Uruk: Sumerian King List

The Sumerian King List is the name given to a traditional canon of the early kings of Mesopotamia, thought by some scholars to have been composed in the time of Utu-hegal, a king of the city of Uruk who restored Sumerian independence after the invasion of the Gutians near the end of the third millennium BCE. As with the pre-flood patriarchs in Genesis 5, the kings listed in the pre-flood section of this text lived for extraordinarily long reigns (the longest being 64,800 years).