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NARRATOR: Sanliurfa, Turkey, June, 2017.
Author and researcher Andrew Collins
travels to the Sanliurfa Archeology and Mosaic Museum,
just 10 miles from Gobekli Tepe, to meet
with curator Taha Ozyavuz.
- Taha, I presume. - Welcome.
Nice to meet you.
NARRATOR: He is there to get an up close look at one
of the most mysterious stone structures
on Earth at the ancient site.
I think this is what we've come to see, here.
Right.
And the fact that we have three different figures
here, each of different sizes--
what do you think that represents?
Why do you think that it was damaged or destroyed
in this way in antiquity?
So somebody came along and deliberately destroyed it.
NARRATOR: If the stone column found at Gobekli Tepe
represents a genetic lineage, just why
were two of the figures deliberately defaced?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that perhaps it
was an attempt to obscure the truth about humankind's
other-worldly origins.
DAVID WILCOCK: What's curious about this totem pole is
that there is essentially a larger being,
perhaps an extraterrestrial, that
has its hands around this other being that isn't exactly human,
but has human-like characteristics.
Could be a primitive human.
This figure appears to be giving birth.
And the baby that is emerging from this mother's womb
is clearly a human baby with a human face.
This suggests, possibly, that a breeding experiment took place,
leading to the development of modern humans
as we now know them.
WILLIAM HENRY: The interesting thing about this
is that totem poles are like the repository for information.
It's an encyclopedia.
It's like a time capsule.
And so if we have a genealogical record in this pillar
at Gobekli Tepe, and we follow the ultimate extension of it,
and we realize that what they're possibly telling
us is their ancestors were non-human.
DAVID CHILDRESS: So you have to wonder.
The whole idea was to preserve information
from our extraterrestrial past so
that future generations would ultimately decode
the information that's there.
Information, possibly, about our extraterrestrial creators.