Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @05:36AM from the tower-built-by-java-developer dept.

smitty777 writes "The recent discovery of the Tower of Babel stele by a team of scholars shows what might be the earliest depiction of the ancient Tower of Babel. The stele belongs to Martin Schøyen, who also owns a large number of pictographic and cuneiform tablets, some of the earliest known written documents. The tablet (reconstruction) depicts King Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom Babylon was a cultural leader in astronomy, mathematics, literature and medicine. It's also interesting to note the somewhat recent Slashdot article linking the common ancestry of languages to this area."

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AC is just an ignorant republitarian by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-28 06:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The republitians just want to hand over all our rights to our corporate overlords and let the free market take care of itself.
Never mind that our current system comes from the free market not taking care of itself. And while things are that great right now, they aren't nearly as bad as they were back in the glorious 1880s.