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31 Beneath that Hellenistic layer he found buildings scattered with four olive pits, which carbon-14 analysis dated to around 1000 B.C.

32 The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other, from 1027 to 221 B.C.

33 These figures began to appear during the 15 th century B.C. in Mycenaean sanctuaries and tombs.

34 Egyptian archaeologists who found the temple say it was built by Queen Berenike II, wife of Greek King Ptolemy III, who ruled Egypt from 246 to 221 B.C.

35 There was a sequence of Pharaohs culminating3 around 2615 B.C., with the Pharaoh Cheops who built the biggest thing ever built, the Great Pyramid, also known as Khufu.

36 Founded around 518 B.C. by Darius the Great, the site served as the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid (or Persian) Empire.

37 Memphis was the first great capital of Egypt, united as a single kingdom in the third millennium B.C..But the Nile burst its banks a few centuries ago, flooding the ancient capital.

38 Dixie Simpson, owner of Duncan, B.C.'s Purple Orchid Spa, said her business now faces ruin because the Vancouver Island Health Authority has ordered her to stop running her fish spa.

39 The version is initially set to 1.0 but can be any number that matches the form a.b.c.d (the pattern matches Eclipse plug-in versioning rules).

40 In the Peloponnesian War broke out in 5 th B.C.

41 In Sparta ( Lacedeman ) kings were still distinguished in the sixth century B.C.

42 A man named Herostratus reportedly burned down the temple in 356 B.C. in an attempt to immortalize his name.

43 This element of the Amazon myth was invented in the 5th century B.C.

44 Construction of Stonehenge took place between ca. 3000 and 1600 B.C.

45 B.C. Cuneiform first used by Sumerians in present - day Iraq for economic records.

46 Archbishop James Usher (1580 1656) published Annales Veteris et Novi Testaments in 1654[sentencedict.com], which suggested that the Heaven and the Earth were created in 4004 B.C.

47 Black - figure pottery ( 700 B.C. ) : Type of Greek pottery that originated in Corinth c . 700 BC.

48 For 2,500 years it was always part of somebody's empire, beginning with the Persian Empire in the fifth century B.C.

49 In 218 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal famously led an army of North Africans and Iberians — and 37 elephants — across the Alps and nearly snuffed out the Roman republic.

50 This phenomenon was discovered by Thales of Greece in the sixth century B.C.

51 B.C. - The Romans are defeated at the Battle of Cannae by Hannibal.

52 BCE stands for "before common era, " and is equivalent to B.C., or before Christ.

53 Artifacts from the temple date back to various times during the Greek-run Ptolemaic dynasty, which lasted until 30 B.C.

54 In 221 B.C. Emperor Qinshihuang united China and established the feudal centralized system.

55 The Pantheon is the greatest and the best - preserved Roman temple[sentencedict.com], which was built in 27 B.C.

56 Aristophanes in the fifth century B.C. created a delightful mixture of fancy and political satire.

57 The Egyptians first used papyrus around the year 3000 B.C. to make a kind of paper.

58 It is said that it was sculpted around the second century B.C.

59 Perched on the edge of the Arabian Desert, Petra was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom of King Aretas IV (9 B.C. to A.D. 40).

60 In the Western Han Dynasty ( 206 B.C. - a. D .24 ) , li calligraphy made further progress.