There are also other archeologists like Hormuzd Rassam, who dug up landscapes. Also Robert Coldeway and Walter Andrae. They spent years reconstructing Babylon with mud-brick foundations. The westerners didn’t believe that there was a historical truth to the scriptures. But the early archeologists wrote of the biblical legends coming true. That clay tablets with cuneiform and kings that conquered the ancient land of Mesopotamia were real. Archeologists also showed that the Babylonians and Sumerians were thousands of years older than the Scriptures. When european travelers finally arrived at Baghdad, they expected it to be very majestic, like how it was described in the scriptures. So, they were disappointed because it wasn’t exactly like the
