The
wonderful Hanging Gardens were a series of terraces rising along the
Euphates huge river bank in five tiers of 50 feet each above the next
and connected by marble stairways. Each tier was planted with a
profusion of fabulous big trees, shrubs, and colorful flowers. The
luxury gardens were chill watered by fountains fed through pipes from
cisterns in the topmost terrace. Nebuchadnezzar had history's most
celebrated the gardens developed as an adjunct to his peaceful palace;
but the Greeks ascribed them to Semiramis; a legendary wonder queen of
Babylon, daughter of the goddess Derceto. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
were dedicated to the great planet Venus.
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