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Chaldea

Or Chal·dae·a

[kal-dee-uh]

noun

  1. an ancient region in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valley, in S Babylonia.

  2. Babylonia.



Chaldea

/ kælˈdiːə /

noun

  1. an ancient region of Babylonia; the land lying between the Euphrates delta, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian desert

  2. another name for Babylonia

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Wynne Jones was working on the manuscript for The Islands of Chaldea when she became too ill to continue, said her sister Ursula Jones, also an award-winning children's author.

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Here we have a manifest trace of different systems applying to the ancient tradition calendrical conceptions, dissimilar in each record, and yet all seeming to have proceeded from Chaldea.

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Are we still to pay tribute to Chaldea?

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Up to this time Abraham to all appearance had no knowledge of any God but the deities worshipped by his fathers in Chaldea.

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The ancient wisdom of Egypt and Chaldea lived on with the men who knew, called the Gnostics.

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