Circa 8th c. B.C.: Writing the 2 epic poems that'll make me famous! Scholars would never doubt my existence... d'oh!
In the 13th century BC the Hittites marched on the city, which was ... Egypt's 
Pharaoh Ramesses II (later known as Ramesses the Great) ... around 1269 BC, 
which is the oldest surviving treaty in existence.