Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, near modern Al Hillah, Babil, Iraq, are one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient origin considered. They are sometimes called the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. They were built by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. It would have built the garden with his wife, if you like homesickness, Amytis media, which sought to trees and aromatic plants in their country of Persian origin. The gardens have been several earthquakes after the 2nd Century BC, destroyed.

The lush gardens are exposed to a large extent by the Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus of Sicily documented. confused by the centuries, the side with gardens that existed at Nimrud, was that the tablets of here clearly show gardens. Writings on these tablets describe the possible use of something similar to an Archimedes screw seen as a process of collecting water for the 2009 height.May Nebuchadnezzar II also stone blocks that was unheard of, in Babylon, to prevent water erosion.
 

There is some controversy as to whether the Hanging Gardens an actual creation or a poetic creation by the lack of documentation of them were in the chronicles of Babylonian history. In ancient writings the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were first described by Berosus, the Babylonian priest, at the end of the 4th Century BC lived. These accounts were later developed by the Greek historians.

A more recent theory is that the gardens actually under the command of Sennacherib, who ascended the throne of Assyria built in 705 BC, reigned until 681 BC. In further studies on the site of Nineveh (on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria located) gardens were placed next to the entrance to his palace on the banks of the Tigris. It is possible that over the centuries, the two sides was confused, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were awarded.