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Built:
About 600 B.C.
Location: In Babylon
near modern-day Baghdad, Iraq
History: These gardens
-- which may be only a
fable -- are said to have been laid out on a brick terrace by King
Nebuchadnezzar II for one of his wives. According to the writings
of a Babylonian priest, they were approximately 400 feet square
and 75 feet above the ground. His account says slaves working in shifts
turned screws to lift water from the nearby Euphrates River to irrigate
the trees, shrubs and flowers.
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