The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, on the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 kilometres south of Baghdad in Iraq, were supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He is reported to have constructed the gardens to please his wife, Amyitis of Media, who longed for the trees and beautiful plants of her homeland. While the most descriptive accounts of the gardens come from Greek historians, such as Berossus and Diodorus Siculus, Babylonian records stay silent on the matter. Tablets from the time of Nebuchadnezzar do not have a single reference to the Hanging Gardens.