Jeb and Blake go looking for The Garden of Eden and bring along professor Nathan French of the Miami University, Ohio to shed some extra insight during the journey.

Nathan is the author of And God Knows the Martyrs (affiliate link) and is Associate Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami.

Meanwhile back in Eden...

Nimoy walks in the Garden with a bible and his wholly white vestments.

The Tomb of Eve

Jedha in Star Wars

Ashurban-appalling?

Bahrain: Independent since 1971. UK Protectorate in 1892, with decades of playing Ottomans, Persians, and British off each other.

Archaeologist P. B. (Peter Bruce) Cornwall

"The first excavation at the site was carried out by a Danish archaeological expedition led by Geoffrey Bibby between 1954 and 1972, and later by a French expedition from 1977"

Archaeological Excavations -- Bahrain

Bahrain & WWII

Bahrain experience of WWII

US in Bahrain Post-WWII

Maybe one of YOU good people can make sense of this?

Technical Consultant was Gerald A LaRue of USC. Scholar of Religion & Gerontologist. (Apparently, LaRue would pass the ashes of a dead colleague around in class, with the dead colleague's permission, as a memento mori)

Writer of this episode, Jim Kouf.

"Patricia Gibbs, an English woman who runs Bahrain Explored, has done much to make the island accessible to the tourist She began four years ago, when a friend at British Airways asked her to show VIP guests on the inaugural Concorde flight around Bahrain. Now she has seven knowledgeable guides with cars and a minibus. Her stop-over package includes a sight-seeing tour of the spring-fed, relatively green northern coast of Bahrain, as well as some inland villages. You will see Arab dhows being built, by hand, with twisted mangrove limbs from India, before visiting the main archaeological sites dating to 2700 BC ."