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Figure 9: Rock carving at Etemenanki highlighted

Of course, we don’t know exactly where the tower of Babel was.
The Bible tells us it was in the plains of Shinar. (Genesis 11:2).
According to Answers in Genesis [13][WL], there is a place named Shinar.
However, it is unlikely that is what the Bible is referring to since it didn’t
exist as a place when Hebrew was a local language. Shinar appears to have
different spellings and different variations in many of the cultures and
languages of that area. It also has quite a few interpretations.

Habermehl [13] says some of these interpretations include “to shake
out” as a reference to the dispersion of the people from the Tower of Babel.
But Habermehl says that he believes that Shinar is instead a combination of
two Hebrew words, “shene nahar,” which would be “two rivers.” This
would mean the city was where two rivers met, diverged, or were near each
other.

Habermehl [13] goes on to say that this would be close to the Greek
term, “Mesopotamia,” meaning the land of the two rivers. This is a name
often used to reference the land around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
This would be the area between modern-day Iraq and Iran.

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