http://travelling2009.com Travel Destination Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:36:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://travelling2009.com/the-hanging-gardens-of-semiramide.html http://travelling2009.com/the-hanging-gardens-of-semiramide.html#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:58:12 +0000 admin http://travelling2009.com/?p=567 It is also known as “hanging garden of Babylon”, was built by King Nabucodonsor II for one of his wives, Amytis or Amuhea. There is a legend which says that they were actually built by King Ninus, who founded Babylon and Ninive for his wife Semiramida. Gardens occupied an area of 15,000 sq meters and four terraces were up to 77 m high. On plant growth are many trees that may reach 24 m and were wetted with cylindrical pumps, and the growth rooms were cool to the royal family. The gardens were destroyed by the pers during employment Babylon, but were restored by Nabucodonsor II was the son of Ninus.
After many years in 1899 a German team carried out excavations in Kasr El hill, where ruins of a palace discovers that he was considering his Nabucodonsor and main gate of the city. In the north-east of the palace were found some foundations that support and suspended gardens where they discovered a central corridor which could come in 7 rooms.
The place where Babylon was, today is a desert almost devoid of vegetation. The terraces have disappeared, but after they left one tree called atleth.

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