Sentence examples for BC from inspiring English sources

Excavations in the fort show the area was inhabited in five preceding Delhis, and even earlier, reportedly back to 300 BC.

She wrote: I feel like my hands are tied bc I don't want it reported but how can I even stop it?

He is thought to have lived in Egypt, in or around the 14th century BC.

"This is the same man asking me what he should say to contestants on our way to the stage bc 'he doesn't know'".

The historical Moses, if he existed, is commonly estimated to have lived at some point around the 14th to 13th century BC.

To accommodate Olympic visitors, 11 passenger ships have been chartered.Easily the most controversial building project has been the construction of a rowing and canoeing centre on a coastal site called Schinias, east of Athens and adjacent (though there is disagreement over how closely) to the battlefield of Marathon where the Athenians defeated the Persians in 490 BC.

The ship's cargo of luxury goods also included jewellery, pottery, fine furniture, wine and bronzes dating back to the first century BC.

Archimedes purportedly used a "heat ray", in which the sun's rays were focused by mirrors, to set fire to enemy ships during the siege of Syracuse in the 3rd century BC.

The earliest written records of the disease trace it to 1550 BC.

One of the earliest pieces is the 14th-century-BC "Chariot of the Sun", the pride of the National Museum of Denmark.

The one that they constructed in Halicarnassus (present-day death-defying Bodrum) for a 4th-century-BC satrap, Mausolos, was among the seven wonders of the ancient world.