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Love Carved in Stone

“She, they say, being a Persian by race and longing for the meadows of her mountains, asked the king to imitate, through the artifice of a planted garden, the distinctive landscape of Persia.”
(Diodorus Siculus, II.10.1)

Diodorus Siculus has it that Semiramis (Sammu-Ramat) longed for the lush vegetation of her homeland in Persia. Out of love, Nebuchadnezzar built her a garden of such scope and beauty it has been hailed for all posterity as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Keeping this garden lush necessitated construction of a number of ingenious irrigation devices, unlike anything previously known. In ancient Babylon, love was the mother of invention, and wondrous beauty its fruit.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

1886. Ferdinand Knab (1834–1902). Colour lithograph from a series of the ‘Seven Wonders of the World' published in Munchener Bilderbogen. Archives Charmet.