Where were the most famous hanging gardens in history?

 

 Hanging gardens - they were created by Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 B.C.) in Babylon and were regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Babylon, situated about 50 miles to the south of Baghdad in what is now Iraq, has long been the capital in the time of the Chaldeans. Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled for 40 years and was the greatest of the Chaldean Emperors, enlarged the city and gave it enormous protective walls. The hanging gardens, rising in terraces to a height of some 350 feet, were built, so the legend goes, for Nebuchadnezzar's wife, Amyhia, either to please her and thereby gain the support of her father's armies against her husband's foes, or simply because she did not like the flatness of the land after the hills of her homeland. Each terrace had sufficient earth for trees such as oak, willow, pomegranate and palm to grow, as well as shrubs and flowers. Stairways led from terrace to terrace. Water cisterns were placed at the top to irrigate the lower terraces. Today, only a few ruins remain.