Chapter Ii--Syria At the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest

SYRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST

NINEVEH AND THE FIRST COSSAEAN KINGS-THE PEOPLES OF SYRIA, THEIR TOWNS, THEIR CIVILIZATION, THEIR RELIGION-PHOENICIA.

The dynasty of Uruazagga-The Cossseans: their country, their gods, their conquest of Chaldaea-The first sovereigns of Assyria, and the first Cossaean Icings: Agumhakrime.

The Egyptian names for Syria: Khara, Zahi, Lotanu, Kefatiu-The military highway from the Nile to the Euphrates: first section from Zalu to Gaza-The Canaanites: their fortresses, their agricultural character: the forest between Jaffa and Mount Carmel, Megiddo-The three routes beyond Megiddo: Qodshu-Alasia, Naharaim, Garchemish; Mitanni and the countries beyond the Euphrates.

Disintegration of the Syrian, Canaanite, Amorite, and Khdti populations; obliteration of types-Influence of Babylon on costumes, customs, and religion--Baalim and Astarte, plant-gods and stone-gods-Religion, human sacrifices, festivals; sacred stones--Tombs and the fate of man after death-Phoenician cosmogony.

Phoenicia--Arad, Marathus, Simyra, Botrys--Byblos, its temple, its goddess, the myth of Adonis: Aphaka and the valley of the Nahr-Ibrahim, the festivals of the death and resurrection of Adonis--Berytus and its god El; Sidon and its suburbs--Tyre: its foundation, its gods, its necropolis, its domain in the Lebanon.

Isolation of the Phoenicians with regard to the other nations of Syria; their love of the sea and the causes which developed it--Legendary accounts of the beginning of their colonization--Their commercial proceedings, their banks and factories; their ships--Cyprus, its wealth, its occupations--The Phoenician colonies in Asia Minor and the AEgean Sea: purple dye--The nations of the AEgean.