Genesis 5 parallels the Sumerian King List—a Mesopotamian text with pre-flood rulers having exaggerated reigns in base-60 multiples—suggesting adaptation of earlier traditions.
The Sumerian King List gives eight kings before the flood a combined reign of 241,200 years.
The Sumerians counted in sixties.
A sar (Sumerian šar) is 3,600, the square of 60.
The Sumerian King List is a list of rulers written in cuneiform.
It ends with Ziusudra of Shuruppak, the survivor in the Sumerian flood story.
A claim circulates online that the Genesis ages are the Sumerian reigns, rewritten from base 60 into base 10.
John Walton (1981) compared the antediluvian section of the Sumerian King List with Genesis 5 and looked at how the numbers could relate.
Suppose the Sumerian reigns are time as it passed on Earth.
The Sumerian and Babylonian totals are built in base 60.
Sumerian King List, ETCSL 2.1.1 (WB 444): https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr211.htm
Walton, "The Antediluvian Section of the Sumerian King List and Genesis 5", Biblical Archaeologist 44 (1981)
Sumerian records describe its arrival and its role in shaping Earth’s early history, including the creation of humanity.
The pattern in the years aligns with the Mesopotamian sexagesimal (base-60) system, which came from Sumerian and Babylonian cultures around 3000–2000 BCE (or older).
Another layer of complexity should be considered: if Genesis was originally based on Sumerian stories, then it is told through the lens of the Anunnaki.
Mount Aratta (Sumerian)
Mount Zagros (Sumerian)
Sumerian King List
Atrahasis Epic (Sumerian Cuniform Tablet)
Other cultures have known her as Ishtar (Semites), Athena (Greeks), Kwan Yin (Chinese), and Inanna (Sumerians).
When thinking about Egyptian gods and goddesses, the first with Sumerians to organize the pantheon, what is known is the divine represented through people from stars and alive in ancient times.
If you could do undistorted research with records from Sumerian times on Earth, or earlier, and you had access to the library of Alexandria and the great library of Mars, you would find records about this royal lineage, which was the seat of Lyran royalty.
Source: Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumerian/Mesopotamian epic, Tablet I (circa 2100–1200 BCE, translated).
Shuruppak: A flood stratum dated to 2950–2850 BCE, about 15 inches thick, excavated by Eric Schmidt, linked to the Sumerian flood hero Ziusudra.
These texts, including the Sumerian Eridu Genesis, consistently describe a single, divine-initiated flood, with heroes like Atrahasis, Utnapishtim, and Ziusudra surviving by building boats.
The Sumerian King List also references "the flood" as a singular event dividing antediluvian and postdiluvian kings, with no mention of multiple floods.
This site is significant as it is mentioned in the Sumerian King List as the home of Ziusudra, the Sumerian equivalent of Noah, linking it directly to flood mythology.
Some argue it copies a far older Sumerian record.
In 2008, Alan Bond, founder of Reaction Engines, and Mark Hempsell published a reading of the tablet in a self-published book, A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels' Impact Event (Writersprintshop, ISBN 1-904623-64-6).
A Sumerian clay tablet from 3123 BC, deciphered by British scientists, records a mile-wide asteroid impact on June 29, possibly linked to the Taurids.
Source: Berossus, a 3rd-century BCE Babylonian priest, in his Babyloniaca (preserved via later Greek fragments, e.g., Syncellus), retells the Sumerian flood myth akin to Ziusudra (Eridu Genesis) or Utnapishtim (Gilgamesh).
Sumerians (Ziusudra and Atrahasis): knowledge of the flood was given in advance.
The Sumerians, Egyptians and Indus Valley people all had early astronomical traditions.
Sumerian king lists: kings ruled for thousands of years before the flood.
See The Sumerian King List and Antediluvian rulers.
In the Sumerian flood story, Ziusudra hears through a wall that a flood will come and that the gods have decided to destroy the seed of mankind.
It is clear that these are not just stories about gods but about powerful beings—the Sky People or Anunnaki in the Sumerian tablets.
The Sumerian King’s List records pre-human or extraterrestrial rulers before the rise of human kings.
The Sumerians and Babylonians primarily used a sexagesimal system (base-60), but traces of vigesimal influences have been found in some inscriptions.
The Sumerian version is broken at the start, so the cause of its flood is lost.
Utnapishtim is the Akkadian rendering of that Sumerian name.
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