Gobekli Tepe

Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden

By: Andrew Collins

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

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.

©2014 Andrew Collins (P)2018 Tantor

A long look back at the dawn of the temple of man.

Really enjoyed the insights to this archeological find. I hope you will look for answers to this dig alzo.

Thin gruel

LOADS of speculation
Intercalated with fascinating factual tid bits

Not really worth the slog

Meh

Fantastic

Middle section (more technical) isn’t well suited to audio format but still a fascinating take on the site I haven’t heard before.

Adventure archaeology at its finest

He bouncing fun meander through the Armenian Highlands and all of written history, absolutely worth a listen, no matter what order you come to Andrew’s work in.

excellent book.

i loved his insights into the garden of eden. an amazing journey through time and history.