COURTESY DAVID A. WARBURTON

KING LISTS can be used by historians and archaeologists in conjunction with other sources, such as astronomical data, to form chronologies with which to date events mentioned in inscriptions and individual artifacts. Found at Larsa, Iraq, the Mesopotamian example shown here, dates to the reign of Hammurabi of Babylon (c. 2025–1763 B.C.E.). It can be seen in the Louvre today.