The Earth Chronicles Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Seven Books of the Earth Chronicles »

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS / ARCHAEOLOGY

The Earth Chronicles Handbook

The Earth Chronicles series, a historical and archaeological adventure into the origins of mankind and planet Earth, began with the publication of the bestselling The 12th Planet in 1976. The series is based on the author’s study of Sumerian tablets as well as other ancient texts, of which he is one of the world’s leading authorities, and shows that the myths from the world’s earliest civilizations were in fact recollections of actual events and that the gods of ancient peoples were visitors to Earth from another planet--the Anunnaki, inhabitants of planet Nibiru.

The series’ books include The 12th Planet, The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, When Time Began, The Cosmic Code, and The End of Days, all products of the author’s decades of research and unmatched study of the Bible and of the ancient records of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, and the civilizations of pre-Columbian America. Unearthing the hidden history of Earth and mankind, the series--totaling more than 2,300 pages--uses the Past to unveil the meaning of the prophesied Future.

In The Earth Chronicles Handbook, Zecharia Sitchin has created a unique encyclopedic compendium to provide a navigational tool for this entire opus. Entries are coded to indicate at a glance their cultural origin and contain summations and commentaries, reflecting Sitchin’s innovative understanding of the Past.

ZECHARIA SITCHIN, an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in Russia and grew up in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years prior to undertaking his life’s work--The Earth Chronicles.

One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based The Earth Chronicles series on the texts and pictorial evidence recorded by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been widely translated, reprinted in paperback editions, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television programs. He now lives and writes in New York.