Does the hanging garden in Babylon exist or not?

A historian at Oxford University found that the Hanging Garden, one of the eight wonders of the world, did exist, but it was located in Nineveh, the capital of the ancient Assyrian kingdom, rather than the legendary Babylon.

This theory was put forward by Dr. Stephanie Daley of the Institute of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. Dr Stephanie said that the legendary Hanging Garden was actually located in Nineveh, 300 miles north of Babylon, and was built by King Sennacherib of Assyria, not King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Basic structure of hanging garden:

Of course, the hanging gardens in Babylon have never hung in the air. The origin of this name is purely due to people's misinterpretation of the Greek word "kremastos" and the Latin word "pensilis", which originally meant "hanging" and "protruding".

The hanging garden has a total circumference of more than 500 meters and is built on a high platform by three-dimensional gardening. Rockery with stone pillars and slabs layered on top of each other reaches the sky. Seen from a distance, the garden looks like it is in the sky. Rockery * * * is divided into upper, middle and lower floors, each floor is supported by large stone pillars, and each floor has halls and pavilions.

In order to prevent water seepage, each floor is paved with wicker mats soaked in asphalt, then two layers of bricks are paved on the mats, and a layer of lead is poured on them, and then fertile soil is cultivated on them, and many exotic flowers and grasses are planted, and irrigation water sources and water pipes are provided.

There are two kinds of city walls: mud brick or brick, with a tower in the middle, and the widest part of the outer wall is 7. 1 m. The main entrance to the city is the estelle Gate, which is12m high and double-sided and dedicated to the goddess estelle. The main entrance is a north-south parade street, paved with stones or bricks. The estelle Gate and the main street are decorated with colored glazed animal reliefs, and the animals are arranged horizontally.

West of Parade Street and southwest of Hista Temple is the main palace area, namely the Nangong of Nebuchadnezzar II, which consists of five courtyards. The third courtyard in the center is decorated with lion statues made of glazed tiles and flowers and trees with various geometric patterns. There is a hanging garden in the northeast corner of Nangong, one of the seven wonders of the world.

There are many temples in the city, including Marduk Temple and Ta Temple in the city center. There are Ningma River Temple and Sivir Hista Temple in the east of the city. The relics unearthed in the city include pottery, glassware, decorations, cylindrical seals, clay tablets and other documents ~