Show tower of th our atory of the tower of babel is known in chaldean and armenian tr as the story of the tower of tongues it ie one of the earliest recollections of the basin and is related by berosus in the following manner the first inhabitants of the earth glorying in their own strength and ciza nd despising the gods undertook to raise a tower whose top should reach th ekies this tower they erected in the pace where Baby lons ruina now lay thickly strewn over tho ground lu erecting thia monster roadway to heaven they toiled incessantly put when it had approached near unto heaven the wind assisted aba gods and overthrew the work apon its contrivers con and its ruins are said to be still at babylon and at about the same time the gads introduced a diversity of tongues among men that time had all broken the one language the place in which they attempted to arild the tower is now called babylon on account of the confusion of tongues for confusion is by the hebrews called bable st louii be public |