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A 16th-century engraving of the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" by Dutch artist Martin Heemskerck, with the Tower of Babel in the background

Villandry Jardins style Renaissance
Rectangular fishpond with ducks and lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees, in a fresco from the Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, 18th Dynasty
A funerary model of a garden, dating to the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, circa 2009–1998 BC.
Reconstruction of the roman garden of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii
Rock sculpture from the 'Lingering Garden' of Suzhou, China
The Medici Villa Petraia, near Florence, epitomizes the Italian garden of the early Renaissance

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 File:Liuyuan.jpg|Rock sculpture from the 'Lingering Garden' of Suzhou, China
 File:VillaPetraia.gif|The Medici Villa Petraia, near Florence, epitomizes the Italian garden of the early Renaissance
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