A Babylonian text with 107 cuneiforms tablets with 107,
recently translated, provides information on how magnificent tower was built.
It is a part of a message from King Nebuchadnezzar II, who built a huge tower
(the so-called ziggurat).
In the text dated 5000 years ago he said that his people
brought together workers from around the world
who made bricks to raise the
tower to the god Marduk. Nebuchadnezzar II was the tyrant who took captive the
people of Israel and destroyed the First Temple of Jerusalem, according the Old
Testament. It is possible that the way it was built the great ziggurat may have
been similar to that used to raise the tower of Babel. According to the Bible,
all races and languages have emerged while the process of building the
ziggurat. After the creation of the world, people spoke the same language. They found a plain in the land of Shinar and
settled there (now in Iraq), where they made the first bricks and decide to
live together in a high tower up to heaven. But Yahweh (God) punished them for
their pride confounding their language and spread them on the surface of the
earth. Tower of Babel was never finished. Historians take seriously the myth,
because there are many ziggurats along the rivers of Mesopotamia which would
have been built after the model of Babel.
The ziggurat is a massive structure of sun-baked bricks, like a pyramid.
The largest ziggurat, Etemenaki (house of heaven and earth), is located on the
banks of the Euphrate.
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