Olive
Trees & Babylonia
“The rarity of olives in the Sumerian record speaks unequivocally for the import of both olive wood and
olive oil into southern
Mesopotamia. 69 However, olive fruit is recorded in northern Mesopotamia (Assyria), occurring in
the Assur Temple
offering lists back into the third millennium
B.C. Even in recent times, the villages at the foot of the Jabel Maqlub, just east of Khorsabad (~20 miles northeast of Mosul), are renowned in Iraq for
their olives (especially
Fadhiliya and Ba’shiqa).”
Carol Hill, “The Noachian Flood: Universal or Local?”,
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Vol. 54, No. 3.
ArcImaging - The Search For Noah's Ark