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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are certainly the most mysterious wonder of the world.
Their existence is still debated and if the unanswered questions remain, the fascination is intact.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are, with the Pyramid of Cheops, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the gold and ivory statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Tomb of Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Their construction would date back to the 6th century BC and they would be the work of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.
The latter, who devoted a large part of his reign to the embellishment of Babylon, would have created these gardens to please his wife, nostalgic for the green mountains of Media, a region in northwestern Iran from which she originated.
Lush gardens overlooking the city Diodorus of Sicily, Strabo, Ctesias of Cnide, Clitarch, Berosus many Greek and Roman authors left descriptions of the hanging gardens of Babylon.
Few, however, have seen them, and most of these writings are reported stories.
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