<P> The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל ‎ ‎ ‎, Migdal Bāḇēl) is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages . </P> <P> According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר ‎). There they agree to build a city and a tower tall enough to reach heaven . God, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world . </P> <P> Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk by Nabopolassar, the king of Babylonia circa 610 BCE . The Great Ziggurat of Babylon was 91 metres (300 ft) in height . Alexander the Great ordered it to be demolished circa 331 BCE in preparation for a reconstruction that his death forestalled . A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta . </P>

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