If a person thinks about the Hanging Gardens, he may imagine pictures of fruit flower trees hanging from palace terraces comes in mind.
Hanging gardens were located 50km south of Baghdad, Iraq on the east bank of the River Euphrates.
The Hanging Gardens was built by Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) the son of famous Babylonian King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) it is said that these Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar II to please his wife.
Till 20th century some mysteries about the Hanging Gardens were revealed still archaeologists struggling to get more evidences to make any conclusion. Most of the Gardens descriptions came from the ancient Greek sources. Recently archaeologists had uncovered the foundation of the palace at the ancient city of Babylon. 
In other findings that include the Vaulted Buildings with thick walls and an irrigation well near the southern palace, a group of archaeologists surveyed the area of the southern palace and reconstructed the Vaulted Building as the Hanging Gardens but according to Greek historian Strabo stated that Hanging Gardens were situated near the River Euphrates that’s why other argue that this site is too far from the Euphrates to support the theory since the Vaulted Building is several hundreds of meters away. Recently on the River Euphrates banks massive walls 25m thick had been discovered it is thought those might be the walls which are described in the Greek references.
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