Short answers, pulled from the story.
Writing emerged as a dependable method to record transactions permanently during the 4th millennium BC. The Limestone Kish tablet from Sumer, dated around 3500 BC, may be the earliest known writing system.
The Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China stands as the world's earliest dated printed book from AD 868. This artifact predates other known printed works and marks a significant milestone in the history of literature.
Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type in Europe around 1440, gradually making books less expensive and more widely available. Early printed books created before 1501 are known as incunables or incunabula.
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides remain the only three authors whose hundreds of classical tragedies still exist today. These figures represent the surviving body of work from ancient Greek drama alongside Aristophanes who provided examples of Old Comedy.
Selma Lagerlöf won the first Nobel Prize for women in 1909, becoming the first woman granted membership in The Swedish Academy in 1914. Between 1901 and 2020, Nobel Prizes went to 117 individuals including 101 men and 16 women.