Ancient Aliens - s07e00 - Faces of the Gods --Aired 25 Jul. 2014 Subtitles

At 00:00:02,163, Character said: NARRATOR: Giants.

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At 00:00:03,660, Character said: They found up to 40 or 50 people

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At 00:00:07,140, Character said: inside this cave.

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At 00:00:09,322, Character said: One was allegedly seven
feet, seven inches tall.

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At 00:00:13,921, Character said: Grey-skinned creatures.

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At 00:00:16,100, Character said: Essentially humanoid but, with
disproportionately large heads

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At 00:00:20,248, Character said: and huge black almond-shaped eyes.

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At 00:00:23,180, Character said: And beings, with god-like powers.

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At 00:00:25,730, Character said: This was a person who was
a little more than human.

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At 00:00:28,897, Character said: Throughout history,

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At 00:00:30,437, Character said: there have been stories of strange
beings and fantastic creatures.

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At 00:00:36,123, Character said: But could they be more than just myth?

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At 00:00:39,449, Character said: GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: In my opinion,
these people were misinterpreted

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At 00:00:42,622, Character said: flesh-and-blood space travelers.

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At 00:00:45,978, Character said: NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

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At 00:00:48,374, Character said: believe we have been visited in
the past by extraterrestrial beings.

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At 00:00:53,402, Character said: What if it were true?

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At 00:00:56,233, Character said: Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

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At 00:01:01,280, Character said: And if so,

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At 00:01:02,472, Character said: might we find proof by
examining the faces of the gods?

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At 00:01:20,140, Character said: - synced and corrected by chamallow -
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At 00:01:42,444, Character said: NARRATOR: Cahuachi, Peru.

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At 00:01:47,355, Character said: 2,000 years ago,

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At 00:01:49,537, Character said: this ancient settlement served as
the religious and cultural capitol

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At 00:01:53,370, Character said: of the Nazca people.

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At 00:01:57,671, Character said: But sometime around 500 AD,

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At 00:02:00,588, Character said: the Nazca mysteriously disappeared,

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At 00:02:03,317, Character said: leaving Cahuachi to fall into disarray.

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At 00:02:08,135, Character said: 1,400 years later, in 1910,

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At 00:02:12,217, Character said: anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka

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At 00:02:14,657, Character said: came to Cahuachi to study the
ancient Nazca civilization.

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At 00:02:19,936, Character said: During a dig,

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At 00:02:21,719, Character said: he unearthed some of the most surprising
and shocking artifacts he had ever seen.

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At 00:02:31,425, Character said: They were skulls

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At 00:02:34,271, Character said: with enormous, elongated craniums.

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At 00:02:39,628, Character said: Where did they come from?

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At 00:02:41,937, Character said: How did they get there?
And were they human?

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At 00:02:46,744, Character said: DAVID CHILDRESS: In Peru, we find
these weird, elongated skulls.

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At 00:02:52,899, Character said: And they're bizarre-looking.

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At 00:02:54,986, Character said: I mean, and... and these
people look like aliens.

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At 00:03:03,652, Character said: ROBERT SCHOCH: One may say, "Okay, aliens,"

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At 00:03:06,257, Character said: but another aspect that we
have to consider is that skull

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At 00:03:11,374, Character said: and cranial deformation,
forming elongated heads,

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At 00:03:15,720, Character said: is a practice that's known
throughout much of the ancient world.

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At 00:03:22,700, Character said: NARRATOR: In 1870,

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At 00:03:24,180, Character said: the process of skull deformation

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At 00:03:26,522, Character said: was well chronicled by a
German botanist and explorer

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At 00:03:29,938, Character said: named Georg Schweinfurth.

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At 00:03:32,549, Character said: While exploring the African Congo,

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At 00:03:35,360, Character said: he came in contact with a
tribe called the Mangbetu.

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At 00:03:39,103, Character said: They routinely performed
a ritual of cranial binding

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At 00:03:42,872, Character said: that allowed them to physically
alter the shape of human skulls.

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At 00:03:49,300, Character said: CHILDRESS: They took infants' skulls
and compressed them and bound them,

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At 00:03:55,853, Character said: and they forced the
cranium out and elongate it.

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At 00:04:00,428, Character said: And in many cases they doubled the size.

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At 00:04:06,280, Character said: SCHOCH: And a big question
is why was this being done?

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At 00:04:11,479, Character said: It may have been a way to distinguish the
elite, perhaps, from the everyday people.

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At 00:04:18,392, Character said: May have been a social
stratification type of issue.

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At 00:04:22,638, Character said: Something that also appeals to
me is that may have been a way

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At 00:04:26,909, Character said: to express, physically, and
maybe try to achieve, physically,

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At 00:04:32,766, Character said: greater levels of consciousness,
or higher levels of mental ability.

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At 00:04:38,845, Character said: GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, they
did this in order to mimic the gods.

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At 00:04:46,218, Character said: And those gods were physical beings,

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At 00:04:50,113, Character said: because if they were just a figment
of our ancestors' imagination,

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At 00:04:54,589, Character said: I don't think that's a compelling
enough reason to expose your children

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At 00:05:00,155, Character said: to such a ritual to
achieve that type of look.

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At 00:05:05,566, Character said: And in my opinion, these... these people were
misinterpreted flesh-and-blood space travelers.

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At 00:05:12,214, Character said: SCHOCH: Some people have suggested
aliens had elongated skulls and,

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At 00:05:16,578, Character said: apparently, ancient peoples
are mimicking those skulls.

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At 00:05:21,153, Character said: The old saying is that

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At 00:05:22,756, Character said: "imitation is the
sincerest form of flattery."

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At 00:05:28,896, Character said: NARRATOR: Although there have been
many images that attempt to depict

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At 00:05:32,102, Character said: what aliens might actually look like,

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At 00:05:34,568, Character said: one in particular has come to
dominate the public perception.

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At 00:05:38,719, Character said: It, too, features an elongated cranium,

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At 00:05:42,840, Character said: and is associated with an extraterrestrial
race that many refer to as the Greys.

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At 00:05:50,309, Character said: NICK POPE: In terms of entities, one very
common description are the so-called Greys.

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At 00:05:56,570, Character said: Three-and-a-half, four feet tall.

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At 00:05:58,301, Character said: Essentially humanoid but, uh, very spindly

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At 00:06:01,853, Character said: with disproportionately large heads
and huge black almond-shaped eyes.

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At 00:06:09,307, Character said: NARRATOR: But would someone
in a primitive society

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At 00:06:12,193, Character said: really want to replicate this
look and deform their skull?

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At 00:06:16,800, Character said: Some archeologists have
a different perspective.

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At 00:06:20,642, Character said: They point to artistic self-expression
as an explanation of these customs.

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At 00:06:25,801, Character said: ROBERT CARGILL: There are all
kinds of people that... that

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At 00:06:28,561, Character said: either worship the body,
or use the body as art,

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At 00:06:32,720, Character said: be it a tattoo or piercing of some sort,

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At 00:06:35,280, Character said: uh, or tribes that... that,
uh, put things in their ears

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At 00:06:38,273, Character said: or on their lips to try, to... to
try to grow parts of their body.

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At 00:06:41,532, Character said: Some societies we know practiced
binding parts of the body,

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At 00:06:45,812, Character said: feet or heads, and... and
try to make certain shapes,

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At 00:06:48,393, Character said: and this was done for whatever reason.

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At 00:06:50,223, Character said: We know today that this isn't
usually the most healthy thing to do,

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At 00:06:52,969, Character said: but it doesn't mean people don't do it.

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At 00:06:54,490, Character said: The people are always trying to change
their body to make it look a certain way.

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At 00:07:03,610, Character said: NARRATOR: Whatever the explanation
may be for these rituals,

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At 00:07:06,578, Character said: they are not just found in
Peru and the African Congo.

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At 00:07:10,312, Character said: Skull deformation is a global phenomenon.

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At 00:07:13,854, Character said: CHILDRESS: What's really strange

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At 00:07:15,888, Character said: is that this is found all over the world.

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At 00:07:20,850, Character said: And this is something that
archaeologists cannot easily explain.

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At 00:07:24,958, Character said: Because for people on remote islands,

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At 00:07:28,562, Character said: for people in South America,
or Malta, or in Africa,

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At 00:07:32,561, Character said: to suddenly, independently,

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At 00:07:34,905, Character said: do this cranial deformation
like this, seems incredible.

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At 00:07:41,868, Character said: I mean, this is something
that had to be learned;

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At 00:07:46,235, Character said: something that was taught to them.

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At 00:07:51,222, Character said: SCHOCH: We seem to have basic similarities,

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At 00:07:55,570, Character said: as if there was one
civilization or at least

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At 00:07:58,540, Character said: one type of culture that

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At 00:08:00,601, Character said: that was influencing
people around the world.

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At 00:08:06,444, Character said: I find it more and more difficult to believe
what I was taught as an undergraduate, that

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At 00:08:12,810, Character said: all these different
cultures just coincidentally

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At 00:08:16,361, Character said: came up with the same concepts,

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At 00:08:19,676, Character said: independently of each other.

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At 00:08:26,345, Character said: NARRATOR: Could it be
that the elongated skulls

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At 00:08:29,148, Character said: found throughout the world

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At 00:08:31,570, Character said: are really the result of ancient humans

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At 00:08:33,916, Character said: trying to emulate the appearance
of otherworldly visitors?

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At 00:08:38,540, Character said: Or could they really be the
skulls of extraterrestrials?

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At 00:08:44,770, Character said: Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further clues can be found

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