The earliest secure data concerning atlatls has come from several caves in France dating to the Upper Paleolithic, about 21, 000 to 17, 000 years ago.

Thus, Rohl is of the opinion that none of these three foundations of the conventional Egyptian chronology are secure, and that the sacking of Thebes by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 664 BC is the earliest fixed date in Egyptian history.

The earliest European to record his visit to the Jubba area is the Jesuit Jerónimo Lobo, who, in 1624, attempted to follow the course of the Jubba into Ethiopia only to learn that he would need to pass through the lands of nine different peoples who " were continuously at war with one another and each one was scarcely secure in its own land than thus could not provide security for anyone who took a step outside of it ", and returned to Portuguese India to find another way there.

The earliest traces of Eisler in the file ( KV 2 / 2773, 1936 – 1949 ) date from 1936, when Comintern efforts to secure a false American passport in the name of Edwards were reported.

Eldad the Danite does indeed speak of at least three waves of Jewish immigration into his region, creating other Jewish tribes and kingdoms, including the earliest wave that settled in a remote kingdom of the " tribe of Moses ": this was the strongest and most secure Jewish kingdom of all, with farming villages, cities and great wealth.

The earliest Chinese visitor was the ambassador Zhang Qian, who passed through on his way to secure a military alliance with the Da Yuezhi or ' Great Yuezhi ' against the Xiongnu, c. 127 / 126 BCE.

For cruciform boards, the monumental Pachisi or Chaupat boards of the Moghul ruler Akbar ( 1542 – 1605 ), designed to accommodate humans as playing pieces, " still represent the earliest secure evidence for the existence of the game in India.

In the winter of 1182 / 1183 Sverre initiated construction of Sverresborg ( one of the earliest Norwegian fortresses ) to provide him a more secure and more easily defended base from which to work.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

The earliest written reference to the town, under the name of Habensperch, came from this time, in around 1138.

In the earliest reference to this land, a letter outlining the treaty violations of the Hittite vassal Madduwatta, it is called Ahhiya.

The earliest reference to the idea of non-violence to animals ( pashu-ahimsa ), apparently in a moral sense, is in the Kapisthala Katha Samhita of the Yajurveda ( KapS 31. 11 ), which may have been written in about the 8th century BCE.

* c. 500 BC: The earliest reference to Pachisi in the Mahabharata, the Indian epic.

* c. 400 BC: The earliest written reference to go ( weiqi ) in the historical annal Zuo Zhuan.

20 ) contains earliest known reference to Latrunculi ( often confused with Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum, Ovid's game mentioned below ).

* 1 BC – 8 AD: Ovid's Ars Amatoria contains earliest known reference to Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum.

* c. 600: The earliest reference to shatranj written in Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.

The earliest extant reference to the first foliation of the Nowell Codex was made sometime between 1628 and 1650 by Franciscus Junius ( the younger ).

The earliest of these was a casual reference on May 3, 1921:

The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.

The earliest written reference to crochet refers to slip stitch crochet | shepherd's knitting from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant ( 1797 – 1830 ) in the 19th century.

The first known reference to one was by Johann Speth in 1693 and the earliest such extant signed and dated clavichord was built in 1716 by Johann Michael Heinitz.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of Ptolemy ( the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer ) in about 140 AD provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there.

" One year later, the earliest recorded use in reference to a theological distinction was by Sir Thomas More, who spoke of " Tyndale his evangelical brother Barns ".

The earliest written reference to a flute is from a Sumerian-language cuneiform tablet dated to c. 2600-2700 BCE.

His book includes the earliest known reference to roux using pork fat.

The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).

The terminus ad quem, or latest possible date, for Luke is bound by the earliest papyri manuscripts that contains portions of Luke ( late 2nd / early 3rd century )< ref > P < sup > 4 </ sup >, P < sup > 45 </ sup >, P < sup > 69 </ sup >, P < sup > 75 </ sup >, and P < sup > 111 </ sup ></ ref > and the mid to late 2nd century writings that quote or reference Luke.

The earliest clear written record of iron horseshoes is a reference to " crescent figured irons and their nails " in AD 910.

It bears what is generally thought to be the earliest extra-biblical Semitic reference to the name Yahweh ( YHWH ), whose temple goods were plundered by Mesha and brought before his own god Kemosh.

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, written in the 17th century BC, contains the earliest recorded reference to the brain

The earliest Gnostic sects ascribe the work of creation to angels, some of them using the same passage in Genesis.

The earliest passage tombs seem to take the form of small dolmens.

The earliest mention of Ninian of Whithorn is in a short passage of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Northumbrian monk Bede in ca.

The passage is one of the earliest non-Christian references to the origin of Christianity, the execution of Christ described in the Canonical gospels, and the presence and persecution of Christians in 1st-century Rome.

The Liberalia of March were, since earliest times, the occasion for the ceremony of the donning of the toga virilis or libera ( which marked the passage into adult citizenship by young people ).

In the days following the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson made an address to Congress: " No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the Civil Rights Bill for which he fought so long.

A lost passage of Pindar quoted by Strabo was the earliest traceable reference in this context: " the pillars which Pindar calls the ' gates of Gades ' when he asserts that they are the farthermost limits reached by Heracles.

In its earliest years, the school benefited from the ease of transportation afforded by the passage of the Pennsylvania railroad through Birmingham.

The earliest allusion to spoken Georgian may be a passage of the Roman grammarian Marcus Cornelius Fronto in the 2nd century AD: Fronto imagines the Iberians addressing the emperor Marcus Aurelius in their incomprehensible tongue.

In addition, he introduced one of the earliest radical Bills to Parliament, although it failed to gain passage.

In his first address to Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, " No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.

Manuscripts, Nero A. II, in the British Museum ), written about the middle of the eighth century, probably by an Irish monk in France, is found perhaps the earliest attribution of the Milan use to St. Ambrose, though it quotes the authority of St. Augustine, probably alluding to the passage already mentioned: " Est et alius cursus quem refert beatus augustinus episcopus quod beatus ambrosius propter hereticorum ordinem dissimilem composuit quem in italia antea de cantabatur " ( There is yet another Cursus which the blessed Bishop Augustine says that the blessed Ambrose composed because of the existence of a different use of the heretics, which previously used to be sung in Italy ).

The first Scriptural reference to Urim and Thummim is the description in the Book of Exodus concerning the high priest's vestments ; the chronologically earliest passage mentioning them, according to textual scholars, is in the Book of Hosea, where it is implied, by reference to the Ephod, that the Urim and Thummim were fundamental elements in the popular form of the Israelite religion, in the mid 8th century BC.

This passage, often called The Song of Deborah, may date to as early as the 12th century BC and is perhaps the earliest sample of Hebrew poetry.

The pericope is not found in any place in any of the earliest surviving Greek Gospel manuscripts ; neither in the two 3rd century papyrus witnesses to John-P < sup > 66 </ sup > and P < sup > 75 </ sup >; nor in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, although all four of these manuscripts may acknowledge the existence of the passage via diacritical marks at the spot.

Bishop J. B. Lightfoot wrote that absence of the passage from the earliest manuscripts, combined with the occurrence of stylistic characteristics atypical of John, together implied that the passage was an interpolation.

Below this last scene is one of the earliest examples of the passage from Latin to vernacular Italian: a fresco of the pagan Sisinnius and his servants, who think they have captured St. Clement but are dragging a column instead.

The earliest examples in this area are with anthropomorphic representations on menhirs which later continued in passage graves.

One of the earliest interpretations of the Nonintercourse Act comes from a speech by President George Washington to the Seneca Nation of New York in 1790, after the passage of the Act:

Daniel Pipes investigated the origin of the phrase " Satanic Verses ", and concluded that despite Salman Rushdie's claim that he had borrowed the phrase from Tabari, the earliest traceable occurrence is in Muir's Life of Mohamet ( 1858 ) in a passage discussing " two Satanic verses ".

One passage in De musica which has attracted much attention is his description of organum sung with several notes in the organal voice versus one note in the underlying chant, one of the earliest examples of polyphony escaping from the straitjacket of single note against single note.

The earliest one is Khodja-Akhmad Mausoleum ( 1340s ), which completes the passage from the north.

Whereas the Masoretic Text, of which the earliest surviving copy dates from the 9th century AD, teaches that " the Gods of the gentiles are nothing ", the corresponding passage in the Greek Septuagint, used by the early Christian Church, asserted that " all the gods of the heathens are devils.