Did You Know...
1. Nebuchadnezzar II was married to Amyitis for alliance purposes for Babylon and Medes.
2. Nebuchadnezzar II had to find a way to stop eroding material because of the flowing water and he had to find a way of getting water up above to the gardens so he put down smooth slabs of stone to stop eroding. 3. A man named Berossus who was a priest documented the Babylonian Hanging Gardens. 4. Two processes could have been used to irrigate the water. The Chain pump or the Archimedes screw. 5. A story explains that Queen Semiramis Built the gardens in 810 B.C. Though now many believe that Nebuchadnezzar II Built the gardens. |
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