Anunnaki
SUMMARY
"Those who from heaven came." Sitchin's readers say they came for gold — and made us.
FULL DOSSIER
Zecharia Sitchin read the tablets his own way: the gods of Sumer were the 'those who from heaven to earth came,' engineers from a wandering planet, mining gold to mend their atmosphere, splicing themselves a workforce. Assyriologists reject every line of the translation. Believers answer with the king list's impossible reigns, the mines at the bottom of Africa, and the question the tablets never quite answer: why gold?
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Sitchin, 'The 12th Planet' (1976)
02ETCSL Sumerian corpus (for the counter-reading)
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
◉ OPEN THIS FILE ON THE GLOBE