Instead, he says, he walked into a "dense forest of voices", a noisy Tower of Babel in one of the world's most populous nations. He discovered that some 16 languages spoken in the Himalayan state ...

In the desert of southwestern Iran stand the remains of a temple that was originally 165 feet high. Built by the Elamites of 3,000 years ago, it is the same kind of structure as the Tower of Babel ...