Of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the location of the Hanging Garden of Babylon remains the most elusive, even with its believed home right there in its name. However, new research ...

Visualizing the greatest metropolis in the ancient world requires the full powers of imagination. This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have ...

If ancient Hellenic sources are to be believed, hanging gardens have existed at least since antiquity when the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon were described by writers such as Herodotus and Philo ...

When the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) opened in December 2013 it welcomed visitors with terraces shaded from the subtropical sun by an expansive, pergola-like roof dripping with vegetation. Designed ...

My goal on this hike was to photograph a series of inaccessible alcoves high on a wall in the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness on the Colorado Plateau. I returned with a photo, but the most vivid memory ...