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

Here's a historical perspective that will change how you see ancient history: Cleopatra (69–30 BC) lived closer in time to the 1969 Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza (c. 2560 BC).

The Great Pyramid was built about 2,491 years before Cleopatra was born. The Moon landing happened about 2,000 years after her death. When Cleopatra visited the pyramids, they were already as old to her as the Roman Colosseum is to us today. Time has a way of collapsing our sense of history.