#hanging gardens

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Doing another throw size Hanging Gardens. For my dad this time, given that it’s father’s day!

Just gonna run in and put it on the long arm this afternoon, finish the binding, and it’ll be ready for gifting after supper.

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Each of the seven syllables is a Hanging Garden. The Babylonian Manifold, a hyperverdant heptasyllabic sphere.

Ahmed Salman

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World Building Prompt #554

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Non-food Gardens

While the change to settled agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution initially focused on food crops, it wasn't long until people began to keep gardens that were for pleasure and/or medicinal in nature. The ones that we remember are those that were set up by rulers.

By Noah Wiener , Hanging Gardens of Babylon … in Assyrian Nineveh - http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/hanging-gardens-of-babylon-in-assyrian-nineveh/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57158048

One of the oldest, though it may be a thing of legend rather than strictly history, is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which are supposed to have been built by Nebuchadnezzar II, who reigned between 605-562 BCE, for his wife Queen Amytis, who missed the green of her homeland of Media. The first record that we have of them is from 290 BCE by a Babylonian priest named Berossus. They've also been attributed to a legendary queen Semiramis. Some now think that they are actually the gardens of Sennacherib, who reigned from 704-681 BCE, in Nineveh. Part of the reasoning for this is that the the gardens in Nineveh have been found in the archaeological record, Babylon was used for many cities, even Nineveh itself, because it means 'Gate of the Gods' and was seen as a proper name for the place where the king reigned, and Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar left quite a bit of documentation and only Sennacherib records building them, including describing the screw system to bring water up to the gardens. They were considered a year-round lush green oasis that also spurred improved water supply to Nineveh to keep the gardens blooming.

By Chamal N - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4499684

In Sri Lanka, the remains of a fortress called Sigiriya or Sinhagiri (which means Lion Rock and is written in Sinhala as සීගිරිය and in Tamil as சிகிரியா/சிங்ககிரி). With in this fortress is one of the oldest gardens in the world. There are three sections in the gardens, water, cave and boulder, and terraced gardens. These gardens are well preserved and we can see the planning of the gardens. These gardens were inhabited probably going back to prehistory, possibly as far back as 3000 BCE. In the 3rd century BCE, Buddhist monks began to occupy the area. In about 477 CE, King Kashyapa killed his father and took the throne. To have a more secure capital, he built a city on the top of the 200m tall rock, including the gardens. Many of the conduits in the water gardens are still working and help move water, especially during the rainy seasons.

By This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60935732

Egypt had a rich culture of gardens, which probably started as a blend of fruit orchards and vegetable gardens, which gradually added flowers, ponds, and shade trees. These gardens were kept and tended in time with the rise and fall of the Nile, with the flooding of the Nile, then with canals or with water carried from the Nile in buckets. Pharaohs like Hatshepsut and Ramses III brought plants back from conquests to plant in gardens. In the New Kingdom (1552-1296 BCE), pleasure gardens moved began to be kept by the upper class, not just the ruler. They also began the practice of botanical gardens, which are a type of garden meant for education, research, conservation, or education. They even created models of gardens to be put in tombs of those who passed. A lot of work and knowledge went into keeping gardens in ancient Egypt, from carrying water, through to the manual propagation of date palms, and to protecting the garden from weeds and invading birds.

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Nebuchadnezzar's Skyward Arcology and Bananas

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (c. 600 BC - after 1 AD), rumored to be King Nebuchadnezzar’s gift to his homesick wife Semiramis, were described as the high-rise green space of the ancient world.

With an irrigation system that was the envy of every Babylonian gardener, these terraced marvels combined the charm of a botanic dream of Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds.

No record of a gardener slipping on a banana peel exists, but given the heights, why not complete the image with an obsessive-compulsive detail.

Though their existence might be debated by historians, their legendary status is proof that ancient PR might be as enduring as the gardens themselves. Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus mentioned them a lot though.

Visualised by a clumsy moron + AI

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The Hanging Gardens (600 BC) Ambient Music

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hanging gardens of babylon.

Focusing on learning perspective and environment in art since I lack on both atm...

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Ubud, Bali 📍

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Why Did Herodotus not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Stepany Dalley "Why Did Herodotus not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?", in Herodotus and His World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Foster (eds Peter Derow, Robert Parker), Oxford University Press 2003

"Abstract

In 1883, early in the days of deciphering cuneiform inscriptions, Archibald Sayce published a commentary on Herodotus' History Books 1-3, entitled The Ancient Empires of the East. He quoted authorities of his own time who questioned the reliability of Herodotus. Ctesias was reckoned a more trustworthy informant who ‘had good reason for accusing Herodotus of errors in his Assyrian history’. After all, Ctesias lived at the Persian court, and so he was supposed to have drunk from more direct sources of knowledge about the ancient Near East than Herodotus could have done. One hundred and twenty years after Sayce published his work, Assyriologists are in a better position to comment on Babylonian and Assyrian matters, thanks to the perseverance and brilliance of several generations of scholars. This chapter does not attempt to verify Herodotus on every point; rather it looks at certain items of information in the light of recent solid progress in ancient Near Eastern studies. It aims to try and find out why certain details appear to be incorrect, and to show how over-eager corrections, made from a poor base of evidence, are occasionally wrong."

Stephany Mary Dalley is British Assyriologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East, prior to her retirement a teaching Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford.

Stepahany Dalley's theory on the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" is that in fact the Hanging Gardens were located in the Assyrian capital of Nineveh (destroyed more than a century before the birth of Herodotus), not in Babylon, that's why Herodotus did not mention them in his description of the city of Babylon. This is a topic debated among Assyriologists and the truth is that Stephanie Dalley's theory has been criticized by some of her colleagues. But anyway I find fruitful the nuanced approach of Dalley on Herodotus as source on the Babylonia of his time and her reaction to the overcritical attitude of some towards him.

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Hanging Gardens pattern in red, creams, and whites for my mum. This is supposed to be a twin size, but look at the drape on the queen lmao

I do have more border fabric that I said I was gonna make pillow cases out of. I just. Haven’t.

Yet.

But I will! Some time.

I’ll get around to it.

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Breathe Easy: Terrariums - Miniature Worlds for Modern Homes

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Monster Of The Week 211 is HangingGarden, talks lots of languages, never quite managing to land on yours, cool to hang out with, maybe a bit too cool to be honest.

Monster Of The Week is supported by my Patreon, where there are stories, and more. Sharp-eyed followers will realise that HangingGarden is loosely based on HMG Babylon from A Malevolently Bad Map Of The Voyage Of HMG Babylon.

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All 13 wonders I built in The Head of Cyrus Challenge in the order they ...