1/03/2012

Earliest Known Documents

The above is a newly discovered artifact being believed by the scientists to be  the oldest representation of the Tower of Babel (This is a tower which, according to the Book of Genesis,was an enormous tower built in the plain of Shinar. According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar).

The inscription which dates to 604-562 BCE is carved on a black stone, one which has already been associated with the Tower of Babel stele.

DNews reports, "Consisting of 13,717 manuscript items spanning over‭ ‬5,000‭ ‬years, the collection includes parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Buddhist manuscript rescued from the Taliban, and even cylcon symbols by Australia's Aborigines which can be up to 20,000 years old.
The collection also includes a large number of pictographic and cuneiform tablets -- which are some of the earliest known written documents -- seals and royal inscription spanning most of the written history of Mesopotamia, an area near modern Iraq."

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