Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps — located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.


The Geography of Bliss (2008)

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Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps — located,...

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps — located,...

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps — located,...

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps — located,...