<P> The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a term given by the ancient Hellenic culture . The Hanging Gardens were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines . The gardens were said to have looked like a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks . </P> <P> The Hanging Gardens is the only one of the seven ancient wonders for which the location has not been definitively established . 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 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 . </P>

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