The Tower of Babel and the Aztec Chief

If a legend exists in multiple sources, behind that legend there must be a truth. The story of the Tower of Babel is often dismissed as mythology, however, this was also the case for the city of Troy, until its remains were eventually discovered by Heinrich Schliemann. Do we too hastily dismiss ancient history and the records of the Bible as mythology when, in fact, they are real accounts of events that occurred?

An Aztec Chief knew of the story of Babel without ever having met a Hebrew! We should be cautious lest we, as those who totally dismissed Homer’s story of Troy, make the same error when considering the accounts of the Bible.