Commonalities Of Accounts Of A Universal Flood?

NJ writes: You must be joking, by such logic everyone who wrote 2000 years ago has grater validity than all modern historical analysis buttressed by archeological evidence and common sense.So you believe Caligula was Zeus, and therefore god? He said so according to Seutonius. Was Cortez Quetzacoatl? Did Thor make thunder? Did the first humans emerge from the 12th layer of the underworld through a reed? Did the sun stop in the sky? Does the Earth have four corners? Others closer to the time of the story said so.Josephus was a traitor who switched sides during the Jewish Rebellion in 68-70 AD that was crushed by Vespasian and his son Titus (both later deified :rolleyes. As a scholar, of course he knew the Jewish religious stories.Show us your ark and tower, then maybe the old writings will be better substantiated as has happened in the case of Troy and Vesuvius.