Deep beneath a museum, a clay tablet lists kings who supposedly ruled for tens of thousands of years, and claims kingship itself was lowered down from the heavens.
This film traces that claim from its Sumerian origins through Zecharia Sitchin's controversial ancient astronaut theory, the harsh academic pushback against it, and newer archaeological discoveries that complicate the picture further.
📚 SOURCES & RESEARCH:
PRIMARY ANCIENT SOURCES:
- Sumerian King List (Weld-Blundell Prism, Ashmolean Museum)
- Enuma Elish - Babylonian Creation Epic
- Atra-Hasis Epic
- Epic of Gilgamesh (Flood Tablet)
- Eridu Genesis
- Erra Epic
ACADEMIC RESEARCH:
- Kramer, Samuel Noah - "The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character" (1963)
- Jacobsen, Thorkild - "The Treasures of Darkness" (1976)
- Black, Jeremy & Green, Anthony - "Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia" (1992)
- Finkel, Irving - "The Ark Before Noah" (2014)
- George, Andrew - "The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic" (2003)
ALTERNATIVE THEORY:
- Sitchin, Zecharia - "The 12th Planet" (1976)
- Sitchin, Zecharia - "The Lost Book of Enki" (2002)
⚠️ Not accepted by mainstream Assyriology
CRITICAL RESPONSE TO SITCHIN:
- Heiser, Michael S. - "The Myth That Is True"
- sitchiniswrong.com
NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE:
- Schmidt, Klaus - "Göbekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary" (2012)
- Hancock, Graham - "Magicians of the Gods" (2015)
- Firestone et al. - "Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis" (PNAS, 2007)
GENETIC RESEARCH:
- Reich, David - "Who We Are and How We Got Here" (2018)
- Durvasula & Sankararaman - "Ghost archaic introgression in African populations" (2020)
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💬 What's your read on this? Mythology, forgotten history, or something we haven't fully grasped yet? Let us know in the comments.
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