Many readers are familiar with Coast to Coast AM, the most-listened to late night talk show in the world. I'll be on the evening of Feb 2. I've been on Coast over twenty times, and it's always fun and unpredictable. The topics tend to be fairly wide-ranging when I'm...
Nibiru
More Fun with Zecharia Sitchin: Looking for Rocket Ships in Sumerian Texts
Squint real hard, you might see them. This video is longer (19:00) because I go through the major lexical resources for Akkadian and Sumerian -- all publicly accessible -- to show that (surprise!) Zecharia Sitchin's translations ("rocket ship"; "fiery rocket") for...
Fun with Zecharia Sitchin: Let’s Search for the Anunnaki
Okay, this probably isn't going to be fun (especially to followers of Zecharia Sitchin), but I'm trying. Those of you who know of Sitchin and his work know that one of his major claims is that the Sumerian deities, the Anunnaki, were actually extraterrestrials. That's...
New Nibiru Information . . . Or More PaleoBabble?
I received a lengthy and interesting reply today to my post about the Fantasy Channel. I reproduce the substantive portions of it here for readers: I have been studying various Mesopotamian texts for around 30 years, and there is nothing to indicate that Nibiru is a...
Zecharia Sitchin’s Astronomy Debunked
There are a number of good critiques on the web showing the flaws in Sitchin's discussion of astronomy from the Sumerian and Mesopotamian texts. Here are a few: Chris Siren's page Ian Lawton's analysis Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy website deals with "Planet X" My own...
Nibiru and Zecharia Sitchin
What do Mesopotamian texts say about "nibiru"? Does what Zecharia Sitchin say about it demonstrable from the tablets themselves? Is it a planet beyond Pluto? Does it cycle through our solar system every 3600 years? Is it a planet inhabited by the Anunnaki? Are the...
Ancient Mesopotamian Science vs. Sitchin
Came across a free PDF article on divination as science in Mesopotamia. Seems the people that had advanced knowledge of the heavens, including the outer planets and orbital mechanics of the most distant objects in our solar system believed you could discern the future...
Exposing the Work of Zecharia Sitchin, Part 1: ELOHIM in the Hebrew Bible
Prior to this blog, I created a website devoted to exposing the flawed teachings and research of Zecharia Sitchin. Next to Erik von Daniken, Sitchin is easily the most well-known articulator of the ancient astronaut theory--the idea that the gods of ancient texts and...