This homeland of the first humans Adam and Eve-may have been paradise for them, but it’s torment for Bible experts. Scholars can’t figure out where it was or even what it was. At times, the creation story in Genesis says Eden was a garden. Other times, Eden was a region that had a garden: “God planted a garden in Eden” (Gen 2:8). Perhaps it was both-the name of the garden and the territory, the way “Babylon” once described an empire and its Captial city.