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Cleopatra Lived Closer in Time to the Moon Landing Than to the Construction of the Great Pyramid

Cleopatra lived approximately 2,000 years ago. The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed approximately 4,500 years ago — making it 2,500 years old by the time Cleopatra was born.




The moon landing happened in 1969, roughly 2,000 years after Cleopatra. The pyramids feel ancient in a category that includes almost nothing else in human history.