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Secrets of the Mummies

For thousands of years, in cultures throughout the world, people have practiced elaborate techniques to preserve the human body after death. The ancient Egyptians believed mummification ensured entrance into the next life. Buddhist monks in Japan practiced a shocking self-mummification process that began before death in the hopes of becoming a “living Buddha.” And the Incas consulted the mummified remains of their kings to discuss affairs of state and the future. Ancient Astronaut theorists believe the global practice of mummification is not a coincidence, but proof that highly advanced extraterrestrials visited Earth in the distant past. Could our ancestors have witnessed a form of biological hibernation and then mimicked it with mummification? Could mummification have been an attempt to recreate suspended animation so often connected to extraterrestrial space travel? Or could the intention have been to preserve the body for future DNA removal?

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  • Originally Aired November 28, 2014
  • Runtime 43 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-14
  • Network H2
  • Production Company Prometheus Entertainment
  • Created June 26, 2021 by
    Psion20
  • Modified April 14, 2022 by
    Animalsplo
Name Type Role
Ruth O'Neill Writer
Max Thompson Writer
Matt Cunningham Producer Co-Producer
Margaret Haddad Producer
Deepak Shimkhada Guest Star Self - Professor of Hindu Studies, Claremont Lincoln University
William Henry Guest Star Self - Author, The Secret of Sion
David Childress Guest Star Self - Author, Technology of the Gods
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos Guest Star Self - Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine
Ken Jeremiah Guest Star Self - Author, Eternal Remains
Edwin 'Ed' Barnhart Guest Star Self - Archaeologist, Director, Maya Exploration Center
Brien Foerster Guest Star Self - Author, A Brief History of the Incas
Jonathan Young Guest Star Self - Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives
David Wilcock Guest Star Self - Author, The Synchronicity Key
Kirsten Fisher Guest Star Self - Associate Professor of Biology, Cal State Los Angeles
Ramy Romany Guest Star Self - Egyptologist
Dominic Steavu Guest Star Self - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, UCSB
Tori Randall Guest Star Self - Curator of Physical Anthropology, San Diego Museum of Man
Kevin Burns Executive Producer
Kim Sheerin Executive Producer
Max Thompson Executive Producer
David Silver Executive Producer
Susan E. Leventhal Executive Producer for H2 Network