Talk:Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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[edit] Hanging?
For all I know, I may be quite dumb, but I can't figure out in what sense these "gardens" were "hanging". Actually, the article seems to debate their existance only, and not what they are supposed to have been. 213.64.153.11 15:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Any modern look-alikes?
These gardens look amazing. Is there anything that exists today that looks anything like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? 64.236.245.243 21:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Questions
have Nebuchadnezzar never physically existed?
Er slopeing Gardens of Babylon a better name?
are a Greek better source end than assyrisk source?
Was there recent findings in Babylon regarding this?
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[edit] Awkward sentence & more info
This opening sentence is awkward:
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) and the walls of Babylon were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Were the gardens and the walls together one wonder or were they two seperate wonders? The sentence doesn't make it clear.
Since this was one of the wonders of the ancient world, shouldn't it have more information? The illustrations are great, but shouldn't we have more descriptions of the gardens themselves? I know this topic is more extensive than what we currently have. I'd write it myself but I am not an expert in this area. User:Frecklefoot
First of all, i think the main question is, did the gardens even exist? The main answer I had gotten was, "maybe", and "yes". The sites that had said "yes" backed it up with info from greek writers, which described the wonder. However, none of the websites have a full blown, 3-d view of the place... I would really like a site, that could show the entire site.
[edit] Lost Glory?
What I would like to know is, if they did exist where we think they did, and were in fact as large and grand as stories tell, then why is there little or no phisical evidence of their having been there at all? In Egypt, for example, people have found remains of structures of similar age, so why do no remains of these gardens exist?
[edit] Location
Where in Iraq were they meant to be? Kernow 13:42, 14 March 2006 (UTC)</nowiki>
[edit] Image Caption
A 16th century depiction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (by Martin Heemskerck). You can see the Tower of Babel in the background. Is it really meant to be the Tower of Babel? I think it's much more likely to be the Minaret of Samarra in the background based on appearance. --NEMT 10:31, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Possible Plagiarism
The following paragraph appears to a simple concatenation of the fifth and sixth paragraphs from http://www.unmuseum.org/hangg.htm.
- According to accounts, the gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of the Mesopotamia (a region of southwest Asia) depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens. The Hanging Gardens probably did not really "hang" in the sense of being suspended from cables or ropes. The name comes from an inexact translation of the Greek word kremastos or the Latin word pensilis, which means not just "hanging” but "overhanging," as in the case of a terrace or balcony.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by SoCalAlum (talk • contribs).
- This appears to be correct... The paragraphs were added by Abhi madhani (talk • contribs) on 22 November 2004 (see this diff). According to the internet archive the same text has been present at unmuseum.org since at least 8 July 2000. That section should be rewritten as soon as possible. —JeremyA 03:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stubb`d.
I made it a stub because, although it provided some useful information, it did not provide near enough to be considered encyclopedic content. VikedaL
