Romani is an Indo-Aryan language related to those of northern India, and genetics places the departure of the Roma's ancestors around 1,500 years ago. Their journey to Europe can be read in their vocabulary, which picked up Persian, Armenian and Greek words. The word 'Gypsy' comes from 'Egyptian', an old mistake about where they came from.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.