What is was the size of the hanging gardens of Babylon?

Answer 1

According to Wikipedia: The gardens were attributed to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC. He is reported to have constructed the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amytis of Media, who longed for the plants of her homeland. The gardens were said to have been destroyed by several earthquakes after the 2nd century BC.

That would make them roughly 2500 years old, and they would have been destroyed around 2200 years ago. It should be noted, however, that there is some dispute as to whether they ever actually existed.

Also from Wikipedia: A recent theory proposes that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were actually constructed by the Assyrian king Sennacherib (reigned 705 - 681 BC) for his palace at Nineveh. Stephanie Dalley posits that during the intervening centuries the two sites became confused, and the extensive gardens at Sennacherib's palace were attributed to Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylon.

Answer 2

Some stories indicate the Hanging Gardens towered hundreds of feet into the air, but archaeological explorations indicate a more modest, but still impressive, height. The Greek geographer Strabo, who described the gardens in first century BC, wrote, "It consists of vaulted terraces raised one above another, and resting upon cube-shaped pillars. These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, the vaults, and terraces are constructed of baked brick and asphalt." there is no way to know the exact size for a fact.

Answer 3

Life of a gladiator was not an easy. When a new recruit, called a novice entered one of the gladiators' schools he was assessed by the owner of the school, a doctor and the trainer. When they had completed their initial training and were ready to fight in the arena they were called Tirones gladiatores or Tiro. His day started at dawn when their cells were unlocked and they were sent for the first meal of the day. Strict discipline was enforced and new gladiators were not allowed to speak at mealtimes and were bound in shackles unless they were training.

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The gladiator lived in small compounds attached to gladiator training schools known as "ludus" or travelled in troupes known as "familia. Most gladiators were slaves. They were subjected to a rigorous training, fed on a high-energy diet, and given expert medical attention. Hence they were an expensive investment, not to be dispatched lightly.

Answer 4

The city of Babylon, under King Nebuchadnezzar II, must have been a wonder to the ancient traveler's eyes. "In addition to its size," wrote Herodotus, a Greek historian in 450 BC, "Babylon surpasses in splendor any city in the known world." Accounts indicate that the garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC (There is an alternative story that the gardens were built by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis during her five year reign starting in 810 BC). This was the height of the city's power and influence and King Nebuchadnezzar is known to have constructed an astonishing array of temples, streets, palaces and walls.

According to accounts, the gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the two nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing. The king decided to relieve her depression by recreating her homeland through the building of an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.

Answer 5

The Hanging Gardens consisted of a series of man made terraces joined by marble staircases and possibly rising to heights of 75 to 300 feet above the plain.

Answer 6

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were 75 feet tall.

Answer 7

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are estimated to be around 19 tonnes!!!!

Answer 8

We really have no way of knowing that but historians like Herodutus visited the gardens and was marleved by the glory of it.

Answer 9

Around 550 years.