Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Văn học cổ đại" in Vietnamese language version.
Manche Märchen ordnet [August] Nitschke den Jägern und Hirten der letzten Eiszeit zu, andere den Bauern und Fischern im Mesolithikum, wieder andere den Seefahrern der Meglithgesellschaft oder den Helden der Indogermanen. [August Nitschke assigns many fairy-tales to the hunters and herders of the last Ice Age, other ones to the farmers and fisherfolk of the Mesolithic, and still other ones to the seafarers of the megalith cultures or to the heroes of the Indo-European peoples.]
The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC, when the Sumerians started to write down their long epic poems.
The Sumerian code of Urukagina was written around 2400 BC.
The Epic of Gilgamesh, written in Sumer about 2200 BCE.
