Unearthing Eden: Five Candidate Real-World Locations

The article surveys five real-world locations proposed for the Garden of Eden—Southern Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates, a now-submerged Persian Gulf landscape, the Armenian highlands, the Nile Valley in Africa, and northwestern Iran near Tabriz—explaining how biblical clues about four rivers inform these theories while noting Eden also functions as a symbolic ideal beyond a physical place.