Where is Noah's Ark and where is the Garden of Eden?

Answer 1

AnswerBiblical tradition says that Noah's Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat in Turkey, but several expeditions to the area have failed to find any trace of the Ark. Ian Wilson (Before the Flood) provides quite compelling evidence that the biblical Flood might have been a folk memory of the real inundation of the Black Sea around 5400 BCE.

The Bible tells us that four rivers flowed from the Garden of Eden, which should readily enable us to identify its location: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. The identification of the Tigris, and Euphrates would seem to place the Garden of Eden in the Middle East, near present-day Iraq. However, Genesis 2:13 says that a river flowed out of the garden to water the land of Ethiopia, which means that the garden was in the horn of Africa, while verse 14 says that the fourth river watered Assyria. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says there can be no single terrestrial place that would serve as the common source of these four widely separated rivers, and that the Garden of Eden is a purely mythic place.