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What were the hanging gardens of Babylon made of?
The gardens are made of mud brick and stone, a series of terraces, one on top of the other. The hanging gardens are made by dried mud called mud brick. The mud brick was then use to make slabs sacked on top of each other to make the gardens.
What materials built the hanging gardens of Babylon?
Mud and dirt bricks. The ones in the gates were cooked to a shine.
What where Arabians houses built out of?
mud brick
What is a brick built by mud called?
It is adobe.
What did Mayans build their house out of?
they built their houses out of mud brick!
What date was the hanging gardens of Babylon built?
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. - 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 layed. Only crumbling mud brick can be seen today.
How were ancient Egyptian houses constructed?
The houses were built with mud brick.
Did the egyptians have brick buildings?
Most of their buildings were built from mud bricks, only the temples were built from stone.
Farmers in the indus river valley built what?
Mud brick platforms and houses.
What is the hanging garden of Babylon?
There is some controversy as to whether the Hanging Gardens were an actual creation or a poetic creation due to the lack of documentation of them in the http://www.answers.com/topic/chronicle of history of Babyloniahttp://www.answers.com/topic/babylon. http://www.plinia.net/wonders/gardens/hg7.html
How were the hanging garden of Babylon made?
The Greek geographer Strabo, described the hanging gardens of Babylon as vaulted terraces which rose one above another, and rested upon cube-shaped pillars. He reported that the pillars, vaults, and terraces were constructed of baked brick and asphalt.
When were the hanging gardens of bablyon built?
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. - 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 layed. Only crumbling mud brick can be seen today.
