Experts found that mining operations had been going on as far back as 50,000 B.C. and 'more likely 70,000 to 80,000 B.C.!Sitchin brings God's creation of Man into the picture by using ancient texts that indicate the use of genetic engineering to accelerate the development of ape-like creatures on Earth, to work in the mines that the Anunnaki had established in southern Africa. In the process, he finds in the texts evidence of failed attempts to genetically create modern humans that produced mutants which may well have served as the models of the animal-human forms that abound in Greek mythology. The potential for Sitchin's thesis to explain the ancient human infatuation with gold is intriguing here, as is his postulated presence of higher knowledge in ancient times in regards to the insights contained in the book of Revelation.
Sitchin's documentation, both interpretive and scientific, is so extensive that only a body of work similar in size to his own could do it justice, but one example may prove interesting.
His claim that the Anunnaki were mining minerals in Africa thousands of years ago may be substantiated by the 20th-century experience of the Anglo-American Corporation, a large mining company. Aware that many promising mining sites in southern Africa showed evidence of prior mining operations, the company called in teams of archaeologists for an analysis.
These experts found that mining operations had been going on as far back as 50,000 B.C. and 'more likely 70,000 to 80,000 B.C.!' One wonders at the interest in precious metals over 70,000 years ago. Certainly neither Christian nor Darwinian theories of human development offer anything that explains either a human interest in such metals nor the technology to dig such mines."
