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Berossus

Berossus or Berosus was a Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, a priest of Bel Marduk[1] and astronomer writing in Greek, who was active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Versions of two excerpts of his writings survive, at several removes.

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