Nabonidus Chronicle
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Nabonidus Chronicle
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The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets. It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, covers the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and ends with the start of the reign of Cyrus's son Cambyses II, spanning a period from 556 BC to some time after 539 BC. It provides a rare contemporary account of Cyrus's rise to power an
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Ancient Babylonian text
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus_Chronicle
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2024-02-27T20:29:48Z
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