"Chaldaean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... absent in the west, a revolt broke out in Babylonia. A Chaldaean king, Merodach Baladan III, had allied himself with the Elamites, and occupied Babylon. A battle was fought at Dur-ilu and the Elamites retreated. Although Sargon swept triumphantly through the land, ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... The Chaldaean account of Genesis is contained on fragments of tablets discovered and deciphered in 1875 by George Smith. These tell legends of the time when "nothing which was called heaven existed above, and when nothing below had as yet ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton |
