Babylonia

The Garden of Eden is a section of Babylonia, as is sufficiently attested by the express mention of the Tigris and Euphrates as two of the rivers which flowed through the primeval habitation of mankind … the tradition which assigns the first human pair to Babylonia is of great significance for the prominence which Babylonia must have acquired in the mind of the Hebrews … . (Jastrow 1915, pg. 3)
Old Babylonian Era
Early Iron Age
Neo-Babylonian Era

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