Hanging Gardens of Babylon

One of the Seven Wonders of the World.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were more “evolved” than “constructed”, i.e. they weren’t constructed as a single project but rather were the culmination of a long-term building program; the Persians historically demonstrated a passion for planting fruit trees and flowers in their cities and, to the ancient Greeks, Babylon seemed to be the pinnacle of that penchant; the actual date when the fruit trees and flowers became a wondrous garden has escaped historians but the first mention of the Hanging Gardens as a specific reference is from 400 BCE by a doctor in the Persian court; after that, the Hanging Gardens are mentioned by men who probably never went to Babylon so their accounts, as to the size and composition of the gardens, are questionable.

The fact that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are included as a wonder of the ancient world attests to the probability that they were indeed splendid as well as remarkable; in his book The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly P. Hall purports that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon reached their pinnacle during the reign of queen Samyrnus but he fails to give a specific date as to her reign.