Andrew Collins - Writer, Explorer and Lecturer

Andrew Collins is an internationally renowned science and history writer, as well as the author of over a dozen books that challenge the way we perceive the past. They include From the Ashes of Angels, Gods of Eden, Gateway to Atlantis, Tutankhuman: The Exodus Conspiracy (co-authored with Chris Ogilvie Herald), The Cygnus Mystery, Beneath the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods and The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe and the Birth of Egypt. Andrew is also the creator and organiser of highly successful tours and expeditions to ancient and sacred places around the world.

Andrew Collins' books are available worldwide and have twice appeared in The Times bestselling lists (From the Ashes of Angels in 1996 and Gods of Eden in 1998).

His most recent bestseller is Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods. Since its release in 2014 the book has been No. 1 in several Google categories. His current book The Cygnus Key has been No. 1 in Google's Ancient Mysteries category, and remains high in its ranking today.

Andrew is a regular contributor to History Channel's Ancient Aliens TV show, where he appears as a sit-down guest, as well as an on-site interviewer and narrator. He has filmed on location with the show in Luxor and Edfu in Egypt, Göbekli Tepe and Cappadocia in Turkey, and Stonehenge in England.

Andrew has appeared also in a number of TV documentaries on both ancient and modern mysteries. They include the BBC's "Strange Affair of ..." series, Gaia TV's "Ancient Civilizations", and Disney's "The Truth Behind Atlantis", which featured Andrew's theory that Plato's Atlantis was the Caribbean island of Cuba.

Andrew was also the face behind the online documentaries "The Cygnus Mystery" and "The Lost Caves of Giza" produced by ATA-Productions. Both have well over a million hits on YouTube.

Andrew with Giorgio Tsoukalos and Nick Pope filming an episode of Ancient Aliens (pic credit: Giorgio Tsoukalos).

Andrew is an international keynote speaker, with recent appearances at Contact in the Desert and New Living Expo in California, Paradigm in Minneapolis, the ARE's Ancient Mysteries Conference in Virginia Beach, and Earth-keeper's Arklantis in Arkansas. He has also lectured in Turkey, Egypt, and at Java's Institute of Sciences. In addition to this, he is the producer of the UK's Questing Conference (Quest Con), and co-producer of the UK's No. 1 ancient mysteries event the Origins Conference.

Andrew Collins appearing alongside Graham Hancock, Erich von Daniken,
Robert Bauval and John Anthony West at the Paradigm Symposium in 2014.

For the past three decades, Andrew has been at the forefront of exploring major ancient and sacred places around the world. Sites he has investigated include Egypt's Great Pyramid, Giza's lost cave system, the pyramid hill of Gunung Padang in Java, Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the mountaintop stone complexes of Mount Carbon in Virginia, Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, Cusco and Machu Picchu in Peru, Teotihuacan in Mexico, the megalithic sites of the Scottish Orkney Isles, the lost city of Petra in Jordan, Stonehenge in England, and dozens of mound complexes in North America.

Andrew is also the creator and co-organiser of highly successful tours and expeditions to ancient and sacred places around the world. Countries visited during such tours have included Egypt, Turkey, Cambodia, Peru and Bolivia.

Andrew Collins with Graham Hancock (centre) and Hugh Newman at Göbekli Tepe in SE Turkey in 2013 (pic credit: Bill Busha).

Andrew specialises in the following fields of research:-

The origins of civilization - Göbekli Tepe - the mysteries of Ancient Egypt - the Great Pyramid - Human evolution - Astrobiology - Panspermia - Archaic human species such as the Denisovans and Neanderthals - the American giant skeletons - Siberian and Native American shamanism - the Native American death journey - ancient cosmologies - the Cygnus constellation - Milky Way - Astrophysics - Exoplanets - the Bermuda Triangle - the myth of Atlantis - archaeology of Cuba and the Bahamas - lost ancient technologies - UFOs - Alien intelligences - Alien abductions - Crop circles - Multiple dimensional realities - Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852)

Andrew inspecting one of the amazing carved stones at Puma Pumku in Bolivia (pic credit: Andrew Collins).

Andrew visiting Java's pyramid hill of Gunung Padang.

Andrew is celebrated for his discovery in 2008 of Giza's subterranean cave world, located within sight of the Great Pyramid, and lost for nearly 200 years. The discovery, made jointly with Egyptological researcher Nigel Skinner-Simpson, has brought Andrew world-wide acclaim, the cave system even becoming known as Collins's Caves.

Left, Andrew emerging from his discovery of the Lost Caves of Giza in 2008. Right, Andrew stares down into Giza's lost cave world (pic credits: Andrew Collins)

Andrew's book Beneath the Pyramids (2009) features his discovery of the Giza cave system.

It is also the subject of the documentary The Lost Caves of Giza, which has well over 1.3 million hits on YouTube.

Watch this video showing Andrew and Nigel's rediscovery of the Lost Caves of Giza.

Brien Foerster, Robert Schoch and Andrew Collins address a conference audience.

DISCOVERING THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION

In 1996, in his bestselling book From the Ashes of Angels, Andrew proposed that civilization began in Southeast Turkey and the Near East, the biblical Garden of Eden, and that those responsible were an advanced shamanic group referred to in legend as the Watchers and Nephilim of the book of Enoch, and the Anunna/Anunnaki of Sumerian mythology.

As Andrew was writing his book, archaeologists were uncovering Göbekli Tepe, one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Here, as Andrew accurately predicted, archaeologists found the birthplace of Western civilization.

Andrew has since become an accepted authority on the origins and function of Göbekli Tepe. It features in various of its books including The Cygnus Mystery (2006), Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods (2014) and The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe and the Birth of Egypt (2018).

Left, Andrew's book From the Ashes of Angels (1996). Above, Andrew at Göbekli Tepe with the site's discoverer Professor Klaus Schmidt (pic credit: Andrew Collins)

In 2014 Andrew exclusively revealed in the book Path of Souls, co-written with Dr Gregory L. Little, that the giant skeletons found in hundreds of Native American mounds were most likely the remains of Denisovan-human hybrids who reached the Americas before the end of the last ice age.

In 2018 it was announced that the forerunners of these hybrids, the Denisovans of Siberia, were indeed of giant stature, confirming Andrew controversial theories. Andrew's ideas on the Denisovans and their connection with America's lost population of giants have since been featured in TV series such as the History Channel's "Search for the Lost Giants". They now form the basis of what archaeologists refer to as the Adena elite hypothesis.

Since the discovery of the Denisovans in 2012, Andrew has become one of the world's leading authorities on the existence and legacy of this archaic human species. In The Cygnus Key, and also within new book Denisovan Dawn (co-authored with Dr Gregory L. Little), Andrew proposes that the Denisovan legacy was responsible for the genesis of civilization in both the Eurasian and American continents.

Andrew presenting evidence that ancient America's lost population of giants were Denisovan-human hybrids.

Following his first visit to Göbekli Tepe in 2004, Andrew concluded that the site's stone enclosures with their distinctive T-shaped pillars and twin central monoliths were oriented towards the setting of the bright star Deneb in the constellation of Cygnus. His investigations as to why this area of the sky might have been important to the ancients led to the discovery that right across the northern hemisphere Cygnus's cross-like formation of stars were seen as the entrance to a sky world once believed to be the source of life and creation. From this constellation souls emerged into incarnation, and here they would return in death. The route to Cygnus taken both by the souls of the dead and by shamans in trance states is known in North America as the Path of Souls death journey.

In an attempt to understand why Cygnus was seen as the point of cosmic creation by many ancient cultures, Andrew determined that a neutron star named Cygnus X-3 was emitting a unique form of cosmic rays. Andrew has proposed that this cosmic radiation was responsible for sudden advances in evolution within our distant ancestors. This is the story told in his book The Cygnus Mystery (2006).

In 2006 Andrew proposed that human evolution has been affected by cosmic rays coming from Cygnus X-3 (pic credit NASA).

Working with British engineer Rodney Hale Andrew has established that the three main Pyramids of Giza not only reflect the astronomical positions of the three wing stars of Cygnus, but are also aligned to them on the ground. All three pyramids are locked into the setting of these three Cygnus stars both in the horizontal and vertical planes, thus in all three dimensions.

Above left, the Egyptian sky goddess Nut as the Milky Way, her cosmic womb marked by the Cygnus constellation. Bottom left, the tracks of the three Cygnus wing stars as they set into the three main pyramids of Giza 4500 years ago. Above, the visual alignment of the same three stars, as seen from a vertical perspective, their astronomical positions corresponding with the geographical locations of the Giza pyramids (pic credits: Rodney Hale/Andrew Collins/Yuri Leitch).

Andrew proposed that this profound interest in the stars of Cygnus in the ancient Egyptian mindset was due to the constellation symbolising the cosmic womb of the sky goddess Nut. She was the mother of Osiris, the god of the dead, with whom every pharaoh was identified in death. The corpus of literature known as the Pyramid Texts, found inscribed on the walls of various Old Kingdom pyramids, speak of the pharaoh as Osiris returning to his mother's womb. This is symbolised in its earthly form by the deceased's coffin, sarcophagus and burial chamber.

The matter of Cygnus at Giza is explored in Andrew's books The Cygnus Mystery (2006), Beneath the Pyramids (2009) and The Cygnus Key (2018).

Andrew at Giza checking pyramid heights and elevations from the
summit of nearby Gebel Gibli (pic credit: Andrew Collins).

Andrew Collins is the founder of psychic questing, a discipline utilising quantum consciousness to explore mysteries of the past, find hidden treasures, and solve landscape enigmas. Psychic Questing had its inception in 1979 when Andrew and his colleague Graham Phillips were inspired by psychic information to embark on a historical quest that led to the discovery of a short sword bearing Mary Queen of Scots' personal monogram and an inscription that read "Meonia fore Marye."

Andrew and Graham went on to uncover a seventeenth-century brass casket containing a green jewel linked to the Philosopher's Stone of the alchemists. Since that time Andrew has championed psychic questing as a means of exploring the past, and has written on the subject in books such as The Black Alchemist (1989), The Seventh Sword (1991), The Second Coming (1993) and Twenty-first Century Grail (2002).

Andrew began his career as an investigator of the mysteries of this world in the 1970s. He interviewed many witnesses of highly strange UFO encounters. They included the victims to Britain's first recorded alien abduction experience. A family of five - a man, his wife and their three children - were driving along the quiet lanes of Aveley in Essex when they encountered a mysterious aerial object. Shortly afterwards they entered a bank of luminous green mist as the car's headlights and engine failed. They later found that three hours were missing from their lives. Andrew arranged for the father, John Day, to undergo hypnosis with one of London's top hypnotherapists. The results of Andrew's investigations into what became known as the Aveley Abduction were featured in a double issue of the magazine Flying Saucer Review.

Since that time Andrew has continued to be involved in the UFO field of study. He has written various books on the subject including The Circlemakers (1992), Alien Energy (1994) and, most recently, LightQuest: Your Guide to Seeing and Interacting with UFOs, Mystery Lights and Plasma Intelligences (2012).

Andrew is currently researching the hypothesis that many UFO sightings and encounters with alien entities may be the result of interactions with hyper-dimensional phenomena and intelligences, which may have the ability to manifest in our space-time. These intelligences are referred to as n-beings - the n- referring to the number of potential dimensions involved in their existence.

Andrew holds the view that human evolution may have been influenced by interactions with alien intelligences, supporting the theory of ancient aliens. It was a view held also by the great cosmologist, astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan and it is one still held, of course, by world renowned writer and researcher Erich vön Daniken, author of Chariots of the Gods.

Andrew Collins at a joint signing session with ancient astronaut theorist Erich vön Daniken at Virginia Beach, VA.

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