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It is highly significant that in its record of Sumer and the early Sumerian civilization, the Bible chose to highlight the space connection incident—the one known as the tale of the “Tower of Babel”: And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shin’ar and they settled there. And they said to one another: “Come, let us make bricks and burn them by fire.” And the brick served them as stone, and the bitumen served them as mortar. And they said: “Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose head shall reach the heavens.” GENESIS II: 2-4 This is how the Bible recorded the most audacious attempt— by Marduk!—to assert his supremacy by establishing his own city in the heart of Enlilite domains and, moreover, to build there his own space facility with its own launch tower. The place is named in the Bible Babel, “Babylon” in English. This biblical tale is remarkable in many ways. It records, first of all, the settlement of the Tigris-Euphrates plain after the Deluge, after the soil had dried up enough to permit re- settlement. It correctly names the new land Shin’ar, the He- brew name for Sumer. It provides the important clue from where—from the mountainous region to the east—the set- tlers had come. It recognizes that it was there that Man’s first “AND IT CAME TO PASS”