(2) The hanging garden can be explored from the main entrance keeping to the wooden planking pathing. There is even a way to visit the upper floor terrace via wood ladder structure (the siege tower, borrowed from the medieval theme).

Even though my 8th map really does not seem to do so, this map was constantly battling the object count limit of the editor (2000 object max). The bush (box-like) planting took up a huge amount of objects. And once you start to use them you need to continue to do so for consistency, IMO.

Build time: around 3 days actual build time (spread out over 11 days)

Tip: Should you like to try out the map, you can download it via the Hidden Through Time main menu:
-> online -> online maps -> click on "all" button
-> under Search map: enter " AEons Hanging Garden "
and then play it.

(1) Looking at AEons Rift in Time it occurred to me that a very much expanded "Water Temple" might be interesting to tackle. To make the temple entrance imposing I tried to find objects that would let me create a wide stairway. Well, experimenting with the arena tiered seating objects from the Roman theme, did not remind me of steps, but of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon . I took me 4-5 days of experimentation to stack these Roman arena objects in a novel way that would not give away their origin in an Egyptian setting.

With the tiers of marble ready for planting, I used the box-like plant to cover not only those large steps, but also the Egyptian head stones on the pillars. This suggests that both objects have been hollowed out, i.e. these have been turned into glorified planters. I quickly filled them with all shorts of vegetation: cacti, trees, flowers, etc... To create a favourable microclimate in a desert, I placed the whole structure in a flat artificial lake.