The Burbur or Accad inscriptions found in Babylonia do not date before B.C. 2000. Ninus, the builder of Nineveh (Fish-town) and the founder of the Assyrian dynasties, is usually placed between B.C. 2317 and 2116. An extract, by Alexander Polyhistor from the Armenian[652] Chronicle, gives, by adding the dynasties, an origin-date of 2,317 years. Berosus the priest, declares from official documents, that Babylon (God’s Gate) had regal annals 1,000 years before Solomon (B.C. 993–953), in whose reign dynastic Jewish history begins. Diodorus Siculus, quoting Ctesias (B.C. 395) makes the monarchy commence one thousand years before the Siege of Troy, which we may place about B.C. 1200. Æmilius Sura, quoted by Paterculus, proposes the date B.C. 2145, and Eusebius the Armenian 1340 years before the first Olympiad (B.C. 776), or B.C. 2116. The great kingdom of the Khita (Hittites)[653] was succeeded on the rich lowlands of the Tigris-Euphrates system by Babylon, which the Nilotes called ‘Har,’ and by the Assyrians, whom the Egyptians called Mat or the People, and hieroglyphs notice the ‘Great King of the Mat.’ But [Cuneiform] Assur[654] was little known till the decline of the Pharaohs in the Twenty-first Dynasty (B.C. 1100–966) of the priest Hirhor and his successors: one of the latter—Ramessu or Ramses XVI.—married, when dethroned, a daughter of Pallasharnes, the ‘great king of the Assyrians,’ whose capital was Nineveh,[655] and thus led to the Assyrian invasions of Egypt.[656] We may, then, safely hold with Lepsius that early Babylonian civilisation was posterior to, if not imported from, Egypt.[657] In Babylonia a third element, the so-called ‘Turanian’ (Chinese), first emerged from Egyptian and began to take its part in the drama of progress. The almost unknown quantity has assumed magnificent proportions in the eyes of certain students, and great things are still expected from Akkadian revelation. Yet the race typified by the Chinese could have had no effect upon the learning of Egypt. ‘At the time when the genealogical tables of Genesis were written (chap. x.) those regions were still so unknown and barbarous that the writer excluded them from the civilised world.’[658] [Heading: _THE SWORD IN ASSYRIA._]