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Originally Posted by Pastor Billy-Reuben
Thanks, brother. What's amazing to me is that a structure could be that large and that strong, yet leave absolutely no trace of archaeological evidence that it ever existed. That just goes to show when God wants something destroyed, it gets destroyed.
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Indeed! it must have been much taller than the Ziggurat of Ur (which, at about 7 stories high, was a head-spinning skyscraper for ancient Babylonians). (Some people claim that this ziggurat inspired the Biblical story of the tower of Babel, which is obviously wrong because the ziggurat was finished and there was no language divergence associated with its creation).
Nonetheless, as you note, God was so thorough that there is no archaeological existence of the tower of Babel - while the ziggurat of Ur is standing until this day:
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Something else I think about is, if I were to try to build a tower to reach up to the firmament, I believe I would have started on top of one of the nearby hills instead of starting down in a river valley. But I guess when your king is named Nimrod, you can't exactly expect him to make the world's smartest decisions.
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That is truly an excellent interpretation based on the best available data!
