Article: LOST PARADISE UNEARTHED ANCIENT EDEN OFFERED PROSPERITY, YOUTH.(News/National/International)

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 ...

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