The pyramids were built in ancient times.

Cut to our century, same country, same pyramids, another people spreading the same idea of equality with a different book.

Even the most durable and intactable buildings, like the pyramids of Giza, are in bad shape when you look up close.

One of the most dramatic manifestations of these improvements will be moving from population pyramids to what we might term population coffins.

In the territory of Kazakhstan, a prehistoric pyramid shaped site was discovered recently, which may be 1,000 years earlier than the Egyptian pyramids.

Narrator The pyramids, the Colosseum, the New York subway system and TV dinners, ancient and modern wonders of the man made world all.

The most dramatic changes will be the skyscraper type of new pyramids that will take place in China and in many other countries.

So, pretty early on in my investigations I realized what I was finding was not what I expected to find, which was, quite frankly, a lot of beer can pyramids and overstuffed couches and flat screen TVs.

If you think of the great buildings, of the cathedrals, of the temples, of the pyramids, of pagodas, of cities in India and beyond, you think of how incredible this is that that was realized not by some abstract idea, but by people.

For it is given in certain UFO ology or UFOlogy circles, that the aliens are already here and have been for millennia that they have walked among us in disguise, observing us, guiding our evolution from ape to man if you believe in that sort of thing and, occasionally, kidnapping us in their flying saucers and taking us away to have sex with us in pyramids.

So the question that motivates my research is the following If you look at humanity's large scale achievements, these really big things that humanity has gotten together and done historically like for example, building the pyramids of Egypt or the Panama Canal or putting a man on the Moon there is a curious fact about them, and it is that they were all done with about the same number off people.

This is what accumulates in the tar sands of Alberta. These are sulfur blocks. Because as you separate that petroleum from the sand, and use an enormous amount of energy inside that vapor steam to separate this stuff you also have to separate out the sulfur. The difference between light crude and heavy crude well, it's about 14 bucks a barrel. That's why you're building these pyramids of sulfur blocks. And by the way, the scale on these things is pretty large.