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[[Image:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''The Tower of Babel'' by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], 1563.]]

[[Image:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''The Tower of Babel'' by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], 1563.]]

The '''Tower of Babel''' (Hebrew: מגדל, ''mighdal'') was the lofty structure built by the descendants of the [[Great Flood|Flood]] survivors according to {{bible ref|Genesis|11|1-9}}, "whose top may reach unto heaven."

The '''Tower of Babel''' (Hebrew: מגדל, ''mighdal'', 'tower'; בָּבֶל, ''bāḇel'', Babel) was the tallest brick building ever constructed in recorded history.  Built in the ziggurat style it was later repurposed to be the Temple of Bel or Marduk in Babylon.  Multiple religious persuasions teach that the tower was built by the descendants of Noah shortly after the [[Great Flood|Flood]] as in {{bible ref|Genesis|11|1-9}}, so that its "top may reach unto heaven."

The Tower of Babel account provides an explanation to fundamental mysteries that [[atheistic]] science has been unable to solve:  '''''the different languages today that lack a common origin, and the immense diversity in ethnicity'''''.

The Tower of Babel account provides an explanation to fundamental mysteries that [[atheistic]] science has been unable to solve:  '''''the different languages today that lack a common origin, and the immense diversity in ethnicity'''''.