1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Mysterious surgery performed by early humans. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Very well planned and it happened well before the advent of modern medicine. 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Strange beings with miraculous powers. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Even though the gods forbade it, he was actually able to raise the dead. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 And a cover-up destroying centuries of scientific knowledge. 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 People are afraid of it. The religious side is especially afraid. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,000 A recent breakthroughs in medicine, really the result of years of research. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Or does the knowledge of healing really come from an otherworldly source? 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:49,000 It would seem to be that this is medical knowledge that's coming from some advanced civilization of extraterrestrials. 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 What if it were true? 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 13 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,000 And if so, do stories of advanced medical procedures in the distant past 14 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,000 provide further proof of mankind's extraterrestrial origins? 15 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:33,000 The World's Most Merciful 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 The World's Most Merciful 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:45,000 The World's Most Merciful 18 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,000 The World's Most Merciful 19 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,000 The World's Most Merciful 20 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,000 The World's Most Merciful 21 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,000 The World's Most Merciful 22 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:22,000 The World's Most Merciful 23 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:32,000 In the last 100 years, scientific advances have dramatically improved mankind's ability to heal itself. 24 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:39,000 More in fact than at any time in the last five centuries. 25 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Throughout history, medicine is about correcting physical problems, restoring a patient to health, relieving suffering. 26 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:59,000 We've seen tremendous advances over the last three decades, but there was a remarkable degree of sophistication 27 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,000 and a surprisingly high success rate achieved by prehistoric surgeons. 28 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Many of the procedures of bothered medicine are derivatives of the ancient operations. 29 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Evidence of advanced medical procedures practiced in the ancient world 30 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:26,000 has been found everywhere from carvings on the walls of temples to skeletal remains all over the world. 31 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 But just who were the practitioners of this extraordinary science? 32 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:38,000 And where did their knowledge of the human body come from? 33 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Most cultures around the world thought that if something was physically wrong with you, 34 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:49,000 it probably also related to something perhaps spiritually wrong with you. 35 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:56,000 And so we also find that physicians or healers very often were not just healing the body and our mundane sense, 36 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 but also healing the soul. 37 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 And therefore they had to be somewhat of a religious figure as well. 38 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:11,000 To be a doctor in the ancient world, you have some kind of special relationship with a god who has gifted you with the power to heal. 39 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:17,000 A doctor was simultaneously a kind of tradesman and had kind of learned a skill, 40 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,000 but also a sort of cultic figure as well who had an association with a god 41 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,000 and would therefore use magical cures to deal with problems. 42 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Our ancestors said that medicine came from the gods. 43 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Our ancestors have said that the gods really gave manuals as to how to be living healthy, 44 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 how to restore health to the human individual. 45 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:47,000 They realized something about our physical body which we are only beginning to understand once again. 46 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Could it be that ancient healers were guided by alien beings? 47 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:03,000 And if so, our recent advances in modern medicine actually a rediscovery of methods practiced thousands of years ago. 48 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Sakara, Egypt. 49 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Here, across from this towering step pyramid lies the Physician's Tomb, 50 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 also known as the Tomb of Auk Mahor. 51 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,000 According to archaeologists, it was built more than 4,000 years ago 52 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 for one of the most important officials of the ancient Egyptian civilization. 53 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 I'm taking you inside the Physician's Tomb 54 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:44,000 where you get a glimpse of how they performed complex medical and surgical operations in ancient times. 55 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:55,000 But what's amazing about this tomb is that the Physician, Auk Mahor, lived 4,300 years ago 56 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 and he performed very complex surgical and medical operations. 57 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,000 We can see here a circumcision 2,000 years before the Bible. 58 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:13,000 And here we see a scene of reflexology. We can see them muscling and flexing the muscles. 59 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Also here, an amazing surgical operation on the hands. 60 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:25,000 It is even suggested that they may have had brain surgery removing tumors. 61 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 But where did they get the knowledge from? 62 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Where they say that they got it from thought. 63 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:42,000 The God of Wisdom and Science who brought to them all the knowledge from the Gods. 64 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Known for his abilities in science, magic and medicine, 65 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 thought was worshiped for centuries as the God of Wisdom and Healing. 66 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:59,000 According to ancient myth, this divine Physician healed the eye of the Egyptian God Horus 67 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,000 after his uncle's set gouged it out in an epic battle for power. 68 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:11,000 As a result, the eye of Horus became an important symbol of restoration and good health. 69 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:18,000 But was thought only a mythical deity as mainstream scholars believe? 70 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Or might it have been something or someone who actually existed? 71 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Ancient Egyptian medicine was anything but primitive. 72 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:34,000 There are clear examples of energetic medicine that are beyond our technological capabilities. 73 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:43,000 It seems as if these technologies were brought in and were given to them as a complete package, 74 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:50,000 rather than something that developed out of a society that before then had been extremely primitive. 75 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,000 And the Egyptians themselves said that Thoth was responsible for this. 76 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 But who or what was Thoth? 77 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Might he have been not a divine being, but an alien visitor, one possessing advanced scientific knowledge? 78 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:19,000 In the Egyptian pantheon of Gods, Thoth is the one with the head of an ibis, but the body of a human being. 79 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:29,000 He was the Egyptian father of medicine, meaning he descended from the sky and he gave them that knowledge. 80 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Might Thoth have been not a divine being, as the Egyptians believed, but an alien visitor who possessed advanced scientific knowledge? 81 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,000 One from whom the Egyptians learned their ability to heal. 82 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the story of one of the most advanced surgeons in the history of India. 83 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Varanasi, India, 500 miles southeast of Delhi. 84 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Located on the banks of the Ganges, Varanasi is one of the oldest cities on Earth, 85 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,000 a city that according to legend was founded by the gods. 86 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Long known as a center of knowledge and learning, Varanasi was once home to an ancient physician by the name of Sushruta, 87 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,000 who many historians credit with developing the art of surgery. 88 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,000 In ancient India, the early physician was a guy named Sushruta, 89 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:48,000 and he was a surgeon and physician who would do skin breaths, cataract removals, even early plastic surgery on people. 90 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:56,000 So once again we have someone whose medical knowledge seems so advanced for his time. 91 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Sushruta is also considered to be the first practitioner of Ayurveda, one of the oldest known systems of medicine in the world. 92 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:17,000 According to Hindu legend, Sushruta is said to have received this knowledge from a god known as Dhanvantri. 93 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Dhanvantari was a high level god as we would know them, who provided all the information on this complete healing modality 94 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,000 based on an understanding of the physical and subtle aspects of the body. 95 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:41,000 And it was passed through to Indian culture in ancient times and has been preserved and expanded since then. 96 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Though he is most often depicted as having forearms and holding medicinal herbs, the god Dhanvantri was also a shapeshifter. 97 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:01,000 According to legend, during his journeys to earth, he could take on other forms, including that of a bird. 98 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Is it possible that both Dhanvantri and the half-man, half-bird Egyptian god of healing, Thoth, were connected in some way? 99 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,000 And if so, how? 100 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Whether it's Dhanvantari or Thoth, we learn of these extraterrestrial divinities very often being portrayed as bird-like beings 101 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 who delivered the knowledge of ancient medicine to earth. 102 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:36,000 This tells us that our original knowledge of medicine, human anatomy and how to heal the body came from extraterrestrial sources. 103 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Sushruta was very clear in stating that he learned this knowledge from the gods. 104 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Who were the gods? Exeterrestrials. 105 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Every culture will tell you that the first surgeon, that medicine, that healing was a gift of the gods. 106 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:08,000 That is extraordinarily interesting because it really shows that the benefit of mankind was accomplished through the intervention and the knowledge of the deities. 107 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:20,000 How is it possible that ancient cultures, separated by thousands of miles, shared similar stories about a bird-like creature? 108 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Could it be true, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that this extraordinary being was actually a highly skilled extraterrestrial from another world 109 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:38,000 and might have traveled across the globe in an effort to teach early humans the art of healing? 110 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Perhaps more clues can be found in a collection of mysterious skulls, 111 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,000 discovered in the ruins of yet another ancient civilization. 112 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Northern Turkey, 2010. 113 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:12,000 While digging at an archaeological site in the Samson Province, archaeologists unearthed hundreds of skeletal remains and ancient skulls, dating back more than 4,000 years. 114 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Strangely, 14 of the skulls have large holes, providing what some scholars believe is proof that ancient man carried out a remarkably sophisticated type of brain surgery called cranial trepanation. 115 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Trepanation is making an opening into the skull. 116 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We do it on a routine basis in today's neurosurgery to get exposure of the brain, to remove a tumor, remove a blood clot. 117 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:49,000 But it was done in ancient times, probably to repair traumatic brain injuries from accidents and war injuries. 118 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Ancient cultures did this all over the world, in Peru, in Europe, in Asia, in Africa. 119 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:09,000 They were literally cutting holes in people's heads, successfully opening up their skulls, removing skull material, and then covering it up again. 120 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:15,000 And the patients were surviving this, and living long lives. 121 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Even with the delicate and highly sophisticated tools in use today, neurosurgery is a complicated and risky procedure, one involving the body's most complex organ, the human brain. 122 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Today's neurosurgery provides us with some remarkable new digital tools. 123 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:44,000 We have what is the equivalent now of a GPS system that allows us to navigate around the intracranial space. 124 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:55,000 We also are able to use preoperative imaging now to create an individual map of the brain and the brain function. 125 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Those maps are critical to do modern neurosurgery. 126 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:13,000 But how could an ancient civilization have learned such highly advanced methods for operating on a human brain, hundreds of years before such procedures were even attempted in other parts of the world? 127 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Perhaps the answers can be found by looking at a collection of human skulls discovered a century ago, near the Peruvian Andes. 128 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Here, at the San Diego Museum of Man, is an extensive display of pre-Columbian antiquities, including one of the largest collections of skulls in the world. 129 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Dr. Tori Randall, a chief paleoanthropologist, has spent years studying the ancient practice of trepanation. 130 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:59,000 These skulls are about a thousand years old. They're Incan skulls, and they're special because they have trepanations. 131 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:05,000 And you can see from the hole right here in the head, they've had skull surgery performed on them. 132 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:13,000 It seems likely that a lot of these trepanations were happening based on warfare or healing some type of traumatic injury. 133 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:22,000 They seem to have performed the actual trepanations in parts of the skull where there wasn't a lot of cranial musculature, which would have made it more difficult. 134 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:34,000 One thing that they used were tummies, which are usually made out of bronze or copper, and they're this little curvilinear knife. 135 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:46,000 This is definitely a very well planned out practice, very successful, and it happened well before the advent of modern medicine. 136 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,000 And the fact that so many individuals survived meant that they were very good at it. 137 00:16:52,000 --> 00:17:03,000 It's remarkable that we see evidence of healing and recovery and survival in so many of the archeological specimens, the skulls, that show signs of bone healing. 138 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:14,000 They must have had a good sense of meticulous technique, but it had to be a rough ordeal for the individual patient. 139 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:29,000 According to Dr. Randall's findings, the Inca surgeons were also skilled at avoiding parts of the brain that would have damaged important nerves and affected motor skills. 140 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:36,000 What this means is that our ancient ancestors had extraordinary information about the brain. 141 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:42,000 It means that they had detailed knowledge about human anatomy way beyond what we normally attribute to them. 142 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,000 It involves an extraordinary amount of scientific information. 143 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:55,000 All over the world, we see skulls with curious small holes drilled in. 144 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:04,000 In these ancient cultures, the practice of trepanation was often said to have been given to them by the gods. 145 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:12,000 So it's possible that extraterrestrial technology had the ability to see into the brain. 146 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Could the ancient Incan knowledge of brain surgery have really come from an extraterrestrial source? 147 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:29,000 And if so, might ancient alien visitors have passed on any other medical knowledge? 148 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence can be found just a few hundred miles from where the trepaned Incan skulls were found. 149 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Eighty miles northwest of the famous Nazca lines lies the small city of Ika, Peru. 150 00:18:53,000 --> 00:19:02,000 In 1966, a local physician named Javier Cabrera acquired several andesite stones unearthed in the desert here. 151 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Stones etched with mysterious depictions of ancient pre-Columbian people. 152 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:15,000 The Ika stones really give a different perspective on what the locals believed history was all about. 153 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:23,000 And the Ika stones, what they really spell out or indicate at least, is that history is not the way we know it. 154 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Each of these stones is inscribed with unusual scenes. 155 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:38,000 People interacting with what seems to be prehistoric animals, people looking through telescopes. 156 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Some of the Ika stones seem to be strange maps of the world before ours. 157 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:51,000 And one of the things that the Ika stones depicts is ancient surgeries. 158 00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Also carved on dozens of these stones are images of brain surgeries, cesarean sections, and even tracheotomies. 159 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,000 But one stone is among the most mysterious. 160 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:16,000 It is thought to depict two surgeons with a heart between them as they appear to be reconnecting the blood vessels. 161 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Could this really be evidence that ancient man was capable of transplanting a human heart? 162 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:32,000 The Ika stones are one of the very few examples of our ancients actually performing surgery. 163 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000 It seems impossible that ancient people were doing anything like this. 164 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:53,000 And therefore it would seem to be that this is knowledge and medical knowledge that's coming from some advanced civilization of extraterrestrials. 165 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that extraterrestrial beings taught mankind advanced medical procedures like cranial trepanation and heart transplants in the distant past? 166 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:18,000 And if so, might these alien beings have shared other, perhaps even more profound secrets and techniques of healing? 167 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Some researchers believe further evidence can be found in the legends and mythologies of the ancient Irish people and a god they knew as Dion Kect. 168 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Chicago, Illinois, 2006. 169 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Scientists pioneer a stunning biomechanical advancement, a thought-controlled robotic arm. 170 00:21:49,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Outfitted with electrodes that connect to the nerves of the wearer, the prosthetic works just like an actual arm and hand, receiving signals from the brain and giving the user a functioning new limb. 171 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:17,000 But as scientifically sophisticated as this is, ancient astronaut theorists point to a remarkably similar account in an ancient story from the British Isles. 172 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Irish Smith has a story about a divine physician called De-Insect. 173 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:32,000 He has herbs to heal every affliction of the human body and soul. 174 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:43,000 And the people, whether they're wounded in battle or they're afflicted in childbirth or miscarriage or headaches or whatever the malady is, they will go to De-Insect for healing. 175 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:56,000 De-Insect is known as the physician of the gods or he was the celebrated physician of the T'wahad-de-Dinan, which was sort of a semi-divine early group of people in Irish lore. 176 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:08,000 According to Celtic tradition, the T'wahad-de-Dinan were a race of supernatural beings that came to Ireland riding on dark clouds. 177 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:19,000 De-Insect was one of these otherworldly beings and a physician who sometimes used his knowledge to treat humans. 178 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:30,000 In the most famous account of his medical feats, the Irish god heals a king named Nwata, who becomes injured in battle. 179 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 During a heated battle, Nwata lost his arm. 180 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Because of this, he could no longer be king. Kings were supposed to be physically pure, according to the ideas of this time. 181 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:51,000 So he had to surrender his kingship for a while and during this time period, De-Insect was the one who actually fashioned him an arm out of silver. 182 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,000 So he became known as Nwata of the Silver Hand or Nwata of the Silver Arm. 183 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:07,000 The story of D'Anquect giving King Nwata an arm that was made out of silver and really sounds like a modern science fiction story. It almost sounds like prosthetics. 184 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Is the story of D'Anquect a myth, as mainstream historians believe? 185 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Or might King Nwata's silver arm have actually been an advanced bionic machine? 186 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Just like the ones being developed today? 187 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:35,000 If so, is it possible that the Celtic god De-Anquect was, in fact, an extraterrestrial being? 188 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:46,000 According to this legend, De-Anquect replaced King Nwata's arm with a silver arm that was fully functional. 189 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:57,000 So is it possible that what we have here is an account of some type of prosthetics that existed already way back in the past? 190 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:07,000 It would seem that these legends are talking about what are really pretty high tech, medical devices and knowledge. 191 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:15,000 The kind of medical knowledge that we have today and has taken hundreds of years of expensive research to find. 192 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:22,000 So it would seem that they had these devices in ancient times too. But where would they have gotten them? 193 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000 It would seem to have been from extraterrestrials. 194 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:35,000 If the stories of De-Anquect are true, might similar myths from other cultures also be based on historical fact? 195 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and point to the stories of an ancient Greek god who wielded the incredible power of bringing the dead back to life. 196 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Epidorus, Greece. 197 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:02,000 In a small valley 30 miles southwest of Athens lie the 2400 year old ruins of the most celebrated healing center of the ancient world. 198 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,000 The Asclepion, or temple of Asclepius. 199 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Asclepius was the child of the god Apollo, one of the principal divinities associated with magic and healing. 200 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Now Asclepius, because he is the child of Apollo, would necessarily develop this skill as well. 201 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 He becomes almost entirely associated with healing. 202 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Asclepius is the Greek name for the divine physician. 203 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Classical Greece did have healing temples in which people could go and have either daytime healing experiences or what they would call healings during sleeping and dreaming. 204 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:49,000 In which it was believed they would have an audience with Asclepius and receive some kind of diagnosis and prescription that they could apply in the daytime. 205 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:58,000 It's a very famous and a very interesting practice called incubation, which is people would go sleep in a temple of Asclepius. 206 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:07,000 And Asclepius would visit them in a dream and tell them what the remedy was to whatever sickness or ailment they were suffering. 207 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:18,000 According to Greek mythology, Asclepius carried a serpent entwined staff, the inspiration for the medical symbol still in use today. 208 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:35,000 But perhaps the most mysterious legend associated with the Greek god of medicine was his reported ability to provide the ultimate cure, the power to restore life. 209 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:43,000 His healing arts are so powerful that he can wake people from the dead, which is the line that can never be crossed, of course. 210 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:55,000 He got into a bit of trouble. He was using his power that he had gotten from his father, Apollo, to raise the dead, which obviously poses a problem. 211 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Zeus didn't like it because people that he had killed, Asclepius was raising from the dead. 212 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:19,000 What the story is telling us is that the story of Asclepius is the story of some extraordinarily powerful technology, knowledge or application of whatever it was whereby physical death is not the end of it. 213 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Asclepius is on record of raising people from the dead. This is not anything within the purview of conventional medical technology. 214 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:38,000 We're talking about no pulse, no respiration, and perhaps even brain dead as well. 215 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Asclepius may have been operating off of an extraterrestrial derived body of knowledge and possibly technology that made it possible for him to achieve these seemingly supernatural feats in which a dead body is brought back to life. 216 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:11,000 If Asclepius was a flesh and blood extraterrestrial being, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, then might he have had some sort of advanced scientific technology that allowed him to raise the dead? 217 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:20,000 If so, what happened to this incredible knowledge? Why has the secret of life and death been lost to mankind? 218 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the story of one of the bloodiest eras in recorded history. 219 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000 France in the year 1233 AD. 220 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Pope Gregory IX establishes the Inquisition. 221 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:51,000 A group of institutions within the Roman Catholic Church charged with investigating and prosecuting heresy. 222 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:58,000 During the next 500 years, the Inquisition spreads throughout Western Europe. 223 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Those suspected of sorcery or witchcraft are interrogated, tortured, and executed, most by being burned at the stake. 224 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:19,000 And included as targets of this brutal and bloody purge are scientists, healers, and other practitioners of the so-called black arts. 225 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:28,000 There was a time in the church when any type of progress was considered to be the work of the devil. 226 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:37,000 And so things were done in the name of God in order to suppress new knowledge. 227 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Science was always something that was held back by the church out of fear of changing the status quo. 228 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Historically, the Catholic Church has always been threatened by knowledge, especially about healing and medicine. 229 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000 One example is the invention of eyeglasses. 230 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:05,000 The Catholic Church went ballistic with the invention of eyeglasses because with it came an idea, the idea that the human body is improvable. 231 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:19,000 During the Inquisitions, the Catholic Church took a full steam charge on squashing out a lot of these pagan ideas that were medical science to them at the time, revolutionary, but did not jive well with the church. 232 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:34,000 One reason the church launched the Inquisition was to eliminate the average person's connection with this ancient, indigenous knowledge that put power in the hands of the individual and took the power out of the hands of the church. 233 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Long before Christianity, you had healings, absolutely supernatural healings, so people are afraid of it. 234 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 The religious side is especially afraid. 235 00:31:49,000 --> 00:32:01,000 Was the Catholic Church's attack on scientific knowledge a deliberate attempt to erase any connection between mankind and its relationship to otherworldly visitors? 236 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:11,000 Visitors whose very existence would undermine the Church's strongly held teaching that life on Earth was the only life that existed in the universe. 237 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Did the Inquisition succeed in destroying centuries of advanced scientific and medical knowledge? 238 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,000 Knowledge we are only now starting to retrieve. 239 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Perhaps another clue can be found by studying a medical procedure that actually survived the Inquisition, one that has been practiced for thousands of years. 240 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,000 The Italian Alps, September 19, 1991. 241 00:32:50,000 --> 00:33:00,000 Here, high on a snow-laden mountainside near the Austrian border, two hikers discover the mummified corpse of a man. 242 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Frozen in place for an estimated 5,000 years, the body, later nicknamed Uzi, is carefully examined and so well preserved that scientists are able to determine his age, how he died, 243 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000 and even the contents of his final meal. 244 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:35,000 But perhaps the most incredible discovery of all were the markings found along Uzi's legs and back, 50 geometric designs that correspond to those found in the science of acupuncture. 245 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:49,000 Acupuncture is a long and well-tested modality that moves energy through a kind of subway system in the body. They're known as meridians with about a thousand treatment points. 246 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:58,000 All the treatment points have names and many of them have references to stars and very interesting things that don't seem to correlate with the body. 247 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:14,000 A medical therapy that targets an energy field that practitioners believe flows through the human body, acupuncture, was originally believed to have been developed in China approximately 3,000 years ago. 248 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:30,000 The tattoos found on the skin of this Bronze Age mummy suggest that acupuncture was not only practiced in Europe, but practiced centuries earlier than most archaeologists and historians had believed possible. 249 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000 But how? 250 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the ancient Chinese medical book called the Wang Di Nei Jing, the oldest text known to give a detailed description of acupuncture. 251 00:34:46,000 --> 00:35:02,000 First medical book is wrote 2,500 years ago. It's called Wang Di Nei Jing, Yellow Ample's Classic Medicine. In this book, this whole system is talked about all the channels, meridians, and treatment, methodology, and strategies. 252 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:17,000 According to Chinese mythology, one of the first practitioners of acupuncture was a physician named Bian Che, often depicted as a human-headed bird. 253 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Bian Che is a legendary example of a healer who used supernatural means in order to accomplish his treatments. 254 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Bian Che apparently could consume some herb, and once he ingested this substance, whatever it was, he could apparently see through walls and see directly into the human body, much like a CAT scan or an MRI. 255 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:55,000 And he was accredited with doing a double heart transplant on an emperor and another person where he switched their hearts. 256 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,000 So you have to wonder now, where did they even get this idea? 257 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:20,000 Bian Che is another of those extraordinary beings who's described as half human and half bird. This puts him in the league with such figures as Thoth and other divine beings who are also half human and half bird, and who delivered to humanity amazing knowledge, especially about medicine and human transformation. 258 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Could it be mere coincidence that the half human, half bird Chinese healer, known as Bian Che, closely resembles both the ancient Egyptian deity Thoth and the Indian god, Don Vantri? 259 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Or is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists claim, that these ancient so-called gods were actually extraterrestrial beings? Beings in possession of highly advanced medical knowledge. 260 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:02,000 I think acupuncture is one of these sciences which came from the gods and was given to our ancestors. 261 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:15,000 And so even though we might think that acupuncture is specifically linked to a specific culture right now, I think in the past this was actually information which existed throughout mankind. 262 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Medicine always came from a quote-unquote divine origin, meaning that some type of a deity descended from the sky and gave this knowledge of healing people to those particular cultures. 263 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:42,000 And now why would all cultures all around the world speak of the exact same thing that this knowledge was imparted to them by people descending from the sky? 264 00:37:46,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Are ancient astronaut theorists correct? Did extraterrestrial beings really give early man highly advanced medical knowledge about how to heal the human body? Knowledge that with the exception of acupuncture has been lost through the centuries. 265 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:19,000 Perhaps proof can be found, not in the carvings on the wall of a tomb or in the words of an ancient document, but the most unlikely of places, the cells of the human body. 266 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:35,000 In 2003, U.S. government researchers announced they had completed one of the most monumental and scientifically significant projects in human history. 267 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:44,000 After 13 years of work, they had identified and mapped the over 20,000 genes in the human genome. 268 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,000 Giving scientists new insight into the genetic makeup of the human species. 269 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:59,000 What we don't know about humans in terms of evolutionary genetics is sort of based on what we don't know about genetics nowadays. 270 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:05,000 For example, we do not know the genetic basis of the thought process. We don't know memory. 271 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:16,000 We cannot create any ideas of how changes occurred to evolve the human brain to the functional being that it is right now. 272 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:24,000 Could this incredible map eventually solve the great mystery of human evolution? 273 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:48,000 Might it help explain why humans, unlike any other living species, can think, reason and have the power of speech or why they can create art, music and spend time contemplating the reason for their own existence? 274 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:58,000 It's not until about 40,000 years ago that you get a very radical change in human behavior. 275 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:06,000 Our hunting strategies get better. Our tools and our weapons get better. 276 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:13,000 It's as though some untapped faculty of the human brain and of the human imagination switched on. 277 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Is it possible that the reason humans suddenly evolved from primitive beasts to sentient humans is due to other worldly intervention? 278 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,000 According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is a profound yes. 279 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:45,000 One of the basic tenets of the ancient astronaut theory suggests that a long time ago, our DNA was artificially changed by extraterrestrials. 280 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:59,000 And we can see that this is exactly what happened because all of a sudden we made a giant intellectual leap and all of a sudden we became homo sapiens sapiens. 281 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:07,000 This was the time when the very first extraterrestrial genetic engineering took place. 282 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:15,000 And in some ways this was like phase one and the creation of modern human beings as we know them. 283 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Did extraterrestrials deliberately alter homo sapien DNA? 284 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:30,000 And if so, did they also give humans the knowledge of how to maintain their bodies and heal themselves? 285 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000 Knowledge that we are only now rediscovering. 286 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:44,000 There is a very widespread prevalence worldwide of a divine provenance to medicine. 287 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:52,000 That the gods wanted to help us to have happier, longer, more fulfilling lives. 288 00:41:53,000 --> 00:42:01,000 And that they brought out their best technology and their best wisdom teachings to us in order to make that healing possible. 289 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:08,000 Is there any surgeon out there who just woke up one day and said, I'm going to perform surgery? 290 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:16,000 Of course not. Every single surgeon had to receive sophisticated and lengthy instruction, training. 291 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:28,000 We know that our ancestors told us that the knowledge for medicine was given to them by none other than what they referred to as the gods. 292 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:34,000 This is knowledge and information which exceeds the human capabilities. 293 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:49,000 And this is once again within part of a larger framework, the framework of divine healers who allow this capability to be used for surgery, to be used for diagnosis, to be used for healing purposes. 294 00:42:51,000 --> 00:43:01,000 They sit between us and the gods and they were somehow able to apply the divine information when it came to medicine to very renewable purposes here on planet Earth. 295 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:12,000 Did ancient aliens really alter our DNA in an effort to make us better, smarter and perhaps more like themselves? 296 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:25,000 And if so, did they also give early man medical knowledge, knowledge that was lost over the centuries and that modern science is only now beginning to rediscover? 297 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:36,000 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is yes and suggest that incredible new discoveries and rediscoveries lie ahead. 298 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:51,000 Discoveries that may reveal the secrets of life and death, the key to immortality and the answer to the question of who and what we really are.