Popular tales of Babylon’s fantastic structures, like the Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens, may also be products of legends and confusion. Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is ...

The term Babel (Babylon) evokes Bab-il(u), the Gate to the ... castigate the hubris that motivated the construction of the Tower. At a folk morality level, the narrative is a Kipling-like ...

Artist after artist tried to visualise the tower and bring into being an image of one of the most ambitious undertakings of man, weaving into this image different themes like lofty thought, ambition, ...