BY NILE AND EUPHRATES, A RECORD OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE. ... With Maps and Illustrations. Cloth. Decorated Cover. Pp. 355. New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.50.

Four rivers—and why one of them is the Nile. Genesis 2:10‑14 identifies four rivers stemming from Eden: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates.

“By examining a map from around 500 BC, it becomes apparent that the only four rivers emerging from the encircling Oceanus are the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates and Indus,” Borisov wrote in his ...

Fertile Crescent. A region of the Middle East arching across the northern part of the Syrian Desert and extending from the Nile Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.