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===Reign===
Nabonidus took an interest in Babylon's past, excavating ancient buildings and displaying his archeological discoveries in a museum. In most ancient accounts, he is depicted as a royal anomaly. Nabonidus is supposed to have worshiped the moon-god Sîn beyond all the other gods, to have paid special devotion to Sîn's temple in Harran, where his mother was a priestess, and to have neglected the Babylonian primary god, [[Marduk]]. Because of the tensions that these religious reforms generated, he had to leave the capital for the desert oasis of [[Tayma]] in Arabia early in his reign, from which he only returned after many years. In the meantime, his son [[Belshazzar]] ruled from Babylon.
Nabonidus took an interest in Babylon's past, excavating ancient buildings and displaying his archeological discoveries in a museum. In most ancient accounts, he is depicted as a royal anomaly. Nabonidus is supposed to have worshiped the moon-god Sîn beyond all the other gods, to have paid special devotion to Sîn's temple in Harran, where his mother was a priestess, and to have neglected the Babylonian primary god, [[Marduk]]. Because of the tensions that these religious reforms generated, he had to leave the capital for the desert oasis of [[Tayma]] in Arabia early in his reign, from which he only returned after many years. In the meantime, his son [[Belshazzar]] ruled from Babylon.
