ANCIENT ORIGINS
The Sumerian King List and the story of humans created to mine gold
The Weld-Blundell Prism is a clay object written in cuneiform in the early second millennium BCE. Its text lists the cities, kings, and reign lengths of Sumer, the region that is now southern Iraq.
Read in Vietnamese →The Weld-Blundell Prism is a clay object. Scribes covered it with cuneiform writing in the early second millennium BCE. The text lists the cities, kings, and the number of years each king ruled in Sumer. Sumer is the region that is now southern Iraq. The text opens by saying that kingship came down from heaven. The first rulers reign for so long that no ordinary human life could hold those terms.
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