Or Nineveh-Nebuchadnezzar Or Sennacherib?

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The hanging gardens of Babylon is one of the seven ancient wonders of the world.
Even the existence of the gardens is controversial. And if they were for real, there’s another controversy regarding who built it- Nebuchadnezzar or Sennacherib? In Babylon or Nineveh(‘New Babylon’)?
But if it actually existed, one of the things needs to be cleared that the garden didn’t actually hang suspended by ropes of anything of that sort, as the name suggests. A wide variety of flora was grown on a monument made of bricks, on different tiers, in the terraces and the balconies. The structure looked like a mountain made of bricks with a lot of trees and shrubs growing on it. Built in the 6th century, it was not an easy task to sustain gardens on a multi-tier brick structure. But it happened! The engineering methods used to first of all prepare the ground on so many levels to …show more content…

Some scientists even argue that hydroponics could have been used, a technique in which no soil in required to grow plants.It is also said that Babylon didn’t receive much rain. Excavations have found an elaborate chain pulley system which might have been used to take the water to the highest point in the monument, from where the water would have been allowed to flow to the bottom through the channels keeping the soil moist and the gardens green throughout the year. Some accounts say that people could take a stroll among the trees in the garden. To build and maintain such a structure in even today’s world seems to be an arduous task. But all it happened in 6th century BC. The monument finds mention in the story of Alexander the Great

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