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• Thus, all the way from Egypt to India, Aramaic was used for official correspondence as well as for everyday communication. With Aramaic being used during the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, and now the Medo-Persian Empire, it is clear that Aramaic was here to stay. And as we shall see when we look at the use of Aramaic in the Greek and Roman Empires that would follow, Aramaic remained in use, in the Middle East, as the language of the everyday people right down through the following centuries, through Moslem times, and and going as far as the times of the Crusaders.