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Courtesy of the Schøyen Collection
This tablet, part of the Gilgamesh epic, lists the cities and dynasties from before the flood—a total of eight kings ruling for a total of 222,600 years. The list of ten patriarchs from Adam to Noah recorded in Genesis 5 may be based on the Babylonian account, although the time between creation and the flood is much shorter, according to the Bible—just 1,656 years.