Episode 152 - We Stan a King: Nabonidus

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.

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.

• 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)

Image: Nabonidus stele, depicting the king praying to the moon. Wikimedia Commons CC BY-30