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Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel
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."
ToB is a story of humanity's first venture down the road of socialism, where all of humanity fell under the rule of a single dictator. As the story goes, God caused the languages of his people to become 'confused' so that no longer could a single dictator take control of the whole population. The most they could gain control over was those who spoke his language (think Hitler, his influence was limited to those who spoke German, essentially).
Well, look at who wrote the summary, his nick is smitty777. 777 is, for a lot of Christians, a meaningful number as in the opposite of 666, it's the number closest to their God.
Coincidence? Maybe, but in combination with the false summary I'd say chances are pretty big smitty777 has his own agenda when posting this Christian propaganda.
get this crap out of my slashdot. not news for nerds, and arguably since it includes no geological or archaeological data it is not "stuff that matters."
Good people go to bed earlier.