Name: Ancient Aliens: Alien Gods of Ancient Sumer (Season 13) | History
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NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, evidence that there is other intelligent life

They believe Earth has been visited by intelligent beings

While excavating for archeological treasures,

a group of men, led by French scientist Paul- mile Botta,

came upon the remains of a huge Assyrian palace,

told of what archaeologists believed to be the world's

oldest civilization and a group of powerful beings

ANDREW COLLINS: The Anunnaki was a term of the gods used

by the ancient Sumerians, but the original form of it,

It meant those that were connected with the stars.

The Anunnaki were seen to be the givers of civilization

And they are described as having the shining eyes,

and having a radiance, and an otherworldly feeling

NARRATOR: Based on 30 years of studying the Sumerian cuneiform

tablets, in 1976, author and researcher Zecharia Sitchin

published a book called "The 12th Planet," in which he

proposed that the Sumerian gods were, in fact,

According to Sitchin's interpretation of the tablets,

these alien visitors, the Anunnaki, created humankind.

JASON MARTELL: It appears to be that gods

came down and literally started a colonization project here

on Earth, creating us in their image and after their likeness.

It also might stand to reason, then, that they've infused us

with the desire to spread this colonization

GEORGE NOORY: I think if you look at what we've been doing

for what may have happened here a long time

We're beginning to understand that the Anunnaki gods, that

out throughout the universe, that we could now, as we are

starting to head out into space, be encountering

had civilizations on Earth and were working