By : Ge-Girls Group

Description of the garden Description of the garden

Map of the garden Now

WHEN?
The Garden of Babylon was
built in about 600 BC.
WHERE?
The Garden of Babylon was
on the east bank of
Euphrates River, about 50
kms south of Baghdad, Iraq.
WHAT?
WHAT ISstories
•Ancient THEsay HISTORY
King
OFNebuchadnezzar
GARDEN OFbuilt the garden
for his homesick wife, Amyitis who
BABYLON?
had come from green, rugged land
with mountains.
•Babylon was flat, dry and far from
green. The Hanging Garden
probably didn't hang.
•The description comes from the
Greek word "kremastos" or the
Latin word "pensilis," which means
"overhanging" like on a balcony or
terrace.
•There are no records of the
Hanging Garden from the time
Nebuchadnezzer ruled, although
there were tablets describing
the palace, the city of Babylon
and the walls.
•In fact, none of the historians
who wrote about this
magnificent garden even saw
it. The garden might not have
existed
WHAT DID THE GARDEN
OF BABYLON LOOK
Whether the garden existed or
not, this is how it has been
LIKE?
described by ancient Greek
sources: "The hanging garden
has plants cultivated above
ground level, and the roots of the
trees are embedded in an upper
terrace rather than in the earth.
The whole mass is supported on
stone columns.
•The grass is permanently green
and the leaves of trees grow firmly
attached to supple branches."
Exotic flowers and plants covered
the terraces.
•Shade came from cypress trees
and palms and there was a rich
smell of aromatic plants and
flowers in the air. Nebuchadnezzar
had every kind of tree and plant
you can think of.
HOW?
 •They couldn't just turn the
HOW DID THEY WATER
sprinkler on back then so how
THEdidGARDEN OF
the plants survive?
BABYLON
• One of the most amazing parts
of the garden is the watering
system.
•Water from the nearby
Euphrates River was lifted far
into the air so it could flow down
the terraces, watering the
several levels of trees and
flowers.
•This was probably done with a
chain pump. Two large wheels,
connected by a chain, turned and
the buckets dipped into a pool
and picked up water.
•The chain then lifted the buckets
to the upper wheel where the
water was tipped into an upper
pool.
•The empty buckets kept turning
and ended up back in the
bottom pool. There is no
evidence to support this theory,
and there's no evidence that says
the garden even existed.
•Regardless, the garden sounds
impressive. It makes you wonder,
did it remind Amyitis of her home
land?
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