3. Big terraces with
plants that hang 50
metres from the
floor. The columns
hold the terraces
columns made of
land, stone or
hollowed. This
gardens are so tall
because of the area
that was surrounded
by mountains.
4. The historian Filón
of Bizancio
describe this place
like this:
The Hanging
gardens conteined
plants cultivated
over the floor level
and the roots of
the trees tangled
up in the tall
terraces.It was a
humid place. Now
people call this
wonder of the
world a ziggurat.
5.
6. The hanging gardens in reality
didn’t hang, and they are
called like this because it
comes from the word
kremastos in greek and
pensilis in latin but this
refers protrude.
Naiara
7. •·Mesopotamia.
•·Near the king ‘s palace
•·Estat of the river Euphrates and like this the
tourists could see the gardens, when they
were visiting the place.
Ainara
10. Were chosen as a wonder of
the world for its great
architecture and style, as
well as elegance in the order
of the gardens
11. It was created by the
king Nabukodonosor II in
the century VI B.C .
Nabukodonosor II turned
the area that was a
desert into a forest.
12.
13. It was created for doing Amythis
the daughter of the king of the
medos happy an it mades the king
Nabukodonosor II the king of
the Caldeos, in the year 600 B.C .
It was a present for his wife
Amythis, for demostring his love
in her.
HISTORY
:
14.
15. How the leyend said it had
to been created in the XI
B.C century but the
babilonian shammuramat
queen called Semíramis
was reigning and she had
a son called Adad nirari
III and then the queen
conquered Egypt and
India. Her son wanted to
kill her and the queen
suicided.
16.
17. Decline of Babilonia, the gardens were
left, and when Alejandro Magno arrived at
Babilonia at the IV century there where
already in ruins and abandoned.
125 year B.C finaly destroied by the king
Evemero.
Now some ruins near the shore of river
Euphrates.
