Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Turris Babel, sive, Archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum, & inde gentium transmigrationis, cum principalium inde enatorum idiomatum historiia, multiplici eruditione describunter & explicantur
Kircher's 1679 Amsterdam folio on the Tower of Babel, a Jesuit scholar's account of early post-Flood humanity, city building and the confusion of tongues, issued by the Janssonius-Waesberg workshop for learned readers. The four engravings show a monumental arched gateway with colonnaded wings, a walled river city with a stepped ziggurat, a flat-roofed walled city seen from a hill with a central obelisk-like tower, and a terraced tower with domed corners, crowds and an obelisk at its base, offering ready models for ancient architecture and cartographic panorama.
