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Thanks again for listening. Decades of rain had nourished the rise of a dozen petty kingdoms

before an Amarite king named Shamshiyadh had greedily gobbled them up.

The son of a ruler of a minor city, Shamshedad had established himself

by conquering the major sites of Eccolotum and Asur on the northern Tigris.

Moving west, he'd easily swept through the nascent states of Upper Mesopotamia, only meeting substantial resistance approaching the lands of Mari.

Anticipating its eventual fall,

Shamshi Adad raised a new capital in easy striking distance.

The site he chose was actually ancient.

In Acadian times, it was known as Shechna.

But most traces of that previous era were smothered in dirt and dust.

On its refoundation around 1800 BC, Shetna was renamed Shubat Enlil, the dwelling place of Enlil.

It had remained the capital of Shamshiad's territories, known as the old Assyrian Empire, for the rest of his

life. While the new capital was being laid out, the builders likely unearthed some structures

from the previous Acadian period. But a detailed study would have to wait another 3800 years. In the late 20th and early 21st

centuries AD, a team led by archaeologist Harvey Weiss excavated at Tel Le La Land, the modern name

of Shubat and Lil. Remains from the last phase of Acadian occupation, around 2,200 BC, included an administrative

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