The Tower of Babel

[Huggy Bear]

The account in the Bible was written some 1500 - 2000 years after the fact, not to mention Abraham was from the city of Ur, which WAS in ancient Mesopotamia, who was probably the source of the biblical account.

Goodness, I HATE having to correct you clowns on your bullshit all the time.  Your silly bible specifies that Abram was from Ur of the Chaldeans ( Gen 11, 31)  The antiquity of Ur and the rest of Sumeria was unknown.

The Chaldeans did not arrive in the region until sometime after 1,000 BC.  In this particular case, your book is actually giving better information than you would like.  Ironic, isn't it?

Anyway, we don't need your bible to learn the history of the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldea

Chaldaea, was a small Semitic nation that emerged between the late 10th and early 9th century BC, surviving until the mid 6th century BC, after which it disappeared as the Chaldean tribes were absorbed into the native population of Babylonia.[2] It was located in the marshy land of the far southeastern corner of Mesopotamia, and briefly came to rule Babylon.

What part of what I wrote didn't you understand?
http://www.ancient.eu/ur/

Ur was a city in the region of Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, in what is modern-day Iraq. According to biblical tradition, the city is named after the man who founded the first settlement there, Ur, though this has been disputed. The city’s other biblical link is to the patriarch Abraham who left Ur to settle in the land of Canaan. This claim has also been contested by scholars who believe that Abraham’s home was further north in Mesopotamia in a place called Ura, near the city of Harran, and that the writers of the biblical narrative in the Book of Genesis confused the two. Whatever its biblical connections may have been, Ur was a significant port city on the Persian Gulf which began, most likely, as a small village in the Ubaid Period of Mesopotamian history (5000-4100 BCE) and was an established city by 3800 BCE continually inhabited until 450 BCE.