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protective shield over their planet. To create humans, they did some serious genetic manipulation on an already existing hominid species. They left behind symbols found in ancient cultures, such as the winged disc, and evidence of nuclear destruction. Mission control for their flying craft was in what is now Israel, an area that was as significant then as it is now. -P. H. encompassing the other adjoining civilisations that followed. The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad was a major depository of such artefacts, but fortunately not the only one. In the early days of modern archaeology, most of the discovered artefacts were carried off to the museums of the archaeologists’ countries—London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, etc.—and later divided between them and the local PH: Could there be a secret connection between this war and PH: antiquity? ZS: By advancing from the subject of the artefacts to the issue of the geographic location of the conflict, you are in reality raising two other very significant subjects. The first is that of hallowed or sacred ground; the other is that of prophecy. If you travel in the lands of the Bible, you realise that a mosque is built exactly where a Byzantine church had stood, and that it was built where there had been a synagogue, and that one, too, was built exactly there because the place was revered even in earlier times. Over the thousands of years of Mesopotamian civilisation—from the beginning of Sumer circa 4000 BC to the conquest of Alexander and the Seleucid rulers in the last centuries BC—royal inscriptions repeatedly state that it was the custom and the duty of kings to rebuild temples exactly where the previous ones stood. Conqueror after conqueror in antiquity adhered to this tradition, but neither the British after World War | nor the Americans this time have such a compulsion to build houses o worship upon ancient sites. So the issue of interest is one o prophecy. Though Baghdad is a relatively new city and is not a continuation of Babylon, nor buil where it was, there are biblica prophecies about the fall of Babylon as part of a Divine Plan. The question is whether such prophecies were one-time prophecies, i.e., jus specific to Babylon, as an example, in the sixth century BC only, or whether these are eterna prophecies, applicable again and again when the circumstances and the Wheel of Time apply. | believe in the latter. I have repeatedly stated that "the past is the future" because the Anunnaki, the people, and the civilisations they bequeathed to Modern and Ancient Conflicts Paola Harris (PH): What is the significance of the destruction of the thousands of artefacts in the National Museum in Baghdad? Does it destroy the legacy left by the early people of the Fertile Crescent, including the Anunnaki? Zecharia Sitchin (ZS): While the subject of the fate of the archaeological objects in the museum should be of concern to everyone interested in the preservation of art, culture and history, the matter is, of course, of special interest to me and my worldwide readers because my writings, beginning with The 12th Planet [1976], are profoundly based on the archaeological evidence from ancient Mesopotamia—beginning with the Sumerian civilisation, continuing with the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian, and museums, So, first, the loss is not total. Second, it is now clear that of the reported 170,000 items in the Baghdad Museum, only 29 important artefacts were missing—some have been returned since—and these ones of course have been studied, photographed, etc., and are well known to scholars. Although the loss is not as massive as initially reported, the looting that took place, the smashing of display cases, thus damaging their contents, and the breaking of larger monuments that could not be carried off—this was nothing short of pure barbarism, unforgivable behaviour. So the legacy that these museum collections represents was not and cannot be destroyed; it lives on in the other museums and, of course, in the books on the subject, such as mine, in videos, etc. a "No, no, don't pick him up. He'll just want us to take him all the way to Andromeda." 62 * NEXUS DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com