Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Iraq

According to most researchers, the gardens were built about 575 BC by 
King Nebuchadnezzar II,who ruled the city for more than four decades.

This hand-coloured engraving, probably made in the 19th century after the first excavations in the 

Assyrian capitals, depicts the fabled Hanging Gardens, with the Tower of Babel in the background

photo of Assyrian wall relief showing garden in the ancient city of Nineveh (Mosul Iraq)

This copy of a bas relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (669–631 BC) 
at Nineveh shows a luxurious garden watered by an aqueduct.

Picture Source: Collected from Internet