[MarineBrat]

Sad that they feel the need to leave Christ out of the “era.”. I wonder what else happened two thousand years ago to which they refer?

[muawiyah]

This is 4,000 to 3,500 years ago.

[James C. Bennett]

From WiKi with references at the source:

"Common Era is also known as Christian Era and Current Era, with all three expressions abbreviated as CE (Christian Era is, however, also abbreviated AD, for Anno Domini).

Dates before the year 1 CE are indicated by the usage of BCE, short for "Before the Common Era", "Before the Christian Era", or "Before the Current Era". Both the BCE/CE and BC/AD notations are based on a sixth-century estimate for the year in which Jesus was conceived or born, with the common era designation originating among Christians in Europe at least as early as 1615 (at first in Latin)."

[Cronos]

I notice that the term “BCE” is used in the West only — it is not used in India quite as much