
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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Asherbonipaul - A Multidimensional Monarch
Asherbonipaul was a multidimensional monarch. He didn't spend all his time chopping up foes and braiding his imp sing mesopotamian beard. The last king of babylon had a similar disposition. Nabonitus left babylon altogether for much of his reign, spending time in the distant desert oasis of tima in present day saudi arabia. Asherbonipal could not have known that assyria would fall 15 years after his death, never to recover.
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