Other Greco-Roman authors, including Strabo, claimed that Semiramis had been behind the fabulous hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The historical evidence ...

Citizens worshipped at temples to gods and goddesses such as Ishtar (Inanna). The famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, may have been in Nineveh.

The list, created as early as the fifth century BC, venerated landmarks like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in ancient Iraq, the domineering bronze statue of the Greek sun god Helios known as the ...

Iraq From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Iraq holds sites that many remember from their ancient history textbooks. Sadly, some of its artifacts were lost to looting ...

There’s no plants, no hanging baskets and it’s not lawned.” University students Harvey Adams and Tayla Bryning came to meet up in Piccadilly Gardens having not seen each other for some time.

Northern Ireland’s royal residence is a gorgeous Georgian manor set in 100 acres of picturesque gardens. A guided tour of the ‘castle’ takes you back over the centuries to pivotal moments in ...

"We need someone who can learn and then teach it because it feels like its future is hanging by a thread. "Two of us are 80, and the other teacher is a bit younger, but we need someone to come ...

The Canadian-made vessel that ferries people 40 kilometres across Lake Huron to Manitoulin Island every summer caught his eye even then, and he made a model of it out of cereal boxes. He was a ...

Mumbai: A man who was getting off a train from the wrong side, trying to slip in between two iron bars alongside the tracks died after his neck got wedged between two vertical iron bars at Mumbai ...

Lindsay says in urban environments where apartment living is prevalent, incorporating hanging gardens, green walls and green roofing into building design can be a way to support biodiversity. “ ...