Glass Art inside the Empire State Building: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchandezzar, King of Bablyon (600 B.C.) was said to have built the Hanging Gardens for his wife, Amytis, because she was homesick for the flowers and trees around her former home in Media. The Gardens consisted of an immense pyramidation of terraces 30 stories high, each overflowing with spectacular masses of colorful blossoms and greenery, and kept watered by artificial rains pumped through a sprinkling system from the Euphrates river. Here, in beautiful apartments within the terraces, the King and his Queen spent the rest of their days.