The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are however to have been constructing in the ancient city of Babylon. Even, however, there is no evidence that they truly existed, they are contemplating to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

It is called the Hanging Gardens because the gardens were constructing high above the ground on multi-level stone terraces. Like a traditional garden, the plant wasn’t rooted in the earth garden. If it is still live it was likely the most beautiful man-made gardens ever created.

Interesting Hanging Gardens of Babylon Facts

• The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the early world that may not even have live.
• There is no documentation in Babylonian sources that the gardens always live. There is also no solid archaeological evidence that they live.
• Several ancient writers wrote about the gardens Roman and Greek. They wrote about why they were constructed, how they were built, and the size of the gardens (even taught how to garden). They didn’t all agree on why they were constructing or who they were constructing for.
• The most famous theory is that the gardens were built by King Nebuchadnezzar II to make his wife happy. Who was suffering from homesick for the plants and gardens of her homeland?
• King Nebuchadnezzar II ruled Babylon from 605BC, for a period of 43 years.  That time or during this time that he is said to have had the Hanging Gardens built.

Some more interesting facts

• If the gardens truly existed, it would have taken 8,200 gallons of water each day to keep the plants watered.
• The gardens were direct to be about 75 feet high. The water would have had to have been carried up or transported to the top of the gardens by a prehistoric water irrigation system.
• There are many clay tablets that live from the time period when the Hanging Gardens would have existed. None of these ancient tablets mentions the Hanging Gardens.
• Many trusts that if the gardens did live they would have been discovering south of Bagdad in Iraq.
• Some historians and archaeologists trust that the gardens did exist and were explode by war and erosion. Some believe it was earthquakes that eventually demolish and destroyed the gardens.
• In the ‘Hanging Gardens’, the plants did not truly hang. They grew from many varying levels of terraces (same as to balconies).
• The word ‘hanging’ comes from the Latin word ‘pensilis’ or the rendition of the Greek word ‘kremastos’. It truly means overhanging instead of just hanging.
• A Greek historian named Diodorus Siculus delineate the gardens as being 400 feet wide by 400 feet long. He also said that the walls were more than 80 feet high.
• The current hole has found traces of aqueducts near Nineveh, which would have bear such a garden. Nineveh is 300 miles away from Babylon.