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The Egyptian king lists were commissioned, as early as the first dynasty, by kings wishing to legitimise their royal descent from Narmer (2838-2808), the founder of the Egyptian empire. On the other hand, Sumerian king lists were commissioned by Shulgi (2002-1954), a powerful king of Ur III in the last Sumerian dynasty, who presented himself as the heir of the famous Gilgamesh (2447-2401), attributing to him the role of founder of the Sumerian empire, even though Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, knew that his city had been founded by EN AMAR.UTU (c.3000-2950), called Bel Marduk by the Babylonians. What's more, he also knew from the Akkadian governor of Babel (a word meaning "Gate of God" in Hebrew, later translated into Sumerian as KA.DINGIR.RA) that Marduk had built a temple next to the gigantic four-storey ziggurat, called E.TEMEN.AN.KI ("temple of the foundation of the sky/heavens and the earth") by the Sumerians, the famous Tower of Babel. The Sumerian king lists therefore completely obscured the role of Babylon's founder Marduk, a powerful hunter called Nimrod ("we will rebel") in the Bible (Gn 10:9-10), in order to conceal the collapse of his empire, referred to by archaeologists as the "Uruk expansion" (c.2950-2900). The Akkadian scribes of Shulgi, informed by some descendants of Noah (ZI.U4.SUD.RA "life of prolonged days" in Sumerian) living in Ur (like Abraham's family), traced the beginning of the mythical unified Sumerian kingship back to the 10th and last antediluvian king of Shuruppak, the famous survivor of the universal flood, named Ziusudra, or Noah, who lived 350 years after the universal flood (Gn 9:28), in 3170 BCE (LXX), and died in 2820 BCE, the beginning of the first Sumerian dynasty (Kish I). Marduk's role did not reappear until Hammurabi (1657-1654), who chose to glorify his capital "Babylon the Great" (Dn 4:30; Rv 17:18; 14:8), dedicating it to its founder: the Lord (Bel) Marduk (Jr 50:2), the powerful hunter whom the Sumerians had originally repres