Nikola Tesla

[Nick]

There is a lot of excitement in some circles over Zecharia Sitchin and the ancient astronauts theory. This is all tied in with the enigmatic Sumerian texts on which the Biblical Creation account was based. Sitchin's theory was astronauts had already visited the Earth around 3500 B.C. I uploaded a pic of one example of some of the strange archaeological relics of this period.

We're venturing into fairly dodgy territory here - the "Ancient Aliens" theory is firmly rooted in pseudo-science -  there are also a lot of very well informed folk who believe that Sitchin is just plain wrong, e.g. http://sitchiniswrong.com/index.html, and like some others his understanding and scholarship of the Sumerian texts is weak and incorrect. Bit like von Däniken...

The photo posted is one from Val Camonica, Italy,a UNESCO World Heritage site that has over 200,000 catalogued petroglyphs spanning some 8,000 years. If the ancient aliens theory was more prominent in ancient times, wouldn't there be more of these rather than the common handful that are always trotted out?

It possible to cherry-pick data to advance any argument - look and the bigger picture(s!) and it soon becomes clear what the real story is...

This is not really a forum for pseudo-science...