The flat southern-Mesopotamian plain (Sumer/Babylonia) — no stone, hence brick and bitumen (11:3); home of Babel, Erech (Uruk), and Accad (Akkad). The name resurfaces, deliberately archaic, when Nebuchadnezzar carries the temple vessels 'to the land of Shinar' (Daniel 1:2): the narrator filing the new empire under the tower's old country.
📍 Shinar — modern-day Southern Iraq (ancient Sumer/Babylonia)
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map
showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one,
the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
▶ No films on the shelf yet — archaeology and geography videos get added here as Mr. Librarian finds good ones.