Perhaps the proud king never made a big deal of all things, especially when they might have made him look less than ruthless.
It was the Israeli records that tell of that particular occurrence.
Alexander?
You are not making sense, dad.
You were speaking of Simplicius’ writing about Alexander’s encounter with some unnamed astronomers in Babylon after the battle of Gaugmela. Simplicius was a Neoplatonist philosopher writing about Aristotle, Alexander’s mentor and friend.
What does that have to the Chaldean astronomers with some Jewish prophecies about Alexander?
My problem is that there are no other sources to verify the encounter between the Chaldeans and Macedonian king, especially contemporary or near contemporary sources. Without verification, it looked to me Simplicius invented this story.
You seem to be forgetting, nothing is really history, unless you verify the alleged accounts or claims...
from (A) another independent source, preferably contemporary or near contemporary to the specific event,
or (B) with some testable physical or archaeological evidence contemporary to the event,
or (C), all of the above.
Any alleged history need verification for something, for some events, to be true.
And people who write something about another person, particularly someone famous, some centuries later (like Simplicius did with Alexander the Great), would either distort, exaggerate or invent something that didn’t happen.
For instance, Plato included 6th century BCE Athenian statesman/reformer Solon, in his 2 philosophical dialogues - Timaeus and Critas. Not much of Solon’s own works survive, so much about Solon come from people, century or centuries later, like Herodotus (5th century BCE), Plutarch (late 1st century and early 2nd century CE), Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE), and of course, Plato himself (4th century BCE)
In every works by people (Herodotus, Plato, Plutarch and Diogenes) that I mentioned, say Solon traveled to Egypt, but only in Plato’s dialogues, does it mention Solon visiting Egyptian priests at a temple in Sais, where Solon heard the story about Atlantis.
None of the other authors mentioned Atlantis at all, only Plato. And Egypt, there are no mention of Solon’s visit to Sais (Egypt) in the 6th century BCE, no mention of any Atlantis in Egyptian records.
One can safely deduce that Plato invented the story about Solon learning about Atlantis from Egyptian priesthood.
A lot of prophecies were invented lot later, to build the legends of Alexander. And without any verification from the Persian archives, one would have to say that Simplicius was less than truthful.
History, I will iterate, required some sorts of verification, and so far, you haven’t provided other sources that agree with astronomers supposedly saying that Babel and Babylon were built in 2236 BCE.
And right now, as usual, you are making excuses.
You claimed that the Tower of Babel was buried under geological uplift and subduction. That’s just another new claim, but where are the evidence that Babylon was ever buried due to uplift and subduction.
We do have evidence that Babylon did construct a large ziggurat (Etemenanki) in Babylon, the largest structure ever built in Babylon, but the only thing lest in the ruin, is the base and foundation of Etemenanki. Based on the size of the base, it was probably no higher than 90 metres tall. That actually shorter than the two 4th dynasty pyramids in Giza, Khufu’s and Khafre’s.
Plus, the 2nd ziggurat was completed in Nebuchadnezzar II’s time, after the first one’s destruction by Assyrian king Sennacherib in 689 BCE.
There are simply no evidence that Babylon built the Tower of Babel in 2236 BCE.