Cleopatra Lived Closer to the Moon Landing Than to the Building of the Great Pyramid
Cleopatra VII lived around 69-30 BC, making her closer in time to the 1969 moon landing (2,038 years) than to the Great Pyramid's construction (2,509 years earlier).
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This mind-bending fact illustrates how ancient Egyptian civilization truly was. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2580-2560 BC during the Fourth Dynasty, while Cleopatra VII Philopator lived from 69 BC to 30 BC during the Ptolemaic period. That means 2,509 years separated Cleopatra from the pyramid's construction, but only 2,038 years separate her death from Neil Armstrong's moon landing in 1969. To put this in perspective, the Great Pyramid was already over 2,500 years old when Cleopatra was born - older to her than the birth of Christianity is to us today. Ancient Egypt's incredible longevity as a civilization is often underestimated in our modern perspective.