At the time, these were the oldest fossils discovered in Australia, though this record has now been far surpassed.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

The school has the oldest undergraduate engineering program in the Ivy League ( 1847 ).

The town is inhabited by one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, although the size of the community has shrunk due to emigration.

Generally regarded as Sweden's oldest town, Birka ( along with Hovgården ) has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

It has the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation ( 1460 ).

One of the oldest and most accessible parts of combinatorics is graph theory, which also has numerous natural connections to other areas.

A hominid skull was been found by Michel Brunet in 2002, in Borkou, that is more than 7 million years old, the oldest discovered anywhere in the world ; it has been given the name Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

Rock art of the " Round Head " style, found in the Ennedi region, has been dated to before the 7th millennium BC and, because of the tools with which the rocks were carved and the scenes they depict, may represent the oldest evidence in the Sahara of Neolithic industries.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University.

The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, much later than Roman law but predating evolution of modern European civil law traditions.

Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Cincinnati Ben – Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which is known for having Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.

India has also the oldest evidence for the introduction of toe-stirrups.

Although there has been an old tradition and like for making census in Spain, the oldest ones dating back to the 12th century ( by Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Castile ), the first modern census was carried out in 1768 by Conde de Aranda, under the reign of Carlos III.

Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

It has served in the Iraqi War and remains as the oldest cavalry unit, as well as the most decorated one, in the U. S. Army.

In addition to being the source of the Roman alphabet, it has been suggested that it passed northward into Venetia and from there through Raetia into the Germanic lands, where it became the Elder Futhark alphabet, the oldest form of the runes.

* Felpham & Middleton Country Dance Club has written a history from 1933 – 1994, just about one of the oldest extant English Country Dance clubs in England.

This word has been used as an epithet of various Vedic deities, like Varuna, and has been attested in the Holy Rig Veda, possibly the oldest compiled book among the Indo-Europeans.

It is the oldest continually operated experimental film festival in North America and has become one of the premiere film festivals for independent and, primarily, experimental filmmakers to showcase their work.

Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2010 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced.

Ealing Studios has a claim to being the oldest continuously working film studio facility in the world.

This area is one of the region ’ s oldest milk producers ; it has chalky soil, marked by history and human activity, and is favourable for the raising of goats.

An extant copy of this work, currently manuscript Cotton Vitellus E xii, has been identified as a copy owned by Ealdred.

His works yet extant show this, as he is celebrated among many for the writings which he has left.

Urukagina ( reigned c. 2380 BC – 2360 BC, short chronology ) had an early code that has not survived ; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( c. 2100-2050 BC ), which prescribed a formal system of penalties for specific cases in 57 articles.

Confucius's family, the Kongs, has the longest recorded extant pedigree in the world today.

One of his earliest extant plays, Medea, includes a speech that he seems to have written in defence of himself as an intellectual ahead of his time, though he has put it in the mouth of the play's heroine:

Beyond its first verse, which is consistent, it has many historic and extant versions: Since its first publication, different verses have been added and taken away and, even today, different publications include various selections of verses in various orders.

It has been extant in English since the 17th century from translations of works by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

Interestingly, little has changed in the morphology of the Cryptobranchidae since the time of these fossils, leaving researchers to note “ extant cryptobranchid salamanders can be regarded as living fossils whose structures have remained little changed for over 160 million years .”

Their writings are still extant, and he who has read them is very much helped in his knowledge of the beginning and end of things.

Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.

Although it has morphological similarities with the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale and the pilot whales, a study of cytochrome b gene sequences by Richard LeDuc indicated that its closest extant relatives are the snubfin dolphins of the genus Orcaella.

The Linnaean system has proven robust and it remains the only extant working classification system at present that enjoys universal scientific acceptance.

The Beneventan rite has not survived in its complete form, although most of the principal feasts and several feasts of local significance are extant.

The latter architecture has continued to evolve into their current zSeries mainframes which, along with the then Burroughs and Sperry ( now Unisys ) MCP-based and OS1100 mainframes, are among the few mainframe architectures still extant that can trace their roots to this early period.

This suborder has two extant families: Tapiridae ( tapirs ) and Rhinocerotidae ( rhinoceroses ).

While pyramids are associated with Egypt, the nation of Sudan has 220 extant pyramids, the most numerous in the world.

The possibility of aquatic locomotion via swimming has been discussed briefly in several papers ( Bennett 2001, 1994, and Bramwell & Whitfield 1974 ), and has been studied in detail at Michigan State University through the use of morphometrics and an extant phylogenetic bracket ( a morphologically comparative technique invented by Larry Witmer ).

Strict Salic inheritance has been officially revoked in all extant European monarchies except for the Principality of Liechtenstein ; however it is still recognized in the House laws of many non-sovereign noble families.

Saint Lucia has no extant international disputes aside from tension resulting from the island's status as a transit point for South American drugs destined for the United States and Europe.

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

All anapsid skulls lack a temporal opening, while all other extant amniotes have temporal openings ( although in mammals the hole has become the zygomatic arch ).

Additionally, our closest extant relative, the chimpanzee, has light skin covered by thick body hair.