
The Mysterious Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Seven Wonders of the World
There is definitely a lot of wiggle room in these, at least in terms of depending on who the source was. Are they describing things that they actually saw? Are they big-upping things that maybe weren't quite as impressive as they're describing them to be? Highly possible. But let's point out something really important in that quotation there. The first sentence I have gazed on the walls of impregnable Babylon, which chariots may race. Now, that's one little phrase there. The next phrase isn't, and the hanging gardens are supposedly in Babylon. He didn't mention them when he's talking about the walls of Babylon. You mentioned them way further down. And
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