Babylon

I searched around on the internet, but I can't found any website. Therefore, I found this webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon It talks about the Babylon. Babylon was a city of ancient Mesopotamia, and we can find the ruins of it in Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, and about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad. Babylon was in the beginning a small town that had sprung up in about 3000 B.C, and it flourished and attained prominence and political repute with the rise of the first Babylonian dynasty. The town was the "holy city" of Babylonia by approximately 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 B.C. And there is a famous building--The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

And I found another webpage : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon This webpage is about The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, they were built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 B.C. He built the gardens to please his wife, Amytis of Media, who want the trees and fragrant plants of her homeland. The gardens were destroyed by several earthquakes after the 2nd century B.C. The Hanging Gardens were extensived documented by Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Siculus. Through the ages, the place of them may have been confused with gardens that existed at Nineveh, since tablets from there clearly show gardens. Writings on these tablets describe the possible use of something similar to an Archimedes' screw as a process of raising the water to the required height. Moreover, I found this picture :

This is the ancient depiction of the Hanging Gardens. Irrigation on a man-made slope. It is the picture of The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, there are abundant of beautiful trees, plants and river beside the gorgeous building. It might waste a lot of money and manpower to build these huge and resplendent gardens.