Lhe very first book by Zecharia Sitchin, The 12th Planet, was published in 1976 in the United States. He immediately encountered a prodigious success: for the first time, a specialist in Mesopotamian mythological stories, capable of verifying the texts at the source, dared to see in it more than the fruit of an unbridled imagination. For Sitchin, it was impossible that the scribes on clay of these biblical epics before the letter were not inspired by a strong oral tradition based on real events.
In the years following the publication of The 12th Planet, more than twenty translations from around the world revealed to a fascinated public this other vision of the history of humanity. The one told, straightforwardly, by the stories of gods and men. Zecharia Sitchin, therefore, devotes himself entirely to the deepening of his work and publishes, in more than thirty years, no less than fifteen books, all developed around his strong idea: man is not the fruit of a natural evolution, Darwinian type. Not that he denies evolution. Simply, suggest the mythologies of Sumer, this evolution was genetically modified to say the least by more learned than our modern tinkerers of genes.