Here are a couple more pictures from the Ziggurat and royal tombs. To realize that I am walking exactly where Genesis speaks of, is amazing. Genesis 11:3 describes men building the tower of babel out of mud bricks and "bitumen". Bitumen is basically natural tar, used as mortar. All of the mortar holding the bricks of the royal tombs is black; the same substance. Genesis 11:31 tells of Abram and his wife leaving "Ur of the Chaldeans"- this is Ur of the Chaldeans.

I believe I am the only person on this base to remember what today is- Pearl Harbor Day. God bless America.