A lot of people know this, but I just found out about it. Cleopatra lived closer to modern day than to the construction of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt. This blew my mind.
It took me a moment to realize that this means the Egyptians and Romans are contemporaries, or as close as you can get in a time when the average life span is forty-eight years.
The Egyptians used to say that they were the first people to build a great nation and a great civilization.
I think the truth is that the ancient Egyptians were not the first people to have a great civilization and great nation. That honor goes to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.
Aspiring To Ordinary 