Summary[]
Could the ancient ruins of Sardinia, Italy hold clues to an extraterrestrial past? Oak Island treasure hunter Marty Lagina and Ancient Astronaut theorist Giorgio A. Tsoukalos explore the bizarre statues, mysterious pyramids and gigantic structures left behind by one of the most mysterious cultures in the ancient world.[1]
Synopsis[]
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NARRATOR: Bizarre
ANDREW COLLINS: They have these very strange, circular eyes.
NARRATOR: Mysterious
JASON MARTELL: This pyramid almost looks like a large launch ramp on top of a platform.
NARRATOR: Gigantic
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Look at the size of these blocks. I mean, that one right there is a minimum of one ton.
NARRATOR: But are they extraterrestrial?
TIMOTHY ALBERINO: There was something very unusual happening on this island.
NARRATOR: Oak Island treasure hunter Marty Lagina
MARTY LAGINA: The effort to create this is extraordinary.
NARRATOR: joins ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
LAGINA: What do you think that represents?
TSOUKALOS: It could be some type of a flying craft.
NARRATOR: for a sky high exploration of one of the most unusual places on Earth.
DAVID CHILDRESS: It's possible that Sardinia was the epicenter for giants in the ancient world.
NARRATOR: Will Marty help Giorgio solve a centuries-old mystery?
TSOUKALOS: Look at this. It's a perfect circle.
LAGINA: This is spectacular.
NARRATOR: And will Marty return home convinced that aliens really do exist?
LAGINA: I am literally wowed by this. Someone or some ones had extraordinary knowledge.[2]
Act 1[]
1:36
Sardinia, Italy. 2,000 years ago, Sardinia was home to a mysterious megalithic culture called the "Nuragic civilization." There are tens of thousands of megalithic stone towers called "nuraghe," tombs of the giants and even a pyramid. Giorgio Tsoukalos traveled to Sardinia in May of 2018 to meet with Oak Island treasure hunter Marty Lagina. According to ancient astronaut theory, the gods mated with women of Earth, producing giants.
Giants of Mont'e Prama
Giorgio and Marty visit the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari. On display are stone statues called the Giants of Mont'e Prama. In 1974, archaeologists recovered over 5,000 broken remnants from a farmer's field. Mainstream historians say the statues were carved by the Nuragic people, who inhabited the island for 2,000 years from 1800 BC until 200 AD. The circular disc eyes give the statues the appearance of robots. The statues were found at Mont'e Prama, and are seven and a half to eight feet tall. They were not displayed at the museum until the year 2000. The statues do not conform to the conventional archaeological narrative on the island, indicating something unusual.
Giorgio and Marty meet with tour guide Maria Paola Loi. Giorgio compares the Giganti statues to the giant-eyed statues in Tell Asmar from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian times. Archeologists say the Nuragic people probably arrived from Mesopotamia, implying connection to the Anunnaki. Language connections between Sardinia and Mesopotamia suggest the Sardinians came from Mesopotamia, and brought traditions of the Anunnaki. Wall reliefs depict the Anunnaki as larger beings of greater stature than other Sumerian human beings. The Sardinian giant statues could be depicting the Anunnaki.
Act 2[]
9:57
"Cyclopean architecture" - only a Cyclops could have lifted the massive boulders into place
The architecture of the island is called "cyclopean" because only a Cyclops could have built it. The Greek epic, The Odyssey tells of a Cyclops named Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. The Cyclops were a legendary race of one-eyed giants. The massive towers in Greece and Sardinia are thought to have been built by the Cyclops, who were the only ones strong enough to lift the giant boulders into place.
Sa Domu e S'orcu: A Tomb of the Giants
Giorgio and Marty, along with guide Ivana Malu, travel to the town of Siddi to visit Sa Domu e S'orcu: A Tomb of the Giants. There are over 800 such structures on the island. Although no bones were found in Sa Domu e S'orcu, many other of the tombs did contain human remains. Archeologists say that giants could not fit in the tombs, although they are big enough for a nine to 12 foot giant. Timothy Alberino says that the giants were buried underneath the tombs, and the edifice raised above. In 1953, two over eight-foot-tall skeletons were discovered, along with other artifacts.
Giorgio, Marty and Ivana enter the tomb, where the largest stone is 12 tons. Alberino describes what the Nuragic culture called the "rite of incubation", where people would stay overnight in the tomb above the buried giants to absorb their power, prowess, and might. The theorists speculate on the planning, motivation, and possible extraterrestrial origin of giants that inhabited Sardinia.
Act 3[]
17:26
There are more than 10,000 standing stones known as menhirs throughout Europe, and hundreds on Sardinia. Giorgio Tsoukalos, Marty Lagina, and Ivana Malu meet at the Menhir Museum in Laconi. The relief carvings on the stones look like a winged being or angel going down, possibly "the watchers" from the Bible. Mainstream archeology interprets the spear shape below the winged being on the menhir as a dagger, but Giorgio interprets it as a flying craft.
Nephilim, the Mighty Ones of Old -- Biblical giant mutant offspring of the "watchers" and human women
The watchers were angels sent by God to watch over mankind. The watchers mated with human women producing a race of giant mutants known as Nephilim, the "mighty ones of old", who caused havoc and led God to bring the flood. There are ancient legends that there were others besides Noah and his family who survived the flood in other places. Sardinia may have been a refuge for the Nephilim.
The stepped pyramid known as Monte d'Accoddi
Giorgio and Marty take a helicopter to view the ancient structures from the sky. The stepped pyramid known as Monte d'Accoddi was built around 4000 BC. The stepped pyramid resembles a ziggurat in Mesopotamia or the Canary Island of Tenerife. Monte d'Accoddi was exposed to fire, and covered with earth around 2800 BC. Jason Martell speculates that the structure was used as a loading dock for spacecraft. The ancient structures on Sardinia may have been built by a race of extraterrestrial, or by early humans who mimicked extraterrestrial activity. The answers might be found in a structure built to track celestial events.
Act 4[]
24:30
Stonework of the Well of Santa Cristina appears modern, but is 3,000 years old.
Paulilatino, Sardinia, May 2018. Giorgio Tsoukalos, Marty Lagina, and guide Ivana Malu meet with archeoastronomer Mauro Peppino Zeddato at the sacred Well of Santa Cristina, which was built about 1800 BC to track a rare celestial event. Although the stones are perfectly cut, giving the appearance of modern construction, the well is 3,000 years old. Giorgio believes that the well's stonework and its connection to celestial events indicate that a race of extraterrestrial giants inhabited the island.
The group enters the well, noting the perfection of its construction. The cupola was built to observe the Moon at Its maximum, every 18.6 years, when the full moon reflects its light in the water. The event, called "The Lunar Standstill," is when the moon is at its highest point in the sky. It is a mystery how an ancient civilization without mathematics or written language could plan and construct such a precise method of tracking such a rare lunar cycle. Giorgio and Marty agree that extraordinary knowledge was required to build the structure. Someone may have given the ancient Sardinians advanced engineering knowledge. Giorgio believes the engineering knowledge was given to the local culture by extraterrestrials, because the legends and statuary indicate someone descending from the sky.
More answers could be found in the Biblical story of the Nephilim, offspring of angels and human women. The Nephilim studied astronomy, celestial cycles, architecture. The Nephilim could have taught humanity the knowledge of the 18.61-year lunar cycle, and the knowledge could have been brought to Sardinia. The Bible says the Nephilim were destroyed in the flood, but that some survived. The survivors may have moved to Sardinia, founding a Moon-worshipping culture with the ancient Nuragic people. Other structures in Sardinia point to origins of the Nephilim.
Act 5[]
31:33
Sardinia has thousands of megalithic towers, known as nuraghe, constructed using colossal stones without the use of mortar. The conventional narrative of the towers is that they were constructed as fortifications. There is no explanation of how an agrarian culture could have built 30,000 towers. Giorgio Tsoukalos, Marty Lagina, and guide Ivana Malu visit the nuraghe of Santu Antine. Giorgio recalls connections suggested of the nuraghe to the Pleiades constellation.
Seven Nuraghe correlate with the stars of the Pleiades.
Italian archaeologist Augusto Mulas wrote that the Pleiades constellation was an important part of ancient Babylonian and other religions. Ancient astronaut theorists suggest a connection between the Pleiades constellation and ancient Babylonian stories of the Anunnaki and the "watchers" in the Bible. The Pleiades is a special constellation to the Maya, the Cherokee, and others as the place of origin of our creators. They believe that beings have been travelling to and from the Pleiades for millennia. Theorists speculate that the Nuragic people perhaps were in contact with beings from the Pleiades. The nuraghe towers may have been a star map, showing where the extraterrestrials came from. The race of giants on Sardinia could have been the Nephilim, who survived the Great Flood.
Act 6[]
36:43
The stories of giants on Sardinia have persisted for centuries with little physical evidence. In 1979, giant bones were discovered during excavations. Excavations of Nuragic ruins in the town of Sardara, underneath the Church of Sant'Anastasia have revealed skeletons of giants from nine to 12 feet tall. The bones of the giants disappeared overnight after their discovery. Hundreds of other excavated bones of giants have also been secreted away. Giorgio and Marty had been promised access to a giant bone, but the offer was rescinded, implying censorship.
Giorgio and Marty discussing the trip
Marty discusses the trip with Giorgio, who is convinced that our ancestors were all taught by the same teachers. Giorgio says the ancient astronaut theory is proven with a conglomeration of evidence, as supported on Sardinia by the structures, stories and statues. Marty is ambivalent but intrigued by the theories. Sardinia may yet contain the remains of a race of ancient giant human-extraterrestrial hybrids.
Contributors[]
- Hugh Newman - Author, Earth Grids
- Timothy Alberino - Giants Researcher
- Giorgio A Tsoukalos - Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine
- Marty Lagina - Oak Island Treasure Hunter
- Jason Osequeda, Ph. D. - Mediterranean Historian
- Andrew Collins - Author, The Cygnus Key
- Maria Paola Loi - Archaeological Guide
- Jason Martell - Alien Investigator; Author, Knowledge Apocalypse
- Jonathan Young, Ph. D. - Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives
- Ivana Malu - Archaeological Guide
- Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok - Founder, Koshertorah School
- David Childress - Author, Technology of the Gods
- Mauro Peppina Zedda - Author, Astronomy in Prehistoric Sardinia
- William Henry - Author / Investigative Mythologist
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References[]
Astronomy[]
- Lunar Standstill; Pleiades
Gods[]
- Polyphemus; Poseidon
Literature[]
- Holy Bible; The Odyssey
Locations[]
- Laconi; Mesopotamia; Menhir Museum; National Archaeological Museum; Oak Island; Paulilatino, Sardinia; Sardara; Sardinia, Italy; Siddi; Tell Asmar; Tenerife
Lost Civilizations[]
- Babylonia; Cherokee; Maya; Nuragic civilization; Sumeria
Mythology[]
- Great Flood; rite of incubation
Out of Place Artifacts[]
- menhir; Giants of Mont'e Prama
People, Contemporary[]
- Augusto Mulas; Jason Martell; Giorgio Tsoukalos; Marty Lagina
People, Historical[]
Structures[]
- Church of Sant'Anastasia; Cyclopean; Monte d'Accoddi; Nuraghe; nuraghe of Santu Antine; Sa Domu e S'orcu; Well of Santa Cristina
Supernatural Races[]
External Links[]
| Information | At Website |
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| Island of the Giants | History Channel |
| Island of the Giants | IMDB |
| Season 13 (2018) | Wikipedia |
| Island of the Giants | Springfield! Springfield! |
| Island of the Giants | Dailymotion |
Sources[]
- ↑ "Island of the Giants". History.com. Retrieved Saturday, July 28, 2018.
- ↑ "Ancient Aliens s13e08 Episode Script Island Of The Giants". springfieldspringfield.co.uk. Retrieved Saturday, August 4, 2018.
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