Holy plot twist!
A provocative new concept means that the unique Backyard of Eden might not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — however reasonably in Egypt, below the towering shadow of the a lot older Nice Pyramid of Giza.
Dr. Konstantin Borisov, a pc engineer, is shaking up biblical geography with a examine printed within the journal Archaeological Discovery, claiming the famed paradise the place Adam and Eve as soon as frolicked might have flourished on Egyptian soil.
The Bible describes a river flowing out of Eden that break up into 4 branches — the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates. Students have lengthy assumed Eden was in Iraq, residence to the Tigris and Euphrates.
However Borisov claims the traditional rivers might additionally correspond to the Nile (Gihon), Euphrates, Tigris, and the Indus River (Pishon).
“By inspecting a map from round 500 BC, it turns into obvious that the one 4 rivers rising from the encircling Oceanus are the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates and Indus,” Borisov wrote in his paper.
And he’s not stopping there — the scientist claims the sacred Tree of Life itself, stated to bear fruit that grants everlasting life, as soon as stood close to the Nice Pyramid.
He believes the pyramid’s inner construction even mimics the form of a tree.
“It can’t be missed,” he wrote, “the cost particles on this simulation are organized in a approach that creates a number of parallel branches extending outward from the middle line, making a tree-like illustration.”
Borisov pointed to simulations from 2012 that modeled the pyramid’s King’s Chamber, exhibiting charged particles clustering on the peak of the monument — producing mild phenomena that resemble a glowing tree.
“Whereas emitted from the pyramid, the cost particles collide with impartial nitrogen and oxygen atoms, resulting in their ionization, ensuing within the launch of photons, predominantly in shades of purple and inexperienced,” he wrote.
The “tree” in his simulation? It has 5 distinct branches — identical to the 5 layered beams within the pyramid’s relieving chambers.
To bolster his concept, Borisov turned to historic texts and medieval maps — together with the Thirteenth-century Hereford Mappa Mundi, which reveals a round Earth ringed by a legendary river known as Oceanus. On the map’s high is “Paradise,” nestled beside the river’s edge.
Historical historian Titus Flavius Josephus additionally backs up elements of Borisov’s imaginative and prescient.
In Antiquities of the Jews (Ebook 1, Chapter 1), Josephus wrote: “Now the backyard was watered by one river, which ran spherical about the entire earth, and was parted into 4 elements.”
Josephus additionally recognized the 4 biblical rivers with real-world equivalents: “Phison… working into India, makes its exit into the ocean… Euphrates additionally, in addition to Tigris, goes down into the Crimson Sea… and Geon runs by Egypt,” he wrote, noting that Geon (Gihon) is the traditional Greek identify for the Nile.
In accordance with Borisov, which means we have already got the clues we want.
“At this level, all of the rivers of the Bible are recognized, and plainly all we want is to comply with the course of the Oceanus River across the globe to pinpoint the situation of Eden,” he wrote — although he concedes he nonetheless must “decide the exact course of Oceanus.”
Nonetheless, if he’s proper, Egypt’s Nice Pyramid might not simply be a marvel of the traditional world — it may very well be the final surviving monument of biblical paradise.
