Berossus story of the creation of the world and mankind (Enuma eiis)
Berossus' own account (Babylonian History) is lost, but it was summarized in an Armenian translation of the Chronicon by the Christian author Eusebius. Below is its description of the creation of the world and mankind based on the epic Enûma êliš, and includes the story of Oannes, who taught wisdom to man, and a Babylonian bestiary. Neo-Assyrian plaque of Oannes Berossus reports in the first book of his Babylonian history that he was a contemporary of Alexander, the son of Philip, and that many public records, which covered a period of over 150,000 years ago about the history of the sky and the sea, of creation, and of the kings and of their deeds, had been preserved with care. First he says that the land of the Babylonians