Sumer and Babylon · Berossus, Babyloniaca, via Alexander Polyhistor
Xisuthrus buries the writings before the Flood
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The Deity, Cronus, appeared to him in a vision, and warned him that upon the fifteenth day of the month Daesius there would be a flood… He therefore enjoined him to write a history of the beginning, procedure, and conclusion of all things; and to bury it in the City of the Sun at Sippara.
Translation: Cory, Ancient Fragments, 1832 · About the translator
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Read it literally
Records from before the Flood, buried on purpose at Sippar, a real city that archaeologists have dug. What if the archive is still there?
