When did the origin of literature begin?

Answer 1

3400 B.C. answer

As with the wheel, cities and law codes, the earliest examples of written literature appear to have originated in ancient Mesopotamia. The Sumerian civilization first developed writing around 3400 B.C., when they began making markings on clay tablets in a script known as cuneiform.

Answer 2

Taken to mean only written works, literature was first produced by some of the world's earliest civilizations—those of ancient Egypt and Sumeria—as early as the 4th millennium BC;