Actually while you all laugh, the ruined foundaton of a huge tower has been found in the middle east. Many scholars who refuse to believe in God have acknowledged that this is probably the base to the tower of babel and that the story is based on facts. They will never acknowledge that God confused mans speech at this point, as the bible so clearly states but they DO NOT reject the tower of Babel as fiction anymore.

Same as Sodom and Gommorah, which was supposed to be a lie until they discovered their ruins around the dead sea.