Hanging Gardens of Babylon
📍 Babylon, Iraq
Legendary Place
~600 BC
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, were described as tiered gardens rising like a green mountain. Their name derives from the Greek "kremastós" (overhanging), referring to their elevated construction.
Legend claims Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II built them for his homesick Median wife, Queen Amytis, though some attribute them to Queen Semiramis. Uniquely among the Seven Wonders, their location remains unknown. No Babylonian texts mention them, and no archaeological evidence exists. They may have been mythical, destroyed in the first century AD, or actually located in Nineveh, built by King Sennacherib.