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Before the decipherment of cuneiform text, knowledge of the history of Babylon and Assyria was mostly dependent upon classical authorites. This history, however, was scanty and questionable. Had the native history of Berossus survived, this may not have been the case; all that is known of the Chaldaean historian's work, however, is derived from quotations in Josephus, Ptolemy, Eusebius and George Syncellus. The authenticity of his list of 10 antediluvian kings who reigned for 120 sari or 432,000 years, has been partially confirmed by the inscriptions; but his 8 postdiluvian dynasties are difficult to reconcile with the monuments, and the numbers attached to them are probably corrupt. It is different with the 7th and 8th dynasties as given by Ptolemy in his Almagest, which prove to have been faithfully recorded:
  1. Nabonassar (747 BC) 14 years
  2. Nadios
  3. Khinziros and Poros ( Pul)
  4. Ilulaeos
  5. Mardokempados ( Merodach-Baladan ) 12
  6. Arkeanos ( Sargon II)
  7. Interregnum
  8. Hagisa 1 month
  9. Belibos (702 BC) 3 years
  10. Assaranadios ( Ashur-nadin-shumi )
  11. Regebelos- ..year
  12. Mesesimordakos, 4 years
  13. Interregnum
  14. Asaridinos ( Esarhaddon), 13 years
  15. Saosdukhinos ( Samash-shum-ukin ), 20 years
  16. Sineladanos ( Ashurbanipal), 22 years

The account of Babylon given by Herodotus is not that of aft eye-witness and not very extenesive. In his Histories he mentions that he will devote a whole section to the history of Assyria, but this promise is unfufilled. Herodotus' views are argued against by CtesiasCtesias of Cnidus in Caria, was a Greek physician and historian, who flourished in the 5th century BC. In early life he was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger. Ctesias was, who, however, has mistaken mythology for history, and Greek romance owed to him its NinusNinus was accepted in texts arising in Hellenistic period and later as the eponymous founder of Nineveh, and thus the city itself personified. He was said to have been the son of Belus or Bel, to have conquered in 17 years the whole of western Asia with t and Semiramis, its Ninyas and Sardanapalus . Another ancient authority of some value on Babylonian and Assyrian history, is the Old TestamentThe Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures constitutes the first major part of the Christian Bible, usually divided into the categories law, history, poetry (or wisdom books) and prophecy. All of those books were written before the birth of Jesus. Canon o.

See also: Babylonia and AssyriaSee also Babylonia and Assyria. Assyria and Babylonia contrasted History of Babylonia and Assyria Arrival of the Semites to Babylonia and Assyria Early princes of Babylonia and Assyria Semitic Empire of Sargon of Akkad Kings of Babylon Kings of Assyria Ge

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BabyloniaBabylonia was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad. Its capital was Babylon. The earliest mention of Babylon can be found in a tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 23rd centur Assyria



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