The Tower of Babel is from the Book of Genesis, giving reason for the existence of different languages and cultures. Basically God saw people trying to build a staircase to heaven (the tower of babel) and then confounded their speech so they could no longer understand each other, ensuring the tower to heaven wasn't completed. ### Modern Use This parable is still referred to when talking about things like [[Character Encoding]]s and straight-up language learning. **** # More ## Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel