The Tingler
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Well, they are closely linked to Marduk and the Tower of Babel, so you could say they could be:
a) Like the Infernal Machine, underneath the Tower of Babel. Makes sense, but is unoriginal and doesn't really send Indy anywhere.
b) When the Tower was destroyed in Biblical legend, the people 'scattered over the face of the Earth'. Some could have brought the Tablets with them.
c) One could be buried with Eber from the Hebrew Bible, the one man who refused to help build the Tower and retained the original language of mankind - Hebrew.
d) One or all of the Tablets could have been taken by the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib, who is supposed to have destroyed the original version of the ziggurat of Babylon when the city fell in 689 BC. It is interesting to note that the king of Babylon at the time was called Mushezib-Marduk, who disappeared when the city (and Tower) fell. Sennacherib tried to sack Jerusalem around the same time, but was unable to for reasons documented in detail in the Bible (II Kings) - supposedly the Angel of the Lord killed 185,000 of the emperor's men. Lord Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib is an interesting read.
e) Interesting look at the murder of Sennacherib. Could the murderer have stolen the Tablet and fled to (as the article says at the bottom) "to the land of Ararat"?
f) Of course numerous attempts were made to restore the Tower, including Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II, and also Alexander the Great. Could they have taken the Tablets somewhere?
Good research reading has to start with a good history of the Tower, and more importantly with the Babylonian creation myth.
a) Like the Infernal Machine, underneath the Tower of Babel. Makes sense, but is unoriginal and doesn't really send Indy anywhere.
b) When the Tower was destroyed in Biblical legend, the people 'scattered over the face of the Earth'. Some could have brought the Tablets with them.
c) One could be buried with Eber from the Hebrew Bible, the one man who refused to help build the Tower and retained the original language of mankind - Hebrew.
d) One or all of the Tablets could have been taken by the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib, who is supposed to have destroyed the original version of the ziggurat of Babylon when the city fell in 689 BC. It is interesting to note that the king of Babylon at the time was called Mushezib-Marduk, who disappeared when the city (and Tower) fell. Sennacherib tried to sack Jerusalem around the same time, but was unable to for reasons documented in detail in the Bible (II Kings) - supposedly the Angel of the Lord killed 185,000 of the emperor's men. Lord Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib is an interesting read.
e) Interesting look at the murder of Sennacherib. Could the murderer have stolen the Tablet and fled to (as the article says at the bottom) "to the land of Ararat"?
f) Of course numerous attempts were made to restore the Tower, including Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II, and also Alexander the Great. Could they have taken the Tablets somewhere?
Good research reading has to start with a good history of the Tower, and more importantly with the Babylonian creation myth.