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# The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

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Review: The Controversey of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Very interesting piece of ancient Mesapotamian history which we often forget in favour of history of the Nile civilization much of which followed a melenia after Mesapotamia. Dr.Dalley writes a very interesting book which has been followed by a program on television. She is obviously a very well informed Assyriologist and obviously loves that part of what is today the North of Iraq. However her conclusion that the Gardens were in Nineva and not Babylon is based on her conclusion that there is no evidence of the Hanging Gardens being in Babylon. The German Archiologist Robert Koldeway, in 1899 dug the various sites at Babylon for nearly fourteen years and unerthed many of its features including those reported by Diodorus. Among these was what appeared to him to be the cellar of the gardens including a room with three large holes in the floor. From which Koldeway concluded that this had been the location of the chain pumps that raised the water to the top of the gardens from where irrigation water would flow by gravity. The source of water would have been either a small farm channel from the Euphrates which flowed through Babylon or alternatively, if the three shafts were deep enough , from seepage from the river. The flow required to irrigate an area of 1.5 ha, which is the area given by Dr. Dalley for the Nineva gardens would require no more than a continious flow of three liters a second to deliver a water daily requirement of about 90 cubic meters in the summer months in the central climatic zone of Iraq, where Babylon is located. I found Dr. Dalley's information about the very advanced state of water management established by the assyrian king Senacharib very interesting, where she demonstrates that the inclined water lifting devices using helical shaftes (similar to present day archemedian screw pumps) was actually used by the Mesapotamians at least four centuries before the birth of the Greek Archamides. The fact that Alexanders legions would have camped by the Jerwan aquaduct (which used arched supports the like of which the greek homland would not have seen for several centuries to come) prior to the very decisive battle of Gogomela (where Darius iii, of persia was defeated and Alexanders armies progressed to the Nile, Babylon, Persia and the Indus) on the plains of Arbil is a very interesting point which further shows the historical importance of Mesapotamia, However I see no reason why there could not have been two such gardens (about 150 years apart), one in Nineva, built by Senecharib, and the second in Babylon, built by the Neo Babylonian Nebukadnezzar. As for there not being any evidence of the Gardens being in Babylon, there is apparently a report that they were destroyed by an earthquake in the second century BCE. Be it as it may, I am sure the controversey raised by this book may continue for a long time to come. Nejdet Al-Salihi (a Mesapotamian and an irrigation engineer).
Review: Hanging Gardens History- The Mystery of the HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON by Stephanie Dalley - Wonderful book by a lady Stephanie Dalley who can actually read the cuneiform script and loves her subject. She actually goes out to visit Nineveh taking her life into her hands with the help of guides, she has seen the huge aqueduct, which crossed another river and took water to the REAL HANGING GARDENS, (which the Babylonians copied down river)carried out around 705-703 BC; and used the type of palm trees which had a natural screw design, that enabled the people to draw water up to the gardens, in Archimedes style. Stephanie also reads Sennacherib's name in Cuneiform on the Aqueduct which he built, taking the waters from miles away in the ice melting mountains. What a feat! She courageously looks upon the devastation which after Isis had visited had been defaced further, and makes no comment in front of her guides and protectors, but her heart must be breaking. So much ancient art and architecture and information ruined further from Iconoclasts, and ancient history form which we could find out more is gone. Dalley states something that reveals what confuses Babylon Gardens with Nineveh's Hanging gardens. Babylon and Nineveh was known to the Greeks and Romans and much history written by them on the Euphrates and Tigris adds to our knowledge and understanding. The enthusiasm for engineering and controlling the waters was shared by Sennacherib and later kings such as Ashurbanipal, whose sculptured panels are preserved in the British Museum, as well as huge and beautiful sculptures of fish skin clad Wise men and Bull men;- the latter seen in Nineveh and destroyed by Iconoclasts.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 143,052 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 268 in History of Civilisation & Culture 14,178 in Reference (Books) 20,104 in Social Sciences (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (139) |
| Dimensions  | 2.03 x 13.46 x 21.34 cm |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 0198728840 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0198728849 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 312 pages |
| Publication date  | 5 Feb. 2015 |
| Publisher  | Oxford University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Controversey of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
*by N***I on 10 January 2014*

Very interesting piece of ancient Mesapotamian history which we often forget in favour of history of the Nile civilization much of which followed a melenia after Mesapotamia. Dr.Dalley writes a very interesting book which has been followed by a program on television. She is obviously a very well informed Assyriologist and obviously loves that part of what is today the North of Iraq. However her conclusion that the Gardens were in Nineva and not Babylon is based on her conclusion that there is no evidence of the Hanging Gardens being in Babylon. The German Archiologist Robert Koldeway, in 1899 dug the various sites at Babylon for nearly fourteen years and unerthed many of its features including those reported by Diodorus. Among these was what appeared to him to be the cellar of the gardens including a room with three large holes in the floor. From which Koldeway concluded that this had been the location of the chain pumps that raised the water to the top of the gardens from where irrigation water would flow by gravity. The source of water would have been either a small farm channel from the Euphrates which flowed through Babylon or alternatively, if the three shafts were deep enough , from seepage from the river. The flow required to irrigate an area of 1.5 ha, which is the area given by Dr. Dalley for the Nineva gardens would require no more than a continious flow of three liters a second to deliver a water daily requirement of about 90 cubic meters in the summer months in the central climatic zone of Iraq, where Babylon is located. I found Dr. Dalley's information about the very advanced state of water management established by the assyrian king Senacharib very interesting, where she demonstrates that the inclined water lifting devices using helical shaftes (similar to present day archemedian screw pumps) was actually used by the Mesapotamians at least four centuries before the birth of the Greek Archamides. The fact that Alexanders legions would have camped by the Jerwan aquaduct (which used arched supports the like of which the greek homland would not have seen for several centuries to come) prior to the very decisive battle of Gogomela (where Darius iii, of persia was defeated and Alexanders armies progressed to the Nile, Babylon, Persia and the Indus) on the plains of Arbil is a very interesting point which further shows the historical importance of Mesapotamia, However I see no reason why there could not have been two such gardens (about 150 years apart), one in Nineva, built by Senecharib, and the second in Babylon, built by the Neo Babylonian Nebukadnezzar. As for there not being any evidence of the Gardens being in Babylon, there is apparently a report that they were destroyed by an earthquake in the second century BCE. Be it as it may, I am sure the controversey raised by this book may continue for a long time to come. Nejdet Al-Salihi (a Mesapotamian and an irrigation engineer).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hanging Gardens History- The Mystery of the HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON by Stephanie Dalley
*by C***N on 22 May 2018*

Wonderful book by a lady Stephanie Dalley who can actually read the cuneiform script and loves her subject. She actually goes out to visit Nineveh taking her life into her hands with the help of guides, she has seen the huge aqueduct, which crossed another river and took water to the REAL HANGING GARDENS, (which the Babylonians copied down river)carried out around 705-703 BC; and used the type of palm trees which had a natural screw design, that enabled the people to draw water up to the gardens, in Archimedes style. Stephanie also reads Sennacherib's name in Cuneiform on the Aqueduct which he built, taking the waters from miles away in the ice melting mountains. What a feat! She courageously looks upon the devastation which after Isis had visited had been defaced further, and makes no comment in front of her guides and protectors, but her heart must be breaking. So much ancient art and architecture and information ruined further from Iconoclasts, and ancient history form which we could find out more is gone. Dalley states something that reveals what confuses Babylon Gardens with Nineveh's Hanging gardens. Babylon and Nineveh was known to the Greeks and Romans and much history written by them on the Euphrates and Tigris adds to our knowledge and understanding. The enthusiasm for engineering and controlling the waters was shared by Sennacherib and later kings such as Ashurbanipal, whose sculptured panels are preserved in the British Museum, as well as huge and beautiful sculptures of fish skin clad Wise men and Bull men;- the latter seen in Nineveh and destroyed by Iconoclasts.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Improve your historical knowledge
*by M***K on 14 July 2013*

Learn more than you thought possible about the Hanging Gardens! However, I was not totally convinced that the real location was an historical error but it is a fascinating journey. Well worth a read.

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