Tag: mesopatamia
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The Hanging Gardens of … Nineveh?
from nationalgeographic.com: The legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon are exactly that: legendary. And they may not have been located in Babylon. The gardens, famous as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, were, according to Stephanie Dalley, an Oxford University Assyriologist, located some 340 miles north of ancient Babylon in Nineveh, on the…
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Empire by Sargon the Great
from fsmitha.com: “The Sumerians had a salinization problem. Evaporating water left behind layers of salt, and rising water tables brought more salt to the surface. Sumerians wrote of the earth turning white. A solution to the problem was to leave lands not watered for many seasons, to let the water table fall and let rain…