Mr. Rosati
Archaeology
Chaldean Artifacts: The Hanging Gardens
5TH PERIOD
Evidence for Existence
Evidence vs. Existence
Construction Facts
Strabo and Philo described it
Conflicting sizes given
Supported by stone columns
Koldewey may have found it
Tech. not advanced enough
Streams of water flowed in for
irrigation
Realistic theory on how it
worked
Not recorded as one of
Nebechadnezzar’s
accomplishments.
Diodorus Siculus wrote about it
Planted a long hill
Many different levels
Too far from rivers
Had the most advanced tech. of
the day
14 large rooms found
A number of pumps found in
1899 by Koldewey
Nothing but a mound of muddy
debris
Created water pump transfer
water
Attached buckets to a chain
water traveled down channels
Many levels of irrigation
Use of cubed shaped pillars
Many vaulted terraces
It was a ziggurat structure
Mr. Rosati
Archaeology
Chaldean Artifacts: The Hanging Gardens
7TH PERIOD
Evidence for Existence
Evidence vs. Existence
Construction Facts
Diodorus wrote about the
Hanging Gardens
Soldiers passing through region
exaggerated it
22 ft thick walls
Philo wrote about Hanging
Gardens
No ruins of it ever found
Platform consisted of huge
slabs of stone
Only documentation is in Gk
and Latin: may be confused
Buildings covered in lead to
prevent water damage
Never mentioned as one of
Nebs accomplishments
The garden was a quadrangle
Irrigation made it possible
Neb created as gift for wife
50 miles southwest of Baghdad
Herodotus never mentioned it
Use of hydroponic irrigation
Exaggerated by scholars of the
time
2 Greek scholars described it
differently
Defied nature
Technology too sophisticated
for the time period
Consisted of arched vaults
which were located on
checkered cube-like
foundations
Several strata of flora
Garden was irrigated because
of little rainfall