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The Mysterious Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Hanging Gardens of Nebuchadnezzar

There's a ton of writing on these clay cylinders and on clay tablets from Nebuchadnezzar's time. But often most of the stuff that they have is about him and his conquerings, right? So how did one guy, one very smart guy miss it so soon after and then centuries later, a bunch of people are like Reddit level experts on it? That's a great question. It does feel like it's the game of telephone you just mentioned there that we're trying to piece it together. I don't know. It's feeling like maybe this whole hanging gardens thing never was in Babylon.

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