The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga - practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads and Buddhist Pāli Canon, probably of third century BCE or later. (yoga-fit.cmsmasters.net)
China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy: Ten of the renowned thousands of life - size sculptures commissioned by China's third century B.C. emperor to guard his immense tomb complex will anchor this ticketed exhibition centered on artifacts of his realm. (mysanantonio.com)
In the 1st to third centuries BC, Christians in the former Roman Empire were burned alive, hung upside down on crosses and thrown to the lions for not recanting their beliefs. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)