By: Itzel Lazcano
Background
 It is the second oldest wonder of the Seven Wonders of the
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Ancient World.
It is sometimes called The Hanging Gardens of Semiramis
referring to the legendary Queen Semiramis.
The name comes from an approximate translation of the
Greek word kremastos, or the Latin word pensilis, which
means not just "hanging", but "overhanging" like a terrace or
balcony.
It was located in the ancient city-state Babylon, which is near
modern Iraq.
It collapsed with a variety of earthquakes that happened after
the 1st century B.C.
Purpose
• Nebuchadnezzar II built
the gardens to please his
homesick wife, Amytis of
Media who missed the trees
and fragrant plants of
Persia.
• The land she came from
was green, rugged and
mountainous, and she
found the flat, sun-baked
terrain of Mesopotamia
depressing.
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Nebuchadnezzar II
ordered is workers
to build the garden
on 600 B.C.
He was a successful
warrior king.
The math that was
used was basically
like measuring and
making sure that
all the arches were
stable.
To build the gardens the first thing that they did was to
make a series of brick arches to hold them. They were ten
stories high, and had a shaded courtyard underneath. On top
of them, the workmen built brick terraces. They lined the
terraces with lead and put a thick layer of soil on top. On the
platform Nebuchadnezzar ordered his men to plant every
kind of tree and plant, importing them from all over the
kingdom.
Babylonian engineers designed an advanced system of shafts
to carry buckets of water continuously. The water carried in the
buckets filled the fountains and pools in the Garden. The energy
to allow this was supplied by slaves turning massive screws. This
well system was the first and only of its kind in Babylon. They also
used massive slabs of stone, which was
unheard of in Babylon, to
prevent the water from
eroding the ground.
 What remains
today is just like
bricks and rocks.
Was it ahead of its time?
The well system that it had you were only able to
find it there so like it was advanced because no one
else knew like how to get water moving like that at the
time so it was ahead of its time.
Was this architecture a great
architecture or was it overrated?
I think it was a great
structure because like
no one else had an
advanced water system
like it or had many
different plants and
trees.
Extra Credit
Another architectural wonder from Babylon is the two
walls of Babylon that were used as fortifications to the
city.
Sources
 http://listverse.com/2007/08/01/the-7-wonders-of-
the-ancient-world/
 http://www.unmuseum.org/hangg.htm
 http://library.thinkquest.org/5983/pages/gardens.htm
 http://www.kidsgen.com/wonders_of_the_world/han
ging_gardens.htm