This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

* 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

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.

Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.

The Ásatrú Alliance is the oldest surviving organization and is headed by Valgard Murray.

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

The oldest part of the present semi-ruin constitutes one of the earliest surviving stone castles in mainland Scotland.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.

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.

Map of Constantinople ( 1422 ) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453

The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.

The oldest surviving gun, found in Acheng, Heilongjiang, and dated to no later than 1290, is 34 cm long with a muzzle bore diameter of and weighs 3. 5 kg.

The oldest surviving world maps are the Babylonian world maps from the 9th century BCE.

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.

* Code of Ur-Nammu – the oldest known tablet containing a law code surviving today, it predates the Code of Hammurabi by some 300 years

Dartmouth's campus buildings vary in age from Wentworth and Thornton Halls of the 1820s ( the oldest surviving buildings constructed by the College ) to new dormitories and mathematics facilities completed in 2006.

Dedham is home to the Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving timber-frame house in the United States, scientifically dated to 1637.

One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 ( Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29 | P. Oxy.

The bones " are the oldest surviving remains of an English royal burial ," Bristol University announced in a press release.

The earliest surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in Euclid's Elements ( c. 300 BC ), making it one of the oldest numerical algorithms still in common use.

This is one of the oldest of the surviving Middle Eastern Deluge myths.

He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States ( 1981 – 89 ), a congressman, an ambassador, a Director of Central Intelligence, and is currently the oldest surviving president.

The oldest surviving gun, made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time.

The canonical Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah are the oldest sources for the activity of Ezra, whereas many of the other books ascribed to Ezra ( First Esdras, 3-6 Ezra ) are later literary works dependent on the canonical books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):

* The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded ( the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States ).

Although Straparola's, Basile's and Perrault's collections contain the oldest known forms of various fairy tales, on the stylistic evidence, all the writers rewrote the tales for literary effect.

The oldest literary account of necromancy is found in Homer ’ s Odyssey.

God-fearing, suspicious, and scrupulous, Eumaeus delivers probably the oldest extant example of literary sarcasm when, after Odysseus offers a bargain entailing that he be thrown off a cliff should he lose, he answers:

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 ".

Miscellany ( founded in 1895 ; one of Ireland's oldest magazines ), the film journal Trinity Film Review ( TFR ) and the literary Icarus.

The oldest surviving literary work in Georgian is the " Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik " ( Georgian: წამებაჲ წმიდისა შუშანიკისი დედოფლისაჲ, Tsamebay tsmidisa Shushanikisi dedoplisay ) by Iakob Tsurtaveli, from the 5th century AD.

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.

The Humac tablet, one of the oldest Bosnian literary monuments, is written in this script.

The Peucinian Society was founded in 1805, making it one of the oldest literary and intellectual societies in the country.

* Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l ' Académie française ( Grand Prize for Fiction from the French Academy ), 1939, one of France's oldest and most prestigious literary awards.

Still in operation, the Gleimhaus is one of the oldest literary museums in Germany.

* The Philaletheis Society is the oldest theater group on campus, which was founded in 1865 as a literary society.

It is the oldest student-run literary publication in the college's history.

On 16 January 2008 Clarke was made an honorary Fellow of the Haliburton Literary Society, the oldest literary society in North America, at the University of King's College, Halifax.

It is one of the oldest literary prizes in Canada, and is the only one awarded to a work of humour.

For ten years he acted as the managing editor of Dandelion, the oldest surviving literary magazine in Alberta.

In 1942, Tate assisted novelist and friend Andrew Lytle in transforming The Sewanee Review, America's oldest literary quarterly, from a modest journal into one of the most prestigious in the nation.

In 2005, current faculty member Eduardo Lago won the oldest literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, the Premio Nadal.

Among the sights in the vicinity of Pskov are Izborsk, a seat of Rurik's brother in the 9th century and one of the most formidable fortresses of medieval Russia ; the Pskov Monastery of the Caves, the oldest continually functioning monastery in Russia and a magnet for pilgrims from all over the country ; the 16th-century Krypetsky Monastery ; Elizarovo Monastery, which used to be a great cultural and literary center of medieval Russia ; and Mikhaylovskoye, a family home of Alexander Pushkin where he wrote some of the best known lines in the Russian language.

The Shirley Society is the College literary society, the oldest in Cambridge, it regularly hosts significant figures from the arts world throughout the academic year.

The American Whig – Cliosophic Society ( Whig-Clio ) is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University and the oldest debate union in the United States.