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Games featuring Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The VR game "Walkabout Mini Golf" by Mighty Coconut features "Gardens of Babylon" (2021) as a course in its lost cities series.

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Change "not be confused with" to "not to be confused with" in the last paragraph of the Descriptions in classical literature section 23.118.238.220 (talk) 04:46, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, thank you. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 05:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2 of same link

“second, that they existed in Babylon, but were destroyed sometime around the first century AD;”

Right after this colon. Just need one of them. IncandescentBliss (talk) 12:26, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bronze castings: what's the connection?

"Sennacherib claimed that he had built a "Wonder for all Peoples", and said he was the first to deploy a new casting technique in place of the "lost-wax" process for his monumental (30 tonne) bronze castings."

Confusing: there is no obvious connection between the waterworks and the cast bronze items. If there is such a connection, pls explain. The text never states what these huge "bronze castings" actually were. Maybe the water screws? I could imagine that today's engineers would prefer to build them from several pieces, but maybe back then a single piece was preferred. I think ship screws from the heyday of ocean liners were made of one cast piece, and if so that would mean something. But the question here remains, it's probably a case of summarising the source's text a touch too much, and it must be addressed. Thanks. Arminden (talk) 16:32, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The easiest route is to watch the YouTube video of BBC's "Secrets of the Ancients" Episode 5 where the translation of Senacherib's text is explained and a casting demonstrated.

If the summary is too dense, go to the references! Rhona Dalley (talk) 09:11, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Antipater of Sidon

The main article on the Seven Ancient Wonders mentions Antipater of Sidon, who claims in one poem that "I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens..." Shouldn't this be mentioned somewhere in the article? He does not specify Babylon, but that doesn't mean his statement is irrelevant - it could easily be added that he is ambiguous, and could support either theory - Babylon or Nineveh. Either way, it speaks against the third theory, that the gardens never existed at all. Mastakos (talk) 07:14, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]