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Bad-Tibira

Shuruppak

Sippar

Kish

Eridu

Mari

Adab

Isin

Ur

Uruk

Map of Iraq showing the cities that are mentioned in the Sumerian King List and that have been identified archaeologically. Akkad, Awan, Akshak and Larak have not yet been securely identified. Gutium is located in the Zagros Mountains.

 [Mesopotamia (IRAQ) was a "Cradle of Civilisation" that saw the inventions of a writing system, mathematics, timekeeping, a calendar, astrology, and a law code.^{[13][14][15]]}

From antiquity, fossils of large animals were often quoted as having lived together with the giants from the Book of Genesis: e.g. the Tannin or “great sea monsters” of Gen 1:21. They are often described in later books of the Bible, especially by God himself in the Book of Job: e.g. Re’em in verse 39:9, Behemoth in chapter 40 and Leviathan in chapter 41.^[13][14] 

The term is also used in the field of Assyriology for kings, according to some versions of the 👇Sumerian king list, supposed to have reigned before the great flood.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antediluvian

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Lines 1–39: before the flood

This section, which is not present in every copy of the text, opens with the line "After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu."  Two kings of Eridu are mentioned, before the city "fell" and the "kingship was taken to Bad-tibira".  This pattern of cities receiving kingship and then falling or being defeated, only to be succeeded by the next, is present throughout the entire text, often in the exact same words. This first section lists eight kings who ruled over five cities (apart from Eridu and Bad-tibiru, these also included Larag, Zimbir and Shuruppak). The duration of each reign is also given. In this first section, the reigns vary between 43,200 and 28,800 years for a total of 241,200 years. The section ends with the line "Then the flood swept over".  Among the kings mentioned in this section is the ancient Mesopotamian god Dumuzid (the later Tammuz). 

👑In contemporary sources, the SKL was called after its first word: "nam-lugal", or "kingship".^[3] It should also be noted that what is commonly referred to as the Sumerian King List, is in reality not a single text...

Others have attempted to reconcile the reigns in the Sumerian King List by arguing that many time spans were actually consciously invented, mathematically derived numbers. Rowton, for example, observed that a majority of the reigns in the Gutian dynasty were 5, 6, or 7 years in length.  In the sexagesimal system used at that time, "about 6 years" would be the same as "about 10 years" in a decimal system (i.e. a general round number). This was sufficient evidence for him to conclude that at least these figures were completely artificial.^[16] The longer time spans from the first part of the list could also be argued to be artificial: various reigns were multiples of 60 (e.g. Jushur reigned for 600 years, Puannum ruled for 840 years) while others were squares (e.g. Ilku reigned for 900 years (square of 30) while Meshkiangasher ruled for 324 years (square of 18)).^[17]

 You get the feeling someone made up this shit? How old are we?

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