The writers of the ancient Sumerian texts describe the "heavenly gods" as visitors from a planet called Nibiru, which visits the solar system every 3600 years.
At the present time, the existence of Nibiru lies in the area of numerous claims of hoax, persistently frightening predictions: the massive planet "Nibiru" will one day collide with Earth. With the best outcome, the planet will make a big commotion in our planetary system - the incredible force of gravity will disrupt the orbits of all astronomical bodies!
It is clear that the appearance of Nibiru in the system, and the planet, as they say, several times larger than the Earth, can significantly change life on Earth. But this planet is considered by serious scientists only an old legend. - The truth, however, goes far beyond this …
While many report that Nibiru is nothing more than a fiction, the truth is that Nibiru is mentioned and described in detail in the fifth tablet of Enuma elish (Seven tablets telling the history of the universe were found in the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanapal).
Nibiru as a planet serves as a significant part in the controversial works of Zechariah Sitchin, who has found admirers among ufologists, and theorists of ancient astronauts.
According to Sitchin, through the interpretation of ancient Sumerian texts, there is convincing evidence of the origin of man with the help of the immensely developed civilization of the Anunnaki.
These were the inhabitants of the distant planet of the solar system Nibiru - whom our ancestors took for gods.
However, Sitchin's work on Nibiru is based on the astronomical interpretation of Enuma elish and the ancient creation myth. And as experts of ancient texts point out, Sitchin interpreted the names of the gods with the planets a little loosely.
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Why is Sitchin's work being attacked by skeptics and scientists?
Yes, the author of the books is often criticized because Zechariah Sitchin's testimony is based on his own translations, going beyond scientifically agreed interpretations. That is why most of his work on Nibiru and the Anunnaki is referred by many to the field of pseudoscience.
Zechariah Sitchin described Nibiru according to Sumerian cosmology as the 12th planet. It is home to an extraterrestrial civilization called the Anunnaki, an extremely advanced culture that outpaced human development by at least 10,000 years.
The development of the Anunnaki is evidenced by a simple fact from the same texts: they created man on the basis of their blood. That is, already in those days, the Anunnaki worked without difficulty with genetic material.
Nibiru is also associated with the name Marduk, an Akkadian word whose translation has not yet been determined by scholars. The cuneiform symbol used to describe Nibiru often represents a cross or a winged disc.
The last symbol, of course, gives food for thought about flying vehicles, but to put this as a statement is too hasty. In addition, for the ancient Babylonians, Nibiru appeared to be a heavenly body, directly related to the God of Marduk.
Sitchin concluded that the large planet Nibiru lives in a very elliptical orbit, revolving around the sun through the darkness of deep and cold space. Its orbital period is about 2,700 years, and Sitchin claims that Nibiru is the birthplace of an ancient people who were brought to Earth by the search for gold. With the help of precious metal, they restored the atmosphere of Nibiru, damaged by the cataclysms.
In one version of an old incident, Nibiru was captured by our Sun from another Star. The planet, of course, was doomed to perish in the cosmic cold and darkness.
The situation of the local inhabitants was desperate - either to perish or to colonize foreign worlds. Some of them, most likely, went to explore another planet (possibly planet Earth). But some remained. In their name, they began to build a protective dome around the planet, for which the cyclopean volumes of gold were required.
For a long time, the assumptions of Zechariah Sitchin were heavily criticized and ridiculed until there was evidence of a large planet on the border of the solar system, which was confirmed by astronomers.
Was Sitchin so wrong?
Observing disturbances in the orbits of dwarf planets, space explorers are inclined to conclude that there is a massive object - three times the size of Earth - located far beyond Pluto.
In 1978, scientists Robert Harrington and Tom van Flandern (US Navy Observatory), through sophisticated simulations, provided compelling evidence for the periodic distortions of the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.
There can be only one explanation for the strange phenomenon: the gravitational influence of an unknown astronomical object, experts of celestial mechanics explained.
Studies and observations of subsequent years of the behavior of celestial bodies presented an unknown object of the solar system of a rather massive volume, 3-4 times larger than the mass of the Earth. Scientists called the invisible body Planet X / Tenth Planet, which many ufologists here associated with the hypothetical Nibiru.
The culprit of numerous rumors may not be a local planet at all, once captivated by our Luminary and placed in an extremely elongated orbit, the authors of the discovery suggested. Thus, as if confirming the previously announced version.
In 1982, NASA researchers officially confirmed the existence of the object behind the distant planets of the system. A year later, the orbiting infrared astronomical satellite (IRAS) confirmed the existence of a large-sized marginal object.
In 1987, a number of entertaining articles about the mysterious Planet X were published in the press. Researcher John Anderson, a NASA specialist, was quoted in connection with the discovery with the following words: "The tenth planet may be part of the solar system, but it may not belong to it." A strange phrase, of course, but doubts about the existence of Planet X disappear.
The Newsweek article continues: "If he's right, then two of space science's most intriguing mysteries can be solved:" what caused the mysterious disruptions in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune in the 19th century … what killed the dinosaurs millions of years ago?"
While the above suggests a wandering planet at the edge of the solar system, many still regard the idea of Nibiru as far-fetched from mythology. All the evidence for Nibiru is based on personal interpretations of Zechariah Sitchin, skeptics say, while for some reason forgetting the official research.
Our conclusion
There are some things in history that just don't add up. If we look at the origin of man, the emergence of the first civilization, the first alphabet and language, then we find huge gaps that leading scientists are unable to fill.
Most of the articles related to Nibiru are descriptions of hoaxes that carry all sorts of disasters. But very few publications offer an understanding of what the mysterious planet Nibiru really is.
In recent years, we have come to the conclusion that Nibiru may be the result of a free interpretation of Zechariah Sitchin. But it is also true that an invisible planet, at least as described by astronomers, is on the outskirts of the solar system.
It is difficult for us to accept the existence of Nibiru with its advanced civilization, which may have given rise to intelligent life on Earth. We simply do not have enough evidence that there is an inhabited world in the extreme limits of the solar system. The unknown planet, as scientists say, is somewhere out there, in space, but until we see an alien world with telescopes, these are only admissible theories for discussion.
