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::" In composing his history, Berossus drew on the mythic-historiographical tradition of Mesopotamia, and specifically on such well known texts as the creation myth Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, and the king lists, which provided the point of departure and conceptual framework for a universal history.

But the mythic and archaic element was combined with the chronicles of rulers which can lay claim to being in some degree genuinely historical.

" ( 1992: 41 )