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Article: LOST PARADISE UNEARTHED ANCIENT EDEN OFFERED PROSPERITY, YOUTH.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 7, 1998
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Byline: Louis Meixler Associated Press
SAAR, Bahrain -- In ancient times, the land of Dilmun was described as a virtual Garden of Eden - a land where the wolf and the lamb lived in harmony and youth was eternal.
Archaeologists today are uncovering more of that once-fabled land, revealing a prosperous trading society that had such abundant supplies of water that palm trees grew heavy with dates almost without effort.
``Fresh water just bubbled up out of the ground,'' said Jane Moon, one of the directors of the archaeological expedition at Saar. ``That must have been miraculous to Gulf people.''
Saar was one of the towns in ancient ...