According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kasdim ( and Chaldea ) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad.

Hellenistic Alexandrian culture expressed religion through a syncretism that included influences from Egypt, Chaldea, Greece etc.

At least one is said to have been from Chaldea, a nation in the southern portion of Babylonia, being the daughter of Berossus who wrote the Chaldean history, and Erymanthe.

It was from Chaldea that the name " shedu " came to the Israelites, and so the writers of the Tanach applied the word Shedim to certain Canaanite deities.

In this latter case, the Imam was referenced by virtue of the thrice daily main prayer of the Nizari Ismaili community, the Doowa, as: ... God, the High, the Great, the Merciful, the Magnanimous, the Good, the Great Holy Providence ( Who is ) in the district of Chaldea, in Persia, in human form, descended from the seventy-seven Patras ( ancestors ) and who is the forty-eighth Imam ( Spiritual Chief ) the tenth Naklanki Avatar, our Master, Aga Sultan Mahomed Shah given name of Aga Khan III, the Giver.

We have departed from that church, which they had made a den of thieves, in which they had left nothing sound or like a church, and which they themselves confessed to have erred in many things, as Lot left Sodom, or Abraham Chaldea, not out of contention, but out of obedience to God ; and have sought the certain way of religion out of the sacred Scriptures, which we know cannot deceive us, and have returned to the primitive church of the ancient fathers and apostles, that is, to the beginning a first rise of the church, as to the proper fountain.

* Greek mythology is also mentioned with Chaldea, Circe, Helen, Troy, and Andromache.

It would appear that Bit Yakin was the chief or capital city of the land ; and the king of Chaldea is also called the king of Bit Yakin, just as the kings of Babylonia are regularly styled simply king of Babylon, the capital city.

He crossed the sea on Michaelmas Day 1322 ; had traversed by way of Turkey ( Asia Minor ), Armenia the Little ( Cilicia ) and the Great, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt upper and lower, Libya, great part of Ethiopia, Chaldea, Amazonia, India the Less, the Greater and the Middle, and many countries about India ; had often been to Jerusalem, and had written in Romance as more generally understood than Latin.

Though the name came to be commonly used to refer to the whole of southern Mesopotamia, Chaldea proper was in fact the vast plain in the far south east formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about four hundred miles along the course of these rivers, and about a hundred miles in average width.

In the same way, the Persian Gulf was sometimes called " the Sea of Bit Yakin, instead of " the Sea of the Land of Chaldea.

In a later time, when the Chaldean tribe had burst their narrow bonds and obtained the ascendency over all Babylonia, they gave their name to the whole land of Babylonia, which then was called Chaldea for a short time.

The present county seat was formerly called Chaldea, and was later renamed to Senterville in honor of Governor Senter of Tennessee.

It records that the “ dynasty of Chaldea was terminated ” ( with Nabû-šuma-iškun ) and “ its kingship was transferred ,” but the remainder is lost.

From the 9th century BCE, Borsippa was on the borderland south of which lay the tribal " houses " of Chaldea.

This type of collar was known in ancient Chaldea ( 3rd millennium BC ), both Sumeria and Assyria ( 1400 BC – 800 BC ), New Kingdom Egypt ( 1570 BC – 1070 BC ), Shang Dynasty China ( 1600 BC – 1050 BC ), Minoan Crete ( 2700 BC – 1450 BC ), Classical Greece ( 550 BC – 323 BC ), and ancient Rome ( 510 BC – 476 AD ).

It is impossible to define narrowly the boundaries of this early land of Chaldea, and one may only locate it generally in the low, marshy, alluvial land about the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates, which then discharged their waters through separate mouths into the sea.

It is called in Assyrian mat Kaldi " land of Chaldea ".

15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

In contrast with the arid plateau of Mesopotamia stretched the rich alluvial plain of Chaldea, formed by the deposits of the two great rivers that encircled it.

The Churches of South Asia which were ecclesiastically dependent on the Church of Assyria and Chaldea in Mesopotamia or modern Iraq, lands then subject to the Persian Empire ( Sassanians ), early fell with it into the Nestorian Schism and used Middle Persian as the liturgical language.

But in Chaldea there are some enormous masses of ruins, evidently remains of the vast mounds which formed the substructure of their temples.

The roots of the Western mystery tradition are in occult movements of Late Antiquity, Roman-Hellenistic religions which in turn claimed to originate in ancient Egypt, Chaldea, Persia or other parts of the ancient world.

Babylonia or Chaldea in the Hellenistic world came to be so identified with astrology that " Chaldean wisdom " became among Greeks and Romans the synonym of divination through the planets and stars.

Among the Greeks and Romans, Babylonia ( also known as Chaldea ) became so identified with astrology that ' Chaldean wisdom ' came to be a common synonym for divination using planets and stars.

“ Thus more embassies were dispatched to An-si ( Parthia ), An-ts ' ai ( the Aorsi, or Alans ), Li-kan ( Syria under the Seleucids ), T ' iau-chi ( Chaldea ), and Shon-tu ( India )... As a rule, rather more than ten such missions went forward in the course of a year, and at the least five or six .” ( Shiji, 123 )

* Chaldea, " the Chaldees ", Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylon

Chaldea as the name of a country is used in two different senses.

The 1st century historian Flavius Josephus, among many others, recounted the tradition that these five sons were the progenitors of the nations of Elam, Assyria, Chaldea, Lydia, and Syria, respectively.

* Temple at Al-Ubaid and tome of Mes-Kalam-Dug built near Ur, Chaldea.

In his Geographica, Strabo refers to νεκρομαντία ( necyomanteis ), or " diviners by the dead ", as the foremost practitioners of divination amongst the people of Persia, and it is believed to have also been widespread amongst the peoples of Chaldea ( particularly the Sabians, or star-worshipers ), Etruria, and Babylonia.

The walls of Assyrian palaces were lined with sculptured and coloured slabs of stone, instead of being painted as in Chaldea.

16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

Jordanus ' Mirabilia contains the earliest clear African identification of Prester John, and what is perhaps the first notice of the Black Sea under that name ; it refers to the author's residence in India Major and especially at Kollam, as well as to his travels in Armenia, north-west Persia, the Lake Van region, and Chaldaea ; and it supplies excellent descriptions of Parsee doctrines and burial customs, of Hindu ox-worship, idol-ritual, and suttee, and of Indian fruits, birds, animals and insects.

:" To myself I pictured all the splendours of an age so distant that Chaldaea could not recall it, and thought of Sarnath the Doomed, that stood in the land of Mnar when mankind was young, and of Ib, that was carven of grey stone before mankind existed.

# Running eastward the Sotadic Zone narrows, embracing Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Chaldaea, Afghanistan, Sindh, the Punjab and Kashmir.

In this passage, Chaldaea is a historic region in Mesopotamia, whereas Sarnath, Mnar, and Ib are places in Lovecraft's story " The Doom that Came to Sarnath ".

In Chaldaea and Assyria, the initial use of iron reaches far back, to perhaps 4000 BC.

Books on Egypt and Chaldaea, v. 9-16.

Mēs ̲ h ̲ ān in Middle Persian, Mēs ̲ h ̲ un in Armenian, Maysān in Arabic, and T ’ iao-tche ( Chaldaea ) in the Han sources.

During 1865 he published a history of Assyria and Chaldaea ( Histoire des Empires de Chaldée et d ' Assyrie ) in the context of new archaeological findings.

313 Chaldaea is a large Main belt asteroid.