{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F7c3a6553-44cd-4c93-8972-ce544d42a6fe","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"We Stan a King: Nabonidus - Ep 152\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/7c3a6553-44cd-4c93-8972-ce544d42a6fe\"></iframe>","title":"We Stan a King: Nabonidus - Ep 152","description":"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.\nLinks\n\nCuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia (LiveScience)\n\nMesopotamia (World History Encyclopedia)\n\nVideo: The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire - Marian H Feldman (TED-Ed via YouTube)\n\nA History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC (via WorldCat)\n\nThe Reign of Nabonidus King of Babylon 556-539 BC (Yale Babylonian Collection)\n\nThe Harran Inscriptions of Nabonidus (Anatolian Studies)\n\nQedar (Livius)\n\nThe Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation From the Neolithic to the Iron Age (via WorldCat)\n\nNew Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom (Ancient Near East Today)\n\nFirst evidence of Nabonidus in the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the region of Taym\u0101\u02be (Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 31 via Academia.edu)\n\nThe Cyrus Cylinder (World History Encyclopedia)\n\nArabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (via WorldCat)\n\nContact\nEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com\nArchPodNet\n\nAPN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com\n\n\nAPN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet\n\n\nAPN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet\n\n\nAPN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet\n\n\nTee Public Store\n\nAffiliates\n\nWildnote\n\nTeePublic\n\nTimeular","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/dddd1215-eeb0-4139-b885-732091a9088a/uploads-2f1612927465714-puvwh93kw2-3b3c967815ee02703f7cfe1c7eed.jpg"}