Hanging Gardens of Babylon
In Assyria his chief finds were the Ashurnasirpal temple in Nimrud (Calah), the cylinder of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, and two of the unique and historically important bronze strips from the Balawat Gates. He identified the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon with the mound known as "Babil". He excavated a palace of Nebuchadnezzar II at Borsippa.