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The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands.
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Yeah, its 4 rivers, and to the best of my knowledge, biblical scholars have basically given up on trying to associate 4 rivers and the place names given with any actual real location.
Either its mythical, or some of the place names just do not linguistically connect with any of the historical record of actual locations.
Same with the 4 rivers. No conclusive evidence of dried up ancient river beds that actually fits.
Basically Eden would have to be... somewhere up river of the Tigris, but the Tigris and Euphrates actually have headwaters in modern day Turkey, and they don't have the same sources.
Most likely the authors went with some kind of local, incorrect lore from Sumer/Akkad/Babylon, or possibly the rivers did at one point actually connect, but no conclusive evidence of that exists.