History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
By Gaston Maspero
15 Oct, 2018
A passage from the book... The Median empire is the least known of all those which held sway for a time over the destinies of a portion of Western Asia. The reason of this is not to be ascribed to the shortness of its duration: the Chaldæan empire o
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A passage from the book... The Median empire is the least known of all those which held sway for a time over the destinies of a portion of Western Asia. The reason of this is not to be ascribed to the shortness of its duration: the Chaldæan empire of Nebuchadrezzar lasted for a period quite as brief, and yet the main outlines of its history can be established with some certainty in spite of large blanks and much obscurity. Archaeology Less