Amytas was a Medes and her home was in mountainous country, so the King reputedly had the Hanging Gardens built to allay her homesickness. Its famous Hanging Gardens, built by King Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife Amytas, were one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The last dynasty at which Babylon achieved its zenith, is well known particularly of its 2nd king, Nebuchadnezzar II (605-563 BC), to whom most of Babylon's existing buildings belongs.īabylon was renowned for its high, well-fortified walls and for the magnificence of its temples and palaces. It was the capital of ten Mesopotamian dynasties starting with the dynasty of King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) the 6th king of the 1st dynasty reaching prominence as the capital city of the great kingdom of Babylonia. Babylon, the legendary city, is indeed, the most famous ancient city in the whole World.
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