The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and its conquerors, rulers and builders

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