Babylon’s Hanging Gardens

To earn the title “Wonder of the World,” you have to be pretty show stopping. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon appear to be “purty” and all, but as it turns out, history may have exaggerated a tad. Ancient writers and sources from around 450 BC claim the gardens to have been a magnificent world wonder, and one that supposedly scaled heights of over 300 feet and 56 miles in length.

Modern archaeological visits to the ancient city’s site in Iraq have found little evidence of gardens matching this description, and may never do so. This could either be because, the gardens never actually existed or that the impressive structure was destroyed by earthquakes or war damage.