2006-10-25 18:20:24 · 17 answers · asked by Akash S 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Oldest that I know
Tholkappiam - Tamil Grammar (500 B.C)
Still older Agathiam Tamil grammar) is not available today.
(www.tamilnation.org/ literature /grammar /index.htm)
2006-10-25 23:47:35 · answer #1 · answered by balaGraju 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Diamond Sutra, which bears the date 868 AD, was found in a walled-up cave in Dunhuang, north-west China, in 1907, along with other printed items.
OTOH, The world's oldest multiple-page book - in the lost Etruscan language - has gone on display in Bulgaria's National History Museum in Sofia. The small manuscript, which is more than two-and-a-half millennia old, was discovered 60 years ago in a tomb uncovered during digging for a canal along the Strouma river in south-western Bulgaria
2006-10-25 18:28:12 · answer #2 · answered by Gyaani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world's oldest multiple-page book, a six-page manuscript in the Etruscan language, has gone on display in Bulgaria's National History Museum in Sofia. Its the oldest surviving printed book. so it can be called a book and not a tablet or a manuscript.
2006-10-26 07:00:10 · answer #3 · answered by kari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The OLDEST book in the world that is a story is the Epic of Gilgamesh. It was written on clay tablets in Mesopotamia. There are other books just as old, but I think they are just lists of things (accounting, for instance) and some religious writings.
You should be able to find the full-text of the Epic of Gilgamesh by using Yahoo! search.
2006-10-25 18:25:44 · answer #4 · answered by vishvamitra_x 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There's no single candidate for the oldest book as such, because the earliest texts were lists of items on tablets, then catalogues, then descriptive catalogues and so on. These were all pre-Minoan texts, carved into tablets. The oldest known story is the Epic of Gilgamesh. And yes, you can find it on Amazon.
-Above stolen from another website
2006-10-25 18:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by NordicGuru 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the correct answer. The story of the flood and the ark appears in that Sumerian work. The earliest known version dates from 2100 BC
2006-10-25 18:46:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ive been wrong several times before but according to college classes, I think Beowolf may have been. It is mainly classified as a poem, but is also a book in itself.
2006-10-25 18:31:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the question were to be the first NICE book in the world, i would have replied u :Cheque Book"
2006-10-27 00:42:22 · answer #8 · answered by N. S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well from the eyes of a child - **** and Jane was my first book - from my adult eyes - the knowledge I carry around in my head - guess is all boils down to what information is valuable and what is not.
2006-10-25 18:30:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Bible. For reference click on the link below.
2006-10-25 18:35:25 · answer #10 · answered by Tony_Pdkt_TN 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋