It’s worth noting that civilization began in the Fertile Crescent, the homeland of very ancient Semitic languages like Akkadian. Akkadian was with Sumerian one of the two main languages of Mesopotamia.
Genesis really does read like a book of a people who were plugged in to civilization from the beginning—and the correlations like Eden/Edin and Noah/Utnapishtim seem to reinforce that.
——Fertile Crescent-—
The fertile crescent is ISIL....... it’s there, on the map