Habermehl (2011) in her paper "Where in the World is the Tower of Babel?" presented an alternate view of the ancient world after the Flood, wherein she places Babel, Shinar, and the other cities mentioned in Genesis, not in lower Iraq as held by the majority of Middle Eastern archaeologists, but in northern Syria. It will be my contention that her arguments for her view—southern Mesopotamia still being under water, and alternatives for the names of Shinar and Babel—do not stand up to critical examination, and should be discounted.