subtitled "Blame it on a bad translation. This ancient wonder may not have been in Babylon."
A man stands near the massive walls of Nineveh.
Posted on 06/01/2013 1:05:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A man stands near the massive walls of Nineveh.
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Cool, thanks.
Those walls are fantastic!
Yep. Nothing makes my afternoon like good Ninevehn masonry.
The End of Nineveh
http://www.varchive.org/tac/end.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm (particularly 235, but also 203-205, 214-240)
It’s a nice reconstruction, suggests how remarkable it must have been in its heyday.
There was a dam on the river which made it possible to feed both the drinking water and irrigation needs and fill the large moat which protected the city. In extremis, the dam was breached, the water ran out, and the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians sacked and ruined the city.
I’ll continue to go with Richard Haliburton, Book 2, The Orient, Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar built the hanging gardens for his princess wife who longed for the greenness of Media, her home
A tank at the top held water from the river. It trickled down the terraces to keep the plants lush.
Seems the Babylonians were a little rough on Jews.
Thanks!
“Seems the Babylonians were a little rough on Jews.”
Including, notably for a spell, Daniel the Seer and companion of lions.
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Couldn’t both cities have had gardens?
Nineveh’s a bad place to have a flat.
Heh, and they weren’t the only ones. Still aren’t.
My pleasure.
I loved the Halliburton books when I was 11.
So far, of the two, only ancient Nineveh is known from inscriptions to have had gardens. I included the quote from another academic — that nothing has been found at Babylon, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there — to show how weak that is. If the translation was indeed wrong, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon lose their sole evidence of existence, iow, they’ll prove to have been a modern invention.
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