It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

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

The oldest extant Chinese star chart dates to the Tang period and was preserved as part of the Dunhuang Manuscripts.

What is most likely the oldest preserved drawing dates back to the early microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ).

Other surviving examples of clippers of the era are less well preserved, for example the oldest surviving clipper City of Adelaide ( a. k. a. S. V.

The small Oratorio di Santa Maria in Valle in Cividale del Friuli is probably one of the oldest preserved pieces of Lombard architecture, as Cividale was the first Lombard city in Italy.

The oldest preserved section of the Limburger Schloss, seen from the courtyard

Hence, these fragments are among the oldest objects in the solar system and have preserved information about its early history.

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 ).

The pre-Classical form of Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit, with the language of the Rigveda being the oldest and most archaic stage preserved, its oldest core dating back to as early as 1500 BCE.

Dating from 3500 BCE to 3100 BCE, it is similar in design to Skara Brae, but from an earlier period, and it is thought to be the oldest preserved standing building in northern Europe.

The appropriateness of this more recent appellation is seen in the oldest literature preserved by these schools where the art is said to be a study of yin ( receptive ) and yang ( active ) principles, using terminology found in the Chinese classics, especially the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching.

Social contract formulations are preserved in many of the world's oldest records.

The old town hall, built in 1610, is the oldest preserved building in the city center and now is used as a civil registry office.

Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest preserved Epic poetry | epic poem in Castilian language.

The oldest preserved lunar tablets date from 306 BC in the Hellenistic period.

The oldest preserved tablet using System B comes from Babylon and dates from 258-257 BC.

* the Vedas, the oldest preserved Indic texts

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

He spent three days in the Rachol Seminary, the oldest convent of Goa, where rare religious literature in manuscripts and printed works in Latin were preserved.

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.

The earliest preserved examples of Old Norse literature are the Eddic poems, the oldest of which may have been composed in early 9th century Norway drawing on the common Germanic tradition of alliterative verse.

One of the oldest and most accessible parts of combinatorics is graph theory, which also has numerous natural connections to other areas.

This area is one of the oldest parts of combinatorics, such as in Kirkman's schoolgirl problem proposed in 1850.

The oldest parts of the cathedral of Helsingør date back to the 13th century and tell us that the fishermen's village, as Helsingør was then, was a town of a certain importance.

Most of the major parts, however, were made elsewhere, including some probably fabricated at the West Milwaukee railshops where oldest brother William A. Davidson was then toolroom foreman.

Other text includes the Avestan Gathas, the Indian Vedas and the oldest parts of the Hebrew Bible.

By 1874, the Louvre Palace had achieved its present form of an almost rectangular structure with the Sully Wing to the east containing the square Cour Carrée and the oldest parts of the Louvre ; and two wings which wrap the Cour Napoléon, the Richelieu Wing to the north and the Denon Wing, which borders the Seine to the south.

The oldest parts of Malmö were built between 1300-1600 during its first major period of expansion.

In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found ( including a 14th century structure one of Germany's oldest ), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

However the oldest signed Portuguese sea chart is a Portolan made by Pedro Reinel in 1485 representing the Western Europe and parts of Africa, reflecting the explorations made by Diogo Cão.

The oldest parts of the canal date back to the 5th century BC, although the various sections were finally combined during the Sui Dynasty ( 581 – 618 CE ).

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

In the first stage, represented by the oldest parts of the Hebrew Bible, it was polytheistic and creation involved a battle between the leader of the gods ( probably El ) and the forces of Chaos represented by chaos-monsters such as Leviathan.

The oldest parts of the defensive works of Danevirke near Hedeby at least date from the summer of 755 and were expanded with large works in the 10th century.

Trieste was one of the oldest parts of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1382 until 1918.

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 ).

The oldest parts of the estate date to 1680, and it had been operated as both an inn and a farm.

The centre and oldest parts of Shepton Mallet are adjacent to the River Sheppey, and thus at the bottom of a valley, approximately above sea level.

The oldest remains found during excavations beneath the present nave in 1993 were, however, parts of the foundations of an Anglo-Saxon building, which had been constructed across a Roman road.

The oldest parts show alternate layers of green sandstone from Highley in Shropshire and yellow Cotswold limestone.

Though the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Muslim conquest is not well known ( due to lack of documents ), there is clear evidence of Byzantine presence in the city, as indicated by mosaics found in the oldest parts of the Cathedral, which was in early medieval times a paleo-Christian temple.

The counts of the Châtillon line resided at Blois more often than their predecessors, and the oldest parts of the château ( from the thirteenth century ) were built by them.

Since early 2006 several parts of Addiscombe have been in the process of extensive regeneration, notably the addition of housing to the site of the former Black Horse Pub ( which is thought by some to be the oldest site of a pub in the borough ) and the demolition of church buildings in Bingham Road in order to renovate the church halls and provide luxury retirement apartments.

The pink-fronted Rose House facing the area's pond dates to the 17th century, while Milbourne House facing The Green, the area's oldest, parts of which date to the 16th century, once belonged to Henry Fielding.

The mansion Fraeylemaborg ( a small ' castle ', the oldest parts of which are dated in the Middle Ages ) is located in Slochteren.