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.

* 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.

Seigner is the dean of the company, the oldest actor in point of continuous service.

He is the oldest and most experienced of the lot.

The oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists.

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.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

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.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac ( the sun's apparent path ).

* 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.

# The Lambeth Conference ( first held in 1867 ) is the oldest international consultation.

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

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3, 400 years.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

Gervase and Protase — and is one of the oldest extant bodies of historical personages known outside Egypt.

This amber, roughly 125 – 135 million years old, is considered of high scientific value, providing some of the oldest sampled ecosystem.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.

Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.