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TheHanging Gardens of Babylon
Written by Lin Donn Illustrated by Phillip
Martin
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The Hanging Gardens
There was little argument that the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon would be included as a world
wonder. It was on nearly everyones list.
The thought of a huge and magnificent garden,
towering 300 feet above the desert sands,
appealed to the Greeks sense of the incredible.

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The Hanging Gardens

The Hanging Gardens were supposedly built around
600 BCE, along the banks of the Euphrates River
in Babylon.
Constructed inside the palace walls, the gardens
were built in a series of platforms, or terraces,
that created a structure 400 feet long, 400 feet
wide, and 380 feet high!  
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The Hanging Gardens

Wandering paths and a series of steps connected
the various levels. The gardens were a wonderland
of greenery, flowering plants, and waterfalls.
That alone would have greatly impressed the
ancient Greeks. But a love story was attached to
the gardens that made them even more interesting.
 
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The Hanging Gardens
It was rumored that the king King Nebuchadnezzar,
ordered the gardens built to honor his queen.
The queen was homesick for her land in the
mountains. The gardens were designed by the king
to make his queen feel loved and welcomed in her
new land of Babylon.

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The Hanging Gardens
No one knows if the love story behind the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon is true, or if the gardens
ever really existed.
But it was a great story, and the Greeks loved
stories, especially stories about war and love.
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Visit all Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Great Pyramid at Giza Hanging Gardens of
Babylon Statue of Zeus at Olympia Temple of
Artemis at Ephesus Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes Lighthouse at Alexandria

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