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Re:The Hanging Gardens of Babylon by eternalban on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:25AM (#24628941)
Smart money would be looking into irrigation infrastructure and history of its development in Mesopotamia. They had to raise water for a "hanging" garden. That implies some sort of pump technology.
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Re:The Hanging Gardens of Babylon by thaumasiotes on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:47AM (#24629250)
They used Archimedes screws, as noted in the article.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199662266/ is a very good book about the current state of research into the Hanging Gardens. As ncmncm notes, there is strong evidence that Babylon never had any such thing, but Nineveh did.

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Re:The Hanging Gardens of Babylon by ncmncm on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:22PM (#24635389)
Nineveh, not coincidentally, apparently had the first elevated aqueducts. With arches.
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