For centuries, the Garden of Eden was dismissed by critics as poetic mythology—too ancient, too symbolic, too untestable. That assumption is now being challenged by satellite archaeology. Orbital radar imagery has revealed vast, fossilized river systems beneath the sands of Arabia that align strikingly with the geography recorded in Book of Genesis. While the Tigris and Euphrates still flow today, the long-missing rivers—Pishon and Gihon—were once cited as evidence against Eden’s historicity. Space-age technology has now brought those lost waterways back into view, tracing channels that existed when the region was lush and life-giving rather than desert.

One of the most compelling discoveries centers on Wadi al-Batin, an enormous dried riverbed stretching from western Arabia toward the Persian Gulf. Using radar data first captured by NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavor, geologist Farouk El-Baz identified a river up to three miles wide—precisely where Genesis places the Pishon, flowing through the gold-rich land of Havilah. Additional satellite and geological studies suggest Iran’s Karun River corresponds to the biblical Gihon, completing a four-river system converging into what was once a fertile cradle of early civilization.

SOURCE: Israel365News