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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'', 'tower'; בָּבֶל, ''bāḇel'', Babel), located in ancient [[Babylon]],<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]], ''Babylonika''<br /> see entirety of fragment above in section '"in Berossus' ''Babylonika'' Fragment"

The '''Tower of Babel''' (Hebrew: מגדל, ''mighdal'', 'tower'; בָּבֶל, ''bāḇel'', Babel), located in ancient [[Babylon]],<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]], ''Babylonika''<br /> see entirety of fragment above in section '"in Berossus' ''Babylonika'' Fragment"

</ref> was the tallest brick building ever constructed in recorded history; which according to [[Josephus]] was initiated by [[Nimrod]].<ref>Josephus, ''Antiquities of the Jews'', 1.4.2</ref>  Built in the [[ziggurat]] style, it was later repurposed to be the Temple of Bel [[Marduk]], the father of the gods in [[Babylon]].  Multiple religious persuasions teach that the tower was built by the descendants of [[Noah]] relatively shortly after the [[Great Flood|Flood]] as in {{bible ref|Genesis|11|1-9}}, so that its "top may reach unto heaven."

</ref> was the tallest brick building ever constructed.<ref>According to [[Josephus]], this was initiated by [[Nimrod]]. See Josephus, ''Antiquities of the Jews'', 1.4.2</ref>  Built in the [[ziggurat]] style, it was converted to the Temple of Bel [[Marduk]] as the father of [[Babylon]] gods.  Multiple religions teach that the tower was built by the descendants of [[Noah]] soon after the [[Great Flood|Flood]] as in {{bible ref|Genesis|11|1-9}}, so that its "top may reach unto heaven." [So they thought].

It is commonly asserted by adherents to both the [[Genesis|Biblical]] account and by adherents to the ancient [[pagan]] historians<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]]</ref>, that the ''Tower of Babel'' story provides an explanation to fundamental mysteries that [[atheistic]] science has been unable to solve, namely:

Both [[Genesis|Biblical]] scholars and [[pagan]] historians<ref>[[Berossus the Chaldean]]</ref> cite the ''Tower of Babel'' account to explain fundamental mysteries that [[atheistic]] science cannot solve, namely:

* the different languages today that lack a common origin, and

* the different languages today that lack a common origin, and

* the immense diversity in ethnicity.

* the immense diversity in ethnicity.

=Etymology=

=Etymology=

==in Hebrew==

==in Hebrew==