Sumerian Cylinder Seal VA 243: Auditing the Ancient Solar System Claim 1976-2024

Sumerian Cylinder Seal VA 243: Auditing the Ancient Solar System Claim 1976-2024

Cylinder Seal VA 243, a 3.4 cm Akkadian-period serpentine cylinder catalogued at the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, became famous in 1976 when Zecharia Sitchin claimed that the star and ring of dots carved on it depicted the solar system with an extra planet, “Nibiru.” Specialists in Mesopotamian art read the symbol as a star, a […]