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 BCE
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sumer/Babylonia (Iraq, Kuwait) | Sîn-lēqi-unninni and unknown Sumerian & Babyloninan poets
Read More c. 2150-1400 BCE
The Code of Hammurabi
Sumer, Aakkad, Babylonia | Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria | Hriammurabi
Read More c. 1770 BCE
Rig Veda
Indian Sub-continent | Compiled by several generations of Indo-Aryan priests/philosophers
Read More c. 1500-1000 BCE
Nok Terracottas, Africa
Babylonian Creation Story: Enuma Elish
Mesopotamia | Iraq, SE Turkey, E Syria | Unknown Mesopotamian poet(s}
Read More c. 1000-300 BCE
Navajo Night Chant
Canyon de Chelly |now eastern Arizona in the Navajo Nation | The Navajo
Read More c. 1000 BCE to Present
Sappho’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 BCE
Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos
Yazıköy, Muğla Province, Turkey | Praxiteles
Read More c. 360–330 BCE
Agesander, et al’s Laocoön and His Sons
Rome, Italy | Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus
Read More c. 40–30 BCE
Pont du Gard
Nimes, France | maybe Marcus Ulpsanius Agrippa (Augustus' son-in-law)
Read More c. 19 BCE
Josephus’ The Jewish War
Roman Empire | events described happened in Jerusalem, Judea (then part of Roman Empire) | Josephus
Read More c. 75 CE
