The garden of Eden: where to look for it?

There is hardly anyone who does not know what happened to Adam and Eve after they bit off the ill-fated apple. Everyone remembers and about the snake-tempter, guardian of the paradise tree, which for some reason had to get rid of two unfortunate lovers. They forever left that fairy place called Eden.

Sooner or later everyone wondered: was the Garden of Eden, and if so, where? Visiting the beautiful corners of the planet, we often compare them with Paradise, without thinking about whether we are far from the truth. Seriously, paleoarchaeologists and paleogeologists think about this problem. Space technology also expanded the world's views of the world and allowed to advance in the study of the distant past. They are interested in where the Garden of Eden, theologians and historians, Judaists and Christians of the whole world were.

Until the end of the 19th century, the biblical garden could be considered a fiction. However, after excavations in Mesopotamia (excavations of the city of Ur by the English archaeologist Leonardo Woolley) and Babylon it became clear that the biblical legends had a real historical basis.

Description of Eden

The Bible is not the first source to describe the garden. Eden, paradise - he has many names from different peoples. During the excavation of the Ashurbanipal library, English archaeologists discovered ancient Sumerian texts. They had legends about the creation of the world, as the Sumerians and Assyrians knew them. The text "Enuma elish" tells about a wonderful garden, full of strange fruit trees and delicious herbs. Animals and people live in it in peace and harmony.

In the garden flowed a large river, which gave moisture to plants and animals. Emerging from the garden, it was divided into four main rivers of the world.

Apples

In the center of the garden there was that tree of good and evil, or the "tree of knowledge" on which apples grew. Almost all the mythologies of the world contain references to them. They are the fruits of sin, the apples, or the fruits of immortality. However, nowhere and no one wrote that the tree was an apple tree, and paradise apples do not need to be associated with modern fruit. The Greeks believed that this pomegranate tree, the Viking apple replaced the peach.

The rivers of Eden

Mankind has received confirmation of the reality of a worldwide flood, but it did not stop there. The Bible says that the Eden Garden was washed by four rivers. Two of them are clearly correlated with the Euphrates and the Tiger. But the other two - Gihon and Heidekle - are not on the map, no matter how you look. Scientists of the 20th century managed to compare Heathdle with a river that flows to the east of Assyria. She was repeatedly mentioned in clay tablets. And Gihon was found only half a century ago. People were able to determine the approximate location of such a place as the Garden of Eden. The photo was taken thanks to aerial photography: today Gihon is a dried up river, the mouth of which, lost in the sands, can be seen only from outer space. However, the location of Eden can still be specified.

The population of Eden

The catastrophe that caused people to leave Eden is not a consequence of disobedience, but is described as a natural cataclysm. They left this place as a result of a natural disaster and had to start all over again.

What kind of people inhabited the garden of Eden? Today it is difficult to answer. Their remains are found along the shores of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in our time, but scientists find it difficult to answer this question.

The growth of such people reached 3 meters. Burial places often appear after annual floods, when water leaves, washing away clay soil.

Similar finds are often made by nomads or peasants of neighboring villages.

For today there are about 200 pictures of such burials with the general name "antediluvian people", or "Nephilim". About them, semi-demigods, Sumerian, Assyrian, and later Greek legends tell. In the biblical version, we know them as fallen angels, those who sinned in the eyes of the Lord, loving earthly women. In any of these legends, these are the first people on earth. Their century was several times longer than ours, their growth and physical strength far exceeded the data of modern man. We do not know if they have exceeded us in terms of mental abilities. But after all, God for some reason forbade us to eat fruits from the tree of knowledge ... According to the Bible, Eve, who bit off half of the apple, lived more than 900 years. And Adam, who bit off only once, is about 100 years less.

However, they are not residents of Paradise, but the first generation of descendants of those who left it. Modern scientists believe that the Garden of Eden should be sought in the Persian Gulf, on a small island, which in the time of the Sumerians was called Delmun. Sumerian tablets describe the magical nature of the island, caves with inexhaustible sources of crystal clear water, strange fruit trees, bright colors of tropical vegetation. Today this small Arab state of Bahrain. Nature and human hands have made it so beautiful that, having visited there, you most certainly will say: "Paradise garden!"