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im not trying to get into an argument over this... but i did not misquote smith...page 17 if you missed it.
The only reference to the Tower of Babel on page 17 is an assertion that Smith had found a parallel account to the Biblical story in Assyrian tablets.
Let me remind you of your actual claim (as edited to remove the reference to the '50s)
... archeologist unearthed several temple towers at the ancient site of babylon and one inscription read "The building of this temple offended the gods. In a night they threw down what had been built. They scattered them abroad, and made strange their speech. The progress they impeded.” They dated this particular tower at 3,000 BCE.
What Smith found was not an inscription on a temple, but a clay tablet which is translated on p160. It does not match your quote. It does not say that the "strong place" was a temple, or that it was the building of it that offended the Gods nor that the Gods made their speech "strange" - indeed the only references to "speech" are, as Smith admits (p163) a guess at the translation of a word he does not know.
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Wikipedia the "tower" Smith believes that the story refers to - the ziggurat of Birs Nimrud does not date to 3000 BC. The large ziggurat was built by Nebuchadrezzar II (the Biblical Nebuchadnezzar) and the smaller ziggurat that preceded it dates to only the 2nd Millennium BC (and is therefore no earlier than 2000 BC).