The Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel is according to the book of genesis, was an enormous tower built in the plain of Shinar.

From biblical account, the great flood left a united generation of humanity, all speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar. They decided upon building a city with a tower, which would reach the heavens. God came down to see what the people had built and said “they are one people and have one language, and nothing will be withholden from them which they purpose to do.” So God said, “come, let us go down and confound their speech.” So God scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, and they left the off building the city, which was called Babel “because God there confounded the language of all the Earth.”

The Tower of Babel has often been associated with know structures, like the Etemenanki, a ziggurat which was dedicated to Marduk by Nabopolassar in 610 BC. The base of the great ziggurat was square, and measured 300ft in height, although it was demolished by Alexander the Great before his death in an attempt to rebuild it.