Literal Babylon is located in southern Iraq on
the plains of Shinar (Genesis 10:10) where people
migrated after the Flood and built the Tower of Babel.
Babylonia was divided into Accad to the north, and Summer
("Shinar" of the Old Testament) to the south. Along with
Ur and the city of Babylon itself, other major cities
were Uruk, or Erech , Larsa, or Ellasar, Sepharvaim,
Eridu, and Calneh. The Babylonian Empire existed from 606 to 539 B.C. and
fully conquered the southern kingdom of Judah in 586 B.C.
It was then that the Babylonians under the rule of King
Nebuchadnezzar completely devastated the city of
Jerusalem, looted and burned the original Temple of God,
built by Solomon and carried the people of Judah,
including the Prophets Daniel and Ezekiel, off into
captivity.
The capital of Babylonia fell to the Persian King,
Cyrus the Great on October 29 539 B.C. After 70 years of
supremacy, the Babylonian empire, the "head of gold" in
Daniel's statue, came to an end. ... The main entrance to
Babylon was the Ishtar (Easter) gate which can be visited
today. Underneath King Nebuchadnezzar's name Saddam
Hussein has had his name inscribed
The architect of the Tower of Babel. Nimrod, from the Hebrew "marad" or "we will rebel,"
was the son of Cush and a mighty hunter before the Lord
born in Ethiopia - Genesis 10:9.. Nimrod established the
first Kingdom in Babylon and later extended it to Nineveh
in Assyria. He also established the first Universal false
religion "before the Lord" or openly in the presence of
God and defied God to send another Flood.
The tower of Babel,
discovered in 1876, was 300 feet high and 300 feet square with 8
stories or platforms. The tower was finished but the city was not.
... An ancient Babylonian tablet reads "The buiding of this
illustrious tower offended the gods and they threw down what was
built. They scattered them abroad and made strange their
speech"
In Histori Romani Scriptorium Justin states, "Ninus ( Nimrod )
strengthened the greatness of his acquired dominion by continued
possession. Having subdued, therefore, his neighbors, when, by an
accession of forces, being still further strengthened, he went
forth against other tribes, and every new victory paved the way
for another, he subdued all the peoples of the east." .
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