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  • NARRATOR: Sindh Province, Pakistan, 1922.

  • An officer of the Archaeological Survey of India

  • is led by a Buddhist monk to an area believed to have

  • been a religious monument.

  • But under the mounds of dirt, archaeologists

  • find instead an ancient Indus Valley

  • city dating back to 2000 BC.

  • It is called Monhenjo-daro, or Mound of the Dead,

  • and it is one of the oldest civilizations

  • discovered in the world.

  • The city of Monhenjo-daro rivaled

  • the ancient civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

  • Archaeologists believe that over 35,000

  • people once occupied the city.

  • However, only 43 skeletons have been discovered at the site.

  • There are many theories surrounding

  • the mysterious disappearance of the Indus people

  • from Monhenjo-daro.

  • In 1977, British researcher David Davenport

  • discovered that part of the archaeological site

  • showed evidence of having been destroyed by an extremely

  • powerful explosion.

  • NARRATOR: In 2014, mineralogist Dr. Sam Iyengar

  • was able to obtain a piece of fused pottery

  • from Monhenjo-daro and put it through a series of tests.

  • When I did the elemental analysis,

  • it showed me that the Monhenjo-daro rock

  • contained mostly silicon, aluminum, with

  • some calcium and potassium.

  • So my thought was maybe it could be some type of a clay--

  • until I did the X-ray diffraction.

  • NARRATOR: X-ray diffraction is able to determine exactly

  • how a material was formed.

  • This is the pattern I got, and you

  • can see some crystalline peaks here

  • along with an amorphous hump, which

  • usually results from a glassy phase in the rock.

  • The composition is very similar to volcanic rock.

  • The only way the clay can be converted into something which

  • we saw is subjecting the clays to a very,

  • very high temperature.

  • I'm talking 4,000 to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • That is not something an early civilization

  • can do intentionally.

  • It has to be something supernatural.

  • NARRATOR: Could this pottery sample,

  • which shows irrefutable evidence of having been subjected

  • to extreme heat, be definitive evidence that Monhenjo-daro

  • really was the site of some type of powerful explosion

  • in the ancient past?

  • David Davenport and other researchers

  • of India's ancient Vedic texts have suggested

  • that this is the case, and that Monhenjo-daro may in fact be

  • the kingdom of Lanka, a city whose destruction

  • is detailed in the Indian epic known as the Ramayana.

  • In the Ramayana, it is described that the god Vishnu decides

  • the leader of Lanka, a mortal named Ravana,

  • has grown too powerful.

  • Vishnu takes the human form of Rama

  • and does battle with Ravana, who has become like the gods

  • himself.

  • It was described as the sun turning

  • into 50 even more brighter suns with this incredible blast.

  • So some people have suggested that perhaps

  • at Monhenjo-daro, some type of a nuclear blast occurred.

  • Not only do we have a textual reference

  • to a possible nuclear blast, but we

  • also find physical evidence that show vitrification of stone.

  • And the only way that stone can be vitrified

  • is if it's exposed to extreme heat.

  • I happen to believe that mankind possessed

  • incredible technology, incredible knowledge,

  • and that they did things that we're doing right now.

  • And then something happened, and they had to literally

  • start all over again.

  • Whoever got involved said, uh-uh,

  • that's not going to happen.

  • Let's let them have knowledge, but not too much knowledge.

  • And I think that's probably what's happening here.

  • These extraterrestrials wouldn't want us to have access

  • to these advanced technologies and essentially become like

  • gods, but they may have a keen interest in, A,

  • following some sort of prime directive--

  • so they don't openly interfere with us so that

  • everybody knows they exist--

  • but B, also making sure that we don't destroy the planet.

NARRATOR: Sindh Province, Pakistan, 1922.

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