The oldest sites documented thus far are from around 500 AD including Awdaghust, Kumbi-Saleh the ancient capital of Ghana, and Maranda a center located on a trade rout between Egypt and Gao.

It is thus the oldest source for documented Polish common law and is in Polish referred to as the Księga Elbląska ( Book of Elbląg ).

In the oldest documented map of the island, created by Andrés de Morales, that region is named Montes de Haití (" Haiti Mountains ").

The oldest and most accurately documented evidence of skiing origins is found in modern day Norway and Sweden.

The oldest documented violin to have four strings, like the modern violin, is supposed to have been constructed in 1555 by Andrea Amati, but the date is very doubtful.

* The University of Pavia, one of the most ancient universities in Europe, was founded in 1361, although a school of rhetoric is documented in 825 making this center perhaps the oldest protouniversity of Europe.

Although Egyptian is the oldest Afroasiatic language documented in written form, its morphological repertoire is greatly different from that of the rest of the Afroasiatic in general and Semitic in particular.

In addition, all variations on the mother, or grandmother effect fail to explain longevity with continued spermatogenesis in males ( oldest verified paternity is 94 years, 35 years beyond the oldest documented birth attributed to females ).

Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.

The building is the only extant structure wherein it has been documented that the padre officiated over mass, and is the oldest building in California in continuous use.

* Fira de Sant Ermengol, documented as the oldest of Spain, held on the third weekend of October.

No documented account of Piazzi's scientific education is available in any of the biographies of the astronomer, even in the oldest ones.

Alcalá's Corral of Comedies, which hosts a full program of theatre and is open for tours, is the oldest documented corral in the history of Spain.

However, Blackheath is perhaps most famous for founding the Blackheath Rugby Club in 1858, which is the oldest documented rugby club in England and located on Charlton Road.

The town is home to the oldest documented covered bridge in the country still standing — the Haverhill-Bath Bridge, built in 1829.

The oldest structure in Tuxedo to be documented is the Adam Belcher house.

The Star Christmas Parade is documented as one of the oldest in the State, as well as the longest with the most entries.

Dublin University Football Club, founded in 1854, plays rugby football and is the world's oldest documented " football club ".

The Iberians were the oldest documented people living in what today is the Alicante Province.

The oldest documented Glühwein tankard is attributed to Count John IV of Katzenelnbogen, a German nobleman who was the first grower of Riesling grapes.

The earliest documented inquiries into the geographical origin of boogie-woogie occurred in the late 1930s when oral histories from the oldest living Americans of both African and European descent, revealed a broad consensus that boogie-woogie piano was first played in Texas in the early 1870s.

Knauss is the second-oldest fully documented person ever, behind Jeanne Calment, and the oldest person ever of the western hemisphere.

Jämtland has over 20 000 documented ancient monuments, the oldest one being an arrowhead found in Åflo near Kaxås in Offerdal parish possibly older than 8 000 year, which would make it one of the oldest stone age finds in all of Sweden.

Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.

The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10, 000 – 9000 BCE.

They argue that the oldest copies of this text family are likely to have been lost or destroyed over time with use, and therefore extant manuscripts cannot accurately date a text family.

The oldest undisputed evidence of the use of astrology as an integrated system of knowledge is therefore attributed to the records of the first dynasty of Mesopotamia ( 1950 – 1651 BCE ).

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 ).

Dating to the Greek Bronze Age ( 13th century BC ), it is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use.

To offer an example of these concepts, O ' Flaherty makes use of " one of the oldest reasons why cities were built: military protection ".

Winer's influence gave him the desire to use the oldest manuscripts in order to compile the text of the New Testament as close to the original as possible.

In November 2007, archaeologists reported finding evidence of the oldest known cultivation and use of cacao at a site in Puerto Escondido, Honduras, dating from about 1100 to 1400 BC.

The Rig Veda, one of the oldest religious scriptures in the world, contain several references to the use of Dundhubi ( war drum ).

These are the oldest cultures in the whole of South America that continue to use ayahuasca or analogue brews, such as the ones made from Jurema in the Pernambuco, near Recife or Iquitos in Peru.

Dannebrog is the oldest state flag in the world still in use by an independent nation.

The oldest standing home in Richmond, the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, though Poe never lived there.

Both are extremely old, going back at least to the third century, and are the oldest extant liturgies continually in use.

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 oldest use of family names or surnames is unclear.

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

The Flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in use

* The flag of Denmark is the oldest state flag still in use ( dates back to the 13th century ).

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.

To operate the crowning armillary sphere, this clocktower featured an escapement mechanism and the world's oldest known use of an endless power-transmitting chain drive.

The oldest indoor ice hockey arena still in use today for ice hockey is Boston's Matthews Arena, built in 1910.

The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics, and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to the nation's oldest schools.

* 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.