* 2492 BCE — Hayk founds Armenia

* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

Some of the early Egyptologists and excavators of the Giza pyramid complex believed the Great Sphinx and other structures in the Sphinx enclosure predated the traditional date of construction ( the reign of Khafra or Khephren, 2520 – 2492 BC ).

* c. 2492 BC The Armenian patriarch Hayk defeats the Babylonian king Bel ( legendary account ).

At Dyutsaznamart (, " Battle of Giants "), near Julamerk southeast of Lake Van, on August 11, 2492 BC ( according to the Armenian traditional chronology ) or 2107 BC ( according to " The Chronological table " of Mikael Chamchian ), Hayk slew Bel with a nearly impossible shot using a long bow, sending the king's forces into disarray.

The 2492 cc 1JZ version was produced from 1990 to 2007 ( last sold in the Mark II BLIT Wagon ).

In Romans 8: 1 it reads Ιησου ( as א, B, G, 1739, 1881, it < sup > d, g </ sup >, cop < sup > sa, bo </ sup >, eth ); corrector b changed it into Ιησου κατα σαρκα περιπατουσιν ( as A, Ψ, 81, 629, 2127, vg ); corrector c changed it into Ιησου μη κατα σαρκα περιπατουσιν αλλα κατα πνευμα ( as א < sup > c </ sup >, K, P, 33, 88, 104, 181, 326, 330, ( 436 omit μη ), 456, 614, 630, 1241, 1877, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2492, 2495, Byz, Lect ).

Traditional rabbinic sources state that the Second Temple stood for 420 years and based on the 2nd-century work Seder Olam Rabbah, place construction in 350 BCE ( 3408 AM ), 166 years later than secular estimates, and destruction in 70 CE ( 3829 AM ).

Traditional herbal medicine of India, known as Ayurveda, possibly dates back to the second millennium BCE tracing its origins to the holy Hindu Vedas and, in particular, the Atharvaveda.

In 90 BCE, in the Shiji ( Simplified: 史记, Traditional: 史記, Pinyin: Shǐjì, Jyutping: Si < sup > 2 </ sup > gei < sup > 3 </ sup >), or the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, Chapter 69 refers to 1, 000 earthenware vessels

King Wuling of Zhao ( Traditional Chinese: 趙武靈王, Simplified Chinese: 赵武灵王 ) ( died 295 BCE, reigned 325 BCE – 299 BCE ) reigned in the State of Zhao during the Warring States Period of Chinese history.

In 304 BCE the upper reaches of the Yellow River were invaded and taken from the barbarian tribes like the Hezong ( Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 河宗氏 ) and the Xiu ( Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 休 ).

The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE.

In India, the Ājīvika, Jain, and Cārvāka schools of atomism may date back to the 6th century BCE.

The Ajanta Caves ( Ajiṇṭhā leni ; Marathi: अज िं ठ ा ल े ण ी) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are 30 rock-cut cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to the 600 CE.

The earliest bronze archeological finds in Indonesia date from 1 – 2 BCE, including flat plates probably suspended and struck by a wooden or bone mallet.

Bronze bells from Thailand and Cambodia date back to 3, 600 BCE.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

The common view is that the court tales represent a stratum of older, traditional stories, while the visions and final redaction of the work date to the second century BCE.

The presence of three Greek loanwords that only occur in Daniel chapter 3, have supporters of a late date say that Daniel had to have been written after Alexander the Great ’ s conquest of the Orient, from 330 BCE.

The adjectival use of symphonia meaning, " in unison ", is found in the Hymni Homerica, ad Mercurium 51 ; both instances date from the 6th century BCE.

The adjectival use of symphonia meaning, " in unison ", is found in the Hymni Homerica, ad Mercurium 51 ; both instances date from the 6th century BCE.

Zechariah 9-14, often called Second Zechariah, contains within the text no datable references to specific events or individuals but most scholars give the text a date in the fifth century BCE.

Skulls and human bones found at Samrong Sen date from 1500 BCE.

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

The first traces of therapeutic activities in China date from the Shang dynasty ( 14th – 11th centuries BCE ).

The CE / BCE designation uses the year-numbering system introduced by the 6th-century Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus, who started the Anno Domini designation, intending the beginning of the life of Jesus to be the reference date.

Traces of human settlement that date back to 40, 000 BCE were found near Lake Kezanoi.

The name Kalliste ( Καλλίστη ), " most beautiful ", may be recognized as an epithet of the goddess herself, though none of the inscriptions at Athens that record priests of Artemis Kalliste ( Άρτεμις Καλλίστη ), date before the third century BCE.

The earliest references to the Euphrates come from cuneiform texts found in Shuruppak and pre-Sargonic Nippur in southern Iraq and date to the mid-3rd millennium BCE.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

The first historical mention of the region is from the Massaliote Periplus, a sailing manual for merchants thought to date to the 6th century BCE, and Pytheas of Massilia wrote of his exploratory voyage to the island around 325 BC.

The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

A. Spranger found the political subtext of Heracleidae, never far to seek, so particularly apt in Athens towards the end of the peace of Nicias, in 419 BCE, that he suggested the date as its first performance.

The Battle-Axe-or Cord Ceramic-culture seems to have practiced agriculture and animal husbandry outside of Finland, but the earliest confirmed traces of agriculture in Finland date later, approximately to the 2nd millennium BCE.

The prototype for this model can be found in Bolos of Mendes ' second century BCE work, Physika kai Mystika ( On Physical and Mystical Matters ).

A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.

Among the scripts in modern use, the Hebrew alphabet bears the closest relation to the Imperial Aramaic script of the 5th century BCE, with an identical letter inventory and, for the most part, nearly identical letter shapes.

Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

For centuries after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire in 331 BCE, Imperial Aramaic — or near enough for it to be recognisable — would remain an influence on the various native Iranian languages.

The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10, 000 – 9000 BCE.

When the site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists during 1941-45, they realized that they had discovered a building absolutely unique for the area: a large ( 1500 square meters ) Chinese-style, likely Han Dynasty era ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) palace.

The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, dated to the 8th or 7th century BCE, one of the oldest Upanishads, has the earliest evidence for the use of the word ahimsa in the sense familiar in Hinduism ( a code of conduct ).

The Dharmaśāstra law books written around the 5th or 4th century BCE contain regulations for meat eating and lists of edible animals.

Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.

It concludes a series of historical books running from Joshua through Judges and Samuel, the overall purpose which is to provide a theological explanation for the destruction of the Jewish kingdom by Babylon in 586 BCE and a foundation for a return from exile.

BCE may stand for:

Although much of Chinese philosophy begins in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese philosophy have existed for several thousand years ; some can be found in the Yi Jing ( the Book of Changes ), an ancient compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE.

The earliest evidence for acupuncture in this sense dates to the second or first century BCE.

Unlike earlier texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, which was excavated in the 1970s from a tomb that had been sealed in 168 BCE, the Inner Canon rejected the influence of spirits and the use of magic.

BCE is the abbreviation for Before the Common / Current / Christian Era ( an alternative to Before Christ, abbreviated BC ).

Among the reasons given by those who oppose the use of Common Era notation is that it is selective as other aspects of the Western calendar have origins in various belief systems ( e. g., January is named for Janus ), Style guides for academic texts on religion generally prefer BCE / CE to BC / AD.

* In Hebrew, the most common term used to refer to BCE / CE is simply לספירה ( according to the count ) for CE, and לפני הספירה ( before the count ) for BCE.

* In Spanish, EC ( Era Común ) is used for CE, while AEC ( antes de la Era Común ) is equivalent to BCE.