Does the hanging garden exist?

Question

If it does has anyone ever seen it? how does it hang have any prove to justify your answer?

Answer 1

No. Saddam Hussein was going to rebuild them, but we all know what happened to him

Answer 2

Yes the garden existed and yes many saw them and wrote about them. They were built sometime between 800 - 600 BC. Mostly stories indicate garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled from 605 BC. The greek word is kremastos that can mean hanging or overhanging possibly meaning they used trellises and planted on the courtyard balconies but more likely referring to the gardens being built over the water storage caverns. Strabo, who described the gardens in first century BC, wrote, "It consists of vaulted terraces raised one above another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, the vaults, and terraces are constructed of baked brick and asphalt."
Accounts of the size vary so either there were errors in translations or the gardens changed size but they were at said to be 400 x 400 x 80 feet high. Maybe they meant the trees tops were that high.
The archaeologist Koldewey excavated the gardens even finding the location of three hoists used to raise water from stone vaulted caverns built under the gardens. The excavation showed the garden to be smaller than recorded. The foundations that Koldewey discovered measured some 100 by 150 feet. That is still 1/3 of an acre so still impressive considering it way entirely constructed not just planted in the ground and this was before they used the pointed arch or fan vaulting found in later stone construction.

Answer 3

Are you referring to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Sorry to be asking. Just not sure about the question.