1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,740 Incredible stone monuments erected thousands of years ago. 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,880 The precision engineering of the obelisks in Egypt 3 00:00:09,940 --> 00:00:12,680 is absolutely ingenious. 4 00:00:12,740 --> 00:00:16,980 These ancient monoliths display mysterious electromagnetic 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:18,020 power. 6 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:22,060 They were like lightning rods that absorbed electrical energy 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:23,920 from the heavens. 8 00:00:23,980 --> 00:00:28,360 And ancient traditions connect them to interstellar travel. 9 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:32,820 This obelisk was thought of as being the star gate 10 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:36,660 through this interdimensional portal. 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,860 Were megalithic obelisks simply created 12 00:00:39,940 --> 00:00:44,440 to memorialize the pharaohs and kings of ancient Egypt? 13 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:48,440 Or did they serve a far more profound purpose? 14 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:52,380 These standing stones are pointing to the stars. 15 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:53,380 Why? 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,920 Because that is where we came from. 17 00:00:56,980 --> 00:01:01,020 There is a doorway in the universe. 18 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,320 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 19 00:01:05,380 --> 00:01:09,460 It demands we question everything we have ever been 20 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:10,560 taught. 21 00:01:10,620 --> 00:01:14,000 The evidence is all around us. 22 00:01:14,060 --> 00:01:18,000 The future is right before our eyes. 23 00:01:18,060 --> 00:01:20,840 We are not alone. 24 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:23,840 We have never been alone. 25 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,000 We have never been alone. 26 00:01:36,340 --> 00:01:39,220 Standing in the most honored locations 27 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,120 of the greatest cities on Earth are massive stone 28 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:47,260 obelisks pointing to the sky. 29 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:51,420 When you look at true power cities around the world, 30 00:01:51,420 --> 00:01:57,780 Paris, London, New York, Washington, DC, 31 00:01:57,860 --> 00:02:02,820 they all have one thing in common, obelisks. 32 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,220 There are obelisks at key locations 33 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,020 in some of the most important cities on the planet. 34 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:11,600 In a key square in Istanbul, there 35 00:02:11,660 --> 00:02:16,900 is an ancient obelisk from Egypt with hieroglyphics. 36 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,300 Another is in Paris at De Plas de la Francaud, 37 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,560 which is in the largest square in Paris. 38 00:02:25,660 --> 00:02:28,760 Although they are found across the globe, 39 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,340 the vast majority of the world's obelisks 40 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,300 have a single point of origin, ancient Egypt. 41 00:02:35,380 --> 00:02:39,280 In fact, most obelisks that adorn major cities 42 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:42,880 were originally part of Egypt's ancient landscape. 43 00:02:42,940 --> 00:02:45,520 In ancient Egypt, there were over 100 obelisks 44 00:02:45,580 --> 00:02:47,520 that were sculpted and erected. 45 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,440 Only nine or 10 of them remain in Egypt, 46 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,780 but a lot actually are outside of Egypt. 47 00:02:55,860 --> 00:02:59,520 Obelisks have literally become the spoils of war, 48 00:02:59,580 --> 00:03:05,220 where a country invades Egypt, or a country overtakes Egypt. 49 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:07,960 And this goes back to Roman times. 50 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,400 And they would take obelisks away to erect in their own capital 51 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:15,300 city, whether it was Rome under Roman times 52 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,860 or later Constantinople. 53 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:20,300 The removal of obelisks from Egypt 54 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,760 continued right into the 19th century. 55 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,140 The Paris obelisk was carried from Luxor in 1833. 56 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:34,740 London purchased its obelisk from Egypt in 1878. 57 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,640 Cleopatra's needle was given to New York 58 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,080 as a gift from the Egyptian government in 1881. 59 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,880 Why would you want to move them around and take them 60 00:03:45,940 --> 00:03:47,940 to foreign countries? 61 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:51,080 And I think the answer must lie in the fact 62 00:03:51,140 --> 00:03:56,720 that they were seen to have an inherent power within them. 63 00:03:56,780 --> 00:04:01,320 The Egyptian obelisk is one of the most unique pieces 64 00:04:01,380 --> 00:04:05,220 of architecture in ancient Egypt. 65 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:11,560 Every obelisk you look at, it is a perfect mathematical equation 66 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:18,420 geometrically perfect, physics-wise perfect. 67 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:23,460 They were always made of granite, and they were foresided 68 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,300 and towered upwards and eventually ended 69 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,300 in this perfect pyramid. 70 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,840 Most obelisks are found in pairs, often at the entrance 71 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:36,640 to certain temples. 72 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:40,540 And most of the obelisks have beautiful hieroglyphs carved 73 00:04:40,580 --> 00:04:42,220 into them. 74 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:45,580 Most hieroglyphs that are on the obelisks 75 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,640 are always the king-asking the gods 76 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,520 to be there for him on his journey through the afterlife 77 00:04:53,580 --> 00:04:58,020 so they can arrive to the afterlife and live for immortality. 78 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:03,360 And the top was always dedicated to the sun god Ra, 79 00:05:03,420 --> 00:05:07,360 one of the most powerful gods in ancient Egypt. 80 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,820 The pyramid-shaped stone on top of each obelisk, 81 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,220 called the Benben Stone, was a design rooted 82 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:16,560 in Egyptian mythology. 83 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:22,260 The Benben was a vehicle which autumn the god of all creation, 84 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,160 used to travel back and forth between the heavens and earth. 85 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:29,200 We think of the Benben as a craft because it is bleak to 86 00:05:29,260 --> 00:05:31,500 have come from the stars originally. 87 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,100 When the god Atum arrived on earth, 88 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,240 he arrived in the Benben. 89 00:05:36,980 --> 00:05:39,120 When the god Atum left the earth, 90 00:05:39,180 --> 00:05:43,820 he rose in the Benben and presumably went back to the stars. 91 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,860 Curiously, the ancient Egyptian gods 92 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,860 were often depicted as human-like figures 93 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,200 who came from the stars and possessed incredible powers. 94 00:05:54,260 --> 00:05:57,800 And as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 95 00:05:57,860 --> 00:06:00,760 accounts of gods traveling in the Benben 96 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:04,100 could be a case of misunderstood technology. 97 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:09,940 We always have to remember that the technological frame 98 00:06:10,020 --> 00:06:15,120 of reference that our ancestors had cannot be compared 99 00:06:15,180 --> 00:06:19,280 to the technological frame of reference that we have today. 100 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,960 Our ancestors perhaps witnessed some type of a craft 101 00:06:24,020 --> 00:06:28,260 descending from the sky, out of which these extraterrestrials 102 00:06:28,340 --> 00:06:32,900 came and jump-started civilization. 103 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,560 And they tried to replicate the vehicles which those gods 104 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,700 arrived in. 105 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,800 Could it be true that the top of every obelisk 106 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,440 commemorates an alien visitation? 107 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:49,540 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 108 00:06:49,620 --> 00:06:54,320 and they suggest the obelisks hold far more profound secrets. 109 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,320 Aswan, Egypt. 110 00:06:56,380 --> 00:07:01,020 The ancient city, located more than 500 miles south of Cairo, 111 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,060 on the eastern bank of the Nile River, 112 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,320 was the southern center of trade for the Egyptian Empire 113 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,460 more than 3,000 years ago. 114 00:07:10,540 --> 00:07:14,500 It was also the home of a sacred stone quarry rich 115 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,040 in red granite. 116 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:20,740 At Aswan, at the first cataract of the Nile here, 117 00:07:20,740 --> 00:07:25,040 you find this immense red granite quarry. 118 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:27,640 This is where almost all the red granite that's used in the 119 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,740 temples and even the pyramids of Egypt originates. 120 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,880 And here is where you find the quarry that the obelisks came 121 00:07:33,940 --> 00:07:35,580 from. 122 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,620 Many of the obelisks that were carved out of the Aswan quarry 123 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,320 were then transported hundreds of miles 124 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:45,020 to their final destinations. 125 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,920 But how people living in the Nile 126 00:07:46,940 --> 00:07:50,380 thousands of years ago were able to move and erect 127 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,580 such massive monuments continues to baffle 128 00:07:53,660 --> 00:07:55,180 modern engineers. 129 00:07:55,260 --> 00:07:58,060 We have inscriptions on the walls in ancient Egypt 130 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,060 that shows us how the process happened, 131 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:07,060 with multiple ropes and people dragging it on tree trunks 132 00:08:07,140 --> 00:08:11,640 all the way to the port on the Nile, where they then have to put 133 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:16,880 it on some of the most important sites in the Nile. 134 00:08:16,940 --> 00:08:22,920 And sometimes 27, 30, 35 ships attached together to carry 135 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:28,120 this one massive obelisk and then sailing it on the Nile 136 00:08:28,180 --> 00:08:32,680 all the way to the port that is closest to the temple 137 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,720 and then arriving to the spot where you have to erect 138 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:43,600 an obelisk that is 400 tons or more, that is 130 feet or more, 139 00:08:43,620 --> 00:08:48,160 up into a 90 degrees angle without modern machinery. 140 00:08:48,220 --> 00:08:53,460 But years and years later, people tried to replicate the process 141 00:08:53,540 --> 00:08:56,740 and have failed miserably. 142 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,900 Transporting an obelisk and putting it in place, 143 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:02,600 let alone sculpting it in a quarry, 144 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:06,940 is still a big mystery to us today. 145 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:11,040 While researchers agree that the rope and pulley method can 146 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,880 explain the transport of some obelisks, 147 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:16,680 ancient astronaut theorists point to another, 148 00:09:16,740 --> 00:09:21,220 more profound method that was documented as well. 149 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,960 We have some references in ancient Egyptian texts 150 00:09:25,020 --> 00:09:31,920 that also speak of some of these obelisks being levitated. 151 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:37,500 And the way that worked is that a magical white powder had 152 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:42,800 to be strewn across the stones and then water was added 153 00:09:42,860 --> 00:09:47,440 and through some quote unquote magical incantations, 154 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:51,000 then those rocks lifted themselves 155 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,480 and they could levitate into place. 156 00:09:54,540 --> 00:09:58,220 We're the Egyptians using some kind of alien technology, 157 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,980 not just a quarry, the obelisk, but to lift it up, 158 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:07,220 to move it, and then to ultimately stand it up. 159 00:10:08,140 --> 00:10:11,280 Although mainstream archaeologists 160 00:10:11,340 --> 00:10:14,820 dismiss the idea that such advanced technology 161 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,920 could have been available to the ancient Egyptians, 162 00:10:17,980 --> 00:10:21,060 there is one obelisk that still lies unfinished 163 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,560 in the Oswan quarry that defies explanation 164 00:10:24,620 --> 00:10:28,460 as to how it would have been moved to its final destination 165 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:30,940 using mere ropes and pulleys. 166 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,840 The unfinished obelisk of Queen Hatch of Suit, 167 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,300 it was actually the biggest obelisk, 168 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:42,500 the tallest obelisk ever made, never completely finished. 169 00:10:42,580 --> 00:10:49,840 It was doing over 130 feet into the air. 170 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:55,420 It weighed maybe 1,200 tons, it's estimated. 171 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,480 The unfinished obelisk was abandoned 172 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:01,220 because as they were sculpting the obelisk, 173 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:03,720 it had a crack that started to fall. 174 00:11:03,780 --> 00:11:07,180 Every crack that started showing, 175 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,380 every obelisk had to survive for the rest of time 176 00:11:11,460 --> 00:11:14,380 and even more, so one little crack, 177 00:11:14,460 --> 00:11:18,120 it was not acceptable and they had to abandon it. 178 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,500 Considering the immense amount of work, 179 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:24,860 it took to quarry, carve, and transport obelisks. 180 00:11:24,940 --> 00:11:28,000 Could these monuments have had some practical purpose 181 00:11:28,060 --> 00:11:30,600 beyond mere adornment? 182 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:33,480 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 183 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,800 there is evidence that these incredible stone structures 184 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,380 may have been used for the transmission of energy. 185 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,920 One of the many mysteries surrounding Egypt's ancient 186 00:11:48,980 --> 00:11:53,080 obelisks is why the original builders chose to use stone 187 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:57,160 from the Aswan quarry, when in most cases, other stone 188 00:11:57,220 --> 00:12:00,760 was more easily available. 189 00:12:00,780 --> 00:12:02,880 It was very important to the ancient Egyptians 190 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,220 that when they erected an obelisk, 191 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,020 that it be all one piece of stone 192 00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:11,320 and that they be carved from the, quote, 193 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:17,360 correct rock, which was this very high quality granite 194 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,600 found in Aswan in southern Egypt. 195 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,640 These muddle lists were made out of granite 196 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:27,840 and there's some quartz inside the granite 197 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:30,740 and quartz has some rather interesting properties 198 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:33,780 like the piezoelectric effect. 199 00:12:33,860 --> 00:12:37,280 If I take quartz crystal and I squeeze it, 200 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,920 I can generate electricity. 201 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,900 Now, some people believe that the obelisks 202 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,500 are like lightning rods that absorb electrical energy 203 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,600 from the heavens. 204 00:12:48,660 --> 00:12:51,600 Could the Egyptian obelisks have been designed 205 00:12:51,660 --> 00:12:53,640 to attract energy? 206 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:56,940 In addition to the conductivity of quartz stone, 207 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,640 it has been found that when the obelisks were first discovered 208 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,640 and were first erected, they were 209 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:06,040 capped with a naturally occurring metal alloy called 210 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:07,540 electron. 211 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,540 We know that they were covered or capped in many cases 212 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,740 with electron, which is a combination of gold and silver. 213 00:13:15,820 --> 00:13:19,680 And they may have been meant to attract plasma, 214 00:13:19,740 --> 00:13:23,280 electrically charged particles. 215 00:13:23,340 --> 00:13:26,920 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 216 00:13:26,980 --> 00:13:29,020 the obelisks were almost certainly 217 00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:31,960 expected to conduct energy. 218 00:13:32,020 --> 00:13:35,260 And they suggest that the source of this energy 219 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,220 may not have been from the heavens, 220 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:40,760 but instead from the world's most extraordinary 221 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:41,800 ancient structure. 222 00:13:44,460 --> 00:13:49,200 Giza, Egypt, on the western bank of the Nile River, 223 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:54,740 stands a marvel of ancient engineering, the Great Pyramid. 224 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,180 The largest structure in the Giza pyramid complex 225 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:01,800 stands roughly 450 feet tall and consists 226 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,480 of over 2 million stone blocks, some of which 227 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:07,680 are made from the same red granite that 228 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:12,080 was used to create the obelisks throughout the country. 229 00:14:12,140 --> 00:14:17,120 While Egyptologists believe that it was built around 2570 BC 230 00:14:17,180 --> 00:14:21,720 with earthen rams, ropes, and pulleys, definitive proof 231 00:14:21,780 --> 00:14:25,880 of how it was constructed and how old the giant structure is 232 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,020 remains a mystery. 233 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,420 Great Pyramid of Giza is a marvel of architecture. 234 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,460 Every block was five tons, and there's 235 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:42,620 about 2 million of them to create a perfect pyramid shape that 236 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:45,260 is one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, 237 00:14:45,340 --> 00:14:47,160 the most ancient one of them all, 238 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,600 and the only one standing. 239 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,180 The Great Pyramid of Giza covers 13 acres. 240 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,040 It's a very remarkable building. 241 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,480 The precision of this building exceeds anything 242 00:15:01,540 --> 00:15:04,280 that we require of builders today. 243 00:15:04,340 --> 00:15:08,120 For instance, the area over 13 acres 244 00:15:08,180 --> 00:15:11,060 was leveled within 7 eighths of an inch. 245 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,560 That's about the thickness of a thumbnail. 246 00:15:14,620 --> 00:15:17,720 The casing stones are joined line to line 247 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,760 to within 10,000ths of an inch, and their joints 248 00:15:21,820 --> 00:15:25,660 are filled with some kind of mysterious cement 249 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,520 that nobody's been able to figure out what the formula is. 250 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,560 This is not the work of the primitive people 251 00:15:32,620 --> 00:15:34,860 who have copper chisels. 252 00:15:34,940 --> 00:15:38,000 Inside the Great Pyramid are a number 253 00:15:38,060 --> 00:15:41,940 of fascinating chambers and corridors, 254 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,180 like the Grand Gallery, this towering stairway that 255 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:52,340 goes up into the so-called King's Chamber. 256 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,940 Mainstream scholars theorize that the Great Pyramid was 257 00:15:56,020 --> 00:16:01,080 built as a tomb for the Faro Kufu, who reigned from 2589 258 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,120 to 2566 BC. 259 00:16:05,180 --> 00:16:09,020 But archaeologists have yet to find any human remains 260 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,760 or authentic grave markers within the structure. 261 00:16:12,820 --> 00:16:15,700 The design of the tunnel system and chamber rooms 262 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,420 within the Great Pyramid have convinced engineering expert 263 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:23,060 Chris Dunn that the true purpose of the massive structure 264 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,960 was to act as a power plant, distributing energy 265 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,400 through obelisks. 266 00:16:29,460 --> 00:16:32,400 We're taught in school that the Great Pyramid is a tomb, 267 00:16:32,460 --> 00:16:37,140 but if you look at the complexity of these buildings, 268 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,940 the precision with which they were built, 269 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,380 the features that you see on the inside, 270 00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:47,920 these various shafts and passageways, 271 00:16:47,980 --> 00:16:51,660 for me it looks like a machine. 272 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,720 With more than 50 years of experience 273 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,900 in the aerospace industry, Dunn believes 274 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,360 that chemical reactions took place within the Great Pyramid 275 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,940 that generated electromagnetic waves. 276 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:10,180 You have two shafts leading into the Queen's Chamber, 277 00:17:10,180 --> 00:17:13,520 and these shafts delivered the chemicals to the chamber 278 00:17:13,580 --> 00:17:16,080 that they would make some boil of hydrogen, 279 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,280 and then the hydrogen would pass through another passageway 280 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:24,860 to the Grand Gallery and then into the King's Chambers. 281 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,700 Dunn speculates that once the hydrogen gas reached 282 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,500 the King's Chamber, vibrations energized 283 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:37,000 and converted the hydrogen atoms into microwaves. 284 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,000 You have evidence to support the theory 285 00:17:42,060 --> 00:17:47,840 that hydrogen was being fed down the northern shaft, 286 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:50,780 which leads to the King's Chamber, 287 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,280 and then it enters the chamber and collects the energy 288 00:17:54,340 --> 00:17:57,120 that has accumulated in that chamber 289 00:17:57,180 --> 00:17:59,780 and then directs it through the southern shaft 290 00:17:59,860 --> 00:18:02,680 for the microwaves to spread out. 291 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:07,940 So that energy would reach large distances, 292 00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:11,980 and I think if you had an obelisk at any distance, 293 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:16,520 it could actually affect that particular structure. 294 00:18:16,580 --> 00:18:20,060 The Great Pyramid is itself a power generator, 295 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:23,060 and that energy is broadcast from the pyramid. 296 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:25,560 It's picked up by the transmitters, 297 00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:29,260 which are the obelisks, placed at key sites, 298 00:18:29,340 --> 00:18:32,600 made of red granite that are able to be tuned 299 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,320 to the specific frequencies coming from the pyramid. 300 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,660 Could it be true, as some researchers and experts, 301 00:18:39,740 --> 00:18:43,240 like Christon believe, that the Great Pyramid of Giza 302 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:48,040 was actually a power plant, and that obelisks were used 303 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:53,740 as receiver towers designed to distribute the generated power? 304 00:18:53,820 --> 00:18:58,520 While such a sensational notion may sound like science fiction, 305 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,480 Egypt's pyramids and obelisks serve as inspiration 306 00:19:02,540 --> 00:19:05,980 for the first person to wirelessly transmit electricity 307 00:19:06,060 --> 00:19:09,160 in the modern world, Nikola Tesla. 308 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,960 When engineering expert Christon first presented his theory 309 00:19:17,020 --> 00:19:20,100 that the Great Pyramid was used to generate electricity 310 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,840 in his 1998 book, The Giza Power Plant, 311 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:28,000 it ignited a firestorm of controversy. 312 00:19:28,020 --> 00:19:33,300 But he was not the first to propose this audacious notion. 313 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:37,760 A century earlier, in the 1890s, Nikola Tesla, 314 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,360 the famed engineer and inventor of the first alternating 315 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,200 current motor and power system, studied the ancient structures 316 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,640 of Egypt while working to develop a system for transmitting 317 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:53,680 electricity without the use of wires. 318 00:19:53,740 --> 00:19:55,880 Tesla studied the ancient Egyptians. 319 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:57,460 He was fascinated by the ancients, 320 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,500 and they were understanding that quartz produced 321 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,520 electrical frequencies. 322 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,400 He thought that they understood what quartz was all about. 323 00:20:05,460 --> 00:20:07,700 Tesla used crystals, he used quartz, 324 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:12,600 and all of that can be found in the ancient obelisks. 325 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,780 According to Christon's theory, chemical reactions 326 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,980 took place inside the Great Pyramid to create microwave energy 327 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:24,620 and transmit it to the obelisks through the air. 328 00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:28,220 But Tesla believed the ancient Egyptians may have instead 329 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:31,000 been amplifying the natural energy currents 330 00:20:31,060 --> 00:20:33,800 present in the Earth. 331 00:20:33,860 --> 00:20:38,800 In 1898, he began building an electrical tower in Colorado 332 00:20:38,860 --> 00:20:41,540 Springs based on this hypothesis, 333 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,980 and three years later, announced that he had succeeded 334 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,420 in creating the modern world's first wireless energy 335 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:49,980 transmitter. 336 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,180 It's really interesting to me that when Nikola Tesla was 337 00:20:54,180 --> 00:20:56,880 putting together his Colorado experiments, 338 00:20:56,940 --> 00:21:01,580 he was getting information from an expedition that JP Morgan 339 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,780 was paying for in Egypt. 340 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,520 And he was getting information about the size of the pyramids 341 00:21:06,580 --> 00:21:07,820 and the obelisks. 342 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,520 And Tesla was talking about using these towers to send power 343 00:21:12,580 --> 00:21:15,860 that he takes from the Earth around the world 344 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,360 to people wirelessly. 345 00:21:18,420 --> 00:21:23,060 It was a large tower that has a gray conductor on top of it. 346 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:25,960 And then a large conducting pipe that went way deep into the 347 00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:27,820 granite basin underneath it. 348 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,360 It was grounding his system into the Earth, 349 00:21:30,420 --> 00:21:32,260 electrically connecting it to the Earth. 350 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,600 And then he would tune this system until it reached a certain 351 00:21:35,660 --> 00:21:37,160 frequency. 352 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,500 He drives the energy into the ground. 353 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,640 He then put light bulbs all along the mountains, 354 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:44,980 and all these light bulbs lit. 355 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,140 I was his proof that he could send electrical energy 356 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,740 through a wireless system. 357 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,080 After the success of his initial experiment, 358 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,520 Tesla began devising a much more ambitious plan for wirelessly 359 00:22:00,580 --> 00:22:03,160 transmitting electricity. 360 00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:08,460 In March of 1901, after relocating to Long Island, New York, 361 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,820 Tesla began construction on a nearly 200 foot tall structure 362 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,400 known as Warden Cliff Tower. 363 00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:20,120 The larger structure would allow him to generate more energy 364 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,660 to send into the Earth. 365 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:27,160 Tesla's Warden Cliff Tower was supposed to be his crowning 366 00:22:27,220 --> 00:22:31,760 achievement, a lasting monument that would generate energy 367 00:22:31,820 --> 00:22:35,200 and send energy over hundreds of miles. 368 00:22:35,260 --> 00:22:38,560 Tesla thought he could energize entire cities. 369 00:22:38,620 --> 00:22:42,000 Unfortunately, it was never tested because he ran out of 370 00:22:42,060 --> 00:22:44,360 money. 371 00:22:44,420 --> 00:22:48,860 Although Nikola Tesla was unable to realize his grand vision 372 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,000 for wirelessly transmitting energy with Warden Cliff Tower, 373 00:22:53,060 --> 00:22:56,460 is it possible that he was on the brink of recreating a 374 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,260 technology that the ancient Egyptians possessed nearly 375 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,660 4,000 years before him? 376 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,360 Tesla's original designs for the Warden Cliff Tower 377 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:11,260 was to be the same height as the King's pyramid in Giza. 378 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,900 I find it really interesting. 379 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,060 Was he thinking that the ancient Egyptians were actually 380 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,960 sending power, collecting it from the Earth somehow, 381 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:22,720 and transmitting it with these obelisks? 382 00:23:22,780 --> 00:23:26,720 If Nikola Tesla was on to something like that, perhaps 383 00:23:26,780 --> 00:23:30,120 that was what the ancient Egyptians were doing. 384 00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:34,660 But if Egypt's obelisks were designed to conduct energy, 385 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,360 the question remains, what purpose did this serve? 386 00:23:39,420 --> 00:23:44,320 Was it to create a source of electricity for the community? 387 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:48,180 Or could the power of the obelisks have served an other 388 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,880 worldly purpose? 389 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:53,920 Perhaps clues can be found at the Temple of Edfu, which 390 00:23:53,980 --> 00:23:57,320 contains thousands of hieroglyphs detailing the customs 391 00:23:57,380 --> 00:24:00,220 and mythology of ancient Egypt. 392 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:05,680 According to the so-called Edfu texts, a 160-foot-tall obelisk, 393 00:24:05,740 --> 00:24:09,880 one stood at the Sun Temple of Abu Ghurab in Memphis, where 394 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:13,820 the people could commune with the gods. 395 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,780 According to the ancient Egyptian building texts from Edfu, 396 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,940 Abu Ghurab was known as the place of the gods. 397 00:24:23,020 --> 00:24:26,680 And what's so interesting is that most mainstream Egyptologists 398 00:24:26,740 --> 00:24:30,480 are actually saying that we know it as a place where the 399 00:24:30,540 --> 00:24:34,540 ancients connected with divine energies. 400 00:24:34,620 --> 00:24:37,880 The obelisk itself was the point of contact between humans 401 00:24:37,940 --> 00:24:39,180 and the gods. 402 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:43,740 We communicated with the gods through that stone. 403 00:24:43,820 --> 00:24:47,720 I think it's quite possible that where you find these obelisks 404 00:24:47,780 --> 00:24:51,760 were places of communion or communication with the sky 405 00:24:51,820 --> 00:24:55,220 gods, with extraterrestrials. 406 00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:58,960 Could it be that the obelisks were alien communication 407 00:24:59,020 --> 00:25:03,260 devices, allowing the ancient Egyptians to make contact 408 00:25:03,340 --> 00:25:07,140 with their extraterrestrial gods? 409 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:12,240 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further evidence 410 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,340 can be found by examining the story of Egypt's most famous 411 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,400 son, the prophet Moses. 412 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:31,320 Cairo, Egypt, roughly 20 miles northeast of the Giza pyramids 413 00:25:31,380 --> 00:25:35,120 and the Sphinx, is a site that was of great significance 414 00:25:35,180 --> 00:25:41,120 to the ancient Egyptians, the sacred city of Heliopolis. 415 00:25:41,180 --> 00:25:45,480 Here, at the site of a 70-foot-tall obelisk, 416 00:25:45,540 --> 00:25:49,180 the pharaohs were said to commune with a council of nine gods 417 00:25:49,260 --> 00:25:52,920 called the Anid, who brought technology and knowledge 418 00:25:52,980 --> 00:25:55,520 to mankind. 419 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,560 One of the oldest obelisks we have today 420 00:25:58,620 --> 00:26:03,900 is one that was of a pair of obelisks that stood in Heliopolis, 421 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,900 the city of the sun god Ra, so close to Cairo today. 422 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,560 In Heliopolis, the pharaoh of Egypt 423 00:26:11,620 --> 00:26:15,560 would have to consult with the nine gods, the Anid, 424 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,600 with every aspect in life, to make sure 425 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:21,000 he is doing the right thing. 426 00:26:21,060 --> 00:26:24,100 Every ancient Egyptian would have their full trust 427 00:26:24,180 --> 00:26:29,180 that anything coming out from the mouth of the king 428 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,880 is the word of the nine gods. 429 00:26:32,940 --> 00:26:37,180 And the obelisk is there to receive the messages 430 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,640 and deliver it to its people. 431 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:46,540 So once more, we have the idea of the obelisk associated 432 00:26:46,620 --> 00:26:52,480 with communication, with some kind of higher intelligence. 433 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,460 What makes Heliopolis a particular interest 434 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,620 to ancient astronaut theorists is the fact 435 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:02,260 that it is associated with a famous biblical figure who 436 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,060 also created a device for communicating with the heavens. 437 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:08,720 The prophet Moses. 438 00:27:08,780 --> 00:27:11,420 According to the book of Exodus, Moses 439 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,420 was born in Egypt to Hebrew parents 440 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,620 who set him afloat on the Nile in a reed basket 441 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,320 to save him from an edict calling for the death 442 00:27:20,380 --> 00:27:24,260 of all newborn Hebrew males. 443 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,360 Found by the pharaoh's daughter, he 444 00:27:26,420 --> 00:27:31,720 was raised in the Egyptian court and educated in Heliopolis. 445 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,660 We know from the Bible that Moses was born 446 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,560 in the house of Pharaoh. 447 00:27:39,620 --> 00:27:42,700 He was raised amongst the priests 448 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,660 of the Egyptian religion. 449 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,560 They had knowledge of the ancient wisdoms 450 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,040 and the ancient technologies. 451 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:56,040 Moses learned many of these things from them. 452 00:27:56,100 --> 00:28:00,240 So years later, when God speaks to Moses 453 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:03,420 and commands Moses to bring the children of Israel out 454 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,120 of Egypt, Moses was born. 455 00:28:05,140 --> 00:28:10,480 Moses brought with him many of these secrets. 456 00:28:10,540 --> 00:28:13,780 In the book of Exodus, Moses frees the Israelites 457 00:28:13,860 --> 00:28:18,420 from enslavement and leads them out of Egypt. 458 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:24,160 The Israelites were taken out into the wilderness of Sinai. 459 00:28:24,220 --> 00:28:28,700 And they came to Mount Sinai itself. 460 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,300 And Moses went up the top of the mountain, 461 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:39,660 and he saw Yahweh in the form of an incredibly bright light. 462 00:28:39,740 --> 00:28:45,400 And during this time, God gives him the Ten Commandments. 463 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,480 But what he also does is give him the instructions 464 00:28:49,540 --> 00:28:52,940 on how to make the Ark of the Covenant. 465 00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:56,080 The Ark of the Covenant is described in the Bible 466 00:28:56,140 --> 00:29:01,160 as the sacred wooden box that would hold the Ten Commandments. 467 00:29:01,180 --> 00:29:07,520 It was also said to enable direct communication with God. 468 00:29:07,580 --> 00:29:10,760 Is it possible that Moses' education in Egypt 469 00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:14,360 influenced the construction of the Ark of the Covenant? 470 00:29:14,420 --> 00:29:18,360 A sacred vessel believed to be a communication device 471 00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:23,800 and possessing the same powers attributed to the obelisks. 472 00:29:23,860 --> 00:29:26,900 Curiously, within the ancient Egyptian temple 473 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,040 of Sadi in Abidos, there is a mural 474 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,420 that depicts an object which, to some researchers, 475 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,920 looks strikingly similar to the Ark of the Covenant, 476 00:29:37,980 --> 00:29:40,960 the so-called Osiris device. 477 00:29:41,020 --> 00:29:44,720 At the temple of Sadi at Abidos is a depiction 478 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,560 of a very technological-looking apparatus. 479 00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:50,700 That is the Osiris device. 480 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,500 Now, when we look at the platform upon which 481 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,400 the pillar portion of the Osiris device rests, 482 00:29:58,660 --> 00:30:01,600 that platform looks exactly like depictions 483 00:30:01,660 --> 00:30:04,200 of the biblical Ark of the Covenant. 484 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:06,240 This is no coincidence. 485 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:10,240 This is a continuity of tradition. 486 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:14,640 Now, if this is a real communications device, 487 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,640 actually, honestly, must have worked 488 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,320 with some form of a technology. 489 00:30:21,380 --> 00:30:23,720 According to some researchers, 490 00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:26,260 not only was the Ark of the Covenant 491 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,360 based on technology that Moses learned about in Heliopolis, 492 00:30:30,420 --> 00:30:33,500 but the fact that it was described as a communication 493 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,060 device points to a connection with the obelisks. 494 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:45,340 This is a box that's covered over in gold, in layers, 495 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,980 and then it has a lid, the so-called mercy seat, 496 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,220 with the two cherubin facing each other. 497 00:30:52,220 --> 00:30:58,080 And God would appear between those two cherubin 498 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,920 as this blinding light. 499 00:31:00,980 --> 00:31:05,200 We have elements here in connection with the obelisks. 500 00:31:05,260 --> 00:31:08,900 They, too, would seem to have had gold placed 501 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,300 at their apex, this. 502 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,540 And we also know that the pyramids had capstones made of gold, 503 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:20,640 and that gold is an incredible conductor of electricity. 504 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,720 So here we have the obelisks as perhaps electrical devices 505 00:31:26,780 --> 00:31:30,380 and also communication devices. 506 00:31:30,460 --> 00:31:33,360 And then you have the Ark of the Covenant. 507 00:31:33,420 --> 00:31:36,360 And they seem to have the same function. 508 00:31:36,420 --> 00:31:37,900 And you have to ask yourself, could it 509 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,740 be the same technology coming from the Egyptian gods? 510 00:31:45,540 --> 00:31:50,180 Was the Ark of the Covenant a portable version of an obelisk, 511 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,940 an energetic device that provided a direct communication 512 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,340 link to otherworldly beings? 513 00:31:57,420 --> 00:32:02,080 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest 514 00:32:02,140 --> 00:32:05,480 that further evidence can be found in a place where 515 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,860 tradition holds that the Ark of the Covenant has remained 516 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:14,200 hidden for centuries, a place that also happens to be home 517 00:32:14,260 --> 00:32:17,000 to the largest collection of obelisks on Earth? 518 00:32:21,180 --> 00:32:24,640 Aksum, Ethiopia. 519 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,180 This ancient city was once the heart of the kingdom of Aksum, 520 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,180 a powerful empire that thrived for nearly 900 years, 521 00:32:33,260 --> 00:32:36,760 starting in the first century AD. 522 00:32:36,820 --> 00:32:40,760 It is also home to more than a dozen ancient obelisks. 523 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:48,600 What's curious about Aksum is the lock of the Ark of the Covenant 524 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:53,060 in Aksum is the large number of obelisks that are there. 525 00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:54,460 It's a city of obelisks. 526 00:32:54,540 --> 00:32:58,200 It's practically a forest of obelisks. 527 00:32:58,260 --> 00:33:01,200 There, the obelisks are a whole different thing. 528 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,180 These aren't just perfectly smooth. 529 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:09,180 These have got almost like windows going up in levels. 530 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,680 One of them even has like a doorway carved on the bottom 531 00:33:11,740 --> 00:33:15,280 with a small handle just carved out of solid rock. 532 00:33:15,340 --> 00:33:19,380 The obelisks of Aksum were not topped with a pyramidion 533 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,780 or carved from the Aswan quarry like those in Egypt, 534 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,580 but they were equally as massive and were each made 535 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,480 from a single stone. 536 00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:32,980 The largest obelisk that we know that was ever erected 537 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,620 was not erected in Egypt, but in Aksum. 538 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,720 There were over 100 obelisks at one time, 539 00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:42,960 and the biggest is a huge obelisk 540 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,140 made well over 1,000 tons. 541 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:52,700 But why did the people of Aksum make so many obelisks? 542 00:33:52,780 --> 00:33:57,240 Could they have learned the secrets of the ancient Egyptians? 543 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,680 According to some researchers, these obelisks 544 00:34:00,740 --> 00:34:03,360 may have been erected to indicate that Aksum 545 00:34:03,420 --> 00:34:06,380 has a profound connection to the heavens, 546 00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:10,620 a connection that may combine two ancient technologies, 547 00:34:10,660 --> 00:34:15,160 the obelisks and the Ark of the Covenant. 548 00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:18,220 The Ark of the Covenant, the great mystery. 549 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:19,520 Where is it? 550 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,060 The Bible, of course, has its own traditions 551 00:34:23,140 --> 00:34:26,300 and teachings on this. 552 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,900 But out of the Ethiopian culture, 553 00:34:28,980 --> 00:34:32,840 we have an alternate teaching, an alternate lesson 554 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:35,080 that where is the Ark? 555 00:34:35,140 --> 00:34:38,180 They believe that the Ark of the Covenant 556 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,480 is there residing with them. 557 00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:44,320 The mystery of what happened to the Ark of the Covenant 558 00:34:44,380 --> 00:34:50,320 began in 587 BC, when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem 559 00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:53,560 and looted Solomon's temple, where the Ark had been housed 560 00:34:53,620 --> 00:34:56,620 for 350 years. 561 00:34:56,700 --> 00:34:59,200 After this event, the Ark of the Covenant 562 00:34:59,260 --> 00:35:03,160 disappears from the historical record. 563 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,000 But curiously, there is also no record 564 00:35:06,020 --> 00:35:09,220 of the Babylonians having taken it. 565 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:12,460 While there are many theories as to where the Ark went, 566 00:35:12,540 --> 00:35:14,900 one of the most prominent claims can be found 567 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,840 in ancient Ethiopian history. 568 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:25,080 One version of the fate of the Ark of the Covenant 569 00:35:25,140 --> 00:35:29,140 is contained within an Ethiopian holy book 570 00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:31,980 known as the Kebra Nagas. 571 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,340 It's a story involving King Solomon, who had the Ark, 572 00:35:37,420 --> 00:35:40,840 and his meeting with the Queen of Sheba. 573 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,780 And it was said that they had a liaison 574 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,280 and that a son was born to the Queen of Sheba 575 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:52,360 by the name of Menilach, and that eventually Menilach 576 00:35:52,420 --> 00:35:56,360 traveled from his homeland of Ethiopia 577 00:35:56,420 --> 00:36:01,460 to visit his father, Solomon, in Israel. 578 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,160 According to the story, when Menilach left Israel, 579 00:36:05,220 --> 00:36:10,220 he and his men secretly took the Ark with them back to Aksum. 580 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:13,760 Devoted followers believe it still resides there today. 581 00:36:16,460 --> 00:36:20,000 Many believe, especially Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, 582 00:36:20,060 --> 00:36:24,640 that the Ark of the Covenant is in a small chapel called 583 00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:28,840 Our Lady Mary of Zion Church. 584 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,200 And monks are there who guard this day and night 585 00:36:33,260 --> 00:36:34,300 on pain of death. 586 00:36:34,380 --> 00:36:36,240 They cannot leave the grounds. 587 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:42,040 So something is there that is worth these monks saying, 588 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:47,080 I will die before I leave this compound. 589 00:36:47,140 --> 00:36:51,240 You wonder, why are there so many obelisks in this place 590 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:53,340 at the very same place where the Ark of the Covenant 591 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,140 is said to have been located? 592 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,740 Is there a connection? 593 00:36:57,740 --> 00:37:04,940 Aksum, at one time, was a center of power and prestige 594 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,100 in the ancient world. 595 00:37:08,180 --> 00:37:14,540 It was the trading room between Persia and Rome. 596 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,440 And so they were connected to other parts of the ancient world. 597 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,780 And now you have the Ark of the Covenant, 598 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,740 and you have the obelisks. 599 00:37:25,780 --> 00:37:29,940 If you connect the dots, it's very difficult not 600 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,680 to think that civilization got its knowledge from Egypt. 601 00:37:35,740 --> 00:37:38,540 In Aksum, they believe that the Ark of the Covenant 602 00:37:38,620 --> 00:37:40,980 and the obelisks are all connected. 603 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,020 So we have to ask ourselves, were the ancient people 604 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,860 using some kind of super technology? 605 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,220 It remains a mystery to this day. 606 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:53,820 Could the obelisks of ancient Egypt, 607 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,980 which still mystify modern engineers, 608 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,780 have been highly advanced tools of otherworldly technology? 609 00:38:01,860 --> 00:38:05,160 While the truth may remain hidden in the past, 610 00:38:05,220 --> 00:38:07,220 ancient astronaut theorists believe 611 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,960 that today, obelisks may still provide a connection 612 00:38:12,020 --> 00:38:13,400 to our alien ancestors. 613 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:22,180 Washington, DC. 614 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,040 December 6, 1884. 615 00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:29,140 The final stone is placed at the top of the Washington 616 00:38:29,220 --> 00:38:33,640 Monument, an Egyptian-style obelisk dedicated 617 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:39,780 to the first president of the United States, George Washington. 618 00:38:39,860 --> 00:38:42,720 The Washington Monument is considered the tallest 619 00:38:42,780 --> 00:38:44,020 obelisk in the world. 620 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:47,500 It's 555 feet tall. 621 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,340 It's fascinating that the largest obelisk currently 622 00:38:50,460 --> 00:38:53,160 exists in Washington, DC. 623 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:56,200 And you have to ask the question, why? 624 00:38:56,260 --> 00:39:00,040 Because worldwide, there has been a fascination 625 00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:02,940 that goes back into deep antiquity 626 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,540 about these standing stones. 627 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,780 The Vatican, ancient Egypt, in New York City, 628 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,780 a ksum in Ethiopia, all over the world, 629 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:19,720 you have these obelisks, these markers that point to the sky. 630 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,460 Since the decline of the Egyptian Empire 631 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,960 approximately 2,000 years ago, nearly 30 obelisks 632 00:39:27,020 --> 00:39:30,100 have been moved from their original locations 633 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,400 to sites across the globe. 634 00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:36,100 But why? 635 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,200 There may be something more magical at play, 636 00:39:39,260 --> 00:39:44,700 because I believe these ancient cultures had mastered things 637 00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:48,340 we are only just starting to understand. 638 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,900 And perhaps the power of these obelisks 639 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:55,640 has been kept for multiple generations in secret. 640 00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:58,040 In fact, the symbol of the obelisk 641 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:01,680 became part of many secret societies. 642 00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:07,820 It became part of the Masonic founding of Washington, DC. 643 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,220 And where they're placed around the world 644 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,620 is also very interesting, because they're not 645 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,520 placed in just random positions. 646 00:40:14,580 --> 00:40:17,820 They're placed geodetically, often linked 647 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,480 with ancient Egypt. 648 00:40:20,540 --> 00:40:23,780 What is it about the obelisk that attracts us, 649 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,480 that resonates with us? 650 00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:31,220 Well, number one is humanity's always striving. 651 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,720 We're always reaching up to the stars, 652 00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:38,720 because I think in some cellular memory, we get it. 653 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,860 That that's really where we come from, 654 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,900 even if we don't realize that what we're probably doing 655 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:52,920 is commemorating our extraterrestrial origins. 656 00:40:52,980 --> 00:40:56,720 I think the evidence is right in front of our eyes. 657 00:40:56,780 --> 00:41:01,020 These standing stones are pointing to the stars. 658 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:02,020 Why? 659 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:06,720 Because that is where we came from. 660 00:41:06,780 --> 00:41:09,960 In Washington, DC, they put the reflecting pool 661 00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:12,500 beside the obelisk. 662 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,760 This draws our eye into the heavens. 663 00:41:15,780 --> 00:41:19,060 Because we see the reflections of the stars and the heavens 664 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,900 in that reflecting pool, and we instantly connect 665 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,100 that the obelisk in the heavens in DC, in fact, 666 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,560 are all connected. 667 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,340 Could the towering stone obelisks of ancient Egypt 668 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,340 represent an advanced technology that existed on Earth 669 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,040 thousands of years ago? 670 00:41:39,100 --> 00:41:41,480 Have we placed them in important locations 671 00:41:41,540 --> 00:41:43,680 all around the world? 672 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:49,600 Because of our innate awareness of their profound power. 673 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,040 While the original function of the obelisks 674 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:57,520 may be lost to time, perhaps they now serve a new purpose, 675 00:41:57,580 --> 00:42:01,020 to stand as a testament to the enduring connection 676 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,420 between humanity and our alien creators.