The book by Robert Temple is a seminal work in the "ancient astronaut" genre, famously claiming that the Dogon people of Mali possessed advanced knowledge of the Sirius star system—specifically the existence of the white dwarf Sirius B—long before modern telescopes could detect it. Download Options
: The Dogon purportedly knew Sirius B was a "white dwarf" (a star that is small but incredibly dense) decades before Western science confirmed its nature in the 1920s. (PDF) The Sirius Mystery - ResearchGate Download SIRIUS MYSTERY pdf
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The "mystery" began in the 1930s when French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen lived among the in Mali. They reported that the Dogon held sacred traditions about a tiny, heavy star called Po Tolo (Sirius B), which they claimed was made of a heavy metal and orbited Sirius once every 50 years. The "mystery" began in the 1930s when French
: Beings from the Sirius system (the Nommos) visited Earth 5,000 years ago.