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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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I know that this is very off topic but might be of interest to some.

 

The Hanging Gardens is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that has not yet been established as having been an actual fact.

 

Recent evidence is pointing to the possibility that they may have existed but that they weren't really in Babylon but about 150 miles south of where they were initially thought to be.

 

I'm sure there will be a lot of effort put into negating or supporting this new evidence.

 

 

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Yeah, I saw that documentary a while back.  They do have some pretty good support for their theory.  If this new theory is disproved the thought will likely return to Nineveh.

 

The Hanging Gardens is almost as much fun as is Atlantis.

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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

Stephanie Dalley (Oriental Institute, Oxford)

Oxford University Press, 2013, 279pp. $34.95

 

She posits the Hanging Garden was built at his Nineveh palace by Sennacherib in 700 BC.  Through  a complex, engineered, watercourse system - dams, aqueducts, tunnels, and bronze screws to "pump" water up - large trees were cultivated on the upper amphitheater-like walls of his palace. 

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