Hey guys, i know there was some talk of this in previous threads, as it's quite a major find I thought i deserves a thread, enjoy.

The Garden of Eden Discovered

Wouldn’t it be nice to find the actual location of the real Garden of Eden? In theological circles it would be a discovery that could equal that of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Well guess what? Archaeologist David Rohl claims to have found the site described in Genesis as “Eden” in a lush valley beneath an extinct volcano in northern Iran.

The Jerusalem Report (February 1, 1999) broke the story in the article – “Paradise Found.”

Ten miles from the sprawling Iranian industrial city of Tabriz, to the northwest of Teheran, says British archaeologist David Rohl, he has found the site of the Biblical garden . . . "As you descend a narrow mountain path, you see a beautiful alpine valley, just like the Bible describes it, with terraced orchards on its slopes, crowded with every kind of fruit-laden tree," says Rohl, a scholar of University College, London, who has just returned from his third trip to the area, where mud brick villages flourish today.

“The Biblical word gan (as in Gan Eden) means `walled garden,’ ” Rohl continues, "and the valley is indeed walled in by towering mountains." The highest of these is Mt. Sahand, a snow-capped extinct volcano that Rohl identifies as the Prophet Ezekiel’s Mountain of God, where the Lord resides among `red-hot coals’ (Ezekiel 28:11-19). Cascading down the once-fiery mountain, precisely echoing Ezekiel, is a small river, the Adji Chay (the name of which also translates in local dialect as ‘walled garden’). The locals still hold the mountain sacred, Rohl says, and attribute magical powers to the river’s water...

http://www.iranian.ws/7000/garden_of_eden.htm
http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Archaeology/eden.htm
http://www.ramsdale.org/dna6.htm

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Stay tuned, pics of the region to come :D

yea, i saw a video about this. very interesting stuff.

Khalkhal, Iran
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its not what you think, they say that if they follow all the clues left in the bible and historical records and stuff, it leads to norther Iran. its not saying that the garden actually exists or not or whether God is real or not.

^^ y u say "lol"?! n e way more pics of the region

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very very beautiful! if there was a garden of eden it would be here.

truly haven , i would love to go camping over there ;)

very nice pics.

its beautiful but there are tons of places like this in the world, why did God choose this place?

well, no one knows if teh garden even existed or even if God exists (i believe God does exist personally). but based on the religous books (bible, torah, etc...) and historical stories and accounts this is where the garden of eden would be.

its so beautiful!!!!!!!!!

i noticed that the location they r suggesting is by lake urumia, i know that there is a lot of "beh" orchards (like an apple but with more of a dry.... uh its almost like what roses would taste if they were sweet). could that be the apple like forbiden fruit??

more from around the region...

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^This one...truely eden :yes:

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where is the tree of immortality then?

Beautiful pics Aryan.. I forgot about this thread lol

wonderful

Great nature.

Just stunning!!

guys april 5 of 2007
i was watching a documentary about that in discovery channel and they say that this is the so called eden, and after seeing this pictures i really can say it definatly look like a beautiful place if there was a eden it most been here, i was wooooooooo after seeing the picts bravo for you guys, now the goverment of iran has to study this site and do more resources about it.

meh, i doubt that they care...

History & Destiny of the Rivers of Eden

I remember studying the history of Elazig, the province in Turkey where the Tigris headwaters originate, and being surprised at how recently the area had been settled; it is surrounded by very ancient settlements. In fact, a prehistoric community called Çatalhöyük, just southwest of this area may be the oldest model of known urban civilization in the world. I soon learned that this was the scene of the first wholesale slaughter of Armenians in 1915. Just prior to this time, Armenian men within the Turkish military were disarmed and either worked to death in labor battalions or systematically rounded up and executed. Without the aid of a hearty male contingent within their ranks, the Armenian population was helpless.

The Armenians were soon ordered to vacate their homes and communities, supposedly to be deported to concentration camps across the border in the Syrian Desert. However, marauding bandits conscripted by the Turkish government to mercilessly butcher these convoys of Armenian women and children. Those who were not murdered as they were being deported died of dehydration, starvation, and disease in the Syrian concentration camps. In total, some two to three million Armenians were killed during several genocides between the 1880s and the 1920s. This systematic annihilation of the predominant people of what has since become eastern Turkey seems to have been conveniently forgotten by the western media and politicians.

Reflecting on this poignant episode in history, and knowing how closely this ethnic cleansing preceded the Jewish holocaust in Europe, I mulled over the possibility of a connection between these two peoples. I discovered there was indeed a profound connection between these two people groups. When the Assyrians invaded Northern Israel around 750 B.C., they resettled Israel's ten northern tribes in another region of the empire called Media, just as they had also relocated the Samaritan people into Israel. One hundred years later, an official report to Sargon II of Assyria spoke of people called Gimira, just west of the upper Euphrates, and north of the Taurus Mountains.19 We know from the Behistun Inscription in Iran that these Gimira were the same people as the ISKUZA or SAKKA, names thought to be a derivative of Isaac (ISS-SAAK). Also, the Behistan Inscription states that the area in which these people had been resettled had by that point been named Armenia. Six hundred fifty years later, Josephus claimed the lost tribes of Israel still inhabited an area he described to be "beyond the Euphrates" 20-in Armenia or Media! It is true that remnants of the lost tribes can be found in other countries such as Afghanistan, and India, but it appears the largest remnant settled within this Armenian territory, as evidenced by the conversion of the Khazarian Empire to Judaism in the 700s AD. Today, the Kurdish and Armenian people in this area exhibit a high incidence of a genetic marker called the "Cohen Modal Haplotype" (CMH),21 a trait found prominently among the Cohen or priestly descendents in the Jewish community.

So the Armenian Genocide that started in Elazig was actually part of a global atrocity that would eventually be carried out against all the children of Israel in the 20th century. Yet, this wasn't the first time Jewish blood had been shed beside the headwaters of a Genesis 2 river. Most know about the harsh treatment of the Hebrew people in Egypt beside the Nile (Gihon) River before the Exodus account, but few realize that the Muslims first massacre of Jews was carried out beside the ancient Pishon River, in Medina. Here, Mohamed himself had the occupants of all three Jewish settlements-the Banu Qainuqa, the Bani Nadir, and the Banu Quraiza-either killed, deported, or distributed as slaves. Even less known are the Beta Israelies or Falasha tribe in Ethiopia (close to the headwaters of the Blue Nile), and their near extermination at the hands of the Portuguese and Ethiopian military.

Can you see a theme emerging here? Every one of the rivers listed in the second chapter of Genesis would become a place where the Hebrew people would be exiled and punished for their idolatry and unbelief. They were slaves beside the Gihon before the Exodus; they would walk beside the waters of Pishon as they wandered in the wilderness and as captives of the Islamic invasions; the ten northern tribes were taken captive to the banks of the Tigris River during the Assyrian invasion; and southern Israel was carried away to the shores of the Euphrates during the Babylonian captivity. These rivers had enormous spiritual implication, as though God was reaching out to them through His Spirit, nourishing and sustaining His people during their times of greatest tribulation. These waters of encouragement emanated from their land of promise, and would return a remnant of the people back to their homeland.