Stonehenge's great sarsen stones were raised around 2500 BCE, roughly when the Giza pyramids were being completed, around 2560 BCE. While Egyptians cut limestone blocks beside the Nile, farmers on Salisbury Plain were hauling stones weighing tens of tonnes.
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.