It is shortly after the great flood, and early in the history of mankind.
It is a time of much discovery and invention.
Man is becoming populace and stretching out over the earth. All men speak the same language, but they are showing signs of diversity. Suddenly an idea arises among men to cease from diversifying and from spreading apart and for all men to come together in unity and to build as one mind and one nation.
And as man sets on his endeavor to come together as one people in one land, they continue to discover and to invent.
Yet it is written in the Bible that there is no new thing under the sun.
Are we ever discovering, or do we only rediscover?
And is there a limit to how much we are allowed to rediscover? History tells us that indeed there is.