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.

The oldest extant Chinese star chart dates to the Tang period and was preserved as part of the Dunhuang Manuscripts.

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.

The Hobart Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Australia and a rare surviving example of an Egyptian Revival synagogue.

The oldest known lock is approximately 4, 000 years old and was of Egyptian make.

The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy-wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried ( Nag Hammadi library ) or stored in dry caves ( Dead Sea scrolls ).

The oldest accurately dated star chart appeared in ancient Egyptian astronomy in 1534 BC.

* July 19, 4242 BC: Egyptian New Year's Day ; the oldest calendar date known ( as of 2006 ).

* 1835 Bulaq version – These two volumes, printed by the Egyptian government, are the oldest printed ( by a publishing house ) version of The Nights in Arabic by a non-European.

Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.

Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known, outside of Sumerian.

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.

Horus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in ancient Egyptian religion, who was worshipped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times.

* 1500 BC-Edwin Smith Papyrus an Egyptian medical text and the oldest known surgical treatise ( no true surgery )

The Hermetic literature added to the Egyptian concerns with conjuring spirits and animating statues that inform the oldest texts, Hellenistic writings of Greco-Babylonian astrology and the newly developed practice of alchemy ( Fowden 1993: pp65 – 68 ).

According to Theodor Hopfner, Thoth's Egyptian name written as originated from, claimed to be the oldest known name for the Ibis although normally written as.

Its symptoms and treatment are described in the Egyptian Ebers papyrus, the oldest existing medical text, written before the 16th century BCE.

Her name is translated to mean ' sky ' and she is considered one of the oldest deities among the Egyptian pantheon, with her origin being found on the creation story of Heliopolis.

Heliopolis (;, " City of the Sun " or " City of Helios "; Egyptian: ỉwnw ; Arabic: عين شمس, Ain Shams, " Eye of the Sun ") was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, the capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome that was located five miles ( 8 km ) east of the Nile to the north of the apex of the Nile Delta.

The painted limestone statue of Djoser, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the oldest known life-sized Egyptian statue.

Some of the oldest evidence of moats has been uncovered around ancient Egyptian fortresses.

It was claimed by Egyptian scientists to have the possible age of 2-3 million years old, which would make it the oldest fossilized hominid footprint ever found.

The world's oldest preserved garment, discovered by Flinders Petrie, is a " highly sophisticated " linen shirt from a First Dynasty Egyptian tomb at Tarkan, ca.

Upon his father's death the following year, the Egyptian throne passed to Ibrahim's nephew ( Muhammad Ali's second oldest son ), Abbas.

The antiquity of these tools is well documented in early literature, such as the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus of ~ 1550 BCE ( the oldest preserved piece of medical literature ) and the Old Testament ( Numbers 11: 8 and Proverbs 27: 22 ).