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The Ziggurat of Ur.
In plain words
The great ziggurat of Ur rises on the same plain where Genesis sets the tower of Babel. The tower shape recurs in the tower story's own landscape.
The mechanism
CONSOLIDATION — the tower form recurs in the same plain the tower account is set in
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
- Letter eraTHE ENCLOSURE AT THE BIRTH OF WRITING c. 3500 to c. 1150 BC
- Plate — The Great Ziggurat of Ur, near Nasiriyah, Iraq · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Ziggurat_of_Ur.JPG
- SourcesARCHAEOLOGY
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