Learn about the "Hanging Garden of Babylon", one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

 Hanging Gardens Of  Babylon

• This is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
• It can be called a monument where the location of the seven wonders has not been identified

Location

• It is believed to have been built in the ancient Babylonian city on the site of the city of Hilah in present-day Babylon, Iraq.

Facts and legends about this

• Historian Josephus cites a document written by the Babylonian priest "Berossus" around 290 BC, stating that the garden dates back to the time of Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled the new Babylonian kingdom from 605-592 BC.
• There is no mention of the park in the Babylonian documents that have been found so far, and no archeological evidence has been found.
• Legend has it that King Nebuchadnezzar II built the garden for his medieval wife, Queen Amethyst, to resemble the leafy environment of her homeland.

Other

• Many people say that this park is completely imaginary because the evidence is scarce.
• Historians such as Strabo and Diodorus describe the park as an ideal description of oriental gardens in Greek and Roman texts.