There is scattered evidence to suggest that the oldest known astrological references are copies of texts made during this period.

The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the pharaoh.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the oldest received work of Chinese medical theory, was compiled around the first century BCE on the basis of shorter texts from different medical lineages.

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.

The pseudigraphic Testament of Solomon is one of the oldest magical texts.

In the 12th century, German Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098 – 1179 ) wrote several influential theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.

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

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

It is generally asserted that Hindu religious texts are the oldest known literature containing pantheistic ideas.

Hymns to the sun can be found in the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

The Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, based primarily on the Greek uncial writing of the 9th century, are the oldest known Slavic alphabets and were created by the two brothers and their students, in order to translate the Bible and other texts into the Slavic languages.

The Tetragrammaton was written in contrasting Paleo-Hebrew characters in some of the oldest surviving square Aramaic Hebrew texts, and were not read as Adonai (" My Lord ") until after the Rabbinic teachings after Israel went into Babylonian captivity.

Other scholars, however, both Western and Muslim, argue that the text of the agreement -- whether a single document originally or several -- is possibly one of the oldest Islamic texts we possess.

The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra ( Sanskrit: ).

* the Vedas, the oldest preserved Indic texts

The oldest known surgical texts date back to ancient Egypt about 3500 years ago.

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

The oldest Coptic writings date to the pre-Christian era ( Old Coptic ), though Coptic literature consists mostly of texts written by prominent saints of the Coptic Church such as Anthony the Great, Pachomius and Shenouda the Archimandrite.

Although traces of this figure are still evident in the oldest texts of both India and Iran, in both cultures the word eventually appears as the epithet of other divinities.

Among the Hurrian texts from Ugarit are the oldest known instances of written music, dating from c. 1400 BCE.

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.

These Kültepe texts are the oldest documents from Anatolia.

Although they are written in Old Assyrian, the Hittite loanwords and names in these texts constitute the oldest record of any Indo-European language ( see also Ishara ).

West to the Altar of Zeus are the foundations of Meton's heliotropion, the oldest known astronoical observatory, where he performed several of his measurementsthat led to the calculations involving the eponymous 19-year Metonic cycle which he introduced in 432 BC into the lunisolar Attic calendar, a calendar that appears in the Antikythera Mechanism.

Modern Supercross races are sanctioned and governed by motorcycle associations, the main series being either the American Motorcyclist Association which is the oldest and most prestigious cycle racing organization ( in America ), or the Monster Energy series of Supercross Championship events that are in part the work of Clear Channel, who in 2004 contributed expertise in filming on-track gate event competition for Supercross.

Annual cycle counting showed that the oldest layer was deposited in 534 AD.

According to Elliott ( 2004 ) the systems development life cycle ( SDLC ) can be considered to be the oldest formalized methodology framework for building information systems.

Visitors can experience the natural scenes on the asphalt Elbe cycle path, or on board a steam paddleboat that is part of the oldest fleet of its kind in the world.

The area of Areia Larga is considered the summer resort of the settlement, location of the oldest manor-houses associated with the " wine cycle ".

Sulfate-reducing bacteria can be traced back to 3. 5 billion years ago and are considered to be among the oldest forms of microorganisms, having contributed to the sulfur cycle soon after life emerged on Earth.

Among the most famous pieces is a vessel bearing inscribed images corresponding to what has been alleged to be the oldest Indo-European calendar, based on an Orion cycle, shown by precise sequence of constellations on a vessel found in an eneolithic mound in the very center of the modern town of Vinkovci.

# When calculating the overall average coefficient for the cycles, the latest full cycle and half cycle will each have double the weight, compared to the oldest full cycle.

The oldest rocks associated with the formative cycle of the ANS crust formed by coalescence of Island arcs and back-arc basins and perhaps oceanic plateaus.

The oldest rocks associated with this cycle are about 870 million years old and are found in eastern Sudan and SE Arabia.

Guðrúnarkviða II, The Second Lay of Gudrún, or Guðrúnarkviða hin forna, The Old Lay of Gudrún is probably the oldest poem of the Sigurd cycle, according to Henry Adams Bellows.

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

Probably the oldest, and most famous, list of axioms are the 4 + 1 Euclid's postulates of plane geometry.

The Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

Arrays are among the oldest and most important data structures, and are used by almost every program.

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 Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.

Tricyclic antidepressants are the second oldest class of antidepressant drugs.

The oldest and most commonly used atomizers in AAS are flames, principally the air-acetylene flame with a temperature of about 2300 ° C and the nitrous oxide ( N2O )- acetylene flame with a temperature of about 2700 ° C.

History tells us that Out-of-home advertising and billboards are the oldest forms of advertising.

The oldest known physical representations identified as symbols for abstract concepts are abstract engravings found on two pieces of ochre in Blombos Cave, South Africa, in 2001.

Some of the oldest pre-system sewage types are pit toilets, latrines, and outhouses.

Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

The oldest boats to be found by archaeological excavation are logboats from around 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.

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.