Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel 309
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."
Pretty Lame (Score:5, Funny)
The tower comes up to his waist.
Re:Pretty Lame (Score:5, Funny)
It's only a model.
Re:Pretty Lame (Score:4, Funny)
Quick someone call apple's lawers (Score:5, Funny)
That tablet has a glossy black surface and rounded corners
Re:Pretty Lame (Score:5, Funny)
What is this, a Tower of Babel for ants? It needs to be at least ... three times bigger than this.
the bibles babel mentioning.. (Score:4, Funny)
is a warning against multiple company outsourcing.
Re:Tower of Babel (Score:0, Funny)
tablet
Since we're on the topic of tablets. iPad sucks! :)
Re:Tower of Babel (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Pretty Lame (Score:5, Funny)
What is this, a center for ants?!
How can we be expected to teach children when they can't even fit inside the building?!
Tower of babel is interesting. Have they ever actually figured out how big it actually was etc? Because the carvings aren't very detailed or convincing.
Re:Babylon is in Central/Southern Africa? (Score:2, Funny)
I don't know if it is "Christian propaganda" or not, but how the hell is it "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters"? I mean, is it made of Legos, does it run Linux, or at the very least, is SCO or the RIAA suing them?
Re:Pretty Lame (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Babylon is in Central/Southern Africa? (Score:5, Funny)
I always thought that 7 meant read/write/execute, 6 meant read/write, 3 meant write/execute, and 777 meant wide-open?
Careful when translating (Score:5, Funny)
May contain mind virus. :P