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It was almost certainly spoken around a fire in a cave and has been lost to time before humans really recorded history
Cave fire speech is not a medium in the strict sense, though.
That means at least writing would have to have been available.
Gilgamesh epic might be a good candidate, I think.deleted by creator
The oldest in English that we have access to might be in Beowulf? Villain monologues are as old as stories, and stories are as old as humanity.
Cave drawings?
Judging from prose like Mobi Dick, it was written at about the same time, covered 10+ pages, had 342 commas and semicolons, and was a single epic run-on sentence.
Isn’t there several in the old testament?
I would check the bible, it’s full with that kind of stuff.
