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Was This The Garden of Eden?

on BBC One London

The scribes of Genesis borrowed from a much older story when recounting the legend of the Garden of Eden. The earlier version, which also told of gods forming man from clay, of forbidden fruit and the goddess called 'The Lady of the Rib,' was set in a long lost land called 'Dilmun.'

Geoffrey Bibby, a Westmorlander, takes Magnus Magnusson on a 5,000-year-old trail of clues which makes Bibby think that Danish archaeologists working in Bahrain have rediscovered the land of Dilmun which probably inspired the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden.

(First shown on BBC2)
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Expert:
Geoffrey Bibby
Director:
Roy Davies
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

BBC One London

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