Location Of The Garden Of Eden

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KJV does say one of the rivers "encompasseth Ethiopia" but there is no river which connects to the Euphrates and even enters much less encompasses Ethiopia.  Perhaps "Ethiopia" was a community of East African traders in Babylon?  

I am thinking the actual garden may have been a manmade garden in the middle of Babylon.  It may have been only a few acres large.  It may have been a religious shrine to the Priests of An. 

The river may have simply been a small spring which watered the garden and was then allowed to flow by various routes to the Euphrates. 

When Moses wrote the Pentateuch, it was many generations later.

If we are to believe that Genesis was just a moral story then why describe locations of places at all? It does not make sense, once again to think of the Bible as being allegorical when specific descriptions are given.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_places

Scholars have speculated where the Garden of Eden may have been or that it was a spiritual concept. They nor theologians can come to agreements of facts, so I'll leave it there.

Then again, Sodom discovered?:

"But last week — and again this week — on THE ROSENBERG REPORT, I sat down for an exclusive interview with Dr. Steven Collins, the archaeologist who claims that he and his team have actually uncovered the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Kingdom of Jordan."

"“There's so much specific information about the location of these cities that you would practically have to be blind and illiterate not to be able to find the location of Sodom because there are at least 25 known pieces of geography that you can triangulate between to take you to the city of Sodom. It's not difficult,” stressed Collins, author of “Discovering the City of Sodom.”"

https://allisrael.com/did-sodom-and-gomo...erg-report