 The work of Zecharia Sitchin has garnered much attention among ufologists, ancient astronaut theorists and conspiracy theorists.He claimed to have uncovered, through his retranslations of Sumerian texts, evidence that the human race was visited by a group of extraterrestrials from a distant planet in the Solar System.Part of his theory lay in an astronomical interpretation of the Babylonian creation myth, the "Enuma Elish", in which he replaced the names of gods with hypothetical planets.