Genesis 5:5

5. Nine hundred and thirty years Widespread heathen traditions preserve the memory of the antediluvian longevity . Persian annals relate that the first Persian kings reigned from five hundred to one thousand years . The Arcadians had traditions that their first kings lived three hundred years . Berosus, the Chaldean historian, states that there were ten antediluvian patriarchs, and preserves the tradition of their great longevity .

Josephus states ( Antiq., 1. 3, 9) that “all who have written antiquities, both among the Greeks and barbarians,” are witnesses of this fact; and he mentions, among others, Manetho, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Berosus the Chaldean, Hesiod the Greek poet, and Hecataeus and Hellanicus, the earliest Greek historians. The works that he mentions exist now only in fragments, so that most of his statements cannot be verified; but it is not likely that he would thus have appealed to these authorities when extant unless they had corroborated the Scripture narrative.