The Hanging Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife Amytis. She missed the hills of her youth. It used a water pipe system to pump water to a height of 60 feet. The water came from the Euphrates River. There were terraces planted with a variety of plants and flowers. Apparently, the Babylonians invented the flower garden. Stairways led to the terraces. The Hanging Gardens is the “wonder” that is the most problematical. There are no mentions of them in Babylonian records. Some experts think they were actually located in the Assyrian capital of Nineveh.
– Amazing 206 / Hanging Gardens of Babylon by Mark Cartwright (https://www.ancient.eu/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon/)
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