The oldest rocks in the ACT date from the Ordovician around 480 million years ago.

Rock art of the " Round Head " style, found in the Ennedi region, has been dated to before the 7th millennium BC and, because of the tools with which the rocks were carved and the scenes they depict, may represent the oldest evidence in the Sahara of Neolithic industries.

The Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on the face of the earth.

The Isua greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, dated at 3. 7 – 3. 8 billion years old.

Even older rocks, such as the Acasta gneiss of the Slave craton in northwestern Canada, the oldest known rock in the world have been metamorphosed to the point where their origin is undiscernable without laboratory analysis.

These are amongst the oldest rocks in Europe and some of the oldest in the world, having been formed in the Precambrian " super-eon ", up to 3 billion years ago.

The Hebrides have a diverse geology ranging in age from Precambrian strata that are amongst the oldest rocks in Europe to Paleogene igneous intrusions.

The oldest rocks are exposed in the north, in areas like the Kisatchie National Forest.

The oldest rocks are approximately 190 million years old ( Jurassic ) and are located at Sierra Bermeja in the southwest part of the island.

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

Some of the rocks in the park are the oldest found in any U. S. National Park and have been dated at nearly 2. 7 billion years.

The oldest rocks are extensively metamorphosed and at least 1. 7 billion years old.

The oldest of these granitic rocks, at 114 million years, occur along the Merced River Gorge west of the valley.

In this region are found some of the oldest sedimentary rocks in the Western Hemisphere.

* 1911 – Arthur Holmes uses radioactivity to date rocks, the oldest being 1. 6 billion years old

The similar age of the oldest surviving rocks and the " late heavy bombardment " is thought to be not accidental.

Colymboides, the oldest unequivocal gaviiform genus known as of 2009, is widely known from early Priabonian – about 37 million years ago ( Ma ) in the Late Eocene – to Early Miocene ( late Burdigalian, less than 20 Ma ) limnic and marine rocks of western Eurasia north of the Alpide belt, between the Atlantic and the former Turgai Sea.

( Tobacco Root Range, Highlands Mountains, McCartney Mountain, The Pioneers, The Ruby Range, The Gravellies and the Snowcrest Range ) The geology of the area includes some of the oldest rocks dating back over 2. 7 billion years.

These are the oldest rocks in the British Isles today and they have been brought to the surface by tectonic movements.

The oldest continental crustal rocks on Earth have ages in the range from about 3. 7 to 4. 28 billion years and have been found in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane in Western Australia, in the Acasta Gneiss in the Northwest Territories on the Canadian Shield, and on other cratonic regions such as those on the Fennoscandian Shield.

Geologically, its rocks are amongst the oldest in Europe, and have therefore a mild shape: rock types include schist, limestone and granite.

Instead of exposing the oldest rocks along the axis and the youngest rocks low down on the flanks, the younger rocks of the northern range follow its axis, while the oldest rocks outcrop along its eastern flanks.

They argue that the oldest copies of this text family are likely to have been lost or destroyed over time with use, and therefore extant manuscripts cannot accurately date a text family.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Athanasian Creed date from the late 8th century.

Its oldest layer, called the Yahwist, may date from the time of Solomon, although many scholars now believe that it should be dated considerably later.

The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.

The oldest findings of human presence here date back to the Stone Age.

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.

The oldest written records of the Finnic languages of Estonia date from the 13th century.

The oldest known fossils assigned to Equidae date from the early Eocene, 54 million years ago.

The oldest football clubs date back to the early 19th century.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

The oldest documents in Gothic date back to the 4th century.

The consensus is that " the Iliad and the Odyssey date from around the 8th century BC, the Iliad being composed before the Odyssey, perhaps by some decades ," i. e. earlier than Hesiod, the Iliad being the oldest work of Western literature.

They date back 1. 83 million years, the oldest evidence of hominid habitation in Southeast Asia ..

The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.

The oldest prayer books date from the time of the Geonim of Babylonia ; " some were composed by respected rabbinic scholars at the request of far-flung communities seeking an authoritative text of the required prayers for daily use, Shabbat, and holidays.

The Hurrian song, found on clay tablets that date back to approximately 1400 BC, is the oldest surviving notated work of music.

Its oldest known settlements date back approximately 9, 000 years.

It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.

The oldest surviving Sanskrit text would date to the Kushan Period ( 200 CE ).

Most meteorites date from the oldest times in the solar system and are by far the oldest material available on our planet.

The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.

The oldest one known, and the only one from the Middle Ages, is the Nyköping staff, believed to date from the 13th century.