Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Terraced gardens: the one wonder never found by archaeologists
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Ancient writers described gardens on stepped terraces in Babylon, watered with water lifted from the Euphrates. Tradition credits Nebuchadnezzar II, who built them for a wife homesick for the mountains. They are one of the Seven Wonders, yet neither Babylonian texts nor excavations confirm them — they may have been the gardens of Nineveh.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 6th century BC
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 600 BC Greeks found Massalia — same year
Alive at the time
- Cyrus the Great (aged 0)
- Nebuchadnezzar II (aged 42)
- Solon (aged 30)
- Sappho (aged 30)
- Thales of Miletus (aged 24)
- Anaximander (aged 10)