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...to stand out from the crowd of mummies and vampires this October 31, you could do worse than dressing as one of these gruesome characters instead. About this article This article was written by Simon Rodway, Lecturer in Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....

...seems to be certain is that the Buddha died approximately at the age of eighty some time between 410 and 370 BCE. Any date between these two means that the Buddha passed away about 140-100 years before the reign of Emperor Ashoka. This article was originally published on Ancient.eu, written by Cristian Violatti and released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence....

...writing about the Classical world needs to make various choices concerning consistency. Years. The course team have opted for BCE (‘Before the Common Era’) and CE (‘Common Era’) to refer to dates (we use them in the same way as the more traditional BC and AD). In some other texts you will encounter the use of BC and AD instead, and you are welcome to use either...