Calneh was one of Nimrod’s first cities in Shinar, a real Mesopotamian center tied to the earliest post-Flood kingdom and the problem of archaeological identification.
Calneh: Nimrod’s City in the Land of Shinar and the Problem of Its Location
The Rise of Babel: Nimrod’s Kingdom and the First City
Genesis records Babel as Nimrod’s urban kingdom in Shinar, a unified revolt that Jehovah halted by confusing language and scattering mankind.
