| Picture shows the "Gardens at Nineveh" (645 BC to 635 BC) from the North Palace of Nineveh. No evidence of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon has yet been found but it is known that kings had royal gardens and that the technology for managing and controlling water in Mesopotamia was highly developed. This stone wall relief from Nineveh shows a luxurious hillside landscape watered by a stone aqueduct. Water is flowing down from the aqueduct at the right and being distributed through several channels. At the top of the hill there is a pavilion with elaborate columns and a statue of an Assyrian king. |
