Ancient Astronauts and the Anunnaki
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The Weld-Blundell Prism and 241,200 Years Before the Flood
The Weld-Blundell Prism, a four-sided clay column of about 1800 BC in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, carries the fullest copy of the Sumerian King List, whose first eight kings rule 241,200 years before the flood. Berossus later counted the same age in the same unit, and Carl Sagan and Zecharia Sitchin each saw more in his fish-man Oannes and the 3,600-year sar. This article sets out the prism, the case, the scholars' account and what it leaves open.
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The Seven-and-a-Half-Foot Skeleton in the Smithsonian's Own Report
In 1894 the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology published Cyrus Thomas's Report on the Mound Explorations. On page 426 it records a skeleton 7 1/2 feet long in a burial mound in West Virginia, and other very large skeletons elsewhere. Writers on the Nephilim of Genesis read these entries as giants. This investigation sets out the entries, the giant case built on them, the archaeologists' account and what was never re-measured.
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Sitchin, the Anunnaki, and the Twelfth Planet
Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet (1976) read the Babylonian creation poem, the Atrahasis story and a cylinder seal in Berlin, VA 243, as a record of Nibiru, a world on a 3,600-year orbit, and of the Anunnaki who came from it. This article sets out his case and what it would mean, then how specialists read the same texts, and ends on what is still unexplained: a star with eleven dots.
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The Palenque Lid and the Man at the Controls
The carved stone lid over the tomb of K'inich Janaab Pakal, king of Palenque in Mexico, was found in 1952 deep inside the Temple of the Inscriptions. In Chariots of the Gods? (1968) Erich von Daniken read its central figure as a man at the controls of a rocket. This investigation sets out his reading, the tomb's own inscriptions and the Mayanists' account, and what is still argued.
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The Flood Tablet, George Smith and the Gods Who Sent the Deluge
The Flood Tablet, British Museum K.3375, is the eleventh tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. George Smith read its flood story to a London audience on 3 December 1872. Older tablets, Atrahasis and the Sumerian Ziusudra story, tell the same flood and say the gods sent it. This investigation follows the tablets, the readings of Zecharia Sitchin and the Assyriologists, and what is still open.