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Ian Lawton's Mesopotamia Papers

Find out about the wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia uncovered in the
last few centuries. From its culture and cities of Eridu, Lagash,
Nippur, Uruk/Erech and Shuruppak, excavated by intrepid explorers such
as Austen Henry Layard, Henry Rawlinson and Leonard Woolley; through
to some of the oldest literary texts in the world, whose early
Sumerian and later Akkadian cuneiform was deciphered by scholars such
as Edward Hincks, Jules Oppert, Alexander Heidel, Samuel Noah Kramer,
Thorkild Jacobsen and Stephanie Dalley. These texts recount the
mythological adventures of gods such as An, Enki, Enlil, Ninhursag,
Inanna, Ninlil, Ninurta and Marduk, and the epic adventures of its
heroes such as Atra-Hasis, Adapa, Etana and Gilgamesh. And find out
why the related theories of Zecharia Sitchin, concerning
extraterrestrial visitors called the Anunnaki from the planet Nibiru,
have few firm foundations.

MISCELLANEA

Link to detailed papers by Michael Heiser of the Department of Hebrew
and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison concerning
the scholastic errors in Sitchin's work

Extract from an email in Dec 2001 from a graduate student of Near
Eastern Studies at a US university who has added more details to one
of the case studies in my "What's in a Shem" paper commenting on
Sitchin's linguistics

PAPERS

The substance of these papers was originally drafted in 1998, and
rearranged and edited for publication here in July 2000

Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamia

Guide to the Mesopotamian Pantheon of Gods

Introduction to Mesopotamian Literary Texts

Guide to the Sumerian Texts

Guide to the Akkadian Texts

A Refutation of the Theories of Zecharia Sitchin:

Introduction to Sitchin's Theories

Sitchin's Scholastic Approach

What's in a Shem?

Sitchin's Cosmology and 'Planet X'

Sitchin's Pantheon

Conclusions about Sitchin's Work