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 This led him to a rather //vague// (and, as we now know, also //wildly inaccurate//) estimate of //around four millennia// before the birth of Christ. This led him to a rather //vague// (and, as we now know, also //wildly inaccurate//) estimate of //around four millennia// before the birth of Christ.
  
-However, even in Usher’s time it was already known that the basis of our calendar must be flawed, as [[wp>Herod the Great|King Herod]], who plays an important role in the biblical narrative, had already died in 4 BC.+However, even in Ussher’s time it was already known that the basis of our calendar must be flawed, as [[wp>Herod the Great|King Herod]], who plays an important role in the biblical narrative, had already died in 4 BC.
  
 Ussher therefore added these four years to his calculation, arriving at 4004 BC. Ussher therefore added these four years to his calculation, arriving at 4004 BC.

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