Where
When
Cave paintings at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
Ardèche region of southern France | Artists of the Aurignacian culture
Read More c. 32,000-30,000 BCEEpic of Gilgamesh
Sumer/Babylonia (Iraq, Kuwait) | Sîn-lēqi-unninni and unknown Sumerian & Babyloninan poets
Read More c. 2150-1400 BCEThe Code of Hammurabi
Sumer, Aakkad, Babylonia | Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria | Hriammurabi
Read More c. 1770 BCERig Veda
Indian Sub-continent | Compiled by several generations of Indo-Aryan priests/philosophers
Read More c. 1500-1000 BCEBabylonian Creation Story: Enuma Elish
Mesopotamia | Iraq, SE Turkey, E Syria | Unknown Mesopotamian poet(s}
Read More c. 1000-300 BCENavajo Night Chant
Canyon de Chelly |now eastern Arizona in the Navajo Nation | The Navajo
Read More c. 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 More c. 630-570 BCEPraxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos
Yazıköy, Muğla Province, Turkey | Praxiteles
Read More c. 360–330 BCEAgesander, et al’s Laocoön and His Sons
Rome, Italy | Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus
Read More c. 40–30 BCEPont du Gard
Nimes, France | maybe Marcus Ulpsanius Agrippa (Augustus' son-in-law)
Read More c. 19 BCEJosephus’ The Jewish War
Roman Empire | events described happened in Jerusalem, Judea (then part of Roman Empire) | Josephus
Read More c. 75 CE