Ancient Aliens s20e17 Episode Script

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Deep beneath the sands of Egypt
lie 24 enormous stone coffins,
and every one of them is empty.
They're some
of the biggest stone sarcophagi
ever discovered in Egypt.
And we still have not answered
what was inside the boxes.
What purpose
they served remains a mystery.
The precision
in which they were carved
and polished is beyond words.
There has been some theorizing
that the boxes themselves are
a type of technology.
And there are many
who believe
these giant stone boxes
were designed not by humans
but by otherworldly visitors.
One thing is clear.
The Egyptians definitely had
contact with extraterrestrials.
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
French archaeologist
Auguste Mariette
embarks on an expedition
to purchase ancient manuscripts
for the Louvre Museum in Paris.
A self-taught
expert in hieroglyphics,
Mariette is at the forefront
of the budding field
of Egyptology.
When Mariette started to work
in Egypt, people were
increasingly interested
in the culture
of the ancient Egyptians.
So this was a time
when Egyptology
really started
to come into being.
Mariette, being a Frenchman,
was well-versed
in French history
concerning Egypt.
In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte,
along with his army of savants,
came into Egypt
and massively documented
the wonders of ancient Egypt.
Champollion had just
translated the hieroglyphics
from the Rosetta Stone
just 30 years before.
And so,
as he's coming into Egypt,
he's thinking he's gonna
make his mark on history.
According
to mainstream historians,
ancient Egyptian civilization
began over 5,000 years ago
and flourished
until it was conquered
by Alexander the Great
in 332 BC.
At its fall,
this empire left behind
30 centuries of rich history
and wondrous monuments
that continue
to reveal hidden secrets.
Egypt is
the one place in the world
that is filled with sites,
with monuments and stories
that really capture
everyone's imagination.
You have the pyramids,
massive temples,
and of course mummies.
Egypt has been fascinating
people for millennia.
When Auguste Mariette
is, uh, in Egypt,
the world is going through
a huge explosion
of obsession with Egypt
that happens
post-the Napoleonic Wars.
French artists had come
and drawn the monuments.
Engravings of Egypt were
being sold all across Europe.
As researchers
descended on Egypt,
Auguste Mariette
found himself on the verge
of failing his assignment.
He was on commission
by the Louvre
to look
for Egyptian manuscripts.
But he's in competition
with private collectors
and other museums,
and he's kind of desperate.
He's really
not finding anything.
Mariette was
determined not to leave Egypt
empty-handed and had heard
from a tribe of Bedouins
that there were treasures
to be found
beneath the sands of Saqqâra.
Located 20 miles
south of the Giza Pyramids,
Saqqâra served
as a burial ground
for the ancient Egyptian capital
of Memphis.
It was the destination
of all ancient Egyptians
across the thousands
and thousands of years.
The destination
for religious beliefs,
for a burial, funeral.
And then, after
the ancient Egyptian empire
had completely fallen
and the Greek
and Roman Empire took over,
they still went and prayed
in Saqqâra.
One of the greatest
monuments in Egypt is
the step pyramid at Saqqâra.
It's referred to
as "the stairway to heaven."
It's considered to be
the oldest stone structure
on Earth, built for King Djoser
by the great Imhotep.
It's a place of immense mystery.
The ancient accounts said
that there was an avenue
that ran all the way
from Memphis all the way
out into the desert
that was lined by sphinxes.
And Auguste Mariette
realized
that there was something still
to be discovered
in the area of Saqqâra.
Mariette decided
that the best place
to start exploring Saqqâra
was near
its towering step pyramid.
While surveying the area,
he was astonished
to find a stone object
protruding from the ground
that appeared
to be the head of a sphinx.
He started to clear
the area, and his team
dug down and revealed sphinx
after sphinx after sphinx.
He soon lines up
over 100 sphinxes,
follows the pathway,
and is led
to an underground tunnel.
An entrance that's blocked.
He dynamites the entrance.
He's now
in a 700-foot-long tunnel
that's been carved
out of the limestone.
The walls are rough,
and he must have imagined
that these walls must have
been painted and covered,
but that's no longer there.
Instead there's these rough and
sort of primitive looking walls
and there are alcoves that are
also cut out of the limestone.
And he's not quite sure
what this place is
or even what he's looking at,
but he knows he's made
the discovery of a lifetime.
Inside the ancient structure,
Mariette discovered inscriptions
that identify
the underground complex
as the Serapeum.
And within its chambers
Mariette found more than
7,000 precious artifacts,
including ancient figurines
ornate amulets
and a gold mask.
After shipping much
of his discovery to the Louvre,
Mariette opened the Serapeum
to the public.
People came
in carriages from Cairo.
Took a couple of hours.
But when they descended
into this place,
it was all dark.
But he had people
from the villages around
holding flaming torches,
and so people could come
and visit the Serapeum,
and it
must have been extraordinary
to see this place
in the flickering light
just like the ancient Egyptians
would have.
Word of Mariette's
discovery of the Serapeum
and its treasures
spread throughout Europe.
But the most extraordinary
objects found
within the underground labyrinth
were not made of silver or gold.
They were made of stone.
The Serapeum has been
cut out of the granite bedrock,
and inside that Serapeum are
24 niches
that contain boxes
made of basalt
and rose granite.
Now, when I say boxes,
they're not little sarcophagi,
but they're humongous.
They're some of the biggest
stone sarcophagi
ever discovered in Egypt.
The boxes themselves
range in weight
from 70 to 75 tons,
and the lids alone
weigh between 20 and 25 tons.
Most of these sarcophagi
were discovered empty.
At the time, it was thought
that most of the sarcophagi
were broken into
and completely looted.
Mariette assumed the giant boxes
were enormous stone coffins.
Who or what they contained
remains a mystery.
But Mariette believed
he would find the answer
when he came upon one box
that was completely sealed.
We know
that of the 24 sarcophagi
that were found
by Auguste Mariette,
23 of them were empty,
their lids just slightly ajar.
But it's
that one unopened sarcophagi
that is
the greatest mystery because
what Mariette decided was,
he would dynamite it
to try and blow it open,
and when he looked inside,
he was
absolutely staggered to find
that it was completely empty.
What are the giant
stone boxes within the Serapeum?
Are they simply
giant sarcophagi?
Or might they have
a more profound purpose?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest clues can be found
by further examining
the Serapeum
and its connection
to otherworldly beings.
The mysterious subterranean
structure in Saqqâra, EgyptAT:
known as the Serapeum
is an extraordinary feat
of engineering
built 100 feet beneath the earth
and spanning the length of
more than two football fields.
But even more impressive
are 24 massive stone boxes
found within the complex
that are carved from
exceptionally hard stone
like granite,
basalt and diorite.
Each sarcophagus was
over 70 tons.
70 tons is not a weight
that 200 people can carry.
It is an impossible weight
to move anywhere,
let alone a hundred feet
under the ground
and then 700 feet
into a tiny corridor
and then inside
a little chamber.
If you think of a pyramid
or a temple,
it's in the open air.
If you're hauling
a big block of stone
or an obelisk,
you've got space to
get teams of people.
You can get draft animals on it.
But the thing that
really startles me,
they didn't have
the space to get
huge teams of men
to start moving them.
And they couldn't get
animals down there
for any practical intent.
Just as baffling as
how the ancient Egyptians
managed to move
these giant boxes is
how they were able to carve them
with such incredible precision.
Machinists have gone in there
with tools to measure
just how precisely
carved they were.
We're talking, in some cases,
to the thousandths of an inch,
right angles,
which are incredibly perfect.
Now, you need sophisticated
technology for this
because, in some cases,
we're talking about basalt.
Basalt is harder than granite.
And according to what we know,
the ancient Egyptians
only had bronze
and copper tools.
It is wishful thinking
to suggest that you can
cut basalt with copper.
You just can't do it.
But the surface is as if
you're touching glass.
So, to me, it's possible that
the ancient Egyptians
figured out a way
to vitrify stone.
What compelled
the ancient Egyptians to
place 24 enormous and
precisely crafted stone boxes
deep beneath the earth?
Based on inscriptions found
within the underground chamber,
Egyptologists determined
that the Serapeum
was built to be the burial
place of the sacred Apis bull.
The ancient Egyptians
believed that
animals and the gods
had special relationships,
and each deity was associated
with one particular animal.
The Apis bull is related
to the Egyptian god Ptah,
who was a major creator god.
He was the god of Memphis,
the capital city.
He was the god of all craftsmen.
The Egyptians believed
that the spirit of the god
would enter into
the body of that animal.
During its lifetime, it would
be treated as a god on Earth.
When it died,
it would be buried with
great pomp and circumstance.
The Apis bull was one of
the most sacred animals
in all of ancient Egypt.
But here is the thing.
When Auguste Mariette
opened the sarcophagus,
they were empty.
There was nothing in there.
What Egyptologists
will speculate is that
somehow the Serapeum
was looted in antiquity
and the mummified bulls were
removed from the sarcophagi.
But who would want
a mummified bull?
Were the giant stone
containers in the Serapeum
simply designed to hold
the remains of an Apis bull?
Some researchers believe
that these massive objects
served an entirely
different purpose.
Most of these boxes have
no inscriptions on them,
but there's one
in particular that has
a lot of hieroglyphics
all over it.
Those inscriptions
are incredibly crude
compared to the finesse,
the precision of
the actual stone boxes.
So this leads me,
and I'm not alone in this,
to suggest that these boxes
go back to
a much earlier period,
and they were being
reused and reappropriated
at a much later time.
It's thought by
some researchers that
the Serapeum was used
at a later date
for the mummified Apis bulls.
But the Serapeum itself
predates this,
and its original purpose
was for something else.
So what was the Serapeum for?
While the purpose
of the stone boxes
continues to
perplex researchers,
some believe clues can be found
by examining the contents
of another box
found in the Serapeum,
one not made of stone
but wood.
After discovering
24 massive stone sarcophagi
within the Serapeum,
Auguste Mariette
comes upon a much smaller coffin
made of wood.
There is a body inside it,
and at first glance
it appears human.
He came across
a very unique burial.
It looked human.
And yet, when
the bones were examined,
they were actually found
to be those of a bull.
Mariette found no head of a bull
but just bits of bone
of a bull wrapped up and then
sort of a mask
of a human being on it.
Egyptologists assumed
that the mask
must belong to the builder
of the Serapeum
and determined
the face it depicts
is that of a prince who lived
in the 13th century BC
named Khaemweset.
People think that
the person who built
the Serapeum
was Prince Khaemweset.
Khaemweset was the fourth
son of King Ramses II.
He was in charge of
the Temple of Ptah
and also, therefore,
the temple of the Apis bull
in the capital city of Memphis.
There are many
researchers, however,
who believe that Khaemweset
did not build the Serapeum
but only restored it.
He's considered
the first Egyptologist.
He starts documenting
who are the builders of
all of these massive temples.
He goes up to the Giza plateau,
he restores the pyramids.
All his life,
he is not a builder
but a restorer and a documenter
of these ancient structures.
Archaeologists also
discovered evidence
that the only two bulls
found in the Serapeum
were put there
by Prince Khaemweset
around 1200 BC.
He has a couple
of sarcophagi down there
that he had put
Apis bull mummies in them.
And he wrote that
on a little tablet
next to that specific chamber
that he added to the place
and he added to the Serapeum.
This was a typical thing
in ancient Egypt
because many of
the monuments in Egypt were
thousands of years old,
even for them.
So the idea that the Serapeum
is actually much older than
even we think it is
is a pretty valid theory.
If the Serapeum
predates Prince Khaemweset,
just how old is this
underground structure?
Some researchers suggest
the Serapeum is associated
with the Apis bull
not because it was
a tomb for burying them
but because it was
built at a time
when worship of
the Apis bull cult
first appeared in Egypt
around 3200 BC.
While excavating the underground
structure at Saqqâra,
Egyptologist Auguste Mariette
discovers a stela
that identifies the complex
as the Serapeum.
The Serapeum gets its name
from, uh, Serapis
which was a Greek god
that was a combination between
an ancient Egyptian bull Apis
and a Greek god at the time.
The combination between
both was Serapis,
and the Serapeum was the place
where you go pray
for that specific god.
The cult of the Apis bull,
uh, which later
becomes known as Serapis,
dates back to
the very first dynasty.
The very early kings of Egypt
worshipped
these particular bulls.
The Apis bull cult was
extremely popular in Egypt
all the way back
5,000 years ago.
One of the first kings
of ancient Egypt,
the First Dynasty, King Menes,
who unified North Egypt
and South Egypt together,
would represent himself
as a bull.
King Menes is documented
as the first human pharaoh
and is believed to
have ruled around 3200 BC.
According to
their written history,
before the reign of Menes,
Egypt was ruled by the gods,
who lived among humans on Earth.
When the gods left,
Menes inherited the throne
from the god-king Horus.
The ancient Egyptians
believed that Horus
was actually a god-man.
He was a being
of flesh and blood.
The ancient Egyptians
were in contact with the gods,
physical manifestations,
extraterrestrial beings
who came and lived with them.
At the end of Horus's reign,
the Egyptians wrote
that the gods
no longer lived among humans
but still held influence
over earthly events.
One point of connection
between the gods
and the mortal world
was the Apis bull.
In many ways,
the Apis bull was seen to be
a personification
of that contact
between this world
and the star world.
So, is it possible that
the Serapeum is associated
with the Apis bulls
because there is
some kind of connection
with a celestial intelligence
and what these underground
structures really represent?
Could it be that
the Serapeum of Saqqâra
was built more than
5,000 years ago
and has a connection
to otherworldly visitors?
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
clues can be found by examining
the size of these boxes.
When you think of a sarcophagus,
you don't think
of something so large
as what's in the Serapeum.
They're about ten feet high
and almost 20 feet long.
And it's way too large
for these Apis bulls.
In traditional
Egyptian sarcophagi building,
they would create
the sarcophagus so that
it very closely matched
the dimensions
of the body inside it
in order to preserve it.
These boxes
are many times too large
for even an Apis bull,
so this is pointing to the idea
that something else was
concealed within these boxes.
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe an important clue
as to what the giant
stone boxes may have held
can be found at a site
400 miles to the south.
Armant, Egypt. 1929.
British archaeologist
Sir Robert Mond
begins an excavation
of an ancient catacomb
called the Bucheum and makes
an extraordinary discovery.
There is a place called
the Bucheum
where they found
similar type sarcophagi
to the Serapeum,
and it was at the Bucheum
where they found
remains mummified
in the shape of a bull.
And they thought,
"Finally, we found the remains
of a mummified Apis bull."
And they opened up
the mummified remains
and they were confronted with
this stinking mass of bitumen,
which is asphalt,
in which they found
tiny, tiny fragments of bones.
Now, it was anathema
in ancient Egypt
to destroy any dead bodies.
You had to mummify them
and you had to
mummify them intact.
All Egyptians,
they mummified everything.
They mummified not only humans.
They mummified birds.
They mummified apes.
They mummified dogs.
Why do they mummify
every animal?
Because you can only
be reincarnated
when your body is conserved.
What could explain the mixture
of broken animal bones
found in this one sarcophagus?
According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
they could be the remains
of a monster.
I have speculated
and I have suggested
that these broken bones
come from mixed creatures
in mythology.
All throughout ancient Egypt,
you have not just
ancient stories
of these hybrid mixture beings
between half-man, half-animal,
but you have thousands
of depictions
in figurines,
in statues, in carvings,
in all the ancient
Egyptian texts,
you have reference
to these hybrid creatures.
The classical writer
Alexander Polyhistor
talked about the ancient world
being filled
with hybrid creatures.
And he said that
these actually existed
as living creatures.
The Egyptians were very clear
in making
the distinction between
regular animals and then
these celestial creatures
that they themselves say
these beings existed.
And in the opinion
of the classic
ancient astronaut theory,
they were genetic experiments
by extraterrestrials.
I think it's quite possible
that the reason
why these boxes were built
is that these hybrid monsters,
these genetic mutations
by extraterrestrials
were placed in there
so they would be ensured
never to come back.
Because the ancient Egyptians
were very, very adamant that,
if you bury your dead intact,
they will one day come back.
Could it be that the Serapeum
and the giant stone boxes
found within it
were built to entomb
dangerous hybrid creatures?
Is this why it is buried
so deep beneath the earth
and also why the sarcophagi
are so massive?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the Serapeum
wasn't built
to hold dangerous creatures
but rather dangerous technology.
In the 1970s,
archaeologists begin
a massive excavation
and restoration effort
in the ancient burial complex,
which includes a deeper
examination of the Serapeum.
The undertaking sparks interest
among engineers,
who hope that modern technology
can shed new light on
the structure's mysterious past.
And in 1978,
American construction expert
James Ernest Brown
makes a curious discovery.
He goes into this crypt,
into the catacombs,
and he notices that the walls
are covered with salt
and sodium chloride
that's actually visible.
This is curious to Brown
because in Europe
proposals had been made
to house nuclear waste
in granite boxes that
were filled with salt water.
And in his mind, he's thinking
this is some kind of
a toxic waste dump.
After noticing salt
on the stone boxes,
Brown decided to measure
radiation levels
within the Serapeum.
What he found
was that the levels of, um,
radiation inside the sarcophagi
was as much as three times that
of the corridors
that linked to the side chambers
that contained the sarcophagi.
So why is it that there are
such high levels of radiation?
These are not dangerous levels,
by the way,
so don't worry
about going there.
But it's certainly very, very
interesting that you have
this radiation present
inside the Serapeum.
Is it possible
that the Serapeum was used
to house radioactive material?
While it may sound far-fetched,
aerospace engineer
and machinist Chris Dunn
has measured the boxes
and believes their precision
supports the idea that they
were designed to be airtight.
To say it was
a mind-blowing experience
would be an understatement
because when I measured
the precision of the box
on just the outside,
I found that they were
quite precise, quite flat.
And the question in my mind was,
why do they need to be
so precise?
Because in manufacturing
and engineering,
we don't manufacture
that kind of precision
unless there is a need for it.
The extraordinary precision
with which they were crafted
speaks to a much higher purpose
than a-a simple coffin.
So what exactly
is going on down there?
Is it possible that
the granite sarcophagi
give off an energy
that somehow increases
the radiation levels down there?
Or is that radiation seeping up
into the corridors and chambers
that is mixing with the natural
electromagnetic properties
of the sarcophagi to make them
into some kind of
functional chamber?
I mean, one of the ideas, too,
of the sarcophagi is that
they're super high-tech
storage devices.
They're hermetically sealed.
They're, you know,
in spaces that would be
difficult to get to.
Uh, the lids are very heavy.
It would be hard to remove them.
Could it be that
the giant stone boxes
of the Serapeum
had a technological function?
Some scientists suggest
that the type of rock
the giant boxes were made from
which is rich
in quartz crystal
can produce
electromagnetic energy
through what's known as
the piezoelectric effect.
It's a known effect
that pressure
on some natural crystals
can generate light.
For quartz,
you can get it to glow.
If you strike
two crystals together,
you will get them to glow.
Quartz crystal
have a distribution
of negative charges on one side
and more positive charges
on the other.
And if you squeeze that,
you can actually get an
electrical current through that.
This is called
the piezoelectric effect.
It's really interesting
that this box
is made out of this material.
It's really intriguing to me
what the
electromagnetic conditions
might be inside this box.
Is this some sort of
shielded box
for, uh, of
electromagnetic energy?
Is it an amplifier
of electromagnetic energy?
Is it doing something else?
Is it possible that
the giant granite boxes
in the Serapeum were able
to generate energy?
Is this the answer
as to why the boxes
of the Serapeum are so large?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and believe further evidence can
be found in historic accounts
that claimed the giant boxes
could transport people
through space and time.
The 24 mysterious stone boxes
inside the Serapeum
have fascinated Egyptologists
for more than 170 years.
But even with modern technology,
archaeologists are no closer
to unraveling their secrets.
While there are many theories
as to what they might have held,
some researchers suggest
that the boxes themselves
were a technological instrument.
One interesting line of thought
concerning these boxes
involves sound.
The boxes are granite.
Granite is mostly
quartz crystal,
which responds
to sound when activated.
I've literally been
in the presence
of one of the obelisks, which is
also composed of granite,
that when struck with a fist,
that obelisk will start humming,
massively humming.
It's profound.
So what if there was
something like that
that was involved
with the granite boxes as well?
That they're activated by sound
and they're doing something
to whatever is held
within that box?
One idea about the sarcophagi
at the Serapeum is
that the measurements
and dimensions
of the box itself can have like
a harmonic vibration.
And it's been suggested
that it's a vibration tool.
It almost seemed important
that there was some kind
of vibration
associated with these sarcophagi
that will
affect human consciousness,
send us into altered states
of consciousness.
Some researchers
and others have gone
to the Serapeum
and they've experienced
psychic-type experiences.
And I don't dismiss that
out of hand.
Some people have suggested
that maybe they were used
for some kind
of initiation rites,
out-of-body experiences,
some kind
of increased consciousness,
or going into altered states
of consciousness.
Many of these ancient sites
could be multipurpose
even if they were being used
for "practical purposes."
In some cases
they may have been used also
to induce psychic phenomena.
Could it be that the sarcophagi
in the Serapeum
were crafted so precisely
in order to produce some sort
of vibrational effect?
One that can alter the mind,
perhaps to communicate
with beings existing
in higher dimensional realms?
While some researchers believe
that energy produced
by the sarcophagi was intended
to induce altered states
of consciousness,
others have proposed an even
more profound possibility.
That the stone boxes were used
for teleportation.
The granite boxes
at the Serapeum have connections
with the sacred Apis bulls.
And what's fascinating is
that the later Greeks claimed
that Apis bulls were created
by flashes of light.
They connected them
with lightning.
They also connected
their creation
with flashes of light
that came from the Moon.
What are we talking about here?
We're talking about a bull
produced by a flash
of lightning?
Or are we talking about a god
who suddenly appears
in a flash of lightning?
This flash of lightning business
is really integral
to what we're talking about
because
we also have the pyramid texts.
They have utterances
within them that say
the pharaohs became
like lightning.
The pharaoh went
through the portal.
The pharaoh is now a god.
When we put
all these pieces together,
it sounds as if that
the Serapeum could be a place
where a god could enter the box
and somehow,
in a flash of lightning,
could return
to its place of origin.
The idea that these sarcophagi
or boxes are some kind
of teleportation device
may seem, you know,
pretty amazing,
but the ancient Egyptians did
believe in this kind of a thing.
And the idea of pharaohs going
to stars and other places
that's part
of the Egyptian religion.
This is not far-fetched
in light of what we know
about the ancient
Egyptian belief
in the transfiguration
of the human body
into light or lightning.
It seems
that that idea is pointing us
to the actual purpose
of the Serapeum
and a true understanding
of what the bull represents.
Is it possible
that the giant stone boxes
at the Serapeum are
ancient teleportation devices?
Were they designed
to hold the mummified remains
of an Apis bull?
Or could they even have been
used to contain hybrid monsters?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
new discoveries being made
beneath the sands of Saqqâra
may soon provide the key
to solving the mystery.
Archaeologists digging
near the Step Pyramid of Djoser
make a remarkable find
33 feet beneath the earth
a mummy that may be
the oldest ever found in Egypt.
The mummy
believed to date to 2300 BC
is sealed tightly
within a limestone sarcophagus.
And this sarcophagus,
like the more than 450 others
that have been unearthed
in Saqqâra,
is nowhere near as large
or precisely crafted
as the stone boxes
that reside in the Serapeum.
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
this serves as further evidence
that the Serapeum belongs
to a far older
and more sophisticated
civilization
than most Egyptologists propose.
What we're learning is
that whoever was making
these sarcophagi
had technology that's at least
equal to us today.
So it really shows us
that things were going on
in ancient Egypt
that are just inexplicable
and cannot be explained
by normal science.
One of the things
that is crystal clear to me
is that a technology was used,
especially in the Serapeum,
that has since been lost.
We today would
have great difficulties
recreating the Serapeum.
And today we would use
the most sophisticated
technology available to us.
Nobody in their right mind would
take on a construction project
like that unless
there was a pressing reason.
While nothing like
the Serapeum of Saqqâra
has ever been found
anywhere else on Earth,
experts believe
that many lost marvels
of the ancient world
still lie hidden
beneath the sands of Egypt.
They are finding new things
in Saqqâra literally every day.
It is one of the most active
and exciting archaeological
sites in the world.
There could be more Serapeums,
there could be more temples.
The possibilities
are literally endless.
And the more technology
we have moving into the future,
the more we can survey
the land in Egypt
and understand how much
there is still to be excavated.
Two-thirds of ancient Egypt
is still under the sands.
There will be discoveries
in Saqqâra,
maybe right next
to the Serapeum,
maybe inside the Serapeum,
that will uncover more and more
of the secrets
and mysteries
about the Serapeum.
The question is not if,
the question is when.
And it might be right there,
right under our noses.
The Serapeum is a treasure trove
for the ancient astronaut theory
because the stories
which are combined
with the gigantic boxes
is always
in reference to the so-called
guardians of the sky.
Now, who were these guys?
Well, according
to the ancient Egyptians,
they were their gods,
gods that lived
in a celestial realm.
But at some point
those celestial gods mingled
with people on Earth.
And that, in my opinion,
cannot be a figment
of somebody's imagination.
And so,
is the smoking gun still waiting
somewhere underneath the sand?
I think the answer
to that is a resounding yes.
170 years since its discovery,
the Serapeum of Saqqâra
remains one
of the world's
greatest mysteries.
Could it have been built
to entomb monstrous
hybrid creatures?
Was it connected
to an advanced alien technology?
Or might it have served
a more profound purpose
than we can even imagine?
Perhaps the answer lies buried
beneath the sands of Egypt,
and when
it is finally uncovered,
it will reveal the truth
about our
extraterrestrial origins.