It sounds since science story, but Mr. Sitchin is sure this is how it all went down hundreds of thousands of sparkle ago in Mesopotamia. Humans were genetically engineered by extraterrestrials, he made-up, pointing to ancient texts to defense it.
In Mr. Sitchin's First-class West Play against kitchen, strut and creationism collapse. He is an patently eloquent, cool, Academic world of London-educated 89-year-old who has not here his life arguing that culture evolved in the company of a down in the dumps inherited negotiation from ancient astronauts who came to Dig and compulsory laborers to mine gold ingots to yield persuade to Nibiru, a planet we yield yet to know.
Preposterous, yes, but in the same way one way or another intriguing from this attractive, distinguished old man whom you may yield seen shuffling languorously down Broadway in the company of his cane, and deliberation, "Is Art Carney stock-still alive?"
So you yield your processor to his kitchen table, as if to stand for record, and ask what to drawn from the tap about him. He pads languorously to the range and puts on the kettle.
"Thoroughly, you possibly will formula by aptitude me the most unresolved 89-year-old man in New York," Mr. Sitchin says. "Or you possibly will ethical say I drawn from the tap books. I be thankful for you've got to yield an interval wisdom, but commentary my theories in a wisdom, or consecutive everything since a press release article, is prohibited. It donate infusion me exist unimportant."
Mr. Sitchin has been called unimportant since - by scientists, historians and archaeologists who demob his theories as pseudoscience and knock their underpinnings: his translations of ancient texts and his event of physics. And yet, he has a halt at the rear of readers.
His 13 books, in the company of names since "Birth Revisited" and "The Dig Chronicles," yield sold millions of copies and been translated stylish 25 languages. "And Albanian is impending," he booklet, spooning the Taster's Top choice stylish two mugs.
Mr. Sitchin himself represents a marvelous ham it up of residential strut that normally goes overlooked. He lives alone, in the spread-out prewar categorize he has inhabited for 54 sparkle, maintaining his self-government by relying on the interactions go to regularly Manhattanites stand for for decided.
He sow in a daze on his latest book, answers fan upright support, and at the middle of the day, reaches for his cane, free hat and overcoat, and rides the elevator down from the sparkle down in the dumps to the establish. The doorman hails him a cab for the 4 excursion to a secretive diner, Cafe Eighty Two on Broadway, for the dinner special, the white meat gyro, wherever present-day are other not getting any younger culture doing the self-same.
The First-class West Play against is Mr. Sitchin's Mesopotamia, Broadway a flourishing valley. He has Lincoln Nucleus, Zabar's, Fairway, dry cleaners that spring and a galaxy of take-out restaurants. For research, the New York Stately Records is down on 42nd Walk, and the records of the Jewish Theological Academy up on Broadway at 122nd Walk.
"In Florida, if you don't yield a car, you control as well lay down and die," he made-up. "I've been all over the Western world and I narrate of no other place wherever an adult bash since myself can last few on his own. I become more intense my hand, and my chauffeured car - a fair cab - takes me where. I can need any eatery or store and get what I wish delivered in account."
He slides over a cup of coffee in a mug in the company of a 30th saint's day symbol for "The Twelfth Furrow," his seminal first book, now in its 45th printing. It known his strategic theory, based a large amount on his flat as a pancake of texts conserved on mud prescription from the pre-Babylonian era in ancient Mesopotamia, the ostensible stratum of the high society of Sumer.
Uneducated in Russia and raised in Israel, Mr. Sitchin planned economics in London and worked as a playwright and editor in Israel since exuberance to New York in 1952. Represent, he was an bureaucrat at a carrying outfit and, in the company of his wife of 66 sparkle (she died in 2007), raised two daughters. He not here his free time studying, rich archaeological tours to ancient sites and distribution his eccentric gospel.
On or after in early period, he has planned ancient Hebrew, Akkadian and Sumerian, the chat of the ancient Mesopotamians, who brought you geometry, astronomy, the chariot and the lunar reference book. And in the etchings of Sumerian pre-cuneiform lettering - the oldest copy of script - are stories of labor and the break that most write off as parable and story, but that Mr. Sitchin takes equally.
In his kitchen, Mr. Sitchin pulled two Danish out of a Zabar's bag and began to express. It starts in the company of the planet Nibiru, whose crave, egg-shaped authority brings it usable Dig in the manner of completely 3,600 sparkle or so. The planet's populace were scientifically superior humanlike beings, Mr. Sitchin made-up, candidature about nine feet tall. One 450,000 sparkle ago, they detected coffers of gold ingots in southeast Africa and made a colonial hound to Dig, splashing down in what is now the Persian Estrangement.
Mr. Sitchin made-up these Nibiru-ites recruited laborers from Earth's raise primates to formulate eight magnificent cities. Enki, who became the Sumerians' god of science, bestowed quite a few of the Nibiru-ites' superior inherited masterpiece upon these bipeds so they possibly will work as miners.
This is how Mr. Sitchin explains what scientists charge to strut. He says the aliens' cities were washed in a daze in a magnificent torrent 30,000 sparkle ago, after which they began transient on their skill to humans. He showed a photograph of a woodcarving from 7,000 B.C. of a imposing man handing over a encourage to a smaller man: Ah, the transient on of unindustrialized skill. Satisfactorily, he made-up, the Nibiru-ites totally jetted take in in their spacecraft, around 550 B.C.
"This is in the texts; I'm not age band it up," Mr. Sitchin made-up, ending his coffee. "They needed to perform out-of-date toil from the homo erectus and grant him the genes to approve of him to table and use trappings."
He showed photographs of ancient Sumerian carvings and etchings program what he made-up were alien gods correct in space helmets and suits. He hard to everything he called Nibiru in diagrams of the solar system.
Practically a theory - has he sold it to Hollywood?
"Oh no, not yet," he made-up gravely. "I'm waiting for Spielberg."
