Ancient Astronauts and the Anunnaki
Sitchin and the twelfth planet
Almost every modern claim about the Anunnaki as visitors runs back to one book, Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet of 1976, and to how it read the Sumerian sign shar.
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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.