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Ancient literaturecomprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal. Before the spread of writing,oral literaturedid not always survive well, but some texts and fragments have persisted. One can conclude that an unknown number of written works too have likely not survived the ravages of time and are therefore lost.

Incomplete list of ancient texts

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Bronze Age

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See also:Sumerian literature,Akkadian literature,Ancient Egyptian literature,Hittite texts,andUgaritic texts

Early Bronze Age:3rd millennium BC (approximate dates shown). The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC (classicalSumerian).[1]The earliest literary author known by name isEnheduanna,a Sumerian priestess and public figure dating toc.the 24th century BC.[2] Certain literary texts are difficult to date, such as theEgyptian Book of the Dead,which was recorded in thePapyrus of Aniaround 1240 BC, but other versions of the book probably date from about the 18th century BC.

Middle Bronze Age:2000 BC to 1601 BC (approximate dates shown)

Late Bronze Age:1600 BC to 1201 BC (approximate dates shown)

Iron Age

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See also:Sanskrit literature

Iron Agetexts predating Classical Antiquity: 12th to 8th centuries BC

Classical Antiquity

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Further information:Ancient Greek literature,Syriac literature,Latin literature,Indian literature,Ancient Hebrew writings,Avesta,Chinese literature,andTamil literature
See also:7th century BC in poetry,6th century BC in poetry,5th century BC in poetry,4th century BC in poetry,3rd century BC in poetry,2nd century BC in poetry,and1st century BC in poetry

9th century BC

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8th century BC

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7th century BC

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6th century BC

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5th century BC

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4th century BC

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3rd century BC

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2nd century BC

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1st century BC

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See also:Middle Persian literature

1st century AD

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2nd century

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3rd century

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Late Antiquity

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See also:4th century in poetryand5th century in poetry

4th century

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5th century

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6th century

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References

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  3. ^Biggs, Robert D.(1974).Inscriptions from Tell Abū Ṣalābīkh(PDF).Oriental InstitutePublications.University of Chicago Press.ISBN0-226-62202-9.
  4. ^Two fragmentaryAkkadianversions survive, from the 15th century BCE and from the end of the second millennium BCE: "Its great antiquity and popularity is evidenced by the large number of manuscripts of it that have survived" (Beaulieu in Clifford 2007:4).
  5. ^Mogens Herman Hansen; Københavns universitet. Polis centret (2002).A comparative study of six city-state cultures: an investigation.Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. pp. 40–.ISBN978-87-7876-316-7.Retrieved2 June2011.
  6. ^Jeremy A. Black; Jeremy Black; Graham Cunningham; Eleanor Robson (13 April 2006).The Literature of Ancient Sumer.Oxford University Press. pp. 325–.ISBN978-0-19-929633-0.Retrieved2 June2011.
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  28. ^Sasson, Jack (2015).From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters.University Park, United States: Penn State University Press.
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  37. ^Noonan, John T.(1987).Bribes.University of California Press.p. 4.ISBN978-0-520-06154-5.ThePoor Man of Nippurdates from about 1500 BC.
  38. ^Wilfred G. E. Watson; Nicolas Wyatt, eds. (1 January 1999).Handbook of Ugaritic Studies.BRILL. pp. 203–.ISBN978-90-04-10988-9.OCLC1025426965.The poem ofKeretis one of the three major literary works which gifted Canaanite poets of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 BCE) bequeathed serendipitously to 20th century civilization.
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