Explore the historical continuity of our people: Aramean Timeline →

Arameans

Arameans Of The Seleucid Empire

"The western countries of the Seleucidan Empire, consisting of Syria Proper, Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, and the Elymzan provinces of Elymais and Susiana, or Khuzistan, were occupied by the Aramaeans, or people of Syrian origin; who, if they had any form of alphabetic writing besides the cuneiform letters of Assyria, must have adopted the oldest characters of the Syriac, or those most akin to the Phoenician, such as are now found on coins and other archaeological records."