![]() ![]() He constructed a large ziggurat around the original ancient tower. In 612 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II rebuilt the city, turning it into his capital. The original city, believed to have been built in 2300 BCE, was sacked in 1595 BCE by the Hittites. “In the 19th century there was a discovery that the Assyrian kings described in the Bible were real and corroborated by archaeological evidence, making us ask now, how much more in the Bible is true?”Īrchaeologists generally agree that the site of the tower is in the ancient city of Babylonia, an area known today as Al Qasr, approximately 80 miles south of Baghdad. “After Darwin cast a doubt on the story of a six-day creation, people began to ask what else in the Bible might not be true,” Dr. Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian at the University of London (SOAS) The professor described how this schism between science and religion is gradually being reconciled in his field. George sees no contradiction between science and the Bible. More and more, archaeologists are finding proof that Biblical stories relate to historical events. George acknowledged to Breaking Israel News. “As an Assyriologist, I don’t deal in the Bible, and I am not a religious person, but in this case, I can say there is an actual building which does seem to be the inspiration for the Biblical narrative,” Dr. From that it may be that the Bible got the idea of the confusion of tongues.”Ĭome, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. ![]() ![]() “There were many languages spoken on the construction site. “The myth about the multitude of tongues comes from the context described in the stele about the multitude of peoples enlisted in the construction of the tower,” Professor George told Breaking Israel News in an interview. George believes that its builders, hailing from all over the region, could represent the Biblical ‘multitudes’ of languages which led to the tower’s destruction. The inscription was one of the keys to identifying the ziggurat described in the tablet as the Biblical tower. “It reads, ‘from the Upper Sea, which is the Mediterranean, to the Lower Sea, which is the Persian Gulf, the far-flung lands and the teeming people of the habitations, I mobilized in order to construct this building.’” The engraving of the tower and Nebuchadnezzer II (Screenshot) ![]() George’s translation of the tablet reveals a detailed account of the tower’s construction by the Babylonian king. Significantly, it also identifies the man behind it, depicted next to the tower – Mesopotamia’s most famous ruler, King Nebuchadnezzar II. The inscription confirms the building was a Mesopotamian-style tower and illustrates the seven tiers of the ancient megastructure. The professor translates the inscription, which identifies the structure as the “Tower of Temple of Babylon”. George, a professor of Babylonian at the University of London, examines the tablet, showing an image of the ziggurat, a massive stepped structure, and a figure holding a staff. In the first installment of the series, Dr. For scholars, the tablet offers proof that the Tower of Babel wasn’t just a work of fiction, the series argues, but “an actual building from antiquity.” The amazing tale of the tablet is told in a series produced by the Smithsonian. The relief carving of the tower on the tablet (Screenshot) ![]()
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