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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.
Presented by:• Vicente• Napoleon• John• Maridel• Khristine• Jinky• Jasper