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The Earth Chroniclesseries, in six voumes, deals with the history and prehistory of Earth and humankind. Each book in the series, based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East, records the fantastic and real battles that occurred between the original creator gods over control of planet Earth. Asserting the premise that mythology is not fanciful but the repository of ancient memories, The Earth Chroniclesseries suggests that the Bible ought to be read literally as a historic/scientific document, and that ancient civilizations--older and greater than assumed--were the product of knowledge brought to Earth by the Anunnaki, ""Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came."" The 12th Planet, the first book of the series, presents ancient evidence for the existence of an additional planet in the Solar System: the home planet of the Anunnaki. In confirmation of this evidence, recent data from unmanned spacecraft has led astronomers to actively search for what is being called ""Planet X.
List of contents
Foreword
1 The Wars of Man
2 The Contending ofHorus and Seth
3 The Missiles of Zeus and Indra
4 The Earth Chronicles
5 The Wars of the Olden Gods
6 Mankind Emerges
7 When Earth Was Divided
8 The Pyramid Wars
9 Peace on Earth
10 The Prisoner in the Pyramid
11 "A Queen Am I!"
12 Prelude to Disaster
13 Abraham: The Fateful Years
14 The Nuclear Holocaust
Epilogue
The Earth Chronicles: Time Chart
Sources
Index
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 Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years prior to undertaking his life’s work--The Earth Chronicles.
One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based The Earth Chronicles series on the texts and pictorial evidence recorded by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been widely translated, reprinted in paperback editions, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television programs.
Summary
The third book in Sitchin's Earth Chroniclesseries.
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"Sitchin is a zealous investigator into Man's origins . . . a dazzling performance."
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"Exciting . . . credible . . . most provocative and compelling." Library Journal
