What is the Oldest book in history?

Answer 1

The Bible is the oldest book ever written, parts of it being composed some 3,500 years ago. The first part of this book was written a few centuries before the earliest hymns of the Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, were formulated and about a thousand years before Buddha, Mahāvīra, and Confucius walked the earth. This book was completed in 98 C.E., more than 500 years before Muḥammad founded Islam.

Answer 2

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is the earliest known work of literary fiction. Although the Epic of Gilgamesh is old, I do not believe it to be the oldest. I believe that the book of Job in the Bible is the oldest, dating back to the time of possibly even Abraham or Noah. For a fact, it even describes some dinosaurs in later chapters. Job thoroughly describes a "leviathan", which almost perfectly matches our current description of a pleciosaurus. He also describes a large animal with "a tail as large as a cedar", along with other things that makes it match up perfectly with bronchiosaurus.

Answer 3

No one knows; it was some time back in Greek times probably.

The oldest poems in this world were not written, but chiselled. The snow-clad Neanderthaal Valleys in Germania and the bitter-cold Cromagnon Caves in France are full of them. The first man to view a distant sunset sitting secure and safe on the mouth of his mountain cave was the first poet.

Answer 4

Cuneiform script is the earliest known writing system in the world.