Hanging Gardens of Babylon The Hanging Gardens is an exotic structure. It is a building created in the ancient city of Babylon by king Nebuchadnezzer II. King Nebuchadnezzar had the garden constructed for his homesick wife Amyitis. She came from the land called Medes where land is rich and fertile. The garden was filled with fruit, flowers, trees and streams. There is no proof that the gardens ever existed. Also it is known that whether or not it existed the Hanging Gardens did not hang. The structure was built upon a mountain and overlooked the land beneath. The gardens were supplied from the Euphrates River. Diodorus states that the Hanging Gardens stood 400ft wide, 400ft in length and 80ft high. Quotes: Quotes are really where we get the idea of what the Hanging Gardens looked like and where it stood. "The Garden is quadrangular, and each side is four plethra long. It consists of arched vaults which are located on checkered cube-like foundations.. The ascent of the uppermost terrace-roofs is made by a stairway..." "The Hanging Garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth. The whole mass is supported on stone columns... Streams of water emerging from elevated sources flow down sloping channels... These waters irrigate the whole garden saturating the roots of plants and keeping the whole area moist. Hence the grass is permanently green and the leaves of trees grow firmly attached to supple branches... This is a work of art of royal luxury and its most striking feature is that the labor of cultivation is suspended above the heads of the spectators". -Strabo and Philo of Byzantium's "a covering with sheets of lead, that the wet which drenched through the earth might not rot the foundation. Upon all these was laid earth of a convenient depth, sufficient for the growth of the greatest trees. When the soil was laid even and smooth, it was planted with all sorts of trees, which both for greatness and beauty might delight the spectators." -Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian Ancient Wonders >> Natural Wonders >>