This park was built by Nebuchadnezzar II, grandson of the famous King Hammurabi, circa 600 BC as a gift for his wife who misses her home, Amyitis. Amytis miss the trees and the fragrance of plants in Persia, while in another article said that the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II named Amuhia and he comes from the archipelago. [1] The park is expected destroyed around 2 century BC. Then
this suspension Parks documented by Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Circulus.
Sheets that record the history of the oldest works of architecture that has a garden as a form of love for someone who really loved was in Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq. In a note to Herodotus, an ancient Greek writer, says that when King Nebuchadnezzar II who became king in the Kingdom of New Babylon (605-562 BC), has been ordered to make a beautiful hanging garden, as a gift to Amytis, the consort who is very dear.
Hanging Gardens is a unique form of landscape architecture in Mesopotamia, which has been known to the people of Mesopotamia since the reign of King Hammurabi in the old kingdom of Babylon (1792-1750 BC). Among the buildings of the high sticking in the ground surface that is usually planted with beautiful plants, so that from afar looks like a hanging garden.
Hanging Gardens of King Nebuchadnezzar II built the peak of glory around 612 BC, later became very famous all over the world and admired its design up to now. Hanging Gardens of Babylon was later to become the kingdom of Babylon the great monument that is second to none. Area is estimated to 4 acre garden (1 acre = 4046.86 m). Being arsitekuralnya very unique, because it is stratified. The park is planted with a variety of beautiful trees and equipped with irrigation systems to a height of 100 meters above ground level. From the top of this garden scene can be witnessed around the kingdom of Babylon.