If he was, he was a highly educated fraud and a lot of archeologists still use him for reference. He may not have been right on some things but on many things he was and still is. Aside from that he was not the only one who speculated about the 3600 year cycle, as Immanuel Velikovsky also made a pretty well documented case for it. But to each his own as we are still entitled to our own opinions. Take care and have a great day!
There are zero archaeologists who take Sitchin’s BS seriously.
The orbital characteristics he claimed for his fictional planet don’t work in Newtonian/Keplerian terms, which isn’t surprising, because they’re entirely made up.
Velikovsky didn’t have anything to do with any 3600 year cycle. Sitchin once claimed that Worlds In Collision came out about the same time as his own monstrosity, but of course it was published more than 25 years earlier.
These are facts, not opinions.