Zecharia Sitchin is one of a small number of
scholars who can read the Sumerian clay tablets which trace Earth's and human events
to the earliest times. He was born in Russia and raised in Palestine, where he acquired
a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew and of other Semitic and European
languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. He
graduated from the University of London, majoring in Economic History, having attended
the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Sitchin is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the American Oriental Society, the Middle East Studies Association of North America,
and the Israel Exploration Society.
His books have been translated into 13 languages from their English originals and
have sold millions of copies around the world. His previous books include The
Twelfth Planet (1976), The Stairway to Heaven (1980), The Wars of Gods
and Men (1985), The Lost Realms (1990), Genesis Revisited (1990),
When Time Began (1993), and Divine Encounters (1995).
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