Pieter Bruegel de oude or Pieter Brueghel the Elder 1525 – 1569 Tower of Babel 1563 Genesis

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According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and a tower “with its top in the heavens.” God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. Babylon was the capital city of the ancient Babylonian Empire, which itself is a term referring to either of two separate empires in the Mesopotamian area in antiquity.

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Location: Babylon
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