GROUP 4

Came from the Greek word kremastos or the Latin word pensilis meaning “overhanging”

Second oldest wonder

Built by King Nebuchadnezzar at around 600 BCE

Babylon

About 50 miles to the south west of Baghdad in Iraq

Lies along the Euphrates river

Dimension:

• Width: 400 ft.

• Length: 400 ft.

• Height: more

than 80 ft.

Quadrangular

Made of mudbrick, asphalt and lead

Consisted of terraces one after the other

Filled with soil-for the plants

Stairways were used to climb up

A chain pump was used to lift water

King Nebuchadnezzar built this for his wife, Amytis.

Symbol of Babylon’s greatness

The hanging gardens do not appear in the list of monuments/stone tablets from Nebuchadnezzar’s reign.

Herodotus never mentioned about the hanging gardens

Some historians argue that the gardens were mixed up with:• Another set of gardens built by King

Sennacherib• A structure created by Queen Semiramis

Exaggeration, product of imagination

German archaeologist Robert Koldewey is said to have found the Hanging gardens.• But some modern archaeologists question

this

On the banks of the Euphrates, a newly discovered, immense, 82-foot thick wall was found.

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