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) [cuneiform-inscription-last-babylon-king-saudi-arabia.html">https://www.livescience.com/longest-cuneiform-inscription-last-babylon-king-saudi-arabia.html] * Mesopotamia (World History Encyclopedia) [https://www.worldhistory.org/Mesopotamia/] * Video: The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire - Marian H Feldman (TED-Ed via YouTube) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pa54hWROpQ] * A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC (via WorldCat) [https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-the-ancient-near-east-ca-3000-323-bc/oclc/904505611?ht=edition&referer=di] * The Reign of Nabonidus King of Babylon 556-539 BC (Yale Babylonian Collection) [collection.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/YNER%2010%20-%20Beaulieu%20-%20The%20Reign%20of%20Nabonidus%20King%20of%20Babylon%20556-549%20BC%20(1989).pdf">https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/YNER%2010%20-%20Beaulieu%20-%20The%20Reign%20of%20Nabonidus%20King%20of%20Babylon%20556-549%20BC%20(1989).pdf] * The Harran Inscriptions of Nabonidus (Anatolian Studies) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3642415] * Qedar (Livius) [https://www.livius.org/articles/people/qedar/] * The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation From the Neolithic to the Iron Age (via WorldCat) [https://www.worldcat.org/title/archaeology-of-prehistoric-arabia-adaptation-and-social-formation-from-the-neolithic-to-the-iron-age/oclc/852824778?ht=edition&referer=di] * New Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom (Ancient Near East Today) [https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/03/New-Discoveries-at-Sela] * 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) [https://www.academia.edu/27754301/First_evidence_of_Nabonidus_in_the_Ancient_North_Arabian_inscriptions_from_the_region_of_Taym%C4%81] * The Cyrus Cylinder (World History Encyclopedia) [https://www.worldhistory.org/article/166/the-cyrus-cylinder/] * Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (via WorldCat) [https://www.worldcat.org/title/arabia-and-the-arabs-from-the-bronze-age-to-the-coming-of-islam/oclc/914859414&referer=brief_results] Contact * Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com ArchPodNet * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/] * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet * APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet * Tee Public Store [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724] Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/] * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff] * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/]