What happend to the hanging gardens of babylon?

Answer 1

No one knows; if you answer the question you will be inducted into the Hall of the Immortally Famous.

Answer 2

One presumes they fell down or died of neglect, or drought. There's some argument over the name and location. Some records speak of the Gardens of Babylon - some of the Gardens of Ninevah. Both cities in what is now Iraq, and of course both were destroyed in their own time by invadeers. Babylon was ruled by the famous Nebuchadnezzar and I think it was destroyed about 600BC. Ninevah, also in Iraq, before Babylon's hey-day, was ruled by Sennacharib, and there was a legend he created the hanging gardens on the flat roofs of the palace to please his wife who came from the mountains and missed their forest glades. Some stories say the Babylon gardens were built in imitation of the Nineveh ones. There are various tales told by Greek historians, and some in the Judaic Old Testament (which has a lot of propaganda falsities in it, we know, because the Israelites were not in the business of promoting any people who weren't Israelites!) Of course, there may have been two lots of hanging gardens in different places, at different times, and now the Americans have allowed the destruction of the museum in Baghdad, and built army camps on other significant archaelogical sites, we may never know all the stories recorded on the lost clay tablets. So goes the glories of humans past, always under the boots of vandals! Or religious zealots like the Taliban of one kind or another. Or plain viciousness as elsewhere - including, still, the Middle East, and Europe and the rest. Mosques on Hindu temples; cathedrals and share exchanges on ancient hallowed sites; and so it goes on. Yuk! But I like the tale of irrigated rooftop gardens built for love, don't you? That was the way my own grandfather told the tale, of Ninevah, from his ancient Phoenician oral culture. The Queen's name was Salamis, I think, or Semiramide, and there are some famous classic paintings of her death - all historically incorrect. And a great symphony, too. Inspiration endures.

Answer 3

The goats ate it all, after Babylon fell to the Persians(Iran) in 539 B.C. The Persian army stopped up the river and marched under the cities walls.

Answer 4

The Persians defeated the Chaldeans in Babylon (the first time the city was attacked) and they had the city destroyed, using inhabitants as slave labor.

Answer 5

they go tired of hanging around, and left.

Answer 6

Isn't that where Saddam was executed?