The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: an elusive world wonder traced

Drawing a blank in Babylon

Classical writers and their testimony

Three pictures, and Archimedes

Sennacherib's great invention

Engineering for water management

Confusion of names

The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden

Symbolism and imitators

Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC

Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden.