Is the Tower of Babel still standing?


Is the Tower of Babel still standing? Long ago, the once-mighty Babylon and its gargantuan tower sunk into the sands of the Iraqi desert and disappeared. Archaeologists have been working ceaselessly and successfully since 1811 to excavate the capital of the Ancient World.


Could the pyramids have been the Tower of Babel?

The Tower of Babel is a myth. The Bablyonian ziggurats, which were probably the inspiration for the myth, were built centuries after the pyramids. Does the Bible say who built the pyramids? No.


Are the pyramids the Tower of Babel?

Is it possible that the pyramids were built shortly after the Tower of Babel? Chronologically, no. There's more than one pyramid, but the oldest ones are about the time of the steppe pyramid of Djoser, circa 2650 BCE. The bigger ones for the Fourth Dynasty in Giza are about a hundred years after that (2550-ish BCE).


Is the Tower of Babel in existence?

There is no historical evidence to suggest that the Tower of Babel ever existed.