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Ancient Astronauts

Ancient Astronauts

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What if the gods of ancient myth were never gods at all? Ancient Astronauts explores the theory that advanced extraterrestrial beings influenced early human civilization. Hosted by Ben Carter, each episode investigates ancient temples, sacred texts, unexplained artifacts, and cosmic alignments through a structured, documentary-style approach. Examining the evidence, patterns, and records, the series explores ideas often linked to conspiracy theories and forbidden knowledge. Unlock bonus content and full video episodes:
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Episodes
  • The Ancient UFO Battle Over Nuremberg: What Appeared in the Sky in 1561?

    The Ancient UFO Battle Over Nuremberg: What Appeared in the Sky in 1561?
    Aug 18 2026
    On April 14, 1561, Hans Glaser published an illustrated broadsheet describing a disturbing sunrise spectacle over Nuremberg, then a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire. The surviving print depicts colored spheres, crosses, crescents, elongated rods, and a huge dark spear-like form near the sun. Its accompanying text describes movement, apparent conflict, smoke, and forms that appeared to descend.
    To modern UFO and ancient-astronaut readers, the scene can resemble structured aerial activity: cylindrical forms associated with smaller spheres, maneuvering objects, and an enormous dark object beyond the main display. But the evidence is one surviving sixteenth-century broadsheet, preserved at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, combining an authored woodcut, a narrative report, and a religious warning.
    Glaser interpreted the event as a sign from God. A frequently proposed natural explanation involves solar halos and parhelia, optical effects produced by sunlight and high-altitude ice crystals. Yet not every dramatic element of the account maps neatly onto that hypothesis. Five years later, a comparable illustrated report from Basel described dark or fiery circular forms appearing to fight near the sun.
    What did the people of Nuremberg believe they saw at sunrise: an extraordinary atmospheric display shaped by Renaissance imagery, or an unknown event described with the only vocabulary available in 1561?
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #AncientAstronauts #AncientAstronautsHistoricalUfoEncountersAncientS #Nuremberg1561 #AncientUFOBattle #HansGlaser
    YES OR NO: Could the Nuremberg event have involved genuinely unknown aerial technology??????


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    26 mins
  • Skulls of the Gods: Why Did Ancient People Reshape Their Heads?

    Skulls of the Gods: Why Did Ancient People Reshape Their Heads?
    Aug 11 2026
    In 1928, Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello excavated the Wari Kayan necropolis on the Paracas Peninsula and documented hundreds of mummy bundles and burials. Among the remains were strikingly modified crania, some so elongated that they later became central to claims about lost civilizations, divine bloodlines, and ancient visitors from the sky.
    The archaeological record establishes that intentional cranial modification occurred in many societies. Infants’ heads were shaped with bands, cloth, boards, or cradle systems while cranial bones were still growing. The methods could produce flattened foreheads, high conical vaults, and elongated forms that appear startling to modern eyes.
    But the physical process does not fully explain the cultural motive. In the Andes, Mesoamerica, Central Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, altered skull shapes could mark identity, ancestry, status, beauty, migration, or ritual affiliation. Ancient-astronaut interpretations add another possibility: that some communities were copying the appearance of revered beings remembered as gods.
    This episode follows the evidence from Tello’s documented Paracas excavations to osteological analysis, ancient DNA, isotopes, Amarna art, and the unresolved question of what these dramatic head shapes meant to the people who created them.
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #AncientAstronauts #AncientAstronautsAncientMysteriesArchaeologyHuma #ArtificialCranialDeformation #ElongatedSkulls #ParacasSkulls
    YES OR NO: Did some ancient communities reshape skulls to imitate beings they considered divine??????

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    25 mins
  • The Ubaid Lizard People: Who Were the Reptilian Figures of Ancient Mesopotamia?

    The Ubaid Lizard People: Who Were the Reptilian Figures of Ancient Mesopotamia?
    Aug 4 2026
    Seven thousand years ago, in the Ubaid period of southern Mesopotamia, artists made small terracotta figures with human bodies and long, slant-eyed heads that modern museum catalogs describe as lizardlike or reptilian. Found at sites including Ur and Tell al-Ubaid, and echoed by related discoveries across the Mesopotamian-Gulf world, these figures predate the best-known Sumerian city-states and appear before readable writing can explain them. Some show female anatomy, painted ornaments, dark bitumen hair, hands on hips, and one of the most provocative forms: an adult carrying or nursing a child with the same strange head.
    Ancient-astronaut proponents argue that the Ubaid figurines may preserve memories of nonhuman beings, divine visitors, or a reptilian-looking population remembered before later Mesopotamian mythology took written form. They cite the large almond-shaped eyes, elongated skulls, narrow faces, and mother-and-child imagery as evidence that the artists were not merely inventing monsters.
    The strongest conventional explanations point to ritual masks, artistic stylization, divine or ancestral imagery, serpent symbolism, fertility and protection, or possibly culturally valued head forms. Yet no surviving Ubaid text names the figures, and no biological evidence identifies a nonhuman species. The central question remains: were these sacred symbols, masked humans, remembered ancestors, or something the first settled communities of Mesopotamia believed had once lived among them?
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #AncientAstronauts #AncientAstronautsArchaeologicalMysteryPreSumeria #UbaidCulture #UbaidPeriod #LizardHeadedFigurines
    YES OR NO: Do you believe the Ubaid figurines preserve evidence of ancient nonhuman contact???????

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    30 mins
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