Accounts indicate that the garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC (There is an alternative story that the gardens were built by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis during her five year reign starting in 810 BC). This was the height of the city's power and influence and King Nebuchadnezzar is known to have constructed an astonishing array of temples, streets, palaces and walls. 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.
The first civilized city was built on the banks of Euphrates and it is called "Babylon" in this time period.
The hanging gardens were on the massive outer wall of the ancient city of Babylon, located east of the Euphrates River near present-day Baghdad, in Iraq.
The city of Babylon was built around 2300 B. C. and was inhabited until sometime after the Islamic conquest of Iraq. The modern city of Hillah in Iraq is right next to the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon.
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was built by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife. It is called "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon''.
Babylon
Babylon
Babylon
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are from the city of Babylon built by King Nebuchadnezzar 2 to impress his Persian wife.
it was an ancient city ruled by Hammurabi.
He built massive city walls and a moat
Babylon, under the Chaldeans, had a king,Hammerabi,built ziggurats, and had a powerful army
The garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC. the gardens were built in the ancient city-state of Babylon, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq.
Nebuchadnezzar's famous terraced gardens were built in Babylon.
Babylon
The first civilized city was built on the banks of Euphrates and it is called "Babylon" in this time period.
Tower of Babel in the city of Babylon
The hanging gardens were on the massive outer wall of the ancient city of Babylon, located east of the Euphrates River near present-day Baghdad, in Iraq.