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Chaldea

American  
[kal-dee-uh] / kælˈdi ə /
Or Chaldaea

noun

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

  2. Babylonia.


Chaldea British  
/ 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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She walks us through its origins in ancient Chaldea, its popularity among history’s scientists and philosophers, and the present day—where real experiments have been run.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2018

Returning now for the first time, the former football hero finds the town of Chaldea little changed: as ever, skulduggery, greed and hypocrisy thrive.

From Time Magazine Archive

The astrological trail, says Moran, leads to Chaldea, "the home of astrology par excellence."

From Time Magazine Archive

On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled by preagricultural savages.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Chaldea, instead of this marsh reed, there were great stores of clay and of this material the ancient Chaldeans, and the Babylonians and the Assyrians who followed them, made their books.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff