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7 Wonders

Nobody has ever found the Hanging Gardens

Ancient writers described terraced gardens watered by machinery in Babylon, yet no Babylonian text or ruin confirms them. Some scholars argue the gardens were actually in Nineveh.

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7 Wonders

Watering the gardens needed serious engineering

Lifting river water up terraces in a desert climate would have required chain pumps or an Archimedes-style screw, technology described centuries before Archimedes was born.

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