The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Re: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
#2Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
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#3Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
Smart money would be looking into irrigation infrastructure and history of its development in Mesopotamia. They had to raise water for a "hanging" garden. That implies some sort of pump technology.
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#4Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
Here is an article discussing it more in depth. It does seem like Nineveh is the better candidate.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2020/07-...
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#5Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
Smart money would be looking into irrigation infrastructure and history of its development in Mesopotamia. They had to raise water for a "hanging" garden. That implies some sort of pump technology.
They used Archimedes screws, as noted in the article.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199662266/ is a very good book about the current state of research into the Hanging Gardens. As ncmncm notes, there is strong evidence that Babylon never had any such thing, but Nineveh did.
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#6Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
Not a lot of records survived the bronze age collapse & its extended aftermath.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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#7Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
Not a lot of records survived the bronze age collapse & its extended aftermath. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
What you said is true.
However, the Assyrian Empire and NeoBabylonian Empire, are both Iron Age empires that emerged after the Bronze Age Collapse. So any sources about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon would not have been affected by the Bronze Age Collapse.
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#8I love learning how they might have pumped water up to the top using an"Archimedes Screw" [1]
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#9I think the Babylonians used impaling instead of hanging.
Re: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
#10Apparently no contemporary sources place the Gardens at Babylon. The smart money is betting they were at Nineveh, instead.
Smart money would be looking into irrigation infrastructure and history of its development in Mesopotamia. They had to raise water for a "hanging" garden. That implies some sort of pump technology.
Nineveh, not coincidentally, apparently had the first elevated aqueducts. With arches.