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A photograph from NASA’s LANDSAT surveillance program, showing the Persian Gulf. These photographs were part of the basis for a theory of the Garden of Eden published in the 1980s by archaeologist Juris Zarins…and the beat goes on!
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Detail of the branches of the Apalachicola River, and their corresponding Biblical rivers.
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Drawing from the frontispiece of Florida lawyer Elvy Edison Callaway’s 1971 book In the Beginning, which claimed that man had been created in the Florida panhandle, not far from the Alabama border.
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Detail from Tse’s map, showing his candidates for the Bible’s Four Rivers of Paradise in central Asia.
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Tse Tsan Tai’s 1914 vision of the Garden of Eden in China; as it appeared in his book The Creation, The Origin of the Chinese, and the Real Situation of Eden. Clearly, he was still revising it.
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Not everyone thought Eden was in Iraq. In 1914, Hong Kong businessman Tse Tsan Tai published a map of the world showing where everyone else thought the Garden of Eden was—those two black dots over the Middle East—vs. where he thought it was—the red circle over Outer Mongolia.
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Willcocks drew another map for his professional audience—British government had big plans for irrigation projects in Mesopotamia, if they could just get their hands on it.
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William Willcocks, the British irrigation engineer, drew this map for his popular audience back home—notice there are actually two Gardens of Eden, one in the north and one in the Southern marshes.
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Delitzsch was only one of many who found Eden in Iraq, from Calvin all the way through today.
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Scientific except for this one detail…
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The much-more-scientific map of southern Mesopotamia drawn by Friedrich Delitzsch.
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General Charles “Chinese” Gordon, who led the British in the Battle of Khartoum, took some time out in 1885 to try to convince the world that the island of Praslin, in the Seychelles, conformed to the Bible’s description of Eden.
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Boston University’s first President, William Fairfield Warren, was convinced, in 1881, that the Garden of Eden had existed at the North Pole. [From Paradise Found! The Origin of Mankind at the North Pole.]
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John Calvin included this map of the Middle East in a popular 16th-century Bible. Accurate it was not, but it helped popularize the idea that Eden could be found on Earth. [From A History of Paradise by Pierre Delumeau.]
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This map shows all the locations of the Garden of Eden discussed in Paradise Lust. [Courtesy of ML Design, London.]
