Table of Contents
Introduction By Graham Hancock
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
GÖBEKLI TEPE IN CONTEXT
EGYPT’S FIRST TIME
LION PILLAR BUILDING
FORGOTTEN CIVILIZATION
CATASTROPHOBIA
ABODE OF THE GODS
CULT OF THE VULTURE
FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS
Chapter 1: A Lifetime’s Work
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SUBLIME SOPHISTICATION
SANGUINE DISCOVERIES
NEOLITHIZATION
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MINEFIELD
THE CULT BUILDING
THE GREAT MONOLITH
A PERSONAL DIVINITY
EXPLORING GÖBEKLI TEPE
Chapter 2: Monumental Architecture
SNAKE PILLAR BUILDING
CULT OF THE SNAKE
ENCLOSURE B EXPOSED
NEW TEMPLES DISCOVERED
DELIBERATE BURIAL
THE YOUNGER DRYAS MINI ICE AGE
A LIFE OF BEER
CUP MARKS FOR CARRION BIRDS
ENGINEERING CONUNDRUM
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 3: Frozen in Stone
ENCLOSURE C
A DOUBLE RING OF STONES
THE DROMOS
ENCLOSURE D
MYSTERY OF THE FLIGHTLESS BIRDS
LATER PHASES OF BUILDING ACTIVITY
TRIANGLE D’OR
Chapter 4: Strange Glyphs and Ideograms
THE H GLYPH
SHAMANIC POT STANDS
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART
EMBLEMS OF OFFICE
THE EYE AND THE CRESCENT
THE WESTERN CENTRAL PILLAR
Chapter 5: Gateway to Heaven
A CLOCKWISE MOTION
THE SUN’S PATH
COSMIC HARMONY
CENTER OF THE WORLD
PLACE OF THE PLACENTA
TEMPLE OF THE TWINS
TWIN PORTALS TO THE SKY WORLD
Chapter 6: Window on Another World
THE LASCAUX SHAFT SCENE
THE SUMMER TRIANGLE
THE VENUS AND THE SORCERER
THE GREAT RIFT
CAVE SCENES TO CULT SHRINES
Chapter 7: Turned toward the Stars
ANGLES OF ORIENTATION
AN ORION CORRELATION?
ALIGNED TO SIRIUS?
NORTH OR SOUTH?
TARGET REVEALED
ENCLOSURE DATES
CELESTIAL MARKERS
SIGHTING STONE DISCOVERY
SOUL HOLES
CAUCASIAN DOLMENS
PASSAGE OF THE SOUL
Chapter 8: The Path of Souls
CLEAVING OPEN THE PORTALS
THE DENEB PORTAL
STORM DEMON WITH OPEN MOUTH
VENERATION OF THE POLE STAR
SHIFTING POLE STARS
Chapter 9: Cult of the Vulture
PSYCHOPOMP
GÖBEKLI’S VULTURE STONE
HEAD LIKE A BALL
VULTURE WINGS
STAR MAP IN STONE
CYGNUS AS A VULTURE
Chapter 10: Cosmic Birth Stone
THE KILISIK STATUE
COSMIC BIRTH
BIRTH CHAMBER
COSMOLOGICAL BELIEFS