Cyrus the Great arrives, Nabonidus falls, and several people eat human meat as we sort through Herodotus to tell the story of the rise of Persia in the mid-6th century BCE.

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Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus';  

Matt Waters - 'King of the World';  

Herodotus, Sélincourt (trnsl.) - 'The Histories';  

C.J. Gadd - 'The Fall of Nineveh: The Newly Discovered Babylonian Chronicle';  

M. David Litwa - 'How the Gospels Became History';