Stephanie Dalley, The Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

Speaker:
Stephanie Dalley
Oxford University
Archaeological Institute of America Norton Lecturer

Event Description:
Babylon’s Hanging Garden is the only one of the original seven wonders to have been dismissed as imaginary. Neither archaeologists nor Assyriologists could find evidence for it, and the Greek sources describing it are centuries later than its supposed existence. An ingenious and detailed solution to the problem has been found at last, allowing a fact-based reconstruction of the garden, and an appreciation of the system of water management that qualified it as a world wonder.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the UCSB Classics and History Departments.