A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far.

In Lebanon more than 450 outcrops of Lower Cretaceous amber were discovered between the 1960s and 1990s, among which about 20 outcrops have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods.

Many remarkable insects and spiders were recently discovered in the amber of Jordan including the oldest zorapterans, clerid beetles, umenocoleid roaches, and achiliid planthoppers.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

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

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.

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.

The oldest golden treasure in the world, dating to 5, 000 BC, was discovered at the site.

Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).

The oldest known dictionaries were Akkadian Empire cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian – Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla ( modern Syria ) and dated roughly 2300 BCE .< ref name = " imlqdg ">

The oldest flute ever discovered may be a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear, with two to four holes, found at Divje Babe in Slovenia and dated to about 43, 000 years ago.

A three-holed flute, 18. 7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk ( from the Geißenklösterle cave, near Ulm, in the southern German Swabian Alb and dated to 30, 000 to 37, 000 years ago ) was discovered in 2004, and two flutes made from swan bones excavated a decade earlier ( from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36, 000 years ago ) are among the oldest known musical instruments.

The oldest surviving gun, made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time.

The Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels is the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe and among the oldest roads in the world, dated by dendrochronology to the winter of 3807-3806 BCE ; it too is thought to have been a primarily religious structure.

The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35, 000 BC .< ref >

Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the " Java Man " were first discovered by the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois at Trinil in 1891, and are at least 700, 000 years old, at that time the oldest human ancestor ever found.

In 2010 stone tools were discovered on Flores dating from 1 million years ago, which is the oldest evidence anywhere in the world that early man had the technology to make sea crossings at this very early time.

The oldest Acheulean tools ever discovered anywhere in the world are from West Turkana, and were dated in 2011 through the method of magnetostratigraphy to about 1. 76 million years old.

In 1991 a hominin jawbone was discovered near Uraha village that was between 2. 3 and 2. 5 million years old, the oldest evidence of the genus Homo ever discovered.

It was there that he discovered the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed text which has a date ( corresponding to AD 868 ), along with 40, 000 other scrolls ( all removed by gradually winning the confidence of the Taoist caretaker ).

The oldest evidence of human existence in the Ryukyu islands was discovered in Naha and Yaese.

As for Sub-Saharan Africa, in 2007, Swiss archeologists discovered pieces of the oldest pottery in Africa in Central Mali, dating back to at least 9, 500 BCE.

The oldest domestic bricks were found in Greece.

The oldest area church is St. Alban's Episcopal, which was built in 1904, with many of its bricks dating back to Marley Chapel, an early Maryland parish from the 1730s.

The town was once home to the largest brickyard in the state, producing 5 million bricks a year, and to the downtown Spaulding & Frost Cooperage, established in 1874, one of the oldest operating wooden barrel manufacturers in the country.

Following the war, the Old Town in Malbork was not rebuilt, instead the bricks from its ruins were used to rebuild the oldest sections of Warsaw and Gdańsk.

Fujairah is also home to the oldest mosque in the United Arab Emirates which was built in 1446 of mud and bricks.

Some of the oldest bricks found to date are Persian, from c. 6000 BC.

* Former hotel building — among the oldest buildings in town, built 1901 of boulders and bricks.

Adobe type of mud bricks is one of the oldest and most widely used building materials.

Fullerton College the oldest community college ( originally " Junior College ") in continuous operation in California, having been established in 1913

The oldest of these is the French Federation of Speleology ( originally Société de spéléologie ) founded by Édouard-Alfred Martel in 1895, which produced the first periodical journal in speleology, Spelunca.

Of the eleven colleges, Baker is the oldest, originally built in 1912, and the twin Duncan and McMurtry colleges are the newest, and opened for the first time for the 2009-10 school year.

Clearihue is the oldest building on campus, originally constructed in 1962 and augmented by an addition in 1971.

Other scholars, however, both Western and Muslim, argue that the text of the agreement -- whether a single document originally or several -- is possibly one of the oldest Islamic texts we possess.

In 1965 the California College of Medicine ( originally a school of osteopathy founded in 1896 and the oldest continuously operating medical college in the Southwest ) became part of UC Irvine.

The largest and oldest church of the city is the St. Walburgis ( Saint Walpurga ) church, which originally dates from the eleventh century.

" The Land Israel ", originally Ḥadashot Ha ' aretz –, – " News of the Land ") is Israel's oldest daily newspaper.

The oldest causeway, originally constructed in 1929, links Bahrain to Al Muharraq, the second largest island.

The city hosted the 2005 NECBL All-Star Game at Cardines Field, which, originally built in 1908, is one of the oldest active baseball parks in the country.

For example, DC's oldest superhero character, Superman, the lone survivor of the destroyed planet Krypton, originally could not fly ( he could instead leap over an eighth of a mile ), and his powers came from having evolved on a planet with stronger gravity than Earth's.

America's oldest intact county court records can be found at Eastville, Virginia, in Northampton ( originally Accomac ) County, dating to 1632.

* Mayow Park, originally named Sydenham Recreation Ground, this is the borough ’ s oldest municipal park.

The oldest buildings on the site, built in the early 1850s, had originally been a large Poor Law residential ' district ' school belonging to the South Metropolitan Schools District.

The oldest residence in Cluj-Napoca is the house of Matthias Corvinus, originally a Gothic structure that bears Transylvanian Renaissance characteristics due to a later renovation.

* The Xaadir ( Qādiriyya ), the oldest, originally founded in Baghdad by the Sufi mystic Abdul Qādir al-Jilānī in the 12th Century, now pan-Islamic, spread to Senegal in the 18th Century.

Pikes Peak Council is home to the oldest continually-chartered troop in the state of Colorado, Troop 2, originally chartered to Colorado Springs ' First Presbyterian Church in October, 1917.

The general store was originally built in 1787 making it one of, if not the oldest General Store in America ( a past owner claimed to have not found an older store ).

The Church of Nazarene, originally built in 1900 as a Methodist church, is the oldest church building still standing.

It is the second oldest planned city in Georgia and was originally called New Inverness.

Magnolia is the oldest village in Putnam County, originally settled in the 1830s by William Hawes.

The Hart Memorial Trophy, originally known as the Hart Trophy, the " oldest and most prestigious individual award in hockey ", is awarded annually to the " player adjudged most valuable to his team " in the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

Geographical landmarks of note include Kaplan's Woods, a hardwood nature preserve on the southern border of the city, Cinder Hill, a steep 60 foot hill on Linn Avenue overlooking downtown that is used by local athletes for training, the Straight River dam, originally used to power a mill and now reconstructed to include a fish ladder, and the Forest Hill Cemetery, an old wooded cemetery on the ridge to the north of Maple Creek that marks the boundary between the oldest parts of the city and more recent developments.

It was originally known as Wilson until 1856 when it was renamed for the oldest resident and recognized founder.