Sitchins Theory.

Ok,ok, You may all have to take this with a pinch of sault. For one there is quite a few errors in this persons explanation of 'Sumer' I.e. 'Hell-Abyss- Abyssu' Sumerian for ''Watery deep'' (Hell, if you don't already know this derives from the Goddess Hel. Norse Goddess I believe she was.)
I'm not what for speculation, or UFO's, but the symbols maybe familiar, the explanation is quite interesting too. But i'm always a cynical to UFO's, but hey! Each to their own! Enjoy!

Around 6,000 years ago, the Sumerian civilization sprang up in the region of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq. The Sumerians developed a highly advanced culture, much of which we still use today. They developed the first advances in writing, mathematics, science, medicine, and perhaps most importantly, astronomy.

One of the more enduring Sumerian achievements is the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest known written story. It is about a hero named Gilgamesh, who is two-thirds god and one-third man. Also within the story is an account of a great flood, one that may have predated the Bible's. The flood was sent by the Anunnaki, which means "Those who from Heaven to Earth came." The Anunnaki were the offspring of Anu, the Mesopotamians' equivalent of Zeus, and they were the seven judges of Hell.

Sumerian culture: signed, Akkadian cylinder sealed and delivered. "The weird thing about this Akkadian cylinder seal (one of many that archaeologists have found) is that we have no idea how the Sumerians made the thing, or any of the others for that matter." (Photo: www.garone.net)

Now the whole controversy over the Sumerians concerns the work of an archaeologist named Zecharia Sitchin, who has written many books about the Anunnaki -- The 12th Planet, The Wars Of Gods and Men, etc. According to Sitchin, the Anunnaki came from the Heavens and created Man in their likeness, much like the Biblical God made Adam. They came from a planet called Nibiru, whse orbit around the Sun every 3600 years brought it into close proximity with the Earth. They came to Earth around 450,000 years ago to mine gold to help protect their own planet -- why a civilization that can travel through space would need gold is not explained, but hey, that's why they call it conspiracy theory, people -- but, being exhausted from their battles to save their planet and the long trip to ours, they needed help in the mines. So they sought out the hominids that roamed around our planet (cro-magnons, neanderthals, et al.) and pushed evolution quickly forward by inserting part of their own genetic material to create a hybrid species to do their bidding.

Sitchin claims some of his evidence comes from an Akkadian cylinder seal (#VA/243), which shows an apparent depiction of our solar system, albeit with 11 planets rather than the nine we know (the Sumerians apparently counted the Moon as a planet). So, the remaining planet, Sitchin surmised after much research through Mesopotamian writings, was Nibiru. The weird thing about this Akkadian cylinder seal (one of many that archaeologists have found) is that we have no idea how the Sumerians made the thing, or any of the others for that matter.

Yet more evidence supporting Sitchin comes from a very interesting Sumerian drawing. On a page simply called "Adam" found on Sitchin's site, there's a picture of two dragons holding two swords while between them, two serpents are coiled around a rod. This picture was the Sumerian symbol for medicine and healing, the caduceus that is still used to signify our own medical communities. Notice that the caduceus also resembles the double-helix structure of DNA. Things that make you go "Hmm," indeed.



[ I wont post the rest, goes all into UFO's and Nassa, but I just found those bits quite interesting, albeit sceptical! ;P]