The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.

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.

Britain's canal network, together with its surviving mill buildings, is one of the most enduring features of the early Industrial Revolution to be seen in Britain.

Prior to the reunification of Germany, many surviving Gründerzeit buildings were left uninhabited and, after years of degradation, waiting for demolition.

Two famous Nevisian buildings from the 18th century are Hermitage Plantation, built of lignum vitae wood in 1740, the oldest surviving wooden house still in use in the Caribbean today, and the Bath Hotel, the first hotel in the Caribbean, a luxury hotel and spa built by John Huggins in 1778.

A number of pubs claim to be the oldest surviving establishment in the United Kingdom, although in several cases original buildings have been demolished and replaced on the same site.

This church, one of fewer than half a dozen surviving pre-World War II buildings in the entire area, forms the centrepiece of today's Kulturforum ( Cultural Forum ).

Among his surviving buildings are the Red Fort and Jama Masjid in Delhi, the Shalimar Gardens of Lahore, sections of the Lahore Fort ( such as Sheesh Mahal, and Naulakha pavilion ), and his Tomb of Jahangir.

Rouen is noted for its surviving half-timbered buildings.

Other buildings and structures within the grounds are separately grade I listed, including the early 16th-century tilt yard tower the only surviving example of the five original towers ; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls.

Many of the oldest surviving buildings in the town, including the Tribunal, George Hotel and Pilgrims ' Inn and the Somerset Rural Life Museum, which is based in an old tithe barn, are associated with the abbey.

The Mission chapel, along with " Father Serra's Church " at Mission San Juan Capistrano, is one of only two surviving buildings where Father Junípero Serra is known to have officiated ( although " Dolores " was still under construction at the time of Serra's visit ).

Closer to the confluence of the Om and the Irtysh are the few surviving sombre buildings of the 18th-century fortress.

Known as the Hospitium of St. John and founded in 1189, the surviving building is the main building of a larger range of buildings that could accommodate 400 people.

There are many structures other than the house on the estate, including two surviving Elizabethan buildings — the Hunting Tower and Queen Mary's Bower.

A major 18th century port city, Newport now contains among the highest number of surviving colonial buildings of any city in the United States.

La Sainte-Chapelle (, The Holy Chapel ) is one of the only surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France ( the others being those of the Conciergerie ).

The Tour du Guet ( Watch Tower ), situated in Calais Nord on the Places d ' Armes, is one of the few surviving pre-war buildings.

One of the few surviving buildings from Storyville, 2005 photograph.

There are a number of imposing, even grand, buildings surviving from this period.

The commissariat store ( 1825 ) and the penitentiary ( 1830 ) can still be seen today and are the only surviving buildings from this era.

Many of the surviving older buildings in town were torn down in the 1950s to make way for a trailer park.

Among the oldest surviving buildings in the area are the Arden Middle School, built in 1914, and the Del Paso Country Club, from 1919, named for the original Rancho on which it was built.

Prefecture most commonly refers to a self-governing body or area since the tetrarchy when Emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire into four districts ( each divided into dioceses, grouped under a Vicarius ( a number of Roman provinces, listed under that article ), although he maintained two pretorian prefectures as an administrative level above the also surviving dioceses ( a few of which were split ).

The poems of the Milan Papyrus are grouped into sections, and the papyrus largely preserves the section headers for the surviving poems:

" As the youngest of the thirteen surviving children, Amelia was grouped with her sisters Mary and Sophia, and spent most of her time with them, living in various royal residences.

Bradshaw became less necessary from 1923, when more than 100 surviving companies were " grouped " into the Big Four.

In the Languedoc and northern Italy, the Cathars would enjoy their greatest popularity, surviving in the Languedoc, in much reduced form, up to around 1325 and in the Italian cities until the Inquisitions of the 1260s – 1300s finally rooted them out.

Diocletian, by contrast, was prodigious in his affairs: there are around 1, 200 rescripts in his name still surviving, and these probably represent only a small portion of the total issue.

Robinson wrote that, where the Gospel narrative accounts can be checked for consistency with surviving material evidence, the account in the Gospel of John is commonly the more plausible ; that it is generally easier to reconcile the various synoptic accounts within John's narrative framework, than it is to explain John's narrative within the framework of any of the synoptics ; and that, where in the Gospel Jesus and his disciples are described as travelling around identifiable locations, the trips in question can always be plausibly followed on the ground, which he says is not the case for any synoptic Gospel.

As of 2008, there are between 28, 000 and 30, 000 distinct incunable editions known to be extant, while the number of surviving copies in Germany alone is estimated at around 125, 000.

The surviving papyrus was probably written around 1700 BC but may be a copy of texts a thousand years older.

Besides Zarathushtra's Gathas, Plato gives the earliest surviving account of a " natural theology ", around 360 BC, in his dialogue " Timaeus " he states " Now the whole Heaven, or Cosmos, ... we must first investigate concerning it that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case ,— namely, whether it has existed always, having no beginning of generation, or whether it has come into existence, having begun from some beginning ".

Plautus wrote around 52 plays, of which 20 have survived, making him the most prolific ancient dramatist in terms of surviving work.

The " Khufu ship ", a 43. 6-meter-long vessel that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC, is a full-size surviving example which may have fulfilled the symbolic function of a solar barque.

The two species of tuatara are the only surviving members of its order, which flourished around 200 million years ago.

He had a startling fondness for scatological humor, which is preserved in his surviving letters, notably those written to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart around 1777 – 1778, but also in his correspondence with his sister and parents.

Licinius escapes and gathered around 30, 000 of his surviving troops at Nicomedia.

The earliest surviving description of mead is in the hymns of the Rigveda, one of the sacred books of the historical Vedic religion and ( later ) Hinduism dated around 1700 – 1100 BC.

One reason the language of Aquitaine is important is because Basque is the last surviving non-Indo-European language in western Europe and it has had some effect on the languages around it, including Spanish and, to a lesser extent, French.

The few surviving records indicate that he was born around 1390, most likely in Maaseik.

The surviving brothers were released in the autumn ; working for their release, their mother ( who died in January 1555 ) and their brother-in-law, Henry Sidney, had befriended the Spanish nobles around the new king consort, Philip of Spain.

The earliest known surviving descriptions of magnets and their properties are from Greece, India, and China around 2500 years ago.

Dragonflies eat mosquitoes, but have a more difficult time than mosquitoes do at surviving around the edges of human habitation.

One of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels from around 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

The two surviving towers of the city walls, the Tour des Pins and the Tour de la Babotte, were built later, around the year 1200.

He proceeded to travel around the country for the next six months, visiting various surviving family members and old friends.

The oldest surviving manuscript in Lithuanian ( around 1503 ), rewritten from 15th century original text

His religion belonged to women: the dying of Adonis was fully developed in the circle of young girls around the poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos, about 600 BCE, as revealed in a fragment of Sappho's surviving poetry.

However, the stories of the Fiannaíocht, set around the time of Cormac mac Airt, depict the fianna as a single standing army in the service of the High King, although it contains two rival factions, the Clann Baíscne of Leinster, led by Fionn mac Cumhaill, and the Clann Morna of Connacht, led by Goll mac Morna, and lives apart from society, surviving by hunting.

However the dates assigned to most of the early crosses surviving in good condition, whether at Ruthwell and Bewcastle, the Western Ossery group in Ireland, Iona or the Kildalton Cross on Islay, have all shown a tendency to converge on the period around or slightly before 800, despite the differences between the Northumbrian and Celtic types.

Recorded in the Book of Judges, chapter 12, after the inhabitants of Gilead inflicted a military defeat upon the tribe of Ephraim ( around 1370 – 1070 BCE ), the surviving Ephraimites tried to cross the Jordan River back into their home territory and the Gileadites secured the river's fords to stop them.