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.

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.

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.

As Slavic linguistic unity lasted into late antiquity, in the oldest manuscripts this language was initially referred to as языкъ словяньскъ, " the Slavic language ".

Winer's influence gave him the desire to use the oldest manuscripts in order to compile the text of the New Testament as close to the original as possible.

Most of the manuscripts were, however, late Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine textual family and Erasmus used the oldest manuscript the least because " he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text.

The earliest surviving documentary evidence for the use of the hand cannon, considered the oldest type of portable firearm and a forerunner of the handgun, are from several Arabic manuscripts dated to the 14th century.

As is common with ancient texts, however, there are no surviving extant manuscripts of Josephus ' works that can be dated before the 11th century, and the oldest of these are all Greek minuscules, copied by Christian monks.

* The Mathnawí of Jalálu ' ddín Rúmí, edited from the oldest manuscripts available, with critical notes, translation and commentary by Reynold A. Nicholson, in 8 volumes, London: Messrs Luzac & Co., 1925 – 1940.

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 oldest Vamshavali or chronicle, the Gopalarajavamsavali, was copied from older manuscripts during the late 14th century, is a fairly reliable basis for Nepal's ancient history.

* The Sana ' a palimpsest is one of the oldest Qur ' anic manuscripts in existence.

The manuscripts A and E are the oldest among the Palestinian Targum and have been dated to around the seventh century.

* Revision by Jerome of the Old Latin, corrected with reference to the oldest Greek manuscripts available: the Gospels.

In translating the 39 books of the Hebrew Bible, Jerome was relatively free in rendering their text into Latin, but it is possible to determine that the oldest surviving complete manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, which date from nearly 600 years after Jerome, nevertheless transmit a consonantal Hebrew text very close to that used by Jerome.

* 1008 – The Leningrad Codex, one of the oldest full manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, is completed.

The Syrian tradition includes the oldest manuscripts ; these versions are also much shorter and include fewer tales.

* 1984 – Muhsin Mahdi publishes an Arabic edition which he claims is faithful to the oldest Arabic versions surviving ( primarily based on the Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in combination with other early manuscripts of the Syrian branch ).

The text survives in several thousand partial and complete manuscripts, the oldest of which appears to date from the 11th century A. D.

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.

Goliath's stature grew at the hand of narrators or scribes: the oldest manuscripts — the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel, the first-century historian Josephus, and the fourth century Septuagint manuscripts — all give his height as " four cubits and a span " (); later manuscripts increase this to " six cubits and a span " ().

12th century texts of Neryosang Dhaval and other Parsi Sanskritist theologians of that era, and which are roughly contemporary with the oldest surviving manuscripts in Avestan script.