Third book of The Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin, published by Avon Books in 1985 and reissued by Bear & Company, and the volume in which he stops assembling the framework and starts narrating inside it. Taking the 3,600-year orbit of Nibiru from The 12th Planet and the Sinai spaceport from The Stairway to Heaven as given, it writes the history that follows: a succession quarrel carried to Earth by two half-brothers and their descendants, two Pyramid Wars fought over the Great Pyramid of Giza, Marduk tried and sealed alive inside it, and a strike in 2024 B.C. in which two of the gods destroy the spaceport and the cities of the plain with weapons whose fallout empties Sumer.
Almost everything now circulating under the names Anunnaki, Nibiru, Enki and Enlil, the gold, the engineered worker and the nuclear war in the Sinai comes from this volume rather than from The 12th Planet, and Ancient Aliens draws on it throughout. Its evidentiary base is real and quoted at length: the Atra-Hasis Epic, the Erra Epic and the Sumerian city laments are documents in scholarly editions, and Sitchin names his editors. What carries the history is a set of translations with no lexical backing, a rule that resemblance between traditions records a shared event, and the reading of one first-millennium Babylonian poem as an eyewitness report.
The site’s source note is at /en/culture/wars-of-gods-and-men; the posthumous anthology that reprints part of it is The Anunnaki Chronicles.
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Zecharia Sitchin · Erra Epic · Atra-Hasis Epic · Anunnaki · Nibiru · Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis · Great Pyramid of Giza · The Anunnaki Chronicles · Inventory Stela · Tall el-Hammam Airburst Hypothesis · Inanna · Ninurta · Dilmun