BCE
Academic dating abbreviation
BCE stands for Before Common Era, a secular alternative to BC (Before Christ) for dating years before the year 1.
Used in academic and inclusive contexts to avoid Christian-specific terminology: The temple was built around 500 BCE.
The numbering is identical to BC—432 BCE is the same year as 432 BC.
AD
Era after BC
epoch · dating · ancient · antiquity · timeline · calendar · notation · year · century · millennium
Mesopotamia
Tigris-Euphrates river region
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
- BabylonAncient Mesopotamian capital
- SumeriaAncient southern Mesopotamian civilization
Assyria · Greece · Rome · Persia · dynasty · civilization · artifact · pharaoh · empire · Bronze Age
- Calendar erasAD, Anno Domini, Common Era, Meiji, Roman era
- chronologyannals, chronicle, timeline, period, era
- historical dating termsAD, carbon dating, radiocarbon, dendrochronology, epoch
- loss functions
- timekeepingclock, watch, watches, clocks, timer
- yearscalendar year, fiscal year, leap year, common year, school year