HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON

                HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON   

 

Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) is credited form building the legendary Hanging Gardens. It is said that the Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his wife or concubine who had been “brought up in Media and had a passion for mountain surroundings”. Modern historians argue that when Alexander’s soldiers reached the fertile land of Mesopotamia and saw Babylon, they were impressed. When they later returned to their rugged homeland, they had stories to tell about the amazing gardens and palm trees at Mesopotamia. And it was the imagination of poets and ancient historians that blended all these elements together to produce one of the World Wonders.

More recent archaeological excavations at the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq uncovered the foundation of the palace.