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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 Babylon

The hanging gardens were not built by Nebuchadnezzar the second, but in Nineveh by an Assyrian ruler named Sinichirub. It feels like to me, it just wasn't ever in Babylon and I'm glad we're going, you know, checking out some other places because I think some of the Assyrian kings may have wanted to make something like this too.

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