Ancient Aliens - Season 9 - Eps 4: The Genius Factor
Throughout history, many of the world's greatest thinkers have helped push civilization forward with their profound insights and extraordinary abilities. But the majority of these master minds say their brilliance comes from a place they don't understand--and arrives at times they're not expecting it. In antiquity, people in nearly every culture around the world believed they did not possess genius, but that genius possessed them, like a spirit. Could it be that the forces of inspiration that the ancients attributed to the gods really did emanate from an otherworldly source, as Ancient Astronaut theorists suggest? Whether it's Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, Edison's light bulb, or Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev's Periodic Table of Elements, geniuses routinely say their best ideas come from dreams, visions, or hallucinated voices. Is it possible that genius is more than just the product of good genetics?
About Ancient Aliens

Title: Ancient Aliens
First Air Date: 2010-04-20
Last Air Date: 2025-03-14
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 6.852/10 (from 261 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 22
Total Episodes: 267
Network: History
Genres: Documentary, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production Companies: Prometheus Entertainment
Synopsis
Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago? From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate.
Cast

Robert Clotworthy
Narrator (voice)

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Self

Ariel Bar Tzadok
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Jonathan Young
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David Childress
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Erich von Däniken
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Linda Moulton Howe
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David Wilcock
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George Noory
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Philip Coppens
Self