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If Shinar included both Babylon ("Babel") and Erech, then "Shinar" broadly denoted both northern and southern Babylonia. Any cognate relation with " Sumer " or "Shumer", an Akkadian name used for a non-Semitic people who called themselves ''Kiengir'', is not simple to explain and has been the subject of varied speculation. It is certain that the Egyptian term for Babylonia / Mesopotamia was ''Sangar'', a name appearing often in the Amarna Letters . According to H. Welsh , it is likely, arising from association with " Ur Of The Chaldees ", that ''Shinar'' signifies the land of the Mesopotamian moon god '' Sin '', whose earliest temple was at Ur. Sin had a network of temples spanning across the fertile crescent, including a prominent temple in Babylon and one of its famous Gates, also a major temple in Harran, and probably another in Jericho, that most ancient city, whose name means "Place of the Moon God." Sme scholars have proposed that Shinar must have been confined to the northern part of Mesopotamia, based on from the sea of Shinar. Some scholars such as David Rohl have proposed evidence that the Tower was actually located in Eridu , once located on the Persian Gulf, where there are ruins of a massive, ancient ziggurat worked from bitumen. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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