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Andrew Collins

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British author and independent researcher who has spent two decades arguing that Göbekli Tepe was an astronomical observatory aligned to the constellation Cygnus, and the seed of a "Cygnus cult" running through later Eurasian religion. Mainstream archaeology rejects the specifics; his work is best read as speculative synthesis rather than primary evidence. His 2014 book Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods set the popular template for the alignment claim.

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