Some of the oldest, most persistent, and most cohesive forms of social groupings have grown out of religion.

History tells us that Out-of-home advertising and billboards are the oldest forms of advertising.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.

Cross-stitch is one of the oldest forms of embroidery and can be found all over the world.

The oldest predecessor to the class action rule was Equity Rule 48, promulgated in 1833, which allowed for representative suits in situations where there were too many individual parties ( which now forms the first requirement for class action litigation, numerosity ).

It is one of the oldest musical forms that continue to survive today.

The oldest forms of kantele have 5 or 6 horsehair strings and a wooden body carved from one piece ; more modern instruments have metal strings and often a body made from several pieces.

It incorporates the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in 1863 and now forms part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines ; and the first line to operate electric trains, in 1890, now part of the Northern line.

Marxist film theory is one of the oldest forms of film theory.

Originally deriving from the manufacture of ceramics and its putative derivative metallurgy, materials science is one of the oldest forms of engineering and applied science.

Cave paintings, from 32, 000 years ago, are one of the oldest forms of human expression and could be either a record of what prehistoric man caught on hunting trips, i. e. non-fiction, or alternately a story expressing what they would like to catch on future occasions, i. e. fiction.

The prominent open cluster Pleiades has been recognized as a group of stars since antiquity, while the Hyades forms part of Taurus, one of the oldest constellations.

In the oldest tertiary beds a few living shells may still be found in the midst of a multitude of extinct forms ...

The smoke signal is one of the oldest forms of long-distance communication.

Although Straparola's, Basile's and Perrault's collections contain the oldest known forms of various fairy tales, on the stylistic evidence, all the writers rewrote the tales for literary effect.

The site of the battle now forms Sitka National Historical Park, the oldest national park in Alaska.

It is one of the oldest forms of cooking known.

Situated east of Charing Cross, it forms one of the oldest parts of London and fronts the River Thames to the north.

In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape.

The city forms the setting of The Persians ( 472 BCE ), an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus that is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre.

The tabletop or floor charkha is one of the oldest known forms of the spinning wheel.

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site.

Cartomancy is one of the oldest of the more common forms of fortune-telling.

Asceticism in one of its most intense forms can be found in one of the oldest religions, known as Jainism.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

The oldest amber with arthropod inclusions comes from the MLevant, from Lebanon and Jordan.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

The oldest rocks in the ACT date from the Ordovician around 480 million years ago.

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.

The oldest bows known so far come from the Holmegård swamp in Denmark.

The shortest ( and possibly oldest ) road avoids alpine areas and led from the Baltic coastline ( nowadays Estonia ), passed the Moravian Gate, followed the river Morava, crossed the Danube near Carnuntum in the Noricum Province, headed southwest past Poetovio, Celeia, Emona, Nauportus, and reached Aquileia at the Adriatic coast.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Athanasian Creed date from the late 8th century.

They grow in succession, with the oldest growing from the bottom of the trunk and successively younger ones from the top.

Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), a collection of poems and songs with the stories of the composers and singers in many volumes from the oldest epoch of Arabic literature down to the 9th cent.

Arithmetic or arithmetics ( from the Greek word ἀριθμός, arithmos " number ") is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations.

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.