Four years ago, engravings of crucifixes were allegedly found at a 3rd century burial site in Basque Country. This is currently understood to be the oldest depiction of a man-on-cross. I personally find this surprising, since the punishment of crucifixion vastly predates Christianity. Even Plato wrote about it.
The oldest evidence of life are single celled organisms that are found in rock and mineral samples. These date back to approximately 3.5-3.8 billion years ago.
While the exact date is unknown, the oldest abacus found was on the Greek island of Salamis in 1846 that dates back to 300 BC.
the oldest Papyrus paper, could date back to over 6000 years.
Shamanism is the oldest religious tradition, found in some form or another, in every culture on earth as far back as we have been able to find. In short, there is no "founding date".
The oldest known butterfly lived around 55 million years ago. Fossils of prehistoric butterflies have been found that date back to that time period.
The oldest known fossils are from Greenland and date back to 3850 million years ago. They are of stromatolites which are clumps of a fungus like form that dominated the early shallow seas
The oldest mails are found in the last page. It is because the mail are arranged by date. The oldest mail will be placed in the last.
The Oldest known dinosaurs fossils are prosauropods found in Madagascar. They date to about 230 Million Years Ago in the Late Triassic Period. It was from the same family of dinosaurs that became Apatasaurus and Diplodocus. Previous to this the oldest dinosaur was a Eoraptor found in Argentina. This dates back to about 228 Million Years.
The oldest stone tools have been found in East Africa, specifically in locations such as the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and the Turkana Basin in Kenya. These tools date back to over 2.6 million years ago and were crafted by early members of the Homo genus.
England itself! The oldest things in England are the rocks that make up England's land mass- these date back hundreds of millions of years, to when land first began to form. In ANY nation of the world, these will be the oldest things to be found in that country.
minnesota In Canada is a Schist formation, Date is 3.8 Billion Bp.
The oldest in-situ rock found on Earth to date was found in Northern Quebec in Canada and is dated as 4.28 billion years of age.