User blog comment:SouthWriter/No Supernatural Intervention/@comment-1777104-20100710044422

No, according to the Biblical account, this tower was a project of the whole human tribe - the Noachians, if you will. The later nations called Babel (Babil, Babillu, or Babylon [Gr. spelling]) were styled after this early attempt at empire building. Nimrod build several cities in the area, Babel was just his headquarters.