Where
When
Pre 500 BCE
Cave paintings at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
Ardèche region of southern France | Artists of the Aurignacian culture
Read Morec. 32,000-30,000 BCEAquaculture at Budj Bim cultural landscape
Mount Eccles, Austrailia | Gunditjmara Aboriginal people
Read More4600 BCEEpic of Gilgamesh
Sumer/Babylonia (Iraq, Kuwait) | Sîn-lēqi-unninni and unknown Sumerian & Babyloninan poets
Read Morec. 2150-1400 BCEThe Code of Hammurabi
Sumer, Aakkad, Babylonia | Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria | Hriammurabi
Read Morec. 1770 BCERig Veda
Indian Sub-continent | Compiled by several generations of Indo-Aryan priests/philosophers
Read Morec. 1500-1000 BCEBabylonian Creation Story: Enuma Elish
Mesopotamia | Iraq, SE Turkey, E Syria | Unknown Mesopotamian poet(s}
Read Morec. 1000-300 BCENavajo Night Chant
Canyon de Chelly |now eastern Arizona in the Navajo Nation | The Navajo
Read Morec. 1000 BCE to PresentSappho’s Poetry (fragments)
Greek island of Lesbos or possibly Sicily (where she may have been exiled for some time) | Sappho
Read Morec. 630-570 BCE