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