Ancient literature

Ancient literature that comprises religious & scientific documents/books, tales, poetry & plays, royal edicts/declarations, and other forms of writing were primarily recorded on stone, stone tablets, papyri, palm leaves, metal and other media. Before the spread of writing, oral literature did not always survive well, though some texts and fragments have persisted. One can conclude that an unknown number of written works too have likely not survived the ravages of time and are therefore lost. August Nitschke sees some fairy tales as literary survivals dating back to Ice Age and Stone Age narrators. 
List of ancient texts.
Bronze Age.
Early Bronze Age: 3rd millennium BC (approximate dates shown). The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC (classical Sumerian). The earliest literary author known by name is Enheduanna, a Sumerian priestess and public figure dating to ca. 24th century BC.
Certain literary texts are difficult to date, such as the "Egyptian Book of the Dead", which was recorded in the "Papyrus of Ani" around 1240 BC, but other versions of the book probably date from about the 18th century BC.
Middle Bronze Age: ca. 2000 to 1600 BC (approximate dates shown)
Late Bronze Age: ca. 1600 to 1200 BC (approximate dates shown)
Iron Age.
Iron Age texts predating Classical Antiquity: 12th to 8th centuries BCE