The Wisdom of Assyria

In the late third century b c e, a babylonian priest named berasus wrote a story about the beginning of time when a monster with the body of a fish popped out of the water and started talking. This monster spent its days with men, never eating anything, but teaching men the skills necessary for writing and for doing mathematics. It taught men how to build cities, found tempers and make laws. In short, it taught man all those things conducive to a settled and civilized life. Since that time, nothing further has been discovered. But still, the assyrians of thousands of years ago yearned for the knowledge that came before them. We have surviving clay tablets from this