Ancient Astronauts cover art

Ancient Astronauts

Ancient Astronauts

By: Forbidden Knowledge Network
Listen for free

Season's Savings | £0.99/mo for 3 months

£5.99/mo after 3 months - terms apply. Cancel monthly
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:
https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork© Forbidden Knowledge Network Astronomy Astronomy & Space Science Science World
Episodes
  • Puma Punku: Were These Precision Stones Made With Lost Technology?

    Puma Punku: Were These Precision Stones Made With Lost Technology?
    Oct 13 2026
    Puma Punku, part of Bolivia’s Tiwanaku archaeological complex near Lake Titicaca, contains monumental sandstone slabs, carefully worked andesite, geometric channels, recessed surfaces, and the distinctive blocks often called H-blocks.
    Those surviving fragments have become central to claims of forgotten high technology, remote antiquity, and extraterrestrial assistance. But the archaeological record tells a more complicated story: a monument altered during construction, damaged and dispersed over time, documented unevenly by early visitors, and investigated through excavation, architectural analysis, dating, reconstruction, and remote sensing.
    This episode follows the documented work of researchers who surveyed visible ruins, photographed fragments, opened targeted trenches, dated construction contexts, modeled measured stones, and mapped buried features. What do Puma Punku’s stones reveal about Tiwanaku builders—and what questions still remain open?
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #AncientAstronauts #PumaPunku #Tiwanaku #HBlocks #AlienTechnology
    YES OR NO: Does current evidence show that nonhuman technology built Puma Punku??????


    Explore more original podcasts from the Forbidden Knowledge Network at www.FKNpods.com.
    Show More Show Less
    26 mins
  • Pakal’s Tomb: Why Does the Mayan King Look Like He Is Piloting a Machine?

    Pakal’s Tomb: Why Does the Mayan King Look Like He Is Piloting a Machine?
    Oct 6 2026
    In 1952, archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier and his team reached a sealed royal burial chamber beneath Palenque’s Temple of the Inscriptions after years of clearing a concealed stairway. Inside stood the sarcophagus associated with the Maya ruler K’inich Janaab’ Pakal and its monumental carved limestone lid.
    In 1968, Erich von Däniken popularized a startling reading of the relief: Pakal, he argued, appeared to be an astronaut operating a spacecraft. The angled figure, apparent controls, projection near the face, and forms beneath the body have made the image one of the most recognizable artifacts in ancient-astronaut literature.
    Yet the lid came from a carefully constructed Maya royal tomb. Scholars including Mary Ellen Miller, along with the Penn Museum’s examination of the claim, interpret the carving through Palenque’s inscriptions, funerary architecture, and Maya imagery of royal death, renewal, maize-god associations, the underworld, and the World Tree.
    This episode follows the concealed stairway, the years of excavation, the chamber discovery, the burial context, von Däniken’s publication, the Copán caption discrepancy, and the evidence behind two competing readings of one extraordinary image.
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #AncientAstronauts #UfoFiles #PakalSTomb #Palenque #AncientAstronautTheory
    YES OR NO: Does Pakal’s sarcophagus lid depict a person operating a machine??????


    Explore more original podcasts from the Forbidden Knowledge Network at www.FKNpods.com.
    Show More Show Less
    25 mins
  • The Gods Who Came From the Sky: Why Does the Same Pattern Repeat Worldwide?

    The Gods Who Came From the Sky: Why Does the Same Pattern Repeat Worldwide?
    Sep 28 2026
    Ancient records from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Guatemala, and South Asia repeatedly connect divine beings with the heavens. For ancient-astronaut theorists, that recurrence may preserve fractured memories of contact with advanced visitors who arrived from the sky, shaped humanity, and were later remembered as gods.
    This investigation follows the surviving evidence itself: Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts carved into Egyptian royal tombs at Saqqara; Mesopotamian accounts involving the Anunna, Enki, and the fashioning of humanity; Babylonian Atrahasis tablets preserved in the British Museum; the K’iche’ Maya creation narrative known as the Popol Wuj; and Rig Veda hymn ten point one twenty-nine, which questions whether even the gods know the origin of creation.
    The strongest ancient-contact interpretation sees a pattern in divine descent, celestial authority, and human creation. The strongest conventional explanation sees religious cosmology, funerary belief, literary tradition, and, in some regions, cultural transmission. Yet neither explanation fully removes the central question: why did so many human communities place powerful creators, judges, teachers, and ancestors in the sky?
    The records are genuine. The cultures are distinct. But do these texts preserve one physical event, several historical contacts, inherited traditions, or humanity’s repeated effort to explain the world above?
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #AncientAstronauts #UfoFiles #SkyGods #Anunna #PopolWuj
    YES OR NO: Do you believe ancient sky-god traditions preserve memories of real outside contact???????


    Explore more original podcasts from the Forbidden Knowledge Network at www.FKNpods.com.
    Show More Show Less
    25 mins
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
All stars
Most relevant
Cannot engage with content as robot voice reading at flat tone high speed is deadening

Sounds like an ai robot reading a text. Off putting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.