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The palace was never rebuilt after its destruction at the hands of the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi in c. 1759 bc.
The stone statue of King Shalmaneser III, from the 9th century BC, was returned in four pieces.
In the third century BC, the famous Greek mathematician Archimedes issued a challenge to the Alexandrian mathematicians, headed by Eratosthenes.
In the Far East, coinage developed in India in the 5th century BC through contacts with Persian coinage by Mauryans and Kushans.
Between about 8000 BC and 6000 BC rising sea levels severed the land bridge between Britain and the Continent.
Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
We zipped Jack into his drysuit, found his weightbelt, helped him into his borrowed BC and watched him do his buddy-check.
The Roman system of scripts ran from around 30 bc to ad 600 and was to influence the subsequent history of scripts, with certain elements being periodically revived.
I spent time in Northern BC with my family after my dad decided not to re-up in the service during Vietnam.
A major regional road system was established by the Assyrians during the seventh century BC and inherited by the Persian Empire.
By 724 BC the leprous king Uzziah of Judah had not been seen for a while and finally in that year he died.
Let ABC be any triangle, and the angle at B one of its acute angles, and upon BC, one of the sides containing it, let fall the perpendicular.
Once identified, the tops were cut from the trees and then sent to their seed farm in Vernon, BC where they were grafted onto root stock.
It was a place of ritual burial from c. 2000 BC, long before the arrival of the Celts in Ireland.
As long ago as 800 BC the Greek poet Hesiod described a sweet Cypriot wine, produced from sun-dried grapes.
Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus.
In the eighth century BC there must have been lots of large villages in the Central Mediterranean populated by refugees and runaways.
There is evidence from 4000 BC in the Swiss lake habitations that the people made it from barley and rye flour.
It came successively under Etruscan and Greek influences, and in c. 424 BC was occupied by the Samians.
In China as far back as 4000 BC, the Taoist religion revered beauty, and garden structures were natural and essential components.
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Alexander died in 323 BC, at the age of 32, in Babylonia, and his body was supposed to have been transported to Alexandria for burial.
Still, BC drew the line at actually rewriting its policy on non-discrimination, notes Jack Dunn, BC's public information director.
The personalised logo service is available on BC Sanitan's wash basins, bidets and toilets, with a choice of seven bathroom suites.
Chilliwack Branch celebrated BC Loyalist Day on 22 July with a ceremony on the steps of City Hall.
Like the great bears with which they share the magnificent BC coastal rainforest, the sea wolves are unique and special creatures.
One of Alexander's generals, Seleucus I, founded the city in 300 BC and named it after his father, Antiochus.
Although wine has been produced in Spain since 300 BC, courtesy of vine-planting Roman invaders, it wasn't until 1872 that cava made its commercial debut.
He, however, expressed the hope that the new lot, inducted in the BC, were recruited purely on merit as 95 percent sepoys were well educated and fit to serve.
There is evidence that Tlos was a member of the Lycian Federation from the 2nd century BC and the mythical Bellerophon and his horse Pegasus are said to have settled here.
Lodestones and magnetism were first mentioned in China in about 350 BC but it was hundreds of years before there was reference to a lodestone attracting a needle.
About 150 BC, Babylonian astronomer Seleucus of Seleucia correctly described tides in order to support his theory that the Sun was the centre of the universe.
The tomb was built before the rule of king Narmer, the founder of the First Dynasty who unified Upper and Lower Egypt in the 31th century BC, the ministry said in a statement.
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