"And they said: build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and make us a name, rather than be scattered over the face of the earth." In ancient times, descendants of Noah settled in the west, in the place of Shinar, and there have decided to erect a very large in world tower to the sky touched it. But God did not want people to spend their strength in vain, trying to surprise him, or perhaps in competition with him. It was there, in Babylon, humanity during construction, no longer speak one language and the tower was never built. So the Lord resettled people in the world, giving them different languages. The moral of the clergy is simple and straightforward. But as far as is known, yet the Clergy of the Tower of Babel and the clergy at all. Under this name, according to scientists understood the pyramid – the ziggurat, built at the foot of the temple of the Babylonian god Marduk. Its height reached more than ninety feet, and the structure was very unusual.
It's made out of several towers or pyramids, posed on each other. Length of the base as high as 90 meters. The building itself was completely monolithic, with the exception of the temple on top and drainage canals, the walls were built at a slight incline. Terraces were Ziggurat painted in variety of colors, but they themselves are interconnected by multiple staircases and ramps. Etemenanka – that such a name, in fact, wore a Tower of Babel.