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In China, the use of iron reaches far back, to perhaps 4000 years before the Common era.

Some are therefore inclined to place his composition well before the Common Era.

"The year of my birth, by the modern calendar, would have been seven hundred and one, before the Common Era."

It explicitly excludes durations and dates before the common era.

Whether agriculture began 8,000 years before the Common Era may not be agreed with among scholars, but it is close to some estimates.

The site is thought to date back before the Common Era and has been extended subsequently by a medieval castle.

These discoveries, inventions and modifications are evidence of the evolution of biotechnology since before the common era.

The history of the Jews in Calabria is presumed to date back several centuries before the common era.

Some pictures of dap have been found in paintings that date before the Common Era.

Other ancient authorities support this reference, so it seems there was a Vaikhanasa ascetic community before the common era.

The history of Holset started before the Common Era.

The 1st millennium BC was the last millenium before the Common Era.

There is also increasing support in the scientific community for the theory that major construction of Ragusa took place before the Common Era.

Before the Common Era (BC)

Some authors estimate that seventy-five percent of Spanish words have come from Latin and were in use in Spain before the Common Era.

"It is one of the nine impossible apparatus puzzles listed by Anaximandros in the fifth century before the common era," continued Tyburn.

That was circa 500 B.C.E. - Before the Common Era, to be politically correct.

The Sangam literature scripted before the common era refers to some of the temples the early kings of Tamilakam erected.

Years before the beginning of the era are known in English as Before Christ, or Before the Common Era.

As in Korean, 紀元前 (kigenzen) is used to mean "before the common era (BCE)."

Before Common Era (BCE) is the system for the years Before the Common Era.

For males, the recovering of the glans after circumcision, or uncircumcision, by hanging weights on the remaining penile skin has been around since before the Common Era.

The first inhabitants of St. Simons lived there during fishing season about 2,000 BCE (Before the Common Era).

The yeas before the Common Era are called B.C.E. (Before Common Era).

B.C.E. (or BCE) - meaning "Before the Common Era".

Early evidence of human activity dated back to 1500 bce.

It was also a center of trade in 600 BCE.

He probably lived in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE.

Its history would thus go back to before 500 BCE.

The height of its development was between 2600 and 1900 BCE.

These were cut between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE.

The first five books were published between 27 and 25 BCE.

The girl is estimated to have died around 320 BCE.

A new stage in the city's history began around 4th-2nd century BCE.

Later workers have set 5000 to 4000 BCE as the beginning of the period.

It has a history dating back to before 2 BCE.

The rise of city states was established by 700 BCE.

He is thought to have been active from 500-475 BCE.

The city was not rebuilt until at least 815 BCE.

This is the second big strategic move for BCE in the last three weeks.

BCE said that decision would allow both companies to more easily pursue their own growth strategies.

They started working iron to make tools around 1500 BCE.

The painting is dated back at early 1st century BCE.

The date range for this work is between 450 and 400 BCE.

It was occupied for more than 2,000 years, from before 450 BCE until about 1700.

Other sources give the date as much earlier, at around 112-111 BCE.

The town claims to have been founded in 507 BCE.

The city was destroyed by fire at the end of the 2nd century BCE.

The most recent legal case in that work was dated 196 BCE.

It is dated to the 2nd to 1st century BCE.