Throughout medieval times, and even beyond, many believed the lost Garden of Eden was located in the Middle East - as these two maps, from 1106 and 1695, show.
Genesis offered some clues. Of the four rivers running out of Eden, one is named as the Euphrates, which rises in the mountains of Turkey and flows down to the Persian Gulf. Most writers placed Eden beside the Euphrates and the River Tigris in modern-day Iraq.
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