The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563)
German Late Medieval depiction of the tower's construction from a manuscript of Rudolf von Ems' Weltchronik, cgm 5 fol. 29r (c. 1370s)
Building of Babel
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (19th-century illustration), depicts the Tower of Babel in the background.
The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit. Genesis is an account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity, and the origins of the Jewish people.
The Creation of Man by Ephraim Moses Lilien, 1903.
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, 1512.
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, c. 1615, depicting both domestic and exotic wild animals such as tigers, parrots and ostriches co-existing in the garden
Noah's Ark (1846), by the American folk painter Edward Hicks.