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hanging garden of babylon

what i want to achieve
To show my perspective of the hanging garden of Babylon

Rituals, Activities and History

-The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

-The Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC attributed the gardens to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC.

-Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.

-Neo-Babylonian rulers were deeply conscious of the antiquity of their kingdom, and pursued very traditional practices.

- Ancient artworks from the heyday of Babylonia's imperial glory were treated with near-religious reverence and were painstakingly preserved.

-Trees were also sacred and worshipped, as it represented beauty, strength and wisdom and eternal life.

asset list 
temple
-bottom base
-mid base
-top base
-inside piece
tree/s
garden areas
water/fountain

storyboard
-the creation of the temple rising
-the main tree growing
-garden slowly appearing
-flyover/an overview

aesthetic
hopefully something like this


model







what I need to do next
-research trees/garden (maya)
-look into adding water/fountain
-look at more ideas around temples to use
-add detailing on walls
-texture
-animating

sketches and style

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one whose location has not been definitely established.

Traditionally they were said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babilprovince, in Iraq. The Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC and quoted later by Josephus, attributed the gardens to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC. There are no extant Babylonian texts which mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in Babylon.

According to one legend, Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. He also built a grand palace that came to be known as 'The Marvel of the Mankind'.

Because of the lack of evidence it has been suggested that the Hanging Gardens are purely mythical, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writers including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus andQuintus Curtius Rufus represent a romantic ideal of an eastern garden.^[3] If it did indeed exist, it was destroyed sometime after the first century AD.

Alternatively, the original garden may have been a well-documented one that the Assyrian kingSennacherib (704–681 BC) built in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris near the modern city of Mosul.