had developed their
knowledge over many years. And they must have had tools
and technology that do not exist in the archaeological
record anymore. So something happened to
this ancient culture that caused the power
plants to shut down and probably wiped out a large
portion of the civilization. They possessed
incredible technology, which means that they were far
older than we think they are. And then something happened to
them, whether they fought, blew themselves up, or some
Earth-wide calamity came and wiped them out. NARRATOR: But where
would agrarian cultures, some that didn't have the
wheel or work animals, acquire the skills necessary to
build a worldwide energy grid and the power plants to run it? According to the
ancient astronaut theory, extraterrestrials have
always been motivated by the idea of advancing
human civilization. They've given us so many
gifts of knowledge that power is pretty much a no-brainer. The thing all these ancient
cultures had in common is that they included
stories and artifacts that are meant to honor
those who gave them this knowledge, the gods. And the gods were
extraterrestrials. NARRATOR: Is it possible that
alien beings helped ancient man create a global network of
sophisticated power plants in the remote past, one that may
have powered the devices used to create
civilization's greatest archaeological mysteries? Are modern scientists just now
rediscovering energy technology mastered by the ancients? And if so, could what remains
of these long forgotten power sources reveal a celestial
connection, one that led to the advancement of the
human race in the distant past and that perhaps
may one day return to help us in the future.
