The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

Beit Lehi also contains the oldest known Hebrew writing of the word “ Jerusalem ” It's written as the inscription “ I am YHWH thy Lord.

The oldest known mention of their existence in the region by the exonym Siamese is in a 12th century A. D. inscription at the Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which refers to syam, or " dark brown " people.

The oldest inscription was found near the Issyk river in Kyrgyzstan.

While the oldest known inscription in the Khmer language dates from 611 CE, inscriptions in Thai writing began to appear around 1292 CE.

According to tradition it was created in 1283 by King Ramkhamhaeng the Great (). Replica of the Ramkhamhaeng inscription, the oldest inscription using proto-Thai script

The oldest known inscription that goes by the name of Phoenician is the Ahiram epitaph, engraved on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram from c. 1200 BC.

However even if the youngest date is correct, the inscription is still the oldest surviving testimony of the Samnite wars while an earlier date is no guarantee against distortion.

The Kedukan Hill inscription, which is dated 682 CE, is the oldest inscription found in Palembang.

The oldest tomb inscription in the local cemetery probably dates to 1610.

The Bilsad inscription is the oldest record of his reign and it dates to Gupta year 96, which corresponds to 415 CE.

The oldest known text in Arabic alphabet is an inscription found in Jabal Ram 50 km east of Aqaba.

The inscription also seems to be the oldest written reference to the Iliad.

The oldest documentation of the water clock is the tomb inscription of the 16th century BCE Egyptian court official Amenemhet, which identifies him as its inventor.

The inscription in Book V reads: " Herein are collected the oldest Tale of the Downfall of Númenor, the story of the Lost Road into the West, the Annals of Valinor and the Annals of Beleriand in a later form, the Ainulindalë, or the Music of the Ainur, the Lhammas, or Account of tongues, the Quenta Silmarillion or History of the Silmarils and the history of many words and names.

The oldest uncontested example of Georgian writing is an Asomtavruli inscription from 430 AD in a church in Bethlehem.

630 BC – Dorian aristocrats in Crete adopt formal relations between adult aristocrats and adolescent boys ; an inscription from Crete is the oldest record of the social institution of paiderasteia among the Greeks ( see Cretan pederasty ).

A stone slab discovered in the vicinity of the temple dates to the 5th century, and is the oldest such stone inscription discovered in Nepal.

The oldest dated inscription in Khmer was found at Angkor Borei in Takev Province south of Phnom Penh and dates from 611 AD.

A stone inscription found in Lumbarda ( Lumbarda Psephisma ) and which is the oldest written stone monument in Croatia ( and, until recently, in former Yugoslavia ), records that Greek settlers from Issa ( Vis ) founded another colony on the island in the 3rd century BC.

This is the oldest existing armed seal of Warsaw, consisting of a round seal bordered with the Latin inscription Sigilium Civitatis Varsoviensis ( Seal of the city of Warsaw ).

A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far.

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

They most likely originated in West Gondwana and are 67 – 107 million years old, so the oldest split could relate to the break-up of Gondwana in the middle Eocene to late Oligocene, 45 – 24 million years ago, and reached their current distribution by multiple intercontinental dispersal events.

Examples include Commonwealth realms where the individual who acts as their respective monarch resides in the oldest realm, the United Kingdom, and so is represented in the others by an appointed governor-general ( unhyphenated in Canada as governor general ) and Andorra which is headed by two non-resident co-princes, one of which is also the President of France.

Her father, Pietro Agnesi, also married twice more after Maria's mother died, so that Maria Agnesi ended up the oldest of 21 children.

At the time it was the oldest known germination, remaining so until a new record was set in 2012.

In 2011 older modern human remains were identified in the UK ( Kents Cavern at 41, 000BP ) and Italy ( Grotta del Cavallo at 43, 000BP ), nonetheless the Romanian fossils are still among the oldest remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, so they may be representative of the first such people to have entered the continent.

Potassium-40 has a half-life of 1. 3 billion years, and so this method is applicable to the oldest rocks.

The oldest date so far from pre-historic remains in Samoa has been calculated by New Zealand scientists to a likely true age of circa 3, 000 years ago from a Lapita site at Mulifanua during the 1970s.

The term " suburb " had become overused, so that it tended to refer casually to any area located outside of the central city, even when the nearest and oldest " suburbs " were no longer distinct from a central city area in appearance and function.

The oldest recipe found so far is from a copy of the oldest extant Danish cookbook, written by Henrik Harpestræng who died in 1244, which dates it to the early 13th century at the latest.

The oldest, and still common, is the concept of " stemming ", pushing the front (" tips ") or rear (" tails ) of the skis sideways from the body so they form an angle to the direction of travel.

The oldest monument in Reims, the Porte de Mars (" Mars Gate ", so called from a temple to Mars in the neighbourhood ), a triumphal arch 108 feet in length by 43 in height, consists of three archways flanked by columns.

Peach tree is portrayed in the domuswall paintings of the towns destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD, with the oldest artistic representations of peach fruit, discovered so far, are in the two fragments of wall paintings, dated back to the 1st century AD, in Herculaneum, now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

This was the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world, and is still the oldest ceremonial burial anywhere in Western Europe so far discovered.

Later, a court ruled that the company had to reside legally in a single city, so Amsterdam is recognized as the oldest such institution based on modern trading principles.

Today Glastonbury Abbey presents itself as " traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world ," which according to the legend was built at Joseph's behest to house the Holy Grail, 65 or so years after the death of Jesus.

The Song of Deborah, which some textual scholars consider to be one of the oldest parts of the bible, suggests that Yahweh dwelt at Mount Seir, so many scholars favour a location in Nabatea ( modern Arabia ).

One of the first three bishoprics in Spain was founded in Astorga, so the title of Bishop of Astorga is one of the oldest religious charges of Europe.

The oldest known remains in China so far date to circa 2600 BC while buckwheat pollen found in Japan dates from as early as 4000 BC.

More than 200 are known, of which the first dozen or so, the oldest and most important, are variously referred to as the principal, main ( mukhya ) or old Upanishads.

Murry went so far as to order his oldest son to sever any further efforts with Jan and Dean.

The ruins of the oldest human settlement in the Aegean Islands found so far have been unearthed in archaeological excavations on Lemnos by a team of Greek, Italian and American archaeologists at the Ouriakos site on the Louri coast of Fyssini in Moudros municipality.

Since the equator is so close, the rainforests in Malaysia are among the oldest in the world: roughly 130 million years old.