"Pseudo-Berossus"

In 1498, an official of Pope Alexander VI called Annius of Viterbo claimed to accept apparent absent books of Berossus. These were in actuality an busy forgery. However, they acquired abundant access over Renaissance means of cerebration about citizenry and migration, because Annius provided a annual of kings from Japhet onwards, bushing a actual gap afterward the Biblical annual of the Flood. Annius additionally alien abstracts from classical sources into the biblical framework, publishing his annual as Commentaria cool opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus. One aftereffect was to advance to adult theories about Celtic contest with Druid priests in Western Europe.10Praeparatio Evangelica