What is the oldest literature which you've ever read

>>9791062

I looked at a rock once very closely. I was reading a 5 billion year old love note to me.... from God

>>9791062
In the original, fragments from Ennius. In translation, the Iliad

The poetry of the blood coarsing through my veins.
The most obscure and personal lyrics buried and found in the earth which i sow.
A novel written every minute of my life, but will all be lost as dust in the wind.
My diary desu.

Cavemen paintings hidden inside a merzbow's song.

The Bible is probably the oldest thing I ever read

Go ahead and read the oldest texts.
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr561.htm
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4802.htm

>>9791062
Genesis, Enoch or Job.

>>9791062
Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest notable one, but I have also read the Bilgames poems that predate it.

>>9791062
White Shaman mural in the lower pecos

https://www.texasobserver.org/if-these-walls-could-talk/

>>9791062
There is no inherent merit to reading older literature if only because of their age. That being said, Beowulf is the oldest I have read, and many lines remain resonant today for reasons that I am sure the artist himself could not have envisioned.

>>9791085
Woah...

>>9791062
Rigveda, Gilgamesh, old testament. Some myths written on Babylonian statues.

Doesn't get older than those, really.

>>9791062
the Iliad and the Odyssey

I guess the Bible.