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- [Narrator] Ancient mystical sites around the world
seemingly have the power to harness energy.
Menhirs are large manmade, upright stone,
typically dating back to the Middle Bronze Age.
These stones are able to harness energy coming up
out of the Earth and ripple out
into the surrounding countryside in expanding circles.
And that energy as we're going to see
actually has positive benefits for people's health,
as well as harnessing energy that expands the consciousness
and help become more evolved,
more intelligent and more psychic.
The ancients created a phenomenal feat
that they would actually be able to take these giant stones
and get them to stand up just with the equipment
that was supposedly available to them at that time.
This is a stunning accomplishment.
Dolmens are very much like spiritual cellars
where you have stones built into a room.
Often found throughout France, Scotland,
Ireland, and England,
the purpose of these were locations
where our ancient ancestors would go inside
to conduct forms of meditation.
They are assumed to capture energy from the Earth,
which is then concentrated in the center of these areas.
Some who have visited these type of locations claim
on occasion that they have received
a mysterious blast of energy.
How these dolmens were created is somewhat of a mystery,
especially how some of these huge stones were lifted
as the weight of some of these are tremendous.
These stones also have managed to stay in their positions
for thousands of years, never falling or moving,
regardless of earthquakes and storms.
Some dolmens are much more organized
where they actually have breathing holes.
There are many of these cosmic energy chambers
throughout Europe, which when looked at remind us
how our ancestors were far more in tuned
with the planet and energies.
There are also barrows
which are situated throughout America and England.
They can be somewhat deceiving as they look often
just like large earth-covered mountains,
some of which are very large.
It doesn't look like much except just a big round dome.
Most have entrances allowing you to venture inside
to a large circular room.
Again, meditation carried out inside these rooms
sometimes provides a blast of energy.
But those who have experienced this,
they often described a feeling
as some form of sudden spiritual lifting.
- Research carried out at these locations have revealed
that some of them have been designed as resonant chambers.
Most are specifically tuned to 110 or 111 hertz.
Both of which are known to us as healing frequencies
and can produce accelerated healing properties
as well as developing new consciousness.
110 hertz is known to represent the human pitch.
Buddhist and Hindu chant their mantras
in this exactly in the same frequency.
Stone rooms in ancient temples in Malta were found
to match the same pattern resonance,
registering at the frequency of 111 hertz,
or better known as the holy frequency.
- [Narrator] Some barrows have been purposely designed
to be elongated in shape for which it has been speculated
that they're tailored for the energy coming from the Earth.
Henges are probably the most recognized
of all ancient European constructions,
especially those of Stonehenge.
Not surprisingly, there have been reports
of strange energies coming out from these stones.
- Bluestone is often used in henges.
Seemingly they have a strong connection
with electrical impulses produced by the human body
and has particularly strong connections with the heart.
It is said that the bluestone clears the heart center
and strengthens the electrical workings of the heart.
Sounds all very mystic,
but there does seem to be some evidence
to support that this is actually true.
There are numerous scientific institutes that believe this.
Investigations of some henges reveal a seven
to 10 hertz frequency field, which is close to the,
what you might call the Schumann resonance,
and once again,
mysteriously beneficial to health and good wellbeing.
- [Narrator] The evidence gathered by scientists
over the last 20 years suggests
that the ancient megalithic architects
must have been acutely aware of the Earth's energies,
as well as the Earth's subtle geometries.
This knowledge was integrated
into the formation plans of their monuments,
so to generate numerous forms of free energy.
As an example, the energies passing from the ground upwards
through these stones have been referred to as chakra bands.
Larger areas of energy that surround complete henges
as well as barrows have been referred to
as a powerful circular earth pattern called a primary halo.
These are natural upwellings of energies generated
by the Earth and often associated
with natural underground water systems.
A primary halo is highly magnetic
and invariably consists
of three concentric circles of energy.
These locations were known to our ancestors
as they were able to identify these places
and construct standing stones and mounds upon them.
This is the reason why the ancients chose a circular design
for their stone circles and mounds
and sacred sites marked their location
with the esoteric landscape.
- Have you ever noticed that some ancient monuments appear
to be connected?
If you take a look at the world map
and look at the positions of these ancient monuments,
you'll notice that many are seemingly connected
with straight lines, almost as if ancient builders
used advanced forms of geometry.
This is known as the earth energy grid.
The term ley itself comes from Anglo-Saxon
meaning cleared strips of land
or clear strips of ground or even meadows.
But these lines we are referring to are energetic
and exist whether the land is stripped of the ground or not.
All leys meet as intersection points,
forming a matrix of grid type structures across the planet.
These grid points, according to proponents
are the strongest power spots on Earth.
Apparently many of our ancestors thought that too.
That is somehow they knew this,
since sacred sites, such as henges, mounds,
and megaliths, pyramids, famous energy vortices,
and even cathedrals are built on these locations
directly on top of them.
Nikola Tesla once said,
if you want to find secrets in the universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
- [Narrator] Avebury is the largest stone circle in England
and would have been magnificent in its day.
But the Avebury construction was much larger
than what we see today.
In fact, the stone circle was the belly
of a large serpent that stretched the landscape.
It was constructed of hundreds of huge stones,
many of which have in modern times fallen
and been covered in earth,
probably at a time of great disturbance,
such as earthquakes.
The serpent construct was something revered
all over the world
from the Native America serpent mounds
to the serpent gods of India.
No one really knows why our ancestors worshiped the serpent,
but it was a practice carried out by hundreds
of varied civilizations around the world
and around the same time.
- 110 hertz, which you might find in Newgrange,
for an example in Ireland,
it's just an ancient chamber or 111 hertz
like you might find, for instance,
in Malta in the Hypogeum.
These are healing frequencies, of course,
but they do much more than that.
In fact, these type of frequencies
also help with consciousness.
In some cases, people believe
that it actually switches your thought process
from your right side hemisphere of the brain
to the left side,
or allowing you to open up your sensories
to the environment.
It's very unusual what sound frequencies can do,
but there is new research coming forward
by Michael Tellinger
and other researchers around the world,
scientists even,
which are producing very credible documentation
about the evidence, how frequencies can help heal us
even from severe illnesses.
It's very clever how the ancients actually knew this.
It's amazing.
We don't know how they knew this and why they knew this,
but they did.
And they left their mark in stone for us to view today.
There was some ancient secret knowledge associated
to many of these sites utilizing these natural frequencies
or generated frequencies from producing an ohm
or certain chants within these structures,
very clever method.
And even the structures themselves are tuned
just like the pyramids are tuned to certain frequencies,
how they knew this is just amazing.
- [Narrator] Tilbury Hill,
which is England's nearest thing to an ancient pyramid
is also somewhat of an anomaly.
No one really knows for sure what purpose it had.
It was once thought to be an observation platform
that looked over the serpent of Avebury.
However, it has in more modern times been referred to
as a ceremonial mound
that once had a spiral path leading
from the ground to its apex.
There seems to be a triangular relationship
between Silbury Hill and the Avebury serpent.
In these areas, the stones and the hill are built
to focus energy at Silbury Hill
and the circular Avebury Henge,
which was once the center of the serpent
and that within the Avebury Henge were two smaller henges
that would have signified that the serpent had two items
in its belly, maybe to represent birth or being consumed.
There are large gatherings each year at such locations
by those who believe these places hold special powers.
Mystifying ancient sites are scattered all over the world.
Many still lie undiscovered.
Through the use of satellite mapping technology,
we're now starting to find these long-lost civilizations.
- Apart from using satellites in orbit
to locate geological anomalies and ancient sites,
they can also be used to map positive magnetics
and gravitational anomalies.
a number of ancient sites around the world reside
in such locations,
which are somehow connected to strange light phenomena
and alleged portals to other realities.
In some cases,
it's seemingly possible to measure the effects
of the environment left by the light phenomena,
such as gravitational wells.
These gravitational Wells don't seem
to last for very long though,
usually lasting between 48 and 72 hours at most.
- [Narrator] In an area of South Africa,
about 150 miles inland west of the port of Maputo,
this is what remains of a huge metropolis
that measures in conservative estimates
about 1500 square miles.
It's part of an even larger community
that is about 10,000 square miles
and appears to have been constructed
from between 160 to 200,000 BC.
The region is somewhat remote
and there are strange circular walls
that have been encountered by local farmers
who assumed they were made
by some indigenous people in the past.
But oddly, no one ever bothered to inquire
about who could have made them or how old they were.
This changed when researcher and author Michael Tellinger
teamed up with Johan Heine,
a local fireman and pilot who'd been looking at these ruins
from his years flying over the region.
Heine had the unique advantage
to see the number and extent
of these strange stone foundations
and knew that their significance was not being appreciated.
The world has been taught that nothing of significance
has ever come from Southern Africa,
that powerful civilizations all emerged in Sumeria
and Egypt and other places.
We are told that until the settlement of the Bantu people
from the north,
which was supposed to have started sometime
in the 12th century AD,
this part of the world was filled by hunter-gatherers,
so-called bushmen who didn't make any major contributions
in technology or civilization.
When explorers first encountered these ruins,
they assumed that they were cattle corrals
made by nomadic tribes, like the Bantu people
as they moved south and settled the land
from around the 13th century.
There was no previous historical record
of any older civilization capable of building
such a densely populated community.
Little effort was made to investigate the site
because the scope of the ruins was not fully known.
Over the past 20 years,
a number of researchers have discovered
that these stone structures are not what they seem to be.
In fact, these are now believed
to be the remains of ancient temples
and astronomical observatories of lost ancient civilizations
that stretch back for many thousands of years.
These circular ruins are spread over a huge area.
They can only truly be appreciated from the air
or through modern satellite images.
Many of them have almost completely eroded
or have been covered by the movement of soil
from farming and the weather.
Some have survived well enough to reveal their great size
with some original walls standing almost five feet high
and over a meter wide in places.
- Research in regarding ancient stones
and energies still continue to date.
In fact, just this year at solstice in Ireland,
there were several tests carried out at a resonant chamber,
an ancient site during the setting sun.
And as it passed through and put the light through
inside the chamber at that specific time,
certain voltages were being emitted from the stones.
Now these type of tests have been carried out plentifully,
but it has to be tied in with certain times
and certain locations it seems.
Up to 300 millivolts has been recorded,
enough to actually light small LEDs.
It's fascinating where that energy must be coming from.
We don't know.
This is obviously some type of hidden energy
that we're really starting to look into now
and trying to grasp our understanding of it.
Seems like the ancients had a very good understanding of it,
and were utilizing it whenever they needed to.
It's fascinating to see that
that could actually affect people
in those locations as well.
They might even be unaware of those conditions.
There have been people who have visited these sites,
many occasions and reported unusual sensors,
feeling unusual things, feeling energetic,
even things such as equipment has fallen faulty
in these locations at specific times.
Could it be this mysterious energy is affecting everything?
- [Narrator] Looking at the entire metropolis,
it becomes obvious that this was a well-planned community
developed by a highly-evolved civilization.
The number of ancient goldmines suggests the reason
for the community being in this location.
Roads have been discovered
that extend for hundreds of miles
that connect to the community and terraced agriculture
closely resembling those found
in the Inca settlements in Peru.
But one question begs for an answer.
How could this be achieved by humans 200,000 years ago?
Once the ruins were examined,
the researchers were anxious to place the lost civilization
into an historical perspective.
The rocks were covered with a patina that looked very old,
but there were no items sufficient for carbon-14 dating.
It was then when a chance discovery revealed the age
of the site and sent a chill down the spine
of archeologists and historians.
The principal researcher of this location,
Michael Tellinger said,
"When I was first introduced to the ancient stone ruins
"of Southern Africa,
"I had no idea of the incredible discoveries we would make
"in the year or two that followed.
"The photographs, artifacts,
"and evidence we have accumulated points unquestionably
"to a lost and never before seen civilization
"that predates all others,
"not by just a few hundred years or a few thousand years,
"but many thousands of years."
- There are a number of light frequency experiments
taking place in ancient sites,
which is part of a five-year program
known as Project Doorway.
And that starts to look at the relationship
between phenomena and the ancient sites
and the light frequency of terahertz,
which is usually found within the setting sun
or the rising sun frequency of light.
Such tests may give answers
why the ancients were associating their buildings
to resonate a certain sound
and allow light in the terahertz frequency to pass in.
There is also speculation
that the ingestion of certain properties
like monoatomic powder
could actually cause a spiritual enlightenment
or even a physical disappearance,
these portals that people have been referring to.
Some ancient sites seem to have a location in the middle
and kind of out in places
where people could sit on the outside,
which would produce the Ohm,
and the frequency of the chamber itself
bounces those signals back
to the individual sat in the middle,
applying that sound frequency
and applying the light frequency coming into the chamber
at set times such as solstices and equinoxes.
Could that actually open up some type of doorway?
After all, scientists in Russia
stipulated that during experiments,
they found that monoatomic powder seems to disappear
or parts of it does, 43% in fact,
under terahertz frequency light range
and came back once they removed the light source.
So if you were ingesting monoatomic powder,
well, what did that mean?
And would that 43% disappear?
What effects would that have on the physiological
and the psychological of that person?
Do they phase to another reality
or do they have some type of profound spiritual experience
to the land of the gods and come back with knowledge?
Who knows?
But it seems that everything seems to be tied into a lot
of these ancient sites,
the resonance of sound,
the resonance of light frequency,
and of course the individuals which are in those chambers
receiving whatever they might experience.
It's quite profound.
- [Narrator] These discoveries are so staggering
that they will not be easily digested
by the mainstream historical and archeological fraternity,
as we have already experienced.
It will require a complete paradigm shift
in how we view our human history.
This area is significant for one striking thing, gold.
The thousands of ancient goldmines discovered
over the past 500 years points
to a vanished civilization that lived and dug for gold
in this part of the world
for thousands of years, says Tellinger.
And if this is in fact the cradle of humankind,
we may be looking at the activities
of the oldest civilization on Earth.
Did gold play some role in the dense population
that once lived here?
The site is just about 150 miles from an excellent port
where maritime trade could have helped
to support such a large population.
But remember, we're talking almost 200,000 years ago.
The individual ruins mostly consist of stone circles,
most have been buried in the sand
and are only observable by satellite or aircraft.
Some have been exposed
when the changing climate has blown the sand away,
revealing the walls and foundations.
- Why our ancient ancestors had such a fascination
with gold is unknown.
It has been speculated
that ancient civilizations were somehow capable
of melting gold or smelting,
possibly even to the point of vaporizing it
and creating monatomic powder
for which ancients' god-like beings,
kings and pharaohs allegedly consumed.
So could this have been why gold was mined
in the ancient days, or was there some other reason for it?
- [Narrator] Whilst continued mainstream study
of such ancient sites like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey,
which is thought to be one of the oldest civilizations
predating the Sumerians, work continues in South Africa,
a discovery that predates Gobekli Tepe
by thousands of years.
However, mainstream science is simply ignoring the findings.
If such a civilization existed at that time,
we may just have to rewrite history,
which of course can be a rather big pill
for some to swallow.
Tellinger has become a real life Indiana Jones,
making groundbreaking discoveries
about advanced vanished civilizations
at the southern tip of Africa.
His continued efforts
and analytical scientific approach
have produced stunning new evidence
that will force us to rethink our origins
and rewrite our history books.
He is a major contribution to the field of ancient discovery
and has been delivering the proof of the tools and artifacts
that support his scientific findings.
He discovered more than 10 million stone ruins
that are not dwellings, but energy generating devices.
His torus stone that crashed the TSA security systems
at Doha International Airport in July 2013
has sparked the imagination
of the global scientific fraternity
in the quest for delivering a new free energy device
to the people of the world.
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Attempting to find good reliable information
pertaining to ancient sites and discovered artifacts
can be somewhat time consuming.
However, there are researchers dedicated
to providing the facts, no matter the consequences.
Ultimately, most of the time we find relevant
and detailed information quickly being crushed
or even removed from existence across the worldwide web.
One of the world's biggest mysteries, even now,
involve the Great Pyramid of Giza.
This monumental construction is still the topic
of much debate, especially surrounding its origins.
- One of the most intriguing discoveries
in regards to the Egyptian Pyramids is
that a number of rooms inside
are seemingly resonant chambers.
And it is alleged that all large pyramids
of Egypt resonate at the same frequency,
even one that were seemingly incomplete.
Some researchers believe
that it was purposely left that way,
as completing it would have changed its resonant frequency.
- There are researchers
that believe the Pyramids predate the Egyptian culture,
and that the Pyramids may have been adopted
by the Egyptians.
This theory is strengthened by the lack of evidence
to support the idea that the Egyptians created them,
especially when you learn
that not a single Egyptian hieroglyph was ever found
in the Great Pyramid
nor any existence to show
that any pharaohs were buried within.
For many scholars around the world,
the magnificence of their construction
still provides mystery and wonder.
For example, the Great Pyramid is the only pyramid
in our planet that has eight sides and not four.
Each of the pyramid's four sides is precisely split
from the apex to the base
with very subtle concave indentations.
It's believed that this discovery was made
by a British Air Force pilot called P. Groves in 1940,
as he flew over the Great Pyramid in his light aircraft.
Groves reportedly noticed the strange site
and took a photograph showing shadows
that reveal the indentations.
Some believe these subtle lines are only visible from above
and at specific times, such as dusk and dawn
on the spring and autumn equinoxes.
This leads some conspiracy theorists
to think that the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids
to perhaps communicate with heavenly beings from above.
On the east side of the Cheops Pyramid
numerous outside blocks have been removed,
revealing the huge megalithic type blocks underneath.
These larger blocks would have gone unnoticed
if the smaller blocks outside had not been removed.
Even the visible outside blocks are of an impressive size,
and in some cases provide shelter
from the blistering heat of the day.
It's estimated to comprise of some 2.5 million stone blocks
averaging 2.5 tons each
plus additional blocks weighing considerably more
lying deep within the pyramid,
where they serve special functions.
How were all these huge stones moved?
Even if we are to believe the textbooks
and workers had somehow achieved the impossible
and moved 10 blocks up on top of each other a day,
the 2.5 million stone block construction
would still have taken 664 years,
meaning if constructed for a pharaoh,
they would have never seen its completion.
A ridiculous hypothesis.
There are also a number of surface blocks
that are identical to those seen in Cusco, Peru.
They consist of unusual-shaped nodules protruding from them.
It's been suggested by researchers
that the nodules may have been used
to help move the stone blocks.
However, archeologists say
that they would have had no known purpose
in aiding the moving of the blocks.
Whatever the reason for their construction,
the pre-Inca and Egyptians
must have considered the manufacturer of these nodules
of great importance.
- I've visited a number of these locations,
and it's safe to say when examining these stones closely,
you cannot fit a piece of paper between them,
even though no mortar was ever used.
They are precisely cut and independently shaped
to each other.
Even the same amount of precision was applied
to the back or inside of the stones,
which you wouldn't normally see.
- [Narrator] The stones of the Great Pyramid
have been placed with organized precision.
When examining the stones more closely,
we can see that the precision cuts have been made
as part of the overall construction.
Today, many of the blocks are missing,
however, the Great Pyramid would have had a number
of further outside layers,
as well as a limestone covering.
This would have given it a white coloring.
It's even speculated that the pyramid apex
would have been a solid piece of gold,
making it a tremendous site across the Egyptian landscape.
Thanks to the use of specialist radiography equipment
that uses cosmic rays to detect cavities
in massive structures,
scientists have discovered a considerably large,
previously unknown opening within the Great Pyramid.
The mysterious cavity could represent a hidden room
with a cross-section of that of the Grand Gallery,
the major corridor running through the pyramid
and is at least 100 feet long.
As to what this room may hold is not yet known.
Also scientists believe that the shape of the pyramid
focuses electromagnetic energy into the chambers
creating higher levels of energy.
Research into ancient geopolymers has discovered
through the use of chemical x-ray analysis
that the casing stones
of the Great Pyramid are synthetic in origin
and that they have a lower density
than any quarried stone.
CAT scans of the stones show
that there are hairs deeply embedded
in the matrix of the stone.
This is another clue that the pyramid blocks were cast
using liquid stone.
Interestingly, the report on the dating
of these hairs was never released.
Recent tests carried out at Saqsaywaman in Peru
provided some fascinating data
that would suggest the huge stones may have been molded
and scraped into shape.
Legend speaks of a liquid derived from plants,
which was known to the ancients to turn the stones soft.
In fact, in 1983,
a Catholic priest reported that he used the technique
to achieve the stone softening.
However, he was unable to figure out
how to make the liquid stone hard again.
While this theory is still considered speculative,
there are marks on some of the stones at Saqsaywaman
that indicate that the stones were molded in some way.
Unlike the scientific testing of these stones carried out
at the Great Pyramid in Egypt,
Peru authorities will not allow any official investigation
to take place.
Probably the oldest and mysterious pyramids in the world
are those found in Caral, Peru,
an amazing site that little is known about.
Rarely are these pyramids visited.
The sacred city of Caral was a large settlement
in the Supe Valley, some 200 kilometers north
of the Peru capital Lima
and a well-studied site of the Norte Chico civilization.
Caral was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009.
The pyramids were not discovered until 1948
and are estimated to be around 5,000 years old.
Now pillaged, they were covered in intricate carvings
and, again, possessing precision-cut stones.
Huge blocks of stone have also been cut
and placed in burial mounds throughout Europe.
Maeshowe is a neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave
located in the Orkney Islands.
Like many other neolithic chambers,
the passageway is perfectly aligned
with the mid-winter solstice.
Believed to have been built in 2800 BC,
Maeshowe is the largest and most impressive
of the chamber tombs found in Orkney
and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
The passage entrance to Maeshowe aligns perfectly
with the morning sun of the mid-winter solstice,
allowing the sunlight to flood the chamber
revealing the true size of the huge blocks used.
The construction within the center
of the neolithic chamber is magnificent.
It is truly a work of art.
Precision-cut stones have been carefully placed
even in the apex of the roof.
No mortar is used,
simply the stones are sat in a way
that they support one another.
- Current research in regards
to ancient science that are not only aligned
to the rising and setting sun
at certain times of the year,
but are also resonant chambers,
which may have been used as doorways to other realities.
Though it sounds like science fiction,
it is interesting to point out that all references
to these alleged portals are activated
by a combination of sound and light.
Recent tests on monatomic powder shows
that around 43% disappears
when applying a terahertz light frequency to it.
As to where it goes, it's unknown.
Scientists can only speculate
that it is somehow phasing to another reality.
What if ingesting large quantities of this powder assisted
with transporting the consumer to the land of the gods?
It's also interesting to point out
that this terahertz frequency can also be found
in the rising and the setting sun
as it passes through and into these ancient chambers
at certain times of the year,
chambers that were built to resonate
at certain sound frequency.
So could the ingestion of monatomic powder,
the sound frequency and the light frequency be the code
to passing from one reality to another?
- [Narrator] Neolithic chambers found
in Newgrange in Ireland also align
with the winter solstice
and contain intriguing megalithic blocks,
some of which must weigh hundreds of tons,
which again reveal their magnificence
during the winter solstice when sunlight floods the chamber.
Huge walls found in Italy also show precision cut
and placed stone blocks of stone.
The Acropolis of Alatri is a good demonstration
of an ancient fortress wall that houses the Acropolis.
The center building has been precisely placed
to align itself with the heavens.
The masonry of Alatri is nearly identical
to that of the famous polygonal walls of Greece
and stands around 30 feet in height.
The wall formed a defensive league against the Volsci
and the Samnites around 550 BC.
True polygonal masonry is a technique
wherein the visible surfaces of the stone are dressed
with straight sides or joints
giving the block the appearance of a polygon.
Newer construction has been applied to the older walls
just as we see Cusco, Peru,
whereas the ancient pre-Incan walls are much more superior
and require no mortar to hold them together.
The method of cutting huge blocks
and placing them is an old age mystery
that defies explanation in modern times.
Apart from the ancient and incredible method
of key-locking stones together,
we also find part of the blocks of stone vitrified
making important areas of these stone even stronger.
This method can only be carried out
by applying temperatures to the stone
well beyond that of any traditional fire could create.
- The method of key-locking stones together was incredible,
something we rarely even do now.
This would have made the construction much more rigorous
against shifting and earthquakes.
Some researchers also believe they served another purpose.
Though the keys are missing today,
they would have been made of metal,
which later was probably melted
and reused by other civilizations.
Could these metal keys be used
to help pass energy through the rock
to one another, very possible.
But how on earth could such knowledge have been known?
- [Narrator] Some of the ancient walls
throughout Peru consist of small pieces of stone
as parts of its construction.
Similar precision cuts are also found
throughout the Egyptian walls
suggesting the method of cutting stone
must have been relatively easy.
The famous palace walls of Japan have also been fashioned
in the same way.
And in some cases, even giant boulders
have been precision cut into walls.
Researchers and archeologists are often stuck for words
when it comes to complete buildings
that have been cut out of the bedrock.
These ancient temples have doorways,
inner rooms and passages
all cut from as a single piece from the granite bedrock,
some of which have long been abandoned.
A lost history with so many unanswered questions.
In some cases, whole cities have been carved
out of the bedrock,
leaving academics to wonder why
and how these mysterious locations were created.
Some buildings show exquisite carvings
that have stood the test of time.
Others have become popular tourist attractions
such as the Petra in Jordan,
literally carved out to a mountainside
that featured in an Indiana Jones movie.
The rather odd numerous ancient sites around the world
have amazing cut pieces of stone
just scattered around on the ground,
some of which are cut with so much precision
that even now thousands of years later,
we have corners on them that are sharp.
Mainstream archeologists would have us believe
all these constructions were created
via the use of brass and copper tools,
which in many cases are much softer
than the rock they were used on.
As an example, rose quartz crystal granite found in Egypt
has a hardness level of eight out of 10,
and the tools to cut the stone only have a hardness
of three out of 10.
Something clearly does not add up.
Apart from huge stones being cut,
there is evidence of drill and boreholes,
most of which show evidence of machine marks
as if something had turned and cut through the stone.
The pentagonal boreholes of Massachusetts
have been referred to as star holes.
They consist of numerous shapes and sizes
often cut into granite stone.
Why these shapes were cut remain a mystery,
including the method that was used.
These relatively new discoveries have baffled archeologists,
however, others more precisionally cut have been found
in other countries, such as the star holes of Norway,
which clearly show evidence of machine marks.
It's unknown as to why these unusual marks appear in stone.
Often many hundreds of miles away from ancient sites,
some of the star holes in Norway consist
of numerous shapes,
just like those discovered in Massachusetts in the U.S.
On close examination,
you can see that a boring machine must have been used.
The inner ridges are consistent of machine marks
that rotated and cut through the rock
almost a millimeter per revolution.
Science is yet to find an explanation
as to how this was done.
- It's absolutely preposterous
to think that our ancestors cut and shaped rock
in the same manner we would to today by using power tools,
but mainstream science simply cannot explain
how this was done.
As an example,
there are a number of locations in Peru
that look like they have been cut by machines,
leaving unusual scoring marks in the rock.
Even the process of liquefying rock, shaping and molding,
it seems impossible, yet there is now evidence
to suggest this was actually being done.
Boring holes into the strongest rocks in the world
was seemingly easy for the ancients.
Whatever they possessed to do these incredible feats,
be it special tools and techniques,
they remain hidden and lost to time.
- [Narrator] The only feasible explanation
of how ancient civilizations managed
to cut rock so proficiently is the theory
that somehow knew how to soften the rock
and also how to move them.
The scholars of the world continue to tell us
that these great feats were carried out
by the use of brass and copper tools,
when clearly it seems the truth
of the matter is a guarded secret.
- It would seem a lot of the ancient sites
are associated with energies,
or certainly sound frequencies.
It's interesting to note that even throughout England,
there are set buildings built in certain areas,
which seem to stand on leys, these powerful energy lines.
But it isn't just energy we're actually talking about.
We're talking about frequencies of sound as well.
We have also a number of strange incidents,
not just throughout the UK,
but many places around the world
of strange humming sounds as well
coming from similar locations.
In fact, when you actually do research,
you'll find that a lot of ancient sites around the world
are strategically built in key locations
where energies, frequencies,
natural sounds generate infrasonics
or unusual sound frequencies in given areas.
It's quite unusual that the ancients managed
to know about this information
and actually tied it into the construction
of these megalithic buildings.
In fact, some of these buildings are acutely built
for sound frequencies.
If we take numerous places like Rosslyn Chapel,
for an example in Scotland,
is built in a specific manner
that generates certain frequencies with inside the building.
There are many of those places around the world
and some of them thousands upon thousands of years old.
The ancients knew about sound frequencies
and generating certain sounds at certain key locations
and sometimes at certain times of the year,
especially solstices.
It would seem that the combination of light from the sun,
sound frequencies generated from ohms,
even the Indian temples resonate at certain frequencies.
And it is said that certain doors of certain temples
in India can only be opened by a Garuda mantra.
A Garuda mantra is a certain type of ohm and prayer
that Indian priests many years ago used to produce,
utilizing certain vocal chords,
which are probably not even in existence now
in modern day humans.
It apparently took a whole lifetime to create
and produce the Garuda mantra,
whole mounts of years and years of practicing it,
only to get it just right would allow certain doors
to be open to certain crypts and vaults
within certain Indian temples.
If this is true,
then their knowledge of sound frequencies was tremendous,
as it was in other ancient civilizations
scattered around the world.
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- [Narrator] The Sphinx is the most debated
ancient monument in the world.
Having the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh,
it's not only beautiful and mysterious,
but also was hidden for thousands of years
beneath the sands of time.
But what have we learned?
What can we do to unravel this ancient mystery?
- During the restoration process
that spanned between 1920 and 1980,
the lack of knowledge in handling limestone structure
of that scale made some of the parts of the Sphinx
to be in a worse condition than it was before.
The reason for the damage was the use of gypsum mortar
and cement to fill in holes that were made by erosion.
The modification built up new stressors
in the limestone structure of the Sphinx.
The archeologists then had to repair damages made
by the restoration process.
They reversed the whole process
by carefully removing the cement from the cracks
and sealing it with something that is noninvasive.
Also, there were a couple of areas of the Sphinx
that still show coloring due to it being painted
in vivid, bright colors by the ancients.
- [Narrator] The Sphinx stands
upon limestone bedrock at a height of around 20 meters,
the head of the Sphinx alone measuring around five meters.
It's often said that in its moment of splendor,
it was beautifully painted a sunburst red
with a funeral type headdress or Nemes,
which would have been vivid blue and yellow
much like the casket of Tutankhamen.
The Sphinx measures approximately 58 meters in length
with a three meter tail.
According to official Egyptologists,
it was sculpted in the 26th century BC.
And with this, we have our first mystery.
What is the true age of the Sphinx?
If we accept the current theory of official Egyptologists,
then the Sphinx is around 4600 years old.
This, of course, would make it older
than the pyramids themselves.
There is, of course, another theory
that suggests the age of the pyramids are much older
and fall in line with the dating of the Sphinx.
- Although heavily influenced by Egyptian
and later Mesopotamian mythology,
the classical Greek depiction of the Sphinx consists
of a body of a lion, a head of a woman
and the wings of a bird.
Giza's male-identifying landmark
is technically an androsphinx.
The Great Sphinx of Giza is such a marvelous piece of work
that it's surprisingly nobody bothered
to take credit for it.
Even now, without definition
and defining evidence of the statue's age,
modern archeologists are split
over which ancient Egyptian pharaoh
allegedly created the landmark.
A number of findings suggest
that the Sphinx was originally intended
to be even greater accomplishment
than what we see today.
Archeologists discovered large stone blocks,
toolkits, and even lunches apparently just abandoned midway
through the work day.
- [Narrator] The Sphinx was first unearthed
between 1816 and 1818 by a Genoese,
a Navy captain Giovanni Battista Caviglia.
He was the first to defend the idea
that the face of the Sphinx belonged to Khephren himself
as the living image of the solar divinity
that Khephren represented.
Initially, only the head protruded from the sand
that was burying the body century after century.
Before that for centuries,
the virtual travelers who visited the Sphinx
only saw the great head of Khephren,
just the five meters of it above ground.
It took almost two years for Caviglia
to dig the Sphinx from the sand as we see it today.
During this time, the tip of the nose was already missing.
The documentation suggesting
that Napoleon Bonaparte's troops fired cannon shots
at the Sphinx was inaccurate,
because the grand corso was a fervent admirer
of Egyptian culture.
And it's more than evident that in the face
of such an attack, he would not have been happy,
thus, would have never allowed such a thing to take place.
It's more feasible to think that Bonaparte urged his troops
to take care of and protect the monument
instead of destroying it,
warning them of the punishment of death.
The missing nose was never located.
The most forceful evidence was inadvertently provided
by the Danish architect, Frederic Louis Norden,
who in 1737 made drawings of the Sphinx
in which it can be seen that the nose tip was missing.
Although it's true that Richard Pococke also drew the Sphinx
at that time and did draw the Sphinx with the nose,
the characteristics of the drawing show
that Pococke was rather creative and not so objective.
The most accepted story,
although it's not definitive,
points to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr,
who in 1378, annoyed by the devotion
that the peasants showed towards the Sphinx
would have destroyed its nose and part of the ears,
literally shaving parts off.
This information was circulated
by the 15th century historian al-Maqrizi
adding that al-Dahr was convicted
and executed for vandalism.
That is, the nose would have been lost in the 14th century.
- The Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated
to consist of 2,300,000 stone blocks
that weigh anywhere between 30 tons
and weighing up to 50 tons.
What's more, the building of the Pyramid of Giza
allegedly took place only in a couple of hundred years
after the creation of Stonehenge,
the construction of which remains equally mysterious
despite the much smaller scale
of Britain's most fabulous standing stones.
For decades, various hypotheses have been put forward
about how those clever Egyptians were able
to accomplish their seemingly impossible task.
Even today, scientists and scholars struggle
to explain the method of construction.
Standing at a height of 139 meters,
the Great Pyramid must have been
the most significant monument ever created on our planet.
- [Narrator] Returning to the sensitive issue
of the age of the Pyramids,
we already know that they too were partially buried
until 1816, that the Egyptians supposedly painted them
in a bright white color.
When the Sphinx was eventually unearthed,
it was discovered that there were strange marks on its body.
These marks seemed to be wind erosion.
However, according to researchers,
such as PhD in geology and geophysics, Robert Schoch,
the idea of wind erosion is absurd.
If we look at the body and the legs of the Sphinx,
they present horizontal and parallel very deep marks.
But it's not just that.
Many of these marks are crossed by other verticals,
often present in both rocks
that are constantly subjected to a running water flow.
That is to say, the marks were not caused by wind,
but by water.
Reviewing a history of Egypt,
the only time there was water in the area
is now covered in sand.
According to the geology of the location,
this puts the Sphinx at an age of 8000 to 9000 years.
That is, unless the ancient Egyptians
constantly bathed the Sphinx.
If not, then this dating clashes
with the official age of 4600 years.
Every time we hear the word sphinx,
we often think of the same thing,
the body of a lion, the head of a pharaoh.
This is the classic image of the sphinx
embedded in our memory for hundreds of years.
We've seen this image in Egypt, in photographs,
but is it a true perception?
Is what we really see a sphinx?
Surprisingly, new research suggests
the Sphinx has the body of a lion.
If this is the case, and it's a lion lying down,
we should see the lion in a position
as we would normally see them, lying on one of its flanks,
unless the builders of the Sphinx wanted
to represent the lion in an upright position.
In fact, if we look at man's best friend,
the dog sitting next to us,
we may have a better idea
of what animal was being represented in the Sphinx.
The Sphinx is likely not a lion, but a dog.
However, what dog could be being represented
as a god by the Egyptians?
Well, only one, and not really a dog, but a jackal.
Let's theorize.
What if the Sphinx is, in fact, Anubis,
the jackal god of the Egyptians?
Now, why represent Anubis,
supposedly with the head of Pharaoh Khephren?
If we take a closer look at the Sphinx
in all its dimensions,
we will see that the body, 58 meters of it,
is immense in relation to its head.
A small head might mean that perhaps the pharaoh's head
was sculpted from another larger head.
In fact, a jackal's head would be large enough
to sculpt the pharaoh, who according to this theory,
would have taken the gigantic sculpture of Anubis
and would have turned his head into his own face.
That is to say, the Sphinx would
in reality be the largest Anubis sculpture in the world.
Another question to arise is when you study the Sphinx.
Researchers have for many years pondered the reasons
why the Sphinx casts its eyes to the east.
There were several hypotheses why this might be.
First, we must clarify certain things.
As we know, the year is divided into 12 zodiacal signs,
which correspond to numerous constellations.
Three signs correspond to the spring equinox,
Aries, Taurus, and Gemini.
The following signs to the summer solstice,
Cancer, Leo and Virgo,
followed by some of those of the autumn equinox,
Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius,
and the remaining belong to the winter solstice,
Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.
The relative positions of constellations vary very slowly,
with respect to a fixed point of observation of the Earth
due to some rocking movement of our planet
and its solar orbit.
Because of this balancing, our position
in relation to the constellations change every 72 years,
the equivalent of a degree of arc.
In other words, it takes almost 26,000 years
to turn the constellations and return to the starting point.
This curious phenomenon called precession of the equinoxes
was already known in antiquity,
where ancient civilizations attached great importance.
To each period of 2160 years, they gave it the name era,
and so it has continued to this day.
If we multiply by 2160, the number of eras
from the current one to that of Virgo,
we obtain an approximate date, the year 10,000 BC.
It's thought that in those times,
ancient people began to raise the enigmatic monument.
So the Sphinx is likely not 4600 years old,
but closer to 12,000 years old,
which would have been the age of Leo
as suggested by researcher and author, Robert Bauval.
There's a theory that the Sphinx is facing east,
because it's to recall a time,
a remembrance to the civilization that once built it.
To the east, we have several ancient civilizations,
but none would be as old as the Sphinx.
Only Gobekli Tepe in Turkey would be older
than the Sphinx, around 11,500 years.
- Predating Stonehenge by 6000 years,
Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe
upends the conventional view
of the rise of civilization.
The thing is, Gobekli Tepe just doesn't make sense.
The neolithic archeological ruins were first uncovered
in the 1960s,
but they significantly weren't realized until 1994.
Gobekli Tepe is so old and complex
that it's rewriting the understanding
of not just Turkish history,
but the entire history of humanity.
The construction of Gobekli Tepe
dates back almost 12,000 years
placing it in the time period
that is generally considered to be pre-civilization.
It was built right around the same time
as the last ice age ended.
Gobekli Tepe then went on to be an active civilization
for nearly three millennia
before being abandoned under mysterious circumstances
around 9000 years ago.
Everything we have learned about this location
simply upsets the apical.
- [Narrator] Can we perhaps find a relationship
between the Sphinx and Gobekli Tepe?
The Turkish temple has tall columns
that represent various animals,
but something more spectacular is that of the information
from archeologist and astronomer Giulio Magli.
He believes this temple could have been built
as an observatory and as a place of worship
for the star Sirius.
Sirius, also known as the Star of the Dog
in the constellation Canis Major
is the brightest star in the sky
and has been worshiped by numerous civilizations.
Canis Major, Sirian,
the Star of the Dog or the Dog Star has also references
within the Sphinx as it has been considered
to have the body of the jackal.
Have we found perhaps the relationship
or is this pushing it a little bit too far,
maybe looking for something that isn't really there?
When you analyze the images carved
in Gobekli Tepe temple rocks,
we notice that the carvings of animals are rough
and not to scale,
quite the opposite for the Sphinx.
It's almost perfect in proportion.
If we look closer, the Sphinx has its front legs very long,
the hind legs somewhat longer, the back extremely straight.
That is to say, beyond its mysterious beauty,
the Sphinx has a certain disproportion
that gives it an exotic beauty.
And the reality is that we don't know
what the Sphinx looked like when it was built,
although this disproportion of which we speak is preserved.
So it seems obvious that the Sphinx is not looking
towards Gobekli Tepe,
because the temple is a good deal farther north
from the view of the Sphinx.
Of course, this is just another theory
put forward by scholars,
a theory that lacks any good evidence in its support.
If the Sphinx is not looking towards Gobekli Tepe temple,
then maybe the Sphinx doesn't look
at a certain constellation either.
It may just be facing the sunrise
at the time of construction.
- For at least 10,000 years,
human beings have been plotting the movement of the stars,
studying the heavens, constructing calendars
and erecting monuments to track the precession
of the constellations
and heavenly bodies across the night sky.
Many ancient cultures shared the belief
that we came from the stars.
Perhaps this is why so much time and effort
and energy has been put into the study of celestial bodies
from ancient times, right up to today.
Several constellations
and stars have played an important role in ancient mysteries
and mythologies surrounding the celestial origins
of our species.
In the places where these legends emerge,
we find structures that correlate with the position
of the stars and constellations in the sky.
What were our ancestors, our predecessors trying
to tell us with this information?
- [Narrator] There are many ancient civilizations
that aligned their temples and important buildings
with the sunset and sunrise.
This seems to be a widely growing hypothesis.
However, if this is true, and once again,
it leaves a huge question mark
on the accuracy of the dating of the Sphinx.
This ancient wonder is without a doubt one
of the greatest mysteries of Egypt
and the world in general.
Its age continues to be without a doubt
a mystery in itself.
And finally, as to who and why the head
of the Sphinx was changed is lost to time.
Debate continues if the head was originally that
of a lion or a jackal,
and if the Sphinx predates the pyramids.
If so, then maybe the Egyptians adopted the Sphinx,
leaving the question as to who created it,
this being an even more perplexing mystery and many others.
- But whoever built the Sphinx abandoned it very quickly.
The evidence that has been found supports
that people just put down tools and left
and abandoned the whole place,
just as many other civilizations abandoned their locations,
the Mayans, the Aztecs around the world, it's is a mystery.
We don't know where they went.
We don't know why they suddenly left these places.
But one thing is for sure, their skills
in creating these huge megalithic structures are amazing
and are still amazing researchers today.
They haven't got all the answers.
Many researchers are guessing at this game.
Who built the Sphinx? I don't know.
How old is the Sphinx?
Probably a lot older than what we really think
or what is documented in scientific journals.
It's a complete mystery.
Now in the 21st century,
science is finding more and more things
which do not give us any more answers
but produce more questions, in fact,
especially in regarding the mysterious cut stones
of the Egyptian Pyramid.
One of the most interesting things
that's come to light recently is
that these strange cut stones seem to show blade marks,
boring holes into granite stone
with a cutting revolution of a millimeter per revolution.
And you're obviously having to utilize some type
of technology, some type of machinery.
But where is that machinery?
Where is this technology?
Well, we don't seem to be able to find this.
How did they do such things with rocks and stone?
Obviously it must have been relatively easy for them.
We're just as perplexed today as we've always been.
But most interesting, the scientific study
in the casing stones of the Egyptian Pyramids
over the last year,
researchers have taken samples from the rock
and found that under the microscope hairs within the rock,
and they couldn't work out
how this hair got inside the rock.
Well, really there's only one way that can happen.
And that is, is if the rock was a mold,
and whoever constructed it,
whoever was over it, brushing out those bubbles,
hair fell off their head and into the mix.
This has been speculated many times by scientists
in places in Peru where rocks looked
to be molded to each other in strange fashions and shapes.
If that is the case, then we have to question,
how did they melt the rock?
Is there a method?
There is rumors that they used some type of plant extract
to melt rock,
but there's no evidence to support those theories.
We really are just scratching our heads.
One thing is to show the evidence points towards
that some of these rocks were liquified
and made like some type of hard cement.
How they did that, I really do not know.
But one thing is for sure.
Those hairs do exist within the rock.
And if they're in there,
there's only one way to get in there.
And that is through the process
of a molten rock and hair dropping into it liquified
and then eventually set in place.
It's a complete conundrum.
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- [Narrator] The Dendera Temple complex located
about 37 miles off Luxor on the west bank of the River Nile
is one of the best preserved collections
of ancient monuments in Egypt.
Contained inside the complex is a superb Temple of Hathor
founded in 54 BC by Cleopatra's father Ptolemy XII.
On the walls of one of the crypts underneath this temple
are a series of relief carvings
sometimes known as the Dendera lamps
because of their resemblance to light bulbs.
The vast Dendera Temple complex covers an area
of 430 square meters, 560 square feet,
and is surrounded by a high mud brick enclosure wall.
The complex belongs mainly to the Ptolemaic, 305 to 30 BC,
and Roman, 30 BC to AD 395 periods,
though the buildings replaced much older temples
on the same site.
The Dendera complex contains a range of monuments,
including the Hathor Temple, a temple of the birth of Isis,
a sacred lake, various chapels, Roman kiosks,
and a Christian Church.
The earliest surviving building on the site is the mammisi,
a large granite shrine built by Nectanebo II,
Egypt's last native pharaoh
who ruled from 360 BC to 343 BC.
The main temple at Dendera
is the magnificent Temple of Hathor,
which in its present form was mostly constructed
over a period of 30 years from 54 to 20 BC
during the reign of Ptolemy XII
and his daughter, the famous Queen Cleopatra VII.
Along with the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus at Edfu
located about 68 miles south of Luxor,
this temple is the most completely preserved in Egypt.
On the temple's outer wall,
there are finely carved reliefs
showing both Cleopatra and her son
by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, Ptolemy XV.
The grand elaborately decorated sandstone temple of Hathor
was dedicated to the cow-headed goddess of Hathor,
the consort of the falcon-god Horus and goddess of love,
motherhood, joy and music.
The famous Dendera Zodiac relief,
the first-known representation of the stars
in the form of a zodiac in Egypt was found
in the Temple of Hathor adorning the ceiling
of the second chapel of Osiris,
one of the six rooftop chapels dedicated
to the great Egyptian god of the underworld.
Beneath the floors of Hathor's Temple cult chambers
are 14 crypts, suites of rooms of three
or sometimes four stories.
These subterranean rooms were used
to store cult equipment, archives, and magical emblems
for the temple's protection.
The most important of the numerous statues kept in the crypt
was that of the Ba of Hathor.
The Ba was believed to be the being's personality
and was depicted as a bird or a bird with a human head.
Access to these crypts was gained
from hidden trap doors in the floor
and secret sliding doors in the walls.
Subterranean crypts were a common feature
in Egyptian temples from the late period, 664
to 525 BC onward.
However, unlike crypts at other temples,
11 of those in the Hathor Temple contain relief decoration.
It is three of the relief carvings in the easternmost
of the five crypts along the temple's southern side
that have caused such a debate
in fringe archeology circles.
One of these controversial reliefs
shows Horus holding an elongated bulb-like object
containing snakes, which is supposed to be a Djet pillar,
a symbol resembling a column with a broad base and capital
divided by four parallel bars with two human arms.
A huge baboon-like demon holding two knives
in his hands is depicted to the right.
Although Egyptologists interpret these images
as representing Lotus flowers spawning a snake,
some researchers have other explanations for their meaning.
In their 1996 book, "The Light of the Pharaohs,"
Austrian ancient monument theorists Peter Krassa
and Reinhard Habeck conjecture
that the snake inside the lotus flower
represented light bulbs.
They suggest that in the reliefs,
the snake represents the electric current,
the Lotus flower the socket of the bulb,
the Lotus stem the cable,
and the Djed Pillar the isolator.
Krassa and Habeck believe
that due to the extreme darkness of the crypt,
some form of light would have been required.
And as there are apparently no traces of soot in the room,
this must have been an electrical lighting system.
No discussion of alternative explanations
for ancient mysteries would be complete
without an appearance by the granddaddy
of ancient astronaut theories, Erich von Daniken.
In his book, "The Eyes of the Sphinx,"
the newest evidence of extraterrestrial contact
in ancient Egypt from 1996,
von Daniken echoes the opinions of Krassa and Habeck
that the Dendera reliefs illustrate
an ancient electric light bulb,
cryptically adding that the image of the baboon
is a warning that the electrical device could be dangerous
if used incorrectly.
He also states in the book that the relief is located
in a secret chamber.
In 1981, Viennese electrical engineer Walter Garn
constructed a model based on the reliefs
at the Temple of Hathor,
complete with Djed Column insulator, bulb,
and twisting wire, which did indeed function and emit light.
So can we interpret these images at Dendera as proof
that the ancient Egyptians used electricity
to light their underground tombs and crypts
and were thus in possession
of incredibly advanced technology thousands of years ago.
The first basic objection to the theory
that these ancient reliefs depict electrical lamps
is that an electric light bulb
does not need an extra insulator, the Djed.
The glass of the light bulb insulates the filament.
Secondly, no material evidence has ever been found,
despite hundreds of years of investigations
and excavations in Egypt,
not a trace of associated artifacts or supporting technology
such as wires or power supplies
that would be required to manipulate electricity.
Thirdly, the assertion made by Krassa and Habeck
that no traces of soot have ever been found
in Egypt's numerous underground tombs, pyramid shafts,
and crypts is completely untrue.
Soot is there in abundance on the burial chamber walls
of the Red Pyramid of Dahshur, for example.
In other cases, such as the walls of the passages
in the Great Pyramid at Giza, for example,
decoration was undertaken in daylight
before the ceiling and roof were installed.
Furthermore, even a quick perusal
of the Dendera reliefs shows
that they are in fact covered in soot.
The original white color of the limestone is still visible
around the edges of the block.
So how do we interpret these enigmatic reliefs?
Although it is not known exactly
what the Djed Pillar represents,
its hieroglyphic meaning is enduring or stability
and sometimes column.
The Djed Pillar has also been interpreted
as a combination of the four pillars
that the Egyptians believe supported the four corners
of the Earth,
as a cedar tree with lopped branches
as the backbone of the god Osiris
and as a stylist sheaf of corn.
It may have represented all of these things at various times
during ancient Egyptian history.
Many Egyptian pyramids and tombs display the Djed symbol
in their decoration,
including Snefru's Step Pyramid at Meidum,
62 miles south of Cairo
where the Djed pillars from columns supporting the sky
and in Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara,
where there are doorways surmounted with rows
of Djed pillars, supporting an arch above.
Rather than being an illustration
of ancient Egyptian electricity,
the scene in the Dendera reliefs is interpreted
by Egyptologists as a depiction of a Djed pillar
and a lotus leaf and a flower giving birth
to a sacred snake inside it
in accordance with Egyptian mythology.
Admittedly, we cannot explain every detail
in the Dendera reliefs.
However, this doesn't mean that we have to ascribe
to them fantastical interpretations
entirely without a shred of evidence to back them up.
The electrical lamp theory seems to be based
on nothing more than the carvings looking a bit
like a modern light bulb
and therefore ancient Egyptians are assumed
to have possessed electricity.
People often see what they want to see in ancient art
projecting their own values,
obsessions and meanings back onto ancient civilizations
far removed from us both in time and culture.
One of the 21st century's main obsessions
is with technology,
which is why any ancient objects
that are imperfectly or only partially understood
to be ancient machines of some kind
that show that our ancestors were just as advanced
as we are today.
Unfortunately, this attitude tells us absolutely nothing
about ancient cultures, buildings, and artifacts,
but everything about ourselves.
The Dendera relief must be understood in terms
of ancient Egyptian religion and mythology
and not modern technology.
The scenes depict a magical, not a technical process.
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- A Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean
at the southernmost point of what is referred to
as the Polynesian Triangle lies Easter Island,
one of the most mysterious locations on the planet.
Don't even get me started
on how many mysteries surround Easter Island.
There are just so many.
Also known as The Navel of the World
and located directly on an earth energy line,
many early explorers to the island had reported
about the unusually-shaped skulls
and large bumps found on the back of their necks,
which were found on the island.
A number of highly detailed carvings have been found
that depict these strange features,
which are said to represent their ancient ancestors.
The island is one of the most studied in the world
and has been for quite some time,
however, when it comes to revealing her secrets,
she continues to keep a tight grasp upon them.
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- [Narrator] Situated in the southeastern Pacific Ocean,
the enigmatic Easter Island has long been shrouded
in mystery, as one of the most remote inhabited islands
on the globe.
Though relatively small in size,
only a little more than 63 square miles
and housing less than 8000 residents,
the island is iconic the world over,
most notably for its striking collection of gigantic statues
known as moai, which pepper the landscape.
But Easter Island holds other fascinating puzzles as well,
including beautiful petroglyphs and woodwork,
a rich cultural mythology and a purported written language
that has yet to be deciphered.
- Not only the island is said to be the location
of strange phenomena but also the surrounding waters.
During the Kon-Tiki expedition in April of 1947
traveling to Polynesia, diary logs reported
that fake luminations were seen down in the water.
Sometimes they were described as roundish or oval
or even triangular in shape
and would occasionally split into two paths
seen underneath them traveling around in circular motions.
Wherever the lights were,
there were at least five fathoms in length.
To you and me, that's around about 30 feet.
The lights danced below the surface for around four hours
and then occasionally the sea could be seen
to boil and bubble.
Probably the most fascinating entry in the log
is a sighting of a big wheel
that seemed to lift from the ocean
and rotate in the air before descending
once again into the depths.
It seems the oceans in the area are a notable hotbed
for UFOs and USO sightings.
- [Narrator] Easter Island,
known as Isla de Pascua in the Spanish
and Rapa Nui to the native people was thought
to have first been settled in around 1200 CE,
though this state could possibly be as early as 300 CE.
It was likely colonized initially by Polynesians,
who traveled to the tiny landmass in canoes
from the Gambier Islands, which lie 1600 miles away,
or perhaps the more distant Marquesas Islands,
which are about 2000 miles away.
It is believed
that the islands of Hawaii were settled
at around the same time.
The culture of the island seemed to thrive
for approximately five centuries
as natives cleared land for farming
and began constructing the massive stone monuments,
still extend on the island today.
However, the small island's resources,
particularly wood, soon began to become depleted,
and the widespread rat infestation
didn't help matters either.
Some researchers have speculated
that conditions on the island had become so dire
that some inhabitants might have resorted to cannibalism.
By the time the Europeans arrived in 1722,
Easter Island's ecosystem was already in a precarious state.
And over the next 150 years,
the native population dwindled
from approximately 3000 individuals
down to just 111 people in 1877.
Diseases brought by the Europeans
for which natives had no immunity was a major cause
for the decline as were slave raiding expeditions
undertaken by the Peruvians in the 1860s
in which many islanders were captured
or forced to flee to Tahiti.
Easter Island was annexed by the nation of Chile in 1888.
And in 1966, its inhabitants were given Chilean citizenship.
In 1994, it was granted the status
of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The early mythology of the Rapa Nui people
primarily centered around worship of their ancestors.
In their origin myth,
Hotu Matua, known as the king or Supreme chief
of Easter Island arrived in a double-hulled canoe
landing on Anakina Beach with his party.
And it was this initial group
who served as the basis for the subsequent civilization.
Hotu Matua supposedly had many sons
who ruled over varying clans on the island.
And this extended family was said to have lived there
for a millennium until the arrival in 1722
of the first European Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen.
The famous moai statues, in fact, were constructed expressly
for the purpose of defining the ancestors
of the residence as the Rapa Nui believed
that those living on the island
would have everything provided to them by the dead,
provided they made offerings
and worshiped their ancestors accordingly.
As the resources on the island began to diminish, however,
intertribal warfare resulted in the abandonment
of the ancestor worship
as well as a halt to the production of the moai
and perhaps even the toppling of many of them.
Though, it's not known if residents of the island,
Europeans or natural disasters were responsible for this.
In place of the ancestor worship,
a belief system slowly evolved,
which focused on the veneration of Makemake,
a creator and fertility god
whose cult was known as Tangata Manu
or the Birdman cult.
This belief system persisted until the gradual conversion
of most of the island's inhabitants to Catholicism
in the late 19th century.
- A strange spherical stone,
much like the stone balls of Costa Rica was discovered
roughly at the center point of Easter Island.
It stands alone.
One of the kind with some unusual properties.
The stone named The Navel of the World appears
to be nothing more than a large spherical boulder
placed amongst a crude rock perimeter.
However, the mysterious stone was believed
to have been brought to the island specifically
by the first king of Hotu Matu.
The name of the stone comes from the legend
that it's the navel of the world from which all life sprang.
Although, this is more likely due
to its perfect round shape.
No matter the origin,
the rock dos display a few abnormal traits.
For instance, when a compass is placed
on top of the rock, it loses its direction completely,
likely due to the magnetic elements in the rock itself,
rather than more an inferable cause.
There are now four stones around the rock,
which were placed more recently
and which represent the four sides of the compass.
The connection to ancient science and magnetic properties,
there's plenty of evidence around the world.
How did they know that they existed?
Because they were specifically built on these locations,
where there are magnetic properties.
- [Narrator] The most visible and well-known feature
of Easter Island's landscape is a series
of gigantic stone monoliths,
construction of which was believed to have begun
in around 1250 CE.
The vast majority of the statues were thought
to have originally been placed
along the coastal perimeter of the island facing inward
towards its clans, as though watching over them.
The exception to this rule are the seven so-called Ahu Akivi
which experts surmise once faced outward towards the sea
in order to aid travelers in locating the island.
The stoic and dignified faces of the moai,
as previously mentioned,
are believed to represent particularly revered people,
such as rulers and important ancestors.
In particular, the more recent moai
who were carved with pukao or topknots on their heads
are believed to be chieftains.
- A stunning archeological discovery was made
in May of 2012,
where archeologists excavated around the statues
to discover the Easter Island heads have actually bodies
deep within the ground.
As with many things on Earth,
time took its toll on the statues
and buried them in sediment and rocks,
hiding and preserving the torsos of the Easter Island heads.
Why so much silt was deposited across the island
is also highly debated,
with some scholars stating that it was a huge tidal wave
that most have covered the island,
washing silt over the terrain
and knocking over many of the statues.
If this be correct, then this lends to the speculations
that it too was affected by some type of great flood
on the Earth,
as we see evidence of this at many other ancient sites
around the world.
- [Narrator] Of the roughly 900 monoliths on the island,
almost all are carved
from the compressed volcanic ash known as tuff,
a relatively soft rock.
A few of the moai were constructed from basalt,
another few from trachyte and some from red scoria.
The statues were nearly all carved at the quarry
known as Rano Raraku,
where almost 400 unfinished moai can still be seen today.
Completed statues were placed
upon stone platforms called ahu.
The construction of the monoliths must've been an expensive
and time-consuming process
considering that the statue's average height
is around 13 feet tall
and average weight is approximately 14 tons.
Not only that, but there is one completed moai,
which stands 33 feet high and weighs 82 tons,
and another incomplete one which could possibly have been
as tall as 69 feet.
To this day, it's still not known with any certainty
how the islanders moved the massive monoliths
from the quarry to their final place of installation.
Modern researchers have attempted to replicate the methods
they might have used and have come to the conclusion
that builders either rolled the statues to the coast
using log rollers or wooden sledges
or more intriguingly, might have walked the statues
as far as 14 miles across the island
by utilizing a group of people who would encircle the moai
with ropes and then rock the statue back and forth
while also pulling forward.
Many of the statues had already been toppled
by island inhabitants or by earthquakes
by the time the Europeans arrived in 1722.
And by 1868, all of the moai had been knocked over.
They remained in a state of disarray until 1955
when an American archeologist
by the name of William Malloy set about restoring
and re-erecting many of the monoliths on Easter Island.
Today, about 50 of the giant statues have been
either placed upright or taken from the island
to be displayed in museum collections.
- One mysterious and unique statue of Easter Island
is the kneeling moai or better known as the Tukuturi.
It's a particular figure that was discovered in 1955.
This figure differs much from the other traditional statues
on the island.
Unlike the other stone heads,
the Tukuturi's facial characteristics are more rounded,
much more human-like when compared to the traditional,
straight rectangular heads of the other moai.
The figure also has a beard and also well-defined legs
kneeling with his hands upon them.
The Tukuturi remains an unsolved mystery,
because there are no satisfactory answers
to some crucial questions regarding this curious figure.
Why is this figure's location away from other sculptures?
Why is it made from different material?
And most of all, why is it so different
than any other found on the island?
- [Narrator] The moai aren't the only compelling work
of cultural significance on Easter Island, however.
In fact, the island boasts one
of the most extensive collections of petroglyphs
in Polynesia with over 1000 sites across the island
containing more than 4000 cataloged carvings.
Petroglyphs were created for many different reasons.
Experts believe that some of them
may have been marked territory lines,
been used as totems or acted as memorials
to particular individuals.
The bulk of the petroglyphs can be found
at the ceremonial center of Orongo,
and most of this artwork depicts Birdman,
a relic of the Tangata manu culture.
Other carvings illustrate animals, such as sea turtles,
fertility symbols, such as vulvas
and renderings of the creator god Makemake.
And although wood was fairly scarce on Easter Island,
particularly after the landscape began
to become drastically deforested in the 16th century,
some beautiful examples
of intricate woodcarvings still survive.
Some of these are crescent-shaped objects known as reimiro,
thought to have been used as decorative breastplates.
These also sport carved heads on either top of the crescent.
There are also clubs called Moko Miro,
carved representations of men with the heads of lizards.
These were thought to have had ceremonial significance
and were likely worn around the necks of dancers
during feast celebrations.
It is also believed
that the Moko Miro were protective totems
placed in the ground outside the front door
to protect the household.
Lastly are the male and female fertility carvings,
the moai kavakava and the moai paepae.
These are fantastically detailed and grotesquely stylized,
thought to represent ancestors, just as the stone moai did.
Researchers maintain that these carvings were used
for fertility rights and were sometimes worn
around the necks of important men of the tribe.
- New scientific evidence today leaves the world in shock,
revealing what we were thinking
but no one dared to say out loud,
the mysterious moai statues of Easter island were
in fact built by extraterrestrials.
Hmm, I don't know about that.
However, societies have allegedly worked in secret
for many years on deciphering and decrypting the mysterious
so-called rongorongo tablets.
And this ancient civilization left many of them behind.
Wooden tablets were inscribed with symbols
whose meaning was lost in 1862.
By analyzing linguistic patterns
and occurrence frequencies of certain symbols,
words and sounds, it was possible
to break down the meaning of the symbols,
starting with the most common.
Since the first rongorongo tablet was brought in
to the laboratories by a Norwegian adventurer in 1986,
the long and tedious process
of deciphering these ancient symbols
was finally becoming fruitful.
The undeciphered tablets held hidden truths
that will change the way we see the world today.
They talk about how a civilization,
not of this world, helped in making the moai statues
in their honor.
Evidently these wooden tablets were left as a testament
to the world of their work.
Apparently one such tablet reads,
"We came from above the sky
"to make people of the navel build our living faces
"to make the people of the world worship us."
If this were true, this lost and forgotten language
could reveal many secrets that have been lost to time.
- [Narrator] Possibly the most alluring
if lesser known conundrum surrounding Easter Island
and its culture is the bizarre writing system
known as rongorongo.
The name rongorongo is a native language
of the Rapa Nui, simply means to recite or chant out.
First described in 1866 by a French missionary
to Easter island by the name of Eugene Eyraud,
the series of inscriptions remains just as baffling today
as it did in the 19th century.
And to this day,
experts aren't entirely sure
whether the unknown glyphs represent
an actual written language or not.
Though, if they do, they would serve
as one of the very few examples
of the independent invention of writing in history.
Approximately two dozen objects
bearing the mysterious glyphs were collected
in the 19th century.
Most of these were irregularly-shaped wooden tablets,
some formed from pieces of driftwood
and many had been burned or otherwise damaged.
A handful of other items
such as the two aforementioned reimiro breastplates,
one chieftain's staff,
and a small statue of the Birdman
also contain rongorongo glyphs,
as do a few of the stone petroglyph carvings
on the island.
The glyphs or characters themselves
of which there are about 120 distinct designs
are approximately one centimeter high
and are all outlined forms depicting plants, animals,
humans and geometric shapes.
Some of the animal and human carvings
have little protrusions on either side of their heads,
which may represent eyes or horns.
Due to the positioning of the characters,
it's generally assumed that the text,
if indeed it is text, is meant to be read
in alternating lines from left to right
and bottom to top,
rotating the tablet as one reads.
This particular system is reverse boustrophedon.
Although in the original myths of the Rapa Nui,
67 tablets bearing the rongorongo script were brought
to the island by revered original settler, Hotu Matua,
limited carbon dating of the remaining tablets suggests
that they are no older than perhaps the 13th century.
Some of the tablets are known to be much newer than that,
as they were carved on pieces of wood salvaged
from European oars.
Researchers disagree
on whether rongorongo is truly a written representation
of the original Rapa Nui language,
or if it is instead simply a proto language,
a sort of Rebus puzzle-like system
that presupposed knowledge of these specific idiograms
in order to be read
or even recited from memory.
The last known people thought
to be familiar with the meaning of the glyphs died
in the late 19th century.
And in the ensuing years,
the language of the Rapa Nui has become so intertwined
with Tahitian that it may no longer be possible
to reconstruct the content of the tablets.
This hasn't stopped numerous people
from trying to unravel the riddle, however.
In around 1874 Tahitian Bishop Florentin-Etienne Jaussen
claimed to have deciphered the script
on four of the tablets.
And after his death,
the so-called Jaussen list was published,
which purported to describe the meanings
of the relevant glyphs.
Though, this list was widely touted at the time,
it doesn't seem to have been accurate,
for no further translation was possible
utilizing his findings.
However, one breakthrough was made by William J. Thompson
of the USS Mohican in 1886.
He was able to deduce that one particular sequence of glyphs
seemed to refer to 13 months.
And from this, he and others were able
to reconstruct this one segment of text
as a sort of lunisolar calendar.
To date, this is the only line of rongorongo
that has been tentatively translated,
and others whose meaning seem decipherable
also appear to be calendrical in nature.
- Researchers such as Graham Hancock,
author of the impressive book "Fingerprints of the Gods"
hypothesized that Easter Island is the top
of a much larger island that became towards the end
of the glacial period, some 10,000 years ago,
a kind of beacon to other world navels.
In fact, Hancock thinks a mythical lost ancient race built
or helped at least build virtually
all the world's impressive monuments of antiquity.
Others think that Easter Island is a remnant
of some type of lost continent.
The ancient rongorongo text continues
to be deciphered.
Many have attempted throughout the years,
bringing new information
about this mysterious ancient civilization to light.
But as to how accurate such interpretations are
remains questionable at best.
- [Narrator] In more recent times,
other linguists and epigraphers have had a crack
at the mysterious glyphs,
but none have come to producing a text that makes sense.
And those that have are often criticized
for their fanciful interpretations.
It remains possible that the meaning of rongorongo
may continue to elude humanity for the foreseeable future.
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