Online Sumerian Literature

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For those interested, there is a repository of transliterated and translated Sumerian literature at the ETCSL - The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature at Oxford Uni.

Their website is http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/

Here is a short quote from one of texts called the "List of Kings":

After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug.
In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years.
Alaljar ruled for 36000 years.
2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years.
Then Eridug fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira.
In Bad-tibira, En-men-lu-ana ruled for 43200 years.
En-men-gal-ana ruled for 28800 years.
Dumuzid, the shepherd, ruled for 36000 years.
3 kings; they ruled for 108000 years.
Then Bad-tibira fell (?) and the kingship was taken to Larag.
In Larag, En-sipad-zid-ana ruled for 28800 years.

... and the list goes on. What meets the eye is that after the diluvium the timespans reported for the various kingdoms go from tens of thousands of years down to hundreds of years. "Interesting" that this does not arouse more curiosity on part of the established archeologists and historians. There is also a blurb about one guy who went to 'heaven' and unified the 'foreign kingdoms', an uninteresting detail in the fables of superstitious primitives, not to be taken too serious.