Gervase and Protase — and is one of the oldest extant bodies of historical personages known outside Egypt.

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 extant clade is thought to be the archigregarines.

By far the longest canal was the Grand Canal of China, still the longest canal in the world today, and the oldest extant one.

The oldest extant Chinese maps come from the State of Qin, dated back to the 4th century BC, during the Warring States Period.

In 1492, Martin Behaim, a German cartographer, made the oldest extant globe of the Earth.

Renamed the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1921, it remains the oldest extant women's peace organization.

* Felpham & Middleton Country Dance Club has written a history from 1933 – 1994, just about one of the oldest extant English Country Dance clubs in England.

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

He was the subject of the oldest extant Spanish epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid.

In the West, grammar emerged as a discipline in Hellenism from the 3rd c. BC forward with authors like Rhyanus and Aristarchus of Samothrace, the oldest extant work being the Art of Grammar (), attributed to Dionysius Thrax ( ca.

The oldest extant reference to Sextus is by Origen in the third century of the common era.

As is common with ancient texts, however, there are no surviving extant manuscripts of Josephus ' works that can be dated before the 11th century, and the oldest of these are all Greek minuscules, copied by Christian monks.

The oldest extant micronation to arise in modern times is the Kingdom of Redonda, founded in 1865 in the Caribbean.

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the first.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle otherwise proves significant to study of the era, preserving a chronology of early English history, while the poem Cædmon's Hymn from the 7th century survives as the oldest extant work of literature in English.

Shown here in positive form, this is the oldest known extant photographic negative made in a camera.

His diplomatic position was such that his name is still on the oldest extant piece of English statute law, the Statute of Marlborough of 1267, where the formal title mentions as a witness " the Lord Ottobon, at that time legate in England ".

The oldest extant document written in Romanian is Neacșu's letter ( 1521 ).

In Hinduism, the holy book Rigveda, the oldest extant Indo-Aryan text, numerous references are made to rebirths, although it portrays reincarnation as " redeaths " ( punarmrtyu ).

The oldest known extant slings were found in the tomb of Tutankhamen, who died about 1325 BC.

It has the oldest extant literature amongst other Dravidian languages.

He is perhaps most famous for being the oldest extant Latin writer to use the term Trinity ( Latin trinitas ), and giving the oldest extant formal exposition of a Trinitarian theology.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the oldest received work of Chinese medical theory, was compiled around the first century BCE on the basis of shorter texts from different medical lineages.

Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy.

The two oldest printed Chinese calendars are dated 877 and 882 ; they were found at the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Dunhuang ; Patricia Ebrey writes that it is no surprise that some of the earliest printed items were calendars, since the Chinese found it necessary to calculate and mark which days were auspicious and which were not.

Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world.

Mong Há has long been the center of Chinese life in Macau and the site of what may be the region's oldest temple, a shrine devoted to the Buddhist Guanyin ( Goddess of Mercy ).

The appropriateness of this more recent appellation is seen in the oldest literature preserved by these schools where the art is said to be a study of yin ( receptive ) and yang ( active ) principles, using terminology found in the Chinese classics, especially the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching.

* Significant to the history of agriculture, the Chinese author Jia Sixia wrote the treatise Qi Min Yao Shu in 535, and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise.

* The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.

* Significant to the history of agriculture, Chinese author Jia Sixia writes the treatise " Chimin Yaoshu " in this year, and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise.

Chinese law is one of the oldest legal traditions in the world.

* Chinatown, Manila ( Binondo ) ( Philippines )( oldest outside Chinese territory established 1521 )

Dating back to the late 19th century, the main center of the older Chinatown is Pender Street and Main Street in downtown Vancouver, which is also, along with Victoria's Chinatown, one of the oldest surviving Chinatowns in North America, and has been the setting for a variety of modern Chinese Canadian culture and literature.

* Song Dynasty Chinese author Qin Guan writes the Can Shu ( Book of Sericulture ), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.

* The oldest known bronze handgun in the world is dated to this year, a Chinese gun found in Acheng District that was once used to suppress the rebellion of the Christian Mongol Prince Nayan in 1287 – 1288.

The oldest known Chinese piece of hard, hempen wrapping paper dates to the 2nd century BCE.

The Gold Rush town of Weaverville on the Trinity River today retains the oldest continuously used Taoist temple in California, a legacy of Chinese miners who came.

The nearby Hanlin Academy, a complex of courtyards and buildings that housed " the quintessence of Chinese scholarship ... the oldest and richest library in the world ," caught fire.