Sumerian astronomers charted the stars with a precision worthy of our modern scientists. One pictograph depicts the planets revolving around the Sun--something that Copernicus and Kepler postulated only 500 years ago.

Other Sumerian drawings show humanlike beings with helmets of stars. Some figures are drawn zooming through the skies on celestial, starred discs or spheres.

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Conventional historians have a habit of dismissing myths and legends about the origin of civilizations and nations, and they have discarded the Sumerians' own account of how their remarkable city-state was established.

In their collaborative work Intelligent Life in the Universe, Dr. Carl Sagan and Dr. Joseph S. Shklovski discuss the ancient Sumerian tablets known as Ancient Fragments, as a possible firsthand account of how civilization began: "...Ancient writers present an account of a remarkable series of events. Sumerian civilization is depicted by the descendents of the Sumerians themselves to be of non-human origin. A succession of strange creatures appears over a course of several generations. Their only apparent purpose is to instruct mankind. Oannes and the Apkallu (strange creatures) are described variously as "animals endowed with reason," as "beings," as "semi-demons," and as "personages."

The task of solving the mystery of human origins would be even more difficult for contemporary researchers if they truly stopped to analyze and date the archaeological digs that I wrote about in Worlds Before Our Own. There have been excavations in the United States that have produced the remains of primitive men and women over seven feet tall; hominids with horns; giants with double rows of teeth; prehistoric people with sharply slanting foreheads and fanged jaws, pygmy cultures far smaller in height than any known groups.

In July 1895, a party of miners working near Bridal Veil Falls, California, found the tomb of woman whose skeletal remains were six-feet-eight inches in length. The miners had found the Amazon behind a wall of rock that had been shaped and fitted together with an apparent knowledge of masonry. When they had broken through the wall, they hoped that they had stumbled upon some ancient treasure trove. Instead of gold or jewels, the miners remains of a woman whose skeletal frame measured six-feet-eight inches in height. The mysterious madonna had been wrapped in animal skins and covered with a fine gray powder. She clutched the remains of a child to her breast.

Scientists in Los Angeles agreed that the mummy was that of a woman from a race that had flourished on the continent long before any of the Native American tribes had become dominant. Their learned consensus was that she would have stood over seven feet tall in life, thereby making the males of her kind at least eight feet tall.

In 1898, H. Flagler Cowden and his brother Charles unearthed the fossil remains of a giant female, who they speculated was a member of a race of large primitive people who had vanished from the face of the earth some 100,000 years ago. Astonishingly, the Cowdens found their giant woman in Death Valley, an area that, while desolate in modern times, may have been an inlet for the Pacific Ocean in prehistoric times. In the same stratum with the female skeleton were the remains of extinct camels, elephants, palm trees, towering ferns, and fish life.

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