The Mesopotamians were more preoccupied with writing down contracts in cuneiform than writing down historical fiction to last through the ages. Maybe because th

The Mesopotamians were more preoccupied with writing down contracts in cuneiform than writing down historical fiction to last through the ages. Maybe because they were one of the first civilizations to thrive and to invent writing at all, they didn't know their oral traditions and history would be lost to the sands of time without writing them down. We do have more insight into ancient Egyptian pharaohs and architects, however, as these details were more carefully preserved. That being said, I'm sure 500K years from now, these details will all be buried on some thumb drive in an underground archive and our descendents will lack the drivers to decode them.