Farouk El-Baz
There is a possibility that the "Cradle of Gold" is mentioned in the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden in "The Book of Genesis". - "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." Research by archaeologists Juris Zarins of Missouri State University and Farouk El-Baz of Boston University indicates that the Pishon River may be the now dried up river bed that once flowed 600 miles north east from the Mahd Al Thahab area of the Hejaz c. 3000 BC.