The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, are one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were built in 600 B.C. by King Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife. The gardens are built on a brick terrace about 400 feet square and 75 feet above the ground.

The Hanging Gardens were not really a hanging at all, but the Greek word that was  originally used was translated thus. The gardens were tiered and the plants hung over the terraces. The gardens initially contained exotic plants and animals that were imported from all over the world, where now irrigation screws are designed to lift water from the Euphrates River.

“The Hanging Garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth. The whole mass is supported on stone columns... Streams of water emerging from elevated sources flow down sloping channels... These waters irrigate the whole garden saturating the roots of plants and keeping the whole area moist. Hence the grass is permanently green and the leaves of trees grow firmly attached to supple branches... This is a work of art of royal luxury and its most striking feature is that the labor of cultivation is suspended above the heads of the spectators.”

Nebuchadnezzar, the son of Nabopolassar was one of the most powerful rulerof his dynasty. He built the Hanging Gardens about 2,500 years ago to make his wife Amytis happy, as she didn’t like the Babylonian desert. The gardens were made to look like a natural Median wilderness, that contained different types of trees. These gardens were sloped down like a hillside, and were also terraced into different flowerbeds. The beautiful landscape of the Hanging Gardens made it a special structure which transformed the desert-like environment into a pastoral countryside.

During the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Babylon was a prosperous and he had conquered all of the then known world and he made use of these conquests in furnishing his garden with décor, that became one of the seven wonders of the world.