Talking about "histories" of the world, Carl Sagan mentioned in his show a "history" of the world written by Berossus which had in its first volume span of over 400k years from the creation to the great flood or over 100 times longer than the old testament chronology.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
