Germany/Iraq/Mesopotamia: 'The Tower of Babel'. Miniature painting from a later version of the Weltchronik by Rudolf von Ems (1200-1254), c. 1370. The Tower of Babel, according to the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built in the plain of Shinar. According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower 'with its top in the we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth'.

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