THE true Hanging Gardens of Babylon might in fact have been sunken gardens – and not at Babylon, but at Nineveh.
Karen Polinger Foster of Yale University suggests that the hanging gardens, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, could have been a living carpet of trimmed flowers and shrubbery laid out below the viewer.
Five descriptions exist of the hanging gardens, but they are contradictory and vague. And excavations of Babylon, near modern Baghdad, have failed to find convincing evidence for the gardens or associated structures.
In 1993, Stephanie Dalley of the University of Oxford argued that the…
