![]() Writings on these tablets describe the possible use of something similar to an Archimedes screw as a process of raising the water to the required height. Through the ages, the location may have been confused with gardens that existed at Nimrud, since tablets from there clearly show gardens. The lush Hanging Gardens are extensively documented by Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Siculus. The gardens were destroyed by several earthquakes after the 2nd century BC. ![]() He is reported to have constructed the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amytis of Media, who longed for the trees and fragrant plants of her homeland Persia. They were built by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. They are sometimes referred to as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil in Iraq, are considered to be one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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