It's especially bananas because in the very next chapter the author then goes on to actually talk about Sin/Nana (the Mesopotamian moon god) and is quite clear on his worship dating back well before that European artifact... and then starts inflating the moon god to supreme deity of Mesopotamia, which, uh, is not quite how that worked. Very important deity? Heck yes! Supreme deity? Not so much, except if you're Nabonidus.

I am starting to feel that this writer is overclaiming about literally anything related to the moon, which is understandable in a book about the moon, but also disappointing.