Science confirms – 4. Collection of scientific articles. Андрей Тихомиров

now called the Ubeid. They founded in the V millennium BC the oldest of the cities of Southern Mesopotamia – Eridu.»

      «It was in Saudi Arabia that Zarins unexpectedly came across traces of the Ubaid culture, and it was there that he began to develop his hypothesis about the true meaning of the biblical Eden. One clue lay in linguistics: the word «Eden», or «Edim», primarily refers to Sumer, the region of Mesopotamia, where the world’s first written language was created. This happened in the III millennium BC, that is, more than 3 thousand years after the Ubeid culture arose. Among the Sumerians, the word «Eden» simply meant «fertile plain». The word «Adam» was also found in Cuneiform, meaning something like «settlements on the plain». Although both of these words were first discovered among the Sumerians along with names such as Ur and Uruk, they are not Sumerian in origin. The brilliant assyriologist B. Landsberger put forward in 1943 the theory that these names are all that remains of the language of the people that existed before the Sumerians. Landsberger called this pre-Sumerian language «proto-Euphratic». Other scholars have suggested that the people who spoke that language belonged to the Ubaid civilization. Already existing words merged into the language of the Sumerians and found their reflection in writing. And thanks to writing, the word «Eden» has penetrated into mythology as a symbol of a fertile and fertile place.