Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Of the garden, is estimated to be close to the king's palace, the ancient ruins of Babylon were built near the excavation, water channels and the walls of the ruins of Babylon 'Hanging Gardens of what can be owned. Babylon of the Hanging Gardens, but who knows, and takes the glory, and perhaps still in Iraq again someday make healthy scratch it is possible to obtain more reliable data is available.

'Babel' s Vine Gardens of the side you approach, the structure of the layers rises do you see ... giant plant stacks, big and thick trees, so attractive that the ministers' charms. River from the abundant water equipment increases, and outside they can not see. " (The historian Diodorus Siculus)

Fruits and flowers, waterfalls, gushing from the floor of the structure of the garden of exotic animals ... Here Babel "Hanging Gardens of" ni those who had them in mind for the rest. If ancient Greece 's without the historians and poets, anyone would be aware of such a miracle.

Nabukadnezar itself, a stone tablet with cuneiform script on a text written in the present refers to the ongoing construction activities. You do not suffice to mention only the walls also gives the following information.

"I've cooked and shaped in the form of bricks, a branch of the royal place for myself as a Babylonian of fortifications yüksekterek large, cascading a" sand "structure would be built"

This is exactly what the sand structure Nabukadnezar 's inscription does not tell of course. But again Nabukkadnezar 's talking about here is a garden adjoining the count is possible. Besides the royal palace, many of the old oriental rooms are linked directly with an introduction and ruler, would have a park can rest undisturbed. Greek words used for this type of garden, and so the German in the East 'is from the past.

Nabukadnezar's "royal place", indeed, that such a small area near the palace may have been heaven. But this was a garden? And where was exactly.? "

Perhaps an answer to these questions, the oldest city in our own hands we can find two depictions. Babylon they found in an ancient text and the Greek historian Heredetos' s depiction of the city is doing.

Babylon's most ancient depiction of the city was in. This text is written in Babylonian cuneiform on a large number of copies of cuneiform texts, but until today, written in the Greek alphabet is a transcription of the fracture fragments.

Means that Babel 'at the earliest sources about the structure, are responding to our questions about the hanging gardens. In fact the earliest statements about the garden, Nabukadnezar than two centuries, but even after a longer period of time, ie, BC 4. century is.