as B M 8 6 3 7 8 arranged in its unbroken part 71 celestial bodies by their location in the heavens and so on and gone and on in efforts to make sense of this Legion of texts and in particular to identify correctly the planets of our solar system a succession of scholars came up with confusing results as we now know their efforts were doomed to failure because they incorrectly assumed that the Sumerians and their successors were unaware that the solar system was heliocentric that earth was but another planet and that