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Fig. 1.9 Map of Cholera deaths and locations of water pumps (Courtesy of National Geographic)

language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they
propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there
confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.” So the
Lord scattered them abroad from there all over the earth, and they left off building
the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the
language of all on the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the
face of the earth. Archaeologists examined the remains of the city of Babylon and
found a square of earthen embankments some 300 ft on each side, which appears to
be the foundation of the tower. Although the Tower of Babel is gone, a few ziggurats
survived. The largest surviving temple, built in 1250 BC, is found in western Iran.
The Tower of Babel has been a popular topic for artists. Pieter Bruegel
(1525-1569) painted the Tower of Babel in 1563, which is now in Vienna's
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (See Fig. 1.10 ). He painted the tower as an