NU.GIRI12: il Giardiniere di Babilonia

This paper analyzes the archaeology, the art history and the mythologies of gardens and landscapes in ancient Mesopotamia. With a literary fiction, a dream, the author aims to introduce the reader into the royal parks of the Mesopotamian kings and, most of all, into the lost hanging gardens. Archaeological evidences cannot state the exact collocation of these gardens, but they existed. This is a walking tour into the literary evidences and into conceptual perceptions dealing with the story of the wonderfull gardens of the Mesopotamian cities, temples, palaces and monuments.