Place
Babel (Babylon)
The city whose building, with its tower, God halted by confusing the languages (Gen 11:1–9); the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom (Gen 10:10).
Location
- Type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.5433, 44.4222
- Certainty
- high (85%)
OpenBible.info: "another name for Babylon 1 (ancient): 85% confidence".
OpenBible.info GeoJSON point md561de (Babylon).
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Scripture
Events here
- Berossus Dynasty 1 (Chaldean) at Babel
- Berossus Dynasty 3: division and rebellion
- Berossus Dynasty 4 (Chaldean, 458 years)
- Death of Hammurabi
- Death of Ibbi-Sin (end of Ur III)
- Confusion of Tongues and Dispersion from Babel
- Fall of Akkad to the Guti Arabs; start of the "Arab" dynasty of Babylon
- Founding of Babel and the Era of the Tower
- "Median Dynasty of Babylon" (Berossus Dynasty 2)
- Mursilis I sacks Babylon; end of the First Dynasty of Babylon
- Semiramis II (Tukulti-Ninurta I); end of the Arab dynasty
Maps
Related
Free sources
- OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain
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