the purpose of the hanging gardens of 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". Stephanie Dalley suggests that the original garden may have been a well-documented one that Assyrian King Sennacherib (704 -- 681 BC) built in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris, near the modern city of Mosul.