10 of the Oldest Known Surviving Books in the World

DID YOU KNOW the world's oldest surviving complete book is more than 1100 years old? It's a Buddhist text called the Diamond Sutra, and it was discovered...

She discovered part of the 'oldest-known book in the world'. What ...

The papyrus fragment, which is housed at the library of the University of Graz, in Austria, has been found to be some 400 years older than what ...

10 Oldest Known Diseases - Science | HowStuffWorks

The oldest known diseases include cholera, typhoid, leprosy, smallpox, rabies, malaria, pneumonia, tuberculosis, trachoma and Rocky Mountain ...

Get Ready To Visit 15 of the Oldest Libraries in the World | Book Riot

1. Khizanat al Qarawiyyin · 2. Haeinsa Temple · 3. Redwood Library · 4. Rampur Raza Library · 5. Laurentian Library · 6. Real Gabinete Português de ...

The Best Ancient History Books - Five Books

The best books on Ancient Rome - The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius and Robert Graves ( · The best books on Ancient Rome - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ...

The World's 10 Oldest Living Trees - Treehugger

Until 2013, Methuselah, an ancient bristlecone pine was the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Methuselah was 4,789 years old when examined in 1957, ...

10 Must-Read Classic Books from the Ancient World - Early Bird Books

10 Must-Read Classic Books from the Ancient World ; The Aeneid · Virgil ; The Oedipus Cycle · Sophocles ; Meditations · Marcus Aurelius ; Lysistrata.

The world's oldest people and their secrets to a long life

At Guinness World Records, we celebrate all kinds of achievements and for some, that's just by living to a grand old age.

The Three Oldest Biblical Texts - Bible Archaeology Report

Written in Hebrew and dating to the second century B.C. it was the oldest known biblical text prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.2 ...

World's oldest Hebrew Bible sells for a record-breaking $38.1 million

The Codex Sassoon, dating from the late 9th or early 10th century, sold for $38.1 million at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday.

Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical ...

Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known substantial Bible manuscripts in Hebrew dated from around the 10th century C.E. ...

8 Legendary Ancient Libraries | HISTORY

The world's oldest known library was founded sometime in the 7th century BC for the “royal contemplation” of the Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal.

Which Religion Is the Oldest? - Britannica

Suffice it to say that most of the world religions that we know today have roots in practices that are thousands of years old. Home ...

The World's Oldest Surviving Joke Book - Tales of Times Forgotten

We are all familiar with joke books in some form or another, but did you know that the oldest surviving one was written around 1,600 years ...

NOVA | Infinite Secrets | Great Surviving Manuscripts - PBS

Codex Sinaiticus Egypt. At the foot of Mount Sinai outside Cairo sits a small Greek Orthodox monastery called St. · Madrid Codex Guatemala · Dead Sea Scrolls

The Niépce Heliograph - Harry Ransom Center

... world. These astonishing breakthroughs depended upon ... It is the earliest photograph produced with the aid of the camera obscura known to survive today.

World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC | Reuters

The world's oldest recorded joke ... It heads the world's oldest top 10 joke list published by the University of Wolverhampton Thursday.

These Are The 19 Oldest Surviving Photographs Known To Mankind

First Photograph On A Camera · First Reliably Dated Daguerreotype · First Photograph With A Human In It · First Self-Portrait Photograph · Oldest Surviving ...

Museums Where You Can Discover the World's 10 Oldest Artifacts

The oldest surviving wheel in the world is now kept in the City Museum Ljubljana, Slovenia, after being discovered in a marsh near the town of Vrhnika. We know ...

Library of Congress “Books That Shaped America” Available on ...

Known as The Bay Psalm Book, it represents what was most sacred ... Seuss books have been sold around the world. Jack Kerouac, “On the ...