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HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON It is the only wonder whose location has not been definitively established. Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, south of Baghdad. Alternatively, the original garden may have been a well-documented one that an Assyrian king built in his capital city of Nineveh near the modern city of Mosul.

HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON According to one legend, Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amytis. Because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. He also built a grand palace that came to be known as "The Marvel of the Mankind".

HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON The gardens were supported with walls and columns. The area was filled with short trees. It imitated the distinctive mountainous landscape of Persia.

HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON Machines raised water in great abundance from the River Euphrates. Water flowed down through terraces of the garden, irrigating the trees.

HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON There is some controversy as to whether the Hanging Gardens were an actual construction or a poetic creation. Herodotus, writing about Babylon closest in time to Nebuchadnezzar II, does not mention the Hanging Gardens in his Histories.

HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON Because of the lack of evidence it has been suggested that the Hanging Gardens are purely mythical. The descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman represent a romantic ideal of an eastern garden.

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