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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

There have been some, amazingly impressive attempts to discover the Hanging Gardens. But even when those attempts failed, there were still other astonishing discoveries made. Robert Coldevay led the first modern excavation of ruins in Babylon between 1899 and 1917. And they found a strange arched structure beneath the northeast corner of the southern palace.

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