Product Description

Traces topics in contemporary science, such as genetic engineering, back to ancient origins, arguing that alien visitors shaped humankind's destiny thousands of years ago.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18481 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 352 pages

Library Journal
Exciting . . . credible . . . most provocative and compelling.

Kirkus Reviews
Sitchin is a zealous investigator into man's origins . . . a dazzling performance.

Rosemary Decker, historian and researcher
Sitchin's works are outstandingly different from all others that present this central theme.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating theories, sadly too easily debunkable
Having never been a religious person myself (I previously considered the stories of creation to be nothing more than superstitious claptrap written and aceepted by gullible fools) I read this book with an open mind about the alternative explanations it puts forward. Sitchin is a very good writer, of that there is no doubt. His research is presented clearly and consisely without resorting to too much scientific jargon. He clearly has an excellent knowledge of astronomy and this ties together nicely with his theory about nibiru/the annunaki. What he proposes in this book seems to make an awful lot of sense, and you get the feeling that the creation story as told in the book of Genesis and others is actually trying to tell us more than just the tale of a divine creation that centuries of religious propaganda would have us believe.
However, the author would have us believe that he is the leading authority on translation of the ancient Sumerian scripts, but just a small amount of research will lead you to the conclusion that Mr Sitchin is in fact held in very low regard by his peers in this field. Most archaeologists and anthropologists who have studied the cuneiform tablets on which Sitchin's theories are based disagree with his translations of the ancient texts, and this is where his credibility falls apart because, as sensible as the whole idea seems, it all comes down to his own interpretation of the scripts. It would appear that his translations are based on his own pre-conceived ideas about the 12th planet, rather than his ideas about the 12th planet being based on academic research and accurate translation of the scripts.
Read it anyway - it's a very interesting book but, just as he asks the reader not to take the bible stories literally, don't take what he says as gospel either.

This book modified my views on the Bible.
Read this book and loved it. First came across Zachariah Sitchin through one of david Icke's books and am now buying some of Zachariah's other books. Thought this book was great, before I dismissed the bible as rubbish, now I believe there is alot of fact in genesis if you can work around the guff and correctly interpret the stories. Great conclusions that echoed my thoughts on the subject. This can't be rubbish, Zachariah predicted the colour of Uranus 1 week before modern science saw Uranus via a space probe (Using the sumerian texts). Got to find out more about these sumerian texts.

Fantastic read - very thought provoking
I have never been a believer of religion, and take all the bibles stories with a pinch of salt. To be honest, i find it sad that modern "man" (and woman) believe in & pray to a mythical god! and simply dismiss any other theories as nonsense!! I have always considered the bible to be a book of stories/fables designed to promote "good" living.

HOWEVER, as i started to read this book i realised that many of the stories from the bible have earlier origins (some 4,000 years earlier) and that perhaps there is some element of fact about them.
I avidly set about finishing Sitchin's book "Genesis Revisited" I was amazed to discover that Sitchin uses & quotes Sumerian texts that describe the creation of mankind. The texts are comparable with those of the bible, BUT, with more accurate translations. For example, the bible describes how God created Adam from the dust of the earth and breathed life in to him. Sitchin describes how the Sumerian texts/words used to describe the ape-like creature found on earth at that time, were "clay" or "dust" of the earth, and how the equivalent texts for what we now call laboratories translate from Sumerian as "the buildings where life is breathed". In other words the clay/dust of the earth (ape-man) was created in alien laboratories. The texts go on to explain how the term Adam should have been translated as Adamah - meaning "slave" - The gods created adamah as a slave to "till the earth" - ie do the laborious work for them.
There are many more examples of how the Sumerian texts can be found in the Christian bible - but have been mis-translated over the years. By the way, these texts pre-date the bible by some 4,000 years! The Bible is nothing more than a copy of these ancient texts written some 4,000 years earlier.
It is probably true to say that some people will simply dismiss Sitchin's book as nonsense. However, these are not simply his fancical theories or dreams - they are backed up by hard evidence - the Sumerian tablets do exist. They do describe God-like beings from the stars. They do describe how the earth was created. Even more difficult to dismiss is the fact that they describe in great details how each planet in our solar syatem is made up, what the atmosphere is like, what colour the planets are etc. All these things modern man has only recently discovered with the aid of massive telescopes and space probes etc. How did the Sumerian people get these facts so right over 6,000 years ago!!

This book has certainly provoked me to read more on this fasinating topic. It is a book that i found hard to put down.
I have always been interested in the theories that mankind was visited in the distant past by travelling "aliens", but this goes one step further. It describes how these aliens moulded the human race "in their own image".
Whether you belive these theories or not, one thing i am certain, you cannot dismiss them until you have read them!