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19 Oldest Known Artifacts Of Their Type

19 of the oldest known pieces of history in the world!

By MacDreidel

Published 11 years ago

19 of the oldest known pieces of history in the world!

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Oldest Known Trousers - 3000 years old.

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Oldest Known Photograph of a Tornado - August 28, 1884.

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Oldest Known Photograph of a US President - 1843.

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Oldest Known Picture of a Sneeze - 1902.

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Oldest Known U.S. Made Motorcycle - 1903 Indian.

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Oldest Known Photograph Showing a Living Person (the two men near the bottom left corner, one apparently having his boots polished by the other, stayed in one place long enough to be visible.) - 1838.

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Oldest Known Selfie - Robert Cornelius, 1839.

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Oldest Known Cave Art - Along northern Spain's Cantabrian Sea coast, the cave called El Castillo has the oldest known paintings at more than 40,800 years old.

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Oldest Known Photo of New York - 1848. (The road in the foreground became Broadway in 1899.)

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Oldest Known Mask Ever Discovered - Estimated to be 9,000 years old.

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Oldest Known Living Bonsai Tree - Titled "Third Shogun" This White Pine is 550 years old.

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Oldest Known Emoticons - 1881.

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Oldest Known Tree - Old Tjikko, Sweden. Sprouted during the last Ice Age, roughly 9,550 years ago.

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Oldest Known Chewing Gum - 5,000 years old. Found in Finland, made from birch bark tar, had tooth prints in it.

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Oldest Known Shoe - 5,500 years old.

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Oldest Known Musical Intrument - Scientists used carbon dating to show the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old.

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Oldest Known Artificial Eye - 4,800 years old.

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Oldest Known Photographic Hoax - "Self Portrait as a Drowned Man" 1840.

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Oldest Known Photograph of Lightning - William Jennings' September 2, 1882.

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