The 12th Planet: Sitchin’s Anunnaki, Nibiru, and the Birth of the Modern Ancient Astronaut Myth
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Zechariah Sitchin's The 12th Planet claimed that ancient tablets describe Anunnaki from a hidden planet called Nibiru who mined Earth and created humans as a slave race, a narrative that launched the modern ancient-astronaut myth and shaped popular culture despite scholarly rejection of his translations and evidence.