the Sumerian King List — 432,000 years, take it literally or take it seriously

The Weld-Blundell Prism sits in the Ashmolean in Oxford. It lists Sumerian kings going back before a flood, with reigns of 18,600 years, 43,200 years. After the flood, reigns suddenly drop to human-scale numbers. Most scholars treat the pre-flood section as mythological, the post-flood section as in……