Genesis Revisited is a companion volume to Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, published in 1990. Rather than continuing the historical narrative of the main sequence, it works as a comparison exercise: each chapter opens with a scientific development from the 1970s and 1980s — in astrophysics, genetics, space exploration, or computing — and then argues that an equivalent understanding is already present in Sumerian tablets or biblical texts thousands of years earlier. The central claim is that modern science is rediscovering knowledge brought to Earth by the Anunnaki. Topics include the solar system's formation, the Anunnaki role in creating Homo sapiens through genetic manipulation of an existing hominid, the significance of mitochondrial DNA in tracing the "Eve" lineage, and apparent structures on Mars photographed by the Soviet Phobos 2 probe in 1989.
Sitchin reads Genesis directly against Sumerian creation narratives, arguing that the Garden of Eden was an Anunnaki labour settlement in Africa, Adam a bioengineered hybrid created to work the gold mines, and the biblical flood a deliberate Anunnaki intervention in human history. Scholars of Sumer, genetics, and planetary science do not accept these interpretations. The book served as an accessible entry point for readers encountering Sitchin's work for the first time, and its scientific examples — especially the Mars imagery — are dated by subsequent high-resolution surveys of the planet.
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1 — The Host of Heaven
Chapter 2 — It Came from Outer Space
Chapter 3 — In the Beginning
Chapter 4 — The Messengers of Genesis
Chapter 5 — GAIA: The Cleaved Planet
Chapter 6 — Witness to Genesis
Chapter 7 — The Seed of Life
Chapter 8 — The Adam: A Slave Made to Order
Chapter 9 — The Mother Called Eve
Chapter 10 — When Wisdom Was Lowered from Heaven
Chapter 11 — A Space Base on Mars
Chapter 12 — Phobos: Malfunction or Star Wars Incident
Chapter 13 — In Secret Anticipation
Reception
One of Sitchin's most-read shorter works and a common entry point for biblically-oriented readers. By structuring each chapter as a comparison between a recent scientific finding and an ancient Sumerian or biblical text, the book makes Sitchin's broader framework accessible without requiring familiarity with the earlier Earth Chronicles volumes. The chapters on mitochondrial DNA and the Mars structures attracted the most attention. Geneticists rejected Sitchin's reading of the mitochondrial Eve research as supporting a single Anunnaki creation event, pointing out that the data supports common ancestry through population genetics, not genetic engineering. The Phobos 2 imagery he discusses — suggesting artificial structures on Mars — has since been contradicted by higher-resolution Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photography. Sumerologists reject the readings of the creation tablets on which the book's central comparisons depend.
Frequently asked
What is Genesis Revisited about?
It is a companion volume to Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series, published in 1990. Each chapter compares a scientific finding from the 1970s–80s with an ancient Sumerian or biblical text, arguing that modern science is rediscovering what the Anunnaki already knew. Topics range from the formation of the solar system to genetic engineering and the origins of Homo sapiens. Scholars of Sumer, genetics, and planetary science do not accept Sitchin's interpretations.
How does Sitchin read the Book of Genesis?
Sitchin reads Genesis in parallel with Sumerian creation narratives, arguing that the biblical text is a condensed version of older Anunnaki records. In his reading, the Garden of Eden was a labour settlement in Africa, Adam a bioengineered hybrid created to mine gold, and the biblical flood a deliberate Anunnaki intervention. Scholars of Sumer and biblical studies do not accept these interpretations, finding Sitchin's Sumerian translations non-standard.
What is the role of DNA in Genesis Revisited?
Sitchin argues that mitochondrial DNA — then newly characterised by geneticists — supports the Sumerian account of Anunnaki genetic engineering, tracing the "Eve" lineage back to a single creation event rather than gradual evolution. Geneticists reject this reading: the mitochondrial evidence points to common ancestry through population genetics, not to genetic engineering by an external agent.