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We Stan a King: Nabonidus - Ep 152

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This week, Amber tells Anna the story of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, who, mid-kinging, tootled off to the Arabian desert for a decade to worship the moon god, Sin. But is that the whole story? Of course not. Tune in to learn what Nabonidus was maybe really doing out there.

Links

  • Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia (LiveScience)
  • Mesopotamia (World History Encyclopedia)
  • Video: The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire - Marian H Feldman (TED-Ed via YouTube)
  • A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC (via WorldCat)
  • The Reign of Nabonidus King of Babylon 556-539 BC (Yale Babylonian Collection)
  • The Harran Inscriptions of Nabonidus (Anatolian Studies)
  • Qedar (Livius)
  • The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation From the Neolithic to the Iron Age (via WorldCat)
  • New Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom (Ancient Near East Today)
  • First evidence of Nabonidus in the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the region of Taymāʾ (Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 31 via Academia.edu)
  • The Cyrus Cylinder (World History Encyclopedia)
  • Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (via WorldCat)

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