Examples of use of 3rd century BC
1. Excavations revealed the pottery offerings – dating from the early 5th century BC up to at least the 3rd century BC – in a shrine to presumed fertility deities.
2. The same is true of the Red City, a three–tiered, 3rd century BC palace complex hewn from red stone and clinging to a cliff 1,500 feet above the floor of the Bamiyan Valley.
3. Rather, they proclaimed themselves to be on a "democratic" mission to gather all of the world‘s in one place (the first time it has been attempted since the library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC) and make it freely available to everyone.