The Chedekol is widely accepted as being the Tigris river, and the Peret is identified as the Euphrates river. Suggesting the location was in southern Mesopotamia, now known as Iraq. So what is the connection between Sumer, the cradle of civilization, the Garden of Eden, and our origin? Archaeologists and scholars have been researching for centuries in this area of the world, hoping to provide the biblical stories of the Garden of Eden.
The Ziggurat of Ur, a massive 4,000-year-old temple, and one of Iraq's most famous archaeological sites, is rising from the desert near Nasiriyah. It was a place of an ancient Sumerian city. In 1849, during excavations at the ancient cities of Sippar and Nippur, northwest of Ur, thousands of Sumerian cuneiforms were found. An English archaeologist, Sir Austin Henry Layard, discovered about 20,000 Sumerian tablets with cuneiform inscriptions. The Sumerian language was also found on the ancient Akkadian tablets, and amongst all the tablets discovered, about a dozen were talking about the Garden of Eden. Anton Parks, a Sumero-Akkadian researcher and author of eight books regarding Sumerian translation, originated the theory that the Sumerian language is a coding system. He believes for hundreds of years we've been translating Sumerian tablets wrong.
An American scientist from the University of California, who worked on the SETI project for many years and collaborated with NASA, was very interested in the Sumerian translations. He provided Anton Parks with ten tablets found at Sippar to check symbols one by one. Anton noticed the difference between existing translations, one translation saying one thing, the other saying something completely opposite. He was persistent. He was constantly researching on Hebrew, but nothing was coming out of it until, by chance, he came across a Sumerian-Akkadian lexicon and finally, slowly, started to translate the tablets.