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.

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.

116 This scroll contains the oldest reference to Daniel, only as an abbreviated text: a prayer of Daniel at ( 9: 4b-19 ).

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

The oldest reference to Maltese comes from the Benedictine monks of Catania, who were unable to open a monastery in Malta, in 1364, because they could not understand the native language.

The sling is mentioned in the Bible, which provides what is believed to be the oldest textual reference to a sling in the Book of Judges, 20: 16.

* Revision by Jerome of the Old Latin, corrected with reference to the oldest Greek manuscripts available: the Gospels.

It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):

In the oldest reference to this, from circa 860, the settlement was called Leithon.

Certain scholars of the Semitic Eblaite material ( dated 2350 BC ) from the archive of Tell Mardikh see the oldest reference to Canaanites in the ethnic name ga-na-na which provides a third millennium reference to the name Canaan.

ANZAC biscuits and the pavlova are considered by some to be Australian national foods, although while the oldest known named recipe for pavlova is from New Zealand, its often said in the Australian history that the dessert took its name from Anna Pavlova at the Esplanade Hotel in Perth during a tour of the state where she danced " as light as air " in reference to the light meringue.

As the oldest currently operating Canadian broadcaster, and still the largest in terms of national availability of its various networks, the nickname " Mother Corp " and variants thereof are sometimes used in reference to the CBC.

The oldest reference to Cranach in Luther's correspondence dates from 1520.

The oldest known reference to the game is thought to be a passage in the Talmud.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ( CDF ) ( Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei ), previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition ( wherefrom arose the names Roman Inquisition or Holy Inquisition popularly used in reference to the 16th century tribunals against witchcraft and heresy ), and after 1904 called the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, is the oldest of the nine congregations of the Roman Curia.

The oldest datable reference is a contract from Middle Egypt, stating that Oxyrhynchos gives the " semeiographer " Apollonios for two years to be taught shorthand writing.

The oldest known reference to Losser dates from the tenth century.

The oldest reference to East-Barendrecht is from 1264.

The oldest reference to Schoonhoven is on a document from 1247 where the town is called Sconhoven.

The oldest reference to the name Spickenisse is from a source from 1231.

Perhaps the oldest historical reference to the area that became Jeannette is the role the area played in the Pontiac War in 1763.

The oldest documentary reference to Saarbrücken is a deed of donation from 999, which documents that Emperor Otto III gave the " castellum Sarabrucca " ( Saarbrücken castle ) to the Bishops of Metz.

Unofficially, however, NST English ( named after the New Straits Times, the oldest English language daily in Malaysia ) is often used as the reference point for Malaysian English.

The oldest reference to Keerbergen appeared the eleventh century as ' Chierberghe ', which was donated in 1036 by the lord of Incourt to the bishop of Liège.