A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER I.

THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHALDAEO-ASSYRIAN CIVILIZATION.

Sec. 1.--_Situation and Boundaries of Chaldaea and Assyria._

The primitive civilization of Chaldaea, like that of Egypt, was cradled in the lower districts of a great alluvial basin, in which the soil was stolen from the sea by long continued deposits of river mud. In the valley of the Tigris and E...