Z. Sitchin depicts golds history in its most original and imaginative context! He reasoned from deciphering pre Babylonia texts that the need for gold was behind the motivation for the creation of man.
OK, i looked around for information on Mr. Sitchin and was pleased to find an article about him on my favorite debunking site: skepdic.com
"Zecharia Sitchin, along with Erich von Däniken and Immanuel Velikovsky, make up the holy trinity of pseudohistorians. Each begins with the assumption that ancient myths are not myths but historical and scientific texts. Sitchin's claim to fame is announcing that he alone correctly reads ancient Sumerian clay tablets. All other scholars have misread these tablets which, according to Sitchin, reveal that gods from another planet (Niburu, which orbits our Sun every 3,600 years) arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and created humans by genetic engineering of female apes."
and so on. very amusing reading for those of a rational persuasion (as are many articles at the skepdic site).
i readily admit that my hypotheses regarding gold and other asset classes may turn out to be incorrect. but i highly doubt the reason will be that "gods from Nuburu, which orbits our Sun every 3,600 years, arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and created humans by genetic engineering of female apes."
here's another debunking of Sitchin by a scholar with a doctorate in the languages Sitchin claims to translate: facadenovel.com
Michael Cremo in "Hidden Archeology" shows perfect, but large Steel ball bearings dated from approx. 400,000 years ago
that sounds like a hilarious book. i would read it for laughs but not knowledge. i found a review of it...
"Cremo and Thompson's claim that anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens have been around for hundreds of millions of years is an outrageous notion. Accepting that there is a place in science for seemingly outrageous hypotheses (cf. Davis, 1926) there is no justification for the sort of sloppy rehashing of canards, hoaxes, red herrings, half-truths and fantasies Cremo and Thompson offer in the service of a religious ideology."
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