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Ever since George Smith found and reported in 1876 (The Chal- dean Account of Genesis) detailed Mesopotamian tales of Cre- ation, followed by L. W. King's The Seven Tablets of Creation, scholars and theologians alike have come to recognize that the Cre- ation Tales of the Old Testamant (Genesis Chapters 1 through 3) are condensed and edited versions of original Sumerian texts. A century later, in our work, The 12th Planet (1976), we have shown that these texts were no primitive myths, but depositories of ad- vanced scientific knowledge with which modern scholars are only now beginning to catch up. The unmanned space probes of Jupiter and Saturn confirmed many "incredible" facets of the Sumerian knowledge regarding our Solar System, such as that the outer planets have numerous sat- ellites and that water is present on some of them. Those distant planets, and some of their principal satellites, were found to have active cores that generate internal heat; some radiate out more heat than they can ever receive from the distant Sun. Volcanic activity provided those celestial bodies with their own atmospheres. All the basic requirements for the development of life exist out there, just as the Sumerians had said 6,000 years ago. What, then, of the existence of a twelfth member of our Solar System—a tenth planet beyond Pluto, the Sumerian Nibiru (and Babylonian Marduk)—a planet whose existence was a basic and far-reaching conclusion in The 12th Planet? In 1978, astronomers at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Wash- ington determined that Pluto—being smaller than formerly be- lieved—could not by itself account for perturbations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune; they postulated the existence of yet another celestial body beyond Pluto. In 1982 the U.S. National Aeronau- tics and Space Administration (NASA) announced its conclusion that there indeed exists such a body; whether or not it is another large planet, it planned to determine by deploying in a certain man- ner its two Pioneer spacecraft that had been hurtling into space be- yond Saturn. 109 MANKIND EMERGES