what is left of the hanging gardens of babylon
Hanging Gardens of Babylon The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders for which the location has not been definitively established.[1] There are no extant Babylonian texts which mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in Babylon.[2][3] Three theories have been suggested to account for this. One: that they were purely mythical, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writers including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus represent a romantic ideal of an eastern garden.[4] Two: that they existed in Babylon, but were completely destroyed sometime around the first century AD.[5][6] Three: that the legend refers to a well-documented garden that the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704â€“681 BC) built in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris, near the modern city of Mosul.[7][8]