[yamtaddle]

The pyramids at Giza are really, really old.

Cleopatra was part of the Macedonian/Greek dynasty in Egypt, which comes basically at the tail end of what one might consider "ancient Egypt". The time span we lump together as "ancient Egypt" (specifically, dynastic ancient Egypt—"pre-dynastic" stretches back many centuries before that) is so long that stuff from the first third or so of it is farther, time-wise, from Cleopatra than the moon landings were.

Wikipedia:

> All [the three big pyramids at Giza] were built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, between 2600 and 2500 BC.

Cleopatra is tied up with Julius Caesar and Antony (as in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra) and all that happens just before the BC/AD transition, and these numbers are large and fuzzy enough we can just call her time 0. ~2500 years after the pyramids, ~1970 before the moon landings. Plus or minus a few years, but it doesn't make much difference.

[GolfPopper]

The one that always gets me is that there were still living mammoths (on Wrangel Island in the Arctic) when the Great Pyramid was built. [1]

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island#First_human_set...

[vmilner]

I remember visiting Lincoln Cathedral and realising that when it was built in 1311 it was the first new tallest building for 3900 years... (160m as opposed to the 147m of the great pyramid) though the spire collapsed 238 years later.