Accad

Akkad was one of the founding cities of Nimrod's kingdom in the Table of Nations, paired with Babel, Erech, and Calneh in the land of Shinar (Genesis 10:10). It was the capital of Sargon of Akkad's empire around 2300 BC, the first empire to unite Mesopotamia's city-states under one ruler, and the Akkadian language it gave its name to became the region's dominant tongue for the next two thousand years. Despite more than a century of searching, archaeologists have never located the city itself; its site, somewhere along the Euphrates near Babylon, remains one of the most sought-after unsolved locations in Near Eastern archaeology.