Is the Garden of Eden merely a legend? If so, it is interesting that the geographic location given in Genesis is more specific than that of most other biblical locations.
According to the bible, the garden was located “in Eden, to the east” (Genesis 2:8). Genesis also says that a river flowed from the garden and divided into four streams called the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Gihon, and the Pishon. The first two of these are well-known and flow through modern Iraq. But the identities of the other two have long been a mystery.
Some scholars think that a dry riverbed in southern Iraq called Wadi Batin may be what is left of the river Pishon. The river Gihon could have also been in the same region, but all traces of it have possibly disappeared. If these speculations are valid, this would mean that the Garden of Eden was in or near modern southern Iraq. Some scholars think that its location may actually lie under the waters of the Persian Gulf just south of Iraq, an area that was possibly submerged when the land sank and/or the ocean level rose.
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