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.

The oldest source of this version is the Latin Historia Norvegiae, written in Norway at the end of the 12th century.

* 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.

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.

Opposite is the Palazzo Mattei, one of Rome's oldest palaces, now the headquarters of the Italo-American Association.

At the time, these were the oldest fossils discovered in Australia, though this record has now been far surpassed.

The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty, and is now referred to popularly as the Old Admiralty and officially as the Ripley Building.

Its oldest layer, called the Yahwist, may date from the time of Solomon, although many scholars now believe that it should be dated considerably later.

As one of the oldest and most popular world pastimes, coin collecting is now often referred to as the " King of Hobbies ".

The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now modern day Iraq and Syria.

Kilsyth also claims the oldest purpose-built curling pond in the world at Colzium, in the form of a low dam creating a shallow pool some 100 × 250 metres in size, though this is now very seldom in condition for curling because of warmer winters.

The oldest predecessor to the class action rule was Equity Rule 48, promulgated in 1833, which allowed for representative suits in situations where there were too many individual parties ( which now forms the first requirement for class action litigation, numerosity ).

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 area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

A claimant for the oldest building is a former merchant's house in Higher Street, now a Good Beer Guide listed public house called the Cherub, built circa 1380.

Raya is owned by Vodafone Egypt, Nileonline and Egynet are now owned by Etisalat, TEdata is owned and operated by the oldest telecom company in the region telecom Egypt and link. net is owned by Orascom telecom.

It later became known as Camp Wyman, now a part of Wyman Center, and is one of the oldest camps in the United States.

When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the oldest animal fossils were those from the Cambrian Period, now known to be about 540 million years old.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

The Great Pyramid of Giza ( also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.

His oldest son George survived a rare form of leukaemia as a baby in the early 1990s ; Lineker now supports children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and has since appeared in adverts encouraging people to give blood as a result.

Construction of Northwode Chapel by the monks of Jumiéges, Normandy, began in about 1140 and this became the present St Peter's Church and now the oldest surviving church on the Island.

The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics, and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to the nation's oldest schools.

His efforts eventually lead to what is now the United States ' oldest, still-operational scientific institution, the United States Naval Observatory.

Puffing Billy is now on display in the Science Museum in London, the oldest locomotive in existence.

It incorporates the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in 1863 and now forms part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines ; and the first line to operate electric trains, in 1890, now part of the Northern line.

In 1914, NNS built the SS Medina for the Mallory Steamship Company ; as the MV Doulos she is now the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship.

The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer ( in Mesopotamia, now Iraq ), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.