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means A legendary ancient garden built on tiered terraces, planted high above the ground so greenery seemed to cascade or 'hang' in midair — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and possibly entirely a legend.

from The name translates descriptions from Greek and Roman writers (like Strabo and Diodorus) of a garden in Babylon built on raised terraces or a ziggurat-like structure, with trees and plants seeming to spill down the sides — hence 'hanging,' though nothing actually dangled. The catch: no Babylonian source mentions it, and archaeologists have never confidently located it. One theory suggests the writers were actually describing a real garden at Nineveh, built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, and the location got garbled to Babylon over centuries of retelling. So the 'hanging gardens' may be real history wearing the wrong city's name tag — or pure legend all along.