Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it is only the Hanging Gardens of Babylon that H/A (Historians & Archaeologists) say they haven't located:
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is the only one whose location has not been definitively established.
The Hanging Gardens were a distinctive feature of ancient Babylon. They were a great source of pride to the people. Possibly built by King Nebuchadnezzar II in 600 BC, the gardens are believed to have been a remarkable feat of engineering: an ascending series of tiered gardens containing all manner of trees, shrubs, and vines. The gardens were said to have looked like a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks.
Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq. The Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC and quoted later by Josephus, attributed the gardens to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC. There are no extant Babylonian texts which mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in Babylon.
According to one legend, Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. He also built a grand palace that came to be known as "The Marvel of the Mankind".
Because of the lack of evidence it has been suggested that the Hanging Gardens are purely mythical, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writers including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus represent a romantic ideal of an eastern garden. If it did indeed exist, it was destroyed sometime after the first century AD.
Alternatively, the original garden may have been a well-documented one that the Assyrian king Sennacherib (704–681 BC) built in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris, near the modern city of Mosul.
More of the usual bullshit with the bolded part - Josephus is 'quoting' a dude who supposedly lived 350 years prior to him who is then supposedly attributing the Gardens to someone, Nebuchadnezzar II, who supposedly ruled 300 years prior to that. And again, where are Josephus' actually 'writings'? Who the fuck knows, is where:
As is common with ancient texts, however, there are no surviving extant manuscripts of Josephus' works that can be dated before the 11th century, and the oldest of these are all Greek minuscules, copied by Christian monks. (Jews did not preserve the writings of Josephus either because they considered him to be a traitor, or because his works circulated in Greek, the usage of which declined among Jews shortly after Josephus' era. An adapted Hebrew version was made in the Middle Ages and continues to be used to this day.)
Notice the parenthetical bullshit, with academics just making shit up, forcing that square peg into a round hole of bullshit. The second bolded part up there shows just how GUILTY H/A are at cherry picking from those ancient texts. Anytime something doesn't fit, it is, "Well, here, with this 'thing' they were romanticizing/emphasizing/telling legends/etc." If the shit doesn't fit, just sweep it under the rug and pretend the SERIOUS AND OBVIOUS PROBLEMS with the FC don't exist. Church hands out a Spiritual Bible, and most academics reject it as fairy tales. Church hands out a History Bible, and, well, academics sing a different tune and will vociferously defend the Church Writings and Claims concerning what was supposedly going on 2,500 years ago.
That's right, Indy. You, every other H/C, linguists, etc., work for Rome and the Universal Church of Amen-Ra, helping to prop up Mountains of Bullshit designed to keep Truth Hidden. Though C14 dating and dendrochronology are NOT the unbiased 'hard' science all ya'll pretend it to be, I most definitely have respect for and find very useful the field work done by H/A. Because I understand the Truth of the falsification and significant elongation of the Historical Chronology, though, the archaeological conclusions I come to on that evidence that is gatrhered and publicized is far m ore accurate than ANYTHING coming out of the Hallowed Halls of Academia with a bunch of arrogant people running around with their Sheepskins. There is a great NOVA show about Petra I watched recently. While all of the 'experts' miss the boat, I don't. Say hello to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, aka Petra:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/bu ... -lost-city" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pliny the Elder was the dude who supposedly died at Pompeii, while his nephew, Pliny the Younger survived to write about it all, so EVERY PhD wavin' geologist in the world could be wrong about when Vesuvius erupted. So, who were the Nabbateans?:
The Nabataeans, also Nabateans (/ˌnæbəˈtiːənz/; Arabic: الأنباط al-ʾAnbāṭ , compare to Ancient Greek: Ναβαταίος, Latin: Nabatæus), were an Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, and whose settlements, most prominently the assumed capital city of Raqmu, now called Petra, in AD 37 – c. 100, gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Arabia and Syria, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. Their loosely controlled trading network, which centered on strings of oases that they controlled, where agriculture was intensively practiced in limited areas, and on the routes that linked them, had no securely defined boundaries in the surrounding desert. Trajan conquered the Nabataean kingdom, annexing it to the Roman Empire, where their individual culture, easily identified by their characteristic finely potted painted ceramics, became dispersed in the general Greco-Roman culture and was eventually lost.
I see. We learned about the Nabataens from some of those 'ancient' Roman Histories the Church and other members of TPTB handed out with the Bible a few hundred years ago, and now, their 'culture' is, umm, lost. While wikipedia notes their culture as 'easily identified' by some similar characteristics in pottery (big fuckin' deal - you can find the some distinctive and REGIONAL cultural differences within EVERY culture), it fails to note all of the elements of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman architecture at Petra - where is their 'distinct cultural identity' with their MOST IMPORTANT constructions? And, of course, where the hell is the artistic lineage? From a nomadic people living in tents to becoming the 'richest race' from selling frankincense and myrrh, to figuring out sophisticated water control, to the political infrastructure to manage a city and labor and food/waste/supplies/etc., and, last but not least, culturally developing the amount of necessary HIGHLY SKILLED stone carvers.
Gimme a break, Indy. The shit is so fucking ridiculous and impossible as the FC claims and you blindly support. A fuckin' Joke ...
See how it all works? How it is a Bullshit Framework concerning the time, order, 'cultural identity', geographic political/epicenter of civilizations into which field evidence is forced to fit (or thrown out as legends/myth if it doesn't fit), and that ALL of it is based upon books written and given to us by the Universal Church of Amen-Ra (and a few other groups aligned with them), EXACTLY like the Bible. The Historical Truth people refer to and support, BLINDLY and without open minded consideration (read: INDOCTRINATED) was given to us by the same people who gave us the Bible, and around the same time. Academics scoff at the 'accuracy' of one book, the Bible, while they tie logic into knots with circular argumentation with the other , the History Bibles, and, just like a Christian, REFUSE to investigate the possibility, in very, very closeminded, biased, and unscientific/unscholarly fashion, it could be a big pile of bullshit.
What a joke and intellectual fraud much of Academia is, including scientists, like physicists, geologists, doing the same thing - blindly accepting data for which they do not know the provenance of, and REFUSING to consider the possibility the data is a pile of bullshit, and incorporating that bullshit into their science.
Of the things covered in that show is the dam/aqueduct systems. Impressive as hell. All ya'll are a bunch 'o weed growin' stoners. If you consider all of the evidence presented in that show like looking at the stairs ascending to dams/reservoirs, the tiered gardens, and well, you could have one lush oasis, with hanging gardens there, if you were so inclined...
I'm going to do a quick recap of some important stuff, to pull connections together at this point with what I have thrown out there. Whether I do that before or after I go walking on the side of a mountain with my Red Heeler this afternoon or afterwards remains to be seen ...
Lrus007