THE HANGING GARDENS

The ancient world as it were has many wonders with about 7 or so officially recognized.

Today, we discuss that wonder of the world borne out of love. Built for a woman by her king as a sign of his love, ‘The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon.’ The existence of this mystery is still highly controversial as its location is still unknown.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is the only one whose location has not been definitively established. They were a distinctive feature of ancient Babylon and a great source of pride to the people.

Possibly built by King Nebuchadnezzar II in 600 BC, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC . The gardens are believed to have been a remarkable feat of engineering: an ascending series of tiered gardens containing all manner of trees, shrubs, and vines, looking like a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks.

Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq.

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 Hanging Gardens probably did not really "hang" in the sense of being suspended from cables or ropes. The name comes from an inexact translation of the Greek word kremastos, or the Latin word pensilis, which means not just "hanging", but "overhanging" as in the case of a terrace or balcony.

In the words of the Greek geographer Strabo, who described the gardens in first century BC, he wrote, "It consists of vaulted terraces raised one above another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, the vaults, and terraces are constructed of baked brick and asphalt."

"The ascent to the highest story is by stairs, and at their side are water engines, by means of which persons, appointed expressly for the purpose, are continually employed in raising water from the Euphrates into the garden."

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It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for which the location has for centuries remained elusive.

Never under-estimate the power of love friends.

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