The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

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 ...

Was the Hanging Garden actually located in Babylon? Was the ancient wonder merely a fiction, or was it a real place, built by an ancient king? In this carefully researched book, Dalley, an expert on ...