Ancient Israel, as a civilization of the ancient Near East, was influenced to some degree by other regional cultures. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet and the square script is a derivative of the Aramaic alphabet. Zoroastrianism of Ancient Iran is believed to had an influence on Jewish eschatology and the Jewish mythology contains similarities to Mesopotamian mythologies such as the Enûma Eliš of Babylon and the Genesis creation narrative or the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis flood narrative.