Hanging Garden Of Babylon

Around 9th century B.C., King Nebuchadnezzar

had the garden built for his wife Amytis. They

were built with a series of terraces one on the

top of another and 7.6m thick walls were placed.

Each terrace had enough soil depth to grow trees.

The gadens were high and irrigation was done by

pumping water from river Euphrates through a

hidden network of pipes. In 539 B.C., persions

took control of Babylon and by 200 A.D., the

people left the city in ruins.