Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Welcome to a bonus episode of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Series! Today we're tackling the hunt for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Were they actually in Nineveh instead?

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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Peter A. Clayton amzn.to/3ljtjS4

Bernd von Droste, (2011),"The concept of outstanding universal value and its application", Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 1 Iss 1 pp. 26 - 41 Permanent link to this document: dx.doi.org/10.1108/20441261111129915

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley (2015) amzn.to/3yRZGKq

A new theory by Stephanie Dalley claims that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were never in Babylon, or built by Nebuchadnezzar. Instead, her research shows that they were probably located in Nineveh and were built by Sennacherib, over 100 years earlier!

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