The oldest identifiable source is the 17th century Centrum Naturae Concentratum of Alipili ( or Ali Puli ).

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

In addition to being the source of the Roman alphabet, it has been suggested that it passed northward into Venetia and from there through Raetia into the Germanic lands, where it became the Elder Futhark alphabet, the oldest form of the runes.

It is thus the oldest source for documented Polish common law and is in Polish referred to as the Księga Elbląska ( Book of Elbląg ).

It is the oldest source to assert the virginity of Mary not only prior to but during ( and after ) the birth of Jesus.

Satire and irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.

Herodotus, the oldest source of the story, reports that Charaxus ransomed Rhodopis for a large sum and that after he returned to Mitylene, Sappho scolded him in verse.

This Papyrus today is the oldest source to the Second Epistle of Peter

Modern Awash River, Ethiopia, descendant of the Palaeo-Awash, source of the sediments in which the oldest Stone Age tools have been found

The oldest source is found in a French work by Stephen of Bourbon called The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

The deep marine record, the source of most isotopic data, only exists on oceanic plates, which are eventually subducted — the oldest remaining material is old.

The oldest source is Strabo, who was alive at the time of the event, and might even have been in Alexandria.

Salerno hosted the oldest university in Europe, the Schola Medica Salernitana, the most important source of medical knowledge in Europe in the early Middle Ages.

The Tilkitepe Mound, which is on the shores of Lake Van and a few kilometres to the south of Van Castle, is the only source of information about the oldest culture of Van.

It is the oldest dated source ( c. 2000 BC ) containing the list.

The oldest narrative source mentioning him briefly is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( c. 1070 ).

Due to several missing pages in the Codex Regius, the Volsungasaga is the oldest source for the Norse version of much of the story of Sigurð.

Philologists and literary scholars usually designate three main genealogical groups for the entire range of available manuscripts, with two primary versions comprising the oldest known copies: * AB and * C. This categorization derives from the signatures on the * A, * B, and * C manuscripts as well as the wording of the last verse in each source: " daz ist der Nibelunge liet " or " daz ist der Nibelunge nôt ".

The Chengjiang fossils comprise the oldest diverse metazoan assemblage above the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition, and thus the fossil record ’ s best data source for understanding the apparently rapid diversification of life known as the Cambrian Explosion.

Camp Wakenah is the Boy Scouts of America's second oldest camp ( however, the source of this claim is questioned ).

However, a relative of his, and the source of the town of Tyngsborough's name, was Colonel Jonathan Tyng, whose home, the Tyng Mansion House, was one of the oldest north of Boston.

The oldest reference to the name Spickenisse is from a source from 1231.

Modern historians would like to place primacy in Scipio's epitaph as the oldest surviving source.

Beginning in the 11th century, literature written in medieval French was one of the oldest vernacular ( non-Latin ) literatures in western Europe and it became a key source of literary themes in the Middle Ages across the continent.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.

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.

The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine from the University of Manchester in the autumn of 1951.

In 1993, the oldest known version of the text, written on bamboo tablets, was found in a tomb near the town of Guodian () in Jingmen, Hubei, and dated prior to 300 BC.

Edward Lipinski and Peter Kyle McCarter have suggested that the Garden of the gods ( Sumerian paradise ), the oldest Sumerian version of the Garden of Eden, relates to a mountain sanctuary in the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges.

The oldest version of the Kaddish is found in the Siddur of Rab Amram Gaon, c. 900.

* 1514 – Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo ’ s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

The name of Merlin's mother is not usually stated but is given as Adhan in the oldest version of the Prose Brut.

The oldest version of the modern name Shetland is Hetlandensis recorded in 1190 becoming Hetland in 1431 after various intermediate transformations.

The oldest known version of this story is a French romance from the 13th century called Roman de la Violette ou de Gerard de Nevers by Gilbert de Montreuil.

* May 15 – Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo ’ s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

* 1835 Bulaq version – These two volumes, printed by the Egyptian government, are the oldest printed ( by a publishing house ) version of The Nights in Arabic by a non-European.

One version of what is believed to be the town's oldest town seal, which the council used, and which dated from the first half of the 14th century, set the pattern with its elements for various civic coats of arms down to the present day.

In the oldest version of the story, Mulan uses her father's name Li and she was never discovered as a girl, unlike the film.

The oldest extant version is a ten-minute studio-based version from 1909 by Vitagraph, which made ( in Luke McKernan's words ) the " ill-advised " decision to attempt to cram in as much of the plot as possible.

The oldest version of the story, the burial of Polynices takes place during Oedipus ' reign in Thebes, before Oedipus marries Jocasta.

It is, however, now assumed by Johannes Fried, that the ' Vita ' was not written by Canaparius, but was written down in Liège, with the oldest traceable version having been at the imperial Adalbert shrine at Aachen.

In the first layer ( the oldest ), Yahweh blows the sea back with a strong east wind, allowing the Israelites to cross on dry land ; in the second, Moses stretches out his hand and the waters part in two walls ; in the third, Yahweh clogs the chariot wheels of the Egyptians and they flee ( in this version the Egyptians do not even enter the water ); and in the fourth, the Song of the Sea, Yahweh casts the Egyptians into " tehomat ", the mythical abyss.