Babel

the native name of the ancient city of Babylon, meaning Gate of God. According to Genesis, the children of Noah journeyed into the plain of Shinar to erect a tower, known as the Tower of Babel, which should reach unto heaven. They were prevented from carrying out their impious design through a confusion of tongues. Being unable to understand each other, they broke up into small parties and separated. Curiously enough, the cuneiform inscriptions recently exhumed in the ruins of the old Babylonian Library relate at some length the history of a lofty tower which came to grief,--some accounts say through a high wind. This is not at all improbable, when we recall that the building material of Mesopotamia consisted for the most part of adobe or sundried brick. The word babel has passed into literature to indicate a jargon of sounds. See Babylon

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