From their texts, it would appear that the Sumerians were in possession of quite a significant
amount of scientific and astronomical knowledge and knew of all these things.
For example: Uranus was unknown until 1781 and Neptune until 1846. In modern astronomy
we didn't even know our solar system had as many as 9 planets orbiting the Sun until 1936 when
Pluto was discovered. It had been previously thought that there were only 8 and yet the
Sumerians already knew of the existence of all of these planets 6000 years ago including our
newly discovered member which now makes 10 even as Bodes Law suggested, though the
Sumerian texts say that there are actually 12 planets, not 10 or even 11 (fig.119).
As the diagram shows the reasons for this discrepancy are firstly, because they considered the
Sun to be a rightfully included member of the Solar System and secondly, because they believe
our moon actually has a considerable history of its own. Many scientists and scholars have
surmised that our moon is too big to be called a real satellite and have debated whether the Earth
and the Moon should really be classed as a double planetary system. The Sumerian believed it to
be so and their name for the celestial body we know as the moon was 'Luna'.
The other planet that also exists in our solar system, the one that we have only now discovered,
they name as 'Nibiru, the planet of the crossing.' The Sumerians say that Nibiru is a large planet,
possibly comparable in size to Saturn or Uranus and that it has an extremely vast elliptical orbit
and that it takes 3600 of our years to complete just one orbit around our Sun. They also say that
Nibiru is the dwelling place of the 'Anunnaki,' their Gods.
Numerous mentions of the Anunnaki are made in various religious texts including the Christian
Bible in which they are often referred to as the 'Elohim' and the 'Nephilim' or sometimes in more
recent versions of the bible merely as 'giants.'
