The gardens were built during the reign ofNebuchadnezzar II (605-562 B.C.) and they existed just south ofBagdad in modern-day Iraq on the Euphrates River. The hanginggardens are said to have survived more than five hundred years,until they were destroyed by an Earthquake in the first centuryB.C. so the king died long before the destruction.

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