Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library, commemorates Gutenberg's name.

Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming Dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China.

Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming Dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China.

In Aleppo, for example, the largest and probably the oldest mosque library, the Sufiya, located at the city's Grand Umayyad Mosque, contained a large book collection of which 10, 000 volumes were reportedly bequeathed by the city's most famous ruler, Prince Sayf al-Dawla.

Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest.

The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy-wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried ( Nag Hammadi library ) or stored in dry caves ( Dead Sea scrolls ).

It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.

The oldest liturgical drama ( 12th century ) written already in old Spanish language was a codex found in the library of the Toledo Cathedral.

* c. 1600 BC: The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus ( which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna ): Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.

* The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus ( which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna ).

The library, which dates back to 1691, belongs to UNESCO world heritage, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

Their original architectural drawings are housed in the College's library, and are the oldest surviving plans for an Oxford or Cambridge college building.

Espoo cultural centre-which houses a library, a gallery and a theatre-and the Keskustorni ( central tower ), one of the oldest buildings in Tapiola

The Noyes Library, Montgomery County's oldest library, is located in the Kensington Historic District

It is the oldest public library in the State of Texas.

The city is also home to Alabama's oldest law library, the Supreme Court and State Law Library, founded in 1828.

The Mission archive is the oldest library in the State of California that still remains in the hands of its founders, the Franciscans ( it is the only mission where they have maintained an uninterrupted presence ).

The nearby Hanlin Academy, a complex of courtyards and buildings that housed " the quintessence of Chinese scholarship ... the oldest and richest library in the world ," caught fire.

Examples of Valparaíso ’ s former glory include Latin America ’ s oldest stock exchange, the continent ’ s first volunteer fire department, Chile ’ s first public library, and the oldest Spanish language newspaper in continuous publication in the world.

The Bodleian Library ( or ), the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library.

The Belleview Library still stands today as the second oldest library building in the state of Florida ; that building serving as the lobby of the expanded library today.

It includes the oldest continuously operating library in the state of Indiana, as well as a small museum.

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

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 Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic.

* The Gillamoos, the oldest and largest funfair in the Hallertau opens on the Thursday before the first Sunday in September and runs until the Monday thereafter.

* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.

One theory holds that Agade was situated opposite Sippar on the left bank of the Euphrates, and was perhaps the oldest part of the city of Sippar.

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 Beethoven Monument stands on the Münsterplatz, which is flanked by the Bonn Minster, one of Germany's oldest churches.

The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, French officials and foreign guests.

This is a popular event in France, broadcast on French TV, and is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe.

Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.

The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

The first bridge on the left is the Mittlere Brücke ( Middle or Central Bridge ), the oldest bridge in Basel.

Richard Attenborough directed a film on Chaplin's life, Chaplin ( 1992 ), which starred Robert Downey, Jr. as Chaplin and also included Chaplin's oldest daughter Geraldine Chaplin playing his mother, Hannah Chaplin.

The oldest sites documented thus far are from around 500 AD including Awdaghust, Kumbi-Saleh the ancient capital of Ghana, and Maranda a center located on a trade rout between Egypt and Gao.

The setting of Call of Cthulhu is a darker version of our world, based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation ( from his short essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature ) that " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Paris – Brest – Paris ( PBP ), which began in 1891, is the oldest bicycling event still run on a regular basis on the open road, covers over and imposes a 90-hour time limit.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the oldest received work of Chinese medical theory, was compiled around the first century BCE on the basis of shorter texts from different medical lineages.

In 1844, he paid his first visit to the convent of Saint Catherine's Monastery, on Mount Sinai, where he found, in a trash basket, forty-four pages of what was the then oldest known copy of the Septuagint.

Mumbai Suburban Railway, the oldest suburban rail system in Asia, ‎ carries more than 6. 9 million commuters on a daily basis which constitutes more than half of the total daily passenger capacity of the Indian Railways itself.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.