<p>There Were Giants Upon The Earth: Gods, Demigods, And Human Ancestry: The Evidence Of Alien DNA Earth Chronicles Companion volume, published 2010 Book Summary About The Author: Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010), an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in Russia and grew up in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Who has not been fascinated since childhood by the tale &#8211; or legend &#8211; of Excalibur, the magical sword of King Arthur which was imbedded in a rock and could be pulled out only by the one chosen for kingship? In her column (Fate, April 2004) Phyllis Galde reported a tale from Tuscany in Italy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Major catastrophes that befall Mankind are sometimes spoken of as being of &#8220;biblical proportions&#8221; to describe their immensity. The words have been used these days to convey the immensity of the calamity that befell the peoples and lands of the coastlines of the Indian Ocean, when an underwater earthquake caused a &#8220;Tsunami&#8221;, a tidal wave [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Climate Study Corroborates Sumer&#8217;s Nuclear Fate At the end of the third millennium B.C. the great Sumerian civilization came to an abrupt end. Its sudden demise was bewailed in numerous lamentation texts that have been discovered by archeologists. The texts ascribed the calamity to an Evil Wind that came blowing from the west (from the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An exciting planetary discovery, just reported, spilled over from the scientific publications to the general media. Radio and television stations announced in headline news that &#8220;Another planet like Earth discovered&#8221;; The New York Times presented the news more accurately: SEARCH FINDS FAR-OFF PLANET AKIN TO EARTH.</p>

<p>The assertion that the Anunnaki came from a planet (Nibiru) whose orbit extends far out in our solar system has repeatedly led to the question: How could life exist so far away from the Sun, where it is extremely cold and everything freezes? My answer has been that we need not go that far out [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Two recent discoveries by astronomers in the fast-expanding field of Extrasolar Planets &#8220;challenge scientists to rethink current theories,&#8221; according to published reports. In both instances a smiling Zecharia Sitchin says, &#8220;The Sumerians did tell you so!&#8221;</p>

<p>In March 1925 the Tennessee legislature outlawed the teaching of any doctrine denying the divine creation of Man as taught by the Bible. In July of that same year, John T. Scopes, a high school teacher, was brought to trial for teaching Evolution in violation of the state law. The ensuing Scopes Trial (or, derisively, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On July 4th 2005, a NASA spacecraft named Deep Impact thrust out a metal probe devised to collide with a comet named Tempel-1. The purpose of the planned collision was to ascertain the true makeup of such a primordial comet by observing and analyzing the impact and its resulting debris. The successful collision observed from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The announcement, on July 30th 2005, that a new celestial body has been discovered made media news around the world; and because the reports were headlined &#8220;Astronomers Claim Discovery of 10th Planet,&#8221; my phone started to constantly ring… Some callers shouted &#8220;Congratulations!&#8221;; others, more cautiously, asked: &#8220;Is it Nibiru?&#8221; – &#8220;Nibiru&#8221; being the planet of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In ancient Sumer the highlight of the New Year celebration was the public reading of Enuma Elish, the &#8220;Epic of Creation.&#8221; Scholars have treated the long text (inscribed on seven clay tablets) as an allegory of a struggle between good and evil, between a benevolent celestial god and a celestial monster. In my books I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The January 26, 2004 issue of Newsweek Magazine, featuring photos of babies on its cover illustrating the main story on &#8220;The New Science of Sex Selection&#8221; – advances in genetic and fertilization technologies that make it possible to predetermine the sex of one&#8217;s baby; not just to find out the baby&#8217;s sex once pregnancy is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The continuing carnage in Iraq is reflected in many readers&#8217; letter to me. The &#8220;Land Between the Rivers&#8221; is where civilization began, where Abraham began his actual and spiritual journey, where the story of Man and his gods began. The questions I am asked are not only about the antiquities that are destroyed, not only [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The name of an ancient site – Ba&#8217;albek in Lebanon – has now been mentioned in dispatches by war correspondents covering the latest flareup in the Middle East. Israeli planes have been dropping bombs there on training and supply encampments of Hezbollah terrorists, in a tit-for-tat for the latter&#8217;s missile attacks on Israel. Some of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;Far beyond the solar system&#8217;s nine known planets, a body as massive as Mars may once have been part of our planetary system &#8212; and it might still be there&#8230;&#8221; The lead paragraph in a science-fiction script? The lead paragraph from an article by Zecharia Sitchin about Nibiru? No. It is the lead paragraph in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>NASA has released recent photographs taken by the Mars Rover Spirit, after it had climbed out of the crater in which it had landed and took panoramic pictures from the crater’s top. The photographs captured, according to JPL/NASA, a “dust devil” in the distance (about 2 miles away). But as one looks closely at the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;Ninharsag and her crew are closer to being vindicated as time passes, and soon your theories will no longer be theories!&#8221; So wrote to me a fan (Jack Byrd in Virginia) in a congratulatory letter accompanying a newspaper clipping headlined &#8220;Genetically modified primate is world&#8217;s first.&#8221; It was the report about the successful birth of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A TALE OF MEN OR OF SCHEMING GODS? The release in May of the mega-movie &#8220;Troy&#8221; has triggered an avalanche of popular articles, learned studies, TV documentaries and other media hype about the ancient tale of a splendid city at the edge of Asia Minor whose prince abducted a beautiful demi-goddess who happened to be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;A 3-D re-creation at UCLA lets you roam ancient Rome,&#8221; was the headline this month (February 2003) on reports from California announcing the latest achievement of computer wizardry: The re-creation by UCLA&#8217;s Cultural Virtual Reality Lab of 22 temples, courts and monuments of the Roman Forum as it was in AD 400. A supercomputer projects [&hellip;]</p>

<p>WILL BIBLICAL PROPHECIES BE FULFILLED? The War in Iraq and The Earth Chronicles &#8220;War has come to the cradle of civilization, &#8221; current headlines have been announcing; and both fans and interviewers have asked me what is my &#8220;take&#8221; on these events. &#8220;How strange that 6000 years of human history keep leading us to devastation [&hellip;]</p>