CHAPTER VIII.
HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY.
"The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."-- GEN.

X.10.
The establishment of a Cushite kingdom in Lower Babylonia dates probably from (at least) the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth century before our era.
Greek traditions' assigned to the city of Babylon an antiquity nearly as remote; and the native historian, Berosus, spoke of a Chaldaean dynasty as bearing rule anterior to B.C.

2250.

Unfortunately the works of this great authority have been lost; and even the general outline of his chronological scheme, whereof some writers have left us an account, is to a certain extent imperfect; so that, in order to obtain a definite chronology for the early times, we are forced to have recourse, in some degree, to conjecture.

Berosus declared that six dynasties had reigned in Chaldaea since the great flood of Xisuthrus, or Noah.