Chapter 11 Verse 3 Revisited

And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar
[Genesis 11:3]

I just learned* they had found plaster at Göbekli Tepe.

To Milo Rossi*, this indicates that there were rooves, which have not been found. Apart from the "slime instead of mortar" possibly being plaster, it is possible that the bitumen was actually used on rooftops.

For the non-baked bricks, the text doesn't state they succeeded in making baked bricks. In Jericho they have found some baked brick in broken pieces that are used to make pavements, from this same time, those could be the failed attempt at baking bricks, and they may have settled for mud bricks instead.
/Hans Georg Lundahl

PS, the 200 pillars would be, over 40 years of Babel, 5 pillars a year, or more. Not like those believing the carbon dates at face value, as they believe any pillar would have been a "multigenerational project"*./HGL

* 10:53 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJU973IbG7I

UPDATE

The** next developmental stage is 7:54 the pre potery Neolithic be roughly 7:57 dated between 10,700 7:59 and 8:00 8,500 years 8:02 ago population centers increase in size 8:06 the shape of the architecture is now 8:08 more rectangular burnt lime plaster is 8:11 widely used

Burnt lime plaster is part of my view of what the phrase on "whites burnt with burning" (bricks baked in fire) really means.

nil·bə·nāh		let us make
lə·ḇê·nîm		"bricks"
From laban; a brick (from the whiteness of the clay) — (altar of) brick, tile.
wə·niś·rə·p̄āh		"and bake them"
saraph: to burn
liś·rê·p̄āh;		"thoroughly"
same word as in Isaiah 9:5, where it is translated "burning"

** Ancient Architects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVPJQJcXmMM

As the video features a slow, gradual development from Epipalaeolithic to Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, this in the Levant starts in 18 000 BC (carbon dated) and finishes in 6500 BC (also carbon dated). 11500 years.

In my recalibration, this is between 2738 and 2712 BC for the beginning of Epipalaeolithic in the Levant, and 2386 BC for the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. 352 years. A time span comparable to Industrialism for a comparable change in conditions./HGL