Monday, February 3, 2014

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

A small model of one of the first wonders of the ancient world.
In Babylon there was a great king whose name was Nebuchadnezzar II.  He built this ancient wonder for his wife Amytis of Media as a gift because she missed the beautiful landscape of her homeland.

It was built out of bricks and was a huge innovation for the ancient world, with running waterfalls flowing down the sides of the structure.

How was it possible for the plants to say alive on bricks?  Well, the bricks were mud: shaped to perfection and dried in the sun, and also the plants were irrigated with a complex water system.

This truly must have been a magnificent sight to behold.



To show the size of my model, here is the height comparison with a LEGO® Beorn™ minifigure.

The end

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