The new studies of Persian Gulf water level and Paleocene of Arabian peninsula (e.g. Jeffrey I. Rose 2010: New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis. Current Anthropology 51, 2010, 6, December, 849-883.) could give some more hints of the possible location of Eden.
1. There has been several times when Arabian peninsula was a moist "garden"
2. The waterlevel in today's Persian Gulf was much lower and there was actually only a chain of lakes and rivers in what is now the deepest point of the Gulf.
3. When climate changed to dry, people escaped (sic! East) from this paradise and found a refuge in the "Gulf oasis", as Rose calls it.
4. However, the story doest not end here - when the Ice Age ended, sea level rose and the Gulf filled with water. sometimes it was slow and sometimes fast. Additionally Indean monsoon belt gave its own rains (as well as underground rivers that end to the Gulf) - and this might be behind the Biblical Flood story. Thus, people had to flee again - this time to Sumer.
The new studies of Persian Gulf water level and Paleocene of Arabian peninsula (e.g. Jeffrey I. Rose 2010: New Light on Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis. Current Anthropology 51, 2010, 6, December, 849-883.) could give some more hints of the possible location of Eden.
1. There has been several times when Arabian peninsula was a moist "garden"
2. The waterlevel in today's Persian Gulf was much lower and there was actually only a chain of lakes and rivers in what is now the deepest point of the Gulf.
3. When climate changed to dry, people escaped (sic! East) from this paradise and found a refuge in the "Gulf oasis", as Rose calls it.
4. However, the story doest not end here - when the Ice Age ended, sea level rose and the Gulf filled with water. sometimes it was slow and sometimes fast. Additionally Indean monsoon belt gave its own rains (as well as underground rivers that end to the Gulf) - and this might be behind the Biblical Flood story. Thus, people had to flee again - this time to Sumer.