Nuclear Devastation
Zecharia Sitchin
THE CASE OF THE EVIL WIND
Climate Study Corroborates Sumer’s
Nuclear Fate
At the end of the third millennium B.C. the great
Sumerian civilization came to an abrupt end.
Its sudden demise was bewailed in numerous lamentation texts that have
been discovered by archeologists. The texts
ascribed the calamity to an Evil Wind that came blowing from the west (from
the direction of the Mediterranean Sea) -- a deathly cloud that caused
excruciating death to all living beings, people and animals alike, that
withered plants and poisoned the waters.
In The Wars of Gods and Men (third book
of The Earth Chronicles series), Zecharia Sitchin saw an explanation of the sudden death in a long
text known to scholars as The Erra Epos,
that described a chain of events that ultimately led to the use of “Weapons
of Terror” in a conflict between opposing clans of the Anunnaki
("Those who from Heaven to Earth came").
Based on the descriptions of the weapons in
the Erra Epos and in the lamentation texts, Zecharia Sitchin concluded that
the Weapons of Terror were nuclear weapons. Used to obliterate the
spaceport that then existed in the Sinai Peninsula (and some “sinning cities”
such as Sodom and Gomorrah), the nuclear cloud then was carried by the
prevailing winds eastward, causing death and desolation in the Lands Between
the Rivers (Mesopotamia) -- the empire of Sumer and
Akkad.
Besides claiming that nuclear weapons were
first used on Earth not in the 1940’s in Hiroshima
but thousands of years earlier in the Near East,
Zecharia also pinpointed the date: 2024 B.C.!
Scientific Corroboration Now Comes
Along
That the civilization that sprang out in Sumer circa 3800 B.C. – reaching unparalleled heights
under the last dynasty, the Third Dynasty of Ur (Abraham’s city) -- had come
to an abrupt end near the end of the third millennium B.C. has been an
accepted and well documented fact. That the end was abrupt,
was also certain. What scholars deemed
as still lacking was an explanation: How, what
caused it?
Beginning in 1999, archaeologists and scholars
specializing in the Near East saw mounting evidence that the demise of Sumer and Akkad (Sumer’s northern extension) coincided with an abrupt climate
change. An initial study by Harvey Weiss and Timothy C. Wieskel
of Harvard University was reinforced by a subsequent study (Geology,
April 2000) by H.M. Cullen et al from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of
Columbia University, the University of Utah, the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, and the Institute fÜr Geowissenschaften, Germany. Based on studies of unexplained aridity and
wind-blown dust storms and radiocarbon datings,
they reported that their readings indicated a date of 4025 years ago (plus or
minus a margin of 125 years).
A precise date corroborated!
Those and similar climate-change studies,
relating the climate conditions to the rise and fall of civilizations in the
Old as well as the New Worlds, were summed up in a major study published in
the prestigious journal Science in its 27 April 2001 issue. Authored by Peter B. deMenocal
of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, the study
paid particular attention to sedimentary remains of Tephra;
the telltale rock fragments confirmed the date 4025 Years Before
Present.
And 4025 years, before the present year A.D.
2001 -- is exactly 2024 B.C., as Zecharia Sitchin had determined in his 1985 book!
The Tephra
Mystery
The reliance of this latest study on the Tephra evidence is doubly significant.
While the previous studies spoke of “wind
blown dust,” this latest study focuses on a material called Tephra. And
what is Tephra? It is defined in geology textbooks
thus:
When a volcano erupts, it will sometimes eject
material such as rock fragments into the atmosphere. This material is known as Tephra
These burnt-through pieces of blackened
gravel-like rock mostly fall near their volcanic source; but ashlike particles can be carried by prevailing winds over
many miles and can stay aloft for more than a year.
The area in the Sinai
Peninsula where the destroyed spaceport had been is indeed
covered -- to this day! -- with gravelike
burnt-through blackened stones (for photo evidence see illustrations 105,
106, & 107 in The Wars of Gods and Men). But as Zecharia has pointed out in his book; there are NO
VOLCANOES in the Sinai Peninsula. In
the Sinai Peninsula, the source of the
wind-carried dust remains a mystery.
And the only explanation for these broken and
blackened stones in the Sinai and the windblown desolation in Mesopotamia can
be the tale of the Erra Epos,
(reflected in the biblical tale of the upheaval of Sodom
and Gomorrah):
not an eruption by a non-existent volcano, but the use of nuclear weapons in
2024 B.C.
ZS / November 2001
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