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TIL the Hanging Gardens of Babylon likely existed in the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The Assyrian king Sennacherib had a garden matching the Babylon garden descriptions which was built after the Assyrian takeover of Babylon. Nineveh was then referred to as “New Babylon” causing the name discrepancy.

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