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 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.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

In the 16th and the 17th centuries, the earliest European arrivals in China, the Christian Jesuits, considered Confucianism to be an ethical system, not a religion, and one that was compatible with Christianity.

It was almost certainly written within three or four years of Columba's death and is the earliest vernacular poem in European history.

The earliest finds of European pattern mail are from the 3rd century BCE from Horný Jatov, Slovakia, and a Celtic chieftain's burial located in Ciumeşti, Romania.

Evidence for the fire hypothesis is the sudden increase in widespread ash deposits at the time that people arrived in Australia, as well as land-management and hunting practices of modern Aboriginal people as recorded by the earliest European settlers before Aboriginal society was devastated by European contact and disease.

Irish settlers-both voluntary and forced-were crucial to the Australian colonies from the earliest days of European settlement.

Large numbers of Irish priests, nuns and brothers followed other Irish immigrants to Australia from the earliest years of European settlement in order to provide education to the children of those immigrants.

However, the earliest European reference to the kora in Western literature is in Travels in Interior Districts of Africa ( 1799 ) by the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.

It is interesting to note, however, that mutualist anarchism has its origins in 18th and 19th century European socialism ( such as Fourierian socialism ) while communist and syndicalist anarchism has its earliest origins in early 18th century liberalism ( such as the French Revolution ).

Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind ( sometimes described as identical with soul or spirit ) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.

The game is said to have originated in China ( it closely resembles the Chinese game of " Jianshizi ", or " picking stones "), but the origin is uncertain ; the earliest European references to Nim are from the beginning of the 16th century.

The earliest dated European woodcut is 1418.

The earliest known surviving European bed quilt is from late 14th century Sicily.

He is sometimes credited, mainly starting in the 19th century, as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by the works of Aristotle and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Muslim scientist Alhazen.

These are the earliest European dances to be well-documented, as we have a reasonable knowledge of the choreographies, steps and music used.

This qualifies Rigvedic Sanskrit as one of the oldest attestations of any Indo-Iranian language, and one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family, the family which includes English and most European languages.

Early European interest in the island followed discovery of copper in the remote north of the island, where New Zealand's earliest mines were established at Miners Head in 1842.

The earliest permanent European settlement occurred in 1647 on the island.

It serves as a tool in understanding how the earliest European societies functioned, principally through well-preserved ritual burials, pottery, and golden jewelry.

This defeat in the Travancore-Dutch War is considered the earliest example of an organized Asian power overcoming European military technology and tactics ; and it signaled the decline of Dutch power in India.

Trade between European nations and the natives began from the earliest the very beginning of European colonization of the Americas.

The earliest clubs on the European continent were of a political nature.