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The pyramids of Giza were already thousands of years old by the time Cleopatra was born — ancient even to the ancient Egyptians.
Cleopatra lived around 30 BC, while the Great Pyramid of Giza was built roughly 2560 BC, meaning about 2,500 years already separated her from Egypt's pyramid builders. The Moon landing, by contrast, happened in 1969, only around 2,000 years after her lifetime, so on a timeline she sits closer to us today than to the pharaohs who built the pyramids she would have seen as ancient monuments herself.
The gap is not exactly half either, it clearly favors the Moon landing side, since 2,000 years is noticeably shorter than 2,500 years, making 'exactly halfway' an appealing but mathematically incorrect answer.
This is a favorite historical illustration of just how deep Egyptian civilization's timeline runs, the pyramids were already ancient relics, visited by curious tourists and covered in graffiti, thousands of years before Cleopatra ever ruled.
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