Bible Location
Plain of Shinar
- Region
- Southern Mesopotamia
- Appearances
- In 1 storybook
Also known as Shinar, the land of Shinar, The Plain of Shinar, the Plain of Shinar, the plain of Babylonia
About Plain of Shinar
The alluvial plain between the lower Tigris and Euphrates in southern Mesopotamia — the heartland of Sumer and later Babylonia — where Genesis 11 places the people who set out from the east, settle on the plain of Shinar, and resolve to build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens. The tower (the Bible calls it Babel, "gate of the god") is the iconic Mesopotamian ziggurat, a stepped temple-pyramid of mud brick. Daniel and Zechariah continue to use "Shinar" as a poetic name for Babylonia centuries later.
Featured in 1 Bible Heroes storybook.
Storybooks set in Plain of Shinar
Every Bible Heroes storybook that opens scenes in Plain of Shinar, with the pages where it appears.
