However even if the youngest date is correct, the inscription is still the oldest surviving testimony of the Samnite wars while an earlier date is no guarantee against distortion.

The oldest ( though not dateable ) testimony for the existence of the day dedications comes from Yasna 16, a section of the Yasna liturgy that is-for the most part-a veneration to the 30 divinities with day-name dedications.

The village of Velas is one of the oldest settled communities on the island, and has been traced back to the testimony of Infante D. Henrique, who referred to the 1460 when the community congregated around their church to the evocation of São Jorge.

The valley has changed very little in the past 130 years with reminders such as the historical Hampden Bridge ( the oldest suspension bridge in Australia, completed in May 1898 ) and old Barrengarry School serving as a testimony to the past when the valley was home to a flourishing dairy industry.

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.

While many of the tombs had already been looted in earlier times, Rudenko unearthed buried horses, and with them immaculately preserved cloth saddles, felt and woven rugs including the world's oldest pile carpet, a 3-metre-high four-wheel funeral chariot from the 5th century BC and other splendid objects that had escaped the ravages of time.

Among them is a renowned collection of the art and culture of nomadic tribes of the Altai from Pazyryk and Bashadar sites, including the world's oldest surviving knotted pile carpet and a well-preserved wooden chariot, both from the 4th – 3rd centuries BC.

Some of these were chariot burials, producing the oldest known chariots in the world.

One of the oldest references to the mobile siege tower in ancient China was ironically a written dialogue primarily discussing naval warfare.

The bulk of wargames concentrate on land warfare, the oldest of all types of warfare, and generally the easiest to simulate.

No known Kenjutsu lineage survived from this period ; the oldest schools still in existence today arose in the Muromachi period ( 1336 to 1573 ), known for long periods of inter-state warfare.

The Nigerian Tribune, the oldest surviving private newspaper in Nigeria, has published articles calling for the need for spiritual warfare.

It is often cited as the oldest known evidence of warfare.

The oldest sites documented thus far are from around 500 AD including Awdaghust, Kumbi-Saleh the ancient capital of Ghana, and Maranda a center located on a trade rout between Egypt and Gao.

Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy.

Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).

The oldest known dolmen are in Western Europe, where they were set in place around 7000 years ago, at the same time as the ancient civilisations of Egypt, India, and the Middle East.

As reported in the journal Science, testing of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA by Warren Johnson and Stephen O ' Brien of the U. S. National Cancer Institute demonstrated that ancient cats evolved into eight main lineages that diverged in the course of at least 10 migrations ( in both directions ) from continent to continent via the Bering land bridge and Isthmus of Panama, with the Panthera genus being the oldest and the Felis genus being the youngest.

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 Western tradition of hymnody begins with the Homeric Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek hymns, the oldest of which were written in the 7th century BC, praising deities of the ancient Greek religions.

The ancient Yew tree in the churchyard is believed to be the oldest yew in the country, with a girth of some nine metres.

The Pyramid Texts from ancient Egypt are one of the oldest known religious texts in the world dating to between 2400-2300 BCE.

The oldest attested Indo-Iranian languages are Vedic Sanskrit ( ancient Indo-Aryan ), Older and Younger Avestan and Old Persian ( ancient Iranian languages ).

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.

One of the oldest units of length measurement used in the ancient world was the ' cubit ' which was the length of the arm from the tip of the finger to the elbow.

India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world — references to Indian classical music ( marga ) are found in the Vedas, ancient scriptures of the Hindu tradition.

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 region's ancient history also includes some of the oldest empires from the subcontinent and some of its major civilizations.

The episode in Odyssey is the oldest testament to cannibalism in ancient Greek literature.

The Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology was created by Pius IX ( 6 January 1852 ) " to take care of the ancient sacred cemeteries, look after their preventive preservation, further explorations, research and study, and also safeguard the oldest mementos of the early Christian centuries, the outstanding monuments and venerable Basilicas in Rome, in the Roman suburbs and soil, and in the other Dioceses in agreement with the respective Ordinaries ".

Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country.

The oldest accurately dated star chart appeared in ancient Egyptian astronomy in 1534 BC.

The most ancient waka were recorded in the historical record the Kojiki and the 20 volumes of the Man ' yōshū, the oldest surviving waka anthology.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East.

Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down ; they had been run down to the point of being known as the " Warren Avenue slum ".

Near that same site sits the second oldest private cemetery in the county, the Historic Yorba Cemetery.

Near the Rancheria is the Yucaipa Adobe that is believed to be the oldest house in San Bernardino County.

Near the modern courthouse is the preserved log structure known as the " Old Cora Courthouse ", one of the oldest standing wooden courthouses in Texas.

Lagash was one of the oldest cities of the Ancient Near East.

Near to Westfield — approximately 15 miles west of Springfield — numerous outdoor opportunities are available, such as alpine skiing at Blandford Ski Area and the United States's oldest white-water rafting races on the 78. 1 mile Westfield River, the longest Connecticut River tributary in Massachusetts.

The Near Eastern Collection spans a period of 7150 years, the oldest artifact being from 6500 BCE and the youngest being from 650 CE, featuring such cultures as the Levant, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Persia.

Near the small town Goseck archaeologists discovered in 1999 the oldest solar observatory in Europe, beating Stonehenge by more than 2000 years.

Umm el-Marra,, east of modern Aleppo in the Jabbul Plain of northern Syria, was one of the ancient Near East's oldest cities, located on a crossroads of two trade routes northwest of Ebla, in a landscape that was much more fertile than it is today.

Near the museum is the Wee Picture House, a small but distinctive Art Deco cinema dating from 1913 and believed to be the oldest surviving purpose-built cinema in Scotland.

Questions of the oldest population of Georgia, Caucasus and the Near East ( a monograph ), Tbilisi, 1965 ( in Georgian, Russian summary )

Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago, the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association and promotes good oral health to the public while representing the dental profession.

As part of the contacts with the Near East, the reliefs from his funerary monuments also hold the oldest known representation of a Syrian bear.

Near Mount Hagen, archeologists have identified the Kuk Swamp (), one of the oldest agricultural drainage sites in Australasia ; the site has been identified as a UNESCO site, and is on the list of recommended World Heritage sites.

The junction of Acland St and Barkly St is known as the Village Belle, after the Village Belle Hotel, one of the oldest in Melbourne, which stands on Barkly St at the end of Acland St. Near the junction of Carlisle St and Acland St is Luna Park, one of Australia's best-known amusement parks, which attracts large crowds during the summer.

Near the town centre, outside the Café de l ' orme, there was what is believed to have been the oldest elm tree in Europe.

*" Near Fantastica " is perhaps the oldest songs from Avalanche.

The Maxwell Street neighborhood is considered part of the Near West Side and is one of the city's oldest residential districts.