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Raksha

(7,167 posts)

10. This line makes me so sad...

Reply to jakeXT (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 10, 2013, 01:19 PM

Sep 2013

"They drove heavy vehicles over the fragile paving of once-sacred pathways."

That is such a sacrilege.

Thanks for the link. I can't say I remember the Hanging Gardens of Babyon (I've only read the name a few hundred times), but I was happy to learn something of their legend and possible history for the first time ever.