The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden

Lots of interesting stuff here, especially the work on the true location of the Garden of Eden. I understand the need for many of these researchers to distance themselves from Ancient Alien theorists. Mr. Collins seems intent on doing this and it's a bit too much for my taste.

Hi the store, I had the amazing pleasure of visiting Gobekli Tepe two years ago and finding this amazing book is the icing on the cake.
Thank Andrew!!! The stone pillars are so enormous they had to have been built by big strong people, it is an amazing place.

No corroborating evidence produced for his dreams, angels, shamans, eden.
Failure to research and report on the prime evidence of a cultural link with Australian indigenous people (per pages 53 and 54).
The author started with good intentions, then lost the plot completely.

The book is long, repetitive and from certain point becomes boring. Extremely boring.
The first part, about Gobekli Tepe is interesting, and you have the impression of reliable archeologic findings. However most of the remaining text is mixture of real facts, misunderstood facts, legends presented as facts and unjustified speculations, all linked by paralogic reasoning. I only read it to the end to see whether Father Christmas shows up.

VERY tough sledding, primarily because the pages are bound into the book seemingly at random from page 48 on! The next page to 48 is 80, and 49 is found AFTER 50 later in the book. It reads BACKWARDS page by page from 50 to page 80! You literally have to skip around the entire book to read it sequentially page by page after that! This is sheer idiocy and not the fault of the author but of the publisher (Bear & Company), but the muddle of pages only emphasizes that there is as much speculation here as there is soundly based archeological theory based on the record (a common issue with New Age stuff).

Very little about Gobekli Tepe. Great masses of regurgitated theories from other books that are then LOOSELY connected to GT. The most common words in this book are could be, perhaps, may indicate and so on. Do NOT buy this book unless you're related to the author.

To be fair about this review, I should state that I completely disagree with Collins regarding his most basic assumption -- that the stone work at Gobekli Tepe was created by the rather mysterious humans who moved into this area. He also attributes other equally awesome early works to the same group. I find this premise just plain silly. The book has lots of detail, but this ranges from the mind-numbing speculation about myths to the much better experiences of Collins as he travels in those still exotic lands.

Those looking for a mainstream description of Gobekli Tepe will be, perhaps, let down by the lack of precision in the narrative. The pictures are much better however. Those looking for credible answers will likewise be left wanting. Best buy another book on this very worthy topic. I believe Gobekli Tepi has much to teach us about early humans and, perhaps, those others who guided us to civilization.

Gobekli Tepe is one of the newest "smoking gun" archaeological sites that demands mainstream academia rewrite the story of human evolution. The current version of history being taught in the schools of our advanced nations is false and incomplete. This excellent new book by Andrew Collins firmly establishes beyond any reasonable doubt why history must be revised to include the knowledge and use of a highly advanced engineering capability by our ancestors at a very remote time in prehistory. While I can't entirely agree with all of the author's theories as to who and why this megalithic enigma was constructed ... his thinking is closer to the truth and makes much more common sense than the present "Establishment" version. This new book is the most informative and inclusive book on Gobekli Tepe I have yet encountered.
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This is far more than a book about the archaeology of Gobekli Tepe. Collins' ability to think outside the box and see the bigger picture, together with his ability to present his case in a very readable and understandable format, has resulted in a fascinating and thought-provoking theory about the role of Gobekli Tepe in the rise of civilisation itself. We are not talking about purely mystical speculation here, the theories presented are based on the archaeology and archeo-astronomy of the site together with information gleaned from the legends and religions of the surrounding areas. Expertly bringing together the science and religion, the author provides a convincing explanation for how hunter-gatherers suddenly became megalith builders and farmers and for the enduring legends in all cultures about a race of God-like people coming from the far north. It is all backed up by hard evidence from Collins' decades of research and continuing visits to Gobekli Tepe and surrounding areas. The sheer amount of references in the bibliography is testament to the massive amount of research that has led to this ground-breaking book. Whether you agree with the author's conclusions or not, you will learn a great deal about Gobekli Tepe, the surrounding areas and about the cultures who were involved in constructing this recently-discovered wonder of the ancient world, all presented in an easy to digest format.

Contrary to the review of Collins' book that called it the definitive book on Gobekli Tepe, "Genesis of the Gods" is anything but definitive. It's simply a rehash of worn out old Erich von Daniken mythology. Collins repeats claims made in books by fringe theory writers, that are themselves repeats of claims by still other fringe theorists. A veritable science fiction echo chamber. A majority of the fringe theorists simply don't know what they're talking about and rely wholly on unverifiable, and inaccurate material from other fringe theorists who also don't know what they'e talking about.
For THE definitive book on Gobekli Tepe read Klaus Schmidt's book, "Gobekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia" in an excellent and authorized translation by Marko Wittwar. Schmidt was the archaeologist who excavated the site for over a decade until his death in 2014. If anyone knew Gobekli Tepe it was Schmidt, not fantasy pretenders like Collins.

I probably should have read the description more closely. I wanted a book about the archeology of the site. Instead I got a lot of vague rambling about mythology that might or might not be associated with it.

The author takes you, ably, through the digs at Golbekli Tepi. But then he takes you on a wild ride in search of the Garden of Eden. He believes he's found it. That's the problem with the book. He's a believer.

Andrew Collins has done years of in depth research to write this book and it is very evident in the text of the book.
I liked very much the reconstruction of the Obsidian trade routes and sources during the Neolithic Age.

However, what all these neolithic trading areas mean to human history and their connections to Gobekli Tepe itself is highly speculative. I respect greatly Andrew Collins ability to build a theory from the evidence as he understands it but his conclusions in the book are just that, highly speculative.

That said, Andrew Collins speculations do much to give an alternative view to the background and source material for the Book of Enoch and the foundation of the Biblical book of Genesis. In this regard Gobekli Tepe as a book is highly recommended as reading material for anyone wanting a broader understanding of Biblical "prehistory". If one wants to know the back story to the back story, Gobekli Tepe is the book to read.

Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden
By Andrew Collins
ISBN: 978-1-59143-142-8 (Bear & Company, 2014)

It's becoming clear to anyone who studies the real history of Earth that cataclysmic events have happened with regularity. Göbekli Tepe is a recent archaeological find built by our ancestors who more than likely survived a cataclysm that happened around 12,000 years ago. This is one of the discoveries that will continually rewrite our human history, although at this point, it raises many new questions as it answers a few old questions. After reading this book you're left with the inescapable fact that nothing is as it appears to be in our traditional academic circles.

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A book that’s unlikely to please anybody!

It won’t please Scientists or Historians because of his entirely cavalier attitude to reality. He is obviously a believer of some kind, probably of the protestant flavour. He would do well to become more aware of the way that his beliefs are influencing and undermining his thought. It is possible to have “beliefs” and still think logically, but this author does not! The author clearly knows very little about science and would do better sticking clear of anything which requires a knowledge of science!

It won’t please most of the Alternative History brigade either, because of his wanting to reduce everything to Shamanism and a Tribal Movement here or there! He is awfully close to being tarred with the brush of Eurocentric and even Nazi style “Elitism”! He gives away his political and “hidden affiliations” without even realizing it.

It won’t please linguists either because although he seems to have some knowledge of various languages, I found many of his proposed “meanings” not to be there when I checked Dictionaries and other source books. Not very promising! An awfully large part of this book is based on words and their meaning, if the meanings used are just “Wishful Thinking” then you may go down the wrong alley altogether, as I feel that this author does on most occasions!

I’m not interested at all, either in his Taxi Drive to the Garden of Eden, nor in his Dream Life, even if it is of a supposed Monastery near this “Garden of Eden”. In fact the title of the book should be changed to reflect the insignificance of Gobekli Tepe in the thesis. It is used solely as a spring board into his interminable speculations about Eden. Does he not realize that the Biblical account is just one of numerous accounts and that there are likely to be many “Edens”?

So was there anything here of merit?

I was pleased that he did not go down the dreadful “Alien Visitation” route. Thank Marduk for some small mercies!

I do also think that there is quite a lot of useful research here, even though it has been totally misused to support speculation after speculation that it does not support.

I feel that the author might do better as merely a researcher for another author. An author who does not share his beliefs and keeps him to account and on target.

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It is unfortunate that the Archaeologists own book, which apparently is now in English Translation is not available on the store (and Barnes and Noble don't even list it as Not available. They just don't seem to know about it.)

Having read many, many books on this subject, I find that this author's writing is a lot of hot air and very verbose. He takes pages of words to describe an item that one picture could cover. Save your money

I took a National Geographic Genographic Project DNA test tracing human migrations out of Africa. My Y chromosome haplogroup is J-PF5160 and mitochondrial haplogroup is H13C. My DNA markers have been in Portasar, or in gibberish more recently called Gobekli Tepe, for over 80,000 years. My grandparents were born about 100 miles from Portasar's temples. His book is completely inaccurate and based on wild speculations as to who built the structures and contrary to the hard scientific evidence of DNA. I am 100% Armenian from the Western Armenian Highlands and the simple answer to the questions posed by the book is that proto-Armenian tribes built the structures. Moreover, the Genographic Project also conclusively proved through my Y chromosome direct link to Pharaoh Akhenaten that Armenians were the progenitors of ancient Egypt.

This book is not non-fiction. Please file it under completely made up hog wash. Gobekli Tepe is a real place. Historians and archaeologists are still processing the discoveries. It has absolutely nothing to do with this!

Once again Andrew Collins places another piece of the history jigsaw in place, a book I could not put down, amazing work, defiantly a great read. Well done to Andrew Collins. I can not wait for the next piece of the jigsaw...

Once again Andrew Collins places another piece of the history jigsaw in place, a book I could not put down, amazing work, defiantly a great read. Well done to Andrew Collins. I can not wait for the next piece of the jigsaw...