Zecharia Sitchin
Evidence of Ancient ETs on Earth:
... is this artifact a sculpted scale model of a rocketship?

Zecharia Stichin presents new evidence for Anceint Astronauts: "The Headless Spaceman"
by Laura Lee

Is this a replica (see photo) of an ancient single-seat rocketship? That’s what it looks like to Zecharia Sitchin, the leading authority and scholar on the Ancient Astronaut theory.Hidden away in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Turkey for a quarter of a century, Sitchin recently convinced the Museum that this artifact may indeed be ancient, and not the modern forgery they concluded it must be, simply because our current view of our ancient history doesn’t include rocketships.

In his article in Atlantis Rising Magazine, Issue 15, Sitchin describes this object as "a sculpted scale model of what, to modern eyes, looks like a cone-nosed rocketship…Powered by a cluster of four exhaust engines in the back surrounding a larger exhaust engine, the rocketship has room for a sole pilot—actually shown and included in the scultpure." He describes the pilot as sitting with legs folded toward his chest, and wearing a one-piece "ribbed pressure suit" which becomes boots at the feet, and gloves at the hands, and points out that since the pilot’s head is missing, we cannot know whether the pilot wore a helmet, goggles, or other headgear. The artifact measures 23 centimeters long, 9.5 cm high, 8 cm wide, or 5.7 inches long, 3.8 inches high, and 3.5 inches wide.

Sitchin spent years tracking down the artifact, until he located it at the Archaeology Museum in Istanbul. It was excavated at Toprakkale, a city known in ancient times as Tuspa, where the kingdom of Urartu reigned briefly over 2500 years ago. The museum curators decided this small artifact must be a forgery because it differs from the era’s style, and more importantly, it looks like a space capsule. They reasoned that since there were no space capsules in ancient times, it must be a modern fake, a practical joke, made of plaster of Paris and marble powder.

However, during Sitchin’s visit to Istanbul and the Museum in September 1997, he met with the Director, Dr. Pasinli, who took the artifact from a drawer, and allowed Stichin to examine and photograph it. It looked to Sitchin to be carved from a porous, volcanic ash stone, the details very precise. Dr. Pasinli asked Sitchin what he thought. It is not out of context, Sitchin told the Director and his colleagues, when you view various artifacts that also seem to represent an ancient, space faring civilization. In Sitchin’s "The Lost Realms," you’ll find illustrations of artifacts that may represent bearded spacemen and rocketships from Mexico, and from Lebanon, what might be a rocketship on a landing platform. He advised the Museum directors to allow viewers to decide for themselves what it is, while stating their own doubt about the artifact’s authenticity.

This was enough to convince the curators to finally put the object on public display. Be sure to have a look for yourself next time you are in Istanbul. In the meantime, we present these photographs, and thank Zecharia Sitchin for permission to post these photographs, and for his report on The Laura Lee Show May 30^th, 1999. And if you are contemplating a trip to Syria and to what Sitchin believes is the landing place, the sites of the clay tablets that tell the story, and more, click here to. www.visionstravel.com

About Zecharia Sitchin

Zecharia Sitchin is one of a small number of orientalists who can read ancient Sumerican clay tablets. He was born in Russia and rased in Palestine, where he acquired knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew and other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archeology of the Near East. He graduated from the University of London, majoring in Economic History, having attended the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Oriental Society, the Middle East Studies Association of North America, and the Israel Exploration Society. After a writing career as a journalist, he began writing his "Earth Chronicles" series of books, which to date have been translated in fourteen languages from their English originals.