Birs Nimrud: Ancient Tower of Babel

A tender love story began to bloom in a beautiful ancient setting in spite of the arrogance, the deceit and the quest for power that beset their village. Could this love survive the events that foment a coming showdown at the TOWER? The great hunter, the fisherman, the town leader, the astrologer, the ancient one and young lovers all surged toward the village centerpiece leading their followers toward victory with preservation for their principlesin mind. The conclusion of the final spectacle became a towering epic that forever changed our world. It added a word to our basic vocabulary - babble. The colossal event is noted in history as the Tower of Babel, but the changes from that event are more dramatic than the coining of a new word for the dictionary. Babel was a time, a place and a judgment that shaped our current world.