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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built about 2,500 years ago. It was built by Nebuchadnezzar II, to make his wife Amytis happy because she didn’t like the Babylonian desert. She had lived in Persia, which had many plants and fountains.
The Hanging Gardens were known to be in Mesopotamia, near what is now Baghdad, Iraq. It was located by the Euphrates River. It was about 350 feet tall and was covered with trees, flowers, lawns, plants, fountains, pools, and miniature water falls. It had every kind of plant available in the kingdom. It was made of mud brick and stone, a series of teracces, one on top of the other. The plants couldn’t survive without water, so they had to pump water from the Euphrates River to flow down through channels to the plants.