Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq. The Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290BC and quoted later by Josephus, attributed the gardens to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC. Awkwardly, there are no extant Babylonian texts which mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in Babylon. According to accounts, the gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the two nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing. The king decided to relieve her depression by recreating her homeland through the building of an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
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.
Around 600 B.C.E.
king Nebuchadnezzar was responsable for 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.
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''.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon was a building or building complex in present-day Iraq.
The Mississippi River is surronding The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
nebuchadnezzar he found the hanging gardens
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.
what kind of stuff was there at the hanging gardens
the hanging gardens of Babylon
The Hanging Gardens were built in 605 BCE.
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.
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.
Babylon
The hanging gardens.