Produced by David Widger THE SEVEN GREAT MONARCHIES OF THE ANCIENT ASIAN WORLD By George Rawlinson AN INDEX Edited by David Widger Project Gutenberg Editions George Rawlinson (1812-1902) Chaldaea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia, Parthia, Sassanian Empire; And The History of Phoenicia CONTENTS Click on the ## before each title to go directly to a linked index of the detailed chapters and illustrations ## Chaldaea ## Assyria ## Media ## Babylon ## Persia ## Parthia ## Sassanian Empire and ## History of Phoenicia VOLUMES, CHAPTERS AND STORIES Chaldaea PREFACE TO FIVE GREAT MONARCHIES. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. PREFACE TO THE SIXTH MONARCHY. PREFACE TO SEVENTH MONARCHY. REFERENCES THE FIRST MONARCHY. CHALDAEA. CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTRY CHAPTER II. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS CHAPTER III. THE PEOPLE CHAPTER IV. LANGUAGE AND WRITING CHAPTER V. ARTS AND SCIENCES CHAPTER VI. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS CHAPTER VII. RELIGION CHAPTER VIII. HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY List of Illustrations Plate 1 1. Plan of Mugheir ruins (after Taylor) Plate 2 2. Ruins of Warka (Erech) (after Loftus) Plate 3 3. Akkerkuf (after Ker Porter) 4. Hamman (after Loftus) Plate 4 5. Tel-Ede (ditto) 6. Palms (after Oppert) Plate 5 7. Chaldaean reeds, from an Assyrian sculpture (after Layard) Plate 6 8. Wild sow and pigs, from Koyunjik (Layard) 9. Ethiopians (after Prichard) 10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum) Page 42 Plate 7 10. Cuneiform inscriptions (drawn by the Author, from bricks in the British Museum) 11. Chaldaean tablet (after Layard) 12. Signet-cylinder (after Ker Porter) Page 44 Plate 8 13. Bowariyeh (after Loftus) 14. Mugheir Temple (ditto) Plate 9 15. Ground-plan of ditto (ditto) 16. Mugheir Temple, restored (by the Author) 17. Terra-cotta cone, actual size (after Loftus) Plate 10 18. Plan and wall of building patterned with cones (after Loftus) 19. Ground-plan of chambers excavated at Abu-Shahrein (after Taylor) Plate 11 20. Brick vault at Mugheir (ditto) 21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto) Plate 12 21. Chaldaean dish-cover tombs (ditto) 22. Chaldaean jar-coffin (ditto) 23. Section of drain (ditto) Plate 13 24. Chaldaean vases of the first period (drawn by the Author from vases in the British Museum) 25. Chaldaean vases, drinking-vessels, and amphora of the second period (ditto) 26. Chaldaean lamps of the second period (ditto) Plate 14 27. Seal-cylinder on metal axis (drawn and partly restored by the Author) 28. Signet-cylinder of King Urukh (after Ker Porter) 29. Flint knives (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum) Plate 15 30. Stone hammer, hatchet, adze, and nail (chiefly after Taylor) 31. Chaldaean bronze spear and arrow-heads (drawn by the Author from the originals in the British Museum)