The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built in ancient Babylon (modern day Iraq) by King Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC to please his homesick wife. The gardens were an artificial mountain constructed to give the impression of a green, leafy landscape rising up from the surrounding plains. While ancient historians referenced the gardens, their exact location and structure are uncertain as no definitive archaeological evidence of the gardens has been found.

1. The Hanging Gardens of
Babylon

2. History
• The garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar,
who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC.
• Were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick
wife, Amyitis.
• A green, leafy, artificial mountain rising off the
plain. But did it actually exist? Herodotus praised
and claimed it’s beauty, but never mentions this.

3. A 16th-century hand-coloured engraving of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon by
Dutch artist Martin Heemskerck, with the Tower of Babel in the background.

4. Robert Koldewey , a german archaeologist, found out
the reminiscence of the ancient garden.

5. The ancient Babylon, is
located now in Al Hillah,
Babil, Iraq.
The ruins of the city of
Babylon in 1932.