The world: historical and actual . er by theemployes. The intro-duction of the Egyp-tian solar year with theaccession to the Baby-lonian throne of Nabo-nasar, merely fixes adate (B. C. 747). Noth-ing noteworthy occur-red, however, except that ualendraic adoptionunder that ruler, nor yet under his twelvesuccessors. Prior to the overthrow of Nineveh,Babylon was the seat of a satrap rather than a first real sovereign was Nabopolasar, the fa-ther of Nebuchadnezzar. The latter raised the em-pire to its supreme glory. He extended widely itsarea and the grandeur of Babylon. The book ofDaniel
The world: historical and actual . er by theemployes. The intro-duction of the Egyp-tian solar year with theaccession to the Baby-lonian throne of Nabo-nasar, merely fixes adate (B. C. 747). Noth-ing noteworthy occur-red, however, except that ualendraic adoptionunder that ruler, nor yet under his twelvesuccessors. Prior to the overthrow of Nineveh,Babylon was the seat of a satrap rather than a first real sovereign was Nabopolasar, the fa-ther of Nebuchadnezzar. The latter raised the em-pire to its supreme glory. He extended widely itsarea and the grandeur of Babylon. The book ofDaniel furnishes about all the history we have ofthe empire from that date to its complete submis-sion, supplemented by some references of a histori-cal character in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. There is, however, a break in the record whichcan be supplied in its meager outlines from anothersource. So far as the Biblical record goes, it wouldbe a waste of space to reproduce it, so familiar andaccessible is it. But Belshazzar did not immediate-. ly succeed Nebuchadnezzar. Between them inter-vened the regency of Queen Nitocris, who held thereins of government during the strange insanity ofthe great king. Besides her were Evilmerodach. whowas slain and succeeded by his brother-in-law, Neri-glosar, whose son was dethroned for his despotism,and the lawful dynasty restored in the person of theyoung and dissolute Belshazzar, whose feast on thevery night his capital was taken and himself slain,is known to all. As we write, brilliant successes in Assyrian areha?-ology are reported. In 1880 an expedition was or-ganized to search for tablets, or brick books, on the site of Babylon. It wasunder the charge ofIlormuzd Rassam. Anaccount from a sourceusually authentic, statesthat Rassam has un-earthed a perfect treas-ure trove of relics, con-taining some traditionsthat date before theflood. The accountproceeds thus: Among his discov-eries are the account-books of the great fi-nancial officers of theBabylon
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