Well, it was pretty clear from other sources that there was some sort of event like that, the Sumerians who wrote a /lot/ (they invented the first writing, called cuneiform) had a story like the confusion of tongues.
The Akkadians, the first Semitic speaking people of note, infused Sumerian culture, but their spoken speech was different, though they adapted cuneiform and taught writing to other people like the Egyptians.
Sargon of Akkad might of been Nimrod in the Bible.
Well, it was pretty clear from other sources that there was some sort of event like that, the Sumerians who wrote a /lot/ (they invented the first writing, called cuneiform) had a story like the confusion of tongues.
The Akkadians, the first Semitic speaking people of note, infused Sumerian culture, but their spoken speech was different, though they adapted cuneiform and taught writing to other people like the Egyptians.
Sargon of Akkad might of been Nimrod in the Bible.
Later on after the fall of the Akkadians, the Sumerians wrote a story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enmerkar_and_the_Lord_of_Aratta
Abraham was born in a town of the Sumerians (Ur).