Was the Hanging Garden actually located in Babylon? Was the ancient wonder merely a fiction, or was it a real place, built by an ancient king? In this carefully researched book, Dalley, an expert on ...

Of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the location of the Hanging Garden of Babylon remains the most elusive, even with its believed home right there in its name. However, new research ...

Drawing a blank in Babylon -- Classical writers and their testimony -- Three pictures, and Archimedes -- Sennacherib's great invention -- Engineering for water management -- Confusion of names -- The ...