The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11)

       And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.  Then  they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thouroughly."  They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.  And they said, "Come, let us build outselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves..........................