Victoria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 86,793. Its county seat is Victoria. Victoria County is included in the Victoria, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sumer, an ancient civilization of southern Mesopotamia, is believed to be the place where written language was first invented around 3200 BC. Limestone Kish tablet from Sumer with pictographic writing; may be the earliest known writing, 3500 BC.
Well, it's still going on today and has presumably been in place somewhere in the world since prehistoric times, so you could say more than 5,000 years when mankind developed a written language. The first written documents were tallies of stores in a warehouse, probably the king's storehouse in Mesopotamia.