And what of Babylon?

[watcheroo42]

There are strong suggestions the 'Hanging Gardens' of Babylon were not really located at Babylon at all, but at Nineveh. Nineveh was some distance north of Babylon and lay on the Tigris River. One possible argument in favor of this belated revision is the strange absence of any mention of this remarkable structure as one of the features of the city of Babylon in contemporary records. Another telling point is that no archaeological evidence for the sizeable irrigation system necessary for lifting water from the Euphrates to service the extensive terraced gardens has ever been found in the remains of Babylon, which city straddled the river.
There is also an Assyrian relief unearthed at Nineveh and now exhibited in the British Museum which shows trees planted high on terraces and exotic plants trailing from stone arches, in perfect emulation of the 'Hanging Gardens' of legend.
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World may be in serious error. Interesting though - and the search for truth must be never ending, eh?
Just thought I should mention that.

[watcheroo42]

Here's something interesting - if you pay attention to such things as I do. It was yesterday I mentioned on this board the question about where the hanging gardens of Babylon actually were. Now, just less than 24 hours later, I open up my computer and this is the first email I find. A friend in SD with whom I sometime discuss both astronomy and ancient man, sent me this link: www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/ancient-babylonians-might-have-used-geometry-to-track-jupiter/vi-BBoRNa0
I have never discussed Babylon with him before and he knows nothing of my online activities.
My precognitive dreams inevitably abide by 'the next day rule'. If a dream is to prove precognitive, the event will come to pass before the next sleep period. However, unlike reports from some dreamers, I have never been able to detect anything about the dream that suggests it will prove precognitive. I can't distinguish one from any 'normal' dream. Seems to me 'the next day rule' is applying itself here to a case of minor coincidence too.
Take it for what you will - but interesting to me as part of a persistent phenomenon of coincidence and precognition.

[annaj26]

Feb 1, 2016 11:49:43 GMT -5 watcheroo42 said:

Here's something interesting - if you pay attention to such things as I do. It was yesterday I mentioned on this board the question about where the hanging gardens of Babylon actually were. Now, just less than 24 hours later, I open up my computer and this is the first email I find. A friend in SD with whom I sometime discuss both astronomy and ancient man, sent me this link: www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/ancient-babylonians-might-have-used-geometry-to-track-jupiter/vi-BBoRNa0
I have never discussed Babylon with him before and he knows nothing of my online activities.
My precognitive dreams inevitably abide by 'the next day rule'. If a dream is to prove precognitive, the event will come to pass before the next sleep period. However, unlike reports from some dreamers, I have never been able to detect anything about the dream that suggests it will prove precognitive. I can't distinguish one from any 'normal' dream. Seems to me 'the next day rule' is applying itself here to a case of minor coincidence too.
Take it for what you will - but interesting to me as part of a persistent phenomenon of coincidence and precognition.

That's quite a coincidence, but it probably is just a coincidence. Either that or there's a cause and effect explanation we don't grasp! That would be amazing!

This is a good site.

www.ancient.eu/Ishtar_Gate/