Other scholars have offered alternate ideas. Author Pete Van Dyke suggests Eden exists in a spiritual “cosmic east,” beyond our physical world. Joel Kramer points to Saudi Arabia’s gold-rich land as ...

Boffins have given a bold new theory about where the Garden of Eden was located, and used ancient maps to claim that the tree ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...

In India, these waterways are more than just sources of sustenance—they are sacred, storied, and deeply interwoven with the ...

A scientist has made a bold claim about the location of the Garden of Eden. He used Medieval world maps to find the Biblical ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

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The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...