Sentence examples for the oldest document from inspiring English sources

In South Carolina, where the oldest document in the archives was created in 1671, W. Eric Emerson, the director of archives and history, is trying to hold on.

The oldest document in the literature of South Asia is the Rigveda, or Veda of the Stanzas (c. 1400 bc), the fundamental text of Brahminical Hinduism.

What is thought to be the oldest document of musical history depicts a man wearing an animal mask, manipulating what is possibly a form of musical bow, and dancing in the wake of a herd of reindeer.

The Castellum Sancta Marini is mentioned in the Liber Pontificalis ("The Book of the Pontiffs") in 755; the oldest document in the republican archives mentions the abbot of San Marino in 885.

The oldest document in which Sweden is referred to as a united and independent kingdom is a papal decree, by which Sweden in 1164 became a diocese with its own archbishop in Uppsala.

Twenty states still are governed under their original constitutions, and Massachusetts has the oldest document, dating back to 1780.

The oldest documented free-living Virginia opossum was a three-year-old male from Maryland.

A Midway albatross, named Wisdom, was ringed 60 years ago and is the oldest documented wild bird.

The site contains some of the oldest documented forests east of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts.

Despite his great age, Kristal is not the oldest documented person on the planet, a record claimed by 115-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York.

The oldest documented person in history was Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman from Arles, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.