Legendary historian E.A. Wallis Budge translated the then newly discovered tablets, to uncover an amazing creation myth, which parallels, and predates, the Genesis story of the Old Testament. In recent years, researchers such as Erich von Däniken, Zecharia Sitchin and David Icke have used this ancient tale of the Annunaki gods as a basis for the ancient astronaut and Reptilian shape shifter theories.
