Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Chaldea Today?

Chaldea is identified with Tell el Muqayyar. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs24

High confidence

Modern identification

Tell el Muqayyar - modern identification under review

Coordinates30.9622, 46.1044
Kindregion
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Gen 11:28Gen 11:31Gen 15:72 Kgs 24:22 Kgs 25:42 Kgs 25:52 Kgs 25:102 Kgs 25:132 Kgs 25:252 Kgs 25:262 Chr 36:17Neh 9:7Job 1:17Isa 13:19Isa 23:13Isa 43:14Isa 47:1Isa 47:5Isa 48:14Isa 48:20Jer 21:4Jer 21:9Jer 22:25Jer 24:5

Why this place is in the atlas

Chaldea is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 24 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: a32a4f8, urlSlug: chaldea, friendlyId: Chaldea OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 30.962222, longitude: 46.104444, precision: region OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences Gen 11:28, Gen 11:31, Gen 15:7, 2 Kgs 24:2 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High