Human Origins

Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed revealing the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. Travelers from the stars, they arrived eons ago -- and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species...called Man.

Sitchin's first book, The Twelfth Planet, was the product of thirty years' of intensive research. He painstakingly and methodically compared available translations of ancient historical and biblical texts against each other and against the Hebrew source and the parallel Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Akkadian and Hittite texts. Legions of scholars have already spent more than a century studying and deciphering the scripts and language of these ancient civilizations.

Is the Bible merely a text of myth and tale? Or is it a condensed version of events and people and places that existed eons earlier? Take for example, the "Great Flood" story of the Bible. Is it simply a coincidence that nearly every culture and region of the world has a "flood" myth including our own Native Americans, or does the Bible speak of an event which actually occurred and was recorded by every culture existing at the time? Archaelogical discoveries and carbon and DNA testing of Sumerian and other civilizations and artifacts continue to validate and corroborate biblical records.

In 1543, Copernicus was the first to suggest that the earth was not the center of the solar system. It wasn't till the discovery of the telescope by Galileo in 1610 that this theory was confirmed. Yet Sumerians, whose civilization existed as early as 3,000 B.C., had already depicted a complete Solar System, with the Sun, not the Earth, in the center. The first ring of Saturn was not discovered until 1659 by Christian Huygens, yet an Assyrian clay tablet showed the solar system which included a large ringed planet--Saturn!