The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
According to Greek historians, the Hanging Gardens were built by order of the
King Nebuchadnezzar II
around 600 B.C, to please his wife
Amytis the daughter of the King of the Medes. She
was married with Nebuchadnezzar II to create an alliance between nations.
According to written literature the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, it seems that they were built in a series
of terraces on the shores of the Euphrates River closely 50 miles from modern day Baghdad, Iraq.
However, archaeologists dispute the existence of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. One of the reasons
to doubt is that there are not records of the Nebuchadnezzar's time which reference to the famous gardens.
The gardens were destroyed by several earthquakes after the 2nd century B.C.
