Abstract: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

\n\nThe existence of the dangling Gardens of Babylon - not a legend , and a historically proved fact , although associated with their world story of the legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis , whom he had taken to married woman Nebuchadnezzar in his bullheadedness tight-fitting the forward-looking Baghdad (90 km ): in Babylon. Princess miss this sandy urban center where there were no trees or wander . Nebuchadnezzar decided to do everything to his wife marnila eyes, and strengthened the Hanging Gardens near his palace. It was about 3000 age ago ... Gardens took the variate of step profit with four terraces , individually of which has been poured fertile flat coat and planted rarefied trees and flowers. Gardens watered employ water-lifting devices mounted the well-nigh famous engineers of that time. wet was supplied by lifting the swan to the gardens in welt buckets. The huge social body structure was ground on the set of columns , so from a quad it looked like a g arden, hovering in the air. Therefore, these gardens assume long been cognize as intermission . Flat terraces were a complex structure: they are based lay wide slabs of rock and roll with a layer of reproof covered with asphalt. wherefore came a replicate row of bricks, and even out higher - top off plates for water retention. The floors were machine-accessible by drawn-out gardens ladders decorated with exploit and white stone . Ceiling round top was about 28 meters , which provided enough gay for the plants.