Finding Eden: Mystery of Göbekli Tepe & Giza's Cave Underworld

Exclusive presentation from author Andrew Collins, filmed at Megalithomania in Glastonbury in 2010. Get the DVD and other conference lectures here: http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/2010dvds.html & join Andrew at Gobekli Tepe in October 2018: http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/turkey2018.html.

In southeast Turkey stands the oldest temple in the world. At nearly 12,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe is an enigma to archaeology. Consisting of a series of stone circles, made up of T-shaped pillars bearing exquisite carvings of animals, birds, insects and abstract human figures, this ritual complex was constructed at the end of the last Ice Age by faceless individuals, who rose far beyond the conventional understanding of the hunter-gatherers who occupied the Eurasian continent at this time. Why were these amazing stone circles buried overnight, sometime around 10,000 year ago? It is an enigma that seems to start in Africa some 17,000 years ago, and ends with not only the creation of civilization down in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia, but also in the sudden emergence of the ancient Egyptian civilization, where the story continues with the discovery in 2008 of a cave underworld beneath the plateau at Giza. Powerful evidence suggests that this underground complex existed ever before even the Pyramid Age, and might well reflect an African origin to the roots of ancient Egyptian religion. It might also hold the key to answering claims that in the vicinity of the Sphinx is a lost Hall of Records.

History and science writer Andrew Collins is a leading expert on Gobekli Tepe, and provides a powerful insight into the strange worlds both at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey and beneath the Pyramids at Giza. His books include From the Ashes of Angels (1996), Gods of Eden (1998), The Cygnus Mystery (2006), Beneath the Pyramids (2009), Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods (2013). He leads tours to Turkey, Egypt, Angkor Wat, India & Java and is the originator of Questing Conference (London), and more recently the newly established Origins Conference, co-organised with Megalithomania.

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