Interesting...this is the first time I have heard of them
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Hmm... must just be a rumor. No one alive today could read Sumerian language flutently, so it must has just been a very bad and poor translate job that grew into rumor.
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Zacharia Sitchen? (Claimed expert on Sumerian Hyroglyphs) - author of --

EARTH CHRONICALS

// Which are narrations of a series of research articles compiled into in the form of a sequence of books - relating to contact with "other" technologies (heretofore as yet unproven)..//
Sumerians real? Today it is called IRAQ.
I will say no more.
Advanced they were - for that period of time. Mysterious? Perhaps, in that
they seemed to have "popped up" and became 'civilized' without the usual nomadic "tent cities" to contend with. Perhaps the first people to invent BEER and the first to have a 'Meetup' group which would be compared to AA today. Sophisticated hybrid crops, animal husbandry and a few other [out of sequence] accomplishments. Sad that schools now-a-days refuse to delve into their rich history and their contribution to history of itself.

Babylon? Related -- to some extent. Pre-deluvial King lists (pre-flood).


Lay more mystery to the INDUS VALLEY Discoveries.


From the Gryphon's Lair (Web Page pending)

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There was another topic on this forum about the Sumerians that was posted a few days ago. It deals with Planet X, really interesting. Planet-X  It gives more information on just how advanced the sumerians were. I'd suggest reading it if your interested on this subject.
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Falco, the 50s movie you are referring to was ranked as third best in the top ten scifi "lost worlds" flicks with 1 being King Kong's Skull Island and the 2nd being Lost Continent. the Subterranean portions, the palace, the caverns were impressive.
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Falco, you don't know bad movies; Mole People may sound cheesy to this generation because of the "hip" trend media had molded peoples minds of the past decade giving what's cool and what's not. Trends pass and change through time and back at the time of the movie, the view was very different from being today and you shouldn't scoff about things like that. It showed an imaginitive view of a new world beneath our own and possible what-ifs about the glimpses of the Sumerian mysteries. After all we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the past.
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Forbidden Planet is a beautiful movie, from the beginning segment of the spaceship floating toward the planet with the cold mysterious "BWEEEP..... BWEOOOOP" sounds to the tempestuous end, it is based off Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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everything we know about the sumerians are based on zecharia sitchin's theory's but how reliable are those?
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He IS a recognized Scholar and Professor of Sumerian Linguistics --

Of course - with ANY Hyroglyphics - there may be more than one meaning to the actual translations.

The Gryph
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So all our knowledge of the Sumerians derives from someones "theory"? That's very weak convincing.
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everything we know about the sumerians are based on zecharia sitchin's theory's but how reliable are those?
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hmm i disagree read the following article



Source: http://www.bibleufo.com/sitchin.htm


Works of Zechariah Sitchin
Fact or Fiction?

The Bible UFO Connection receives numerous requests for our thoughts on the work of Zechariah Sitchin and our work is often associated with his. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In order to better understand Sitchin's work
, we have done research into his background and standing in the archeological field he claims to possess such a unique understanding and perspective in. He has come up lacking in either credentials, expertise or respect in the field he claims such knowledge. Our concern relates to his particularly grandiose claim that the Bible is nothing more than an ancient plagiarism of Sumerian text, which he also asserts nullifies virtually all other ancient writings in the known world.
Zechariah Sitchin’s claim that the Bible is nothing more than a copy of Sumerian writings is, in part, premised on the assumption that, "The Nefilim are a humanoid technology superior race from another galaxy who have used their own genes to create the human race together with the genes of Homo Erectus." This concept, created by Zechariah Sitchin and advanced by many others, is purely theoretical. The assertion by Sitchin that the Nefilim were alien beings based on the interpretation of a word found in the Bible is fraudulent. In his words: "Nefilim, the name by which those extraordinary beings, the sons of the gods were known, means literally, "Those who have come down to Earth from the heavens." There are no theological or scholarly references to validate this definition. The proper definition of the word is, actually, very simple and to the point: From the Hebrew, Strongs Exhaustive Concordance: giants, Nephilim, nphiyl pronounced nef-eel' or nphil {nef-eel'}; properly, a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant:
But, fraudulent use of ancient language by Mr. Sitchin is not restricted to the Hebrew, as he is well known by his peers to mix and match Akkadian and Sumerian word-syllables to suit his theories. Even though he possesses no credentials in the interpretation of ancient Sumerian clay tablets he uses as the basis for his theories, and while claiming to be self-taught in its rendering, he makes the incredible claim that he alone can read these works properly. He totally disregards the abilities of all others in this field to understand the true meanings of the text and stands alone in his beliefs. Astronomers, scientific archaeologists, and ancient linguistic scholars familiar with his work consider him as inexperienced and uneducated.
He refuses to reveal his evidence dismissing, without comment, allegations of fraudulent representations and considers all critics of his work simply uninformed about the unique understanding he alone possesses about the true ancestry of mankind. Though presenting highly controversial claims, none of his books contain a reference section or footnotes. He refuses to validate his theories by simply ignoring justifiable requests for credible documentation. His work demonstrates no recognizable knowledge of anthropology, archeology, theology or astronomy. There is clear evidence of plagiarism, mixing of languages, ignorance of basic fundamentals of Sumerian and Akkadian grammar, misquotes, fictions, speculations, and mistranslations of many ancient works in his books and writings. He has no credibility with any of the experts in Sumerian translations whom he refuses to debate and shows no respect for.
Sitchin entered the field of Sumerian text translation with a degree in economic history and a short career as a journalist and nothing more. With these credentials alone, he claims he has proven that all of the world's ancient cultural narrations are simple copies of the one work he claims to be the basis for all human history. And, as the sole correct interpreter, he has set himself up literally as the sole source for the truth in all human history. This fact alone should raise red flags in abundance, yet, few seem to care to check the facts instead accepting his every word as fact.
In truth Sitchin’s work is benefactor of a time-tested truism. Any lie told often enough will eventually be accepted as a truth. Sitchin’s fictions have been “grand fathered in” by the sheer extent and the years of exposure his work has received and the many other authors who have copied his false assumptions. One simply needs to do research outside his own writings to see that there is no credibility gap. There is, in fact, no credibility at all.
For all those who question why this work does not include the works of Sitchin nor use them as a reference source, this should now be clear. For those who would like to do their own research, we have included some resourses
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Actually, a great deal is known about the Sumerians, and not from Sitchen either.  They did indeed have an advanced civilization by any meaning of the term.  Not only did they build three story buildings, but had a true arch as well.  Their mathematical system was complex indeed, having a base of 60 rather than our 10 based math.  Imagine, not 10 symbols to remember, but 59 of them (the zero was represented by a blank space rather than a symbol.  They made tables to make it easier for common use.  They could and did calculate areas and volumes, and could calculate square roots and cube roots.  Indeed advanced.  They also had a codified law, codified on many clay tablets, with even the concept of case history.  They are the ones who gave us the 360 degree compass, and surveyed individual property holdings with bearings and measured distances, and title was kept on those same clay tablets, much like the abstracts which are used to prove ownership even today.  At one point in time, they adopted a "silver standard" and had government fixed prices and wages.  They wrote contracts to cover all aspects of life, and the number of records is truly huge.

The problem with finding about them is that no one has ever written a complex history.  There are many hundreds of thousand clay tablets untranslated.  Most of them are only government records, however.  To date, the emphasis of those who can translate Sumerian (and there are few of them) has been on texts of literary value . . . poems and the like.  So to find out about this marvelous advanced civilization one has to look at many, many history texts, picking out the bits and pieces here and there.  A pity that, as it is a whole lot of work and time consuming.  Nevertheless, the references are there in standard texts of ancient history.
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