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Over the past five years, our team of imaging scientists, scholars and students has travelled to seven different countries and have recovered some of the world's most valuable damaged manuscripts, included the Vercelli Book, which is the oldest book of English, the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest book of Welsh, and some of the most valuable earliest Gospels located in what is now the former Soviet Georgia.
In 1997, a French woman named Jeanne Calment passed away after 122 years and 164 days on this Earth, making her the oldest known person in history.
The annals of Earth history are written in rocks, one chapter upon the next, such that the oldest pages are on bottom and the youngest on top.
Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.
So you can see that for the oldest books in the Homeric tradition, there is a small increase with books getting closer to introspection.
Again, you see a small increase for the oldest books in the Old Testament, and then it increases much more rapidly in the new books of the New Testament.
It's one of the oldest objects in the world, found in the Golan Heights around 233,000 years ago, and currently residing at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
It is also one of the oldest objects on our platform.
In fact, it's one of the oldest temples in Japan.
In fact, it became the oldest continuously operating company in the world.
I'm the oldest, the other four are women.
Some of my oldest experimental plantations are now over 30 years old.
Now, these caves contain some of the oldest cave paintings in the world.
Bridget was born in Cameroon, the oldest of four children.
I've learned that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, to build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest and the simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love.
I grew up in Mexico City, the oldest of five brothers, and our family simply couldn't afford to pay for all of our college tuition.
And as we're moving up the stairs, getting closer to the sculpture, my oldest son, who's nine, says, "Dad, how come he gets to ride, and they have to walk?"
Located in northern Chile, it is the oldest and driest desert on Earth.
It turns out that fonio had been cultivated for more than five thousand years and is probably the oldest cultivated cereal in Africa.
But 10,000 years after its invention, local farms are still following in the footsteps of their Neolithic ancestors, hand crafting one of humanity’s oldest and favorite foods.
Writing the oldest book in the world was Job, and he said, "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward."
Mom, the oldest, at 13, was married off to a complete stranger twice her age.
Their oldest scam is mimicking the shapes and colours of other nectar-producing flowers— but without the sweet nectar.
It's one of the oldest words in the English language, from antiquity.
Born in Harlem in 1924, he was the oldest of nine children.
Togo has been ruled by the same family for 51 years, making us the oldest autocracy in Africa.
DNA is nature's oldest storage device.
But what makes the story of man’s best friend so surprising is that they all evolved from a creature often seen as one of our oldest rivals: Canis lupus, or the gray wolf.
The oldest patients improved as much as the young ones.
Recently, we took the kids ice skating, and later that day, my six-year-old, Oliver, asked me, "Mommy, who is the oldest kid in our family?"
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