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• B.C.E.
  B.C.E.

  abbreviation

  Bachelor of Chemical Engineering.
• BCE
  BCE

  abbreviation

  Before Common Era (used, esp by non-Christians, in numbering years _bc )

B.C.E.

American  

abbreviation

1. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering.

2. Bachelor of Christian Education.

3. Bachelor of Civil Engineering.

4. before (the) Common Era.

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BCE British  

abbreviation

1. Before Common Era (used, esp by non-Christians, in numbering years _bc )

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BCE Scientific  

1. Abbreviation for before the Common Era.

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B.C.E. Cultural  

1. An abbreviation sometimes used in place of b.c. It means “before the Common Era.”

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B.C.E. BCE

Instead, they display levels of complexity and information density similar to proto-cuneiform, the earliest known writing system, which appeared around 3,000 B.C.E., tens of thousands of years later.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026

Around 3500 B.C.E., a cultural shift swept Western Europe.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 9, 2024

The site, in a long canyon called Chorrillo Grande, was occupied by hunter-gatherer groups for thousands of years beginning around 3500 B.C.E.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

The Grave Creek Mound itself was constructed by members of the mound-building Native American Adena culture, which existed from about 500 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023

Strewn across the benches were old magazines: Highlights for Children, Autumn, 20 B.C.E.;

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The tablet records a royal grant and indicates that Tiglath-pileser probably ruled from roughly 763-762 BCE before eventually being deposed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Based on Homer's epic, Nolan's film retraces the hero Odysseus in a perilous journey to his home on the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War in the 12th century BCE.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

In 399 BCE, Socrates was put on trial before a jury of some 500 of his fellow Athenians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

"They were all the rage in the third millennium BCE."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda