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Cleopatra Lived Closer to the Moon Landing Than to the Building of the Pyramids

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Time perspective gets warped in history. Cleopatra died in 30 BCE, about 2,000 years ago. The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed around 2560 BCE, roughly 2,500 years before Cleopatra’s time. The moon landing happened in 1969, only 2,000 years after Cleopatra. This fact demonstrates how ancient Egyptian civilization had already been ancient history to Cleopatra herself.

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