The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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Home, Introduction

The Research

Questions

Line up the Sources

Locate them

Organize them by Date

Weed them Out

Examine the Problems

The Eye Witnesses

• Herodotus
• Ctesias
• Clitarchus
• Conclusion #1

The Garden Creators

• Semiramis
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Conclusion #2

The Definition of Truth

The Greek Poets

Answers—Final Conclusions

The Research Materials (Primary Sources)

1. The Kuyunjik Relief
2. Herodotus
3. Ctesias
4. Clitarchus
5. Megasthenes
6. Berossus
7. Philo
8. Diodorus
9. Strabo
10. Quintus Curtius Rufus
11. Eusebius of Ceasaria
12. Robert Koldewey

Changing Historic Visions

Pictures (historic and recent reconstructions)