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 mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

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 ).

Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük, Çayönü, Nevali Cori and Hacilar represent the world's oldest known agricultural towns.

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

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.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

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

There is scattered evidence to suggest that the oldest known astrological references are copies of texts made during this period.

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 Rensselyrics of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( formerly known as the RPI Glee Club ), established in 1873 is perhaps the oldest known collegiate a cappella group.

The oldest known physical representations identified as symbols for abstract concepts are abstract engravings found on two pieces of ochre in Blombos Cave, South Africa, in 2001.

The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty, and is now referred to popularly as the Old Admiralty and officially as the Ripley Building.

The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the pharaoh.

Alameda is also known for its Fourth of July parade, which is advertised as the second oldest and second longest Fourth of July parade in the United States.

Senet is among the oldest known board games.

Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed, and was pictured in a fresco found in Merknera's tomb ( 3300 – 2700 BC ).

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

The oldest known bubble tea consisted of a mixture of hot Taiwanese black tea, small tapioca pearls ( 粉圓 ), condensed milk, and syrup ( 糖漿 ) or honey.

Descriptions of various beer recipes can be found in Sumerian writings, some of the oldest known writing of any sort.

* Scientists identify the oldest known bee, a 100 million-year-old specimen preserved in amber

The oldest such document still known to exist seems to be the Code of Ur-Nammu of Ur ( ca 2050 BC ).

The oldest document to bear the word " croquet " with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stationers ' Company in London.

* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

Linguistically, the text is the oldest document written in a Romance language, and specifically in a form of French.

The oldest known document using punctuation is the Mesha Stele ( 9th century BC ).

According to the website of the Archives, the oldest surviving document dates back to the end of the eighth century.

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

This view is confirmed by the " Prague Fragments " and by certain Old Glagolitic liturgical fragments brought from Jerusalem to Kiev and there discovered by Saresnewsky — probably the oldest document for the Slavonic tongue ; these adhere closely to the Latin type, as is shown by the words " Mass ," " Preface ," and the name of one Felicitas.

To the Austrian emperor he promised recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document designed to guarantee inheritance of the Austrian throne to Maria Theresa, Charles ' oldest child.

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 ):

It is the oldest known document that mentions Bucharest by name.

* The oldest document mentioning the city of Ferrara is from this year ( approximate date ).

Neacşu's Letter, the oldest surviving document written in Romanian has the oldest appearance of the word " Rumanian "

* The oldest surviving printed document, a Buddhist scripture, is printed in Korea.

Other scholars, however, both Western and Muslim, argue that the text of the agreement -- whether a single document originally or several -- is possibly one of the oldest Islamic texts we possess.

* The Congregatio Regni tocius Sclavonie Generalis with its decisions ( statuta et constitutiones ), is the oldest surviving document written by the Croatian parliament.

* November 1 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi ( Austria in Old High German ).

The oldest mention of a village called Jordi de Sassaro is in an 1131 document in the archive of the Monastery of St. Peter in Silki.

As H. C. Darby noted, anyone who uses it " can have nothing but admiration for what is the oldest ' public record ' in England and probably the most remarkable statistical document in the history of Europe.

The oldest document referring to Groningen's existence dates from 1040.

The Freising manuscripts ( also Freising folia, Freising fragments, or Freising monuments ;,, or ) are the first Latin-script continuous text in a Slavic language and the oldest document in Slovene.

The oldest document of the proto-literate period is the Kish tablet.