'Map of Assyria, Chaldea and Adjacent Countries', 1890. Assyria was a Mesopotamian kingdom from 25th century BC to 612 BC- 609 BC. Chaldea was a country between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which it was absorbed and assimilated into Babylonia. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]