Shuruppak and Kish are crucial cities for understanding the archaeology of the Flood. The Flood (Noah's Flood) marked the end of the Jemdat Nasr Period settlement of Shuruppak (Tell Fara) and start of the first dynasty of Kish. It dates to around 2650 BC. Those two cities are very important. They happen to both be subjects of the oldest extant translated cuneiform major texts known from the Fara Period - the Temple Hymn of Kesh (probably pre-Flood Kish) and the Instructions of Shuruppak. The latter actually mentions the last pre-flood king of Shuruppak mentioned in the Sumerian King List - Ubara-Tutu (biblical Methuselah the son of Enoch) plus it mentions Ziusudra - Noah. It does not mention the flood because it seems to not yet have happened when it was written. So these texts verify the Sumerian King Lists as at least accurate just before the Flood. There are other finds verifying the King Lists after the Flood. So this makes it rather likely they are accurate about the Flood having happened and having affected secular events by transfering kingship of Sumer from Shuruppak to Kish. It all fits.
