Location of Eden

Finding logic in legends is at best a wild goose chase. That is because the legends have very little or no evidentiary support. The biblical account of the origin of man and his progression in the world is one such legend without scientific evidence and even logic as we understand the terms today. But scholours and curious minds refuse to abandon the subject as a matter of pure myth. Mainly because there are very verifiable historical and physical references in them.

The garden of Eden into which God is believed to have put down His most favoured creation - man - is a legend which has aroused the curiosity of a large number of scholours. Their aim was to locate the place on earth. Their enquiry was prompted by the references to surviving rivers as flowing around the place.

Their conclusions have only added to the confusion. Places as far apart has Indo-Gangetic basin, the Euphrates-Tigris basin and the Nile delta in Africa have been preferred as the Garden of Eden.

It is into the this difficult terrain that Mr. Abraham Benhur has ventured with his unbounded curiosity and enthusiasm.