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Did Kingship Descend From Above? | The Sumerian King List
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The Sumerian King List is one of the strangest ancient records ever found.
Preserved on tablets and prisms like the famous Weld-Blundell Prism, it claims that kingship “descended from heaven,” that 8 kings ruled before the flood, and that those rulers reigned for a combined 241,200 years.
That sounds impossible. But maybe the real question is not whether ancient kings literally lived for tens…