Ancient Aliens -edith S22E06 Subtitles

At 00:00:02,042, Character said: Enormous
granite sarcophagi

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At 00:00:03,292, Character said: that weigh more than 70 tons,

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At 00:00:06,375, Character said: mysterious monoliths
inspired by flying crafts,

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At 00:00:11,208, Character said: and massive sphere-shaped stones
that defy explanation.

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At 00:00:33,042, Character said: I've always said,

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At 00:00:35,500, Character said: you know something is important
if it is built out of stone.

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At 00:00:39,667, Character said: Why? Because it could
potentially last

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At 00:00:42,625, Character said: for not just centuries
but millennia,

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At 00:00:46,458, Character said: and that's exactly what we see

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At 00:00:48,625, Character said: in remarkable
ancient constructions

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At 00:00:51,333, Character said: that have withstood
the test of time,

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At 00:00:54,208, Character said: but in addition
to the stone structures

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At 00:00:56,250, Character said: we see around the world, there
are also mysterious monuments,

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At 00:01:00,583, Character said: strange objects,

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At 00:01:02,250, Character said: and secret spaces
that defy explanation,

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At 00:01:07,125, Character said: like in the case
of a stone settlement

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At 00:01:09,417, Character said: that predates history
as we know it.

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At 00:01:17,125, Character said: Abu Shahrayn, Iraq.

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At 00:01:20,875, Character said: 6,000 years ago this ancient
mound was the site of Eridu,

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At 00:01:26,042, Character said: the oldest city
of the Sumerian empire.

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At 00:01:30,542, Character said: According
to mainstream archaeologists,

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At 00:01:33,500, Character said: this is the cradle
of civilization.

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At 00:01:36,375, Character said: Many
archaeologists will say

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At 00:01:38,125, Character said: civilization began
in Mesopotamia

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At 00:01:40,292, Character said: some 6,000 years ago.

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At 00:01:43,667, Character said: It is built on small bands
of hunter-gatherers

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At 00:01:48,167, Character said: who adopt agriculture.

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At 00:01:49,958, Character said: The population starts to grow,
and we begin to recognize,

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At 00:01:54,125, Character said: we need to organize

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At 00:01:55,667, Character said: our communities.

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At 00:01:57,500, Character said: You start seeing
these step-sided pyramids,

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At 00:02:01,542, Character said: where the religious practitioner

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At 00:02:04,208, Character said: might conduct his rites
or rituals and so on,

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At 00:02:08,125, Character said: and we have
an urban planning environment.

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At 00:02:11,625, Character said: That also means we've g***t
a lot of engineering going on,

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At 00:02:15,208, Character said: we have a lot of science,
a lot of mathematics.

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At 00:02:18,875, Character said: It has all of those elements
we would call a civilization.

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At 00:02:24,875, Character said: Many researchers
around the world believe

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At 00:02:27,500, Character said: there is evidence to suggest

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At 00:02:29,542, Character said: civilization existed on Earth
long before the Sumerians,

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At 00:02:33,625, Character said: and one key source
is the writing

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At 00:02:36,583, Character said: of the Sumerians themselves.

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At 00:02:38,750, Character said: Ancient cuneiform tablets
list kings

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At 00:02:42,208, Character said: who ruled tens of thousands
of years ago...

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At 00:02:45,750, Character said: ...and they tell
of an earlier age

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At 00:02:48,042, Character said: when humans lived
among powerful beings

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At 00:02:50,542, Character said: that came down from the sky
called the Anunnaki.

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At 00:02:55,833, Character said: The Anunnaki
were the builder gods

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At 00:02:58,667, Character said: behind the creation

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At 00:03:00,208, Character said: of the civilizations
of Sumer and Babylon.

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At 00:03:03,792, Character said: They provided humanity with
the rudiments of civilization.

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At 00:03:08,167, Character said: They gave humanity
animal husbandry

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At 00:03:11,875, Character said: but also agriculture
for the first time.

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At 00:03:16,625, Character said: The Sumerians
also wrote

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At 00:03:18,375, Character said: that the Anunnaki were
responsible for bringing

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At 00:03:21,250, Character said: a devastating cataclysm
upon the Earth...

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At 00:03:25,667, Character said: ...eerily similar to the story
that would later appear

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At 00:03:27,917, Character said: in the Hebrew Bible
as the Great Flood.

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At 00:03:31,667, Character said: While nearly identical stories
of a great deluge

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At 00:03:35,375, Character said: can be found
in the ancient texts

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At 00:03:37,208, Character said: of many religions and cultures,

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At 00:03:39,542, Character said: mainstream archaeologists
had argued

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At 00:03:42,250, Character said: that there was no evidence
of any civilization

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At 00:03:45,042, Character said: existing
more than 6,000 years ago

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At 00:03:47,208, Character said: to support the idea that such
a cataclysm actually took place.

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At 00:03:52,208, Character said: But in the early 1990s,

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At 00:03:55,417, Character said: Klaus Schmidt of the German
Archaeological Institute

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At 00:03:58,417, Character said: began excavations
at the ancient site

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At 00:04:01,292, Character said: of Göbekli Tepe
in Southeast Turkey,

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At 00:04:04,583, Character said: and what he unearthed
changed everything.

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At 00:04:10,417, Character said: Once Klaus Schmidt

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At 00:04:12,208, Character said: started excavating Göbekli Tepe,
it just blew everybody away

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At 00:04:15,042, Character said: because we'd never before known
or imagined even

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At 00:04:19,125, Character said: that people 12,000 years ago

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At 00:04:20,875, Character said: could produce such spectacular
monumental structures

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At 00:04:23,542, Character said: as he found at Göbekli Tepe.

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At 00:04:25,542, Character said: It is the first
archaeological site in the world

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At 00:04:29,875, Character said: that proves its age,
dating as far back

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At 00:04:34,167, Character said: as 12,000 years,
around 10,000 BC.

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At 00:04:39,208, Character said: The discovery
and the official acceptance

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At 00:04:42,125, Character said: of Göbekli Tepe's dating

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At 00:04:45,208, Character said: has changed
the history of archaeology.

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At 00:04:48,750, Character said: This is
indications

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At 00:04:50,958, Character said: of a major civilization

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At 00:04:54,042, Character said: at that remote time,

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At 00:04:56,208, Character said: a time when the standard
historians all along have said,

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At 00:05:00,042, Character said: "Well, no, civilization
didn't occur at that time.

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At 00:05:02,750, Character said: They were just simple hunter
and gatherers.

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At 00:05:05,667, Character said: They were primitive people."

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At 00:05:07,375, Character said: But we now have evidence
to the contrary.

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At 00:05:10,167, Character said: It really did send
shock waves

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At 00:05:12,125, Character said: through the whole world
of early prehistory

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At 00:05:14,125, Character said: because we have never,

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At 00:05:15,458, Character said: ever seen anything like this

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At 00:05:17,125, Character said: from anywhere in the world

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At 00:05:18,500, Character said: at that time, 12,000 years ago.

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At 00:05:22,292, Character said: Göbekli Tepe's

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At 00:05:23,875, Character said: nearly two dozen
enormous T-shaped pillars,

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At 00:05:26,417, Character said: some weighing more than 20 tons,

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At 00:05:29,625, Character said: feature numerous carvings

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At 00:05:31,375, Character said: that include depictions
of animals, human hands,

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At 00:05:36,417, Character said: and intricately designed
symbols.

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At 00:05:39,917, Character said: Archaeologists estimate
that it would have taken

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At 00:05:42,542, Character said: a team of 50 men an entire week

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At 00:05:44,958, Character said: to move just one of
the monolithic pillars

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At 00:05:47,500, Character said: from the limestone quarry

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At 00:05:49,292, Character said: to the top of the hill
where they stand today

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At 00:05:52,042, Character said: and over 300 hours
to carve the bas-reliefs.

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At 00:05:57,875, Character said: The structures seem
to reflect coordinated effort

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At 00:06:02,250, Character said: among significant numbers
of people,

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At 00:06:04,958, Character said: which is not how
we typically imagine

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At 00:06:07,917, Character said: hunter-gatherer societies, which
are usually smaller in size.

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At 00:06:12,583, Character said: For years
mainstream scholars maintained

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At 00:06:15,917, Character said: that Göbekli Tepe was
a completely unique site,

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At 00:06:19,292, Character said: and while highly impressive,

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At 00:06:21,583, Character said: it was not large enough
to constitute

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At 00:06:23,833, Character said: what would be considered
a civilization.

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At 00:06:26,583, Character said: But then, in 2004,
author Andrew Collins

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At 00:06:31,208, Character said: was shown photographs
of a location

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At 00:06:33,208, Character said: that looked remarkably similar
to parts of Göbekli Tepe.

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At 00:06:37,875, Character said: I was visiting
Göbekli Tepe, and some children

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At 00:06:40,708, Character said: came up to me
and showed me a picture

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At 00:06:43,875, Character said: of this T-shaped standing stone
with this snake along the side.

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At 00:06:49,625, Character said: And I thought,
"I've never seen this before.

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At 00:06:51,542, Character said: Wh-Where is this?"

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At 00:06:53,167, Character said: And it became clear that it was

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At 00:06:56,042, Character said: some unexcavated site
in the Tektek Mountains,

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At 00:07:00,542, Character said: which is about 25 miles

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