This legend comes from Assyrian tablets of Nineveh.
This Choctaw legend is based on the real events of the tower of Babel.
This legend comes from the Karbi people of Eastern India.
This Chinese legend is based on the real event.
This Aztec legend is based on the real events of the flood and the tower of Babel.
All humans have the same basic skin color—brown. This color comes from a pigment in our skin called melanin. Skin comes in different shades from light to dark brown.
Most researchers think they know where the foundation is located.
The Bible doesn’t tell us how big the Tower of Babel was. It is described as “a tower whose top is in the heavens.”
As the population split up and people left Babel by their family groups, different characteristics like the many skin shades ended up in the various groups.
As people spread out from Babel, they could easily have made it to Europe, Asia, and Africa. These continents are all connected. But North and South America and Australia are not connected.
. . . when people are dedicated to doing something and are working toward the same goal, they can do things very quickly.
There were at least 78 families that came out of Babel with new languages because Genesis 10 gives a listing of most of these families.
These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood. (Genesis 10:32)
If it were, it would be over 4,200 years old. There are not too many things that can last that long.
As far as we know, there was nothing inside the tower. It makes more sense that it would have been solid bricks inside.
The Tower of Babel incident occurred around 4,200 years ago — about 100 years after the Flood but before Abraham was born.
Most of the English came from Germanic tribes of the northern part of mainland Europe, namely the Angles and Saxons.
Many groups of people are actually descendants of more than one ancestor. This happened with a number of peoples, including the Japanese.
The tower and city that the people built at Babel were made because they were disobeying what God had told them to do.
Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
The Chinese are descendants of these original Sinites and most call themselves “Han,” from Ham, one of Noah’s three sons.