Fabulous teraaced gardens were siatuated in Iraq, and were build by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. Exists also alternative and less-realible story about gardens build by Queen Semiramis during her five year reign starting in 810 BC. Story tells that Nebuchadnezzar II build the gardens to please and make less homesick his wife - Amyitis.

The gardens had exotic flourishing plants which Nebuchadnezzar imported from foreign lands. They could include cedar, cypress, myrtle, juniper, almond, date palm, ebony, olive and many more. Plants were hanging over terraces - it should be wonderous play of colors.

The Hanging Gardens was a piece of immpressive architecture. The gardens formed a quadrilateral shape. There were a lot of stairways leading to upper teracces, arches and fontains, and everywhere flowering plants leaping from countless terraces and balconies. The gardens were supported by an intricate structure of stone pillars, brick walls, and palm tree trunk beams. The gardens were as tall as the city walls, which Herodotus reported to be 320 feet high. Conflicting sources report that the walls were 80 feet high, a less remarkable, but still majestic height. The architecture of the Hanging Gardens demonstrates the majesty of Babylonian structural design under Nebuchadnezzar's rule.

Also from technological poin of view - gardens was a real wonder for their time. As it is rarely raining in Babilon, they needed to be irrigated. Streams of water emerged from elevated sources and flowed down the inclined channels. This kept the whole area moist and thus the grass was always green.