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Cuneiform tablets read as a record of visitors, and megalithic stonework read as beyond the reach of its builders. The Anunnaki were Mesopotamian deities for thousands of years before they were astronauts. How that reinterpretation was made, by whom, and what Assyriologists and archaeologists say about it.
This hub follows the record behind ancient astronauts and the anunnaki: where the claims began, how they changed, what evidence was offered, and what the surviving sources actually support.
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A four-sided clay prism in Oxford lists the first kings of Sumer and how long each one ruled. The first reigned 28,800 years. Nobody has explained the arithmetic to everyone's satisfaction.
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Almost every modern claim about the Anunnaki as visitors from another planet traces to one book and one self-taught translator. Here is what the book argued, and what specialists in the language say about it.