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The Median empire is the least known of all those which held sway for a time over the destinies of a portion of Western Asia. The reason of this is not to be ascribed to the shortness of its duration: the Chaldæan empire of Nebuchadrezzar lasted for a period quite as brief, and yet the main outlines of its history can be established with some certainty in spite of large blanks and much obscurity. Whereas at Babylon, moreover, original documents abound, enabling us to put together, feature by feature, the picture of its ancient civilisation and of the chronology of its kings, we possess no. | History Of Egypt Chaldea Syria by G. Maspero 1 History Of Egypt Chaldea Syria by G. Maspero The Project Gutenberg EBook of History Of Egypt Chaldea Syria Babylonia and Assyria Volume 9 of 12 by G. Maspero This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title History Of Egypt Chaldea Syria Babylonia and Assyria Volume 9 of 12 Author G. Maspero Editor A.H. Sayce Translator M.L. McClure Release Date December 16 2005 EBook 17329 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF EGYPT CHALDYA Produced by David Widger History Of Egypt Chaldea Syria by G. Maspero Illustration Spines 2 Illustration Cover HISTORY OF EGYPT CHALDEA SYRIA BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA By G. MASPERO Honorable Doctor of Civil Laws and Fellow of Queen s College Oxford Member of the Institute and Professor at the College of France Edited by A. H. SAYCE Professor of Assyriology Oxford Translated by M. L. McCLURE Member of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund CONTAINING OVER TWELVE HUNDRED COLORED PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Volume IX. LONDON THE GROLIER SOCIETY PUBLISHERS Illustration 001.jpg Frontispiece Howling Dervish Illustration Titlepage Illustration 001.jpg PAGE IMAGE Illustration 002.jpg PAGE IMAGE THE IRANIAN CONQUEST THE IRANIAN RELIGIONS--CYRUS IN LYDIA AND AT BABYLON CAMBYSES IN EGYPT--DARIUS AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE EMPIRE. The constitution of the Median empire borrowed from the ancient peoples of the Euphrates its religion only is peculiar to itself--Legends concerning Zoroaster his laws the Avesta and its history--Elements contained in it of primitive religion--The supreme god Ahura-mazâ and his Amêsha-spentas the Yazatas the Fravashis--Angrô-mainyus and his agents the Daivas the Pairikas their struggle with Ahura-mazdâ--The duties of man .
