1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Strange burial rituals. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:10,000 What we're talking about is some kind of other dimensional travel for the soul to the undertake. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Elaborate chambers filled with mysterious objects. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:28,000 The fact that these boats existed inside tombs leads me to think that they tried to reach some type of extraterrestrial realms. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,000 And bizarre burial mounds found across the globe. 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:40,000 When you start looking at structures inside with celestial alignments, you start to wonder, 7 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 was there contact between some of these areas? 8 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Were the tombs of our ancient ancestors actually gateways to the afterlife? 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Or were they really meant to connect modern man with our alien ancestors? 10 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:06,000 You have to ask yourself if they are perhaps maps to guide the dead back to the star systems where they originally came from. 11 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 12 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 What if it were true? 13 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 14 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:31,000 And if so, might the secrets of the ancient tombs reveal an otherworldly plan for mankind? 15 00:01:52,000 --> 00:02:04,000 The Valley of the Kings, Egypt. 16 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 The Taj Mahal, Agra India. 17 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:15,000 And King Bacall's tomb, Palenque, Mexico. 18 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Spectacular burial sites that date back thousands of years are found across the world. 19 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:31,000 According to mainstream researchers, these locations are the final resting places for ancient leaders. 20 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:43,000 But might they also serve a more profound, perhaps extraterrestrial purpose? 21 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Why do we have the most massive of constructions in the far and distant past? 22 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Well, according to the ancient texts and the ancient traditions, this knowledge was given to our ancestors by the gods. 23 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:10,000 If the sole function of tombs was to house the dead, then why are virtually all of these connected to notions of spiritual energy, images of astronomy, 24 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:18,000 and a strong belief in the existence of other, arguably more spiritual worlds? 25 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:29,000 All cultures share this notion of somehow opening a doorway, opening a star gate, opening a gateway to another dimension so the soul can return. 26 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:35,000 We know that it is meant because the soul is going to go on a voyage to the afterlife. 27 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:50,000 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. 28 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Could ancient tombs really have served another, more extraterrestrial purpose? 29 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Perhaps as portals to reunite the deceased with celestial beings? 30 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Many ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers can be found by taking a closer look at the mysterious texts of ancient Egypt. 31 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Sakara, situated on the west bank of the Nile River, 20 miles south of Cairo. 32 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:36,000 This archaeological site is one of the oldest and largest burial grounds in all of Egypt. 33 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Egyptologists called these monuments tombs, but to the Egyptians they were not tombs, they were gateways to the afterlife. 34 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:58,000 It is through these structures that the king would begin a journey into the underworld in order to face obstacles, dangers, and threats. 35 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:09,000 And if he would overcome these threats, he would be given passage into the afterlife kingdom of Zeriz. 36 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Overlooking the immense necropolis lies the pyramid of King Tete, the first ruler of Egypt's sixth dynasty. 37 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:31,000 King Tete built his pyramid in an adjoining mortuary temple during his reign more than 4,000 years ago. 38 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I'm walking on what's left of the ancient causeway of King Tete the first, that's his pyramid. 39 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 And here is his very much ruined mortuary temple. 40 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Now this pyramid is very important, it contains the oldest religious writing in the world, the pyramid texts. 41 00:05:50,000 --> 00:06:01,000 According to archaeologists, the pyramid texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious writings that date back to 2400 BC. 42 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,000 They contain passages about Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, 43 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:15,000 descriptions of how to prepare the pharaoh's remains during his ascent to the heavens after death. 44 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:22,000 The pyramid texts are all about the stars. It's all about the king becoming a star. 45 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:31,000 It's all about the king ascending to the sky and joining Osiris Orion in the sky. 46 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:39,000 But according to ancient astronaut theorists, the pyramid texts didn't only guide the pharaoh to an afterlife, 47 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:47,000 they actually provided instruction on how the pharaoh could travel to other worlds. 48 00:06:47,000 --> 00:07:00,000 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. 49 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:08,000 What the pyramid texts are saying is that we, the ancient Egyptians specifically of course, are able to reach the gods again. 50 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:15,000 For this we have to die, but once we're dead we're in... 51 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Buried in the desert sands for centuries, the ruins of Sakara are home to another ancient mystery just one half mile away from the pyramid of King Tete. 52 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:36,000 In 1850, French archaeologist Auguste Mariette made an astonishing discovery. 53 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:42,000 He unearthed a massive underground bunker. 54 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:49,000 This is the most strange and mysterious place. It feels like being in the bowels of the underworld. 55 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:57,000 It's hard to describe, it's like being in another world, the world of the dead. 56 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:14,000 The syrupyum contains enormous sarcophagi made from granite that was believed to have been transported from the city of Aswan nearly 600 miles away. 57 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:24,000 This is just one of the many sarcophagus that are here, dozens and dozens of them, and they weigh about 70 tons apiece. 58 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:34,000 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. 59 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:47,000 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. 60 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:59,000 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. 61 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Ancient astronaut theorists question just how the ancient Egyptians could have moved these gigantic stones for miles and then wedged them into the underground labyrinth. 62 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 And to what purpose? 63 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 So we have one big problem. 64 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Imagine in ancient Egypt, they dig out of the rock kilometers and kilometers of subterranean channels. 65 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Right and left, they make niches. Then they go to today's Aswan. 66 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:49,000 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 channels. 67 00:09:49,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Archaeologists still today cannot figure out how these giant basalt sarcophagi were made. 68 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:09,000 They're perfectly made and how they would even move them into these catacombs that are underground. 69 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:22,000 It's like they would have had to levitate and put these 70 ton boxes by some magical means, like anti-gravity. 70 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Most scholars believe the Serapium and its massive sarcophagi were constructed to house the mummified remains of the apis bulls. 71 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Egyptians believe that these apis bulls were descendant from the sky. 72 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:46,000 They would have elaborate ceremonies with these bulls. 73 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:53,000 But when Mariette opened the sarcophagi, they were empty, apart from some bones. 74 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Only one apis bull mummy was discovered at the site. 75 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the sacred bulls may have been the creation of extraterrestrials, 76 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:13,000 and that these creatures were feared, not worshiped, by the ancient Egyptians. 77 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 The humans are afraid of these monsters because they were created by the gods. 78 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:25,000 They are holy animals, so they wait until the monsters die of a natural way. 79 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:33,000 And now the animal is dead, they smash, crash the bones of the monster, they put it into the sarcophagi. 80 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:41,000 In ancient Egypt, every single living creature after its death was mummified. 81 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:49,000 So the fact that we can find boxes in which we have hacked up bones, you have to ask yourself, why? 82 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:57,000 So they made sure that after death they would hack up the bodies and then put a 35 ton lid on top of that, 83 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:02,000 so that those creatures would never return in the future. 84 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Could the sarcophagi have been constructed as a kind of prison to prevent the return of the bulls after death? 85 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Or could they have served a different, even more profound purpose? 86 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Egyptologists are baffled and they don't know what the purpose of these things were. 87 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Also, why are some of them empty? 88 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:31,000 And you have to wonder too, if these boxes had some other purpose originally, 89 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 are these really some kind of interdimensional stargates? 90 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:42,000 And then extraterrestrials are able to come and go from this planet using that. 91 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Were the Sarapium sarcophagi actually a teleportation system? 92 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 As some ancient astronaut theorists believe. 93 00:12:53,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Could they be a series of chambers used to convey ancient humans and perhaps alien visitors to other planets? 94 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Perhaps another underground tomb complex halfway around the globe can provide further clues. 95 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Northern Peru 1987 96 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Archaeologist Walter Alva uncovers the lost tomb of the Lord of Sipon. 97 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Intact and untouched by thieves, this burial place is considered one of the richest in the world. 98 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:45,000 The Lord of Sipan was a moche king up in the Lambayeque region of Peru along the coast. 99 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:55,000 They found gold and silver and all these incredibly beautiful artifacts and textiles and art. 100 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Proving archaeologists, they sometimes call it the kingtuts tomb of South America. 101 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 The objects that they found in these tombs were unusual. 102 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:17,000 The burial chamber was filled with artifacts that included ceramic pots, gold, copper and silver utensils. 103 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:25,000 And feather ornaments some researchers believe were intended to accompany and protect the Lord of Sipan in the afterlife. 104 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Some archaeologists suggest that several of his servants, wives and consorts were sacrificed. 105 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 And their bodies were placed inside to accompany him into the afterlife. 106 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,000 We see that Lord Sipan is not buried in isolation. We see that he is buried with some other people. 107 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:55,000 And so when we extrapolate from this and when we realize that other cultures have been doing the same kind of schematic. 108 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:03,000 What we're seeing is that these people believed that the afterlife was very much a physical place. 109 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,000 It was believed that he would have needed some of these helpers. 110 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:14,000 It is believed that he would probably want to be reunited, if not united, with his most immediate family and some of his most trusted advisors. 111 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Among the incredible treasures buried with the Lord of Sipan were strange statues that some researchers believe are evidence of extraterrestrial beings. 112 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:45,000 As well as servants and all the artifacts, they even found these strange, kind of weird anthropomorphized figurines that some people say resemble beings from other worlds. 113 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,000 They show bug-eyed people who do not look like a normal human. 114 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:05,000 So you have at Sipan really a tomb that seems to show extraterrestrial beings, anthropomorphic beings that are half-animal, half-human. 115 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:12,000 And people who don't look like a normal human being that look like extraterrestrials. 116 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Lord of Sipan's tomb has some very interesting relics that were found within his burial. 117 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Were these beings that were going to help him go into the afterlife, possibly back into space or into the heavens? 118 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:35,000 The Lord of Sipan's disciples believed that he was not a mere mortal, but actually half-god and half-man. 119 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:45,000 But specifically what is of interest is that he has a face mask which is made of gold and his body largely is dressed with copper shielding. 120 00:16:46,000 --> 00:17:01,000 So all of a sudden we see somebody whose that body is meant to resemble clearly something else, a shining one, the divine being which he was once believed to be, but also which in death he was believed to once again become. 121 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Was the Lord of Sipan really half-man, half-god as his followers believed? 122 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:16,000 And might the figurines found in his grave really represent the ancient ruler's extraterrestrial origins? 123 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:27,000 If so, is it possible that this tomb, like the ones found in Egypt, really served as a portal to the stars? 124 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and believe more evidence can be found by looking at the boat-shaped coffins and strange burial rituals of the ancient Terajan people. 125 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 South Sulawesi, Indonesia. 126 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Here can be found the cave tombs of the Tana Teraja. 127 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:59,000 The site of a complex funeral ritual that dates back to 3000 BC. 128 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,000 The Terajan people believe death is a gradual process toward the afterlife. 129 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Many cultures believe in an afterlife, something that goes on beyond the physical bodies. 130 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:28,000 The Terajan people in Indonesia are very interesting and unusual because among the most elaborate rituals they have are not rituals of life but for death. 131 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:39,000 They have incredible ceremonies when people die, they have huge feasts, and they have these incredible celebrations for the dead. 132 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:52,000 The Terajan people put the dead into these special coffins, which are also like a model of a spaceship, and then they ensure them upon these cliffs. 133 00:18:53,000 --> 00:19:03,000 And their beliefs too are that ultimately the dead are returning to the stars, and that they as a people will also return to the stars as well. 134 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:09,000 As translated, the name Teraja means the people from above. 135 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:16,000 And Terajans believe their ancestors descended from the stars in skyships. 136 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Their elaborate coffins are built in the form of a boat and thought to resemble the skyships that carried their ancestors to Earth. 137 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:38,000 A wooden effigy called a Tao Tao is carved in the likeness of the dead person and placed in the balcony to represent the deceased and watch over their remains. 138 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:54,000 The effigies are a beautiful illustration with which they wanted to show us that once somebody is deceased, they can still look down upon you because being dead doesn't mean that they are dead. 139 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,000 They just mean that you go on to the next level of existence. 140 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:09,000 And it's an idea that has been with us not just in our culture, but in every ancient culture and modern culture as well. 141 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:18,000 The Terajan people, they believe in sky gods who descended from the sky, who left them a body of knowledge, and then who disappeared. 142 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:32,000 And they very much believe that by doing what our ancestors did when these creatures were here, that they will therefore also be able to join these divine beings which were once here. 143 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 And specifically that upon death they will be able to join them in the home of these deities. 144 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,000 That is very much on par with what we see throughout the world. 145 00:20:43,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Is it possible, as some researchers believe, that ancient astronauts visited Earth thousands of years ago and inspired our ancestors to build boat-shaped coffins that emulated their space vehicles? 146 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:09,000 If so, could the presence of boat coffins mean that our ancestors were preparing to make a journey to the stars? 147 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Some believe the ultimate proof can be found in a mysterious burial mound in Ireland, one with star maps that give clues not just to where the ancient visitors came from, but where the dead may have, in fact, chosen to return. 148 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Old Castle, Ireland 149 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Amid the ruins of a stone age cemetery, lies a 5,000-year-old tomb, nearly 120 feet in diameter. 150 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 It is named after the mythical poet king, Olam Thadla. 151 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,000 With Ola Folder's tomb, what we see is this connection between the Earth and the sky. 152 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Some people have suggested it might be a celestial observatory, but I think it's much more likely that it was sort of a temple, a place of worship that connected the sky and the Earth. 153 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:27,000 According to ancient astronaut theorists, astronomical hieroglyphs carved on the interior of the stone walls may have been the work of other worldly beings. 154 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:42,000 At Olam Folder, we can find an incredibly accurate astronomical chart, and one has to wonder how those ancestors were able to do this without any knowledge of astronomy. 155 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:56,000 In fact, the legends of that part of the world tell us that they had assistants, that these topics were taught to those people by none other than the shining ones who descended from the sky. 156 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Olam Folder has inside of it celestial charts, so you have to ask yourself if they are perhaps maps for these extraterrestrial visitors to show them the way home, back to the stars. 157 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Could extraterrestrials, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, have taught our ancient ancestors how to build a so-called celestial observatory? 158 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:41,000 And if so, might the cemetery have served as a staging area, a place for extraterrestrials to observe, predict and record stellar movements in preparation for their return to the stars? 159 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the ancient burial structures of Japan. 160 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Sakai, Japan 161 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Here, in this city located 250 miles southwest of Tokyo, lies the Dyson Kofun, one of over 40 ancient crypts within a six-mile radius. 162 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:23,000 More than twice the length of the Great Pyramid of Giza, it is one of the largest tombs in the world, constructed in the 5th century AD. 163 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:37,000 It is believed to be the resting place of Nin-toku, the 16th emperor of Japan, but of all the various types and designs that make up the Kofun structures. 164 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Perhaps the most mysterious are those in the shape of a keyhole, one that can only be seen from above. 165 00:24:51,000 --> 00:25:03,000 The very fact that this was made to look like a keyhole, that this was made only to be seen from the sky, to me, indicates this could be a clear message to the guys to say, look here. 166 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:11,000 And it was some kind of reference for the stars, for the person in the tombs. 167 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:19,000 So is this some kind of tomb for the extraterrestrial gods so that they could find and return to the stars where they had come? 168 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Worth a Kofun meant to serve as markers for extraterrestrials that planned to return to Earth, as some ancient astronaut theorists contend. 169 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Perhaps more evidence can be found by examining one of the most immense archaeological finds of the 20th century, the vast tomb of China's first emperor. 170 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Shanshi Province, China 171 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:00,000 In 1974, farmers digging a well outside the town of Xi'an made an astonishing discovery. 172 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:07,000 A life-size clay soldier intricately carved and dressed for battle. 173 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Further excavation revealed thousands of these sculptures, known as the Terracotta Warriors, each with remarkably realistic facial expressions. 174 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Intumed in the Earth for over 2,000 years, the Warriors are part of a massive underground mausoleum, built for China's first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Wang. 175 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,000 The tomb of Qin Shi Wang is quite extraordinary. 176 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:52,000 Over 8,000 Terracotta soldiers have been found there, along with 520 horses, 130 chariots, most of which are still buried. 177 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Qin Shi Wang is literally the first emperor in China. 178 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:06,000 He established the Qin Dynasty in the year 221 B.C. 179 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:14,000 And he established many things that actually continued to function throughout the imperial period in China. 180 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Qin conquered and united China, built the Great Wall, and standardized the monetary and legal system. 181 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,000 But Qin Shi Wang was also obsessed with finding the secret of immortality. 182 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 This is an emperor who goes in search of the islands of immortality. 183 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:43,000 This is an emperor who's obsessed with rediscovering lost knowledge. 184 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,000 His ambition is to become in life like the gods. 185 00:27:49,000 --> 00:28:01,000 To this end, Qin spent over 3 decades forcing more than 700,000 laborers to construct the four-layered subterranean city that would serve as his resting place. 186 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:10,000 At the heart of the ancient complex is one of China's greatest mysteries. 187 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:20,000 The tomb actually covers a very large area. Only a few areas surrounding the border part of the tomb complex have been excavated. 188 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:29,000 Archaeologists believe that underneath his central burial mound is the chamber containing Emperor Qin's remains. 189 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:36,000 To date, the site is still unexcavated due to dangerously high levels of mercury. 190 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000 What's thought to be inside is an exact model of the universe in miniature. 191 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,000 With the ceiling made to look like the sky with all the stars represented by pearls. 192 00:28:52,000 --> 00:29:00,000 And then the rivers in China would be the ground and it is the mercury that is supposed to look like the rivers. 193 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:19,000 A conductive element used in gauges, electronics and automobiles. Mercury is a liquid metal that was discovered by archaeologists in an Egyptian tomb that dates back to 1500 BC. 194 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Some researchers believe the presence of mercury indicates the existence of modern technology in the ancient world. 195 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:42,000 The presence of mercury also in these tombs is unusual. Mercury is something which is not really very useful to us except in very high-tech devices. 196 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:48,000 And it could have been used as part of the extraterrestrials and their technology on this planet. 197 00:29:51,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Was the first emperor of China influenced by visitors from another world to create his monument as ancient astronaut theorists propose? 198 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:09,000 And could the mercury found at the tomb be proof of extraterrestrial technology at work in China thousands of years ago? 199 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:19,000 Technology that was not intended to merely help bury the dead but to launch otherworldly beings back into space. 200 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Perhaps more clues can be found by taking a closer look at the mysterious burial mounds found all over our world. 201 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Yonju, South Korea 202 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Here, near the shores of the Sea of Japan, lie the ruins of Cheongmachung. 203 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:54,000 Excavated in 1973, researchers believe this mound-shaped tomb was constructed for a fifth-century ruler from the Silla dynasty, which spanned nearly a thousand years. 204 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:01,000 The main feature of this tomb is that it has what's known as a heavenly horse drawn onto it. 205 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:13,000 And it's often called the heavenly horse tomb. And this horse has eight fiery legs that are flaming. 206 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:24,000 It's clearly not a living naturalistic horse. Almost looks more like a combination of a horse and a dragon flying through the air. 207 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:32,000 This may represent the journey of the spirit, the soul, or taking the soul up to the afterlife. 208 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:42,000 According to most historians, the history of the world is not only about the human body, but also about the human body. 209 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:54,000 This equestrian illustration represents not only the importance of horses in ancient Korean culture, but also the king's belief in the spirit world. 210 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,000 But ancient astronaut theorists have another, much more profound interpretation. 211 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:12,000 They believe the painting of the winged horse symbolizes how the deceased noble would actually journey to another distant realm. 212 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Tibetan and Mongolians also have similar legends of these flying horses. 213 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:35,000 And these horses, too, would be analogous to the Vamanas in Sanskrit, which are these flying machines, the chariots of the gods that Eric Mondonic and talked about. 214 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:42,000 And often they're depicted as this horse, which was the familiar vehicle that people could travel in. 215 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,000 Only these horses could fly. They were flying vehicles. 216 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:54,000 If you look at it even more closely, it resembles more some type of a dragon. 217 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Because out of its feet there's fire coming out and defeat themselves or legs don't really look like legs, but they look as if they are some type of wings. 218 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:23,000 We have to remember that our ancestors were not familiar with space vehicles, so whatever they saw up in the sky could best be described as an eight-legged horse. 219 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Descending from the sky. 220 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:40,000 Could the so-called heavenly horse of Chiangmachong really be a representation of an extraterrestrial flying transport, as ancient astronaut theorists contend? 221 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:51,000 And if so, would this help to prove their theory that many ancient tombs were, in fact, portals to other extraterrestrial worlds? 222 00:33:52,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Perhaps more clues can be found in the mysterious drawings of another burial mound, located more than 5,000 miles away. 223 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000 The Boine River Valley in Ireland. 224 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Here, 31 miles north of Dublin lies New Grainge, a tumulus tomb dating back to 3200 BC, and similar to the one found in South Korea. 225 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Of the many ancient burial chambers discovered in the region, it is one of the best preserved. 226 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:42,000 New Grainge would have been one of the largest man-built structures on Earth at the time of its construction. It dates from around 5,000 years ago, perhaps even a little bit more. 227 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:52,000 Pre-Date's a great pyramid. So this was a tremendous undertaking by a very well-established culture to build such a massive monument. 228 00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:04,000 New Grainge's inner passage was constructed with remarkable precision, and its design provides an accurate means of measuring the solar year. 229 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:13,000 It is astronomically aligned on the winter solstice, so that right at the winter solstice, and only at the winter solstice, 230 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,000 a sun dagger shoots down to the central passage right into the tomb and illuminating the inner chamber of the tomb. 231 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:31,000 This inner chamber is carved with very enigmatic megalithic symbols, which we still don't really understand, and really displays an amazing competence. 232 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Specifically about the voyage of the dead, we know that this was a voyage in space. 233 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:48,000 When you look at these famous tumulus tombs that are all over the world, they are these circular mounds. 234 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:54,000 So you have a shape, in a sense, of flying saucer or UFO. 235 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:07,000 And the whole idea of the spiral and the vortex is often used to symbolize time travel, and that is the way that extraterrestrials would be coming to Earth. 236 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Could the hundreds of burial mounds found around the globe be linked through some other worldly connection? 237 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:30,000 And if so, is it really possible that extraterrestrials use these tumuli as portals to travel from galaxy to galaxy, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 238 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Perhaps such far-fetched notions aren't as hard to imagine as they seem, 239 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:47,000 especially when considering that such things are happening right now in the southwest region of North America. 240 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000 Sierra County, New Mexico, 2010. 241 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,000 Three, two, one, fire. 242 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:15,000 Aerospace company Celestus Incorporated launches one of the world's first private memorial space flights, providing a unique new funeral service for the deceased. 243 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:30,000 What this company does is essentially launch the ashes of dead people into space, including the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenbury, 1960s icon Timothy Leary, 244 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,000 even the astronaut Gordon Cooper, who was part of the Mercury program that NASA created. 245 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:46,000 Celestus rents compartments on board conventional rockets, assigned to carry satellites and other payloads into orbit. 246 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,000 They only do like seven grams of ashes that they send out in small, tiny containers. 247 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:05,000 And so, to me, this is quite an incredible thing because we now have the possibility of sending cremated remains into outer space. 248 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:15,000 We have to wonder if this is now replicating some of the ancient things that we've seen by using a boat or some type of symbology 249 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:21,000 that the pharaoh or the king in the afterlife was being prepared to go back into the heavens. 250 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,000 But why would we want to send our dearly departed into space? 251 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:37,000 Does it in fact fulfill some unconscious human desire to return to the stars after death? 252 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:49,000 And could this in some way be connected to mankind's centuries-old belief in heaven, a utopian world that exists far above and beyond our own? 253 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,000 I think it's interesting that the people who do this are the ones who have been the visionaries, 254 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:03,000 the ones who really wanted to take mankind into deep space and take us on a voyage of discovery, 255 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 trying to find out whether there are human beings there. 256 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:12,000 And I think it's interesting that in the future we're probably going to see more and more of this 257 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:17,000 and that we're going to become more and more in tune with what our ancestors were thinking. 258 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:28,000 Maybe at one point in the future we will be able to physically send an entire body into deep space on a voyage to reconnect with our ancestors. 259 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000 We're all made of stars. 260 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000 And the whole universe has created out of the dust of stars. 261 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:45,000 And so it seems natural for some people to want to have their ashes sent back into space. 262 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:52,000 In the ancient world we were seen fundamentally as immortal souls, 263 00:39:52,000 --> 00:40:00,000 briefly incarnated in human bodies and possibly reincarnating and coming back again and again. 264 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:06,000 It was understood that some aspect of the individual lived on beyond this physical life 265 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:11,000 and the tomb was in a sense an immortal home for that aspect of the individual. 266 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:21,000 Is it possible, as some researchers believe, that mankind has long tried to make a connection with our otherworldly origins? 267 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:32,000 And if so, might ancient tombs throughout the world have been constructed to facilitate the celestial journey, even after death? 268 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:38,000 It's hard to know what our earliest ancestors were thinking when they looked up into the night sky. 269 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000 Perhaps they felt dwarfed by its immensity. 270 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,000 Perhaps they wondered what the stars were up in the sky. 271 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:58,000 Probably they projected their mythology or maybe invented mythology about goddesses and gods and other spiritual beings living in a heavenly world above them. 272 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:04,000 Maybe that's why so many of their ancient temples were aligned with these heavenly bodies. 273 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:14,000 Our ancestors were building these structures so that they could be seen by the gods in the sky and by the souls on their way to the gods in the sky. 274 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:23,000 What our ancestors are saying, what our ancestors are reinforcing, is that the soul is going to go on a voyage into the stars. 275 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:33,000 All over the world we have very similar types of ceremonies that have to do with entombing people. 276 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:40,000 And you have to wonder a little bit if your body is being preserved and it's going to be used again. 277 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:47,000 And if we could do this, that's something that extraterrestrials would be able to do too. 278 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:59,000 Tombs, interconnected by design, tradition and a desire for a peaceful passage from life to death. 279 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:09,000 Is it possible ancient burial chambers were built from knowledge passed on to our ancient ancestors by celestial beings? 280 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:17,000 And if so, might we one day reunite with these beings through an other worldly portal? 281 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000 Perhaps the answer will be revealed in our lifetime. 282 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:29,000 Or perhaps only after we take our final breath.