The Sumerians, from 4,000 to 6,000 years ago, preceded the Egyptians by nearly 1,000 years. The Sumerians left behind extensive writings on more than one hundred thousand clay tablets that described their thoughts and opinions regarding politics, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and history, to name only a few areas of their wide-ranging expertise. More to the point, on roughly 5,000 of those tablets they detail their inexplicable knowledge about how our solar system gained its final shape, how life came to be on Earth, and how humanity itself came to be here. What they say is that everything the Sumerians knew was told to them by a race of superior beings they called �gods,� with a small �g,� who, ironically, were the original �gods� of the Old Testament. Those �gods� came to live and work on Earth from another planet in our solar system, a planet unlike any other, with an elliptical, 3600-year orbit that carries it from a perihelion between Mars and the inner edge of the Asteroid Belt to an aphelion well beyond the orbit of Pluto, in the deepest reaches of space. Ironically, modern astronomers strongly suspect that such a large celestial body (which they call �Planet X�) exists, because of its subtle gravitational effects on the inner planets. Unfortunately, it is currently so far removed from Earth�s orbit (just as the Sumerian tablets indicate), its location cannot be pinpointed. The Sumerian tablets further contend that the �Anunnaki,� the formal name for the �gods� from the planet �Nibiru,� came to live on Earth over 400,000 years ago because they needed gold to repair their atmosphere which they had damaged during their rise to a high technology, the same way we are damaging Earth's atmosphere on our rise to a high technology. Because mining gold is such difficult work, at around 250,000 years ago the Anunnaki genetically engineered humans to be their slaves (again, by a process detailed in the book). For as improbable as that might sound, our genes do in fact contain clear, undeniable evidence that we were created by genetic engineering between 200,000 and 250,000 years ago, in precisely the place where the Sumerian tablets claim the Anunnaki created us: in southern Africa!