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Cleopatra is closer to the Moon landing than the pyramids.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid. She died in 30 BC — roughly 2,500 years after the pyramid went up, but barely 2,000 years before Apollo 11. To her, the pyramids were more ancient than the Roman Empire is to us.
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- Cleopatra died in 30 BC. The Great Pyramid was already about 2,500 years old.
- The Moon landing lay only about 2,000 years in her future.
- She is closer to Neil Armstrong than to the pharaoh who built the pyramid.
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