He further cited the and of as having a similar story. The traditions of the of, which Frazer considered to show clear 'Abrahamic' influence, also relate that their ancestors migrated there following the abandonment of a great in the land of the 30 generations from Adam, when the languages were confused and the Karen separated from the Karenni. In 2011 scholars discovered, in the, the oldest known representation of the Etemenanki. Carved on a black stone, The Tower of Babel Stele (as it is known) dates from 604 to 562 BCE, the time of Nebuchadnezzar II.The Greek historian (440 BCE) later wrote of this ziggurat, which he called the 'Temple of Zeus Belus', giving an account of its vast dimensions.The already decayed Great Ziggurat of Babylon was finally destroyed by in an attempt to rebuild it. He managed to move the tiles of the tower to another location, but his death stopped the reconstruction.speculated that the authors of Genesis 11:1–9 were inspired by the existence of an apparently incomplete ziggurat at Babylon, and by the phonological similarity between Babylonian Bab-ilu, meaning 'gate of God', and the Hebrew word balal, meaning 'mixed', 'confused', or 'confounded'.
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