Amuhia or Amytis of Media (c. 630 - 565 BC) was the daughter or granddaughter of the king Cyaxares, and the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II.
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Amytis was either born to Cyaxares and his wife or to Cyaxares's son and daughter-in-law. It is not known whether medes was her father or grandfather.
Amytis married Nebuchadnezzar to formalize the alliance between the Babylonian and Median dynasties.
It is reported that Amytis' homesickness for the forested mountains of the Median Empire led to the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, as Nebuchadnezzar attempted to please her by planting the trees and plants of her homeland.[1]
AMYTIS, Median and Persian female name, attested only in the Greek form A´mytis, which perhaps may reflect (with vowel metathesis) an old Persian *Umati—equivalent to Avestan humaiti— “having good thought ” [2]
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