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The Hanging Gardens of ... Nineveh?
National Geographic ^
| Friday, May 31, 2013
| Elizabeth Snodgrass
Posted on 06/01/2013 1:05:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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subtitled "Blame it on a bad translation. This ancient wonder may not have been in Babylon."
A man stands near the massive walls of Nineveh.
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:05:55 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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06/01/2013 1:07:15 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:07:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:10:11 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: SunkenCiv
Those walls are fantastic!
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:10:31 PM PDT
by
chesty_puller
(Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
To: chesty_puller
Yep. Nothing makes my afternoon like good Ninevehn masonry.
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06/01/2013 1:16:05 PM PDT
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Viennacon
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06/01/2013 1:16:56 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: chesty_puller; gorush; Viennacon
It’s a nice reconstruction, suggests how remarkable it must have been in its heyday.
There was a dam on the river which made it possible to feed both the drinking water and irrigation needs and fill the large moat which protected the city. In extremis, the dam was breached, the water ran out, and the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians sacked and ruined the city.
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:20:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I’ll continue to go with Richard Haliburton, Book 2, The Orient, Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar built the hanging gardens for his princess wife who longed for the greenness of Media, her home
A tank at the top held water from the river. It trickled down the terraces to keep the plants lush.
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:21:27 PM PDT
by
bert
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To: SunkenCiv
Seems the Babylonians were a little rough on Jews.
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06/01/2013 1:22:02 PM PDT
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chesty_puller
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:22:50 PM PDT
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Monkey Face
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06/01/2013 1:24:48 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: chesty_puller
“Seems the Babylonians were a little rough on Jews.”
Including, notably for a spell, Daniel the Seer and companion of lions.
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:31:45 PM PDT
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Elsiejay
To: SunkenCiv
Couldn’t both cities have had gardens?
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06/01/2013 1:33:52 PM PDT
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DManA
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Nineveh’s a bad place to have a flat.
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:34:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: chesty_puller
Heh, and they weren’t the only ones. Still aren’t.
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posted on
06/01/2013 1:34:51 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Monkey Face
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06/01/2013 1:35:05 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: bert
I loved the Halliburton books when I was 11.
To: DManA; bert
So far, of the two, only ancient Nineveh is known from inscriptions to have had gardens. I included the quote from another academic — that nothing has been found at Babylon, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there — to show how weak that is. If the translation was indeed wrong, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon lose their sole evidence of existence, iow, they’ll prove to have been a modern invention.
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06/01/2013 1:42:42 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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