Chronographiai

Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian historian, authored the Chronographiai around 221 CE. This five-volume work presented a universal chronology, tracing history from the Creation to 221 CE. Africanus established the Creation date at 5499 BCE and integrated biblical accounts with Egyptian, Chaldaean, Greek mythological, and Judaic histories. His aim was to place early Christianity within a broader historical context, thereby elevating its prestige. The Chronographiai is significant as the first known universal chronology produced by a Christian historian. George the Syncellus, another Byzantine historian, also wrote a world chronicle from creation to Diocletian's reign, which, alongside Eusebius of Caesarea's work, is crucial for understanding early Christian chronography.12