According to the Sumerian King List, Kish was the first post-diluvian capital of Sumer.
See:
- http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?searchword=l=kic%20t=SN&charenc=gcirc
- S. D. Ross, 'The excavations at Kish. With special reference to the conclusions reached in 1928-29', in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 17, iss. 3, 1930, pp. 291 - 300,
- L. H. Dudley Buxton and D. Talbot Rice, Report on the Human Remains Found at Kish, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 61, 1931, pp. 57-119
- S. Langdon, "TABLETS FOUND IN MOUND Z AT HARSAGKALAMMA (KISH): By the Herbert Weld (for Oxford) and Field Museum Expedition." Revue D'Assyriologie Et D'archéologie Orientale 24, no. 2 (1927): 89-98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23290848.