Thread:Rrmcklin/@comment-5503727-20151207231412/@comment-26091443-20151207235233

Also, I'd like to point out that saying "3000 years ago" and "3000 years before" are the same thing in Japanese. Either would be written "3000 nen mae".

Which way you'd translate it would be determined by the context of the conversation, which I've already outlined.