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The Mysterious Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Importance of Babylon

We know to some extent what Babylon looked like, right, because of who was that guy that excavated it? Oh, uh, Colle de Vé. He is German archeologist that excavated the site from 1899 to 1917. And we actually get to see Babylon. You can go and visit Babylon now. It's been reproduced in all kinds of animations over the years as looking precisely like that.

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