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I would add: the evidence should make Sumerian grammar less tortured, not more. A good theory clarifies the text. If your theory needs every ambiguous sign to lean your way and every contradictory context to be dismissed as priestly cover-up, the theory is feeding on the evidence instead of explaining it.

Are there any actual scholars who think Nibiru is a planet beyond Pluto?

Not in the way the paperback means it. Scholars argue over identifications and contexts, because the material is hard. That honest difficulty is then repackaged as "they admit they do not know, therefore hidden planet". Unknown does not automatically become the most cinematic option.

The 12 planets point still bothers me. Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Nibiru. That is twelve.

It is twelve only after mixing modern planets, ancient luminaries and the proposed object, then counting Earth from an external viewpoint that the texts do not establish. It is a tidy list because a modern reader made it tidy.

I just checked my Sitchin copy and he really does slide between "gods knew" and "texts say" in a way I missed before. Slightly annoyed at sixteen-year-old me.

Do not be annoyed at sixteen-year-old you. The book works because it offers respect for ancient intelligence when schools often give people a dead list of kings. Keep the respect. Change the method.

Saw the British Museum tablets years ago and the thing that hit me was how small some are. Not cosmic-looking. More like somebody urgent pressed a world into wet clay because the day needed recording. That makes the wild claims feel stranger, not stronger.