A member of the ancient Chaldean people of Mesopotamia, or anything relating to them and their advanced civilization.
From Akkadian 'Kaldu' through Greek and Latin, referring to the Semitic people who dominated southern Mesopotamia. The word became a symbol of ancient wisdom and astrological knowledge.
Chaldeans have an outsized legacy in Western imagination—the Magi who visited Jesus in the Bible are often called 'Chaldean wise men,' which wrongly compressed a thousand years of history but shows how the name came to mean 'any ancient sage.'
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