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Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than to the pyramids.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2560 BC. Cleopatra VII died in 30 BC, roughly 2,530 years later. From her death to the Moon landing in 1969 is only about 2,000 years. To her, the pyramids were a more distant past than she is to you today.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org

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Which is closer in time to Cleopatra?

  1. The building of the Great Pyramid
  2. The 1969 Moon landing
  3. Both equally far
  4. The invention of writing
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Correct: The 1969 Moon landing

About 2,000 years forward to 1969, but around 2,530 years back to the pyramid.

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