Earliest documented human being

[rapdas]

Hi,

I have been searching since two days to find out who the earliest documented human being on planet earth was. Since Sumer and Egypt civilizations seem to have the earliest documented writings, I tried to research the lineage of Kings in both the civilizations from Wikipedia, with the logic that the ruler would have the highest probability of

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[gwinna]

If it helps, the internet says that En Hedu'Anna is the first recorded female name in history. :)

[rapdas]

Oh, wow...thats interesting information. Can you please give me the link from where you got that ? I would love to learn more...

[gwinna]

Just do a google search for her name, or a google book search, it'll pop up :)

[faucon9]

When you find out, let me know - pretty please =)

[rapdas]

sure thing... for now Nermer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer seems to be a confirmed personality from 3100 BC.

[ragnarok20]

As for the 28,800 years thing, could that not be the result of a mistranslation perhaps? Assuming 365-day year, the number isn't necessarily unreasonable, at least by modern standards, I suppose. Almost 79 years...

[gahdzuks]

Early Egyptian Pharaohs have some pretty outrageous lengths to their various reigns listed, too. There are varying theories on that, but the most popular (and probable) is mistranslation either of the characters or what they counted as a "year". Also, it's possible that it was a dynasty rather than a single man. Or that they only had one name when they decided to compile their history and so they gave him an outrageous number of years to his reign by default (histories tend to be compiled long after events in the ancient world, so this is possible). OR the king in question was somewhat mythical. I don't know, as I'm behind on my Sumerian history

[kenosis]

I'm guessing religious texts are out of the running, right?