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Built at the end of the last ice age, the mysterious stone temple complex of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is one of the greatest challenges to 21st century archaeology. As much as 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, its strange buildings and rings of T-shaped monoliths--built with stones weighing from 10 to 15 tons--show a level of sophistication and artistic achievement unmatched until the rise of the great civilizations of the ancient world, Sumer, Egypt, and Babylon.
Chronicling his travels to Göbekli Tepe and surrounding sites, Andrew Collins details the layout, architecture, and exquisite relief carvings of ice age animals and human forms found at this 12,000-year-old megalithic complex, now recognized as the oldest stone architecture in the world. He explores how it was built as a reaction to a global cataclysm--the Great Flood in the Bible--and explains how it served as a gateway and map to the sky-world, the place of first creation, reached via a bright star in the constellation of Cygnus. He reveals those behind its construction as the Watchers of the Book of Enoch and the Anunnaki gods of Sumerian tradition.
Unveiling Göbekli Tepe's foundational role in the rise of civilization, Collins shows how it is connected to humanity's creation in the Garden of Eden and the secrets Adam passed to his son Seth, the founder of an angelic race called the Sethites. In his search for Adam's legendary Cave of Treasures, the author discovers the Garden of Eden and the remains of the Tree of Life--in the same sacred region where Göbekli Tepe is being uncovered today.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Dating System Used
Illustration Credits
Introduction by Graham Hancock
Prologue In Quest of Angels
Part One
Construction
1 A Lifetime's Work
2 Monumental Architecture
3 Frozen in Stone
4 Strange Glyphs and Ideograms
Part Two
Cosmos
5 Gateway to Heaven
6 Window on Another World
7 Turned toward the Stars
8 The Path of Souls
9 Cult of the Vulture
10 Cosmic Birth Stone
Part Three
Catastrophobia
11 The Hooded Ones
12 Fear of the Fox's Tail
13 Cosmic Trickster
14 From a Fox to a Wolf
15 Twilight of the Gods
16 The Wolf Progeny
17 A Dark Day in Syria
18 Aftermath
Part Four
Contact
19 The Reindeer Hunters
20 Swiderian Dawn
21 The Solutrean Connection
22 Obsidian Obsession
23 The Bingöl Masters
24 Wolf Stone Mountain
25 Saviors of the World
26 Strange-Looking People
Part Five
Convergence
27 In the Garden of Eden
28 The Fountain of Paradise
29 The World's Summit
30 Rise of the Anunnaki
31 The Making of Humankind
32 The Coming of the Watchers
33 Mountain of the Watchers
34 Walking with Serpents
Part Six
Completion
35 A Quiet Corner of Eden
36 The Red Church
37 The Secrets of Adam
38 As Angels Ourselves
39 The Return to Eden
40 A Trip to Paradise
41 Göbekli Tepe Revisited
42 A Loss of Innocence
Appendix Useful Dates
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
