Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The hanging gardens of Babylon are considered to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is said to be built under the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar II who ruled between 605 and 562 BC in Babylon (near present-day Hillah, Iraq)
A fun poem The hanging basket of Babylon Was. . . oops I do beg your pardons, Did I say hanging basket? I meant to say hanging gardens. Built by Nebuchadnezzar, A gift for his homesick queen, To remind her of her homeland, A mountainous land, lush and green. According to one legend, Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amyitis because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.
Ancient Greek historian Herodotus (450 B. C) describes the city of Babylon as a “wonder of traveler’s eye”. “In addition to its size Babylon surpasses in splendor any city in the known world. ” – added he later. Herodotus claimed that outer walls were 56 miles in length, 80 feet thick and 320 feet high. He assumed that the gate was wide enough, to allow a four-horse chariot to turn. Blueglazed bricks cover it, glitterung in the sunlight. Inside the walls anyone could see temples containing immense statues of gold. Rising above the city was the famous Tower of Babel that seemed to reach to the heavens. All abovementioned asserts that Babylon has wealth and recognition.
As much as Babylon rarely received rain, it was vital to irrigate the garden; otherwise it wouldn’t survive. It was an immense task without any of the modern pump up the water that high engines to in the fifth century B. C. . The decision has been made and one of the solutions the designers of the garden might have reached is “chain pump. ”
A chain pump was meant to be constructed with two large wheels, one above the other, connected by a chain. The buckets were hanging on the chain. Below the bottom wheel should have been a pool with the water source from the Euphrates. As the wheel started to turn around, the buckets dip into the pool and picked up the water. The chain then lifted them to the upper wheel, where the buckets were tipped and dumped into an upper pool. The chain then carried the empty buckets back down to be refilled.
Talking about the hanging gardens of Babylon, there have been a lot of disputes if it actually existed at all or not. Even though Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Herodotus and other scientist have mentioned about it archeological excavations have put this topic under question-mark. Hanging Gardens is the only Seven Wonders of the Ancient World whose location has not been definitely established. Although, most of historians think, it was destroyed during the earthquake in second century B. C. , it’s still an open question if hanging gardens of Babylon were legend or truth.
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