CHAPTER II.

CHALDÆA.

Chronology--Berosus--His Dates mythical--Dates in Genesis--Synchronisms with Egypt and Assyria--Monuments--Cuneiform Inscriptions--How deciphered--Behistan Inscription--Grotefend and Rawlinson--Layard--Library of Koyunjik--How preserved--Accadian Translations and Grammars--Historical Dates--Elamite Conquest--Commencement of Modern History--Ur-Ea and Dungi--Nabonidus--Sargon I., 3800 B.C.--Ur of the Chaldees--Sharrukin's Cylinder--His Library--His Son Naram-Sin--Semites and Accadians--Accadians and Chinese--Period before Sargon I.--Patesi--De Sarzec's find at Sirgalla--Gud-Ea, 4000 to 4500 B.C.--Advance of Delta--Astronomical Records--Chaldæa and Egypt give similar results---Historic Period 6000 or 7000 years--and no trace of a beginning 42