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Zecharia Sitchin

1920 - 2010

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Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he claimed was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. He claimed that Sumerian mythology suggests that this hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year-long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zecharia Sitchin has received more than 2,033,917 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Zecharia Sitchin is the 626th most popular writer (down from 418th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 6th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Azerbaijani Writer.

Zecharia Sitchin is most famous for his book "The 12th Planet" in which he argues that the earth was visited by an extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki, and that they genetically engineered humans to be their slaves.

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Notable Works

When time began
Body, Mind & Spirit
Offers evidence that visitors from outer space helped usher in humankind's first new age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment
The 12th planet
Body, Mind & Spirit
Draws upon the Old Testament stories and ancient records, drawings, and artifacts to document past extraterrestrial visitations and to identify the planet-home of the visiting astronaut-gods. Reissue.
The Stairway to Heaven
Body, Mind & Spirit
Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. In The Stairway to Heaven, the second book of Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, the author answers these fundamental questions: Was there somewhere on Earth where, after death, mortal man could join the immortal Gods? Where was this place? By whom was it established? And does it still exist today? After years of painstaking research--combining recent archaeological discoveries with ancient texts and artifacts--Sitchin has identified the legendary Land of the Gods, and provided astounding new revelations about the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and other mysterious monuments whose true meanings and purposes have been lost for eons. The Earth Chronicles deal with the history and prehistory of Earth and humankind. Each book in the series is based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. For the first time, the entire Earth Chronicles series is now available in a hardcover collector's edition.
The Cosmic Code
The End of Days
The Wars of Gods and Men
The Lost Book of Enki
Ancient Civilization, Extraterrestrial influences, Lost books
First Trade Paperback edition 2004-08-16
When time began
Ancient Civilization, Civilization, Ancient, Extraterrestrial influences
First Avon Books Printing: 1993-06-01 Printer's key: RA 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The Stairway to Heaven
Immortality, Ancient Civilization, Civilization
Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. Was there somewhere on Earth where, after death, mortal man could join the immortal Gods? Where was this place? By whom was it established? And does it still exist today? After years of painstaking research -- combining recent archaeological discoveries with ancient texts and artifacts -- noted scholar Zecharia Sitchin has identified the legendary Land of the Gods...and provided astounding new revelations about the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and other mysterious monuments whose true meanings and purposes have been lost for eons.
The 12th Planet
Ancient Civilization, Bible, Civilization, Ancient
Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth - evidence that suggests the evidence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world. The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image. The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nefilim who married the daughters of man.
The Wars of Gods and Men
Extraterrestrial influences, Ancient Civilization, Interplanetary voyages
Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny—terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet. Parting the mists of time and myth, the internationally renowned scholar Zecharia Sitchin takes us back in this volume to the violent beginnings of the human story, when gods—not men—ruled the Earth. In a spellbinding reconstruction of epic events preserved in legends and ancient writings, he traces the conflicts that began on another world, continued on Earth, and culminated in the use of nuclear weapons—an event recorded in the Bible as the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Cosmic Code
DNA, Ancient Civilization, Sumerian Mythology
Many thousands of years ago, a group of extraterrestrials from another planet guided the evolution of life on Earth—determining the existence and nature of humankind as we know it today. How did the master builders from the stars construct the miracle called man? Is the DNA that is at the core of all life in the universe a "cosmic code" that links Earth to heaven and man to God? In this sixth volume of The Earth Chronicles, Zecharia Sitchin unveils writings from the past to decipher prophesies, and reveals how the DNA-matched Hebrew alphabet and the numerical values of its letters serve as a code that bares the secrets of mortal man’s fate and mankind’s celestial destiny.

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 626 out of 7,302Before him are Leo Africanus, Tirso de Molina, Alfred Döblin, J. M. Barrie, Poliziano, and Mihai Eminescu. After him are August Wilhelm Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, Ludwig Tieck, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, and Raymond Queneau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 29Before him are Charlie Parker, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Helmut Newton, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and François Jacob. After him are Fritz Walter, Clarice Lispector, Montgomery Clift, Walter Matthau, Douglass North, and Sergei Bondarchuk. Among people deceased in 2010, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 20Before him are Juan Antonio Samaranch, Georges Charpak, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Maurice Allais, Vasily Smyslov, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg. After him are Néstor Kirchner, Gennady Yanayev, Francesco Cossiga, Bruno Cremer, Alois Brunner, and Dino De Laurentiis.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 12 out of 232Before him are Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Arghun (1250), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), and Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901). After him are Ivan Bagramyan (1897), Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921), Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Artur Rasizade (1935), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), and Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812).

Among WRITERS In Azerbaijan

Among writers born in Azerbaijan, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 3Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141), and Imadaddin Nasimi (1369). After him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Khaqani (1126), Banine (1905), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Mahsati (1089), Samad Vurgun (1906), Ahmad Javad (1892), Huseyn Javid (1882), and Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1869).