Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, not Babylon?

[Epictetus]

Dr Dalley, an honorary research fellow at Somerville College and part of the Oriental Institute at Oxford University, believes the garden was actually created at Nineveh, 300 miles from Babylon, in the early seventh century BC. She argues that it was built by the Assyrians in the north of Mesopotamia – modern-day Iraq – at the instigation of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib.

Past Horizons

Apparently she has also written a book which was published by Oxford University Press this spring: The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon. It sounds pretty interesting.

[Vindex]

I hope not!

I actually got to the cradle of the Tigris and the Euphrates and thought I could cross one Seventh Wonder off my list!!

[Eleatic Guest]

Jona Lendering wrote about this years ago: Common Errors (20): Hanging Gardens

[Epictetus]

I had read Jona's English version of the common errors, but I had completely forgot he wrote about the Hanging Gardens.

[Dave G]

Channel 4 did a programme on this subject last week.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/findi...garden/4od