[blam]

"Well, I've always wondered if the Tower of Babel story was an allegorical description of the spread of the Indo-European language and its subsequent offshoots. Be a real interesting study."

I believe it had to do with the 'wise men from the east'. A number of anthropologists believe the early Sumerians (the ones we know about) were in fact refugees from the Ice Age flooding of Sundaland, they would have brought a number of 'foreign' languages and possibly their flood stories with them. Some DNA and disease studies offer some support for these theories.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Didn't know where Sundaland was, and with Google turned this up:

Voyages of the Pyramid Builders

Is this a recent book?