OS 161 - A Kingdom of Honey and Blood: The Suhu Rebellion

Suhu is a only modestly important region, and the independant kingdom that lived on the Middle Euphrates from perhaps 775 BCE to 744 BCE is barely more than an historical footnote. And yet, because they wrote their stories on stone stele, we can talk about the two kings Shamash-Resha-Usur and Ninurta-Kudurri-Usur. They loved their tiny nation and lived for its prosperity, building orchards, canals, and cities, even introducting honeybees into the region for the betterment of their citizenry. How nice it must have been to have a king that loved his land. We also discuss the mysterious condemnatio of Nergal-Eresh, the Assyrian governor who lost this province to the migratory indigenous armies.

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