Ancient Aliens s16e05 Episode Script
The Forbidden Bible
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NARRATOR:
An extraordinary story
of an otherworldly encounter.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It is an eyewitness account.
He was taken up and sees
planet Earth underneath him.
WILLIAM HENRY:
He is given powerful
universal knowledge
by angelic beings.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
These angels were not spiritual beings.
They were physical beings,
whose role it is
to direct the affairs
of humanity.
NARRATOR:
It is an account
that was strictly forbidden.
TSOUKALOS: These texts
were deemed too dangerous.
NARRATOR:
And now, new technology
may reveal
even more shocking revelations.
We are recovering burned texts,
which, there it is.
TSOUKALOS:
Look at this.
This is sensational.
NARRATOR:
Could the Book of Enoch
contain profound truths
about our extraterrestrial past?
And might it even hold the key
to humanity's future?
ERICH VON DANIKEN: Enoch
knew that all these writings
would be found
in the far future.
And Enoch said,
"I will return to this planet."
NARRATOR:
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.
NARRATOR:
The Tigray highlands, Ethiopia.
Here, 7,000 feet above sea level
and clinging
to the side of a mountain
stands
the Abba Garima Monastery.
This church is home
to one of Christianity's
most ancient
and spectacular treasures:
the Garima Gospels.
Consisting of two beautifully
illustrated volumes,
it has been dated
to the 6th century AD
making it one of the oldest and
most complete Bibles on Earth.
JONATHAN YOUNG: There is the very
earliest Christian churches in Ethiopia.
So there is
this strong connection
to the ancient roots
of Western civilization,
Western religion in Ethiopia.
NARRATOR:
Ethiopia's biblical connections
date back nearly 3,000 years.
In the 10th century BC,
King Solomon,
the builder of
the First Temple in Jerusalem
and the keeper
of the Ark of the Covenant,
was visited by
Queen Makeda of Ethiopia,
also known as
the Queen of Sheba.
YOUNG:
The Queen of Sheba, it is said,
had a relationship with Solomon
and had a son.
When he came of age,
he wanted to meet his father.
And his mother
blessed this journey
up to Israel to meet Solomon.
And he stayed for some time.
And then some, uh,
leaders of the Jewish nation
went back with him to Ethiopia.
Because of this connection
between the Queen of Sheba
and Solomon, there's a large
Jewish population in Ethiopia.
There are many returnees
to the Holy Land,
to Israel from Ethiopia and
other nearby areas in Africa.
Ethiopia is
an unusually holy place.
NARRATOR: Curiously, the Bible
used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
differs from that of
other Christian denominations.
Its version of the Old Testament
includes a controversial text
known as the Book of Enoch.
The Book of Enoch,
a very, very interesting,
very ancient document,
which, uh, is only found
in the language of Ge'ez,
which is sort of
Ethiopian early language
and has over a hundred chapters
in the full form.
So in the Ethiopian church,
Enoch is considered a, uh,
canonical text.
In other Christian traditions
it is not.
NARRATOR: The author of
the book, according to the text,
is the Jewish patriarch Enoch
the great-grandfather of Noah.
Enoch is a biblical figure
mentioned in
the Book of Genesis, chapter 5.
What's interesting about Enoch
is a tradition arose
that he never died.
And this is because
in Genesis 5:24,
the text says that Enoch
walked with God,
and then was no more
because God took him.
NARRATOR: But where the Hebrew
Bible only mentions Enoch briefly,
the Book of Enoch,
which consists
of more than 100 chapters,
greatly expands on his story.
In it is a curious passage
that details
Enoch's assent to heaven.
VON DANIKEN:
According to the Book of Enoch,
he says he was 12 years old.
The whole community
of his village wanted to sleep.
But then they hear the noise
in the sky.
[rumbling]
Two angels
came down from the sky.
One of the two beings said to
Enoch, "Don't be afraid, human."
Then they went up
to the so-called heaven.
HENRY: And in the Book of Enoch,
we learn
Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.
VON DANIKEN: Enoch
goes up to the so-called sky
and there Enoch
sees something over the Earth,
which he cannot describe.
He has no word
like "spaceship" or something.
He says it looked like
houses of crystal.
TSOUKALOS:
It is described that he sees
planet Earth underneath him.
He actually describes
his arrival.
How he has to walk through
these different rooms,
where he sees jewels
and he see shiny surfaces
and blinking lights.
It is an eyewitness account.
It's "I, Enoch" did this,
"I, Enoch" saw that.
The Book of Enoch is one of
the first abduction accounts
written down
by a fellow human being.
NARRATOR:
Does the Book of Enoch
really describe
an actual abduction event,
one that took place
thousands of years ago?
And if so, might
this incredible close encounter
be documenting communication
with otherworldly beings?
ROBERT CARGILL: Enoch was
said to be at the right hand of God.
In fact, Enoch was said to be
God's scribe in later tradition.
So, God would decree things
and Enoch was the one
who recorded everything
that went on.
So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.
HENRY:
This is one the reasons
why the Book of Enoch
is so controversial.
He's taken up into the heavenly
realms, to the throne of God,
where he is given powerful
universal knowledge
by angelic beings,
or extraterrestrial beings.
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
the Book of Enoch is
one of the most compelling texts
ever written documenting
extraterrestrial visitation.
But it is far from unique.
They say that similar encounters
were documented
by many other ancient cultures,
lending support to the notion
that Enoch's experiences
were genuine.
We can find ancient texts
that speak of people
ascending to heaven
and then coming back down.
For example, in ancient Greece,
you have the story of Ganymede
that was taken up
by Zeus's eagle.
Also in ancient China,
and in ancient Sumeria,
and also in ancient Egypt,
are there stories of people
having been visited
or having gone up to the sky
to visit with
the so-called gods, lowercase G.
NARRATOR: While these
other accounts tell a similar story,
none contain
the incredible detail
found within the Book of Enoch.
And some researchers believe
that it was because
of this controversial content
that the text was omitted from
most versions of the Bible.
Not only do-do these texts
infer quite strongly,
uh, the possibility of
extraterrestrial life,
but they also show
a very different side of God.
This type of information,
these type of texts,
this could not be
put into the Bible.
TZADOK:
The sages of the time considered
the teachings of
the Book of Enoch,
if you will, too hot to handle.
And therefore,
it fell along by the wayside,
concealed and hidden.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
the teachings of Enoch reveal
that not all angelic encounters
were of a divine nature?
Is this the secret
that has been kept alive
in the Ethiopian version
of the Bible?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the Book of Enoch
lies at the heart
of an extraterrestrial agenda
that has been shaping human
history for thousands of years.
And they suggest that nowhere
is this more evident
than in the book's descriptions
of beings called "the Watchers."
[thunder crashes]
KEN BOYDSTON:
What we're doing is just
To end a dispute
in the Anglican church,
King James the First
orders the creation
of a standardized English Bible.
Today, more than four centuries
after its creation,
the King James Version remains
the most famous Bible in history
and one of the most published
books of all time.
Interestingly,
while it contains 66 books,
the Catholic Bible has 73,
and the Ethiopian Orthodox
version is comprised of 81.
But why were so many texts,
including the Book of Enoch,
edited out?
There has always been
accepted literature,
which becomes
the foundation of orthodoxy,
and then
there's other literature
that the accepted orthodoxy
rejects.
Books that don't make it into
the collection of the Bible
both the Hebrew Bible
and the New Testament
are the Apocrypha.
JULYE BIDMEAD: The word
Apocrypha means hidden things,
and that's probably from
the ancients hiding these texts
away from the general public,
because they could be dangerous.
NARRATOR:
"Dangerous"?
Is it possible that
the Book of Enoch was omitted
because it exposed truths
about human history
that were considered
too risky
for the public to know?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest insight can be found
by examining a passage
in the Old Testament.
We know from the Book of Daniel
in chapter 4
that there is a group
of angelic entities,
whose job, whose role it is
as ordained by God
to direct the affairs
of humanity.
These angelic forces
look over our world
and control the direction
of civilization.
NARRATOR:
While this passage is brief,
these beings serve as
the primary focus
of the Book of Enoch,
where they are described
as divine overseers
known as "the Watchers."
VON DANIKEN: Enoch calls
them, in the English version,
"guardians of the sky
or watchers of the sky."
In the German version,
they are called "angels."
No, it was simply another time.
Now we have a new time.
Now we must translate it
with new words.
Change the word of "angel."
Scratch it out
and write "extraterrestrial."
TZADOK: These angels
were not spiritual beings.
They were physical beings.
That is something very clear
about the identity
of biblical angels.
They're not of this world,
and, therefore,
they are not terrestrial.
And, therefore,
they are extraterrestrial.
NARRATOR:
According to the Book of Enoch,
a total of 200 Watchers
descended to Earth.
Enoch gives us
some of the names,
but we know they were
ruled by Samyaza
and Aza Azazel.
Azazel was later
known as Lucifer.
HUGH NEWMAN: The Watchers
had a very bright appearance
and one of their names was
"the Shining Ones."
And even Enoch, when he wrote
about them, he even said
he could barely look at them
because they were so bright.
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
the idea that the Watchers
were alien visitors
is most strongly corroborated
by the stories
of the prophet Elijah.
TZADOK:
Aside from Enoch,
there was one other
we know from the Bible,
who did ascend to heaven
in chariots of fire,
whatever that is meaning.
And this, of course,
is the famous prophet, Elijah.
Elijah was a powerful,
powerful prophet
who had abilities apparently far
beyond those of other prophets.
Elijah possessed
a power cloak or a garment
that gave him the-the ability
to heal the sick
and even to raise the dead.
And then one day he used
that power cloak or garment
to ascend upon a fiery chariot.
A chariot of the gods.
And when Elijah ascended,
there were 50 prophets
that witnessed his ascension.
TZADOK: The Bible
calls it "chariot of fire."
Now, what is this chariot?
Was it some type of a
technological
transportation device,
which in ancient times
would not have been understood
as anything else
but a chariot of fire?
NARRATOR: Curiously, while the
idea of the soul ascending to heaven
is a key component
of Judeo-Christian traditions,
there are a number
of instances in the Bible
where it is said that
a person ascends bodily.
In addition to Enoch and Elijah,
this is also the case with both
Jesus and his mother Mary.
But why?
If heaven is a spiritual realm,
why is it written that certain
individuals ascended bodily?
Neither Enoch nor Elijah ever
claimed that they were prophets.
It was the biblical
writers later
who claimed
that they're prophets.
The reason why Enoch ended up
being called a prophet
is because of
the experiences he had.
He was taken up into space
by extraterrestrials,
and we have a similar story
with Elijah.
Enoch, Elijah
It-It's all part of
the big concept
of misunderstood technology.
NARRATOR: If the Watchers
were, in fact, extraterrestrials
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
did they have an agenda
for humankind?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining another ancient
text attributed to Enoch
that was almost entirely
destroyed
The Book of Giants.
What if there are references
20 miles east of Jerusalem,
at this ancient site
in the Judean Desert
Bedouin shepherds stumble upon
an extraordinary discovery.
BIDMEAD: The Dead
Sea is surrounded by caves.
And as young teenage boys
would do,
they threw a rock into the cave,
heard the sound
of breaking pots.
Came back the next day,
climbed into the cave,
and what did they find?
They found huge clay jars.
COLLINS: Inside these
storage jars were ancient texts,
which very quickly
they came to realize
that these were incredibly
important.
CARGILL:
In these scrolls,
we find biblical manuscripts
copies of the Bible
that are a thousand years older
than any previously
known copy of the Bible.
As well as
a treasure trove of documents
that we had never seen before.
NARRATOR: Archaeologists
were surprised to find
that whoever collected
the Dead Sea Scrolls
considered The Book of Enoch
to be of vital importance,
preserving 11
different manuscripts,
including versions
never seen in modern times.
Also found were fragments
of another work
attributed to Enoch
The Book of Giants.
Some parts of this text included
in the Dead Sea Scrolls
had been lost for centuries,
and many scholars believe
the stories contained
within The Book of Giants
were written
before even the Book of Genesis.
It expounds on Genesis 6:1-4,
when the story is-is begun
that the Watchers
descended upon Earth
and took wives from Earth
women from human women
and their offspring were giants.
COLLINS: The Book of
Giants is about the Nephilim,
the sons of the Watchers.
It's about their lives,
uh, their conversations
and they realize
that they are evil.
NARRATOR:
According to The Book of Giants,
the Nephilim were guilty
of horrific crimes,
including slaughtering humans
and feasting on their flesh.
God ultimately decides
the Earth must be cleansed
and chooses one man
to restart humanity anew
Noah, the great-grandson
of Enoch.
In the Bible, Noah the son
of a Shepherd named Lamech
and his wife Betenos
was chosen by God
because of his blameless piety.
But when the Dead Sea Scrolls
were discovered,
religious scholars were shocked
to find a much different
and potentially older
version of the story of Noah.
The Lamech Scroll documents
that Noah became the chosen one
before he was born,
and his father was not Lamech.
TSOUKALOS:
When Noah was born,
the father, Lamech,
was gone at the time.
However, the wife of Lamech knew
immediately something was up
with Noah because he didn't look
like a normal human being.
CARTER:
He is described as having skin
so white it was radiant.
His hair was white like wool.
His father, Lamech, says,
"He has the ways of
the Watchers."
When he blinked, his eyes
lit up the whole house.
This does not sound
like a human being.
The boy looked
completely different
than Lamech's other children.
And Lamech said
to his wife Betenos,
"This can't be my son
because I was away too long."
You know, it doesn't fit
with the nine months.
And Lamech goes for advice
to his father
who was the biblical Methuselah.
Methuselah goes to his father
which is Enoch.
Enoch says,
"The guardians of the sky
"have inseminated Betenos
without touching her sexually.
"He should accept
this boy as his own
"and should give him
the name of Noah
"because the guardians
of the sky have decided
Noah is the father
of the coming generation."
So in that case,
proven in the Dead Sea Scrolls,
we know for sure there was
an artificial insemination.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Dead Sea Scrolls
contain the true story of Noah?
Was he not a pious man
chosen by God,
but a genetically altered human,
created by extraterrestrials
to reboot life on Earth?
While further details
about Enoch and Noah
may have existed
in The Book of Giants,
only fragments
of the full text have survived.
But now, new technology
may bring to light
even more incredible
revelations.
Santa Barbara, California.
February 18, 2020.
Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok
and Giorgio Tsoukalos
travel to Mega Vision
to meet with imaging expert
Ken Boydston.
- Ken. Good to see you.
- BOYDSTON: Hey.
NARRATOR: Ken recently invented
a revolutionary type of camera
that takes pictures
using a technology
called multi spectral imaging.
Giorgio and Ariel are intrigued
by the implications
of this technology,
and they are eager to find out
just how far it can go
in retrieving lost passages
from the Book of Enoch.
TSOUKALOS:
Ken, can you explain to me
the multi spectral imaging system
that you have invented?
BOYDSTON: Well, multi spectral,
simply put, it's taking
a lot of pictures
under different colors of light.
- Mm-hmm.
- And we don't want to see the light that's on the object.
We want to only see the light
that the object is producing
in response to that light
coming in.
What we're doing
is just listening
with light to the object.
"What story do you have
to tell us?"
The camera can see
what the human eye cannot see,
and therein lies the magic
and some of the mystery
and some
of the great excitement,
because we are able
to discover things
that have been hidden
for generations or ages.
Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR:
Incredibly, Ken's camera
is able to retrieve script that
has become eroded with time,
script that was purposely
scrubbed from parchment
and written over,
and even script within scrolls
that cannot be opened because
they are too fragile to handle.
Many of these scrolls
might be thousands of years old,
and as you know, we can't just
open them up and read them
because they will deteriorate,
very similar like
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
TSOUKALOS:
Yes. So, can you
- show us how this works?
- BOYDSTON: Yeah.
Let's kind of go through
a little bit of stuff.
NARRATOR: To demonstrate
the power of this technology,
Ken is going to apply
spectral imaging to a document
that has been burned so badly,
much of the text is completely
undetectable to the naked eye.
BOYDSTON:
During World War II, the Nazis
burned vast quantities
of documents
Ah.
so we are recovering
the partially burned texts.
- Amazing.
- And so, we're ready to do it.
TSOUKALOS:
Lights.
BOYDSTON:
Each time the light flashes,
the shutter clicks,
another picture is captured.
So, you're seeing a little
tiny bit of light right now,
but the camera
is seeing lots of light
because this is down
into the infrared.
All right.
So, out of the visible light
pictures that we just took,
those individual ones,
the computer put them together
and lo and behold,
there's a perfect color picture
of that object,
which would be just
what our eyes see.
- TSOUKALOS: Look at this.
- Which, there it is.
TSOUKALOS:
There you go.
- TZADOK: Wow.
- BOYDSTON: There it is.
All of that text right there.
And we can enhance that
a little bit.
We can, uh, we can push
the contrast up a little bit
- on that
- That word says sÃmera..
- There we go.
- It means "today."
- BOYDSTON: So, um
- Arius.
That's a little demonstration of
what-what the technology can do.
Uh, just, a very quick,
and, uh, compelling, really.
TSOUKALOS:
This is extraordinary, really.
- Wow.
- So, just imagine,
uh, if you have thousands
and thousands of these pages,
where, uh, no one
has been able to read them
since they were destroyed.
TSOUKALOS:
In front of our eyes,
long-lost knowledge
that has been thought
to have been completely
and utterly destroyed
has been resurrected
with the power of light.
An ancient prophecy said
that towards the coming
of what we will call disclosure,
all of these secrets,
these ancient secrets,
would be brought back to us.
We never understood how,
but now it's actually happening
in front of our eyes.
What if there are references
to extraterrestrials
that we've never seen before?
- There definitely are.
- So it's a corroboration
of what we're already doing.
I mean, this is sensational.
NARRATOR: In 2018,
the Israel Antiquities Authority
studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
announced
that multi spectral analysis had
uncovered writings on a fragment
that points to a previously
unknown manuscript.
Once it's discovered, what will
this missing manuscript reveal?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
there could be numerous
lost texts of Enoch
that will come to light.
Texts that were hidden
in secure locations
so that they would survive
a devastating
global cataclysm
the Great Flood.
COLLINS:
The world was devastated
NARRATOR:
The Book of Genesis.
In chapters six through nine,
it is described that God
had become deeply troubled
by the wickedness
of the human race,
and decided to bring it
to an end
by sending a great flood
upon the Earth.
Only Noah and his family would
survive, and it was God himself
who gave Noah instructions
for building the Ark
that would save both them and
two of every earthly creature.
The Book of Enoch
tells the same story,
but with significant
differences.
KATHLEEN McGOWAN: One of the
differences is that in the Book of Enoch,
the flood washes away
these rebellious angels.
And it washes away the Nephilim,
as opposed
to the traditional flood story,
which washes away people who
have been rebellious and sinful.
God is protecting us
in the Book of Enoch.
It is a very different God
than the spiteful, wrathful God
that we see
in the Genesis account.
NARRATOR:
Another key difference
in Enoch's account is that Noah
is not given instructions
to build the Ark by God,
but by the angel Uriel.
HENRY: The archangel Uriel
is the one who warned Noah
about the impending flood,
and who told him
about humanity's future and the
possibility of this cataclysm.
What we're witnessing here
is an extraordinary story
of an extraterrestrial being
having a tremendous
in fact, incalculable influence
on human affairs.
NARRATOR: Does Enoch's
account of the Great Flood reveal
that it is not a story of God
punishing humankind,
but of extraterrestrials
directing the course
of humanity?
As far as many religious
scholars are concerned,
both the biblical version
and the Enochian version
of the Great Flood
are simply allegorical tales.
But an increasing number
of archaeologists and historians
now believe that this global
cataclysm actually happened.
Uzengili, Turkey. 1997.
After years of research,
American explorer David
Allen Deal has become convinced
that the biblical story of Noah
is, in fact, historical,
and is on the hunt to find
the remnants of the Ark.
At an elevation of more than
7,000 feet, near Mount Ararat,
where the Bible says Noah's Ark
eventually landed,
he stumbles upon the ruins
of an ancient settlement.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
What he discovered
is what's known as the lost city
of-of Noah, or-or Naxuan.
And this is an area that's near
a strange geological formation
that some people think
is actually Noah's Ark.
NARRATOR: The ancient
Armenian historian Moses of Chorene
identified Naxuan as the place
of Noah's first descent.
Could this be
the first settlement
in a post-flood world?
A recent archaeological dig
reportedly uncovered
something remarkable:
the region may contain
millions of graves.
CHILDRESS: Because
Noah's tomb is said to be here,
a huge cemetery has grown up
around this lost city of Noah.
And people from all over the
Middle East in ancient times,
uh, insisted on being buried
in this area.
NARRATOR:
Researchers suggest that Naxuan
is just one of many points
of evidence
that support the notion
of a historical great flood.
What we now know from
incredible amount of evidence
coming from every part
of the world,
is that around 10,800 BC,
the world was devastated
by some kind of impact event.
And this devastated
every part of the landscape,
what today we might refer to
as a nuclear winter
that blotted out the Sun,
the Moon and the stars.
There's something called
the Usselo horizon
that's been found
all over the world.
It's like a layer of black ash.
This suggests there
was a great conflagration
that took place,
great fires and burning,
and it left this layer
all around the world.
And it dates to between
11,000 and 13,000 years ago.
So this does suggest
something very serious
took place at this time.
NARRATOR:
Could this layer of ash,
found roughly 50 feet deep
in the Earth's soil,
be evidence
of a devastating global event?
According to geologist
Dr. Robert Schoch,
a worldwide cataclysm,
and the resulting layer of ash,
was likely created
by a solar flare,
a sudden flash of increased
brightness on the Sun.
SCHOCH: Based on my
analysis of the evidence
is that there was
a major, major solar outburst.
The Sun essentially erupted.
This caused, in a flash,
the glaciers to melt
virtually instantaneously.
It caused evaporation of water.
This not only led
to the rising sea levels,
flooding the coastal areas
and torrential rains.
We have physical evidence of
this in the geological record.
NARRATOR:
Could the Book of Enoch
overturn everything we know
about the history of life
on our planet?
Did Enoch intend
to make a record
of extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth
for future generations
of humans to discover?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest
there are still chapters
we have yet to uncover.
Chapters that may be hidden
within the Great Pyramid.
TSOUKALOS:
The pyramids were built
Here on the Giza Plateau
stands the oldest
of the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World:
the Great Pyramid.
But ancient astronaut theorists
suspect this awesome structure
is even older than Egyptologists
have proposed.
Mainstream archaeologists
date the Great Pyramid
to 2500 BC
and suggest
it was built as a tomb
for the pharaoh Khufu.
However, according
to a 14th century account
written by Islamic historian
Ibrahim al-Maqrizi,
the Pyramid of Giza was built
thousands of years earlier
before the event described
in both the Hebrew Bible
and the Book of Enoch
as "the Great Flood."
VON DANIKEN: Now what
is very, very astonishing,
there are many other
old historian books,
especially Arabian historians,
which nobody knows
in the Western world.
They say the Great Pyramid
was constructed
before the Great Flood,
by a pharaoh
with the name of Saurid.
And they precisely say
Saurid is the same figure,
which the Hebrew community
calls Enoch.
NARRATOR:
Enoch?
The builder
of the Great Pyramid?
Could such an incredible notion
be true?
The Islamic text
goes on to detail
the pyramid's construction,
which it says was made possible
by otherworldly beings.
TSOUKALOS:
According to al-Maqrizi,
the pyramids were built in order
to preserve knowledge
that was given to the Egyptians
by the so-called gods,
the so-called Watchers,
the guardians of the sky.
These blocks were
levitated and essentially
walked themselves into position.
NARRATOR:
Was the Great Pyramid
actually built by Enoch
using extraterrestrial
technology?
While it may sound far-fetched,
the notion that
the pharaoh Khufu was behind
the construction of the pyramid
has come under great scrutiny.
In 1837, a British colonel,
who became an archaeologist
named Richard Howard-Vyse
used dynamite
to get up into the king's
chamber of the Great Pyramid.
This was something
that had not been entered
by other archaeologists before.
When he got
into these upper chambers,
he then apparently
claimed that he found, uh,
some hieroglyphic cartouches
that mentioned
the pharaoh Khufu.
Egyptologists knew
when Khufu lived,
he lived 2500, roughly, BC.
And because of that,
by extension,
that became
the time line and the date
of the Great Pyramid's
construction,
according
to mainstream Egyptology.
NARRATOR:
Colonel Vyse's expedition
to the Great Pyramid
cost $1.3 million,
a figure equal
to $35 million today.
Due to the cost, Vyse was
under tremendous pressure
to make a major discovery
like finding hard evidence
of who commissioned
the building of the pyramid.
But new evidence has been found
that some believe
puts Vyse's discovery
into question.
Recently it has been discovered
by going through, uh,
Vyse's journals
that he in his journals
actually says
that there were no hieroglyphs
within this chamber.
And so it is suspected
that Vyse did in fact
forge this cartouche
of the pharaoh Khufu.
NARRATOR: Egyptologists
have also pointed out
that during the time of Khufu,
cartouches were
written vertically,
but the cartouche Colonel Vyse
claimed to have discovered
was written horizontally.
And no mummy was ever found
inside the Great Pyramid.
VON DANIKEN:
Especially in Egyptology,
many archaeologists believe
that they know everything,
and that their knowledge is
a true base.
In reality, there are
thousands of open questions,
starting with the builder
of the Great Pyramid.
NARRATOR:
In March 2016,
the Great Pyramid of Giza
presented researchers
with yet another mystery.
Archaeologists examining
the ancient structure
with a new technology
known as muography,
made a shocking discovery
a mysterious chamber
inside the structure
that is as large
as the Statue of Liberty.
CHILDRESS:
It's always exciting when
Egyptologists are
making new discoveries
inside of the Great Pyramid
or other pyramids.
And now they're saying
that there is
a 30-meter void
inside the pyramid.
So the whole idea
that these pyramids are
just simple tombs for a pharaoh,
Egyptologists now realize
that they're
far more complicated.
This new room is only
the beginning of it.
I'm sure within the next months,
or at least two years,
they will discover more rooms
in the Great Pyramid.
I personally think that
the Great Pyramid in Egypt
holds some sort of time capsule.
In my opinion, we will
find mummies in there.
Mummies of
before the Great Flood.
And we will find
writings in there.
Writings of Enoch,
who tell us how it all was.
Enoch knew
that all these writings
would be found
in the far future.
NARRATOR: A time capsule hidden
within the Great Pyramid of Giza?
When the Great Pyramid of Egypt
is fully excavated,
could it be found to hold
undeniable proof
that the Book of Enoch documents
extraterrestrial intervention
on Earth?
And might it reveal
even more profound truths
about the history of humankind?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answer is a resounding yes.
And they say further
examination of the Bible
may indicate exactly
what information
is about to be discovered.
NARRATOR:
The Book of Enoch.
Chapter 91.
After journeying
through the heavenly realm
and returning to Earth,
Enoch is preparing
to be taken back up
into the heavens once again.
Before he leaves, Enoch gathers
together his family
and shares with them
a startling prophecy.
He assembles the whole family.
The oldest of his son
was Methuselah,
the biblical Methuselah.
Methuselah asked his father,
"Enoch, will I see you again?"
And Enoch said, "The guardians
of the sky told me
"I will return to this planet,
"but thousands of years
will have passed.
So we will not see
each other again."
NARRATOR: The concept of a divine
figure leaving and returning to Earth
is echoed across almost
every major religion.
HUSSAIN:
In the Jewish tradition,
there's the expectation
the prophet Elijah
will return before the Messiah
and bring in this age of peace
and righteousness that ushers in
the end of time.
In the Christian tradition,
the return of Jesus,
who for Christians
is the Messiah.
In the Islamic tradition, you
know, it's either the Al-Mahdi,
the divinely guided one, or
it's Muhammad who will return.
In a sense, this ushers in
a brand-new age,
a brand-new relationship
with God,
a brand-new way
of existing in the world.
LAYNE LITTLE: There's
a body of Hindu scriptures
known as the Puranas
and these tell
about the tenth
and final incarnation
of the god Vishnu
that comes at the end
of this present cycle of time.
These prophecies speak
of this Messianic figure
riding upon
the clouds of heaven,
accompanied
by the armies of heaven.
This suggests that we're talking
about some kind
of a vehicle or a craft.
TSOUKALOS: This whole
concept of the return of the gods
well, who are we waiting for?
It will not be any of these
ancient "saintly figures"
or-or holy figures, but it
will be extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
humankind's most sacred
religious texts
document
extraterrestrial intervention
on Earth?
And might the teachings of Enoch
have been meant
to prepare humanity
for the day when we will awaken
to a profound new reality?
Perhaps the Book of Enoch
has yet to be completed.
And when the final chapter
is written,
we will know that it is not
a story of angels
but of our alien ancestors.
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NARRATOR:
An extraordinary story
of an otherworldly encounter.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It is an eyewitness account.
He was taken up and sees
planet Earth underneath him.
WILLIAM HENRY:
He is given powerful
universal knowledge
by angelic beings.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
These angels were not spiritual beings.
They were physical beings,
whose role it is
to direct the affairs
of humanity.
NARRATOR:
It is an account
that was strictly forbidden.
TSOUKALOS: These texts
were deemed too dangerous.
NARRATOR:
And now, new technology
may reveal
even more shocking revelations.
We are recovering burned texts,
which, there it is.
TSOUKALOS:
Look at this.
This is sensational.
NARRATOR:
Could the Book of Enoch
contain profound truths
about our extraterrestrial past?
And might it even hold the key
to humanity's future?
ERICH VON DANIKEN: Enoch
knew that all these writings
would be found
in the far future.
And Enoch said,
"I will return to this planet."
NARRATOR:
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.
NARRATOR:
The Tigray highlands, Ethiopia.
Here, 7,000 feet above sea level
and clinging
to the side of a mountain
stands
the Abba Garima Monastery.
This church is home
to one of Christianity's
most ancient
and spectacular treasures:
the Garima Gospels.
Consisting of two beautifully
illustrated volumes,
it has been dated
to the 6th century AD
making it one of the oldest and
most complete Bibles on Earth.
JONATHAN YOUNG: There is the very
earliest Christian churches in Ethiopia.
So there is
this strong connection
to the ancient roots
of Western civilization,
Western religion in Ethiopia.
NARRATOR:
Ethiopia's biblical connections
date back nearly 3,000 years.
In the 10th century BC,
King Solomon,
the builder of
the First Temple in Jerusalem
and the keeper
of the Ark of the Covenant,
was visited by
Queen Makeda of Ethiopia,
also known as
the Queen of Sheba.
YOUNG:
The Queen of Sheba, it is said,
had a relationship with Solomon
and had a son.
When he came of age,
he wanted to meet his father.
And his mother
blessed this journey
up to Israel to meet Solomon.
And he stayed for some time.
And then some, uh,
leaders of the Jewish nation
went back with him to Ethiopia.
Because of this connection
between the Queen of Sheba
and Solomon, there's a large
Jewish population in Ethiopia.
There are many returnees
to the Holy Land,
to Israel from Ethiopia and
other nearby areas in Africa.
Ethiopia is
an unusually holy place.
NARRATOR: Curiously, the Bible
used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
differs from that of
other Christian denominations.
Its version of the Old Testament
includes a controversial text
known as the Book of Enoch.
The Book of Enoch,
a very, very interesting,
very ancient document,
which, uh, is only found
in the language of Ge'ez,
which is sort of
Ethiopian early language
and has over a hundred chapters
in the full form.
So in the Ethiopian church,
Enoch is considered a, uh,
canonical text.
In other Christian traditions
it is not.
NARRATOR: The author of
the book, according to the text,
is the Jewish patriarch Enoch
the great-grandfather of Noah.
Enoch is a biblical figure
mentioned in
the Book of Genesis, chapter 5.
What's interesting about Enoch
is a tradition arose
that he never died.
And this is because
in Genesis 5:24,
the text says that Enoch
walked with God,
and then was no more
because God took him.
NARRATOR: But where the Hebrew
Bible only mentions Enoch briefly,
the Book of Enoch,
which consists
of more than 100 chapters,
greatly expands on his story.
In it is a curious passage
that details
Enoch's assent to heaven.
VON DANIKEN:
According to the Book of Enoch,
he says he was 12 years old.
The whole community
of his village wanted to sleep.
But then they hear the noise
in the sky.
[rumbling]
Two angels
came down from the sky.
One of the two beings said to
Enoch, "Don't be afraid, human."
Then they went up
to the so-called heaven.
HENRY: And in the Book of Enoch,
we learn
Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.
VON DANIKEN: Enoch
goes up to the so-called sky
and there Enoch
sees something over the Earth,
which he cannot describe.
He has no word
like "spaceship" or something.
He says it looked like
houses of crystal.
TSOUKALOS:
It is described that he sees
planet Earth underneath him.
He actually describes
his arrival.
How he has to walk through
these different rooms,
where he sees jewels
and he see shiny surfaces
and blinking lights.
It is an eyewitness account.
It's "I, Enoch" did this,
"I, Enoch" saw that.
The Book of Enoch is one of
the first abduction accounts
written down
by a fellow human being.
NARRATOR:
Does the Book of Enoch
really describe
an actual abduction event,
one that took place
thousands of years ago?
And if so, might
this incredible close encounter
be documenting communication
with otherworldly beings?
ROBERT CARGILL: Enoch was
said to be at the right hand of God.
In fact, Enoch was said to be
God's scribe in later tradition.
So, God would decree things
and Enoch was the one
who recorded everything
that went on.
So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.
HENRY:
This is one the reasons
why the Book of Enoch
is so controversial.
He's taken up into the heavenly
realms, to the throne of God,
where he is given powerful
universal knowledge
by angelic beings,
or extraterrestrial beings.
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
the Book of Enoch is
one of the most compelling texts
ever written documenting
extraterrestrial visitation.
But it is far from unique.
They say that similar encounters
were documented
by many other ancient cultures,
lending support to the notion
that Enoch's experiences
were genuine.
We can find ancient texts
that speak of people
ascending to heaven
and then coming back down.
For example, in ancient Greece,
you have the story of Ganymede
that was taken up
by Zeus's eagle.
Also in ancient China,
and in ancient Sumeria,
and also in ancient Egypt,
are there stories of people
having been visited
or having gone up to the sky
to visit with
the so-called gods, lowercase G.
NARRATOR: While these
other accounts tell a similar story,
none contain
the incredible detail
found within the Book of Enoch.
And some researchers believe
that it was because
of this controversial content
that the text was omitted from
most versions of the Bible.
Not only do-do these texts
infer quite strongly,
uh, the possibility of
extraterrestrial life,
but they also show
a very different side of God.
This type of information,
these type of texts,
this could not be
put into the Bible.
TZADOK:
The sages of the time considered
the teachings of
the Book of Enoch,
if you will, too hot to handle.
And therefore,
it fell along by the wayside,
concealed and hidden.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
the teachings of Enoch reveal
that not all angelic encounters
were of a divine nature?
Is this the secret
that has been kept alive
in the Ethiopian version
of the Bible?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the Book of Enoch
lies at the heart
of an extraterrestrial agenda
that has been shaping human
history for thousands of years.
And they suggest that nowhere
is this more evident
than in the book's descriptions
of beings called "the Watchers."
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KEN BOYDSTON:
What we're doing is just
To end a dispute
in the Anglican church,
King James the First
orders the creation
of a standardized English Bible.
Today, more than four centuries
after its creation,
the King James Version remains
the most famous Bible in history
and one of the most published
books of all time.
Interestingly,
while it contains 66 books,
the Catholic Bible has 73,
and the Ethiopian Orthodox
version is comprised of 81.
But why were so many texts,
including the Book of Enoch,
edited out?
There has always been
accepted literature,
which becomes
the foundation of orthodoxy,
and then
there's other literature
that the accepted orthodoxy
rejects.
Books that don't make it into
the collection of the Bible
both the Hebrew Bible
and the New Testament
are the Apocrypha.
JULYE BIDMEAD: The word
Apocrypha means hidden things,
and that's probably from
the ancients hiding these texts
away from the general public,
because they could be dangerous.
NARRATOR:
"Dangerous"?
Is it possible that
the Book of Enoch was omitted
because it exposed truths
about human history
that were considered
too risky
for the public to know?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest insight can be found
by examining a passage
in the Old Testament.
We know from the Book of Daniel
in chapter 4
that there is a group
of angelic entities,
whose job, whose role it is
as ordained by God
to direct the affairs
of humanity.
These angelic forces
look over our world
and control the direction
of civilization.
NARRATOR:
While this passage is brief,
these beings serve as
the primary focus
of the Book of Enoch,
where they are described
as divine overseers
known as "the Watchers."
VON DANIKEN: Enoch calls
them, in the English version,
"guardians of the sky
or watchers of the sky."
In the German version,
they are called "angels."
No, it was simply another time.
Now we have a new time.
Now we must translate it
with new words.
Change the word of "angel."
Scratch it out
and write "extraterrestrial."
TZADOK: These angels
were not spiritual beings.
They were physical beings.
That is something very clear
about the identity
of biblical angels.
They're not of this world,
and, therefore,
they are not terrestrial.
And, therefore,
they are extraterrestrial.
NARRATOR:
According to the Book of Enoch,
a total of 200 Watchers
descended to Earth.
Enoch gives us
some of the names,
but we know they were
ruled by Samyaza
and Aza Azazel.
Azazel was later
known as Lucifer.
HUGH NEWMAN: The Watchers
had a very bright appearance
and one of their names was
"the Shining Ones."
And even Enoch, when he wrote
about them, he even said
he could barely look at them
because they were so bright.
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
the idea that the Watchers
were alien visitors
is most strongly corroborated
by the stories
of the prophet Elijah.
TZADOK:
Aside from Enoch,
there was one other
we know from the Bible,
who did ascend to heaven
in chariots of fire,
whatever that is meaning.
And this, of course,
is the famous prophet, Elijah.
Elijah was a powerful,
powerful prophet
who had abilities apparently far
beyond those of other prophets.
Elijah possessed
a power cloak or a garment
that gave him the-the ability
to heal the sick
and even to raise the dead.
And then one day he used
that power cloak or garment
to ascend upon a fiery chariot.
A chariot of the gods.
And when Elijah ascended,
there were 50 prophets
that witnessed his ascension.
TZADOK: The Bible
calls it "chariot of fire."
Now, what is this chariot?
Was it some type of a
technological
transportation device,
which in ancient times
would not have been understood
as anything else
but a chariot of fire?
NARRATOR: Curiously, while the
idea of the soul ascending to heaven
is a key component
of Judeo-Christian traditions,
there are a number
of instances in the Bible
where it is said that
a person ascends bodily.
In addition to Enoch and Elijah,
this is also the case with both
Jesus and his mother Mary.
But why?
If heaven is a spiritual realm,
why is it written that certain
individuals ascended bodily?
Neither Enoch nor Elijah ever
claimed that they were prophets.
It was the biblical
writers later
who claimed
that they're prophets.
The reason why Enoch ended up
being called a prophet
is because of
the experiences he had.
He was taken up into space
by extraterrestrials,
and we have a similar story
with Elijah.
Enoch, Elijah
It-It's all part of
the big concept
of misunderstood technology.
NARRATOR: If the Watchers
were, in fact, extraterrestrials
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
did they have an agenda
for humankind?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining another ancient
text attributed to Enoch
that was almost entirely
destroyed
The Book of Giants.
What if there are references
20 miles east of Jerusalem,
at this ancient site
in the Judean Desert
Bedouin shepherds stumble upon
an extraordinary discovery.
BIDMEAD: The Dead
Sea is surrounded by caves.
And as young teenage boys
would do,
they threw a rock into the cave,
heard the sound
of breaking pots.
Came back the next day,
climbed into the cave,
and what did they find?
They found huge clay jars.
COLLINS: Inside these
storage jars were ancient texts,
which very quickly
they came to realize
that these were incredibly
important.
CARGILL:
In these scrolls,
we find biblical manuscripts
copies of the Bible
that are a thousand years older
than any previously
known copy of the Bible.
As well as
a treasure trove of documents
that we had never seen before.
NARRATOR: Archaeologists
were surprised to find
that whoever collected
the Dead Sea Scrolls
considered The Book of Enoch
to be of vital importance,
preserving 11
different manuscripts,
including versions
never seen in modern times.
Also found were fragments
of another work
attributed to Enoch
The Book of Giants.
Some parts of this text included
in the Dead Sea Scrolls
had been lost for centuries,
and many scholars believe
the stories contained
within The Book of Giants
were written
before even the Book of Genesis.
It expounds on Genesis 6:1-4,
when the story is-is begun
that the Watchers
descended upon Earth
and took wives from Earth
women from human women
and their offspring were giants.
COLLINS: The Book of
Giants is about the Nephilim,
the sons of the Watchers.
It's about their lives,
uh, their conversations
and they realize
that they are evil.
NARRATOR:
According to The Book of Giants,
the Nephilim were guilty
of horrific crimes,
including slaughtering humans
and feasting on their flesh.
God ultimately decides
the Earth must be cleansed
and chooses one man
to restart humanity anew
Noah, the great-grandson
of Enoch.
In the Bible, Noah the son
of a Shepherd named Lamech
and his wife Betenos
was chosen by God
because of his blameless piety.
But when the Dead Sea Scrolls
were discovered,
religious scholars were shocked
to find a much different
and potentially older
version of the story of Noah.
The Lamech Scroll documents
that Noah became the chosen one
before he was born,
and his father was not Lamech.
TSOUKALOS:
When Noah was born,
the father, Lamech,
was gone at the time.
However, the wife of Lamech knew
immediately something was up
with Noah because he didn't look
like a normal human being.
CARTER:
He is described as having skin
so white it was radiant.
His hair was white like wool.
His father, Lamech, says,
"He has the ways of
the Watchers."
When he blinked, his eyes
lit up the whole house.
This does not sound
like a human being.
The boy looked
completely different
than Lamech's other children.
And Lamech said
to his wife Betenos,
"This can't be my son
because I was away too long."
You know, it doesn't fit
with the nine months.
And Lamech goes for advice
to his father
who was the biblical Methuselah.
Methuselah goes to his father
which is Enoch.
Enoch says,
"The guardians of the sky
"have inseminated Betenos
without touching her sexually.
"He should accept
this boy as his own
"and should give him
the name of Noah
"because the guardians
of the sky have decided
Noah is the father
of the coming generation."
So in that case,
proven in the Dead Sea Scrolls,
we know for sure there was
an artificial insemination.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Dead Sea Scrolls
contain the true story of Noah?
Was he not a pious man
chosen by God,
but a genetically altered human,
created by extraterrestrials
to reboot life on Earth?
While further details
about Enoch and Noah
may have existed
in The Book of Giants,
only fragments
of the full text have survived.
But now, new technology
may bring to light
even more incredible
revelations.
Santa Barbara, California.
February 18, 2020.
Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok
and Giorgio Tsoukalos
travel to Mega Vision
to meet with imaging expert
Ken Boydston.
- Ken. Good to see you.
- BOYDSTON: Hey.
NARRATOR: Ken recently invented
a revolutionary type of camera
that takes pictures
using a technology
called multi spectral imaging.
Giorgio and Ariel are intrigued
by the implications
of this technology,
and they are eager to find out
just how far it can go
in retrieving lost passages
from the Book of Enoch.
TSOUKALOS:
Ken, can you explain to me
the multi spectral imaging system
that you have invented?
BOYDSTON: Well, multi spectral,
simply put, it's taking
a lot of pictures
under different colors of light.
- Mm-hmm.
- And we don't want to see the light that's on the object.
We want to only see the light
that the object is producing
in response to that light
coming in.
What we're doing
is just listening
with light to the object.
"What story do you have
to tell us?"
The camera can see
what the human eye cannot see,
and therein lies the magic
and some of the mystery
and some
of the great excitement,
because we are able
to discover things
that have been hidden
for generations or ages.
Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR:
Incredibly, Ken's camera
is able to retrieve script that
has become eroded with time,
script that was purposely
scrubbed from parchment
and written over,
and even script within scrolls
that cannot be opened because
they are too fragile to handle.
Many of these scrolls
might be thousands of years old,
and as you know, we can't just
open them up and read them
because they will deteriorate,
very similar like
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
TSOUKALOS:
Yes. So, can you
- show us how this works?
- BOYDSTON: Yeah.
Let's kind of go through
a little bit of stuff.
NARRATOR: To demonstrate
the power of this technology,
Ken is going to apply
spectral imaging to a document
that has been burned so badly,
much of the text is completely
undetectable to the naked eye.
BOYDSTON:
During World War II, the Nazis
burned vast quantities
of documents
Ah.
so we are recovering
the partially burned texts.
- Amazing.
- And so, we're ready to do it.
TSOUKALOS:
Lights.
BOYDSTON:
Each time the light flashes,
the shutter clicks,
another picture is captured.
So, you're seeing a little
tiny bit of light right now,
but the camera
is seeing lots of light
because this is down
into the infrared.
All right.
So, out of the visible light
pictures that we just took,
those individual ones,
the computer put them together
and lo and behold,
there's a perfect color picture
of that object,
which would be just
what our eyes see.
- TSOUKALOS: Look at this.
- Which, there it is.
TSOUKALOS:
There you go.
- TZADOK: Wow.
- BOYDSTON: There it is.
All of that text right there.
And we can enhance that
a little bit.
We can, uh, we can push
the contrast up a little bit
- on that
- That word says sÃmera..
- There we go.
- It means "today."
- BOYDSTON: So, um
- Arius.
That's a little demonstration of
what-what the technology can do.
Uh, just, a very quick,
and, uh, compelling, really.
TSOUKALOS:
This is extraordinary, really.
- Wow.
- So, just imagine,
uh, if you have thousands
and thousands of these pages,
where, uh, no one
has been able to read them
since they were destroyed.
TSOUKALOS:
In front of our eyes,
long-lost knowledge
that has been thought
to have been completely
and utterly destroyed
has been resurrected
with the power of light.
An ancient prophecy said
that towards the coming
of what we will call disclosure,
all of these secrets,
these ancient secrets,
would be brought back to us.
We never understood how,
but now it's actually happening
in front of our eyes.
What if there are references
to extraterrestrials
that we've never seen before?
- There definitely are.
- So it's a corroboration
of what we're already doing.
I mean, this is sensational.
NARRATOR: In 2018,
the Israel Antiquities Authority
studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
announced
that multi spectral analysis had
uncovered writings on a fragment
that points to a previously
unknown manuscript.
Once it's discovered, what will
this missing manuscript reveal?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
there could be numerous
lost texts of Enoch
that will come to light.
Texts that were hidden
in secure locations
so that they would survive
a devastating
global cataclysm
the Great Flood.
COLLINS:
The world was devastated
NARRATOR:
The Book of Genesis.
In chapters six through nine,
it is described that God
had become deeply troubled
by the wickedness
of the human race,
and decided to bring it
to an end
by sending a great flood
upon the Earth.
Only Noah and his family would
survive, and it was God himself
who gave Noah instructions
for building the Ark
that would save both them and
two of every earthly creature.
The Book of Enoch
tells the same story,
but with significant
differences.
KATHLEEN McGOWAN: One of the
differences is that in the Book of Enoch,
the flood washes away
these rebellious angels.
And it washes away the Nephilim,
as opposed
to the traditional flood story,
which washes away people who
have been rebellious and sinful.
God is protecting us
in the Book of Enoch.
It is a very different God
than the spiteful, wrathful God
that we see
in the Genesis account.
NARRATOR:
Another key difference
in Enoch's account is that Noah
is not given instructions
to build the Ark by God,
but by the angel Uriel.
HENRY: The archangel Uriel
is the one who warned Noah
about the impending flood,
and who told him
about humanity's future and the
possibility of this cataclysm.
What we're witnessing here
is an extraordinary story
of an extraterrestrial being
having a tremendous
in fact, incalculable influence
on human affairs.
NARRATOR: Does Enoch's
account of the Great Flood reveal
that it is not a story of God
punishing humankind,
but of extraterrestrials
directing the course
of humanity?
As far as many religious
scholars are concerned,
both the biblical version
and the Enochian version
of the Great Flood
are simply allegorical tales.
But an increasing number
of archaeologists and historians
now believe that this global
cataclysm actually happened.
Uzengili, Turkey. 1997.
After years of research,
American explorer David
Allen Deal has become convinced
that the biblical story of Noah
is, in fact, historical,
and is on the hunt to find
the remnants of the Ark.
At an elevation of more than
7,000 feet, near Mount Ararat,
where the Bible says Noah's Ark
eventually landed,
he stumbles upon the ruins
of an ancient settlement.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
What he discovered
is what's known as the lost city
of-of Noah, or-or Naxuan.
And this is an area that's near
a strange geological formation
that some people think
is actually Noah's Ark.
NARRATOR: The ancient
Armenian historian Moses of Chorene
identified Naxuan as the place
of Noah's first descent.
Could this be
the first settlement
in a post-flood world?
A recent archaeological dig
reportedly uncovered
something remarkable:
the region may contain
millions of graves.
CHILDRESS: Because
Noah's tomb is said to be here,
a huge cemetery has grown up
around this lost city of Noah.
And people from all over the
Middle East in ancient times,
uh, insisted on being buried
in this area.
NARRATOR:
Researchers suggest that Naxuan
is just one of many points
of evidence
that support the notion
of a historical great flood.
What we now know from
incredible amount of evidence
coming from every part
of the world,
is that around 10,800 BC,
the world was devastated
by some kind of impact event.
And this devastated
every part of the landscape,
what today we might refer to
as a nuclear winter
that blotted out the Sun,
the Moon and the stars.
There's something called
the Usselo horizon
that's been found
all over the world.
It's like a layer of black ash.
This suggests there
was a great conflagration
that took place,
great fires and burning,
and it left this layer
all around the world.
And it dates to between
11,000 and 13,000 years ago.
So this does suggest
something very serious
took place at this time.
NARRATOR:
Could this layer of ash,
found roughly 50 feet deep
in the Earth's soil,
be evidence
of a devastating global event?
According to geologist
Dr. Robert Schoch,
a worldwide cataclysm,
and the resulting layer of ash,
was likely created
by a solar flare,
a sudden flash of increased
brightness on the Sun.
SCHOCH: Based on my
analysis of the evidence
is that there was
a major, major solar outburst.
The Sun essentially erupted.
This caused, in a flash,
the glaciers to melt
virtually instantaneously.
It caused evaporation of water.
This not only led
to the rising sea levels,
flooding the coastal areas
and torrential rains.
We have physical evidence of
this in the geological record.
NARRATOR:
Could the Book of Enoch
overturn everything we know
about the history of life
on our planet?
Did Enoch intend
to make a record
of extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth
for future generations
of humans to discover?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest
there are still chapters
we have yet to uncover.
Chapters that may be hidden
within the Great Pyramid.
TSOUKALOS:
The pyramids were built
Here on the Giza Plateau
stands the oldest
of the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World:
the Great Pyramid.
But ancient astronaut theorists
suspect this awesome structure
is even older than Egyptologists
have proposed.
Mainstream archaeologists
date the Great Pyramid
to 2500 BC
and suggest
it was built as a tomb
for the pharaoh Khufu.
However, according
to a 14th century account
written by Islamic historian
Ibrahim al-Maqrizi,
the Pyramid of Giza was built
thousands of years earlier
before the event described
in both the Hebrew Bible
and the Book of Enoch
as "the Great Flood."
VON DANIKEN: Now what
is very, very astonishing,
there are many other
old historian books,
especially Arabian historians,
which nobody knows
in the Western world.
They say the Great Pyramid
was constructed
before the Great Flood,
by a pharaoh
with the name of Saurid.
And they precisely say
Saurid is the same figure,
which the Hebrew community
calls Enoch.
NARRATOR:
Enoch?
The builder
of the Great Pyramid?
Could such an incredible notion
be true?
The Islamic text
goes on to detail
the pyramid's construction,
which it says was made possible
by otherworldly beings.
TSOUKALOS:
According to al-Maqrizi,
the pyramids were built in order
to preserve knowledge
that was given to the Egyptians
by the so-called gods,
the so-called Watchers,
the guardians of the sky.
These blocks were
levitated and essentially
walked themselves into position.
NARRATOR:
Was the Great Pyramid
actually built by Enoch
using extraterrestrial
technology?
While it may sound far-fetched,
the notion that
the pharaoh Khufu was behind
the construction of the pyramid
has come under great scrutiny.
In 1837, a British colonel,
who became an archaeologist
named Richard Howard-Vyse
used dynamite
to get up into the king's
chamber of the Great Pyramid.
This was something
that had not been entered
by other archaeologists before.
When he got
into these upper chambers,
he then apparently
claimed that he found, uh,
some hieroglyphic cartouches
that mentioned
the pharaoh Khufu.
Egyptologists knew
when Khufu lived,
he lived 2500, roughly, BC.
And because of that,
by extension,
that became
the time line and the date
of the Great Pyramid's
construction,
according
to mainstream Egyptology.
NARRATOR:
Colonel Vyse's expedition
to the Great Pyramid
cost $1.3 million,
a figure equal
to $35 million today.
Due to the cost, Vyse was
under tremendous pressure
to make a major discovery
like finding hard evidence
of who commissioned
the building of the pyramid.
But new evidence has been found
that some believe
puts Vyse's discovery
into question.
Recently it has been discovered
by going through, uh,
Vyse's journals
that he in his journals
actually says
that there were no hieroglyphs
within this chamber.
And so it is suspected
that Vyse did in fact
forge this cartouche
of the pharaoh Khufu.
NARRATOR: Egyptologists
have also pointed out
that during the time of Khufu,
cartouches were
written vertically,
but the cartouche Colonel Vyse
claimed to have discovered
was written horizontally.
And no mummy was ever found
inside the Great Pyramid.
VON DANIKEN:
Especially in Egyptology,
many archaeologists believe
that they know everything,
and that their knowledge is
a true base.
In reality, there are
thousands of open questions,
starting with the builder
of the Great Pyramid.
NARRATOR:
In March 2016,
the Great Pyramid of Giza
presented researchers
with yet another mystery.
Archaeologists examining
the ancient structure
with a new technology
known as muography,
made a shocking discovery
a mysterious chamber
inside the structure
that is as large
as the Statue of Liberty.
CHILDRESS:
It's always exciting when
Egyptologists are
making new discoveries
inside of the Great Pyramid
or other pyramids.
And now they're saying
that there is
a 30-meter void
inside the pyramid.
So the whole idea
that these pyramids are
just simple tombs for a pharaoh,
Egyptologists now realize
that they're
far more complicated.
This new room is only
the beginning of it.
I'm sure within the next months,
or at least two years,
they will discover more rooms
in the Great Pyramid.
I personally think that
the Great Pyramid in Egypt
holds some sort of time capsule.
In my opinion, we will
find mummies in there.
Mummies of
before the Great Flood.
And we will find
writings in there.
Writings of Enoch,
who tell us how it all was.
Enoch knew
that all these writings
would be found
in the far future.
NARRATOR: A time capsule hidden
within the Great Pyramid of Giza?
When the Great Pyramid of Egypt
is fully excavated,
could it be found to hold
undeniable proof
that the Book of Enoch documents
extraterrestrial intervention
on Earth?
And might it reveal
even more profound truths
about the history of humankind?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answer is a resounding yes.
And they say further
examination of the Bible
may indicate exactly
what information
is about to be discovered.
NARRATOR:
The Book of Enoch.
Chapter 91.
After journeying
through the heavenly realm
and returning to Earth,
Enoch is preparing
to be taken back up
into the heavens once again.
Before he leaves, Enoch gathers
together his family
and shares with them
a startling prophecy.
He assembles the whole family.
The oldest of his son
was Methuselah,
the biblical Methuselah.
Methuselah asked his father,
"Enoch, will I see you again?"
And Enoch said, "The guardians
of the sky told me
"I will return to this planet,
"but thousands of years
will have passed.
So we will not see
each other again."
NARRATOR: The concept of a divine
figure leaving and returning to Earth
is echoed across almost
every major religion.
HUSSAIN:
In the Jewish tradition,
there's the expectation
the prophet Elijah
will return before the Messiah
and bring in this age of peace
and righteousness that ushers in
the end of time.
In the Christian tradition,
the return of Jesus,
who for Christians
is the Messiah.
In the Islamic tradition, you
know, it's either the Al-Mahdi,
the divinely guided one, or
it's Muhammad who will return.
In a sense, this ushers in
a brand-new age,
a brand-new relationship
with God,
a brand-new way
of existing in the world.
LAYNE LITTLE: There's
a body of Hindu scriptures
known as the Puranas
and these tell
about the tenth
and final incarnation
of the god Vishnu
that comes at the end
of this present cycle of time.
These prophecies speak
of this Messianic figure
riding upon
the clouds of heaven,
accompanied
by the armies of heaven.
This suggests that we're talking
about some kind
of a vehicle or a craft.
TSOUKALOS: This whole
concept of the return of the gods
well, who are we waiting for?
It will not be any of these
ancient "saintly figures"
or-or holy figures, but it
will be extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
humankind's most sacred
religious texts
document
extraterrestrial intervention
on Earth?
And might the teachings of Enoch
have been meant
to prepare humanity
for the day when we will awaken
to a profound new reality?
Perhaps the Book of Enoch
has yet to be completed.
And when the final chapter
is written,
we will know that it is not
a story of angels
but of our alien ancestors.
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