Place:
On Eastern bank of l' Euphrate, to approximately 50 km in the south of Baghdad, in Iraq.

History:
The kingdom of Babylon thrived under the domination of the famous king, Hammourabi (1792-1750 before JC). It was necessary to await the reign of Naboplashar (625-605 BC) of the néo-Babylonian dynasty, that civilization mésopotamienne reaches ultimate glory. His/her son, Nabuchodonosor II (604-562 before JC) is credited for construction with legendary Suspended Jardins. That the gardens were built by Nabuchodonosor, s' is said; you like him with his wife or her concubine who had been “high in the media and had a passion for the mediums of mountain”. Whereas majority of the accounts d' descriptive from the gardens come d' Greek historians such as Bérose and Diodore of Sicily, Babylonian files to remain quiet on the question. Compressed l' time of Nabuchodonosor are not a single reference for the hanging gardens, although descriptions of its palate, the city of Babylon, and the walls are found. Even the historians who give a detailed description of the hanging gardens forever them considering. The modern historians make the point that, when the soldiers d' Alexandre reaches the fertile grounds of Mésopotamie and Babylon, saw, they were impressed. When later, they returned in their fatherland robust, they had stories to tell on the astonishing gardens and palm trees of Mésopotamie. Around the palate of Nabuchodonosor. In connection with the Tower of Babel and the ziggourats. And it was l' imagination of the poets and the historians of l' Antiquity which mixed all these elements to produce l' together; one of the wonders of the world. The XXe century should have been waited that some of the mysteries which surround the hanging gardens were revealed. The archaeologists have still evil to collect sufficient evidence before d' to arrive at final decisions as for l' site of the gardens, their system d' irrigation, and of their real aspect.

Description:
Detailed descriptions of the gardens come from ancient sources Greeks, of which writings of Strabon and Philon de Byzance. Here some extracts of their accounts: " The Garden is quadrangular, and each east coast of four will plethra a long time. It is composed of vaults which are located on the cube in checkerwork of the foundations type. L' rise of the higher terrace the roofs is made by a staircase…” " The Hanging Garden has crop plants above the level of the ground and the roots of the trees are integrated in a higher terrace rather than in the ground. The mass all is supported by stone columns… the jets d' water leaving high sources of flow descending channels… This water irrigates all the garden saturating the roots of the plants and maintenance with l' moisture of the whole area. D' where l' grass is green permanent and the sheets of the trees push firmly attached to flexible branches… C' is a work d' art of Royal luxury and its characteristic more striking are that the work of the culture is suspended above the heads of the spectators ". More recent archaeological excavations of l' old city of Babylon in Iraq put at the day the foundation of the palate. D' other results form part the construction arched with the thick walls and a well d' irrigation close to the palate of the south. A d' group; archaeologists studied the site of the palate of the South and rebuilt the building arched like the Hanging gardens. However, l' Greek historian Strabon had declared that the gardens were located by l' Euphrate. Such an amount of d' others support that the site is too far from l' Euphrate to support the theory, since the arched building is several hundreds of meters. They reconstituted the site of the palate and the gardens located in the zone s' extending from the river of the Palate. On banks of the river, recently discovered the massive walls of 25 m d' thickness May were reinforced to form terraces… those described in the Greek references.