THE WONDERS OF BABYLON.(Hanging Gardens of Babylon)

Calliope | November 1, 2000| | Copyright

Through the centuries, artists have used imagination and surviving descriptions to recreate the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Long ago, rising out of the dry and hostile desert of modern-day Iraq was the magnificent and powerful city of Babylon. Travelers came from around the known world to see this ancient metropolis and to marvel at its beauty. Known as the "gate of the gods," the city was described by ancient authors as clothed in fine linen and decorated with gold and pearls. Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian who lived around 30 B.C., wrote that great hanging ...

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