The Hanging Gardens of Babylon: The Ancient World’s Missing Wonder

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BBC, article on Babylon itself: www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...
History Extra, Babylon overview: www.historyextra.com/period/a...
Britannica, Robert Koldewey: www.britannica.com/biography/...

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel2 жыл бұрын

    Go to curiositystream.thld.co/geographicsjune for unlimited access to the world’s top documentaries and non­fiction series, and for our fans, use promo code geographics and you will save 25% off which comes out to only $14.99 a year.

  • @anarchyantz1564

    @anarchyantz1564

    2 жыл бұрын

    Simons Business Blaze personality seems to be spreading out further and further from the Blazement like Danny spilling a Freybentos pie into the Blazement dirt (soon to be available for sale along with Rotten Turtle).

  • @SpedMuphin

    @SpedMuphin

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm not too happy about the amount of profanity you use in this episode. I watch this with my kids.

  • @Apocryphile1970-check_it

    @Apocryphile1970-check_it

    2 жыл бұрын

    Could the hanging gardens be a metaphor. To all satan's religions he has set up. And hanging gardens is its name because it is not a permanent fixture in the sky because these kingdom's are built on lies and can fall. Because trees are in gardens and trees can mean teachings and false teachings fall at the feet of the truth

  • @stalinsghost1090

    @stalinsghost1090

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think you mean After death common era is just super stupid

  • @greenkoopa

    @greenkoopa

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't say it was aliens, it was definitely King Koopa. He used gold coins to fund the project and Nebbie was his good friend. Evil tyrants seem to get on pretty well

  • @willgoodwin2560
    @willgoodwin25602 жыл бұрын

    Future historians will be arguing about the true location of the Olive Gardens.

  • @sharkoboyo

    @sharkoboyo

    2 жыл бұрын

    The times of endless breadsticks will be praised for eternity!!

  • @jkee9760

    @jkee9760

    2 жыл бұрын

    They would be looking for places that have olive trees...what if the gardens were just a food place the whole time

  • @PiousMoltar

    @PiousMoltar

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jkee9760 A ludicrous proposition!

  • @danieledugre1837

    @danieledugre1837

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now, I’m hungry….

  • @willgoodwin2560

    @willgoodwin2560

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jkee9760 The Amazing Salad Bar of Babylon

  • @metalhigh0043
    @metalhigh00432 жыл бұрын

    The Hanging Beard of Simon Whistler

  • @oskarkaramba7373

    @oskarkaramba7373

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @nightmar3116

    @nightmar3116

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's the real wonder

  • @johnreese1584

    @johnreese1584

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hope he does beard ornaments for the holidays.

  • @nancyM1313

    @nancyM1313

    2 жыл бұрын

    😄

  • @lehlohonololelakane9468

    @lehlohonololelakane9468

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnreese1584 I think he'd do it on BusinessBlaze

  • @spinyslasher6586
    @spinyslasher65862 жыл бұрын

    The evidence suggesting the hanging gardens being in Nineveh sounds pretty damning. I'm convinced.

  • @roycefruciano5418

    @roycefruciano5418

    2 жыл бұрын

    I mean.. man literally said he did that. Nebuchadnezzar definitely would’ve been stroking himself while his scribes chiselled the story of his gardens

  • @PoleToPoleTravel

    @PoleToPoleTravel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad he's covered this finally. I'm reading "The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon" by Stephanie Dalley. It's pretty much her life work that pushes for the Hanging Gardens being in Nineveh.

  • @j_hitta0591

    @j_hitta0591

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@roycefruciano5418 the confusion of location of the gardens is because of the Assyrian conquering of Babylon in 689 B.C. Following the takeover, Nineveh was referred to as the “New Babylon

  • @anotheraccount2576

    @anotheraccount2576

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same. I’m going to call it the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh and encourage everyone else to do so too.

  • @jango7889

    @jango7889

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nineveh? Oh, Nineveh... No! Nineveh is where I draw the line!

  • @BradTheThird
    @BradTheThird2 жыл бұрын

    I bet we'd have more of an idea if the library of Alexandria didn't go up.

  • @looking4themountain

    @looking4themountain

    2 жыл бұрын

    That library would likely be well preserved underground and off limits to most, similar to what we see in Rome.

  • @PaulVandersypen

    @PaulVandersypen

    2 жыл бұрын

    Up? Don't you mean down? It's submerged, along with most of what was the city of Alexandria, off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea.

  • @BradTheThird

    @BradTheThird

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...in flames.

  • @kevmasengale6903

    @kevmasengale6903

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PaulVandersypen up in flames when Julius Caesar burned it......

  • @PaulVandersypen

    @PaulVandersypen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kevmasengale6903 Ah yes. Nobody can say Alexandria didn't have an eventful existence LOL.

  • @Biker_Gremling
    @Biker_Gremling2 жыл бұрын

    Just imagine a thousands of kilometers trip, in ancient times, just to arrive and be told "the hanging gardens of wut!?"

  • @gtw4546

    @gtw4546

    Жыл бұрын

    Just as bad as, "wrong Babylon, dude, you took a wrong turn."

  • @ericnickerson1060
    @ericnickerson10602 жыл бұрын

    There’s a great documentary with Dr. Dalley showing how water was moved to Nineveh and palm trees were used as the screws. Definitely worth watching.

  • @GioDennis

    @GioDennis

    2 жыл бұрын

    Link?

  • @bigviel3298

    @bigviel3298

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s interesting because I have found information saying that they were most likely in Nineveh and not Babylonia.

  • @bigviel3298

    @bigviel3298

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GioDennis He gave you enough info to find it on your own.

  • @brendanfelice2623

    @brendanfelice2623

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bigviel3298 on repeat with this comment. Be an adult and search it up

  • @ericnickerson1060

    @ericnickerson1060

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GioDennis I watched it on pbs, it was I believe an episode of secrets of the dead

  • @axelprino
    @axelprino2 жыл бұрын

    The idea that there was another city going by the same name is so simple that it's impressive it took so long for someone to think of it. I mean, we literally have a bunch of examples of that nowadays, it's not that far fetched.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    Жыл бұрын

    Considering how many towns and villages here are called Neustadt (literal translation would be "new town") because they typically were new when they were founded, it isn't too weird that they did something similar back then.

  • @M-_-O

    @M-_-O

    Жыл бұрын

    This is best, especially when I recall Alexander the Great naming multiple places “Alexandria”

  • @SSPspaz

    @SSPspaz

    Жыл бұрын

    My mind immediately jumped to the fact that the Romans moved their capital to Constantinople, yet continued to refer to themselves as Romans. Or the many Alexandrias that were named for Alexander the Great.

  • @nicholasbrown668

    @nicholasbrown668

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@SSPspazmoving to Constantinople didnt change the fact that most of Greece had been heavily romanized

  • @SSPspaz

    @SSPspaz

    11 ай бұрын

    @@nicholasbrown668 that’s a complete non sequitur. How does this have anything to do with my comment? My point was that if we had a very incomplete historical record of the Byzantine Empire, we’d be equally confused because they kept calling themselves Romans long after Rome fell.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn22232 жыл бұрын

    1:25 - Chapter 1 - Things to be seen 4:25 - Chapter 2 - The gardens of eden 7:50 - Chapter 3 - A glimpse of paradise 10:40 - Mid roll ads 12:10 - Chapter 4 - Deconstructing eden 15:50 - Chapter 5 - Paradise lost 18:45 - Chapter 6 - Paradise found ?

  • @ringo1692

    @ringo1692

    2 жыл бұрын

    Legendary!

  • @Michallote

    @Michallote

    2 жыл бұрын

    Milton proud

  • @draoidh6479

    @draoidh6479

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Michallote Good answer

  • @vineethvish11

    @vineethvish11

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you ser

  • @eggboi584

    @eggboi584

    2 жыл бұрын

    bless u bro.

  • @TheLordUrban
    @TheLordUrban2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the real Hanging Gardens were the friends we made along the way.

  • @QD808

    @QD808

    2 жыл бұрын

    i feel that.

  • @maryfaqih9403

    @maryfaqih9403

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oohh stop it you silly sod

  • @revcrow7154

    @revcrow7154

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ahhh, the One Piece

  • @jaredcrue7099

    @jaredcrue7099

    2 жыл бұрын

    Raxxla

  • @clockworkbadger2363

    @clockworkbadger2363

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haha

  • @daviddanielducker5446
    @daviddanielducker54462 жыл бұрын

    let me request a video on Persepolis. The Persian capital was designed to impress visiting satraps and featured underground aquaducts to make it seem like theyd miraculously found, or manufactured, water in the desert.

  • @randomobserver8168
    @randomobserver81682 жыл бұрын

    I was always struck by the fact that not only are the pyramids the outstandingly obvious inclusion and the only one still extant, they were also the only ones already really ancient in Philo's time, already 2000 years old. That's durability. Although the lighthouse, new in Philo's time, survived in working order into the middle ages, so about 1600 years. That's pretty good.

  • @hrdkorebp

    @hrdkorebp

    10 ай бұрын

    The pyramids are likely a lot older than the current accepted timeline

  • @pauloboyle477
    @pauloboyle4772 жыл бұрын

    I can’t even remember to water my only hanging plant on porch so I’m easily impressed

  • @ijfsk8cr3w
    @ijfsk8cr3w2 жыл бұрын

    I remember doing a history project on this in 6th grade. It was probably one of those most interesting things I remember in school and made me realize my love for history and mysteries.

  • @DiracComb.7585
    @DiracComb.75852 жыл бұрын

    Simon, for the love of god, could you slow down: I’m trying to binge your channels, but as soon as I finish one and move onto another, you post another channel.

  • @flowertrue

    @flowertrue

    2 жыл бұрын

    it's clones. Simon clones.

  • @SquiddyHiggenbottom

    @SquiddyHiggenbottom

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is roughly a 5% chance any given video contains an unexpected Simon Whistler 😂

  • @emmettbattle5728

    @emmettbattle5728

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SquiddyHiggenbottom very true

  • @kitothompson7930

    @kitothompson7930

    2 жыл бұрын

    BOOP! I'm aware this comment thread is a few months old, but Simon made another new channel a couple days ago - Into the Shadows

  • @Dwg256

    @Dwg256

    2 жыл бұрын

    135

  • @JakeSezz
    @JakeSezz2 жыл бұрын

    Here’s what rubs me the wrong way with the HGoB: saying it was impossible to be a thing, as the engineering and resources necessary is just not possible. But how many times has the same statement been used for those wonders we *do* have evidence and knowledge of? How many times have people marveled and wondered “Oi, how were the crystal skulls made? How’s ancient societies make stone and boulders perfectly spherical with modern equipment?” Maybe we need to realize we know fuck-all instead of outright-poopooing such things. There’s a difference between a scientist saying “We don’t have any current proof or understanding” as opposed to “Yeah, it’s impossible for that to be a thing”.

  • @royfablooo2810
    @royfablooo28102 жыл бұрын

    I would love to hear more of the original ancient 7 Wonders of the world and also some Stolen Or Missing ancient artifacts and destroyed structures.

  • @rickyv8709
    @rickyv87092 жыл бұрын

    Four minutes in and we still haven’t reached any point, this guy can really Babylon...

  • @SkagulTV

    @SkagulTV

    2 жыл бұрын

    BARA BOOM BOOM DIIIISSHHHH

  • @SoloSaga

    @SoloSaga

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SkagulTV it's buh dum tsss

  • @TimSmyth23

    @TimSmyth23

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s ‘bada boommm … tish’

  • @theoffbeatarchive9225

    @theoffbeatarchive9225

    2 жыл бұрын

    Badda badda budda budda booda booda tsh tsh tsh tssssshhhhh. Budda tsh.

  • @toasty1510
    @toasty15102 жыл бұрын

    Simon I think your videos made me love KZread documentaries. Everyday I watch at 1-2 videos just learning about random stuff. If I go a week without watching it feels like I skipped out on school and that's not a good feeling. I always wanted to learn more about the hanging gardens of Babylon and here I am!

  • @spookerd
    @spookerd2 жыл бұрын

    Sennacherib allows himself the briefest of smiles before shouting, "GET OFF MY LAWN!"

  • @cgt3704

    @cgt3704

    2 жыл бұрын

    A servant: But Sire, this is not a lawn, it a garden from downstairs. Sennacherib: Shut up or you are fired.

  • @yaoifanfake
    @yaoifanfake2 жыл бұрын

    When you did your episode of the colossus of Rhodes. I googled the 7 ancient wonders of the world and this one was the one I was most interested in!

  • @Shannon_Vlogs

    @Shannon_Vlogs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad he got a video out for you! 😊

  • @RAS_Squints
    @RAS_Squints2 жыл бұрын

    Last time I was this early, Hammurabi didn't era skip me with eurekas

  • @spritemon98

    @spritemon98

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haha

  • @nastybastardatlive

    @nastybastardatlive

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ill bet last time your comment was just as lame.

  • @Brandon-dy8us

    @Brandon-dy8us

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nastybastardatlive shut up

  • @PhantomNull13

    @PhantomNull13

    2 жыл бұрын

    Come on, what's wrong with sub 100 planes? Perfectly balanced.

  • @T2and3
    @T2and32 жыл бұрын

    Damn, it seems like all that time playing Civilization has finally payed off.

  • @soupcampbell9306
    @soupcampbell93062 жыл бұрын

    "Turned it up to 11" is my favorite phrase that nobody gets. Thank you.

  • @jamesclendon4811

    @jamesclendon4811

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nobody? Think again.

  • @mickeypigduck2307
    @mickeypigduck23072 жыл бұрын

    What I dearly love about this channel is you point out the glaring differences between what has been said and what is actual fact. Nothing is more frustrating than watching a video on ancient history only to have the narrative tell you that the sole purpose of the peoples was to build massive structures to bury someone in or to satisfy their need to have happy chakras.

  • @wilt3051
    @wilt30512 жыл бұрын

    More Babylonian History!! Also Obligatory Semiramis (Fate) reference!!

  • @shikigranbell7608

    @shikigranbell7608

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wilt MAH MAN good very good

  • @CollinY818

    @CollinY818

    2 жыл бұрын

    Assyrian history

  • @wilt3051

    @wilt3051

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CollinY818 yes but in the Fate Grand Order game her Noble Phantasm (Special Attack) is called “The Hanging Gardens of Babylon”

  • @tommykaung5882

    @tommykaung5882

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for Fate comment. And I am satisfied.

  • @j_hitta0591

    @j_hitta0591

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wilt3051 the confusion of location of the gardens is because of the Assyrian conquering of Babylon in 689 B.C. Following the takeover, Nineveh was referred to as the “New Babylon

  • @kaiyack
    @kaiyack2 жыл бұрын

    Hanging could have been a mistranslation. Floating perhaps? Like the floating chinampas gardens in the Americas. Seems more plausible-floating in the river. The topic of Chinampas coincidently would make a great side project/geographics video

  • @Shameful.Display
    @Shameful.Display2 жыл бұрын

    I swear Simon needs a channel to talk about all of his other channels.

  • @GraveSource
    @GraveSource2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for doing the gardens. I’ve always been interested in them but have never been able to find a really great video on them. Definitely my favorite ancient wonder.

  • @mikew1374
    @mikew13742 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video Simon and team, you all have taught me SO much about history and I thank y'all for it

  • @jordanthomas4379
    @jordanthomas43792 жыл бұрын

    If I could go back in time, I’d go back and see the gardens, I can’t imagine how beautiful they would be.

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke2 жыл бұрын

    I too once thought I discovered Babylon, but it turned out it was just Deep Space Nine... :P

  • @Dr.Fluffles

    @Dr.Fluffles

    2 жыл бұрын

    I tip my nonexistent hat to you.

  • @julianaylor4351

    @julianaylor4351

    2 жыл бұрын

    😆 It's Babylon 5.

  • @nickyblue4866

    @nickyblue4866

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @Metcraft2
    @Metcraft22 жыл бұрын

    Koldeway is the Archeologist that discovered the remains of the hanging gardens with a hydraulic mechanism like a pump to pull water from Euphrates.

  • @eyezak_m
    @eyezak_m2 жыл бұрын

    I really like this channel, Spend too much time binging this lol

  • @emmiannon1266

    @emmiannon1266

    2 жыл бұрын

    he is a very professional and well presented man who is not at all crazy. not like that blaze boy....

  • @blueashke

    @blueashke

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@emmiannon1266 I just started watching CC so I get that reference.

  • @nastybastardatlive

    @nastybastardatlive

    2 жыл бұрын

    You bing this channel?

  • @Brandon-dy8us

    @Brandon-dy8us

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good keep watching and get that knowledge. It's cool to see how many people watch these informational videos rather than sit on tiktok wasting away and destroying their attention span.

  • @theblackbaron4119

    @theblackbaron4119

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same.

  • @erickhill8707
    @erickhill87072 жыл бұрын

    A buddy referred me to this channel. I'm somewhat of a history buff, and thoroughly enjoy these videos. And I find your voice soothing for some reason. Excellent works, Mr. Whistler. Excellent works.

  • @botodd4679

    @botodd4679

    2 жыл бұрын

    Be careful Sir. If you like history and the sound of Simon's voice..the man has 6 or 7 channels and is good at what he does and can be funny. I thought I'd catch a video or two over 2 years ago. 🤔

  • @erickhill8707

    @erickhill8707

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@botodd4679 Honestly, those are rabbit holes I wouldn't mind tumbling down.

  • @EvanRustMakes

    @EvanRustMakes

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@erickhill8707 Business Blaze ;)

  • @erickhill8707

    @erickhill8707

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@EvanRustMakes Will give it a go later this afternoon. Good looking out.

  • @blueashke

    @blueashke

    2 жыл бұрын

    SO many good channels that Simon runs. My favorites are this and Biographics, but I've also become addicted to the Casual Criminalist (and am trying to keep myself from falling down any more of his rabbit holes).

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions2 жыл бұрын

    Iraqi Polymath Al Jahiz once stated: يذهب الحكيم وتبقى كتبه، ويذهب العقل ويبقى أثره. "The wise goes, his books remain, the mind goes, and its effect on people remains"

  • @TurquoiseInk
    @TurquoiseInk Жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite episode so far on this excellent channel. Loved knowing more about the famous gardens, going to look up Dr. Daley's documentary.

  • @kizzywytch
    @kizzywytch2 жыл бұрын

    Perfectly timed with my break 💖

  • @shikigranbell7608
    @shikigranbell76082 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes the noble phantasm of the assassin of red reina semiramis de asiria.

  • @vondonks

    @vondonks

    2 жыл бұрын

    she is the statue of liberty, no?

  • @keon5100

    @keon5100

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, I've found my people

  • @nightwyrm4354

    @nightwyrm4354

    2 жыл бұрын

    Simon forgot to mention the flying and the beam shooting. 0/10

  • @pranava5683

    @pranava5683

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes lover of a Japanese yorokobeing priest amakusa shiro

  • @bigviel3298

    @bigviel3298

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nightwyrm4354 Flying and beam shooting, what in the world are you talking about?

  • @Lemon_Jackassss
    @Lemon_Jackassss2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve waited so long for this one, thanks Simon!

  • @jamesbell3315
    @jamesbell33152 жыл бұрын

    Oh my. I've hoped for this video and even requested this previously. Cheers!

  • @akitiara
    @akitiara2 жыл бұрын

    I’m so glad he decided to cover more ancient wonders

  • @rockgod6180
    @rockgod61802 жыл бұрын

    Next should be the Parthenon or the Temple of Zeus

  • @nastybastardatlive

    @nastybastardatlive

    2 жыл бұрын

    On your channel?

  • @christopherkoscher2097

    @christopherkoscher2097

    2 жыл бұрын

    Temple of Zeus would be cool!

  • @kitothompson7930

    @kitothompson7930

    2 жыл бұрын

    I feel like I've heard Simon talk about the Parthenon before. If not here on this channel, check his channel Megaprojects

  • @kizzywytch
    @kizzywytch2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent work. I love that I actually learn new information from your vids. Thank you!

  • @callmechia
    @callmechia2 жыл бұрын

    I honestly have been waiting for this video for a long time!! Thanks

  • @Danield22341
    @Danield223412 жыл бұрын

    I literally cannot stop watching Simon Whistlers videos help me I’m hopelessly addicted

  • @SamSung-nf6tr

    @SamSung-nf6tr

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @TheHungerGame3
    @TheHungerGame32 жыл бұрын

    In modern Greek, "themata" means subjects (to talk about)

  • @PrezVeto

    @PrezVeto

    2 жыл бұрын

    Makes sense. Themata … themes … topics

  • @russellfitzpatrick503
    @russellfitzpatrick5032 жыл бұрын

    Interesting and, as ever, beautifully put. many thanks

  • @9elypses
    @9elypses2 жыл бұрын

    By far one of my favorite ancient structures to learn about thank you!

  • @Blackadderthefourth
    @Blackadderthefourth2 жыл бұрын

    This was super interesting. I'm an alt Babylon convert.

  • @j_hitta0591

    @j_hitta0591

    2 жыл бұрын

    the confusion of location of the gardens is because of the Assyrian conquering of Babylon in 689 B.C. Following the takeover, Nineveh was referred to as the “New Babylon

  • @JohnSmith-rk6jy

    @JohnSmith-rk6jy

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m alt Right.

  • @KraigFang
    @KraigFang2 жыл бұрын

    I remember this wonder was buildable in Civilization 3 on PS1 (probably still there in the modern version of that game series lol)… it was part of the Ancient Wonders, gave you a big boost in happiness and cleanliness! While another one, the Great Lighthouse, made it so the very first ships you had could leave the coast! Great power up for the ancient world! Plus may have given ships an additional space to move, or that was some other wonder 🤪 I really liked that game, inspired me to be more interested in history! Was already inspired by my grandpa who collects civil war items! History has always been very cool and makes me think, what will this planet look like in another 1000 years 😉🤓

  • @troybaxter

    @troybaxter

    9 ай бұрын

    It still is buildable in Civ 5 and Civ 6.

  • @KraigFang

    @KraigFang

    9 ай бұрын

    @@troybaxter awesome 🤟😝

  • @Itsfineweerallfine
    @Itsfineweerallfine2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so very much for making this video! It’s fantastical done!!!

  • @sonja_jade
    @sonja_jade2 жыл бұрын

    absolutely fascinating! Thank you for this video!

  • @jfrankcarr
    @jfrankcarr2 жыл бұрын

    Little known fact: Philo was this first creator to make a clickbait list to help him get Curiosity Stream sales.

  • @joshuamaxwell8376
    @joshuamaxwell83762 жыл бұрын

    Macedonia was also called Babylon at one point. And in the book of Revelation in the Bible Babylon is mentioned even at the end times. Babylon could just be a term used to describe a massive indestructable city thus there could be many cities nicknamed Babylon.

  • @katir.5701

    @katir.5701

    2 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know that, it's really interesting!

  • @NightShade1218
    @NightShade12182 жыл бұрын

    That final description almost brought a tear to my eye.

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger13422 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

  • @johnrogers8836
    @johnrogers8836 Жыл бұрын

    I can see that perforated bricks would have a great benefit to the hanging gardens. Obviously not in any structural capacity, but rather to allow water to flow onward and downward, encouraging further garden growth cascading downwards with the trickling/ seeping water. Modern irrigation has its own version. Only time will tell if it’s more durable than previous incarnates of earlier water systems, like the Roman aquaducts etc etc etc ( extra etc’s, because... romans)

  • @YoItsBC
    @YoItsBC2 жыл бұрын

    These videos are so well researched. Kudos to Simon Whistler and his team. Amazing job y’all

  • @krishnaswainpiano4129
    @krishnaswainpiano41292 жыл бұрын

    I just discovered your channel, and you deserve way more attention. Great videos man.

  • @circa-iv4st
    @circa-iv4st2 жыл бұрын

    yay i’ve been waiting for this

  • @BLitzRunner77
    @BLitzRunner772 жыл бұрын

    It's a really neat conclusion. Although I was under the impression that Ninevah was so totally destroyed that almost nothing was left standing. Hard to imagine a garden surviving the fires that reportedly consumed it all. Maybe my historys off.

  • @shannonbritton5313
    @shannonbritton53132 жыл бұрын

    I like when Simon speaks slow enough to actually catch what he's saying on this channel lol 😆

  • @suscon1140
    @suscon1140 Жыл бұрын

    Well Done!! Amazing information - well presented!!!

  • @theemperor7963
    @theemperor79632 жыл бұрын

    I suggested this topic a while back. Glad you made it. Liked it.

  • @tuvia4082
    @tuvia40822 жыл бұрын

    Nineveh, of course. Those old timers were using an out of date GPS map. Makes sense.

  • @j_hitta0591

    @j_hitta0591

    2 жыл бұрын

    the confusion of location of the gardens is because of the Assyrian conquering of Babylon in 689 B.C. Following the takeover, Nineveh was referred to as the “New Babylon

  • @pkstaxx
    @pkstaxx2 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Proves that most of the “history” we know is inaccurate or biased. If Archimedes screws existed before Archimedes was born then how did he get credited with inventing them? 🤔🧐

  • @zreed545

    @zreed545

    2 жыл бұрын

    A thing can be independently invented, Archamides is recorded as having invented the screw because he probably did simply much later, and likely he and others didn't know of the screws that had previously been invented by someone else. If he independently invented the screws and popularized them, then its obvious that he would be credited because for all he and most other people knew he did.

  • @IceCreamWorks

    @IceCreamWorks

    2 жыл бұрын

    Similar to the history of the printing press. Invented in China first. But completely separately invented in Europe, where it really solidified it's place.

  • @JC-lm3bb
    @JC-lm3bb2 жыл бұрын

    I've watched a number of your videos but this is by far the sassiest. I love it

  • @davepixtonsw94
    @davepixtonsw942 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting nice vid

  • @mandalor45
    @mandalor452 жыл бұрын

    Its always the first wonder I make in Civ

  • @theblackbaron4119

    @theblackbaron4119

    2 жыл бұрын

    So you built a garden full of lies ;_; ? How could you Dylan.

  • @dsono
    @dsono2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Thank you for making a video on The Hanging Garden! From years of learning archaeology, I can say that some ancient reports did love to exaggerate their stuff. That, and coupled with no-longer-living witnesses, makes historical conjectures much more interesting & exciting for our modern interpretation. Things that were written as a mindblowing invention mankind had never seen before, could probably be a normal feat for our modern society; but since we can never see from ancient world perspectives, our minds possibly project their achievements as something extraordinarily mythical :D

  • @WesMordine

    @WesMordine

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes. Except the pyramid is just as grand as it was described. They didn't exaggerate that one... Its fun to wonder about these things, while making the distinction between implausible and impossible.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    Жыл бұрын

    That is basically the core of reading ancient texts, there is a true core, but exaggerated and blown out of proportion with time. Especially for heroic tales. The battle of thermopylae wasn't 300 Spartans against two million Persians. It was more like 7000 Greeks (pus auxiliaries to get the number closer to 11000) against 200000 Persians. But what sounds more impressive, fighting a battle 18:1 or fighting a battle 6000:1? Still an impressive feat, but wouldn't it be more impressive of the enemies would be even more. The gardens were obviously impressive to travelling greeks at the time, but with each person telling the story, it becomes bigger.

  • @carlosimotti3933

    @carlosimotti3933

    9 ай бұрын

    This is BS. The Pyramids are still standing and speak for themselves. The temple of Artemis although little remains, was almost as big as the largest churches that still amaze everyone, and it was entirely in marble. The Great Lighthouse was standing and functioning until the middle ages, before the barbaric arabs trasnformed it into a fortress (still standing today). The Colossus laid on the ground in pieces for centuries after collapsing due to an earthquake, its pieces were still there in the 16th century. Everyone witnessed the size of these structures for centuries. The Mausoleum of Alicarnassos consists nowadays of just the basement, but it is large indeed and it's the model for equal sized, rarely bigger, mausoleums since then. Logic wants that the Hanging Gardens were just as impressive. Plus the building height was limited to basically 10 stories well into the XIX century for technical reasons, and european cities kept it as a maximum well into the XX century (Le Corbusier complains precisely about that in his idiotic Plan Voisin's relation). So these structures (not to mention those still standing such as the Colosseum or Pantheon or Hagia Sofia etc) were impressive throughout history, not to mention their artistic and cultural value was not merely in their size

  • @gaius_enceladus
    @gaius_enceladus Жыл бұрын

    Great video - really interesting!

  • @MikeyMystery45
    @MikeyMystery452 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. You saved me a lot of time and for that I am eternally grateful. Thank you good man. Thank you very much.

  • @domhuckle
    @domhuckle2 жыл бұрын

    Does that mean the babylonians got the last laugh, having inherited the memory of the gardens after the name of their city was taken from them?

  • @anotheraccount2576

    @anotheraccount2576

    2 жыл бұрын

    No because whilst babylonians are long gone as an identity, the Assyrians are still alive and exist in many areas of the world.

  • @taitano12
    @taitano122 жыл бұрын

    Considering that Babylon was what people called the general area around both Nineveh and the city of Babylon itself, this makes perfect sense. Think New York; it's both a city and a state. You could tell someone you're going to New York, but be heading for Buffalo, NY. I find it funny that people back then would give cities like Nineveh a second name that already belongs to another. That's like being in Miami and saying you're going to West Miami when you're actually heading for Houston or Los Angeles. Part of it comes from what the ruler was doing in Nineveh. According to one atlas of The Levant that I have*, during the reign of the Babylonian Empire, the city of Nineveh was officially called Babylon when the King was there for official business for more than a month. This tradition was adopted by the Medo-Persians who also called it Sousa when the King was there on vacation. Sousa was the name of the capital(?) of Media, North-Northeast of the city of Babylon, and had the official vacation home of the King. *I came across some errors in the atlas serious enough to make me question its reliability, but those were few enough to warrant a high degree of confidence. So, take that second paragraph with a small grain of salt, and clarification and correction is invited.

  • @AndrewRisitano
    @AndrewRisitano2 жыл бұрын

    great ending to an awesome video. great work.

  • @ironblitzkriegmetal5177
    @ironblitzkriegmetal51772 жыл бұрын

    Man simon im glad you have so mamy channels so many more videos for me to watch

  • @jkb1603
    @jkb16032 жыл бұрын

    Just built this in my civ 6 game. Culture victory babyyyy

  • @resileaf9501
    @resileaf95012 жыл бұрын

    Fingers crossed that this mystery is resolved in our lifetime. There is so much wonder about our past left to be uncovered. We history buffs would love nothing more than a time machine to see into the distant past and find the answers to all those ancient mysteries.

  • @ReVerthex
    @ReVerthex2 жыл бұрын

    I did find this interesting, thank you Simon.

  • @weregoat529
    @weregoat529 Жыл бұрын

    Glad I found your channel!

  • @LordSluggo
    @LordSluggo2 жыл бұрын

    16:30 can we just take a moment to appreciate what a badass photo this is

  • @cobalfrostwyrm
    @cobalfrostwyrm2 жыл бұрын

    I always assumed the real gardens were just a bunch of potted plants on the various levels of the old babylon ziggurat

  • @blas4me50
    @blas4me502 жыл бұрын

    When I was reading about man-made wonders, I found out more about this garden. I think it was also talked about in Anne Rice's, Vampire Chronicles, the main reason why I researched it.

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy05052 жыл бұрын

    Wow, mystery solved , GREAT VIDEO 📹

  • @anklexpress2789
    @anklexpress27892 жыл бұрын

    Americans attribute random quotes to Mark Twain. interesting that British peeps use Wilde

  • @owenshebbeare2999

    @owenshebbeare2999

    2 жыл бұрын

    Americans use Wilde and Lincoln too.

  • @anklexpress2789

    @anklexpress2789

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@owenshebbeare2999 Well yes, and Einstein all the time too, as Im sure the Brits dont just quote Wilde but also other people often as well, but we are speaking more in simplistic general terms here and not creating an exhaustive list of all quoted people. I remember reading somewhere that the two people in America that quotes are most readily attributed to and often mistakenly attributed to because everyone likes to attribute quotes to them are Einstein and Twain...Simon used Wilde, which is a literary reference, so I chose to also just cite one person, which was also a literary reference...Twain

  • @troystaunton254

    @troystaunton254

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@owenshebbeare2999 don’t believe everything you read on the internet -Mahatma Ghandi.

  • @InsanityPlea100
    @InsanityPlea1002 жыл бұрын

    Geographics? More like Mythographics! Amirite? Amirite? Haha. Haha... I'll show myself out. Simon, if Mythographics is your next channel, i want a slice of that capitalist pig beard money, fact boi.

  • @amandabray4395

    @amandabray4395

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @jaspersmith5748

    @jaspersmith5748

    2 жыл бұрын

    David Childress, is that you???

  • @InsanityPlea100

    @InsanityPlea100

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jaspersmith5748 Yes, Simon is the reincarnated David Childress, telling us alternate histories like the Hanging Gardens existing! Haha

  • @Steevilkineevil
    @Steevilkineevil2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video.

  • @abelgreen5046
    @abelgreen5046 Жыл бұрын

    So fascinating!

  • @ancientsitesgirl
    @ancientsitesgirl2 жыл бұрын

    I would like to visit Iraq with my camera, Babylon, Ur.... but it's so hard now☹

  • @ancientsitesgirl6952

    @ancientsitesgirl6952

    2 жыл бұрын

    💗

  • @polbrempolbrem6639

    @polbrempolbrem6639

    2 жыл бұрын

    Irena!

  • @alexs5744

    @alexs5744

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is a mess but I hope at some point the Middle East will stabilize.

  • @ancientsitesgirl6952

    @ancientsitesgirl6952

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alexs5744 Hopefully

  • @anotheraccount2576

    @anotheraccount2576

    2 жыл бұрын

    It will never stabilise that’s just the truth. The area has too much importance for there to be peace.

  • @shooglechic
    @shooglechic2 жыл бұрын

    "Fall of the Tower of Babylon" hmmm, a good earthquake could have caused the fall of the hanging gardens due to the irrigation system causing a failur ein the structure itself. Egyptians and Romans and Balkan Sea villages utilized iron rods within stone and bricks to keep them together and to move them in place.

  • @LangleyTIPPA5
    @LangleyTIPPA52 жыл бұрын

    I’m not sure which channel o should ask this, so I’ll do it on all of them! Do a story of the origins of firearms/guns! From my understanding it started with China way back. Love the content on all channels!

  • @lindamulholland406
    @lindamulholland4062 жыл бұрын

    I have the computer game " TITAN QUEST " , and in the game they have a section with the " HANGING GARDENS " in it . I thought it was a really cool depiction of the Hanging Gardens . Love that game ! This is very interesting , it would be so awesome if these gardens were found . Thanks for posting !

  • @toxicmustardwasabi

    @toxicmustardwasabi

    Жыл бұрын

    it was literally refreshing to see the gardens in the game, since it was the first part of act 3, and the entirety of act 2 had been spent in the desert (around the Great Pyramids). The start of the Ragnarok expansion features another ancient wonder - the Colossus of Rhoades (although it had collapsed in the game).

  • @TheGrinningViking
    @TheGrinningViking2 жыл бұрын

    There's no doubt at all Nebuchadnezzar had more than enough fancy screws in his gardens, he was supposed to have built them for his wife (and he did have ten children we know of.)

  • @ringo1692

    @ringo1692

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fancy "screws" indeed...🤔😜👍

  • @shadowhenge7118
    @shadowhenge71182 жыл бұрын

    Theres a beautiful garden near Denver, called the botannical gardens. Many cities have them. I suggest you have a look. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may be a myth, or lost to the sands of time, but there are incredible gardens today your whole family can enjoy. I don't represent any of them, but I see them in decline and it saddens me.

  • @holiheinrich2115
    @holiheinrich21152 жыл бұрын

    really cool.thanks

  • @timmeh69er78
    @timmeh69er782 жыл бұрын

    Your unwell sir. Get well soon. Thank you for your content and your always entertaining.

  • @colinfew6570
    @colinfew65702 жыл бұрын

    All Simon's channels getting incrementally more Business Blazey and I dig that!

  • @PierroCh5
    @PierroCh52 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the real hanging gardens were the friends we made along the way 😔🤚🏻

  • @TheObserversTV
    @TheObserversTV2 жыл бұрын

    Thumbs up! Would be nice if you could do a whole segment of Sennacherib's engineering like the Hanging Gardens and Palace Without Rival.