[MUSIC PLAYING]
 Abydos, Egypt, February 2011.
300 miles south
of Cairo, looters
target what was once
the most sacred site
to the ancient Egyptians during
the time of the pharaohs.
It was here that Egypt's
first rulers were buried
and the earliest forms of
hieroglyphs were found,
as well as an
inscription bearing
the names and chronology of the
first kings of ancient Egypt.
Abydos was considered
sacred to the god,
Osiris, lord of the
dead and Egypt's
first otherworldly ruler.
According to ancient
legends, his dismembered head
was buried at the site.
 So who was Osiris?
Was he simply an ancestor
of the ancient Egyptians?
Or was he a god that
descended to Earth,
you know, from the sky world?
Obviously, we cannot say today.
But we know he was
said to have existed
in an age that was known as
Zep Tepi, the First Time.
 In the 13th century
BC, the pharaoh Seti
I was building his temple
here in Abydos when,
according to some accounts,
he had an encounter
with the god, Osiris.
 When King Seti was
building his temple,
he had a dream in
which the Egyptian god,
Osiris, appeared to him.
And he told Seti that if he
was to dig behind his temple
location that he
would find something
of enormous significance.
Seti digs 40 feet
beneath the temple
and finds the tomb of Osiris.
 For hundreds of
years, no such tomb
was known to exist in Abydos.
But at the turn of
the 20th century,
archaeologists digging
behind the temple of Seti
I unearthed a massive
underground structure
consisting of granite
and sandstone blocks,
some weighing nearly 60 tons.
The Osirian, as it is now known,
was found buried under 40 feet
of silt. And ancient
astronaut theorists
are convinced that
further excavations
would reveal something much
more profound hidden within it.
 The interesting thing about
it is that on the exterior
wall of the Temple of Seti
is inscribed what is called
the head or tower
of Osiris, what
looks like some kind
of an ancient antenna
type of a device.
It's clearly technological
or mechanical looking.
According to legend,
it has been buried
and is awaiting rediscovery.
