Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural History |
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... Chaldeans the dominant People in ancient Babylon - Origin and Progress of their Religion - Chaldean Cosmogony and Doctrines ac- cording to Berosus - Its Similarity with the Scriptural Ac- count of the Noachian Deluge - Mythology - Pul ...
... Chaldeans the dominant People in ancient Babylon - Origin and Progress of their Religion - Chaldean Cosmogony and Doctrines ac- cording to Berosus - Its Similarity with the Scriptural Ac- count of the Noachian Deluge - Mythology - Pul ...
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... - The vitrified Masses -Much Room yet for Investigation respecting these Ruins and the circumjacent Country - Prospects of this being ef- fected , ......... 123 CHAPTER VII . OTHER RUINS OF BABYLONIA AND CHALDEA . CONTENTS . 11.
... - The vitrified Masses -Much Room yet for Investigation respecting these Ruins and the circumjacent Country - Prospects of this being ef- fected , ......... 123 CHAPTER VII . OTHER RUINS OF BABYLONIA AND CHALDEA . CONTENTS . 11.
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... CHALDEA . Akkerkoof - The Site of Accad - Umgeyer - According to some Opinions the ancient Orchoe - Jibel Sanam ... Chaldean Villages populous- Convent of Mar Elias - Churches of Mar Toma and Mar Shemaoon , ... CHAPTER IX . SUBSEQUENT ...
... CHALDEA . Akkerkoof - The Site of Accad - Umgeyer - According to some Opinions the ancient Orchoe - Jibel Sanam ... Chaldean Villages populous- Convent of Mar Elias - Churches of Mar Toma and Mar Shemaoon , ... CHAPTER IX . SUBSEQUENT ...
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... Chaldeans , or Syrians - Divisions of Sects - Early Progress of Christianity in the East - Christian Bishops and Sees - The Nestorian Heresy - Condemnation of its Author -Rise of the Jacobite Schism - Its wide Dissemination- Number of ...
... Chaldeans , or Syrians - Divisions of Sects - Early Progress of Christianity in the East - Christian Bishops and Sees - The Nestorian Heresy - Condemnation of its Author -Rise of the Jacobite Schism - Its wide Dissemination- Number of ...
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... Chaldea , because , after the capture of Babylon , many of the in- habitants retired thither , carrying with them their arts and sciences ; but this colony must be carefully distin- guished from the true and ancient Chaldea , the birth ...
... Chaldea , because , after the capture of Babylon , many of the in- habitants retired thither , carrying with them their arts and sciences ; but this colony must be carefully distin- guished from the true and ancient Chaldea , the birth ...
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according Ainsworth ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Asshur Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Birs bitumen bricks building built called canal capital Chaldeans chief Christian common Crassus crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon Cyrus death described Diarbekir district east eastern empire enemy Euphrates feet formed former Geographical Greeks ground gypsum height Herodotus Hillah hills horse inhabitants Jezirah Kasr Khabour king Kurdistan Kurds land limestone Mardin marshes Medes mentioned Mesopotamia miles monarch Mosul mounds mountains Mujelibé Nestorian Nimrod Nineveh Ninus Nisibin observed occupied Orfa palace Parthians Pasha passed Persian plain present prince reign remains remarkable Rich Rich's ridges rising river rock Roman ruins Samarra Scripture seen Seleucia sheik Shinar side Sinjar Solymaneah species square stone Strabo stream Surenas Syria Taurus temple of Belus tent thick Tigris tion towers town tract traveller tribe village walls whole Xenophon yards Yezidees