Part 2 — REIGNS OF THE CHALDEAN AND MEDO-PERSIAN KINGS.
Reading edition
These dates have been established after careful study of the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Ctesias, Josephus, Berosus, Manetho, Ptolemy, Diodorus, Julius Africanus, Eusebius, Egibi tablets; also Annalistic tablet of Cyrus and “Records of the Past.”
MONARCHS.
B.C. Reigned.
Nabopolassar began to reign 626 21 years
Siege of Jerusalem 606
Nebuchadnezzar 605 43 ”
Astyages, king of Media 593 35 ”
Evil-Merodach 562 2 ”
Nergal-sarra-utsur 560 4 ”
Cyrus the Great, king of Persia 558 29 ”
Laborosoarkhodos 556 9/12 year.
Nabonadios, alone 556 14
Nabonadios and Belshazzar 541 3 17 years
Babylon taken by Cyrus 538
Cyrus and Darius 538 2
Cyrus alone 536 7 9 ”
Cambyses 529 75/12 ”
Gomates 522 7/12 year.
Darius Hystaspes 521 36 years
Xerxes 485 20 ”
Artabanus (USURPER)
Artaxerxes Longimanus 465 40 ”
Xerxes II. and Sogdianus mos.
Darius Nothus 425 29 years
Artaxerxes Mnemon 396 36 ”
Ochus 360 21 ”
Arses 339 2 ”
Darius Codomannus 337 4 ”