Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

Salieri's earliest surviving work is a Mass in C major.

The oldest part of the present semi-ruin constitutes one of the earliest surviving stone castles in mainland Scotland.

The earliest surviving temple of Hariharalaya is Preah Ko ; the others are Bakong and Lolei.

The earliest surviving fragments from codices come from Egypt and are variously dated ( always tentatively ) towards the end of the 1st century or in the first half of the 2nd.

The Sumerians produced the earliest surviving written codes.

The earliest surviving recordings of this are in the Ma Wang Dui texts and Huang Di Nei Jing.

One of his earliest surviving works, under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a masterfully rendered écorché ( statue of a man with skin removed to reveal the muscles underneath ) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

* Optics is the earliest surviving Greek treatise on perspective.

The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.

The earliest surviving home in which Poe lived is in Baltimore, preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.

This is the earliest surviving source to mention any Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

The earliest surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in Euclid's Elements ( c. 300 BC ), making it one of the oldest numerical algorithms still in common use.

The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.

The earliest surviving example of this technique is Smith's The House That Jack Built, made before September 1901.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

The earliest surviving feature film, the Antoś pierwszy raz w Warszawie ( Antoś for the First Time in Warsaw ) was made in 1908 by Antoni Fertner.

His principal book, the Kitab al-Muwatta, is one of the earliest surviving books on hadith and fiqh.

This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy.

Probably the earliest surviving New Testament manuscript, Rylands Library Papyrus P52 is a Greek papyrus fragment discovered in Egypt in 1920 ( now at the John Rylands Library, Manchester ).

In the earliest surviving gospel collection, Papyrus 45 of the 3rd century, it is placed second in the order Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, an order which is also found in other very early New Testament manuscripts.

The earliest surviving documentary evidence for the use of the hand cannon, considered the oldest type of portable firearm and a forerunner of the handgun, are from several Arabic manuscripts dated to the 14th century.

At Mrs. Wallington's school, she was taught by the evangelical Maria Lewis — to whom her earliest surviving letters are addressed.

The earliest surviving Stoic work, the Hymn to Zeus of Cleanthes, though not explicitly referencing Heraclitus, adopts what appears to be the Heraclitean logos modified.

The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos.

One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

This was one of the earliest examples of a postmortem autopsy, through which he discovered that Galen was incorrect regarding the formation of the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum.

A pair of beads made from Nassarius sea snail shells, approximately 100, 000 years old, are thought to be the earliest known examples of jewellery.

Returning boomerangs actually do fly and are examples of the earliest heavier-than-air man-made flight.

Some of the earliest examples of this technology implemented input / output processing such as direct memory access as a separate thread from the computation thread.

One of the earliest examples of a visual error appears in Charlie Chaplin's " The Property Man " of 1914.

The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication.

The number of these compartments ranges from 4 in the earliest examples to over 24 in an extreme example on Orkney.

It contains examples of the earliest Chinese prose.

A Macedonian mosaic of the 4th century BC is one of the earliest examples of the Centauress in art.

The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of presumption of innocence, and it also suggests that both the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.

It is one of the earliest practical examples of key exchange implemented within the field of cryptography.

One of the earliest examples of detective fiction is Voltaire's Zadig ( 1748 ), which features a main character who performs feats of analysis.

Of the 11th and 12th centuries there are numerous examples of bronze doors, the earliest being one at Hildesheim, Germany ( 1015 ).

The earliest known examples frescoes done in the Buon Fresco method date at around 1500 BC and are to be found on the island of Crete in Greece.

One of the earliest examples of the technique can be found in the 16th century chivalric romance, Amadis of Gaul ( 1508 ), written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

The earliest English examples of the personification of Christmas are apparently those in carols of the 15th century.

20th century Pentecostalism was not the earliest instance of " speaking in tongues " in church history, but earlier examples are few ; in church history and writing after the New Testament, it had never been regarded as orthodox until the rise of Pentecostalism.

One of the earliest examples of guerrilla warfare, is Shivaji, the Maratha king.

Though a physician and a pioneer of epidemiology, the map is probably one of the earliest examples of Health geography.

There has been discussion by academics whether the " word square " is actually a Christian artefact, but if it is, it is one of the earliest examples of early Christianity in Britain.

The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of presumption of innocence, and it also suggests that the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.