The britannica article on historiography mentions the Hebrew Bible as a formative text of historic thought, so that it is not just Herodotus and Sima Qian - if

The britannica article on historiography mentions the Hebrew Bible as a formative text of historic thought, so that it is not just Herodotus and Sima Qian - if you bother to ask the authors of encyclopedia britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/historiography https://www.britannica.com/topic/historiography Also we know of Ashoka from texts in Sanskrit.