NARRATOR: Southeastern Turkey, buried beneath 20 feet of sand,
archaeologists unearth the world's oldest temple complex--
Gobekli Tepe.
Radiocarbon dating suggests that the site dates back
to at least the 10th century BC, a time before the end
of the last ice age and 6,000 years
before prehistoric man was said to have developed language.
Gobekli Tepe is really one of the greatest
archaeological discoveries of all time.
There are very few finds in archeology
that really changed the whole way we look at the past.
And that is essentially what has happened.
Because our view of hunter-gatherers
has changed enormously.
We now know they were capable of coming together
in large numbers with under, presumably,
some kind of authority to cooperate on massive projects,
such as Gobekli Tepe, which involved bringing
huge pieces of stone from quite some distance away,
carving it beautifully, setting these pillars upright,
and doing this on a massive scale.
The very first temples in the world are at Gobekli Tepe.
And this, in many ways, changes everything.
Because here we have the smoking gun of a lost civilization.
It confirms to us absolutely that at the end
of the last ice age, there was high culture
existing in the world.
There's no doubt in my mind that there are question marks
all around the ancient world.
And Gobekli Tepe offers such a giant question mark
because, according to mainstream science,
we were sitting in caves, munching on bananas.
And clearly, that isn't the case.
NARRATOR: Although to date, archaeologists have only
excavated less than one acre of this 22-acre site, what
they have found is astounding--
the remains of a complex of buildings, massive walls,
and T-shaped stone formations, some, 9 to 10 feet tall
and weighing up to 50 tons.
Many of the stone pillars are covered
with relief carvings of animals, reptiles, and insects.
Archaeologists have also found figures
at the site that appear to represent humans with strangely
stylized clothing.
We have no idea what these humans represent.
We suspect that these are not just simple statues
commemorating people.
They could be gods.
They could be spirits.
They could be an ancestors, something of that kind.
NARRATOR: But perhaps most intriguing
is a life-size statue found just six miles away
that has been dated to the same period, the Urfa Man.
This looks like a person who has come
from an advanced civilization, who's wearing something that
has much more of a defined collar,
possibly even some sort of advanced space suit.
What the heck is he doing there?
His face looks strange.
He's bald.
His head, his eyes look weird.
There's something unusual about this guy.
And that could be a clue that leads
us into the mystery of an antediluvian
or pre-flood civilization.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange humanoid figure
found near Gobekli Tepe actually represents an extraterrestrial,
a being from a lost civilization that existed on Earth sometime
before the last ice age?
If so, does it give credence to other ancient stories
describing other worldly civilizations that
once existed here on Earth?
All over the world, we have giant statues and carvings
of people's faces and heads.
Some of them are giant colossal heads,
like the Olmec colossal heads.
Others are the Easter-Island-type statues,
which are huge and depict people who have elongated heads.
They're cone heads, essentially.
They were giants of yore, with godlike powers.
In my mind, we would call them extraterrestrials.
There is this recessed courtyard in Tiwanaku that
has all these different faces.
These stones were found underneath the soil,
meaning that at some point, some type of event
happened that buried these particular stones.
Some have actually surmised that they represent some type
of a pre-flood civilization, that what we have here is,
in fact, a remnant that depicts that society.