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Hanging gardens of Babylon

The hanging gardens of Babylon, sometimes also known as the hanging gardens of Semiramis, of the Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar II, built circa 600 BC. The hanging gardens of Babylon were located in the today's Iraq, close to the Euphrates. King Nebuchadnezzar II built the immense lofty gardens probably his mistress, Urtikart, to settle down, for the scenic green splendour of the media, yearned to their former home. The hanging gardens of Babylon is said to have been destroyed in the second century b.c.. in an earthquake, and are the only one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, whose Existenz is not verifiable through the ruins. It is generally accepted that the hanging gardens of Babylon of in all probability not actually "hung" but rather, the word was "hanging" derived an approximate translation of the Greek word "Kremastos", meaning "overhanging". The gardens described as 100 meters long by 100 feet wide to immense quadrangle terra...