which is the oldest book in the world? who had written it?

Answer 1

The oldest books in the world as per the reckoning/dawn of civilisations is no doubt the Vedas. However they appear to have been evolved over a long period and until the script was developed. Initially it was just 'shruti' as were they composed. Ultimately they took the form of written books. They are older than any other scripture.

Answer 2

According to the Hindus, world's oldest book is The Puranas and the epic ( world's largest epic) Mahabharata, versed by Sri. Ved Vyas and written by Lord Ganesha,

As per http://www.antique-antiques.com/old-books-worlds-oldest-book.shtml

The world's oldest book in the history of mankind written in Etruscan, the language that is now lost, can be seen in Bulgaria's National Museum of History.

The world's oldest book in the history of mankind written in Etruscan, the language that is now lost, can be seen in Bulgaria's National Museum of History in Sofia. The rarity consists of 6 pages made of 24-carat gold and fastened together; the pages are covered with text and carry images of a horseman, a mermaid, a lyre and warriors.
The small book which age is over 2.5 thousand years was accidentally discovered 60 years ago in an old tomb with frescoes. The tomb was discovered in the Valley of Bulgarian Struma River during road construction works.

A Bulgarian who lives in Macedonia presented the museum with the artifact on condition of anonymity. The benefactor discovered the book himself. As is known, the man is 87 years old now.

The authenticity of the book was confirmed by two independent experts in Sofia and London, Director of the Museum Bozhidar Dimitrov says. As is considered, the 6 gold pages fastened together are unique; only single plates with texts in Etruscan have been discovered until recently.

Answer 3

The Vedas and Upanishads from Hinduism are the oldest books written in the world.

Answer 4

In November 1984, 136 kilometers south of Cairo, a young Egyptian archaeologist discovered what may well be the oldest book in the world.
Linda Curran/Egypt Today.
Dating back to the second half of the 4th century, it was found in the tomb of an 11-year-old girl, placed underneath her head. Hailed as the earliest complete book of Psalms ever found, it was hand-written in a dialect once used by Egypt’s first Christians Coptic Oxyrhynchus in Greek letters.
It took six months to separate the 252 papyrus leaves of the book, which were bound between two polished wooden covers with a leather spine, and years to restore. It was finally put on display at Cairo’s Coptic Museum in 1992.
Another oldest book in the world is the "Diamond Sudra".
Hidden for centuries in a sealed-up cave in north-west China, this copy of the ‘Diamond Sutra’ is the world’s earliest complete survival of a dated printed book. It was made in AD 868. Seven strips of yellow-stained paper were printed from carved wooden blocks and pasted together to form a scroll over 5m long. Though written in Chinese, the text is one of the most important sacred works of the Buddhist faith, which was founded in India.The word comes from Sanskrit, the ancient and sacred language of India. It means a religious teaching or sermon, and is most often used to describe the teachings of the Buddha. Sutras preached by the Buddha were committed to memory by his disciples and passed down from generation to generation. The illustration at the beginning of this ‘Diamond Sutra’ shows the Buddha expounding the sutra to an elderly disciple called Subhuti.The sutra answers that question for itself. Towards the end of the sermon, Subhuti asks the Buddha how the sutra should be known. He is told to call it ‘The Diamond of Transcendent Wisdom’ because its teaching will cut like a diamond blade through worldly illusion to illuminate what is real and everlasting.
It’s dated in a colophon – a note printed at the end of the scroll. The note reads “Reverently made for universal distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents” followed by the Chinese calendar date for 11 May 868. Wang Jie did not make the book himself, but enabled its making – a pious act by which he would have gained much merit.
Although not the earliest example of a printed book, it is the oldest we have bearing a date. By the time it was made, block-printing had been practised in the Far East for more than a century. The quality of the illustration at the opening of this ‘Diamond Sutra’ shows the carver of the printing blocks to have been a man of considerable experience and skill.

Answer 5

The oldest printed book in the world is believed to be "The Diamond Sutra", which bears the date 868 AD, andwas found in a walled-up cave in Dunhuang, north-west China, in 1907, along with other printed items.
It consists of a scroll of grey paper printed with Chinese characters, wrapped around a wooden pole.
The scroll forms part of the Library's Silk Road display, which focuses on the art and culture of the region.
It was discovered by the Hungarian born explorer Sir Marc Aurel Stein, and is thought to be part of a library which was walled up in the cave around the year 1000AD.

There are claims that the I Ching is the oldest book in the world, however, it can safely be assigned to the 13th century, BCE - thus about the same age as the Mosaic attribution for the Pentateuch.

The Papyrus Ebers is the oldest medical text in the world, dated to the middle 16th century BCE

The Epic of Gilgamesh is dated to the Third Dynasty of Ur or between 2100 and 2000 BCE

The Precepts of Ptah-hotep has been dated to the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt or between 2300 BCE and 2150 BCE.

Answer 6

the book of the dead... i think it is the the oldest form of a religion.

Written by the Egyptian

Answer 7

There are divergent views, each group, each nationality claims antiquity to its own history.

Going by Hindu mythology and beliefs, I would say that the writing clearly written on your forehead, by Brahma, the god of creation of the living beings, before you were sent on to this world, to be born--your destiny--- is the most ancient and sacred.

Answer 8

Well archaelogy will always come up with some book which was written way earlier than any book claimed here....but i guess according to different sources of information, The Precepts of Ptah-hotep seems to be oldest book dating between 2300 BC and 2150 BC.

Answer 9

I dont think that there was no return scripts used in the olden days, the stone age people used drawings for their communication and that too they used for writing a story for the upcoming generation to know about the history. If u visit the any caves that are famous, u can see the drawings related to old stone age people about how the lived? what was thier agriculture? etc.,

Answer 10

The ancient Bhramins (sic) have texts that go back more than 10,000 years.
and BTW, some of the texts give time measurements that are sub- nuclear. 1/1000 of a second, and so on.
Things that WE have only learned since the mid 1940's