Hanging Gardens of Babylon Fact or Fiction
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon – Fact or Fiction? ... Yet, with each fact I encountered, I found myself mesmerized by the details of a structure – The Hanging Gardens of Babylon – that quite possibly never existed. In this paper, I will attempt to describe the origins, location, structure and illusion of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. ... Most historians and archeologist do agree, that if the structure did in fact exist, in more than just the minds of Greek poets, it was near the lower Euphrates River in the area that we now know to be central Iraq. Obviously, by many accounts to be a city (Babylon) known to the entire world as the “gate of the gods”. ... , wrote that the great hanging gardens lay at the center of the city and towered over all the buildings”. ... Legend has it that Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his wife, Amytis. ... At her request, her husband built the hanging gardens as a tribute to his wife’s homeland. Although many accounts indicate the Nebuchadnezzar built these great gardens, “there is a less reliable, alternative story that the gardens were built by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis during her 5 year reign starting in 810 B.