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Has the Tower of Babel been found?  If so where is it and what do we know about it?

The Tower of Babel, or the ruins of it, date to the 8th century BC, and are located about 50 miles south of Bagdad, Iraq.  It is attested in many ancient sources, including one of the oldest known pictures with inscriptions on obsidian.  It was known as Etemenanki, meaning the "tower connecting earth with heaven."  It was a stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, the precursor to flat sided pyramids.  It consisted of seven levels and was about 300 feet wide, 300 feet deep and 300 feet high.  The top level was a temple to the Babylonian god Marduk.

The Jewish historian Josephus mentions the Tower of Babel, as do many other ancient peoples and historians.  Ancient stories and myths similar to the Tower of Babel account in the Bible are found in the Book of Mormon, in Central America, the early history of what is not the State of Arizona, Africa and many other places.

All have the idea of the arrogance of humans in building a tower to reach heaven, the displeasure of God or the Gods, the scattering of people and confounding or multiplication of languages.

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