Zecharia Sitchin
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Zecharia Sitchin was a male writer, journalist, economist, and science fiction writer. He was born in Baku in 1920 and died in New York City in 2010. Sitchin held citizenship in Israel, the Soviet Union, and the United States. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science and wrote in English.
His professional work began in 1976. He authored 73 works, including *Die Chroniken des Planeten Erde*, *Zaginiona historia starożytnych Ameryk*, *Manual de las crónicas de la tierra*, *El duodécimo planeta*, and *King Who Refused to Die*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1920
- Works
- 73
Top works
- Die Chroniken des Planeten Erde
- Zaginiona historia starożytnych Ameryk
- Manual de las crónicas de la tierra
- El duodécimo planeta
- King Who Refused to Die
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1920-07-11 ) July 11, 1920, Baku , Azerbaijan SSR
- Died
- October 9, 2010 (2010-10-09) (aged 90), New York City, New York , U.S.
- Known for
- Fringe theories
- Website
- www .sitchin .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baku
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- intelligence officer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- writer
- Official website
- www.sitchin.com
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- date of birth
- 1920-07-11
- date of death
- 2010-10-09
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Zecharia Sitchin (11 July 1920 – 9 October 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. Sitchin's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 25 languages.
Sitchin's ideas have been resoundingly rejected by scientists, academics, historians (including Sumerologists, Orientalists and Assyriologists) and anthropologists who dismiss his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory. His work has been criticized for flawed methodology, ignoring archaeological and historical evidence, and mistranslations of ancient texts as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific claims.
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