What if biblical paradise wasn’t as lost as we think, and today we could travel to the place where it supposedly was? 👀
A collector of antique Bibles has rekindled the mystery by showing a map included in a 1599 Geneva Bible on YouTube. The curious part? The drawing points to an area that would correspond today to eastern Turkey, near Mount Ararat and the borders with Armenia and Iran.
And it isn’t a randomly chosen location.
According to Genesis, a river flowed out of the Garden of Eden and then split into four: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. The latter two exist and are perfectly identifiable, but the other two remain a mystery.
The map reflects an ancient biblical interpretation that placed paradise near the source of the Euphrates River. Its appearance on social media rekindled theories about the place where, according to the biblical account, Adam and Eve lived.
That said, there’s an important difference: the map doesn’t prove that Eden was actually there. It is a historical interpretation, not an archaeological discovery that has confirmed its existence.
The fascinating thing is that this region exists and can be visited today. Although no one has proven that Eden was there, the map lets us imagine what the place that some scholars of the XVI century identified as paradise was like.