Reading history enlightens wisdom and enriches life by studying history. Learn a little history every day and make yourself knowledgeable, and today we take a look at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The idea of the Seven Wonders of the World is said to have been coined by the Phoenician traveler Antipark when he summed up the man-made landscapes of the world at that time, and has been used to this day. The seven wonders are: the Pyramids of Egypt, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Olympian Zeus, the Temple of Artemis, the Tomb of King Mossolas, and the Colossus of the Sun God of Rhodes.
Today we take a look at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Hanging Gardens are said to have been built by the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC on a site roughly near Baghdad in Jin Iraq. It was built by the king to satisfy his homesickness.
The construction of the hanging garden adopts a three-dimensional form of construction, the garden is built on a four-story platform, about 20 meters above the ground, and a large number of exotic flowers and grasses are planted in the garden, which looks like hanging in the air from a distance, so it is called the hanging garden. The magic of the garden lies in its water supply and irrigation system, to know that in ancient Babylon, there was no machinery, all by manpower to complete, slaves to draw a lot of water from the Euphrates River to irrigate the garden, which had to admire the wisdom of the deceased.
Later generations have never stopped studying the Hanging Gardens, and they have also admired the huge project of building it, and with the decline of the Babylonian kingdom and the continuous invasion of foreigners, this ancient civilization born in the Two Rivers Valley has been submerged in the long river of history. The disappearance that follows also includes the wonders of the world.
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