Sana'a is one of the most ancient surviving cities in Arabia and arguably the longest continually inhabited city in the world.
The black-and-yellow of Wasps and the red-and-black of Saracens are probably the most ancient surviving rugby colours of all while, for football, if Arsenal's bespoke and singular white sleeves on red body looks as if they are pre-Victorian, it is only 80 years next spring since manager Herbert Chapman's whim and wheeze about the change.
Home to some of the world's most ancient surviving civilisations, the Indian subcontinent - from the mountainous Afghan frontier to the jungles of Burma and the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean - is both vast and varied in terms of people, language and cultural traditions.
Conversely, substitutions occurring in branches basal to the most ancient surviving duplication in a clade were considered to have occurred in a single-copy gene.
3 Similar in abundance is RNA editing in certain land plants, for which the lycophytes, which represent the most ancient surviving branch of vascular plant evolution, reveal particular astonishing examples.
One of the most ancient surviving landraces, a giant plant called Mixteco (Zea mays ssp. mays, var. Mixteco), is still grown by Mexican farmers on acidic, nutrient poor soils and may represent a "missing link" between wild teosinte and modern maize [ 35].
A few of his other works, described by ancient writers, survive in Roman copies.
This wild massif was a refuge for Slavic peoples during the period of Turkish rule (15th 19th century), and ancient customs survive.
Many ancient monuments survive, including the ruins of the 5th-century citadel and an 8th-century cathedral mosque.
The myths and legends of the ancient Scandinavians survive better than those of any other Germanic people.
