Wow.
Now on my list of must see!
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, January 2022 – click any image for full size
In this palace he erected very high walks, supported by stone pillars; and by planting what was called a pensile paradise, and replenishing it with all sorts of trees, he rendered the prospect an exact resemblance of a mountainous country. This he did to gratify his queen, because she had been brought up in Media, and was fond of a mountainous situation.
– Berossus, priest of Bel Marduk, 4BCE, quoted by Flavius Josephus
The above words – admittedly quoted almost 300 years after they were said to have been written – are the earliest mention of the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, January 2022
Listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Hellenic culture, the gardens were said to have been constructed close to the city of Babylon…
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