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Topic: hanging gardens of babylon? Posted: 17-Apr-2005 at 17:10 |
hanging gardens of babylon can someone ?
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ramin
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Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 00:32 |
Can Someone (<- do this) ?
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Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 02:37 |
guyy ur cracked....i just asked a simple question... someone got any pics..drawings...
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Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 02:37 |
Can someone comprehend...
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Posted: 18-Apr-2005 at 22:48 |
nope
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Posted: 22-Apr-2005 at 19:58 |
you didn't ask a question... you said "hanging gardens babylon, can some one" ... anyway, here you go:
you can find more pictures fficial&sa=N&tab=wi">here
you can find more articles fficial&sa=N&tab=iw">here
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Posted: 23-Apr-2005 at 03:13 |
Just search the web you find many pictures, but there is no archeological proof that they ever existed. The picture are mostly based on old stories and contemporary imaginations. If they were as grad as they were suppose to be there should have been something left of them
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Posted: 27-Apr-2005 at 03:45 |
yes there is no proof it was ever anything but a legend, I say wait to invest belief in it until we have something other than stories.
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Posted: 04-May-2005 at 02:25 |
Originally posted by AssyrianMan7
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enjoy what? it's not like you giving him the real garden, they're just photos
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Posted: 04-May-2005 at 14:51 |
well he did ask for photos..didn't he?
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Posted: 18-Jul-2005 at 14:26 |
I believe the Gardenswere actually the huge ziggarut that was the
center of the Babylonian religion.(Tower of Baal?)And with a few
embellishments by some sensationalist historians became the Hanging
Gardens.
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Posted: 20-Jul-2005 at 16:32 |
Why couldn't it be a hanging garden?
The Babylonians were very preficient in creating Ziggurats. All
one would have to do is place soil on the different
"steps", plant things, and then carry water up to water by
some means (handpiped wasn't invented until Archimedes). This
could have included slave work, or since the Ziggurats were semi
"spirals", could have used gravity itself to carry the water slowly
down. There are many ways that it makes sense and seems possible
to build.
The Ancients also very well documented this wonder; I see no reason for so many people documenting it if it was not indeed real.
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Posted: 21-Jul-2005 at 12:53 |
Beautiful pics AssyrianMan7!If I could travel to an ancient culture if
would be to the Fertile Cresent area for sure!And then aff to the Land
of the Pharoahs!
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Posted: 30-Jul-2005 at 14:58 |
The ancient city of Babylon, under King Nebuchadnezzar II, must have been a wonder to the traveller's eyes. "In addition to its size," wrote Herodotus, a historian in 450 BC, "Babylon surpasses in splendour any city in the known world." Herodotus claimed the outer walls were 56 miles in length, 80 feet thick and 320 feet high. Wide enough, he said, to allow a four-horse chariot to turn. The inner walls were "not so thick as the first, but hardly less strong
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Posted: 30-Jul-2005 at 15:00 |
Inside the walls were fortresses and temples containing immense statues of solid gold. Rising above the city was the famous Tower of Babel, a temple to the god Marduk, that seemed to reach to the heavens. While archaeological examination has disputed some of Herodotus's claims (the outer walls seem to be only 10 miles long and not nearly as high) his narrative does give us a sense of how awesome the features of the city appeared to those that visited it. Interestingly enough, though, one of the city's most spectacular sites is not even mentioned by Herodotus: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Posted: 30-Jul-2005 at 15:20 |
On Assyrians pictures, one gets influence from the other or from the same source. They dont seem to be from the same artist. Interesting on the top picture in the lower left-hand side, the statue of the lion is at a persons throat.
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Posted: 09-Sep-2005 at 21:43 |
Originally posted by cattus
On Assyrians pictures, one gets influence from the other or from the same source. They dont seem to be from the same artist. Interesting on the top picture in the lower left-hand side, the statue of the lion is at a persons throat.
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The Lion of Babylon, large and splendidly carved in basalt, reminds us again that the lion was the symbol of the goddess Ishtar. In the sculpture, the lion's back has marks indicating that it was meant for a precious saddle upon which the goddess Ishtar would stand.
for more info about Babylon:
http://www.atlastours.net/iraq/babylon.html
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Posted: 25-May-2007 at 23:21 |
thank you for those wise words there are fool that are wise , peace imam ali
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Posted: 05-Jul-2007 at 17:02 |
whats become of the site or supposed site of the hanging gardens? is there any remnant or indication it ever existed?
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