Apparently, he wasn't even related to the royal family, and became king by joining with the nobles and killing the current king, who was still a child and had 'ruled' only for six months.
Also, while his reign lasted 17 years, 10 of those were spent outside doing... stuff. Meanwhile, his eldest son Belshazzar ruled as a regent until he came back.
A Greek poet travels to the distant Babylon in order to confirm a rumor about the existence of a great garden. What he did not expect, however, was to find the empire in such unstable situation.
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