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English: Frontispice of 1679 book Turris Babel by Athanasius Kircher, depicting the building of the Tower of Babel, under the supervision of Nimrod (left, in battle armor)
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Source Downloaded from Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/turrisbabelsivea00kirc/page/n6/mode/2up; the scanned copy is part of the collection of Roger Wagner
Author Athanasius Kircher

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