The location of Eden - Extract from an article published by Fernando Cohnen (16 12 2007) on discoveries made in Gobekli Tepe, Turkey. Despite how controversial the proposals of the British Egyptologist David M. Rohl are, the fact is that some parables of Genesis bear resemblance to actual events that took place thousands of years ago in the fields around the lakes Van and Urmia, nestled in the Fertile Crescent , a broad region encompassing southern Turkey,