自从公元前四世纪 柏拉图对它加以描述 Ever since Plato wrote about it in the 4th
亚特兰蒂斯就一直吸引着 century BC, Atlantis has captured the imagination of
冒险家和学者的想象 adventurers and academics alike,
他们痴迷于找出它的所在 obsessed with finding out its location.
但要是这个经典故事根本不像任何人想象的那样呢？ But what if this classic story is nothing like anyone expects?
亚特兰蒂斯 What if the accounts of Atlantis
拥有不可思议的先进技术 having incredible, advanced technology and then mysteriously
后来又神秘地消失 disappearing is actually a description of an
要是它的故事实际是讲述了一种千万年前 extraterrestrial culture that
存在于地球上的外星文化呢？ existed here on Earth thousands of years ago?
我来到地中海 I've come to the Mediterranean
探索人类最经久不衰 to investigate one of mankind's
令人困惑的迷局之一 most enduring and baffling
同时查看一些惊人的新证据 mysteries and to examine some
和潜在的线索 startling new evidence and potential leads.
我在寻找亚特兰蒂斯 I'm in search of Atlantis.
我是乔治•索卡罗斯 My name is Giorgio Tsoukalos.
我探索存在于 I explore the world that exists
现实和猜想之间 between reality and speculation,
以及已知和未知的世界 the known and the unknown.
然而主流学者向我们展示的 What we've been taught by
并不是整个画面 mainstream scholars is not the whole picture.
但我相信每一天 But I'm convinced that every
我们都离真相更近一步 day we are one step closer to the truth.
寻觅外星人
The lost continent of Atlantis has sparked the imaginations of
scholars and explorers for over 2,000 years.
The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis in two of
his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, around 360 BC.
In his account, Atlantis' capital city was a marvel of
architecture and engineering and
its people possessed highly
advanced military capabilities.
And then one day, Atlantis mysteriously vanished in, as
Plato describes it, "One unbearable day and night."
So the big question is, if
Atlantis really did exist, where was it located?
And what really happened to it?
Like many others before me, I've always been fascinated with
Atlantis and my love affair with her began as a little kid when
I dared to dream that one day I might even find this lost city.
Because Plato's descriptions are
so vivid and detailed, I've always thought that they must
have been describing a real geographical place.
So I'm starting my investigation here in Athens where the story
was written, back in the homeland of my Greek ancestors.
Where I've arranged to meet
Plato expert Dr. Sandy
MacGillivray, a professor
of classics and archaeology.
Professor MacGillivray?
Yeah.
I'm Giorgio.
Pleasure to meet you.
Hi. Good to meet you.
How's it going?
Very, very well.
All these tourists,
I barely found you, but this was a great place where to meet.
Welcome to Athens.
Yes.
So tell me about Atlantis.
How did Plato describe it and
what do you think are some of
the clues that we should look at?
He's describing the one city that was founded by Poseidon.
In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the seas.
While most people today consider
the Greek gods to be mythological figures, the
ancient Greeks themselves did not.
They thought that they were real.
When Poseidon comes down and he mates with an Earth
woman and he has five sets of
twin sons, which to me sound a
lot like genetic engineering.
So, you actually have ten kingdoms for Atlantis.
The one central kingdom is the
one where the firstborn Atlas
sets up his kingdom.
What you get a description of is
the city that's built around a mountain.
There's a huge temple of
Poseidon built up there.
You've got a first ring and then
you've got fields beyond that, then you've got a second ring,
fields beyond that, and then
you've got a third ring.
So, basically it's moats.
Think of like a medieval
castle where you got a moat around the castle.
Later on, they start cutting channels through wide enough
to bring, Plato says, a trireme,
the great huge three level war ships that the Greeks were
sailing all the way through into the central core.
If Atlantis is a mere myth, then why are Plato's descriptions of it so incredibly
detailed right down to the exact measurements?
But if it existed, then where was it?
People have surmised that Atlantis might've perhaps been
some type of an empire that
stretched a large, vast geographical location.
So, are there any other places
that you would recommend I should go check out?
You have to start where Plato sends you, and
that's beyond the pillars of Hercules.
The pillars of Hercules in Greek mythology
represented the gateway to the unknown.
But modern scholars now believe that the pillars were a
reference to the large land masses on both sides of the
Strait of Gibraltar, the gateway to the Atlantic Ocean, and beyond.
Sandy, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Happy travels.
Until next time.
Thank you.
Okay, man.
Wow.
I can't believe this.
Dr. MacGillivray,
an accomplished archaeologist,
actually suggested that the
story of Poseidon fathering
five sets of male twins
suggests evidence of
genetic engineering in the ancient past.
This is very much the basis for
the ancient astronaut theory and
it's surprising to hear that
this is coming from a mainstream scholar.
Ever since Plato wrote about
Atlantis, many locations around
the world have been identified
with the lost city.
Theories range from Ireland to
the Bahamas, the Americas and
even Antarctica.
But all Plato says is, "beyond
the pillars of Hercules."
I'm in Silves, in the Algarve
region of southern Portugal,
where I'm about to meet with
Peter Daughtrey, a former
advertising executive from London.
For the past 20 years, he
has investigated what some say
are 100 clues that Plato left
about Atlantis.
And he's convinced that Silves
is the center of Atlantis.
I've got a few questions
I'd like to ask you.
How did you get started in your research?
I was doing some research for an article
in a local magazine on an event
here that happened in 1755.
It's called the Great Lisbon
Earthquake, and it was about
nine on the Richter scale.
They had tsunamis here on this
coast up to 100 feet high.
Lisbon was virtually destroyed.
And that event sent me first thinking.
Plato said that Atlantis was
destroyed by earthquakes and floods.
I'd often wondered why this
area didn't have an old civilization.
And then suddenly it was obvious
that if there was one, it
would've been destroyed.
Geologists had done research on
the seabed, back in the bay, and
found that there was one
particular big event at about
11,600 years ago, which ties in
exactly with Plato's dates that he gave us.
Mm hmm. And that would coincide with the whole
idea where Plato said that the
story of Atlantis might've
happened around 9,000 years
before the Greeks.
Pretty well the same.
I then went back to reading
Plato again and extracted about
100 clues that I thought would
help us identify where he was talking about.
This area matches to 60 of Plato's clues.
Peter is absolutely
convinced that Atlantis was
once located right where we are
in Southern Portugal.
And Silves, he believes, was the capitol.
But if that's true, then where
is the evidence of what Plato
described as the three
concentric rings of moats and
the Temple of Poseidon?
In your opinion what do you
think are some of the most
compelling clues?
Well, there's one that
is, that's certainly interesting.
I can't say it is necessarily
from Atlantis, but I think the
indications are that it could be.
When I first came here I met an
elderly couple who collected
antiques and interested in
history, and he told me about,
um, this huge stone egg that
he'd seen laying on the side of
the road not far from Silves in
fact, and this was...
Did you say a giant egg?
Yes, it's about six foot long.
The World Egg, or
Cosmic Egg, is a mythological
motif found in ancient creation
stories from all around the world.
It is used to explain the
beginnings of life on Earth,
because many of the ancients
believed that the gods
themselves sent the Cosmic Egg
and mankind hatched from it.
That to me is very fascinating,
so the fact that there's one
here, I would like to see it.
This egg has got
something on it that also ties
up with creation that is fascinating.
Let's do it, perfect.
I'm in Southern Portugal with author
Peter Daughtrey.
He firmly believes the town
of Silves matches more than
half of the clues given by
Plato about Atlantis and its
mysterious location.
I brought you here because this is one of
Plato's most specific clues on
top of all the rest,
probably the most important one.
You see the black, white and red rock?
Mm hmm.
Plato said it was
quarried from this one small
hill, and they built the town
from it, and you can do this here.
So we're actually
standing on a clue right now.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, there are not many places
in the world where you can
do that, particularly in one small hill.
That's pretty amazing.
I haven't yet forgotten about that egg.
I bet you haven't.
So how far is the
egg and can we go check it out?
Come on, I'll take you there.
Yeah, just down here on the right.
All right.
Even though it is now in the Lagos Museum,
the stone egg once stood near
the area where Peter believes
Atlantis existed.
I mean, this is like a labyrinth!
Where is this thing?
Yes, it's a... it's a great little museum.
There it is.
Wow.
This is it.
Man, this is great.
And what a payoff to come here
and see this.
How does this museum classify this stone?
They classified it with with all the other
standing stones as a "menhir,"
which are, you will know I'm
sure, all the way up the west
coast of Portugal, Spain,
into the west coast of France,
Brittany, and all the Celtic countries.
A menhir refers to one of more than 50,000
monoliths or standing stones
deliberately placed by ancient humans.
Many of them feature carvings
or strange symbols,
but this stone egg doesn't look
like any menhir I've seen before,
and what most intrigues me is
the carving on it.
Many so called "cosmic eggs" or
"creation eggs" are shown with a
snake or serpent wrapped around it.
In Greek mythology this is
called the "orphic egg," but
similar eggs can be found in
China, Egypt and throughout the
ancient world.
It was a perfect egg shape originally.
It was, in actual fact, a sculpture.
I mean, this is not a standing stone.
You can see that the
symbol is actually raised or it's a relief.
It's not a carving.
It's not impressed.
It actually is this... almost
like a bevel, which would
indicate that in order to
achieve this, the entire egg had
to be whittled down... Shaped, yeah.
...in order to achieve that raised symbol.
An enormous amount of extra work.
And interestingly is, they
must've had tools to do it.
And bronze wouldn't do it.
It would bend.
They must've had some other form
of metallurgy knowledge, I
think, pre this in order to do it.
How old do you presume this one is?
You can see that it has worn, you know,
before weathered.
If it's been standing somewhere,
and it was obviously buried,
because it was four or five
meters deep, in a great, some
great big conflagration,
possibly like Noah's flood.
We're talking of something
that's incredibly old.
And this thing up the middle
here... they resemble the rod,
which throughout history has
been a symbol of power and of creation.
Moses had a rod.
And in Mesopotamia, the rod was
regarded as the symbol of the
power of the gods.
And it reminds me of
what might be a double helix symbol.
The strange symbol on the egg
doesn't only look like the
caduceus staff the classic
winged staff entwined by two
serpents that is associated with
the Greek god Hermes
but it also looks like a double helix.
The shape of DNA, the building
blocks of life.
But the double helix model
wasn't realized until 1953, so
how could such a symbol exist on
a stone egg that some say was
carved approximately 7,000 years ago?
How would you tie this into your
Atlantean theory?
Poseidon created a race of people.
That the race of people were
partly his seed and partly the
people who were living there.
Yeah, which is very
interesting because that's
basically what the ancient
astronaut theory suggests that
a long time ago, advanced
extraterrestrials saw that there
was potential for intelligent
life, and with a target mutation
of our genes and theirs,
essentially we became who we are today.
According to writer and ancient
astronaut theorist Zecharia
Sitchin, extraterrestrials
called the Anunnaki arrived on
Earth thousands of years ago.
He believed the Anunnaki created
humans by crossing their own DNA
with Homo erectus, an early
hominid, and used them as slaves.
But when the Anunnaki left, they
tried to wipe out their human
creation with a flood.
But some survived.
Now, some scholars suggest that
Atlantis was wiped out by a
flood, which leads me to wonder,
could these stories be related?
And is this evidence of
extraterrestrial activity here
on Planet Earth thousands of years ago?
I've seen many, many eggs all
around the world and stories
about creation in reference to
cosmic eggs, and to see this...
I had no idea that there's one
here in Portugal.
So thank you very much.
Pleasure.
And I can't wait
what else you're gonna show me.
This cosmic egg has got me
thinking that the story of
Atlantis could be more
significant than previously thought.
Is Silves the center of the lost
empire of Atlantis, and does its
cosmic egg really show ancient
knowledge of DNA?
Peter has chartered a boat to
take us up the Arade River from
the Atlantic Ocean to modern day Silves.
This is the route ancient
visitors would have taken to
reach Atlantis thousands of
years ago if Atlantis was here.
So is this the view the
ancients would have had when
entering Atlantis?
'Cause this here is a beautiful
view of the town.
Yeah, this is exactly
what they would have seen.
They would have, in fact, been
forced to go in here, 'cause
this is where the old harbor
was, on our left.
The entrance to it.
And from here, where we are now,
back to the mouth of the river,
the sea, is exactly nine and a
quarter kilometers.
And Plato said it was nine and a
quarter kilometers from the harbor.
What about its wealth?
Because in order to correspond
the story, wasn't Atlantis also
incredibly wealthy?
Nobody will ever have that wealth again.
Yeah, precious metals.
It was the biggest producer of
precious metals in the then known world.
Peter has brought a
bathymetric chart showing the
areas around Silves that sank
over the last few thousand years.
It could be the best clue yet.
These rocky areas are
scattered all around, and I'm
pretty certain they are ruins,
because Plato said the empire
was divided up between the
different sons to rule.
So what we really want is to try
and get somebody who's got a
nice boat with lots of side
scanners and equipment and...
Sonar and all that stuff.
Possibly submersibles
to go down and have a look,
because I'm pretty certain that
some of these rocky areas will
be ruins and that's the only way
we're gonna be able to prove
whether Plato was speaking the truth.
I'm exploring the
medieval city of Silves in
Southern Portugal with British
author Peter Daughtrey.
Peter believes that he has
matched 60 of Plato's 100 clues
that identify the legendary city
of Atlantis and he wants to
show me some of them.
You can see here now,
that... this town is on a small
hill, on a big, flat plane.
And the river you can see in the
distance there, is about nine
and a quarter kilometers from
where you can see it to the sea.
Which is the exact distance that
Plato said the town was
connected by a waterway.
So, this is the
place that, in your opinion, has
a whole bunch of clues...
I think it was... ...that match what
Plato was writing?
I think it was the
cap... I think it was the
capitol city he was talking about.
Atlantis had to be connected by
a tidal river, because he said
they built embankments and
canals around the town circling it.
They filled them with seawater,
so it had to be a tidal river.
Mm hmm.
The river runs past
the town; that's freshwater.
But that is seawater,
uh, it comes right up tidal to the town.
Twice a day, you see the river
will go... up and down.
The local geologist has done a,
uh, survey for the town and
proven that all around the town,
there was water at, um, at some stage.
How did Plato give his measurements?
Now, I heard it was something about stadia.
It's a Greek
measurement and it, and it comes
from, um, I think, "stadium."
The Greek stadium where they had
games and things, was a standard size.
It was equivalent to 185 meters.
But he gives specific
measurements for the size of this hill.
He says, it's less than a
kilometer wide, which this is.
Specific measurements from the
first canal, which butted up to
the walls of this town he said
that was one stadia wide.
Then, there was a larger earth
embankment that was two stadia
wide, then another canal that
was two stadia wide, then an
embankment that was three
stadia, and finally the harbor
area, which was three stadia.
The local archaeologist said,
yes, that's where they think the
harbor was.
It's very interesting.
In your opinion, how do you
think Atlantis was built?
Well, according to Plato, it was Poseidon.
So then, are there
any references around here that
speak of Poseidon?
There is a famous
Roman villa, where there's a big
mosaic, which is now in a
museum one of the best in
Europe of Poseidon.
According to the
ancient astronaut theory, these
so called "gods" were not gods
at all, but flesh and blood
extraterrestrials.
And if that's true, then
Atlantis may not have been a
continent, but some kind of an alien base.
Shall we go to the next spot?
Yup, let's move on.
Let's do it.
So, what does the word "God"
mean to you?
Well, Plato made it
clear, these gods were not some
superhuman, ethereal being.
They were flesh and blood.
They were just a little more,
um, advanced, intelligent.
Exactly.
And one of the reasons
for creating the race was,
these people would serve them.
I think it was built into us in
the DNA or gene.
It was added at the time we were
created to insure that the
people actually worshipped and
served these "gods."
So how do you think
this egg that we just saw plays
into that whole story?
I think the egg is
probably just commemorating that
and reminding people where they
came from, and this is where it
all started, here, at least
where Atlantis started.
Peter, thank you very much...
It's a pleasure.
...for sharing all this knowledge with me.
I mean, this was truly amazing,
so thank you very much.
Okay. Okay.
I appreciate that.
Let's head out.
Okay.
Wow, the clues Peter
has identified here have given
me a lot to think about.
Atlantis, to me, is highly
fascinating, because, in those
stories, you can read how
Poseidon sired an entire race
with mortal women.
That is what the ancient
astronaut theory suggests that
a long time ago, we became who
we are today due to a targeted
artificial mutation of our genes.
And that mutation was done and
performed by extraterrestrials.
I'm in the mountains
of Switzerland near Interlaken,
where I'm about to meet the one
and only Erich von Daniken, who
wrote Chariots of the Gods and
34 additional books challenging
human history and conventional archaeology.
Erich has invited me to Mystery
Park, an educational exhibition
dedicated to the ancient astronaut theory.
I've collaborated with Erich for
over 20 years, and whenever I
have a new theory, I always try
to run it by him to hear what
he has to say.
And this time, I'm here to talk
to him about Atlantis.
In your opinion, where do you
think the story for Atlantis came from?
The whole story which
we know from Atlantis comes from Plato.
Plato's two books, Timaeus and Critias.
And there, he quotes an older
man with the name Solon.
Even though the
Greek philosopher Plato wrote
the first account of Atlantis
that we know of, his account
actually revolves around Solon,
a great Greek legislator and
poet who journeyed to Egypt some
150 years earlier.
Plato writes that Solon was in
the Egyptian city of Sais in 590
BC, and while in a temple
dedicated to the goddess Neith,
he was told about a story
written on a temple column of
the Atlanteans and their
military campaign against
ancient Egypt and Greece.
Unfortunately, remains of this
temple have yet to be found.
We have some Sumerian
cuneiforms and Egyptian
hieroglyphs, but they don't date
back more than 2400 BC.
So, all what was before 2000 BC
is destroyed, disappeared,
probably because of the great flood.
And Plato, by the way, he says this.
He says that there were
destructions of the whole
planet, and everything disappeared.
In London, we have this stone
block called WB444; it's the
so called Sumerian Kings List.
The first ten kings before the
great flood they ruled
together over 400,000 years.
So, the story is definitely
older than the old Egypt Atlantis story.
In 1900, Hermann
Hilprecht excavated a temple
library in the ancient holy city
of Nippur, Iraq.
Within it, a 4,000 year old
cuneiform tablet was discovered
listing all the Sumerian kings
since the dawn of time.
Since then, at least 18 other
versions have been found.
Though none are identical, they
all seem to derive from one ideal source.
According to the Sumerian Kings
List, the early kings "descended
from the skies" and each ruled
for thousands of years.
Then, just as in the Book of
Genesis, and what some propose
was the fate of Atlantis, cities
were swallowed up, and the kings
who followed were mortals who
ruled for dozens, but no longer
for thousands of years.
While mainstream scholars
maintain that the Sumerian Kings
List is a mix of fact and
mythology, I tend to wonder,
what if it is real?
It could be evidence that the
so called gods or kings were, in
fact, extraterrestrials.
When I was in Portugal, I met
with author Peter Daughtrey, and
in his book, he proposed the
idea that maybe Atlantis was in
this place called Silves.
And one of the things that he
showed me was this megalithic egg.
And on it, it had almost what
could be interpreted as a DNA helix.
How do you propose that ancient
man knew about this DNA?
In old Sumerian times,
in old Egyptian times, they knew
nothing about genetic.
They knew nothing about DNA.
So, who were the teachers again?
Who told them?
It's always the same question.
We have Sumerian so called
"cylinder seals," and there you
see flying beings, humans with wings.
They, by the way, have always
watches on their arms.
And, you see, DNA has always four bases.
And if you see closer in the
so called Tree of Life, and the
two winged gods are changing out
some of these bases to create
something new.
They take one example of our
forefathers, they just take one
cell out of it, they change the
base in the one cell in the DNA
code, they plant the result into
the womb of a female of the same species.
After nine months this female
will give birth to a child.
The child has, of course, the
skeleton, the bone, the body of
the family tree.
But because of this artificial
mutation, something was changed
in the course of evolution.
And you can prove this even in
old writings.
My conversation with
Erich definitely blows my mind.
Because what he suggests is that
the story of Atlantis may date
back thousands of years before
Plato, and that the people who
lived there even had advanced
knowledge of genetics.
So as I'm looking at all these
different ideas for Atlantis, do
you think that Atlantis might've
been this culture that was not
just in one place, but that
maybe it was some type of an
empire, or a network of
Atlanteans that, uh, were in
different places?
Plato says it was an
island, and partly the island
was artificial.
But of course the people from
Atlantis, they had scientists,
they traveled, they leave their island.
So their knowledge has become
part of other societies.
Where do you recommend I go next?
Go to Santorini.
Make these pictures, hear,
listen around what they tell
about Atlantis and what they show you.
Perfect, I shall do that.
Thank you very much.
Now that I've spoken
with Erich, I am more convinced
than ever that I'm on the right path.
But if Atlantis was indeed an
advanced civilization that
passed on its technology and
knowledge to the local
population, what happened to it?
Was it destroyed by some natural
disaster like an earthquake or a volcano?
Or was it something else?
Something... out of this world?
For my last stop,
I've traveled to the Greek
island of Santorini, an island
in the Mediterranean.
It is all that remains of a much
larger landmass that was
destroyed by a huge volcanic
eruption thousands of years ago.
And there are many who believe
it to be the actual location of
the lost island of Atlantis.
At this point, I'm beginning to
think that there may be
something much more to the story
of Atlantis than anyone can imagine.
Something so incredible that I
myself can hardly believe it.
So, to help me explore my
theory, I'm meeting with Greek
writer and Atlantis
investigator Jonathan Bright.
I mean, perfect place to meet.
The most magical island in the world.
And I can't wait to find out
what you have to tell me.
So, what do you think happened
here to Santorini and when?
During the eruption, which happened around
1600 BC, this whole part went down.
What has convinced
many researchers that Santorini
was once the actual location of
Atlantis is its unique, semicircular shape.
But although it certainly bears
a similarity to Plato's
description of a circular
island, much of it appears to
have been destroyed by a volcano
thousands of years ago.
Our first stop on Santorini is
the ruins of the once wealthy
Minoan seaport of Akrotiri.
When the volcano here erupted
approximately 3,600 years ago,
Akrotiri was covered in ash and
preserved in time just like
Pompeii in Italy.
This is truly amazing.
Akrotiri was occupied as far
back as 4000 BC and the
ancient buildings here suggest
a highly advanced society
equipped with surprisingly
sophisticated technology for the time.
Three story high buildings
featuring hot and cold water,
and there's even evidence of
four different languages spoken here.
But could this really be Atlantis?
The mythical city that suddenly
vanished in a single day and night?
Do you know if any bodies were
found here, like for example, at
Pompeii, after the eruption of
the Vesuvius?
Yeah.
Has something
similar been found here in the ash?
There are no bodies that have been dug up
from this place.
Really?
No bodies have been dug up?
Yes. No, it's kind of a mystery here.
I mean, that's very strange.
It's as if they had
foresight that this eruption might happen.
Mm hmm.
The ruins of Akrotiri clearly show evidence
of advanced architecture,
concepts of an organized society
and perhaps even the knowledge
of a pending disaster that might
destroy the island.
What do you think are some of
the most interesting finds that
have been discovered here?
There are many
important frescos that have been
found in the walls.
I have some things to say about
this, but I would better show
you the proper place to say that.
Let's go.
As Jonathan and I are headed
over to see the Akrotiri
frescos, I was reminded of the
ancient legends about an
advanced race of supposedly
mythical beings called the Telchines.
According to Greek mythology,
the Telchines were sea creatures
with flippers for hands and
heads that looked like dogs.
They were eventually destroyed
because the so called gods
feared they were becoming too powerful.
But what makes the Telchines
particularly interesting is
that, according to legend, it
was they who raised Poseidon
from childhood and also used
their advanced metallurgy skills
to make his powerful trident.
Is it possible that these
hybrid beings have been the real
architects of Atlantis?
Really, really great.
The elaborate frescos at
Akrotiri are believed to date
from before 1600 BC.
Truly, something else.
Many depict city scenes
a goddess with a winged griffin
and even blue monkeys making offerings.
Very interesting.
But what really caught my eye
was one that featured a number
of mysterious men dressed in
feathers, almost like feather cloaks.
But were they priests?
Kings?
Or could they have been
depictions of angels or other
winged beings, like, for
example, the Anunnaki?
Had I found Atlantis after all?
Or something that may have been
directly inspired by it?
Nevertheless, one thing is
certain something powerful
definitely happened at Akrotiri.
The more pieces of the puzzle I
gather, the more I get to see
the full picture.
And I find it interesting that
once again, here in Santorini,
some things fit Plato's clues
about Atlantis... but some don't.
The final destination on my hunt for
Atlantis is the very top of the
island of Santorini.
It's a real hike, but the views
are definitely worth it...
and so are the mysterious
megaliths found there.
What would compel an ancient
people to build such a large
complex on top of a mountain?
Check out this wall right here.
We're on Santorini at the
highest peak in an ancient site
called Ancient Thera... and this
wall right here is, as you can
tell, massive.
Walls like this not only exist
in Greece... but in Italy... in Spain...
in Egypt... and halfway across the world in
Central and South America.
So the fact that this wall
exists here at one of the most
inaccessible places seems like
it is insane.
There had to have been a reason
why this is here.
And that is: what if those
stories of the Greek gods...
...descending from the skies
really, at some point, were true?
Further down the mountain, I met
once again with writer Jonathan
Bright and discovered that he
has an interesting take on how
Santorini might be linked to the
legend of Atlantis.
This place reminds
me of the Enochian story where... Mm hmm.
...in the beginning, we see that a group
of angels descends on the
summit of a mountain Mount
Hermon, the mythical mount
and, like Poseidon, we see in
Plato's story that did, and they
make children with them, they
begat children by them.
Mount Hermon is in
the Golan Heights, between
Israel and Lebanon.
According to the Book of Enoch,
a group of so called "watchers"
descended here and mated with local women.
And this is exactly the same
story Plato writes about
concerning Atlantis, where
Poseidon sired an entire race.
It happens also
that in the place that they call
the "Wheel of Giants" there is
a huge monument from 5,000 years
old now... Mm hmm.
...with concentric
circles and the high walls of
stones, and... the same
traditions that we see related to Atlantis.
That's very interesting, and, you know, and
of course, the legends that are
corresponding with this place up
here are very interesting, that
something significant, something
"sacred" happened up here a very
long time ago.
And they weren't angels in the
sense as we think of angels today.
Meeting with Jonathan and coming
to Santorini has helped me to
see Atlantis from a whole new perspective.
I'm starting to think that, what
if Plato's stories about
Atlantis are directly linked to
similar stories about the
arrival of the gods that appear
to have occurred on mountaintops
such as Mount Hermon and
other mountains all around the world?
I'm also reminded of the Greek
legend of Asteria, the Titan
goddess of falling stars.
In order to escape the advances
of Zeus, she turned into a quail
and then flung herself into the
sea, where she transformed into
a magical island.
Okay.
And if you learn
anything new in the hunt for
Atlantis, let me know.
And thank you very much... I will.
...for showing me
all these different places.
It's been a true honor.
Nice meeting you.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
What an amazing journey.
The hunt for Atlantis has taken
me to Athens, Portugal,
Switzerland and Santorini, an
island in the Mediterranean.
And I've had the chance to meet
with some really cool researchers.
But this last stop has me
convinced that the lost city
of Atlantis was probably not an
island at all, but maybe some
sort of a flying craft.
Perhaps this is why Atlantis has
been reported to have existed at
various locations around the globe...
why it seemingly disappeared in
one day and one night...
and why no evidence of it has
ever been found.
Could it be that the powerful
influence of the Atlantean
perhaps extraterrestrial
culture and highly advanced
technology inspired early humans
to copy them... to build cities on the same
spots where their craft once landed...
and even worship them as gods?
Of course, my theory will still
require more investigation and,
hopefully, proof.
The planet we live on is
billions of years old, but we
humans walk the earth for only an instant.
Shouldn't we spend our brief
time here asking questions?
What if we could discover
amazing things if only we would
just open our eyes, challenge
our minds, and pursue the truth?
In search of aliens.
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