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Cleopatra VII died a little over 2,000 years ago.

But the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed ~2560 BCE.

So you & I live closer in time to Cleopatra VII than she did to the Great Pyramid.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

also T-rex lived closer to us than to dinosaurs alive during the Jurassic.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

"All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got." - Cleopatra, via #MorecambeAndWise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtHNrRk3lQM
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I wonder if Cleopatra ever viewed the ruins of Pi-Ramesses, and mentioned to an advisor that they lived closer to Ramesses-II than he did to the Great Pyramid?

Of course, I have no idea how Egyptians would have viewed their own historiography, whether it would have had the same meaning to them as it does to us?
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I just finished translating a museum exhibition on Ancient Egypt that’s about to open, and the more I learn about it, the more my mind kind of slowly blows. Though I guess a civilization that lasts over 3,000 years is bound to come up with a few innovations. 🤯
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Sometimes I feel this way in reference to WW2. Which I was born 18 years after it ended. Now I am more than 3*18 years old.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

As someone from #Egypt (poor at #history) I did not realized this…

Thanks, for sharing & here’s something in return:

#culture #travel @histodons

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