The Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC and quoted later by Josephus, attributed the gardens to the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled between 605 and 562 BC.
Navadno pravijo, da so bili zgrajeni v starodavnem mestu Babilon, v bližini današnjega Hillah, provinca Babil v Iraku.