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While [[epic poetry]] is a form of artistic expression, it is generally considered that literature began with the recording of such epics, rather than their oral recitation. In ancient [[Mesopotamia]], the development of [[ideograph|ideographic]] glyphs allowed the recording of the [[Epic of Gilgamesh]] in the city of Akkadia for an Assyrian king in the seventh century B.C., arguably the first piece of literature that we possess today. It was preceded by multiple other items of literature that we know of, such as the [[Egypt|Egyptian]] [[Book of the Dead]], but while Egyptologists believe this to have been recorded as early as the eighteenth century B.C., extant copies date from 250 B.C.<ref>Diamond, Jared. ''Guns, Germs, and Steel.'' New York: Norton, 2005.</ref>
While [[epic poetry]] is a form of artistic expression, it is generally considered that literature began with the recording of such epics, rather than their oral recitation. In ancient [[Mesopotamia]], the development of [[ideograph|ideographic]] glyphs allowed the recording of the [[Epic of Gilgamesh]] in the city of Akkadia for an Assyrian king in the seventh century B.C., arguably the first piece of literature that we possess today. It was preceded by multiple other items of literature that we know of, such as the [[Egypt|Egyptian]] [[Book of the Dead]], but while Egyptologists believe this to have been recorded as early as the eighteenth century B.C., extant copies date from 250 B.C.<ref>Diamond, Jared. ''Guns, Germs, and Steel.'' New York: Norton, 2005.</ref>
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Literature is not only a storehouse of creativity. Through its topics of discussion literature is also a take on the history of the world. Dealing as it does with language it is also, a repository of the history of language. Ancient literatures like those of [[Greek]], Latin, Hebrew, Celtic, Saxon, Aryan, Dravidan and the like help us learn how these languages have evolved through time and through the ravages of the different cultures conquering them. Literature has also helped preserve for man the different schools of thought, Sophism to Modernism, the [[Dead Sea scrolls]] to Structuralism. <ref> [http://www.iguides.org/articles/articles/85/1/The-importance-of-the-history-of-Literature/Page1.html]
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