United States or Palau ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The inscriptions, prolix enough on some subjects, hardly touch on others that would be much more interesting, and, moreover, their interpretation is full of difficulty. The Greek travellers knew nothing of Nineveh, while their visits to Babylon were paid in its years of decadence. They seem to have been chiefly struck with the sort of sacerdotal caste to which they gave the name of Chaldaioi.
Hist. vi. 26; the Greek translators of the Bible rendered the Hebrew term Khasdim by Chaldaioi; both forms seem to be derived from the same primitive word. STRABO, xvi. i. 1, 2, 3. LAYARD, Nineveh and its Remains, vol. i. pp. 312, 315; Discoveries, p. 245. RAWLINSON, Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. pp. 4, 5.
Word Of The Day