Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza
Here's a fact that will permanently break your mental timeline of history: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
We tend to lump all of "ancient Egypt" into one mental folder, imagining Cleopatra walking past freshly-built pyramids. But the math tells a wildly different story. The Great Pyramid was completed around 2560 BC. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC—that's roughly 2,500 years after the pyramids were already ancient monuments. Meanwhile, only about 2,000 years separate Cleopatra from Neil Armstrong's "small step" in 1969. The pyramids were as ancient to Cleopatra as she is to us. Ancient Egypt wasn't a single moment—it was a 3,000+ year civilization that outlasted the entire span of Western history since.
Here's a fact that will permanently break your mental timeline of history: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
We tend to lump all of "ancient Egypt" into one mental folder, imagining Cleopatra walking past freshly-built pyramids. But the math tells a wildly different story. The Great Pyramid was completed around 2560 BC. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC—that's roughly 2,500 years after the pyramids were already ancient monuments. Meanwhile, only about 2,000 years separate Cleopatra from Neil Armstrong's "small step" in 1969. The pyramids were as ancient to Cleopatra as she is to us. Ancient Egypt wasn't a single moment—it was a 3,000+ year civilization that outlasted the entire span of Western history since.
Here's a fact that will permanently break your mental timeline of history: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
We tend to lump all of "ancient Egypt" into one mental folder, imagining Cleopatra walking past freshly-built pyramids. But the math tells a wildly different story. The Great Pyramid was completed around 2560 BC. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC—that's roughly 2,500 years after the pyramids were already ancient monuments. Meanwhile, only about 2,000 years separate Cleopatra from Neil Armstrong's "small step" in 1969. The pyramids were as ancient to Cleopatra as she is to us. Ancient Egypt wasn't a single moment—it was a 3,000+ year civilization that outlasted the entire span of Western history since.
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"Fun fact: I now know more about mantis shrimp than my actual job"
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"I forward these to my ex just so they know what they're missing (facts, not me)"
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