Hanging Garderns

 The Handing Gardens of Babylon  were one of the  seven wonders of the ancient world, and the only one whose location has not been definitely established.
Traditionally they were sait to have been build in the ancient city of Babylon, near present day hillah, babil province, inlraq. The Babylonian priest. Berossus writing in about 290 BC and quoted later by josephus, attributed the gardens to the Neo Babylonian king nebuchadnezzor. LL who ruled between 605 and 562 BC. There are no extant Babylonian texts which mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in Babylon. According to one legend, Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. He also built a grand palace that came to be known as 'The Marvel of the Mankind. Because of the lack of evidence it has been suggested that the Hanging Gardens are purely legendary, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writers including Strabo Dioduros Siculus Quintus Rufus represent a romantic ideal of an eastern garden. If it did indeed exist, it was destroyed sometime after first century AD. Alternatively, the original garden may have been a well-documented one that the Assyrian king Sennacherib built in his capital city of Nineveh the River Tigris near the modern city of Mosul