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There is a possibility that the Cradle of Gold is mentioned in the Biblical story of the
Garden of Eden in The Book of Genesis. - "And a river went out of Eden to water the
garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first
is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And
the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." Research by
archaeologists Juris Zarins of Missouri State University and Farouk El-Baz of Boston
University indicates that the Pishon River may be the now dried up river bed that once
flowed 600 miles north east from the Mahd adh Dhahab area of the Hejaz c. 3000 BC.[1]
The site has also been identified with King Solomon's Gold Mine[2] Geologists have
found a vast abandoned gold mine. Among their finds are huge quantities of waste rock,
an estimated million tons, left by the ancient miners, still containing traces of gold.
Thousands of stone hammers and grindstones used to extract the gold from the ore litter
the mine slopes. Robert W. Luce said: Our investigations have now confirmed that the
old mine could have been as rich as described in biblical accounts.[citation needed]
References[edit]
C.A. Salabach at Focus Magazine
http://news.google.com/newspapers?
id=6aQfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PdYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1508,1026966&dq=saudi+arabia+cra
dle+of+gold&hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahd_adh_Dhahab