jan 1, 290 BC - Berosus Talks of the Flood/Ark

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Josephus (Jewish Antiquities I:93, 158)

Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances ofthe flood, he goes on thus: "It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs (...)

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