Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

Researchers tested whether the Sumerian King List's antediluvian reign lengths encode real paleoclimate events by rescaling the list to span 241,200 years and comparing reign boundaries with a catalog of dated geological events. Statistical analysis found no significant alignment between the King List sequence and paleoclimate records, with p-values ranging from 0.148 to 0.350 depending on the catalog used, failing to support the hypothesis that the reign lengths represent distorted memories of climate shifts or other environmental events.