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	Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) and the walls of Babylon (present-day Iraq) were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
		The Hanging Gardens are extensively documented by Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Siculus, but otherwise there is little evidence for their existence.
		A 16th century depiction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (by Martin Heemskerck).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon (591 words)

	Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Search View - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hanging Gardens of Babylon, fabled gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, in the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq.
		The gardens did not literally hang, but the plants and trees overhung from a large artificial mountain of terraces constructed from mud bricks and stone, with stone columns for support.
		Records of the gardens come from Greek historians, including Strabo and Diodorus Siculus (although none of these ancient historians ever actually saw them), who are said to have described them second-hand after hearing stories from soldiers who had returned from the city.
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	Seven Wonders - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Hanging Gardens were one of the most famous features of Babylon, but although ruins have been found, it cannot be determined that the ruins were from the gardens.
		The gardens were built on orders of King Nebuchadnezzar II, who was the current ruler of Babylon, in 600 B.C. Babylon was a city which laid on the banks of the River Euphrates, south of present-day Baghdad, capital of Iraq.
		The Hanging Gardens were considered to be one of the splendours of Babylon, and was a paradise in which the King and Queen would relax under a canopy in the blazing sun, and sample many fruits from the gardens.
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		Accounts indicate that the garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC (There is a less-reliable, alternative story that the gardens were built by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis during her five year reign starting in 810 BC).
		Babylon rarely received rain and for the garden to survive it would have had to been irrigated by using water from the nearby Euphrates River.
		While Koldewey was convinced he'd found the gardens, some modern archaeologists call his discovery into question arguing that this location is too far from the river to have be irrigated with the amount of water that would have been required.
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	Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Picture - MSN Encarta
		This hand-colored engraving by 16th century Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck depicts the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
		Technically, the gardens did not hang, but grew on the roofs and terraces of the royal palace in Babylon.
		Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean king, probably built the gardens in about 600 bc as a consolation to his Median wife who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.
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	The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were an impressive example of architecture.
		The gardens were supported by an intricate structure of stone pillars, brick walls, and palm tree trunk beams.
		Buckets hanging from the chain were continuously dipped into the reservoir at the base of the gardens.
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	The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		Hanging gardens of Babylon and the walls of Babylon.
		However, soon the walls of Babylon was dropped from the list to make room for other wonders leaving the hanging gardens of Babylon the only wonder from Babylon.(Silverberg,30) Today, the existence of these fabulous gardens are somewhat of a mystery.
		Babylon were fifty-six miles in length, eighty feet thick, and three hundred and twenty feet high (Seven Wonders, 1).
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	Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		Babylon (Babylonian Bab-ilim or Babil, "gate of God"), one of the most important cities of the ancient world, whose location today is marked by a broad area of ruins just east of the Euphrates River, 90 km (56 mi) south of Baghdad, Iraq.
		Under the Persians, Babylon for a time served as the official residence of the crown prince, until a local revolt in 482 led Xerxes I to raze the temples and ziggurat (temple tower) and to melt down the statue of the patron god Marduk.
		A cluster of palaces and fortifications was found at the northwest corner of the old city; the German excavators identified one ruin in this area with the foundations of the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, which Nebuchadnezzar II built for his Median wife.
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	Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World because of their greatness and the methods that builders used to transport water from the Euphrates River to the top of the mountain, without leaking into the brick and stone structure.
		When Amytis arrived in Babylon she was overcome by homesickness, and in an attempt to cheer up his new bride King Nebuchadnezzar II decided to try and recreate her lush green homeland in the middle of Babylon.
		Since the city of Babylon was a city built on dry land, water had to be transported from the banks of the Euphrates River to the top of the mountain.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/MidEast/03/barry/barry.htm (1066 words)

	Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This legendary garden, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was built on the banks of the Euphrates river circa 600 B.C. It may never have existed except in the imagination of Greek poets and historians although archaeologists claim to have found the remains of its walls.
		The Gardens didn't really "hang" but were built on terraces which were part of the ziggurat and was irrigated by water lifted up from the Euphrates.
		There is not a single mention of a "hanging garden" in the Babylon cuneiform record but this is probably because it was considered part of the ziggurat structure and not a separate entity in itself.
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	The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Part 1: Did They Exist?
		Hanging Gardens were one of Babylon's most impressive sites, according to Greek historians.
		The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were a wonder to look at, according to anyone who saw them and wrote about them.
		Babylon, after all, is in the middle of a desert.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/worldhistory/hanginggardens1.htm (333 words)

	The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tablets from the time of Nebuchadnezzar do not have a single reference to the Hanging Gardens, although descriptions of his palace, the city of Babylon, and the walls are found.
		Some recent researchers even believe that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaherib, not Nebuchadnezzar II (100 years earlier).
		The hanging gardens are located the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.
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	Hanging Garden of Babylon \| Seven Wonders of the World \| Picture \| Ancient \| Photo \| Iraq \| Man Made \| Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Garden of Babylon was on the east bank of Euphrates River, about 50 kms south of Baghdad, Iraq.
		There are no records of the Hanging Garden from the time Nebuchadnezzer ruled, although there were tablets describing the palace, the city of Babylon and the walls.
		Greek sources: "The hanging garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth.
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	Babylon 1: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		In ancient gardens, such as the magic hanging gardens of Babylon, the route itself, is the ritual......They represented or imitated the "macrocosm".
		The whole garden may be read as a book, or as a spell, which is, after all the same thing.
		As we finish our mental journey through these fantastic, hanging gardens, one cannot get over the feeling, that we are being watched, perhaps, by the great invisible spirits of our alien ancestors, and the dryads and satyrs and centaurs, hiding in the labyrinth.
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	Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		It was not until the reign of Naboplashar (625-605 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty that the Mesopotamian civilization reached its ultimate glory.
		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".
		It wasn't until the twentieth century that some of the mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were revealed.
	www.wonderclub.com /WorldWonders/GardenHistory.html (608 words)

	The Seven Wonders: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The approach to the Garden sloped like a hillside and the several parts of the structure rose from one another tier on tier...
		This is the picture of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in most people's minds.
		Some recent researchers even suggest that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaherib, not by Nebuchadnezzar II (ca.
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		The name comes from a mistranslation of the Greek word kremastos or the Latin word pensilis, which does not mean "hanging", but "overhanging", as in the case of a terrace or balcony.
		The gardens were said to be located on the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.
		Some researchers have recently suggested that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaherib, not by Nebuchadnezzar II, one hundred years earlier.
	www.delta7studios.com /garden.htm (697 words)

	n7w: Gardens of Babylon
		A magnificent garden paradise said to have been built in 7th century B.C. in the middle of the arid Mesopotamian desert, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were testimony to one man's ability to, against all the laws of nature, create a botanical oasis of beauty amid a bleak desert landscape.
		King Nebuchadnezzar created the gardens as a sign of esteem for his wife Semiramis, who, legend has it, longed for the forests and roses of her homeland.
		The gardens were terraced and surrounded by the city walls with a moat to repel invading armies.
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	fUSION Anomaly. Babylon
		In the early 3rd century BC most of Babylon's population was moved to a new capital, and the city almost disappeared before the coming of Islam in the 7th century AD.
		Babylon is best known for Esagila, the temple of Marduk; Etemenanki, a seven-storied ziggurat; and the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, which Nebuchadnezzar II built for his wife.
		Environment, 597 B.C. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, with exotic shrubs and flowers irrigated by water pumped from the Euphrates.
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	The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Centuries later, Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) built the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
		The flat desert terrain of Babylon depressed the daughter of the king of Medea, who came from a green mountainous region.
		The gardens that were laid out on a brick terrace about 400 feet square and 75 feet above the ground.
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	The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		Also it is known that whether or not it existed the Hanging Gardens did not hang.
		Diodorus states that the Hanging Gardens stood 400ft wide, 400ft in length and 80ft high.
		Quotes are really where we get the idea of what the Hanging Gardens looked like and where it stood.
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	AKROPOLIS.NET Community for Architects and Designers
		The fabled Hanging Gardens are definitely one of the more well known Wonders to us today, and yet in terms of archaeological record, they are the most mysterious and most poorly documented.
		She was homesick for the towering landscapes of her home, and the fabled Hanging Gardens were specifically built with towering structures and many terraced levels to suggest a mountainous terrain.
		The fact that these gardens were built by a fabulously wealthy king to impress a queen, and the fact that their beauty was so legendary as to be remembered 2000 years later, prompted me to decide that my design should try to capture that legendary beauty as my highest priority.
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	Babylon 4
		The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the most revered and awesome structures in all of history.
		One of the Seven Wonders were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon......
		The garden ascended in closely planted levels to form a replica of mountain greenery.
	www.strayreality.com /Lanis_Strayreality/babylon4.htm (1566 words)

	Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		Hanging Gardens of Babylon' are now believed to have been in Nineveh.
		Greek descriptions of the Hanging Gardens survive and a relief in the British Museum (below) shows how the hanging gardens were provided with water.
		The feature which made the gardens so famous is the mechanism which pumped water up from the River Tigris so that it could irrigate fruit trees and flowers as it triclked back down the hill.
	www.gardenvisit.com /got/2/hanging_gardens_babylon.htm (241 words)

	Cornelia Elementary School - 5th Grade Project - Famous Places-Hanging Gardens Of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By: HENRY C. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were ancient gardens in the ancient city of Babylon.
		The king created the gardens for his wife,Amytis, who missed the green and hilly landscape of her homeland to the north of Persia.
		The water to water the gardens came from the River Euraphate.
	www.edina.k12.mn.us /cornelia/classrooms/5th/Thomasgard/Babylon (257 words)

	SEVEN WONDERS - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was a palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates River (near Baghdad, Iraq) by King Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 B.C. to please his queen, Amuhia.
		Archeologists are still trying to reach a conclusion about the actual location of the gardens, but they surmise that they were layed out atop a vaulted building with an irrigation well.
		The Walls of Babylon, also built by Nebuchadnezzar, are sometimes referred to as the second (or seventh) wonder instead of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
	www.calvin.edu /~bdv3/proj4/hanging.htm (146 words)

	Hanging Gardens of Babylon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The hanging gardens of our urban jungles; High-rise horticulture is taking off.
		Not only is a roof garden now the height of fashion, it's also an answer to a very English desire for some green and pleasant space in the city.
		PILLAGING THE GARDENS OF BABYLON; Treasures of the ancient world; More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, 10,000 artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq are still missing.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-H1angingG1.asp (268 words)

	Far Shores Ancient Mysteries News: Hanging Gardens Of Babylon Didn’t Hang! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Certainly, Babylon must have been impressive but today the focus is not so much on the ancient city but rather the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
		The site mentions that although accounts indicate King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gardens, “there is a less reliable, alternative story that the gardens were built by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis during her five-year reign starting in 810 BC”.
		Herodotus claimed that the outer walls of the city of Babylon (built during Nebuchadnezzar’s 43-year reign) were 90.16km in length, 73.15m thick and 292.59m high, according to the portal.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/abab.htm (896 words)

	Hanging Gardens of Babylon
		One of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World, the Hanging Gardens were a huge collection of plants that 'hung' from a balcony in a large palace in Babylon, the capital of many Mesopotamian empires.
		The Gardens were built at the direction of the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar, who was said to have order them built to remind his wife of her homeland.
		The great mystery of the Hanging Gardens was how enough water to support the plants was transported so high in the air.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/world/hanginggardensdef.htm (137 words)

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