Across
- 2. Babylon's highest god
- 3. came to Babylon about 450 BC examined its wonders
- 5. who was strong enough to make their kind a prisoner
- 9. person who invaded the city and inflicted a terrible revenge on it
- 10. name of canal where walls, temples and gods bricks and earth were dumped into
- 11. king of Persia,whose troops captured Babylon
- 12. German archaeologist who started work at the mound of Babil and unearthed the city for 14 years
- 13. a native Babylonian prince who proclaimed the independence of Babylon
- 14. daughter of the kind of the Medes
Down
- 1. river that is said to have watered the hanging gardens
- 4. one of the sons of Sennacherib who ordered Babylon to be rebuilt
- 6. a son who was a great builder, ruled for 43 years, one who built the Hanging Gardens
- 7. the ruler of Mesopotamia
- 8. a greek historian who believed that hanging gardens were the work of King Cyrus