Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon is the only one out of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World whose location has not been found.

This was said to be built in the ancient city of Babylon, now known as Hillah, Babul province, in Iraq. Around 290 BC, a Babylonian priest named Berossus, wrote and later quoted by Josephus, had contributed to the Gardens and to the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II, who which ruled between 605 BC to 562 BC. There have been no know texts that have mentioned the Gardens and neither has there been any evidence found in Babylon.

According to a legend, Nebuchadnezzar II had built the Hanging Gardens for his Median Wife named Queen Amytis, because she had missed the green valleys and hills in which she came from.

Since there is no actual evidence, it's suggested that the Hanging Gardens are just legends and that all the written descriptions of this place by Roman and ancient Greek writers including Strabo, Quintus Curtius and Diodorus Siculus had just written about the romantic ideal of this place.

If by any chance it did come to exist, it was destroyed a while after the first century AD.

The original Garden may have been well described and documented that the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704-681 BC) had built this in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris near the modern city of Mosul.