Quotes About BCE

The Greek historian Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BCE, said that the Indians were the most populous country on earth (5.3).

women had more prominence and power in society in the third millennium bce than they did 2,000 years later.

before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence of Aramaic.

The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.

The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium BCE.

before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages with various features in common.

into the Aegean by order of the Senate in 67 BCE with five hundred ships and over a hundred thousand

the stadium at Olympia was enlarged in the fifth century BCE, it could accommodate a crowd of forty thousand

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life." ~ Proverbs 13:12, C3rd BCE

Roman writers tended to take it for granted that the origins of the senate went back to Romulus, as a council of 'old men' (senes), and that by the fifth century BCE it was already a fully fledged institution operating much as it did in 63 BCE.

In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before the nineteenth century;

The Sphinx and its contemporary architecture throughout Kamit give us the earliest history, the earliest recorded evidence of the practice of advanced religion anywhere in the world. The Sphinx has now been proven to be the earliest example of the practice of religion in human history, 10,000 BCE.