could there really have been such a royal capital, preceding babel and Nineveh???

Ruins of mesopotamia have provided conclusive evidence that once there indeed existed a kingdom by the name of Akkad…established by an earlier ruler who called himself…Sharrukin- righteous ruler…

He claimed in his inscriptions that his empire stretched, by the grace of Enlil, from the Lower Sea(the persian gulf), to the upper sea(believed to be the mediterranean)…he boasted that “at the wharf of Akkad, he made moor ships” from many distant lands…

Upon this discovery scholars had come upon the discovery of a mesopotamian cilization that existed in the third millenium BC…mounds dug up, brought to light…literature art, science and politics, commerce and communications- a full society that existed before the appearance of Babylon and Assyria…..it becomes obvious that mesopotamian civilizations, assyria and babylonia were branches off of the Akkadian civilization…

Inscriptions recopdring the achievements of Sargon of Akkad state that his full title was King of Akkad, King of Kish….they explained that before he assumed the throne, he had been a counselor to the rulers of kish….

Is there then an earlier kingdom, that of kish which came before Akkad?

Once again we turn to biblical verses…
“And kush begot nimrud
He was first to be a hero in the land….and the beginning of his kingdom: Babel and Erech and Akkad.”
Many scholars have speculated that Sargon of Akkad was the biblical Nimrod, if one reads Kish for Kush it would seem that nimrud was indeed preceded by Kish, as claimed by Sargon…if so then you begin to understand the rest of his inscriptions that state:

“He defeated uruk and tore down its wall…he was victorious in the battle wit the inhabitants of Ur….he defeated the entire territroy from Lagash as far as the sea.”

Is the biblical Erech identical with eth Uruk of Sargon’s inscriptions? As the site is now called Warka was unearthed, that was found to be the case…And the Ur referred to by Sarhon was none other than the biblical Ur, the Mesoppotamian birthplace of Avraham.
Not only does archaeological discoveries vindicate the biblical records, it also appeared certain that there must have been kingdoms and cities and civilizations in Mesopotamia even before the third millenium bc, the question is: How far back does one have to go to find the first civilized kingdom?

The key to that is the key to ulocking yet another language…