The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are one of the Seven Wonders of the World, though there is no consensus as to where they were located or how they were constructed. They may not even be Babylonian. Some think Sennacherib, the Ancient Assyrian king, built them at Nineveh. Assyrian wall reliefs show the gardens as an ascending series of tiered trees, shrubs, and vines, which from afar would look like a green mountain. If they still existed, the Hanging Gardens would certainly be situated in present-day Iraq—a fact not lost on Michael Rakowitz, an Iraqi-American conceptual artist who is known for “reappearing” Assyrian sculptures and reliefs. He does this not with limestone and basalt, but with cardboard and Middle Eastern food packaging. For the Baltic, Rakowitz is creating an immersive environment of trees, hedges, and herbs. Positioned within this greenery are his mesmerizing sculpted relics, reminders of the archaeological heritage that was looted and destroyed first during the Iraq War and then by ISIS fanatics. Rakowitz’s ode to Near Eastern history is titled Hanging Garden. —Elena Clavarino