Gods of Eden - Andrew Collins

Advantages: new theories and challenging ideas
Disadvantages: not the starting point for buddiing Egyptologists

Gods of Eden is a book that has only become possible due to the more liberal attitudes that are prevalent towards religion and to a lesser extent history today. In a by gone age the ideas presented here would have at best condemned the author as a madman and at worst been seen as heretical. That may sound sensationalist but I think the same can be said of many books dealing with ancient history and religion, two subjects that are forever interlinked. ...
...that he calls the Elder Gods as they were viewed with a semi-mythical aura. However just as in "From the Ashes of Angels" he managed to offer credible alternative theories for who the fallen angels and Nephilim of the Old Testament were, here he attempts to illuminate this older culture, which bestowed the tools and trappings of civilization on the immerging peoples that would later become Egypt. Some of the ideas here are not so new and have even ... Read review