Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon Our group chose the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as one of the Seven Wonders of the World for our group report. People say that the Hanging Gardens went hundreds of feet into the air, but through archaeological explorations people now think were probably weren't that big. The ancient city of Babylon, which was under King Nebuchadnezzar II, must have been a wonder to a travelers. The Hanging Gardens were built in the ancient city-state of Babylon which in present day would be about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq. The building of the Gardens is believe to of been because of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II’s wife Amytis of Media becoming very homesick and missing the trees and plants of her homeland. The gardens would have been destroyed by several earthquakes after the 2nd century BC. Greek sources such as the writings of Strabo and Philo of Byzantium describe the Hanging Gardens as “The Hanging Garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth. The whole mass is supported on stone columns... Streams of water emerging from elevated sources flow down sloping channels... These waters irrigate the whole garden saturating the roots of plants and keeping the whole area moist. Hence the grass is permanently green and the leaves of trees grow firmly attached to supple branches... This is a work of art of royal luxury and its most striking feature is that the labor of cultivation is suspended above the heads of the spectators”. There’s also much controversy to the Hanging Gardens. There’s debate on whether or not they were an actual creation or a poetic creation because of the lack of documentation of them in the chronicles of Babylonian

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