Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Sitchin, 'The 12th Planet'
Zecharia Sitchin's claim that Sumerian texts describe the Anunnaki, extraterrestrials from a hidden planet called Nibiru who created humanity.
1976 CE · 32.13, 45.23 · status: claim
The account
For: Sitchin presented himself as a reader of ancient texts and drew on real Mesopotamian mythology and art.
The sceptical view
Against: specialists in Sumerian say his translations are wrong, and astronomers note that no such planet exists; the Nibiru idea later fed doomsday hoaxes.
Connections in the atlas
- Baalbek's megaliths as a 'landing platform'
- Zecharia Sitchin
- ? How were Baalbek’s giant stones moved?
- ? Were the Anunnaki visitors from another planet?