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The Hanging Garden of Babylon
The Handing Garden Of Babylon
There have 7 ancient wonders of the world. A reference to the Babylon civilization, the first imagination is “The Hanging Gardens.” It was so mystical and historical. I am going to tell people what are the history and nowadays of Hanging Gardens.

There are two so beautiful and charming legends occurred many years ago. Neo- Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II Married Amyitis for the queen. The King loved the queen very much, but the queen was gradually sad. King did not know the cause. The queen said, her hometown had a chain of mountains with plants and flowers. But there were endless plains in Babylon, even she could not find a small hill. Thus, the king commanded artisans to built layer and layer gardens like the queen’s hometown in the palace. It was planted with flowers, trees, and small roads to roam. Another lagend was in the mid-1st century BC, Greek historian of Sicily, Diodorus wrote that the Assyrian Queen built it for fun. But there was not Assyrian Queen in the history, so most people believed the first legend.

The Hanging Garden.” In the 2nd century AD, THE Greek sholars have regarded “The Hanging Garden” as the 7 ancient wonders of the world.

These were the legends and the origin of the name.

Archaeological Organization discovered the ruins of Babylon and the Hanging Gardens. The Hanging Garden is said to be three- dimensional. The Hanging Gardens were built on the 4 platforms. They were thickly planted with all kinds of trees and flowers, it made it pleasant. It looked as if it hung in the air. The most amazing part of the Hanging Gardens was the water supply system. Because the rain of Babylon was not so much, and the Hanging Gardens were far from the Euphrates River, people thought that the Hanging Gardens should need many water supply systems. But the water was gone to the gardens by the slaves who pushed the knob of the wood wheel. Researchers believed that the bricks were different with usual bricks. It

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