According to the Sumerian King List, it was founded by King Enmerkar around 4500 B.C. At its peak, Uruk numbered some 40,000 inhabitants—a huge population that drove significant economic ...

Sumerian King List (assyriological studies). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965; Gordon CH . Paternity at two levels. J Bibl Lit 1977; 96: 101. Article Google Scholar ...

The Sumerian King List is a catalog of Mesopotamian kings found in various archaeological and documentary artifacts, with slight variations. It begins with mythical rulers before the flood, with ...

The Sumerian King List is a group of clay prisms with names of Sumerian cities and rulers on them. The prisms are an important record of the Sumerian language. They are believed to be from around ...

Eridu’s significance is evidenced by the Sumerian King List, various versions of which were inscribed in cuneiform toward the end of the third millennium B.C.

The Sumerian King List is unsurprisingly filled with the names of men: Alulim, Hadanish and Zizi. But alongside its male monarchs, the world’s first known civilization also produced the first known ...

The Sumerian King List claims the legendary hero-king, Gilgamesh, ruled from his seat at Uruk in the 2600s BCE, which is not long before the recently excavated boat was built, ...

The Sumerian king list also featured events from the Great Flood, legends about Gilgamesh and stories of antediluvian monarchs. Etana, Lugal-banda, and Gilgamesh were among the legendary ...