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The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3, 300-year-old stone carving of a Hittite bard.
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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
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File: Lovers 9000BC british museum. jpg | Room 2-Ain Sakhri lovers, from the cave of Ain Sakhri, near Bethlehem, 11, 000 years old ( oldest known representation of two people engaged in sexual intercourse )
Scholars have recently discovered in the Schoyen Collection the oldest known representation of the Tower of Babel.
The oldest known representation of two snakes entwined around a rod is that of the Sumerian fertility god Ningizzida.
It is shown on the oldest representation of La Hulpe, a Brussels tapestry from the Hunts of Maximilian suite kept in the Louvre Museum, showing a hunting scene emblemmatic of a month in Charles V's time.
The oldest known musical instruments have been found here, too: flutes made from the bones of swans and griffon vultures, some 35, 000 years old, and in 2004 a flute carved from the tusk of a mammoth dating from the Ice Age, around 37, 000 years ago, and the oldest representation of the human body, the Venus of Schelklingen.
The oldest register with the representation of the fruit seems to be included in the Cascajal Block, attributed to the Olmec civilization.
As part of the contacts with the Near East, the reliefs from his funerary monuments also hold the oldest known representation of a Syrian bear.
The frescoes in the oldest section of the church include a magnificent representation of Christ Pantocrator in the dome.
Two highly revered Bulgarian saints are also represented in the narthex-St. John of Rila ( the oldest surviving representation of the saint ) and St. Paraskeva ( Petka ).
The oldest known representation of the Sator Square was found in the ruins of Pompeii.
The basilica of Bibracte is currently the oldest representation of Roman monumental stone architecture in non-Mediterranean Europe.
It has a claimed representation of over 1, 000, 000 evangelical Christians in the United Kingdom and is the oldest alliance of evangelical Christians in the world.
It is the oldest extant statue of the Titan of Greek mythology, who is represented in earlier vase-painting, and more important, the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere.
In this case, its meaning can also encompass the Sutta-pitaka, which the Theravada tradition holds to be the oldest and most historically accurate representation of the teachings of Gautama Buddha, together with the Vinaya-pitaka.
Artistic representation of the oldest bullring in Spain, La Maestranza, in Seville.
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The discovery was also the oldest confirmed find of any musical instrument in history, until a redating of flutes found in Geißenklösterle cave revealed them to be even older with an age of 42. 000 to 43. 000 years.
During the last glacial period, present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Neanderthals ; the most famous Neanderthal archeological site in Slovenia is a cave close to the village of Šebrelje near Cerkno, where the Divje Babe flute, the oldest known musical instrument in the world was found in 1995.
The flute is perhaps the oldest musical instrument, other than the human voice itself.
The organ is without doubt the oldest of these, appearing in the 3rd century BC, though this early instrument — called hydraulis — did not use a keyboard in the modern sense.
Traditional Indigenous music is best characterised by the didgeridoo, the best-known instrument, which is considered by some to be the world's oldest.
The remains of a 2300 year old lyre was discovered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in 2010 making it Europe ’ s oldest surviving stringed musical instrument.
It is believed to have originated among the Hela civilisation of Sri Lanka in the time of King Ravana. This string instrument has been recognised as one of the oldest string instrument in the world history.
Vocal music is probably the oldest form of music, since it does not require any instrument besides the human voice.
Vocal music is probably the oldest form of music, since it does not require any instrument besides the human voice.
Included in the collection is the world's oldest surviving keyboard instrument.
The Divje Babe flute, an artifact found in a cave near Cerkno, Slovenia, is possibly the oldest known musical instrument ever.
The contrabassoon was developed in the mid-18th century ; the oldest surviving instrument, which came in four parts and had only three keys, was built in 1714.
First of them is the Dombra, the most popular and the oldest Kazakh music instrument.
Gusli () is the oldest Russian multi-string plucked instrument.
This instrument is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world ; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in a Chinese drawing from the 4th century BC.
Also, until the musical renaissance of the 20th century, Montenegrin music was mainly based on the simple traditional instrument, the gusle. The oldest singing society, named " Jedinstvo " ( Unity ) was formed in Kotor in 1839.
While Stonehenge and the Neolithic " circular ditches " such as the 5th millennium BC Goseck circle were used to mark the solstices, the disk is the oldest known " portable " instrument to allow such measurements.
This is the oldest dated musical instrument found from Wales.
It is the oldest instrument for dental cleaning.
The calabash gourd is possibly mankind's oldest instrument resonator.
Their flute is called the lira and is considered the oldest instrument in Joujouka.
On the oldest types of piercing gun, one starter stud is manually loaded into a receiving tube, and its matching friction back is loaded into a holder closer to the main part of the instrument.
The Jajouka flute is called the " lira " and is considered the oldest instrument in Jajouka.
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