The Tower of Berossus
Posted on Friday 9 March 2007
Tower of Babel by Gustav Doré 1866
They say that the first inhabitants of the earth, glorying in their own strength and size, and despising the gods, undertook to raise a tower whose top should reach the sky, in the place in which Babylon now stands: but when it approached the heaven, the winds assisted the gods, and overthrew the work upon its contrivers: and its ruins are said to be still at Babylon: and the gods introduced a diversity of tongues among men, who till that time had all spoken the same language: and a war arose between Cronus and Titan. The place in which they built the tower is now called Babylon, on account of the confusion of the tongues; for confusion is by the Hebrews called Babel.
— Berossus from his book Babyloniaka
preserved in a quote by Abydenus which was in turn
preserved in a quote by Eusebius.
