At some stage you may need to upgrade your Browser. At some stage you may need to upgrade your Browser. A literary tour de force and the inspiration of numerous canvases, it is its message that chiefly concerns us today. This was a mass migration of mankind from the area where they had all once been concentrated. This tower evidently had a religious purpose.
Some variant texts suggest that it was dedicated to deities thought to inhabit the heavens.
Its appearance would have been something like similar surviving ancient structures in Egypt and South America. This does tend to confirm the religious function of the tower that they were building. Now you might well ask why God was so angry with them. That is what provoked such divine anger and such drastic action. In short, Bab-el became Babel.