The "Esagila" tablet. Document copied from older texts in 229 BC, written in Uruk from an original of Borsippa. The tablet explains the history and engineering of the 7-floor high Etemenanki temple (the equivalent of the Tower of Babel in the Bible). Clay tablet. Cuneiform script. Louvre Museum. Paris, France.
The "Esagila" tablet. Document copied from older texts in 229 BC, written in Uruk from an original of Borsippa. The tablet explains the history and engineering of the 7-floor high Etemenanki temple (the equivalent of the Tower of Babel in the Bible). Clay tablet. Cuneiform script. Louvre Museum. Paris, France.