It's widely believed that archaeologist Robert Koldewey found the Hanging Gardens of Babylon during his excavations of Babel. In the Southern Citadel, he discovered a basement with stone arch ceilings. According to ancient records, only two locations in ancient Babylon would have had stone arch ceilings, the Northern Citadel and the Hanging Gardens. Both rooms were located, which makes it believed that the Hanging Gardens were in fact real. They probably weren't exactly as described in The Bible, but pretty remarkable still.
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Herodotus was the first author to give a full description of the Hanging Gardens. According to him, the gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar II to make his wife Amytis happy because she didn't like the Babylonian desert. She had lived in Persia, which had many plants and fountains. It was about 350 feet tall and was covered with trees, flowers, lawns, plants, fountains, pools, and miniature water falls. It had every kind of plant available in the kingdom. It was made of mud brick and stone, a series of terraces, one on top of the other. The plants couldn't survive without water, so they had to pump water from the Euphrates River to flow down through channels to the plants.
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Reading Herodotus' description, you'll see that what he described was Babylon itself. If you try to sketch out the city plan as he describes it, it can be done. What's more, it's pretty accurate in relation to archaeological maps. In the plan below, Herodotus' Temple of Zeus Belos is the central and above it is his King's Palace where we'd look for the Hanging Gardens. In the early 1900's German archaeologist, Robert Koldewey traced the area where the Hanging Gardens of Babylon had been laid. Only crumbling mud brick can be seen today.
king Nebuchadnezzar was responsable for the hanging gardens of babylon
The modern day country in which the Hanging Gardens of Babylon where, is now the present day Iraq
There was no such thing!! There were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon though.
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was built by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife. It is called "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon''.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were not really hanging in the sense that they were hanging from the Gardens upside down or anything, they actually were more draped as they grew, over the sides of the trellises and planters.
There is no archaeological evidence to confirm the existence of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The gardens were described by ancient writers like Herodotus and Strabo, but their existence remains a topic of debate among historians.
Nebuchadnezzar's famous terraced gardens were built in Babylon.
The Mississippi River is surronding The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
king Nebuchadnezzar was responsable for the hanging gardens of babylon
the hanging gardens of Babylon was one of the most magnificient structures made by the sumerians. A ziggurat and a the hanging gardens of Babylon do not have anything in common.
the hanging gardens of Babylon
its the song "the rivers of babylon" by BONEY M. and not about the hanging gardens of babylon. Hope this was what you had expected.
Guess what?? It was Babylon!
The modern day country in which the Hanging Gardens of Babylon where, is now the present day Iraq
what kind of stuff was there at the hanging gardens
There were seven wonders of the ancient world, one of which is still in existence - the Great Pyramid of Giza. Another would be the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which is no longer in existence.
Babylon, Iraq