The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the one of Seven Wonders of ancient of the World.

The legend had it that: The Gardens were built by The Chaldean 's King to pleased his sickwife, Amytis of Media. So, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon not only expressed glorious but also expressed the Love of the King for his wife.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built next to The King's Palace, on the East banks of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.

They were built on a small hill with square shape, consists of 4 floor. Each floor standed 25 metres apart. Each floor was a garden which was connected by large stairs. The bottom floor had area of 60.516 square metrers that was on column system with 625 stone columns. This column system were the more higher, the more narrower. The number of columns were less than. The seconds floor had 441 columns; The thirds floor had 289 columns; The top floor had 169 columns. The area of the top floor was 1/2 the bottom floor. Each floor were built following vault style.

The Gardens had enough sweet - smelling flowers, strange grasses and a lot of rare trees.

Streams of water was taken from elevated sources flow down sloping channels. These water irrigated the whole gardens.

The Gardens were destroyed by several earthquaskes after the 2nd century BCE. Nowadays, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon just remained ruins with collapse drystone wall.

Every years, the tourist came here to contemplate the rest of the foundation 's the bottom floor of Hanging gardens.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was masterpiece of the human.