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Paradise Lost . . . and Found?

November 12, 2011 by Bob Kalk

Sumerian legends locate the land of Paradise, where the gods first blessed mankind with manners of civilized life, in Dilmun on the shore of the Persian Gulf.  —Harold Peake & Herbert John Fleure (1927)

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